SQL Server Jobs in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 47 67
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -24
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,223 1,979 4,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.17% 5.89% 5.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.58% 23.62% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,616 2,554
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,092 £41,825
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +5.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,187 8,380 22,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.93% 24.92% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,825 5,824 8,991
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £116,250 £107,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in London.

Salary trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Central London -2 228 £66,250 -5.36% 57
West London -37 31 £52,501 +5.00% 10
South London -30 20 £56,250 -2.17% 7
East London +9 15 £57,500 +4.55% 54
North London 0 7 £55,000 -24.14%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 106 (8.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (5.64%) SharePoint
3 68 (5.56%) IIS
4 54 (4.42%) CMS
5 23 (1.88%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.64%) Apache
7 15 (1.23%) EPiServer
8 14 (1.14%) WordPress
9 11 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
9 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.82%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.65%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.57%) Confluence
12 7 (0.57%) JBoss
12 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
12 7 (0.57%) WildFly
13 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.41%) Kentico
14 5 (0.41%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 57 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.14%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) SPSS
7 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (5.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (3.76%) Endur
3 25 (2.04%) SDL Web 8
4 23 (1.88%) NEC Housing
5 16 (1.31%) Fidessa
6 11 (0.90%) Elite 3E
7 9 (0.74%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.74%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.65%) PlanetPress Connect
9 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
10 6 (0.49%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 6 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.33%) BusinessWorks
11 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
12 3 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 2 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 624 (51.02%) Azure
2 205 (16.76%) AWS
3 204 (16.68%) Power Platform
4 164 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (4.82%) SaaS
7 58 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 38 (3.11%) GCP
9 37 (3.03%) GitHub
10 35 (2.86%) PaaS
11 34 (2.78%) Serverless
12 32 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.62%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (2.53%) Snowflake
14 29 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.29%) IaaS
16 27 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
17 26 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.15%) DNS
1 63 (5.15%) Firewall
2 43 (3.52%) Internet
3 31 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.29%) DHCP
5 20 (1.64%) SAN
6 18 (1.47%) VPN
7 16 (1.31%) FIX Connectivity
8 12 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.90%) HTTP
9 11 (0.90%) iSCSI
10 9 (0.74%) WAN
11 8 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
11 8 (0.65%) LAN
11 8 (0.65%) Network Security
11 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.57%) Broadband
12 7 (0.57%) Mobile Broadband
12 7 (0.57%) VoIP
12 7 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (16.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 181 (14.80%) Power BI
3 142 (11.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 140 (11.45%) Relational Database
5 125 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
6 89 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (6.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 76 (6.21%) MongoDB
9 69 (5.64%) RDBMS
10 64 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 63 (5.15%) MySQL
12 41 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (3.27%) Data Lake
14 38 (3.11%) Tableau
15 35 (2.86%) DB2
16 28 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
17 25 (2.04%) NoSQL
17 25 (2.04%) Oracle Database
18 19 (1.55%) Big Data
19 18 (1.47%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 136 (11.12%) Git
2 88 (7.20%) Visual Studio
3 86 (7.03%) JIRA
4 45 (3.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 36 (2.94%) TeamCity
6 30 (2.45%) Moq
7 28 (2.29%) NUnit
8 26 (2.13%) Jenkins
9 20 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
10 19 (1.55%) GitLab
11 18 (1.47%) SpecFlow
12 14 (1.14%) git-flow
12 14 (1.14%) Sourcetree
13 12 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.74%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.65%) Mercurial
16 6 (0.49%) Subversion
17 5 (0.41%) MSTest
18 4 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 330 (26.98%) Finance
2 305 (24.94%) Social Skills
3 148 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.09%) Marketing
5 77 (6.30%) Banking
6 70 (5.72%) Games
7 55 (4.50%) Legal
8 45 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (3.60%) Local Government
10 42 (3.43%) Back Office
10 42 (3.43%) Law
11 34 (2.78%) Public Sector
12 32 (2.62%) Retail
13 22 (1.80%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.72%) Front Office
15 17 (1.39%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.98%) Billing
