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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,124 5,694 10,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.23% 5.44% 6.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.35% 25.20% 24.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,491 4,431 7,258
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,996
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +7.37% -

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 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 17 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 27 April 2024. 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 +22 4,673 £55,000 -4.35% 1,030
UK excluding London +19 3,720 £52,500 +2.94% 737
Work from Home +18 2,691 £55,000 -3.51% 762
London +4 1,237 £65,000 -5.55% 353
North of England +40 975 £50,000 - 191
South East +11 860 £55,000 - 159
Midlands +33 736 £50,000 - 163
North West +42 556 £50,000 - 103
West Midlands +25 452 £52,500 +5.00% 98
South West +2 420 £52,500 +5.00% 89
East of England +32 411 £47,500 -7.32% 78
Yorkshire +29 305 £52,500 +5.00% 63
East Midlands +32 284 £47,500 +5.56% 65
Scotland -39 206 £52,500 +10.53% 50
North East +39 114 £47,500 +8.57% 26
Wales +13 89 £50,000 +16.28% 14
Northern Ireland 0 30 £50,000 - 13

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
1 304 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 268 (5.23%) IIS
3 229 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 111 (2.17%) CMS
5 59 (1.15%) Apache
6 54 (1.05%) Umbraco
7 38 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 25 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 23 (0.45%) WordPress
10 22 (0.43%) Confluence
11 19 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 17 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.31%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.29%) JBoss
14 15 (0.29%) Kentico
15 14 (0.27%) ArcGIS
15 14 (0.27%) SAS
16 13 (0.25%) Apache Solr
17 11 (0.21%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 206 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.49%) Photoshop
4 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.14%) InDesign
7 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.078%) SPSS
10 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 141 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.96%) Endur
3 36 (0.70%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
5 24 (0.47%) PlanetPress Connect
6 21 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
7 18 (0.35%) Elite 3E
8 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
9 15 (0.29%) Maximo
10 13 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
11 12 (0.23%) Shopify
12 11 (0.21%) Sage X3
12 11 (0.21%) SAP Business One
13 10 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
13 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
14 9 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
15 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
16 6 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
16 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,856 (55.74%) Azure
2 833 (16.26%) Power Platform
3 809 (15.79%) AWS
4 590 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
5 414 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
6 228 (4.45%) SaaS
7 166 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 156 (3.04%) GCP
9 124 (2.42%) PaaS
10 121 (2.36%) Serverless
11 111 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 111 (2.17%) PowerApps
12 109 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
13 108 (2.11%) GitHub
14 98 (1.91%) Entra ID
15 94 (1.83%) Power Automate
16 93 (1.81%) Snowflake
17 92 (1.80%) IaaS
18 84 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
19 82 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 276 (5.39%) Firewall
2 213 (4.16%) DNS
3 167 (3.26%) Internet
4 155 (3.02%) WAN
5 126 (2.46%) SAN
6 105 (2.05%) DHCP
7 102 (1.99%) VPN
8 95 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 93 (1.81%) LAN
10 87 (1.70%) Broadband
11 47 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.90%) VoIP
13 43 (0.84%) SSL
14 42 (0.82%) HTTP
15 37 (0.72%) Wireless
16 34 (0.66%) NAS
17 33 (0.64%) Network Security
18 30 (0.59%) VLAN
19 20 (0.39%) SD-WAN
20 16 (0.31%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 754 (14.72%) Power BI
2 580 (11.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 484 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
4 434 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 416 (8.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 396 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 332 (6.48%) MongoDB
8 312 (6.09%) MySQL
9 291 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
10 260 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
11 183 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 174 (3.40%) Data Lake
13 163 (3.18%) NoSQL
14 113 (2.21%) RDBMS
15 106 (2.07%) Oracle Database
16 90 (1.76%) Tableau
17 76 (1.48%) DB2
18 71 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.15%) MS Access
20 53 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 453 (8.84%) Git
2 279 (5.44%) Visual Studio
3 239 (4.66%) JIRA
4 114 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 81 (1.58%) NUnit
6 68 (1.33%) GitLab
7 67 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 62 (1.21%) Jenkins
9 60 (1.17%) Moq
9 60 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 55 (1.07%) Jasmine
11 43 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
12 37 (0.72%) Selenium
12 37 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
13 34 (0.66%) Postman
14 33 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
16 25 (0.49%) MSTest
17 24 (0.47%) Bitbucket
17 24 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,268 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 905 (17.66%) Finance
3 439 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.48%) Retail
5 199 (3.88%) Marketing
6 190 (3.71%) Law
6 190 (3.71%) Public Sector
7 153 (2.99%) Games
8 151 (2.95%) Manufacturing
9 149 (2.91%) Banking
10 145 (2.83%) Legal
11 123 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
13 85 (1.66%) Advertising
13 85 (1.66%) Back Office
14 76 (1.48%) Local Government
15 54 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
16 52 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 46 (0.90%) Telecoms
18 38 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,444 (47.70%) Developer
2 1,179 (23.01%) .NET Developer
3 706 (13.78%) Senior
4 642 (12.53%) C# Developer
5 414 (8.08%) C# .NET Developer
6 407 (7.94%) Software Developer
7 403 (7.86%) Analyst
8 380 (7.42%) Lead
9 331 (6.46%) Senior Developer
10 296 (5.78%) DBA
11 262 (5.11%) Data Engineer
12 226 (4.41%) Consultant
13 219 (4.27%) Support Engineer
14 203 (3.96%) Software Engineer
15 194 (3.79%) Full Stack Developer
16 188 (3.67%) SQL DBA
17 175 (3.42%) Administrator
18 162 (3.16%) Support Analyst
19 146 (2.85%) Applications Support
20 138 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,427 (47.37%) .NET
2 1,438 (28.06%) ASP.NET
3 1,132 (22.09%) .NET Core
4 1,101 (21.49%) AngularJS
5 1,074 (20.96%) HTML
6 946 (18.46%) ASP.NET MVC
7 887 (17.31%) .NET Framework
8 830 (16.20%) Entity Framework
9 816 (15.93%) CSS
10 811 (15.83%) ASP.NET Web API
11 714 (13.93%) React
12 518 (10.11%) HTML5
13 472 (9.21%) Vue
14 390 (7.61%) RESTful
15 351 (6.85%) Node.js
16 341 (6.65%) REST
16 341 (6.65%) Web Services
17 293 (5.72%) jQuery
18 280 (5.46%) XML
19 272 (5.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 231 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
2 228 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
3 185 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 169 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 142 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 135 (2.63%) Replication
7 127 (2.48%) Data Structures
8 117 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 115 (2.24%) Clustering
10 94 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 76 (1.48%) Product Ownership
12 69 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 57 (1.11%) Reinsurance
15 54 (1.05%) Driving Licence
16 51 (1.00%) Algorithms
17 50 (0.98%) NHS
18 48 (0.94%) Swaptions
19 43 (0.84%) Social Media
20 42 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 856 (16.71%) Windows
2 396 (7.73%) Linux
3 381 (7.44%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.13%) VMS
5 99 (1.93%) Unix
6 84 (1.64%) Windows 10
7 82 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 75 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 67 (1.31%) Android
10 55 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
11 45 (0.88%) CentOS
12 40 (0.78%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
13 27 (0.53%) Solaris
14 24 (0.47%) zOS
15 20 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.31%) Windows 7
19 15 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,788 (34.89%) Agile
2 1,236 (24.12%) MVC
3 1,141 (22.27%) Full Stack Development
4 949 (18.52%) DevOps
5 932 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
6 828 (16.16%) Microservices
7 817 (15.94%) Business Intelligence
8 629 (12.28%) ETL
9 598 (11.67%) TDD
10 585 (11.42%) Scrum
11 441 (8.61%) Computer Science
12 406 (7.92%) BDD
13 404 (7.88%) CI/CD
14 397 (7.75%) Software Engineering
15 371 (7.24%) Mentoring
16 359 (7.01%) Data Modelling
17 346 (6.75%) OO
18 336 (6.56%) Analytics
19 332 (6.48%) Roadmaps
20 310 (6.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,656 (51.83%) SQL
2 2,452 (47.85%) C#
3 1,679 (32.77%) JavaScript
4 825 (16.10%) T-SQL
5 568 (11.09%) TypeScript
6 489 (9.54%) Python
7 350 (6.83%) PowerShell
8 318 (6.21%) Java
9 189 (3.69%) VB
10 165 (3.22%) VB.NET
11 103 (2.01%) PHP
12 89 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 79 (1.54%) Bash
14 73 (1.42%) C++
15 55 (1.07%) C
16 54 (1.05%) R
17 51 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 42 (0.82%) VBA
19 41 (0.80%) Bicep
19 41 (0.80%) XPath
Qualifications
1 878 (17.14%) Degree
2 276 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 221 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 205 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 119 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 74 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.60%) CCNA
9 31 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.51%) MCSE
10 26 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
11 21 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.37%) MCP
13 16 (0.31%) HND
14 14 (0.27%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (0.23%) MCSA
15 12 (0.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (4.86%) QA
2 193 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 74 (1.44%) SLA
4 64 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 61 (1.19%) GDPR
6 36 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.29%) WAI
9 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
13 5 (0.098%) NIST
14 4 (0.078%) COBIT
14 4 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.078%) NCSC
14 4 (0.078%) PMO
14 4 (0.078%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) MiFID
System Software
1 405 (7.90%) Active Directory
2 235 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 225 (4.39%) Docker
4 126 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 102 (1.99%) Hyper-V
6 58 (1.13%) vSphere
7 52 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 33 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 12 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.098%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.078%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.039%) Firmware
15 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) IAG
16 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 219 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 151 (2.95%) Terraform
3 61 (1.19%) Ansible
4 57 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (1.01%) SCCM
6 26 (0.51%) Grafana
6 26 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.47%) Nagios
8 20 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
9 18 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.31%) WSUS
11 13 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.25%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.21%) MIIS
14 10 (0.20%) Puppet
15 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.18%) Foglight
16 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,670 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 555 (10.83%) Oracle
3 368 (7.18%) VMware
4 161 (3.14%) Google
5 158 (3.08%) Databricks
6 108 (2.11%) Veeam
7 105 (2.05%) Citrix
8 84 (1.64%) Cisco
8 84 (1.64%) Facebook
9 78 (1.52%) IBM
10 77 (1.50%) Sybase
11 67 (1.31%) Apple
12 66 (1.29%) SAP
13 60 (1.17%) Informatica
14 54 (1.05%) TIBCO
15 53 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 49 (0.96%) HP
17 48 (0.94%) OpenLink
18 47 (0.92%) Adobe
19 40 (0.78%) F5