Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 38 38 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,332 8,268 9,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.24% 6.60% 7.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.37% 28.37% 27.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 5,938 7,607
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,063 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,375 £90,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,344 29,144 35,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.26% 23.25% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8,519 17,764 22,707
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,773 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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 +1 2,911 £58,000 +0.87% 1,140
UK excluding London -3 2,047 £52,500 +5.00% 849
Work from Home -2 1,593 £57,500 +4.55% 652
London +9 1,132 £67,500 -3.57% 351
South East +8 507 £55,000 +3.77% 222
North of England -6 491 £51,498 +3.00% 273
Midlands +8 390 £52,500 +5.00% 164
North West -23 243 £50,000 - 151
South West -22 240 £52,500 +5.00% 82
West Midlands -3 221 £53,500 +10.88% 109
Yorkshire 0 216 £55,000 +4.76% 102
Scotland +11 180 £52,250 +4.50% 39
East Midlands +10 171 £47,500 -5.00% 55
Wales 0 103 £50,000 +11.11% 21
East of England +9 97 £48,000 -12.73% 60
North East +8 32 £45,000 +7.14% 26
Northern Ireland +16 31 £42,500 -19.05% 8
Isle of Man +3 10 £60,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 223 (6.69%) SharePoint
2 222 (6.66%) IIS
3 81 (2.43%) Confluence
4 51 (1.53%) MS Exchange
5 36 (1.08%) Umbraco
6 31 (0.93%) WebLogic
7 28 (0.84%) CMS
7 28 (0.84%) WebSphere
8 24 (0.72%) Apache
9 21 (0.63%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.45%) NServiceBus
11 14 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
11 14 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
12 12 (0.36%) Apache Spark
13 8 (0.24%) SAS
14 7 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
15 6 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
15 6 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.18%) Skype for Business
16 5 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 130 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 130 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.27%) AutoCAD
3 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.27%) Photoshop
3 9 (0.27%) PTC Creo
3 9 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
4 8 (0.24%) InDesign
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.12%) LibreOffice
7 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
7 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 121 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (2.13%) Endur
3 30 (0.90%) PlanetPress Connect
4 21 (0.63%) Elite 3E
5 19 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
6 16 (0.48%) Maximo
7 14 (0.42%) Fidessa
7 14 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
8 12 (0.36%) BusinessWorks
8 12 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
8 12 (0.36%) iTrent
9 8 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
9 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.21%) Sage X3
10 7 (0.21%) Shopify
11 6 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 5 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.15%) JDE OneWorld
12 5 (0.15%) OpenLink RightAngle
12 5 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,520 (45.62%) Azure
2 579 (17.38%) Power Platform
3 391 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
4 327 (9.81%) Microsoft 365
5 324 (9.72%) AWS
6 272 (8.16%) SaaS
7 141 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 138 (4.14%) PaaS
9 132 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
10 129 (3.87%) PowerApps
11 123 (3.69%) Entra ID
12 108 (3.24%) Serverless
13 100 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
14 99 (2.97%) IaaS
15 97 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 79 (2.37%) GCP
16 79 (2.37%) Power Automate
17 77 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
18 69 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 60 (1.80%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 208 (6.24%) Firewall
2 172 (5.16%) DNS
3 114 (3.42%) DHCP
4 112 (3.36%) WAN
5 108 (3.24%) SAN
6 97 (2.91%) VPN
7 79 (2.37%) LAN
8 77 (2.31%) TCP/IP
9 45 (1.35%) Internet
9 45 (1.35%) VLAN
10 44 (1.32%) VoIP
11 40 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.84%) Wireless
13 26 (0.78%) HTTP
13 26 (0.78%) NAS
13 26 (0.78%) SSL
14 25 (0.75%) Network Security
15 18 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
16 15 (0.45%) AMQP
16 15 (0.45%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (14.59%) Power BI
2 438 (13.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 356 (10.68%) Relational Database
4 327 (9.81%) Data Warehouse
5 321 (9.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 256 (7.68%) MySQL
7 202 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 160 (4.80%) RDBMS
9 154 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
10 138 (4.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 112 (3.36%) NoSQL
12 101 (3.03%) Oracle Database
13 83 (2.49%) Data Lake
14 80 (2.40%) MongoDB
15 77 (2.31%) Tableau
16 53 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 52 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
18 48 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
19 47 (1.41%) Oracle Database 10g
20 41 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 354 (10.62%) Git
2 215 (6.45%) JIRA
3 156 (4.68%) Visual Studio
4 90 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 81 (2.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 80 (2.40%) Jenkins
7 50 (1.50%) GitLab
8 48 (1.44%) Postman
9 41 (1.23%) Subversion
10 35 (1.05%) Selenium
11 29 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (0.84%) TeamCity
13 26 (0.78%) SoapUI
14 25 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
15 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
15 23 (0.69%) NUnit
16 22 (0.66%) JMeter
16 22 (0.66%) LoadRunner
16 22 (0.66%) Maven
17 21 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 777 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 689 (20.68%) Finance
3 338 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (4.47%) Banking
5 133 (3.99%) Retail
6 128 (3.84%) Law
7 116 (3.48%) Marketing
8 111 (3.33%) Legal
9 93 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 88 (2.64%) Public Sector
11 81 (2.43%) Games
12 65 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.23%) Telecoms
14 39 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 38 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (1.08%) Back Office
17 33 (0.99%) Automotive
18 31 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
19 30 (0.90%) Advertising
20 29 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,262 (37.88%) Developer
2 595 (17.86%) Senior
3 400 (12.00%) Analyst
4 394 (11.82%) .NET Developer
5 281 (8.43%) Software Developer
6 276 (8.28%) C# Developer
7 263 (7.89%) Lead
8 245 (7.35%) Senior Developer
9 229 (6.87%) Applications Support
10 208 (6.24%) Support Analyst
11 196 (5.88%) DBA
12 186 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 180 (5.40%) Full Stack Developer
14 173 (5.19%) Architect
15 172 (5.16%) SQL Developer
16 163 (4.89%) Software Engineer
17 160 (4.80%) Data Engineer
18 154 (4.62%) Administrator
18 154 (4.62%) Applications Support Analyst
19 128 (3.84%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,259 (37.79%) .NET
2 537 (16.12%) HTML
3 505 (15.16%) ASP.NET
4 468 (14.05%) CSS
5 397 (11.91%) .NET Core
6 375 (11.25%) .NET Framework
7 341 (10.23%) AngularJS
8 301 (9.03%) React
9 292 (8.76%) REST
10 250 (7.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 215 (6.45%) Web Services
12 213 (6.39%) XML
13 184 (5.52%) Entity Framework
14 180 (5.40%) JSON
15 165 (4.95%) ASP.NET Web API
15 165 (4.95%) jQuery
16 153 (4.59%) RESTful
17 139 (4.17%) HTML5
18 138 (4.14%) SOAP
19 104 (3.12%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 122 (3.66%) Virtual Team
2 117 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
3 111 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 99 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 96 (2.88%) Replication
6 90 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 83 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 81 (2.43%) Clustering
10 75 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
11 70 (2.10%) Swaptions
12 63 (1.89%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
14 48 (1.44%) Low-Code
15 42 (1.26%) Mobile App
16 37 (1.11%) Cloud Native
17 32 (0.96%) Reinsurance
18 29 (0.87%) IoT
19 26 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
20 23 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 668 (20.05%) Windows
2 334 (10.02%) Windows Server
3 200 (6.00%) Linux
4 110 (3.30%) Unix
5 71 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 70 (2.10%) Windows 10
