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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 53 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,143 5,778 10,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.26% 5.47% 6.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.49% 25.23% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,527 4,493 7,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +6.32% -

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 18,054 22,905 42,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.47% 21.67% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,611 14,133 21,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 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 +21 4,687 £55,000 -4.35% 1,013
UK excluding London +20 3,735 £52,500 +3.96% 734
Work from Home +17 2,719 £55,000 -4.35% 776
London +4 1,242 £65,000 -5.55% 346
North of England +35 976 £50,000 - 197
South East +13 866 £55,000 - 158
Midlands +33 738 £50,000 - 157
North West +46 555 £50,000 - 103
West Midlands +28 454 £52,500 +5.00% 94
South West +6 420 £52,500 +5.00% 82
East of England +32 410 £47,500 -9.52% 74
Yorkshire +28 306 £52,500 +5.00% 69
East Midlands +37 284 £47,500 +5.56% 63
Scotland -30 210 £52,500 +10.53% 52
North East +45 115 £47,500 +11.76% 26
Wales +6 91 £50,000 +16.28% 17
Northern Ireland -8 30 £50,000 - 15
Isle of Man - 1 £60,000 -

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
1 310 (6.03%) SharePoint
2 270 (5.25%) IIS
3 230 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 112 (2.18%) CMS
5 59 (1.15%) Apache
6 56 (1.09%) Umbraco
7 38 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 26 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 24 (0.47%) WordPress
10 23 (0.45%) Confluence
11 19 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 17 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.31%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.29%) JBoss
14 15 (0.29%) Kentico
15 14 (0.27%) ArcGIS
15 14 (0.27%) SAS
16 13 (0.25%) Apache Solr
17 11 (0.21%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 203 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.51%) Photoshop
4 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.16%) InDesign
7 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.078%) SPSS
10 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.019%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 143 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.95%) Endur
3 27 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
4 26 (0.51%) PlanetPress Connect
5 24 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 22 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
7 19 (0.37%) Elite 3E
8 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
8 16 (0.31%) Maximo
9 13 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
10 12 (0.23%) Shopify
11 11 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.21%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.21%) SAP Business One
12 10 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.19%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
14 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
15 7 (0.14%) BusinessWorks
15 7 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,876 (55.92%) Azure
2 833 (16.20%) Power Platform
3 806 (15.67%) AWS
4 595 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
5 417 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 240 (4.67%) SaaS
7 169 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 156 (3.03%) GCP
9 131 (2.55%) PaaS
10 121 (2.35%) Serverless
11 114 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 110 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
13 108 (2.10%) PowerApps
14 107 (2.08%) GitHub
15 102 (1.98%) Entra ID
16 95 (1.85%) IaaS
17 94 (1.83%) Snowflake
18 92 (1.79%) Power Automate
19 85 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
20 82 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 281 (5.46%) Firewall
2 213 (4.14%) DNS
3 168 (3.27%) Internet
4 159 (3.09%) WAN
5 128 (2.49%) SAN
6 105 (2.04%) DHCP
6 105 (2.04%) VPN
7 96 (1.87%) LAN
8 94 (1.83%) TCP/IP
9 87 (1.69%) Broadband
10 50 (0.97%) VoIP
11 47 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 43 (0.84%) SSL
13 42 (0.82%) HTTP
14 40 (0.78%) Wireless
15 37 (0.72%) NAS
16 35 (0.68%) Network Security
17 30 (0.58%) VLAN
18 20 (0.39%) SD-WAN
19 18 (0.35%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (14.64%) Power BI
2 583 (11.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 490 (9.53%) Data Warehouse
4 438 (8.52%) Relational Database
5 414 (8.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 406 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 334 (6.49%) MongoDB
8 316 (6.14%) MySQL
9 290 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
10 242 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
11 185 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 172 (3.34%) Data Lake
13 165 (3.21%) NoSQL
14 114 (2.22%) RDBMS
15 96 (1.87%) Oracle Database
16 91 (1.77%) Tableau
17 73 (1.42%) DB2
18 70 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.15%) MS Access
20 53 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 454 (8.83%) Git
2 278 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 242 (4.71%) JIRA
4 116 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 80 (1.56%) NUnit
6 69 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 66 (1.28%) GitLab
8 60 (1.17%) Moq
8 60 (1.17%) TeamCity
9 59 (1.15%) Jenkins
10 54 (1.05%) Jasmine
11 43 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
12 38 (0.74%) Selenium
13 37 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
14 35 (0.68%) Postman
15 33 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 28 (0.54%) SpecFlow
17 25 (0.49%) MSTest
18 24 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
19 23 (0.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,262 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 899 (17.48%) Finance
3 426 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (5.48%) Retail
5 202 (3.93%) Marketing
6 194 (3.77%) Law
7 175 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 153 (2.97%) Games
9 151 (2.94%) Banking
9 151 (2.94%) Legal
10 150 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 124 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 99 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 83 (1.61%) Advertising
14 70 (1.36%) Back Office
15 63 (1.22%) Local Government
16 54 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
17 53 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
18 44 (0.86%) Telecoms
