SQL Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 51 58 34
Rank change year-on-year +7 -24 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 428 314 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.13% 4.83% 8.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.79% 25.72% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 368 241 462
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,250 £38,422
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £67,500
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,390 1,221 2,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.40% 18.80% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 954 800 1,454
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,675 £31,680
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,425 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,700 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +5.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £85,000
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 the South West

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South West.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the South West 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
Bristol +21 132 £57,500 +27.78% 22
Wiltshire +21 87 £52,500 -3.67% 11
Devon +33 76 £47,500 +5.56% 10
Gloucestershire -35 46 £52,500 -4.55% 5
Dorset -42 38 £57,500 +9.52% 12
Somerset -2 35 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Cornwall -12 4 £42,500 -14.14% 2
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 21 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.10%) IIS
4 6 (1.40%) CMS
4 6 (1.40%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.17%) Apache
5 5 (1.17%) NServiceBus
5 5 (1.17%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.70%) Confluence
7 3 (0.70%) GlassFish
7 3 (0.70%) JBoss
7 3 (0.70%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.70%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.70%) WildFly
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
8 2 (0.47%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.70%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.17%) Maximo
3 4 (0.93%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.93%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 256 (59.81%) Azure
2 77 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (16.12%) Power Platform
4 68 (15.89%) AWS
5 31 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (4.44%) GCP
7 10 (2.34%) SaaS
8 9 (2.10%) GitHub
9 7 (1.64%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.40%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.40%) Google Play
11 5 (1.17%) Azure Storage
11 5 (1.17%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.93%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.70%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.44%) SAN
2 15 (3.50%) LAN
3 14 (3.27%) WAN
4 11 (2.57%) Broadband
5 7 (1.64%) DNS
5 7 (1.64%) Internet
6 5 (1.17%) HTTP
6 5 (1.17%) WLAN
7 4 (0.93%) Firewall
7 4 (0.93%) SSL
7 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.93%) VoIP
7 4 (0.93%) Wireless
8 3 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.47%) DHCP
9 2 (0.47%) Network Security
9 2 (0.47%) VPN
10 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.23%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.65%) Power BI
2 48 (11.21%) Relational Database
3 47 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (9.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 38 (8.88%) MySQL
6 31 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (6.07%) MongoDB
8 24 (5.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (3.50%) NoSQL
11 14 (3.27%) Big Data
12 11 (2.57%) Data Lake
12 11 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 10 (2.34%) Oracle Database
13 10 (2.34%) Tableau
14 8 (1.87%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.87%) Flink
14 8 (1.87%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.87%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 71 (16.59%) Git
2 21 (4.91%) Visual Studio
3 13 (3.04%) Oracle Forms
4 11 (2.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 9 (2.10%) Selenium
6 7 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.64%) Postman
6 7 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (1.64%) Subversion
7 6 (1.40%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.40%) JIRA
8 4 (0.93%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.93%) Mocha
8 4 (0.93%) Toad
9 3 (0.70%) Maven
9 3 (0.70%) Moq
9 3 (0.70%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.70%) xUnit.net
10 1 (0.23%) RSpec
10 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 136 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.59%) Finance
3 48 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.61%) Retail
5 15 (3.50%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.34%) Banking
9 8 (1.87%) Legal
9 8 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.64%) Local Government
11 6 (1.40%) