Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SSDT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SSDT over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 715 835 816
Rank change year-on-year +120 -19 +370
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing SSDT 1 1 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.001% 0.034%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.013% 0.007% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 23
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,263 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,175 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -11.65% +6.27%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,088 £52,500
90th Percentile - - £54,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,175 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.87% -11.65% +19.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SSDT 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,881 14,157 14,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 16.27% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,783 8,488 11,056
10th Percentile £34,804 £36,675 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,450 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

SSDT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SSDT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SSDT in the UK

SSDT
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SSDT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SSDT

SSDT
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSDT within the UK over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +96 1 £45,000 +1.87% 2
England +80 1 £45,000 +1.87% 1
South East +35 1 £45,000 +1.87% 1

SSDT
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Catalogue
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow