SQL Server Job Trends in West Sussex

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +11
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3 24 40
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.73% 7.59% 9.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.50% 34.78% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 28
10th Percentile £57,375 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,063 £43,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,063 £51,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £71,125 £63,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 40 69 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 9.69% 21.84% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 27 32 66
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,375 £81,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in West Sussex

SQL Server
Salary Trend in West Sussex

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West Sussex over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in West Sussex

SQL Server
Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Crawley -4 1 - - 4
Gatwick - 1 £70,000 - 2
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA