SQL Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 61 30
Rank change year-on-year +19 -31 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,670 2,998 5,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.06% 5.10% 7.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.77% 26.35% 34.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,328 2,350 4,002
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,101 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £59,938
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,198 £54,100
% change year-on-year -0.36% +2.03% +8.20%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,326 11,378 16,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.99% 19.36% 22.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,124 6,630 10,215
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK 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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England +38 964 £50,000 - 218
South East +14 866 £55,000 - 270
Midlands +30 732 £50,000 - 183
North West +36 547 £50,000 - 111
West Midlands +28 472 £52,500 +5.00% 110
South West +10 410 £52,500 +5.00% 95
East of England +28 403 £47,500 -5.00% 81
Yorkshire +30 303 £50,000 - 67
East Midlands +38 260 £47,500 +5.56% 73
Scotland -36 195 £52,500 +10.53% 48
North East +43 114 £47,500 +5.56% 42
Wales +20 76 £48,750 +13.37% 13
Northern Ireland -7 29 £50,000 - 12
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 202 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 166 (4.52%) IIS
3 117 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 51 (1.39%) CMS
5 38 (1.04%) Apache
6 35 (0.95%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.44%) Confluence
9 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 8 (0.22%) JBoss
11 8 (0.22%) WordPress
12 7 (0.19%) Kentico
13 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.14%) Drupal
14 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 142 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.082%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.082%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 54 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.49%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.33%) Epicor Tropos
5 11 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 11 (0.30%) Shopify
6 10 (0.27%) Maximo
7 8 (0.22%) PlanetPress Connect
8 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
12 3 (0.082%) Magento
13 2 (0.054%) Infor LN
13 2 (0.054%) nopCommerce
13 2 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2,143 (58.39%) Azure
2 581 (15.83%) Power Platform
3 576 (15.69%) AWS
4 388 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
5 280 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
6 132 (3.60%) SaaS
7 106 (2.89%) GCP
8 97 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (1.99%) Serverless
10 72 (1.96%) PowerApps
11 69 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 69 (1.88%) Power Automate
12 66 (1.80%) PaaS
13 63 (1.72%) GitHub
14 62 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 60 (1.63%) Snowflake
16 59 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
17 53 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
18 52 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 46 (1.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (5.23%) Firewall
2 137 (3.73%) DNS
3 121 (3.30%) Internet
4 108 (2.94%) WAN
5 98 (2.67%) SAN
6 82 (2.23%) Broadband
7 74 (2.02%) DHCP
8 71 (1.93%) VPN
9 68 (1.85%) TCP/IP
10 61 (1.66%) LAN
11 37 (1.01%) SSL
11 37 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (0.98%) VoIP
13 28 (0.76%) HTTP
14 23 (0.63%) NAS
14 23 (0.63%) Wireless
15 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
16 16 (0.44%) VLAN
17 14 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 539 (14.69%) Power BI
2 354 (9.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 330 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
4 316 (8.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 278 (7.57%) Relational Database
6 261 (7.11%) MongoDB
7 256 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
8 255 (6.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 239 (6.51%) MySQL
10 169 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
11 125 (3.41%) NoSQL
12 123 (3.35%) Data Lake
13 112 (3.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 84 (2.29%) Oracle Database
15 54 (1.47%) MS Access
16 49 (1.34%) Tableau
17 43 (1.17%) DB2
18 41 (1.12%) RDBMS
19 40 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
20 38 (1.04%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 327 (8.91%) Git
2 188 (5.12%) Visual Studio
3 136 (3.71%) JIRA
4 55 (1.50%) Jasmine
5 52 (1.42%) NUnit
5 52 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 50 (1.36%) GitLab
7 48 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 43 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
9 33 (0.90%) Jenkins
9 33 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
10 31 (0.84%) Moq
11 27 (0.74%) Selenium
12 23 (0.63%) TeamCity
13 22 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
13 22 (0.60%) Postman
14 21 (0.57%) MSTest
15 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
16 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 895 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 521 (14.20%) Finance
3 277 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (6.43%) Retail
5 154 (4.20%) Public Sector
6 147 (4.01%) Manufacturing
7 136 (3.71%) Law
8 82 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (2.18%) Marketing
10 79 (2.15%) Games
10 79 (2.15%) Legal
11 76 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 72 (1.96%) Advertising
13 57 (1.55%) Banking
14 44 (1.20%) Back Office
15 42 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
16 40 (1.09%) Local Government
17 33 (0.90%) Police
18 31 (0.84%) Music Industry
18 31 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,908 (51.99%) Developer
2 1,004 (27.36%) .NET Developer
3 500 (13.62%) C# Developer
4 388 (10.57%) Senior
5 358 (9.75%) C# .NET Developer
6 329 (8.96%) Software Developer
7 234 (6.38%) DBA
8 216 (5.89%) Lead
9 214 (5.83%) Senior Developer
10 197 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 196 (5.34%) Analyst
12 189 (5.15%) Support Engineer
