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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 45 69
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -22
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,228 1,834 4,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.01% 5.84% 5.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.92% 23.66% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 944 1,513 2,563
10th Percentile £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +5.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +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 5,358 7,752 23,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.86% 24.68% 32.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,898 5,533 9,089
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £133,250 £117,500 £108,750
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +6 245 £70,000 - 61
West London -46 28 £53,750 +7.50% 12
South London -30 17 £55,000 - 3
East London +9 12 £57,500 +4.55% 9
North London 0 5 £55,000 -21.43%
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
1 103 (8.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (5.29%) CMS
3 64 (5.21%) SharePoint
4 61 (4.97%) IIS
5 23 (1.87%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.63%) Apache
7 15 (1.22%) EPiServer
8 14 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 14 (1.14%) WordPress
9 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.65%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.57%) JBoss
11 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.57%) WildFly
12 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.49%) Confluence
13 5 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
13 5 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 63 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.47%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.24%) SPSS
7 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 50 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (3.18%) Endur
3 33 (2.69%) SDL Web 8
4 21 (1.71%) NEC Housing
5 18 (1.47%) Fidessa
6 10 (0.81%) Elite 3E
7 9 (0.73%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.73%) SAP Business One
8 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.41%) PlanetPress Connect
10 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.33%) OpenLink RightAngle
11 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
12 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
12 3 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 2 (0.16%) KEYPrime
13 2 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 642 (52.28%) Azure
2 208 (16.94%) AWS
3 203 (16.53%) Power Platform
4 166 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 57 (4.64%) SaaS
8 38 (3.09%) GCP
9 36 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 34 (2.77%) Serverless
11 33 (2.69%) GitHub
11 33 (2.69%) PaaS
12 32 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
13 31 (2.52%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.52%) Snowflake
14 28 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (2.20%) IaaS
16 24 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.97%) DNS
2 59 (4.80%) Firewall
3 45 (3.66%) Internet
4 33 (2.69%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.12%) DHCP
6 18 (1.47%) FIX Connectivity
7 14 (1.14%) SAN
8 12 (0.98%) HTTP
9 11 (0.90%) Network Security
10 10 (0.81%) iSCSI
10 10 (0.81%) VPN
11 9 (0.73%) WAN
11 9 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (0.65%) LAN
12 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (0.57%) Broadband
13 7 (0.57%) Mobile Broadband
13 7 (0.57%) VoIP
14 6 (0.49%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (15.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 183 (14.90%) Power BI
3 136 (11.07%) Relational Database
4 135 (10.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 120 (9.77%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (6.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 76 (6.19%) MongoDB
9 65 (5.29%) RDBMS
10 63 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 59 (4.80%) MySQL
12 45 (3.66%) Data Lake
13 42 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
14 40 (3.26%) Tableau
15 35 (2.85%) DB2
16 31 (2.52%) Oracle Database
17 26 (2.12%) NoSQL
18 25 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
19 20 (1.63%) Big Data
20 15 (1.22%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 150 (12.21%) Git
2 91 (7.41%) Visual Studio
3 87 (7.08%) JIRA
4 41 (3.34%) Moq
4 41 (3.34%) TeamCity
5 38 (3.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 35 (2.85%) NUnit
7 26 (2.12%) Jenkins
8 24 (1.95%) GitLab
9 23 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 23 (1.87%) SpecFlow
10 18 (1.47%) git-flow
10 18 (1.47%) Sourcetree
11 13 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.65%) Mercurial
13 8 (0.65%) MSTest
14 4 (0.33%) Selenium
14 4 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 339 (27.61%) Finance
2 303 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 140 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.39%) Marketing
5 78 (6.35%) Banking
6 64 (5.21%) Games
7 57 (4.64%) Legal
8 48 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (3.42%) Local Government
10 40 (3.26%) Law
11 38 (3.09%) Back Office
12 37 (3.01%) Public Sector
13 33 (2.69%) Retail
14 21 (1.71%) Front Office
15 20 (1.63%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.38%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.81%) Advertising
19 9 (0.73%) Billing
19 9 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 506 (41.21%) Developer
