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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 38 40 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,375 8,355 9,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.27% 6.61% 7.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.49% 28.25% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,782 5,970 7,596
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,063 £42,500 £40,000
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 £86,250 £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 11,443 29,578 35,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 23.41% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8,634 17,865 22,676
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
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 30 November 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 30 November 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 0 2,950 £58,079 +1.89% 1,340
UK excluding London -2 2,065 £52,500 +5.00% 1,008
Work from Home -4 1,612 £57,500 +4.55% 896
London +11 1,150 £67,500 -3.57% 422
South East +10 508 £55,000 +3.77% 276
North of England -10 498 £52,000 +4.00% 313
Midlands +4 394 £52,500 +5.00% 171
North West -22 248 £50,000 - 176
South West -21 245 £52,500 +5.00% 98
West Midlands -2 226 £53,500 +10.88% 109
Yorkshire 0 217 £55,000 +4.76% 113
Scotland +18 179 £52,250 +4.50% 40
East Midlands +11 170 £47,500 -5.00% 62
Wales -1 103 £50,000 +11.11% 29
East of England +12 99 £48,000 -12.73% 91
North East +7 33 £45,000 +12.50% 32
Northern Ireland +19 31 £42,500 -19.81% 12
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
1 227 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 223 (6.61%) IIS
3 84 (2.49%) Confluence
4 51 (1.51%) MS Exchange
5 36 (1.07%) Umbraco
6 31 (0.92%) WebLogic
7 28 (0.83%) CMS
7 28 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 24 (0.71%) Apache
9 21 (0.62%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.44%) NServiceBus
11 14 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
11 14 (0.41%) 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%) Kentico
Applications
1 130 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 130 (3.85%) 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%) LibreOffice
7 3 (0.089%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
8 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 120 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (2.10%) Endur
3 30 (0.89%) PlanetPress Connect
4 23 (0.68%) Elite 3E
5 20 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
6 16 (0.47%) Maximo
7 14 (0.41%) Fidessa
7 14 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
8 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
9 12 (0.36%) iTrent
10 11 (0.33%) BusinessWorks
11 9 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
12 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
12 8 (0.24%) Shopify
13 7 (0.21%) Sage X3
14 6 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 6 (0.18%) JDE OneWorld
14 6 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 5 (0.15%) OpenLink RightAngle
15 5 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,548 (45.87%) Azure
2 582 (17.24%) Power Platform
3 403 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
4 335 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
5 329 (9.75%) AWS
6 277 (8.21%) SaaS
7 144 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 140 (4.15%) PaaS
9 136 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
10 128 (3.79%) PowerApps
11 127 (3.76%) Entra ID
12 112 (3.32%) Serverless
13 102 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
14 101 (2.99%) IaaS
15 98 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 79 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
16 79 (2.34%) GCP
17 78 (2.31%) Power Automate
18 69 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 62 (1.84%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 206 (6.10%) Firewall
2 173 (5.13%) DNS
3 115 (3.41%) DHCP
4 112 (3.32%) WAN
5 108 (3.20%) SAN
6 95 (2.81%) VPN
7 79 (2.34%) LAN
8 77 (2.28%) TCP/IP
9 46 (1.36%) Internet
10 44 (1.30%) VLAN
10 44 (1.30%) VoIP
11 39 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.83%) Wireless
13 26 (0.77%) HTTP
13 26 (0.77%) NAS
13 26 (0.77%) SSL
14 25 (0.74%) Network Security
15 18 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
16 15 (0.44%) AMQP
16 15 (0.44%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 490 (14.52%) Power BI
2 438 (12.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 357 (10.58%) Relational Database
4 329 (9.75%) Data Warehouse
5 321 (9.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 261 (7.73%) MySQL
7 203 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 160 (4.74%) RDBMS
9 155 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
10 140 (4.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 113 (3.35%) NoSQL
12 104 (3.08%) Oracle Database
13 86 (2.55%) Data Lake
14 83 (2.46%) MongoDB
15 80 (2.37%) Tableau
16 54 (1.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 53 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
18 49 (1.45%) Oracle Database 10g
19 48 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
20 43 (1.27%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 357 (10.58%) Git
2 218 (6.46%) JIRA
3 158 (4.68%) Visual Studio
4 89 (2.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 82 (2.43%) Jenkins
5 82 (2.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 52 (1.54%) Postman
7 50 (1.48%) GitLab
8 40 (1.19%) Subversion
9 38 (1.13%) Selenium
10 29 (0.86%) SoapUI
10 29 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (0.83%) TeamCity
12 25 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
13 24 (0.71%) JMeter
13 24 (0.71%) LoadRunner
13 24 (0.71%) NUnit
14 22 (0.65%) Maven
14 22 (0.65%) The Grinder
General
1 790 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 700 (20.74%) Finance
3 345 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (4.39%) Banking
5 134 (3.97%) Retail
6 127 (3.76%) Law
7 120 (3.56%) Marketing
8 115 (3.41%) Legal
9 94 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 88 (2.61%) Public Sector
11 81 (2.40%) Games
12 67 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 39 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (1.13%) Back Office
16 36 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 34 (1.01%) Automotive
18 33 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
19 32 (0.95%) Advertising
20 31 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,280 (37.93%) Developer
2 612 (18.13%) Senior
