Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 28 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 31 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,406 1,125 679
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.11% 9.99% 9.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.70% 34.05% 33.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,914 1,004 601
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,906 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,102 3,304 2,044
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.33% 29.35% 27.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,838 2,987 1,772
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

SQL Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Server.

SQL Server salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 28 January 2022.

SQL Server salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 January 2022, SQL Server job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for SQL Server.

1 1,304 (54.20%) C#
2 1,300 (54.03%) .NET
3 1,285 (53.41%) SQL
4 1,271 (52.83%) Azure
5 1,145 (47.59%) Microsoft
6 924 (38.40%) Agile Software Development
7 722 (30.01%) JavaScript
8 688 (28.60%) DevOps
9 581 (24.15%) ASP.NET
10 553 (22.98%) MVC
11 543 (22.57%) Social Skills
12 468 (19.45%) .NET Core
13 454 (18.87%) Windows
14 418 (17.37%) T-SQL
15 390 (16.21%) .NET Framework
16 384 (15.96%) HTML
17 382 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
18 364 (15.13%) Business Intelligence
19 362 (15.05%) CSS
20 355 (14.75%) CI/CD
21 350 (14.55%) Finance
22 334 (13.88%) AngularJS
23 333 (13.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
24 331 (13.76%) Scrum
25 330 (13.72%) Full Stack Development
26 329 (13.67%) React
26 329 (13.67%) Git (software)
27 308 (12.80%) Degree
28 307 (12.76%) AWS
29 283 (11.76%) Power Platform