19 39 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,459 (47.81%) Developer
2 1,182 (22.98%) .NET Developer
3 707 (13.75%) Senior
4 647 (12.58%) C# Developer
5 417 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
6 410 (7.97%) Software Developer
7 408 (7.93%) Analyst
8 382 (7.43%) Lead
9 331 (6.44%) Senior Developer
10 287 (5.58%) DBA
11 262 (5.09%) Data Engineer
12 225 (4.37%) Consultant
13 220 (4.28%) Support Engineer
14 205 (3.99%) Software Engineer
15 199 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
16 189 (3.67%) SQL DBA
17 167 (3.25%) Administrator
18 163 (3.17%) Support Analyst
19 148 (2.88%) Applications Support
20 144 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,439 (47.42%) .NET
2 1,444 (28.08%) ASP.NET
3 1,139 (22.15%) .NET Core
4 1,102 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 1,083 (21.06%) HTML
6 953 (18.53%) ASP.NET MVC
7 892 (17.34%) .NET Framework
8 831 (16.16%) Entity Framework
9 824 (16.02%) CSS
10 810 (15.75%) ASP.NET Web API
11 720 (14.00%) React
12 519 (10.09%) HTML5
13 468 (9.10%) Vue
14 393 (7.64%) RESTful
15 357 (6.94%) Node.js
16 347 (6.75%) REST
17 344 (6.69%) Web Services
18 296 (5.76%) jQuery
19 283 (5.50%) XML
20 273 (5.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 234 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 213 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
3 190 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 168 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 142 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.68%) Replication
7 128 (2.49%) Data Structures
8 119 (2.31%) Clustering
9 117 (2.27%) Mobile App
10 95 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 77 (1.50%) Product Ownership
12 72 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 61 (1.19%) Data Centre
14 57 (1.11%) Reinsurance
15 52 (1.01%) Algorithms
16 50 (0.97%) NHS
17 48 (0.93%) Swaptions
18 45 (0.87%) Onboarding
19 44 (0.86%) Social Media
20 43 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 857 (16.66%) Windows
2 394 (7.66%) Linux
3 384 (7.47%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.12%) VMS
5 84 (1.63%) Unix
5 84 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 82 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 75 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 67 (1.30%) Android
9 58 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 46 (0.89%) CentOS
11 41 (0.80%) Ubuntu
12 27 (0.52%) AIX
12 27 (0.52%) Solaris
13 24 (0.47%) zOS
14 19 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
16 16 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 15 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,791 (34.82%) Agile
2 1,242 (24.15%) MVC
3 1,146 (22.28%) Full Stack Development
4 954 (18.55%) DevOps
5 945 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 827 (16.08%) Microservices
7 820 (15.94%) Business Intelligence
8 634 (12.33%) ETL
9 603 (11.72%) TDD
10 584 (11.36%) Scrum
11 443 (8.61%) Computer Science
12 408 (7.93%) BDD
13 406 (7.89%) Software Engineering
14 405 (7.87%) CI/CD
15 371 (7.21%) Mentoring
16 358 (6.96%) Data Modelling
17 348 (6.77%) OO
18 339 (6.59%) Analytics
19 334 (6.49%) Roadmaps
20 318 (6.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,671 (51.93%) SQL
2 2,463 (47.89%) C#
3 1,692 (32.90%) JavaScript
4 834 (16.22%) T-SQL
5 567 (11.02%) TypeScript
6 492 (9.57%) Python
7 358 (6.96%) PowerShell
8 315 (6.12%) Java
9 189 (3.67%) VB
10 167 (3.25%) VB.NET
11 104 (2.02%) PHP
12 92 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 82 (1.59%) Bash
14 72 (1.40%) C++
15 55 (1.07%) C
16 53 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 53 (1.03%) R
17 41 (0.80%) VBA
17 41 (0.80%) XPath
18 40 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 887 (17.25%) Degree
2 280 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 221 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 193 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 120 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 77 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 65 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.60%) CCNA
9 31 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.51%) MCSE
11 21 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.35%) MCP
14 16 (0.31%) HND
15 14 (0.27%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.25%) MCSA
16 13 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
17 12 (0.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (4.84%) QA
2 192 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 76 (1.48%) SLA
4 61 (1.19%) GDPR
5 48 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 38 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.29%) WAI
9 11 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
13 5 (0.097%) NIST
14 4 (0.078%) COBIT
14 4 (0.078%) ISO 9000
14 4 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.078%) NCSC
14 4 (0.078%) PMO
14 4 (0.078%) Solvency II
System Software
1 412 (8.01%) Active Directory
2 238 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 224 (4.36%) Docker
4 129 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 60 (1.17%) vSphere
7 53 (1.03%) VMware NSX
8 33 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 12 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.078%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.078%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.039%) Firmware
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.019%) IAG
15 1 (0.019%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 221 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 151 (2.94%) Terraform
3 61 (1.19%) Ansible
4 58 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 53 (1.03%) SCCM
6 26 (0.51%) Grafana
7 24 (0.47%) Nagios
8 23 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 20 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
9 20 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.29%) WSUS
11 13 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.25%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.21%) MIIS
14 9 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.17%) Foglight
14 9 (0.17%) Puppet
15 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,691 (52.32%) Microsoft
2 539 (10.48%) Oracle
3 373 (7.25%) VMware
4 162 (3.15%) Google
5 158 (3.07%) Databricks
6 108 (2.10%) Veeam
7 104 (2.02%) Citrix
8 84 (1.63%) Facebook
9 82 (1.59%) Cisco
10 76 (1.48%) IBM
11 75 (1.46%) Sybase
12 67 (1.30%) Apple
13 66 (1.28%) SAP
14 60 (1.17%) Informatica
15 55 (1.07%) TIBCO
16 51 (0.99%) HP
17 50 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 48 (0.93%) OpenLink
19 47 (0.91%) Adobe
20 40 (0.78%) F5