3 403 (11.94%) .NET Developer
4 402 (11.91%) Analyst
5 280 (8.30%) Software Developer
6 278 (8.24%) C# Developer
7 264 (7.82%) Lead
8 254 (7.53%) Senior Developer
9 231 (6.84%) Applications Support
10 207 (6.13%) Support Analyst
11 198 (5.87%) DBA
12 187 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 182 (5.39%) Full Stack Developer
14 176 (5.21%) Architect
15 175 (5.19%) SQL Developer
16 164 (4.86%) Software Engineer
17 160 (4.74%) Data Engineer
18 157 (4.65%) Administrator
19 153 (4.53%) Applications Support Analyst
20 130 (3.85%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,275 (37.78%) .NET
2 548 (16.24%) HTML
3 509 (15.08%) ASP.NET
4 478 (14.16%) CSS
5 410 (12.15%) .NET Core
6 382 (11.32%) .NET Framework
7 343 (10.16%) AngularJS
8 310 (9.19%) React
9 296 (8.77%) REST
10 253 (7.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 216 (6.40%) Web Services
12 215 (6.37%) XML
13 187 (5.54%) Entity Framework
14 183 (5.42%) JSON
15 170 (5.04%) ASP.NET Web API
16 165 (4.89%) jQuery
17 158 (4.68%) RESTful
18 149 (4.41%) HTML5
19 141 (4.18%) SOAP
20 108 (3.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 122 (3.61%) Virtual Team
2 119 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 112 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 102 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.87%) Replication
6 91 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 85 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 83 (2.46%) Clustering
10 75 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 70 (2.07%) Swaptions
12 65 (1.93%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
14 48 (1.42%) Low-Code
15 42 (1.24%) Mobile App
16 36 (1.07%) Cloud Native
17 32 (0.95%) Reinsurance
18 29 (0.86%) IoT
19 26 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
20 23 (0.68%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 679 (20.12%) Windows
2 338 (10.01%) Windows Server
3 202 (5.99%) Linux
4 110 (3.26%) Unix
5 73 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 72 (2.13%) Windows 10
7 62 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 48 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 44 (1.30%) Android
10 26 (0.77%) CentOS
11 23 (0.68%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 15 (0.44%) Mac OS
13 15 (0.44%) Solaris
14 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (0.30%) VMS
16 8 (0.24%) Apple iOS
16 8 (0.24%) Debian
17 4 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
18 3 (0.089%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 974 (28.86%) Agile
2 754 (22.34%) DevOps
3 702 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
4 569 (16.86%) Business Intelligence
5 431 (12.77%) MVC
6 404 (11.97%) CI/CD
7 361 (10.70%) Full Stack Development
8 352 (10.43%) Software Engineering
9 308 (9.13%) Mentoring
10 295 (8.74%) ETL
11 292 (8.65%) ITIL
12 272 (8.06%) SDLC
13 269 (7.97%) Scrum
14 256 (7.59%) Data Modelling
15 255 (7.56%) TDD
16 242 (7.17%) Migration
17 237 (7.02%) Analytics
18 220 (6.52%) Unit Testing
19 209 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 201 (5.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,844 (54.64%) SQL
2 1,305 (38.67%) C#
3 804 (23.82%) JavaScript
4 575 (17.04%) T-SQL
5 403 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 343 (10.16%) Python
7 303 (8.98%) Java
8 167 (4.95%) TypeScript
9 129 (3.82%) VB
10 105 (3.11%) VB.NET
11 97 (2.87%) PL/SQL
12 88 (2.61%) PHP
13 66 (1.96%) Bash
14 53 (1.57%) Perl
15 52 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 42 (1.24%) C
17 40 (1.19%) R
18 24 (0.71%) Ruby
18 24 (0.71%) VBA
18 24 (0.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 497 (14.73%) Degree
2 300 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 232 (6.87%) SC Cleared
4 154 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 98 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 93 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.07%) MCSA
9 32 (0.95%) MCSE
10 27 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 26 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 23 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.47%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.30%) MCP
16 10 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.27%) CCNA
17 9 (0.27%) MCITP
18 8 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.97%) QA
2 98 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 96 (2.84%) SLA
4 47 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 27 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.50%) GDPR
8 12 (0.36%) PMO
9 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.24%) HL7
11 7 (0.21%) WCAG
12 6 (0.18%) ISO 9000
13 4 (0.12%) GxP
14 3 (0.089%) DICOM
14 3 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.089%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.089%) NCSC
14 3 (0.089%) NIST
15 1 (0.030%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 419 (12.41%) Active Directory
2 191 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 126 (3.73%) Docker
4 64 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 40 (1.19%) vSphere
6 25 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
7 22 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.50%) 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%) NFS
13 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.089%) Ceph
14 3 (0.089%) KVM
15 2 (0.059%) ACF2
15 2 (0.059%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.059%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 141 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 88 (2.61%) Terraform
3 74 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 56 (1.66%) Ansible
5 43 (1.27%) SCCM
6 41 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.77%) AirWatch
7 26 (0.77%) OpenSSO
8 20 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
9 18 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
10 16 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
11 14 (0.41%) Nessus
12 13 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
13 12 (0.36%) Puppet
13 12 (0.36%) SCOM
14 10 (0.30%) Grafana
14 10 (0.30%) WSUS
15 9 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,476 (43.73%) Microsoft
2 497 (14.73%) Oracle
3 314 (9.30%) VMware
4 83 (2.46%) Databricks
5 81 (2.40%) TIBCO
6 77 (2.28%) SAP
7 75 (2.22%) Sybase
8 71 (2.10%) OpenLink
9 67 (1.99%) Cisco
10 63 (1.87%) Citrix
11 61 (1.81%) HP
12 57 (1.69%) Xamarin
13 55 (1.63%) ServiceNow
14 44 (1.30%) IBM
15 40 (1.19%) Veeam
16 35 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 32 (0.95%) Dynatrace
18 29 (0.86%) Alteryx
19 28 (0.83%) FNZ
19 28 (0.83%) Teradata