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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 42 55
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,786 5,063 5,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.20% 4.88% 5.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.17% 27.53% 25.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 4,410 4,077
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,198
Median % change year-on-year - -0.36% +0.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,647
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,498 £51,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% 0.00% +8.42%

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 7,708 18,393 20,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 17.74% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 12,535 12,955
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -54 1,604 £55,000 - 1,195
UK excluding London -40 1,309 £50,000 -2.91% 827
Work from Home -39 892 £57,500 +4.55% 702
North of England -54 447 £50,000 - 203
London -53 397 £71,000 +6.77% 450
North West -64 282 £50,000 - 139
South East -62 277 £52,000 -5.45% 238
Midlands -42 273 £50,000 - 164
West Midlands -46 147 £56,250 +7.14% 98
Yorkshire -22 129 £52,500 +5.00% 44
East Midlands -24 125 £48,500 +2.11% 62
East of England -58 123 £44,500 -6.32% 71
Scotland +48 100 £50,000 -4.76% 49
South West -49 77 £50,000 -4.76% 72
North East -5 40 £51,250 +7.89% 24
Northern Ireland +19 6 £53,750 +7.50% 16
Wales -25 6 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 - 1

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
1 202 (11.31%) Confluence
2 110 (6.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 106 (5.94%) IIS
4 89 (4.98%) SharePoint
5 26 (1.46%) CMS
6 24 (1.34%) Umbraco
7 15 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.73%) Apache
10 6 (0.34%) Moodle
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.17%) SAS
12 3 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 67 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.56%) Trello
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.17%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.056%) Moqups
8 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.056%) Revit
8 1 (0.056%) Sketch
8 1 (0.056%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 66 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.50%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.34%) Infor M3
3 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.28%) Endur
4 5 (0.28%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.22%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite
5 4 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.11%) Eikon
7 2 (0.11%) Odoo
7 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.11%) RMDS
7 2 (0.11%) Sage 1000
8 1 (0.056%) iTrent
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.056%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (57.56%) Azure
2 473 (26.48%) AWS
3 329 (18.42%) Power Platform
4 194 (10.86%) GCP
5 176 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (6.49%) SaaS
8 97 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
9 81 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 77 (4.31%) Power Automate
11 76 (4.26%) GitHub
12 74 (4.14%) PowerApps
13 59 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 54 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 52 (2.91%) Serverless
16 29 (1.62%) IaaS
17 28 (1.57%) Azure Functions
18 26 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
19 22 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
19 22 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.10%) Firewall
2 74 (4.14%) DNS
3 57 (3.19%) DHCP
4 51 (2.86%) SAN
5 45 (2.52%) WAN
6 44 (2.46%) LAN
7 42 (2.35%) VPN
8 33 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 27 (1.51%) Network Security
10 26 (1.46%) VoIP
11 20 (1.12%) FTP
11 20 (1.12%) HTTP
12 18 (1.01%) NAS
13 17 (0.95%) Intranet
14 13 (0.73%) VLAN
15 11 (0.62%) SSL
16 10 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
16 10 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (0.50%) DMARC
17 9 (0.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (13.72%) Power BI
2 179 (10.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 161 (9.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 137 (7.67%) MySQL
5 127 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
6 124 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
7 112 (6.27%) Relational Database
8 80 (4.48%) MongoDB
9 71 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 69 (3.86%) NoSQL
11 49 (2.74%) Data Lake
12 45 (2.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 32 (1.79%) Tableau
14 31 (1.74%) DB2
15 26 (1.46%) Data Hub
15 26 (1.46%) Metadata
16 23 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (1.29%) RDBMS
17 21 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
17 21 (1.18%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 342 (19.15%) JIRA
2 260 (14.56%) GitLab
3 257 (14.39%) Bitbucket
4 256 (14.33%) Selenium
5 253 (14.17%) SonarQube
6 249 (13.94%) Maven
6 249 (13.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 247 (13.83%) Cucumber
8 175 (9.80%) Git
9 96 (5.38%) Visual Studio
10 42 (2.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 36 (2.02%) TeamCity
12 35 (1.96%) Jenkins
13 31 (1.74%) NUnit
14 23 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
15 16 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 14 (0.78%) MagicDraw
17 11 (0.62%) Jasmine
17 11 (0.62%) Postman
17 11 (0.62%) PowerBuilder
General
1 602 (33.71%) Finance
2 493 (27.60%) Social Skills
3 311 (17.41%) Banking
4 303 (16.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 192 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
6 172 (9.63%) Retail
7 106 (5.94%) Investment Banking
8 90 (5.04%) Corporate Banking
9 62 (3.47%) Manufacturing
10 61 (3.42%) Law
11 38 (2.13%) Back Office
12 37 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.02%) Public Sector
14 31 (1.74%) Legal
15 30 (1.68%) Advertising
15 30 (1.68%) Marketing
16 29 (1.62%) Front Office
17 21 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.12%) Local Government
19 18 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 673 (37.68%) Developer
2 305 (17.08%) Software Engineer
3 250 (14.00%) Senior
4 168 (9.41%) Analyst
5 146 (8.17%) Senior Developer
6 142 (7.95%) .NET Developer
7 122 (6.83%) C# Developer
8 118 (6.61%) Lead
9 116 (6.49%) Software Developer
10 112 (6.27%) SQL Developer
11 97 (5.43%) Support Analyst
12 95 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
13 85 (4.76%) Applications Support
14 81 (4.54%) IT Support
15 64 (3.58%) Support Engineer
16 63 (3.53%) Data Engineer
17 59 (3.30%) Architect
18 57 (3.19%) IT Engineer
19 54 (3.02%) Applications Support Analyst
20 53 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 579 (32.42%) .NET
2 448 (25.08%) CSS
3 437 (24.47%) HTML
4 428 (23.96%) React
5 300 (16.80%) Kafka
6 269 (15.06%) Spring Boot
7 265 (14.84%) Spring
8 255 (14.28%) Redux
9 247 (13.83%) JPA
10 225 (12.60%) ASP.NET
11 201 (11.25%) REST
12 182 (10.19%) .NET Framework
13 181 (10.13%) .NET Core
14 174 (9.74%) RESTful
15 164 (9.18%) Hibernate
16 156 (8.73%) HTML5
17 119 (6.66%) AngularJS
18 117 (6.55%) CSS3
19 111 (6.22%) Jest
20 106 (5.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 295 (16.52%) Product Ownership
2 272 (15.23%) Enterprise Software
3 86 (4.82%) Management Information System
4 63 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 62 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.18%) Cloud Native
7 35 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 34 (1.90%) Client/Server
8 34 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 31 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 30 (1.68%) Clustering
12 29 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 29 (1.62%) Replication
13 28 (1.57%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.46%) NHS
15 18 (1.01%) Hedge funds
16 17 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.84%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 294 (16.46%) Windows
2 154 (8.62%) Linux
3 150 (8.40%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.80%) Unix
5 33 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 30 (1.68%) Android
7 24 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.39%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.34%) CentOS
13 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.28%) Rocky
14 5 (0.28%) Solaris
15 2 (0.11%) AIX
15 2 (0.11%) Debian
15 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (39.08%) Agile
2 555 (31.08%) DevOps
3 466 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 448 (25.08%) CI/CD
5 413 (23.12%) Software Engineering
6 387 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 369 (20.66%) Microservices
8 348 (19.48%) SDLC
9 323 (18.09%) Containerisation
10 316 (17.69%) Test Automation
11 303 (16.97%) Performance Optimisation
12 275 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 274 (15.34%) Front End Development
14 271 (15.17%) Business Intelligence
15 267 (14.95%) Migration
16 245 (13.72%) Clean Code
17 243 (13.61%) Mentoring
18 219 (12.26%) TDD
19 186 (10.41%) Computer Science
20 167 (9.35%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,114 (62.37%) SQL
2 604 (33.82%) C#
3 534 (29.90%) JavaScript
4 398 (22.28%) Java
5 218 (12.21%) T-SQL
6 197 (11.03%) TypeScript
7 170 (9.52%) Python
8 161 (9.01%) PowerShell
9 64 (3.58%) PHP
10 53 (2.97%) C++
11 47 (2.63%) VB.NET
12 41 (2.30%) PL/SQL
13 31 (1.74%) Bash
14 17 (0.95%) VBA
15 16 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.73%) R
16 13 (0.73%) VB
17 8 (0.45%) Bicep
17 8 (0.45%) C
17 8 (0.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 321 (17.97%) Degree
2 107 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 58 (3.25%) DBS Check
6 41 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.85%) SC Cleared
8 23 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (0.67%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.62%) MCSA
12 10 (0.56%) MCSE
13 9 (0.50%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.45%) MCP
15 7 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
17 5 (0.28%) CCNA
17 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (16.29%) QA
2 127 (7.11%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.74%) GDPR
5 24 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.06%) SLA
6 19 (1.06%) WCAG
7 15 (0.84%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.34%) GxP
10 5 (0.28%) NCSC
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.17%) NIST
11 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.056%) GAAP
12 1 (0.056%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.056%) MiFID
12 1 (0.056%) PMO
12 1 (0.056%) Solvency II
System Software
1 355 (19.88%) Docker
2 142 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 111 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 25 (1.40%) vSphere
6 24 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.34%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) SRDF
12 2 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.11%) Xen
12 2 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 360 (20.16%) Kubernetes
2 82 (4.59%) Terraform
3 58 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.30%) Ansible
5 36 (2.02%) SCCM
6 23 (1.29%) Failover Clustering
7 19 (1.06%) Grafana
8 17 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.50%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.45%) SCOM
11 8 (0.45%) WSUS
12 6 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.22%) Puppet
14 4 (0.22%) WMI
15 3 (0.17%) Functional Safety
15 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 768 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 247 (13.83%) Solace
3 196 (10.97%) Oracle
4 140 (7.84%) VMware
5 59 (3.30%) Databricks
6 51 (2.86%) Cisco
7 32 (1.79%) HP
8 29 (1.62%) Veeam
9 24 (1.34%) IBM
10 23 (1.29%) SAP
11 22 (1.23%) Dell
12 20 (1.12%) Citrix
12 20 (1.12%) Google
12 20 (1.12%) Zoho
13 18 (1.01%) NetApp
13 18 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.90%) Salesforce
15 15 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 15 (0.84%) SolarWinds
16 14 (0.78%) Splunk