18 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 482 (39.41%) Developer
2 276 (22.57%) Senior
3 202 (16.52%) .NET Developer
4 151 (12.35%) Analyst
4 151 (12.35%) C# Developer
5 130 (10.63%) Lead
6 115 (9.40%) Senior Developer
7 80 (6.54%) C# .NET Developer
8 78 (6.38%) Full Stack Developer
9 71 (5.81%) Architect
10 70 (5.72%) Data Engineer
11 69 (5.64%) Applications Support
12 65 (5.31%) Support Analyst
13 59 (4.82%) Consultant
14 53 (4.33%) DBA
14 53 (4.33%) Software Developer
15 51 (4.17%) Senior C# Developer
16 45 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 40 (3.27%) Applications Support Analyst
17 40 (3.27%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (39.33%) .NET
2 244 (19.95%) ASP.NET
3 228 (18.64%) HTML
4 188 (15.37%) AngularJS
5 181 (14.80%) CSS
6 176 (14.39%) .NET Framework
7 159 (13.00%) .NET Core
8 142 (11.61%) ASP.NET MVC
9 134 (10.96%) Web Services
10 127 (10.38%) Entity Framework
11 112 (9.16%) ASP.NET Web API
12 109 (8.91%) RESTful
13 106 (8.67%) React
14 100 (8.18%) HTML5
15 98 (8.01%) REST
16 95 (7.77%) XML
17 78 (6.38%) jQuery
18 73 (5.97%) SOAP
19 65 (5.31%) JSON
20 61 (4.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.40%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (3.84%) Management Information System
4 45 (3.68%) Swaptions
5 30 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 29 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.37%) Replication
7 26 (2.13%) Clustering
7 26 (2.13%) Hedge funds
7 26 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 24 (1.96%) Legacy Code
9 24 (1.96%) Life Science
10 22 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (1.47%) Housing Association
13 17 (1.39%) Data Fabric
13 17 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.31%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 257 (21.01%) Windows
2 125 (10.22%) Linux
3 84 (6.87%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.42%) Unix
5 30 (2.45%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.13%) CentOS
6 26 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 25 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (1.64%) Solaris
9 20 (1.64%) zOS
10 11 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.74%) Android
12 8 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.57%) VMS
14 6 (0.49%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (31.97%) Agile
2 282 (23.06%) DevOps
3 213 (17.42%) ETL
4 208 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
5 197 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (15.70%) MVC
7 189 (15.45%) Full Stack Development
8 176 (14.39%) Scrum
9 162 (13.25%) Computer Science
10 158 (12.92%) Microservices
11 150 (12.26%) Data Modelling
12 146 (11.94%) TDD
13 133 (10.87%) Analytics
14 120 (9.81%) ITIL
15 115 (9.40%) CI/CD
15 115 (9.40%) Software Engineering
16 102 (8.34%) Mentoring
17 93 (7.60%) Roadmaps
18 84 (6.87%) SDLC
19 83 (6.79%) OO
Programming Languages
1 643 (52.58%) SQL
2 469 (38.35%) C#
3 334 (27.31%) JavaScript
4 263 (21.50%) T-SQL
5 192 (15.70%) Python
6 115 (9.40%) PowerShell
7 112 (9.16%) Java
8 79 (6.46%) TypeScript
9 48 (3.92%) VB
10 44 (3.60%) Bash
11 42 (3.43%) PL/SQL
12 39 (3.19%) XPath
13 28 (2.29%) Perl
14 24 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.96%) R
15 22 (1.80%) Bicep
15 22 (1.80%) Ruby
16 15 (1.23%) VBA
17 13 (1.06%) Scala
18 9 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 272 (22.24%) Degree
2 69 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 23 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.55%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.65%) MCSE
8 8 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (0.41%) MCP
10 5 (0.41%) MCSA
11 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.33%) CISM
11 4 (0.33%) CISSP
11 4 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.25%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.43%) QA
3 37 (3.03%) SLA
4 19 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.14%) GDPR
5 14 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.49%) NIST
7 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.33%) MiFID
9 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.082%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (8.83%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.43%) Docker
3 27 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.47%) vSphere
5 10 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.16%) NFS
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 1 (0.082%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.082%) Firmware
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.082%) vCloud
9 1 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.82%) Terraform
3 24 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 23 (1.88%) Ansible
5 20 (1.64%) SCCM
6 19 (1.55%) Grafana
7 16 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.82%) Puppet
10 9 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (0.74%) Foglight
10 9 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.65%) Nagios
12 6 (0.49%) WSUS
13 5 (0.41%) Control-M
13 5 (0.41%) Istio
14 4 (0.33%) Nessus
14 4 (0.33%) PaperCut
14 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 539 (44.07%) Microsoft
2 223 (18.23%) Oracle
3 70 (5.72%) Databricks
4 61 (4.99%) Sybase
5 50 (4.09%) VMware
6 49 (4.01%) TIBCO
7 45 (3.68%) OpenLink
8 35 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 27 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 24 (1.96%) Bloomberg
11 23 (1.88%) HP
11 23 (1.88%) NEC
11 23 (1.88%) Veeam
12 21 (1.72%) Cisco
12 21 (1.72%) Citrix
12 21 (1.72%) Reuters
12 21 (1.72%) SAP
13 20 (1.64%) Adobe
14 19 (1.55%) F5
14 19 (1.55%) IBM