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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,429 4,506 11,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.79% 5.58% 6.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.31% 26.66% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,828 3,703 7,001
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,375 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,852 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +7.78%

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 14,713 16,902 48,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 20.95% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 11,871 21,175
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -4 3,122 £55,000 -4.35% 509
UK excluding London -9 2,393 £50,000 -4.76% 454
Work from Home 0 1,502 £55,000 -1.79% 340
London -18 921 £70,000 +3.70% 119
North of England +7 605 £50,000 - 111
South East -6 595 £55,000 - 129
Midlands +3 488 £50,000 -4.76% 79
North West +10 346 £52,500 +5.00% 56
West Midlands -8 313 £50,000 - 57
South West -12 273 £53,750 +7.50% 51
East of England +5 221 £47,500 -5.00% 51
Yorkshire +6 206 £48,507 -4.42% 38
East Midlands +6 175 £47,500 -9.52% 22
Scotland -70 133 £51,500 +8.42% 23
Wales +16 63 £46,604 +4.73% 12
North East +8 53 £51,250 +7.51% 20
Northern Ireland -1 20 £52,500 +5.00% 19

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
1 200 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 174 (5.07%) IIS
3 154 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 104 (3.03%) CMS
5 42 (1.22%) Umbraco
6 39 (1.14%) Apache
7 21 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 18 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
9 17 (0.50%) ArcGIS
10 16 (0.47%) Apache Solr
10 16 (0.47%) JBoss
11 15 (0.44%) Apache Spark
12 14 (0.41%) Confluence
12 14 (0.41%) SAS
13 13 (0.38%) WordPress
14 12 (0.35%) Tomcat
14 12 (0.35%) WebLogic
15 8 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
15 8 (0.23%) WildFly
16 6 (0.17%) Kentico
Applications
1 157 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 15 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.087%) S-PLUS
10 3 (0.087%) SPSS
11 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (1.08%) SDL Web 8
3 33 (0.96%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.79%) Endur
5 16 (0.47%) Sage 200
6 14 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
7 12 (0.35%) Elite 3E
8 11 (0.32%) Fidessa
9 10 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
10 9 (0.26%) SAP Business One
11 8 (0.23%) Shopify
11 8 (0.23%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.20%) Maximo
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.20%) Sage X3
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
13 6 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
14 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
15 4 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
15 4 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,837 (53.57%) Azure
2 529 (15.43%) Power Platform
3 515 (15.02%) AWS
4 463 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
5 288 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
6 169 (4.93%) SaaS
7 126 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 107 (3.12%) GCP
9 94 (2.74%) PowerApps
10 90 (2.62%) Entra ID
11 86 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
12 85 (2.48%) PaaS
12 85 (2.48%) Serverless
13 84 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 83 (2.42%) Power Automate
15 72 (2.10%) IaaS
16 71 (2.07%) GitHub
17 66 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 62 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
19 49 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 214 (6.24%) Firewall
2 126 (3.67%) DNS
3 101 (2.95%) SAN
4 76 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 72 (2.10%) WAN
6 67 (1.95%) Internet
6 67 (1.95%) VPN
7 61 (1.78%) LAN
8 54 (1.57%) DHCP
9 49 (1.43%) Broadband
10 47 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (0.93%) VoIP
12 31 (0.90%) NAS
13 27 (0.79%) SSL
14 24 (0.70%) Network Security
14 24 (0.70%) Wireless
15 21 (0.61%) HTTP
15 21 (0.61%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.61%) VLAN
16 14 (0.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (14.17%) Power BI
2 345 (10.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 303 (8.84%) Relational Database
4 292 (8.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 233 (6.79%) MySQL
6 225 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
7 224 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
8 222 (6.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 164 (4.78%) MongoDB
10 143 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 121 (3.53%) Oracle Database
12 119 (3.47%) NoSQL
13 99 (2.89%) Data Lake
14 95 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
15 90 (2.62%) RDBMS
16 74 (2.16%) Tableau
17 62 (1.81%) DB2
18 47 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
19 41 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
20 39 (1.14%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 394 (11.49%) Git
2 208 (6.07%) Visual Studio
3 159 (4.64%) JIRA
4 70 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 69 (2.01%) NUnit
6 67 (1.95%) Moq
7 65 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 56 (1.63%) Jenkins
9 48 (1.40%) GitLab
10 41 (1.20%) Jasmine
10 41 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 37 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
12 32 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 30 (0.87%) Selenium
14 28 (0.82%) Karma Test Runner
14 28 (0.82%) MSTest
15 27 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
16 21 (0.61%) SoapUI
16 21 (0.61%) SonarQube
17 20 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 895 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 588 (17.15%) Finance
3 361 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (4.20%) Retail
5 136 (3.97%) Marketing
6 126 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 122 (3.56%) Law
8 94 (2.74%) Legal
9 89 (2.60%) Banking
10 82 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 80 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 74 (2.16%) Games
13 73 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
14 70 (2.04%) Back Office
15 66 (1.92%) Local Government
16 40 (1.17%) Advertising
17 35 (1.02%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.99%) Police
19 33 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
20 31 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,658 (48.35%) Developer
2 648 (18.90%) .NET Developer
3 530 (15.46%) Senior
4 457 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 311 (9.07%) Software Developer
6 278 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 267 (7.79%) C# .NET Developer
8 264 (7.70%) Lead
9 248 (7.23%) Analyst
10 213 (6.21%) Full Stack Developer
11 207 (6.04%) DBA
12 177 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 156 (4.55%) Support Engineer
14 130 (3.79%) Software Engineer
15 124 (3.62%) SQL Developer
16 122 (3.56%) Administrator
16 122 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 114 (3.32%) SQL DBA
18 103 (3.00%) Senior C# Developer
19 100 (2.92%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,623 (47.33%) .NET
2 784 (22.86%) ASP.NET
3 720 (21.00%) HTML
4 642 (18.72%) AngularJS
5 602 (17.56%) CSS
6 575 (16.77%) .NET Core
7 561 (16.36%) .NET Framework
8 519 (15.14%) React
9 439 (12.80%) Entity Framework
10 386 (11.26%) ASP.NET Web API
11 380 (11.08%) ASP.NET MVC
12 303 (8.84%) Vue
13 286 (8.34%) Web Services
14 245 (7.14%) RESTful
15 237 (6.91%) HTML5
16 236 (6.88%) REST
17 212 (6.18%) jQuery
18 208 (6.07%) XML
19 173 (5.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 168 (4.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 147 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
2 121 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 104 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 103 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
5 90 (2.62%) Replication
6 80 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 73 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 60 (1.75%) Cloud Native
10 55 (1.60%) Clustering
11 54 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 48 (1.40%) Driving Licence
13 45 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 39 (1.14%) Legacy Code
15 35 (1.02%) NHS
16 34 (0.99%) Hedge funds
16 34 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (0.79%) Algorithms
17 27 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
18 26 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 661 (19.28%) Windows
2 336 (9.80%) Linux
3 318 (9.27%) Windows Server
4 102 (2.97%) Unix
5 79 (2.30%) VMS
6 65 (1.90%) Windows 10
7 58 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 51 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (1.11%) Ubuntu
10 34 (0.99%) Android
11 30 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
12 29 (0.85%) AIX
12 29 (0.85%) CentOS
13 27 (0.79%) Solaris
14 24 (0.70%) zOS
15 17 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
17 9 (0.26%) Debian
17 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,067 (31.12%) Agile
2 767 (22.37%) DevOps
3 699 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
4 660 (19.25%) Full Stack Development
5 572 (16.68%) MVC
6 486 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
7 420 (12.25%) Microservices
8 406 (11.84%) Computer Science
9 360 (10.50%) Scrum
10 332 (9.68%) CI/CD
11 309 (9.01%) ETL
12 308 (8.98%) Mentoring
13 305 (8.89%) TDD
14 280 (8.17%) Software Engineering
15 256 (7.47%) Analytics
16 235 (6.85%) Data Modelling
17 234 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
18 213 (6.21%) Web Development
19 211 (6.15%) Customer Service
20 209 (6.10%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,824 (53.19%) SQL
2 1,589 (46.34%) C#
3 1,001 (29.19%) JavaScript
4 551 (16.07%) T-SQL
5 351 (10.24%) TypeScript
6 331 (9.65%) Python
7 287 (8.37%) PowerShell
8 214 (6.24%) Java
9 137 (4.00%) VB.NET
10 128 (3.73%) VB
11 83 (2.42%) PHP
12 62 (1.81%) C++
13 57 (1.66%) Bicep
13 57 (1.66%) PL/SQL
14 55 (1.60%) Bash
15 42 (1.22%) VBA
16 40 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 38 (1.11%) C
18 37 (1.08%) R
19 29 (0.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 694 (20.24%) Degree
2 222 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 145 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 129 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 78 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 43 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 41 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 30 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
9 27 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 23 (0.67%) CCNA
10 23 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (0.58%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.55%) MCSA
13 18 (0.52%) MCSE
14 15 (0.44%) HND
15 11 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 11 (0.32%) MCP
16 8 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (5.98%) QA
2 123 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.19%) SLA
4 73 (2.13%) GDPR
5 70 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.35%) WCAG
9 11 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.32%) MiFID
10 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.17%) NIST
12 5 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.087%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.087%) PMO
15 2 (0.058%) COBIT
15 2 (0.058%) GMP
15 2 (0.058%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.058%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 288 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 197 (5.75%) Docker
3 188 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 89 (2.60%) Hyper-V
5 60 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (1.31%) vSphere
7 39 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.52%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.35%) Firmware
9 12 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.26%) XenApp
11 7 (0.20%) VMware Server
12 6 (0.17%) NFS
13 4 (0.12%) pfSense
13 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.029%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.029%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 182 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 105 (3.06%) Terraform
3 46 (1.34%) Ansible
4 43 (1.25%) SCCM
5 36 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 17 (0.50%) Nagios
8 17 (0.50%) WSUS
9 16 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.35%) Grafana
12 12 (0.35%) SCOM
13 10 (0.29%) MIIS
13 10 (0.29%) Puppet
14 8 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 7 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,543 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 467 (13.62%) Oracle
3 264 (7.70%) VMware
4 99 (2.89%) Databricks
5 95 (2.77%) Google
5 95 (2.77%) Veeam
6 89 (2.60%) Cisco
7 85 (2.48%) Citrix
8 62 (1.81%) IBM
9 59 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 53 (1.55%) SAP
11 49 (1.43%) Sybase
12 48 (1.40%) HP
13 39 (1.14%) NEC
14 36 (1.05%) Adobe
15 32 (0.93%) Dell
16 30 (0.87%) Salesforce
17 29 (0.85%) Sage
18 27 (0.79%) Informatica
18 27 (0.79%) OpenLink