7 60 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 47 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 45 (1.35%) Android
10 26 (0.78%) CentOS
11 23 (0.69%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 15 (0.45%) Mac OS
13 15 (0.45%) Solaris
14 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
15 9 (0.27%) VMS
16 8 (0.24%) Debian
17 4 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
18 3 (0.090%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (28.66%) Agile
2 737 (22.12%) DevOps
3 695 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
4 565 (16.96%) Business Intelligence
5 421 (12.64%) MVC
6 402 (12.06%) CI/CD
7 358 (10.74%) Full Stack Development
8 349 (10.47%) Software Engineering
9 303 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 292 (8.76%) ETL
11 286 (8.58%) ITIL
12 268 (8.04%) SDLC
13 260 (7.80%) Scrum
14 253 (7.59%) Data Modelling
15 250 (7.50%) TDD
16 242 (7.26%) Migration
17 232 (6.96%) Analytics
18 216 (6.48%) Unit Testing
19 208 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 199 (5.97%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,815 (54.47%) SQL
2 1,282 (38.48%) C#
3 788 (23.65%) JavaScript
4 571 (17.14%) T-SQL
5 400 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 338 (10.14%) Python
7 299 (8.97%) Java
8 164 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 129 (3.87%) VB
10 104 (3.12%) VB.NET
11 97 (2.91%) PL/SQL
12 87 (2.61%) PHP
13 65 (1.95%) Bash
14 52 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 52 (1.56%) Perl
15 39 (1.17%) C
15 39 (1.17%) R
16 24 (0.72%) Ruby
16 24 (0.72%) VBA
16 24 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 486 (14.59%) Degree
2 295 (8.85%) Security Cleared
3 229 (6.87%) SC Cleared
4 154 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 97 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 92 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.08%) MCSA
9 32 (0.96%) MCSE
10 26 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
10 26 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.30%) MCP
15 10 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 9 (0.27%) CCNA
16 9 (0.27%) MCITP
17 8 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (3.99%) QA
2 95 (2.85%) Data Quality
2 95 (2.85%) SLA
3 47 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 26 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (0.48%) GDPR
8 12 (0.36%) PMO
9 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.24%) HL7
11 6 (0.18%) ISO 9000
11 6 (0.18%) WCAG
12 4 (0.12%) GxP
13 3 (0.090%) DICOM
13 3 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.090%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.090%) NCSC
13 3 (0.090%) NIST
14 2 (0.060%) WAI
System Software
1 413 (12.39%) Active Directory
2 190 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 126 (3.78%) Docker
4 63 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 39 (1.17%) vSphere
6 26 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
7 22 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.21%) XenApp
12 6 (0.18%) Firmware
13 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.090%) Ceph
14 3 (0.090%) KVM
14 3 (0.090%) NFS
15 2 (0.060%) ACF2
15 2 (0.060%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.060%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 140 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 87 (2.61%) Terraform
3 74 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (1.62%) Ansible
5 43 (1.29%) SCCM
6 41 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.78%) AirWatch
7 26 (0.78%) OpenSSO
8 18 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
9 17 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
10 16 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
12 13 (0.39%) Nessus
12 13 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.36%) SCOM
14 11 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
14 11 (0.33%) Puppet
15 10 (0.30%) Grafana
15 10 (0.30%) WSUS
16 8 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,456 (43.70%) Microsoft
2 489 (14.68%) Oracle
3 312 (9.36%) VMware
4 82 (2.46%) TIBCO
5 81 (2.43%) Databricks
6 75 (2.25%) SAP
6 75 (2.25%) Sybase
7 71 (2.13%) OpenLink
8 66 (1.98%) Cisco
9 64 (1.92%) Citrix
10 58 (1.74%) HP
11 56 (1.68%) Xamarin
12 54 (1.62%) ServiceNow
13 42 (1.26%) IBM
14 40 (1.20%) Veeam
15 35 (1.05%) Red Hat
16 33 (0.99%) Dynatrace
17 28 (0.84%) Alteryx
17 28 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 28 (0.84%) FNZ