2 287 (23.37%) Senior
3 210 (17.10%) .NET Developer
4 161 (13.11%) C# Developer
5 148 (12.05%) Analyst
6 125 (10.18%) Senior Developer
7 124 (10.10%) Lead
8 94 (7.65%) Full Stack Developer
9 82 (6.68%) C# .NET Developer
10 70 (5.70%) Data Engineer
11 69 (5.62%) Architect
12 62 (5.05%) Support Analyst
13 60 (4.89%) Applications Support
13 60 (4.89%) Senior C# Developer
14 54 (4.40%) Consultant
15 52 (4.23%) DBA
15 52 (4.23%) Software Developer
16 48 (3.91%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 43 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 43 (3.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (40.47%) .NET
2 254 (20.68%) ASP.NET
3 249 (20.28%) HTML
4 201 (16.37%) AngularJS
4 201 (16.37%) CSS
5 189 (15.39%) .NET Framework
6 168 (13.68%) .NET Core
7 150 (12.21%) ASP.NET MVC
8 143 (11.64%) Entity Framework
9 142 (11.56%) Web Services
10 121 (9.85%) RESTful
11 116 (9.45%) React
12 113 (9.20%) ASP.NET Web API
13 102 (8.31%) HTML5
14 98 (7.98%) XML
15 97 (7.90%) REST
16 91 (7.41%) jQuery
17 76 (6.19%) SOAP
18 67 (5.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 64 (5.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.09%) Swaptions
5 32 (2.61%) Legacy Code
6 30 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.36%) Replication
8 27 (2.20%) Hedge funds
9 26 (2.12%) Cloud Native
9 26 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 25 (2.04%) Clustering
11 24 (1.95%) Life Science
12 22 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.55%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (1.47%) Eurex
15 17 (1.38%) Data Fabric
15 17 (1.38%) Housing Association
16 16 (1.30%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 251 (20.44%) Windows
2 130 (10.59%) Linux
3 84 (6.84%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.64%) Unix
5 32 (2.61%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.36%) Windows 10
7 28 (2.28%) CentOS
8 26 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (1.79%) Solaris
11 20 (1.63%) zOS
12 12 (0.98%) Android
13 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.57%) VMS
16 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.33%) Rocky
19 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (33.22%) Agile
2 293 (23.86%) DevOps
3 213 (17.35%) Full Stack Development
4 205 (16.69%) Business Intelligence
4 205 (16.69%) ETL
5 200 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
6 199 (16.21%) MVC
7 182 (14.82%) Scrum
8 177 (14.41%) Computer Science
9 162 (13.19%) TDD
10 159 (12.95%) Microservices
11 148 (12.05%) Data Modelling
12 130 (10.59%) Analytics
13 118 (9.61%) CI/CD
13 118 (9.61%) Software Engineering
14 112 (9.12%) ITIL
15 107 (8.71%) Mentoring
16 90 (7.33%) OO
17 89 (7.25%) Roadmaps
18 85 (6.92%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 667 (54.32%) SQL
2 485 (39.50%) C#
3 351 (28.58%) JavaScript
4 262 (21.34%) T-SQL
5 207 (16.86%) Python
6 126 (10.26%) PowerShell
7 102 (8.31%) Java
8 84 (6.84%) TypeScript
9 48 (3.91%) Bash
10 43 (3.50%) XPath
11 40 (3.26%) VB
12 35 (2.85%) PL/SQL
13 29 (2.36%) Perl
14 26 (2.12%) Bicep
15 25 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 24 (1.95%) R
16 24 (1.95%) Ruby
17 20 (1.63%) VBA
18 13 (1.06%) Scala
19 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 279 (22.72%) Degree
2 72 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 25 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 22 (1.79%) SC Cleared
6 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.57%) MCSE
10 6 (0.49%) MCP
10 6 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (0.41%) MCSA
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) CISM
12 4 (0.33%) CISSP
12 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.16%) ACCA
14 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.58%) QA
2 43 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.01%) SLA
4 19 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.22%) GDPR
6 12 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.57%) MiFID
9 6 (0.49%) NIST
9 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.081%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.081%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.081%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.58%) Docker
3 28 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.47%) vSphere
5 10 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.16%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.081%) Firmware
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.081%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 68 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 56 (4.56%) Terraform
3 25 (2.04%) Ansible
4 24 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.38%) SCCM
6 16 (1.30%) Grafana
7 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.81%) Puppet
11 9 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
11 9 (0.73%) Foglight
11 9 (0.73%) Nagios
11 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.49%) Istio
12 6 (0.49%) PaperCut
13 5 (0.41%) Control-M
13 5 (0.41%) WSUS
14 4 (0.33%) Nessus
14 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 543 (44.22%) Microsoft
2 213 (17.35%) Oracle
3 63 (5.13%) Databricks
4 54 (4.40%) Sybase
5 46 (3.75%) VMware
6 41 (3.34%) Red Hat
7 38 (3.09%) OpenLink
7 38 (3.09%) TIBCO
8 28 (2.28%) Bloomberg
9 26 (2.12%) Cisco
9 26 (2.12%) Veeam
10 25 (2.04%) Reuters
11 24 (1.95%) Adobe
11 24 (1.95%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.87%) HP
13 22 (1.79%) SAP
14 21 (1.71%) NEC
15 19 (1.55%) Citrix
15 19 (1.55%) F5
15 19 (1.55%) IBM