13 165 (4.50%) Software Engineer
14 155 (4.22%) SQL DBA
15 152 (4.14%) Consultant
16 141 (3.84%) Administrator
17 116 (3.16%) IT Engineer
18 113 (3.08%) IT Support
19 111 (3.02%) Full Stack Developer
20 107 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,906 (51.93%) .NET
2 1,197 (32.62%) ASP.NET
3 967 (26.35%) .NET Core
4 911 (24.82%) AngularJS
5 825 (22.48%) HTML
6 802 (21.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 725 (19.75%) ASP.NET Web API
8 723 (19.70%) Entity Framework
9 719 (19.59%) .NET Framework
10 625 (17.03%) CSS
11 599 (16.32%) React
12 447 (12.18%) Vue
13 405 (11.04%) HTML5
14 285 (7.77%) RESTful
15 281 (7.66%) Node.js
16 221 (6.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 218 (5.94%) Blazor
18 213 (5.80%) jQuery
19 211 (5.75%) CSS3
20 207 (5.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 163 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
2 155 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
3 123 (3.35%) Public Cloud
4 109 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 108 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 103 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 103 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 96 (2.62%) Replication
8 75 (2.04%) Clustering
9 67 (1.83%) Cloud Native
10 52 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 50 (1.36%) Product Ownership
12 48 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 44 (1.20%) NHS
14 39 (1.06%) Reinsurance
15 38 (1.04%) iPhone
16 35 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.93%) Social Network
18 33 (0.90%) Social Media
19 32 (0.87%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 563 (15.34%) Windows
2 288 (7.85%) Windows Server
3 249 (6.78%) Linux
4 103 (2.81%) VMS
5 58 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (1.53%) Android
7 55 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 52 (1.42%) Windows 10
9 47 (1.28%) Unix
10 40 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (0.68%) AIX
12 23 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (0.44%) Windows 7
14 14 (0.38%) CentOS
14 14 (0.38%) Debian
15 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.19%) SUSE
18 6 (0.16%) Apple iOS
18 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,377 (37.52%) Agile
2 1,037 (28.26%) MVC
3 953 (25.97%) Full Stack Development
4 688 (18.75%) Microservices
5 649 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 615 (16.76%) DevOps
7 568 (15.48%) Business Intelligence
8 456 (12.43%) TDD
9 410 (11.17%) Scrum
10 373 (10.16%) ETL
11 353 (9.62%) BDD
12 278 (7.57%) CI/CD
13 264 (7.19%) Mentoring
14 263 (7.17%) OO
15 256 (6.98%) Software Engineering
16 255 (6.95%) Computer Science
17 245 (6.68%) Artificial Intelligence
18 230 (6.27%) Roadmaps
19 223 (6.08%) Kanban
20 222 (6.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,945 (53.00%) C#
2 1,841 (50.16%) SQL
3 1,305 (35.56%) JavaScript
4 512 (13.95%) T-SQL
5 499 (13.60%) TypeScript
6 263 (7.17%) Python
7 197 (5.37%) Java
7 197 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 149 (4.06%) VB.NET
9 116 (3.16%) VB
10 75 (2.04%) PHP
11 67 (1.83%) C++
12 48 (1.31%) C
13 32 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 32 (0.87%) XAML
14 31 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 30 (0.82%) Bash
16 29 (0.79%) R
16 29 (0.79%) VB6
17 26 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 516 (14.06%) Degree
2 186 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 184 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 160 (4.36%) Security Cleared
5 85 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 44 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.01%) DBS Check
8 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 29 (0.79%) CCNA
9 29 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 26 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
12 16 (0.44%) MCSE
13 14 (0.38%) HND
14 13 (0.35%) MCP
15 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (0.33%) OCP
15 12 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.45%) QA
2 139 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 50 (1.36%) GDPR
4 49 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 34 (0.93%) SLA
6 20 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.41%) WAI
8 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) COBIT
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.11%) WCAG
12 3 (0.082%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.054%) PMO
14 1 (0.027%) HL7
14 1 (0.027%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 255 (6.95%) Active Directory
2 187 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 169 (4.60%) Docker
4 114 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
5 104 (2.83%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 41 (1.12%) vSphere
8 29 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.41%) XenApp
10 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.16%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.082%) Firmware
14 2 (0.054%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.027%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.027%) pfSense
15 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 147 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.48%) Terraform
3 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (0.98%) Ansible
5 27 (0.74%) SCCM
6 16 (0.44%) Nagios
7 13 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 13 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 11 (0.30%) MIIS
10 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.25%) WSUS
12 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
14 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.14%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.14%) Grafana
15 5 (0.14%) SCOM
16 4 (0.11%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2,028 (55.26%) Microsoft
2 339 (9.24%) Oracle
3 290 (7.90%) VMware
4 147 (4.01%) Google
5 87 (2.37%) Veeam
6 81 (2.21%) Facebook
7 80 (2.18%) Citrix
8 78 (2.13%) Databricks
9 61 (1.66%) Apple
9 61 (1.66%) Cisco
10 52 (1.42%) IBM
11 45 (1.23%) Informatica
12 40 (1.09%) SAP
13 30 (0.82%) Sony
13 30 (0.82%) Yahoo!
14 26 (0.71%) Xamarin
15 23 (0.63%) Adobe
15 23 (0.63%) NetApp
15 23 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.63%) Salesforce