SQL Server Job Trends in West London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 20 19 17
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 3.90% 4.92% 5.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.82% 27.94% 36.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 15
10th Percentile - £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £55,813 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £49,200 £75,938 £59,375
90th Percentile £69,250 £92,500 £72,525
London median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.81% - -3.57%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West London

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 in West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 49 68 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 9.55% 17.62% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 37 28 41
10th Percentile £32,750 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £62,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £79,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,400 £87,500 £78,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in West London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in West London

SQL Server
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the West London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Hillingdon - 14 £47,000 -
Richmond upon Thames -11 4 £80,000 +2.89% 3
Harrow - 1 £62,500 -
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Metadata
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (45.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Games
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Customer Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Customer Service Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) CSS
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
1 4 (20.00%) jQuery
1 4 (20.00%) XML
1 4 (20.00%) XSL
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) W3C
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (65.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (60.00%) Analytics
3 12 (60.00%) Data Engineering
4 11 (55.00%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (50.00%) Data Architecture
5 10 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 10 (50.00%) Data Management
5 10 (50.00%) Data Security
5 10 (50.00%) Data Strategy
5 10 (50.00%) ETL
6 9 (45.00%) Master Data Management
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) API Integration
7 4 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 4 (20.00%) Matrix Management
7 4 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
8 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
8 3 (15.00%) ITIL
8 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Degree
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (50.00%) CISSP
3 10 (50.00%) MCSE
3 10 (50.00%) OCP
3 10 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Dell Certification
4 2 (10.00%) MCSA
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (70.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Oracle
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Dell
3 2 (10.00%) Fujitsu
3 2 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (10.00%) Juniper
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) OpenText
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow