SQL Server Developer
UK

The median SQL Server Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 914 1044
Rank change year-on-year +36 +130 -276
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 30 84 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.079% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.086% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 81 142
10th Percentile £43,750 - £40,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +13.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £62,833
90th Percentile £69,000 £80,000 £74,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +8.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL Server Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer.

Salary trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Developer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +81 30 £60,000 +0.80% 9
Work from Home +43 20 £60,000 +0.80% 1
UK excluding London +3 18 £60,000 +20.00% 2
North of England +45 12 £55,000 +10.00% 1
London +115 8 £62,500 -10.71% 7
Yorkshire - 6 £62,500 -
North West -2 5 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East of England - 3 £70,000 -
South East +5 2 £60,000 +50.00% 1
North East -5 1 £47,500 +18.75%
South West - 1 £50,000 -

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, SQL Server Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (83.33%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 10 (33.33%) C#
3 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (30.00%) Law
5 7 (23.33%) .NET
5 7 (23.33%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (20.00%) Node.js
6 6 (20.00%) Analytics
6 6 (20.00%) Chatbot
6 6 (20.00%) Conversational UI
6 6 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.00%) ETL
7 5 (16.67%) Finance
7 5 (16.67%) Azure
7 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
7 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
8 4 (13.33%) Power BI
8 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
8 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 4 (13.33%) AWS
8 4 (13.33%) Data Extraction

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.67%) dbt
4 2 (6.67%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.33%) OLTP
3 4 (13.33%) Power BI
3 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.00%) OLAP
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (30.00%) Law
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Legal
4 2 (6.67%) Electronics
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) .NET
2 6 (20.00%) Node.js
3 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (10.00%) RESTful
4 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) CSS
5 1 (3.33%) HTML
5 1 (3.33%) jQuery
5 1 (3.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (3.33%) WPF
5 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (23.33%) Agile
2 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (20.00%) Analytics
3 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (20.00%) ETL
3 6 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (13.33%) Data Extraction
5 4 (13.33%) Data Security
5 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (10.00%) DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (33.33%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) SAP