SQL Server
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 170 (7.07%) IIS
2 109 (4.53%) SharePoint
3 65 (2.70%) CMS
4 64 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
5 58 (2.41%) BizTalk Server
6 53 (2.20%) Umbraco
7 51 (2.12%) Sitecore CMS
8 47 (1.95%) Confluence
9 46 (1.91%) EPiServer
9 46 (1.91%) Kentico
10 43 (1.79%) Apache
11 39 (1.62%) Headless CMS
12 37 (1.54%) MS Exchange
13 28 (1.16%) Tomcat
14 26 (1.08%) SharePoint 2010
15 22 (0.91%) WordPress
16 16 (0.67%) Apache Spark
16 16 (0.67%) Skype for Business
17 12 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
18 10 (0.42%) Drupal
Applications
1 137 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.12%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.083%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.042%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 53 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 11 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.29%) Salesforce.com CRM
5 6 (0.25%) Maximo
6 5 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.12%) Sentinel
9 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.083%) Eikon
9 2 (0.083%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.042%) FastStats
10 1 (0.042%) Loan IQ
10 1 (0.042%) Magento
10 1 (0.042%) nopCommerce
10 1 (0.042%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.042%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,271 (52.83%) Azure
2 307 (12.76%) AWS
3 283 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 217 (9.02%) SaaS
5 163 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
6 133 (5.53%) Serverless
7 105 (4.36%) PaaS
8 74 (3.08%) IaaS
9 66 (2.74%) GitHub
10 65 (2.70%) GCP
11 64 (2.66%) Azure Functions
12 61 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
13 57 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
14 52 (2.16%) Azure Storage
15 49 (2.04%) Azure Active Directory
16 38 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
17 37 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 37 (1.54%) PowerApps
18 36 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
19 34 (1.41%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.70%) Firewall
2 60 (2.49%) DNS
3 46 (1.91%) DHCP
4 38 (1.58%) Internet
5 32 (1.33%) HTTP
6 30 (1.25%) LAN
7 28 (1.16%) VPN
8 26 (1.08%) IPv6
9 24 (1.00%) WAN
10 23 (0.96%) TCP/IP
11 17 (0.71%) VLAN
12 15 (0.62%) SAN
13 14 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
13 14 (0.58%) SSL
14 13 (0.54%) Network Security
14 13 (0.54%) Skype
15 9 (0.37%) IP Telephony
15 9 (0.37%) NAS
15 9 (0.37%) VoIP
16 8 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (13.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 261 (10.85%) Power BI
3 257 (10.68%) Relational Database
4 255 (10.60%) Data Warehouse
5 236 (9.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 233 (9.68%) MySQL
7 142 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
8 139 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 102 (4.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 98 (4.07%) NoSQL
11 91 (3.78%) RDBMS
12 87 (3.62%) SQL Server 2016
13 85 (3.53%) SQL Server 2012
14 79 (3.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 73 (3.03%) Data Lake
16 68 (2.83%) MongoDB
17 57 (2.37%) Big Data
18 51 (2.12%) SQL Server 2008
19 44 (1.83%) Oracle Database
20 42 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 329 (13.67%) Git (software)
2 210 (8.73%) Visual Studio
3 150 (6.23%) Team Foundation Server
4 107 (4.45%) JIRA
5 84 (3.49%) Jenkins
6 69 (2.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 61 (2.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 53 (2.20%) TeamCity
9 45 (1.87%) NUnit
10 40 (1.66%) ReSharper
11 37 (1.54%) Selenium
12 35 (1.45%) Visual Studio Team System
13 27 (1.12%) Gradle
13 27 (1.12%) Maven
13 27 (1.12%) VSS/SourceSafe
14 25 (1.04%) SpecFlow
15 24 (1.00%) Bitbucket
16 21 (0.87%) Cypress.io
16 21 (0.87%) Moq
16 21 (0.87%) Postman
General
1 543 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 350 (14.55%) Finance
3 230 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 121 (5.03%) Retail
6 90 (3.74%) Marketing
7 84 (3.49%) Publishing
8 75 (3.12%) Banking
9 66 (2.74%) Automotive
10 53 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 46 (1.91%) Back Office
12 45 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (1.54%) Local Government
15 36 (1.50%) Law
16 32 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.25%) Electronics
18 26 (1.08%) Financial Institution
19 23 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
20 22 (0.91%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,351 (56.15%) Developer
2 604 (25.10%) .NET Developer
3 362 (15.05%) C# Developer
4 282 (11.72%) Senior Developer
5 266 (11.06%) Software Developer
6 209 (8.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 176 (7.32%) SQL Developer
8 173 (7.19%) Analyst
9 145 (6.03%) Architect
10 135 (5.61%) .NET Software Developer
11 123 (5.11%) Senior .NET Developer
12 111 (4.61%) Administrator
13 103 (4.28%) C# Software Developer
14 96 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
15 95 (3.95%) Data Engineer
16 90 (3.74%) Azure Developer
16 90 (3.74%) DBA
17 79 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
18 69 (2.87%) Software Engineer
19 67 (2.78%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,300 (54.03%) .NET
2 581 (24.15%) ASP.NET
3 468 (19.45%) .NET Core
4 390 (16.21%) .NET Framework
5 384 (15.96%) HTML
6 362 (15.05%) CSS
7 334 (13.88%) AngularJS
8 329 (13.67%) React
9 275 (11.43%) ASP.NET MVC
10 265 (11.01%) Web Services
11 226 (9.39%) jQuery
12 198 (8.23%) XML
13 192 (7.98%) Entity Framework
13 192 (7.98%) RESTful
14 188 (7.81%) ASP.NET Web API
15 179 (7.44%) REST
16 168 (6.98%) HTML5
17 144 (5.99%) JSON
18 122 (5.07%) WCF
19 120 (4.99%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 137 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
2 106 (4.41%) User Experience
3 83 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 80 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 71 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 62 (2.58%) Driving Licence
7 57 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 44 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 38 (1.58%) Clustering
10 37 (1.54%) e-Health
11 30 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.12%) Data Centre
14 26 (1.08%) FMCG
14 26 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.08%) Replication
15 25 (1.04%) Algorithms
16 24 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 19 (0.79%) Derivative
18 17 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 454 (18.87%) Windows
2 218 (9.06%) Windows Server
3 157 (6.53%) Linux
4 43 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.50%) Unix
6 30 (1.25%) Android
7 28 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 27 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 22 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (0.58%) Windows 7
13 13 (0.54%) AIX
14 12 (0.50%) CentOS
15 7 (0.29%) Fedora
15 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.29%) Solaris
16 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
17 2 (0.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (38.40%) Agile Software Development
2 688 (28.60%) DevOps
3 553 (22.98%) MVC
4 382 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
5 364 (15.13%) Business Intelligence
6 355 (14.75%) CI/CD
7 331 (13.76%) Scrum
8 330 (13.72%) Full Stack Development
9 259 (10.76%) Software Engineering
10 250 (10.39%) Analytics
11 245 (10.18%) ETL
12 241 (10.02%) Microservices
13 209 (8.69%) Test Automation
14 180 (7.48%) TDD
15 170 (7.07%) Computer Science
16 162 (6.73%) Mentoring
16 162 (6.73%) SDLC
17 159 (6.61%) Data Modelling
18 158 (6.57%) OO
19 154 (6.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,304 (54.20%) C#
2 1,285 (53.41%) SQL
3 722 (30.01%) JavaScript
4 418 (17.37%) T-SQL
5 275 (11.43%) Python
6 234 (9.73%) PowerShell
7 181 (7.52%) Java
8 152 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 101 (4.20%) VB
10 89 (3.70%) VB.NET
11 76 (3.16%) PHP
12 60 (2.49%) C++
13 55 (2.29%) PL/SQL
14 54 (2.24%) Go
14 54 (2.24%) R
15 41 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
16 37 (1.54%) C
17 34 (1.41%) Kotlin
18 31 (1.29%) VB6
19 27 (1.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 308 (12.80%) Degree
2 107 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.49%) Security Cleared
4 79 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 65 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 42 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 25 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 21 (0.87%) ISEB
10 20 (0.83%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.54%) MCSE
13 12 (0.50%) DV Cleared
14 10 (0.42%) MCSA
15 8 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 7 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 6 (0.25%) MCPD
18 5 (0.21%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (10.14%) QA
2 93 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 42 (1.75%) GDPR
4 39 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 34 (1.41%) SLA
6 17 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.25%) ISO 22301
10 5 (0.21%) HL7
10 5 (0.21%) PMO
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
11 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.12%) GAMP
13 2 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.042%) EMIR
14 1 (0.042%) NCSC
System Software
1 200 (8.31%) Active Directory
2 199 (8.27%) Docker
3 64 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.29%) vSphere
5 26 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 9 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.21%) XenApp
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.083%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.083%) Xen
14 1 (0.042%) Openswan
14 1 (0.042%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 187 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.78%) Terraform
3 66 (2.74%) Ansible
4 45 (1.87%) Puppet
5 35 (1.45%) Grafana
6 34 (1.41%) Opscode Chef
7 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (1.08%) SCCM
9 23 (0.96%) Rancher
10 19 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.54%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.42%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.37%) AirWatch
13 9 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (0.37%) MIIS
14 7 (0.29%) Icinga
14 7 (0.29%) logstash
14 7 (0.29%) Nagios
14 7 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,145 (47.59%) Microsoft
2 269 (11.18%) Oracle
3 91 (3.78%) VMware
4 86 (3.57%) Google
5 61 (2.54%) Xamarin
6 58 (2.41%) Sitecore
7 45 (1.87%) Citrix
8 44 (1.83%) Databricks
9 40 (1.66%) SAP
10 36 (1.50%) RedGate
11 32 (1.33%) Cisco
11 32 (1.33%) NEC
11 32 (1.33%) Northgate
12 24 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 21 (0.87%) Zend
14 20 (0.83%) Salesforce.com
15 18 (0.75%) HP
16 17 (0.71%) ServiceNow
17 16 (0.67%) Splunk
18 14 (0.58%) Veeam