SQL Server Jobs

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 40 54
Rank change year-on-year -45 +14 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,635 5,132 5,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.13% 5.22% 5.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.99% 28.30% 25.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,343 4,501 4,403
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 18 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 30 April 2025. 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 -48 1,493 £55,000 - 969
UK excluding London -44 1,131 £50,000 -4.76% 657
Work from Home -35 689 £57,500 +4.55% 606
London -53 435 £70,000 +7.69% 346
North of England -58 360 £50,000 - 184
South East -52 256 £50,000 -9.09% 159
Midlands -47 227 £50,000 - 147
North West -82 187 £50,000 - 128
Yorkshire -6 146 £52,500 - 44
West Midlands -58 125 £55,000 +4.76% 84
East of England -42 120 £47,500 - 47
East Midlands -30 101 £50,000 +5.26% 62
South West -50 83 £53,750 +2.38% 70
Scotland +28 67 £50,000 -4.76% 41
North East -9 31 £55,000 +15.79% 12
Wales -27 10 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Northern Ireland +12 6 £53,750 +7.50% 11
Isle of Man - 3 £38,000 -

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 97 (5.93%) IIS
2 89 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 84 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 46 (2.81%) Confluence
5 29 (1.77%) CMS
6 28 (1.71%) Umbraco
7 27 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (1.28%) Apache
8 21 (1.28%) Apache Spark
9 17 (1.04%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.31%) NetWeaver
12 4 (0.24%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.18%) Moodle
14 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.12%) SAS
14 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
15 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 78 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.67%) Trello
4 7 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) Moqups
7 2 (0.12%) Sketch
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.061%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 71 (4.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.86%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.37%) Infor M3
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (0.31%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.24%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.24%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.18%) Endur
7 2 (0.12%) Eikon
7 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.12%) Odoo
7 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.12%) RMDS
8 1 (0.061%) iTrent
8 1 (0.061%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 836 (51.13%) Azure
2 322 (19.69%) Power Platform
3 227 (13.88%) AWS
4 178 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
5 164 (10.03%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (7.89%) SaaS
7 106 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
8 91 (5.57%) GitHub
9 77 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 72 (4.40%) PowerApps
11 69 (4.22%) Power Automate
12 52 (3.18%) Serverless
13 49 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 44 (2.69%) Entra ID
15 43 (2.63%) GCP
16 35 (2.14%) IaaS
17 30 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
18 27 (1.65%) Azure Functions
18 27 (1.65%) PaaS
19 24 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.85%) Firewall
2 85 (5.20%) DNS
3 63 (3.85%) DHCP
4 48 (2.94%) VPN
5 45 (2.75%) SAN
6 44 (2.69%) TCP/IP
7 38 (2.32%) WAN
8 37 (2.26%) LAN
9 27 (1.65%) Network Security
10 22 (1.35%) Intranet
11 21 (1.28%) FTP
11 21 (1.28%) HTTP
12 18 (1.10%) VoIP
13 17 (1.04%) VLAN
14 11 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
14 11 (0.67%) Wireless
15 10 (0.61%) NAS
15 10 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.55%) VSAN
16 9 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (13.76%) Power BI
2 203 (12.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 189 (11.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 144 (8.81%) MySQL
5 133 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
6 120 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (6.30%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 72 (4.40%) NoSQL
10 70 (4.28%) MongoDB
11 58 (3.55%) Data Lake
12 42 (2.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 41 (2.51%) DB2
14 36 (2.20%) Tableau
15 22 (1.35%) Metadata
16 20 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
17 18 (1.10%) Big Data
18 17 (1.04%) Data Hub
19 16 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 16 (0.98%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 184 (11.25%) Git
2 113 (6.91%) Visual Studio
3 103 (6.30%) JIRA
4 39 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 38 (2.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 26 (1.59%) TeamCity
7 22 (1.35%) NUnit
8 20 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 16 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.86%) GitLab
10 14 (0.86%) MagicDraw
11 13 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.67%) Selenium
13 10 (0.61%) Postman
13 10 (0.61%) PowerBuilder
13 10 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.43%) Subversion
15 6 (0.37%) JMeter
General
1 522 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 369 (22.57%) Finance
3 188 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (5.14%) Retail
5 75 (4.59%) Banking
6 61 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (3.73%) Law
7 57 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 38 (2.32%) Public Sector
9 32 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (1.83%) Back Office
10 30 (1.83%) Marketing
11 29 (1.77%) Legal
12 25 (1.53%) Advertising
13 23 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.41%) Local Government
14 16 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.92%) Front Office
15 15 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 737 (45.08%) Developer
2 298 (18.23%) Senior
3 173 (10.58%) Analyst
4 166 (10.15%) Senior Developer
5 165 (10.09%) .NET Developer
6 140 (8.56%) Software Developer
7 129 (7.89%) C# Developer
8 123 (7.52%) Lead
9 108 (6.61%) Support Analyst
10 105 (6.42%) Applications Support
11 103 (6.30%) SQL Developer
12 97 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
13 79 (4.83%) Data Engineer
14 78 (4.77%) Software Engineer
15 76 (4.65%) Applications Support Analyst
16 64 (3.91%) Support Engineer
17 59 (3.61%) Architect
18 54 (3.30%) C# .NET Developer
18 54 (3.30%) IT Support
19 49 (3.00%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 675 (41.28%) .NET
2 245 (14.98%) ASP.NET
3 240 (14.68%) CSS
4 236 (14.43%) HTML
5 227 (13.88%) .NET Framework
6 216 (13.21%) React
7 203 (12.42%) .NET Core
8 155 (9.48%) AngularJS
9 120 (7.34%) XML
10 112 (6.85%) REST
11 102 (6.24%) Entity Framework
12 95 (5.81%) JSON
13 94 (5.75%) jQuery
14 88 (5.38%) RESTful
14 88 (5.38%) Web Services
15 77 (4.71%) HTML5
16 71 (4.34%) ASP.NET MVC
17 70 (4.28%) SOAP
18 67 (4.10%) ASP.NET Web API
19 56 (3.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.87%) Management Information System
2 68 (4.16%) Mobile App
3 53 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.20%) NHS
6 33 (2.02%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 32 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.90%) Client/Server
8 31 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 29 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
11 28 (1.71%) Clustering
11 28 (1.71%) Private Cloud
11 28 (1.71%) Replication
12 22 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.22%) Onboarding
14 19 (1.16%) Robotics
15 17 (1.04%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 309 (18.90%) Windows
2 169 (10.34%) Linux
3 150 (9.17%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.94%) Unix
5 39 (2.39%) Windows 10
6 36 (2.20%) Android
7 28 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.73%) CentOS
10 12 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.55%) Solaris
13 8 (0.49%) AIX
13 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.31%) Rocky
15 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.18%) Debian
17 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (30.09%) Agile
1 492 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
2 349 (21.35%) DevOps
3 247 (15.11%) Business Intelligence
4 204 (12.48%) CI/CD
5 198 (12.11%) Computer Science
6 190 (11.62%) MVC
7 186 (11.38%) Software Engineering
8 168 (10.28%) Migration
9 155 (9.48%) Mentoring
10 153 (9.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 144 (8.81%) ITIL
12 140 (8.56%) ETL
13 138 (8.44%) Analytics
14 131 (8.01%) CRM
15 119 (7.28%) Microservices
16 113 (6.91%) OO
16 113 (6.91%) SDLC
17 112 (6.85%) OOP
18 111 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 909 (55.60%) SQL
2 687 (42.02%) C#
3 324 (19.82%) JavaScript
4 239 (14.62%) T-SQL
5 180 (11.01%) Python
6 160 (9.79%) PowerShell
7 156 (9.54%) Java
8 114 (6.97%) TypeScript
9 80 (4.89%) PHP
10 58 (3.55%) C++
11 54 (3.30%) VB.NET
12 51 (3.12%) PL/SQL
13 27 (1.65%) Bash
14 25 (1.53%) C
15 18 (1.10%) VB
16 14 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.80%) R
18 11 (0.67%) Scala
19 10 (0.61%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 349 (21.35%) Degree
2 114 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 56 (3.43%) DBS Check
5 55 (3.36%) Security Cleared
6 39 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.83%) SC Cleared
8 26 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.61%) MCSA
12 9 (0.55%) MCSE
12 9 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.37%) MCP
15 6 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.24%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.36%) Data Quality
2 51 (3.12%) QA
3 46 (2.81%) GDPR
4 45 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 33 (2.02%) SLA
6 24 (1.47%) WCAG
7 17 (1.04%) ISO 9001
8 16 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.37%) GxP
11 5 (0.31%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.18%) NIST
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.061%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.061%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.061%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.061%) MiFID
System Software
1 118 (7.22%) Docker
2 117 (7.16%) Active Directory
3 86 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (3.55%) Hyper-V
5 24 (1.47%) vSphere
6 19 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.37%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.12%) Firmware
12 2 (0.12%) KVM
12 2 (0.12%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) SRDF
12 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.12%) Xen
13 1 (0.061%) pfSense
13 1 (0.061%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 130 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 74 (4.53%) Terraform
3 53 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (2.20%) Ansible
5 34 (2.08%) SCCM
6 22 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
7 19 (1.16%) Grafana
8 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.61%) SCOM
10 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (0.55%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.43%) Puppet
12 5 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 5 (0.31%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.24%) Control-M
13 4 (0.24%) WMI
13 4 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 780 (47.71%) Microsoft
2 215 (13.15%) Oracle
3 110 (6.73%) VMware
4 56 (3.43%) Databricks
5 47 (2.87%) Cisco
6 37 (2.26%) HP
7 31 (1.90%) IBM
7 31 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.53%) SAP
9 24 (1.47%) Veeam
10 22 (1.35%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.10%) Zoho
12 17 (1.04%) Bloomberg
12 17 (1.04%) Dell
12 17 (1.04%) NetApp
12 17 (1.04%) Reuters
13 16 (0.98%) Citrix
13 16 (0.98%) Google
14 15 (0.92%) SolarWinds
15 13 (0.80%) Splunk