SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Job Trends

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 582 731
Rank change year-on-year -89 +149 +144
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 24 45 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.58% 1.05% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 118
10th Percentile £37,085 £38,400 £39,027
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £46,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -20.00% +10.58%
75th Percentile £68,438 £64,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,121 4,287 9,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.08% 10.48% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 3,018 6,772
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,433 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,751 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% -4.35%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) job vacancy trend in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) within the UK over the 6 months to 5 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -64 24 £47,085 +3.48% 17
London -17 13 £67,500 -10.00% 5
Work from Home -12 12 £45,000 -21.74% 7
UK excluding London -89 11 £45,000 - 21
North of England -53 10 £45,000 +12.50% 3
North East - 6 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands -25 2 £47,085 +4.63%
North West -30 2 £56,100 +40.25% 2
Midlands -48 2 £47,085 +4.63% 2
Yorkshire -53 2 £47,085 +59.61%
South East -30 1 - - 4

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (8.33%) IIS
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Power Platform
3 8 (33.33%) SaaS
4 7 (29.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (29.17%) IaaS
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Functions
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Storage
5 6 (25.00%) Serverless
6 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
7 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
8 2 (8.33%) AWS
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DMZ
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
1 5 (20.83%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (20.83%) STUN
1 5 (20.83%) VLAN
1 5 (20.83%) VoIP
1 5 (20.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (70.83%) SQL Server
2 11 (45.83%) Power BI
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (8.33%) Power Query
4 2 (8.33%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Legal
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) VoIP Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) VoIP Support Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Support Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) SaaS Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
2 6 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 5 (20.83%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
1 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 6 (25.00%) VMS
3 5 (20.83%) Debian
3 5 (20.83%) Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (41.67%) Analytics
2 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (29.17%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (25.00%) Budget Management
5 6 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (25.00%) Log Analytics
5 6 (25.00%) MVC
5 6 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) High Availability
7 4 (16.67%) CRM
7 4 (16.67%) Validation
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) ETL
8 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) SQL
2 14 (58.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (29.17%) Python
4 6 (25.00%) C#
4 6 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (20.83%) Bash
6 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) Pega
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Alteryx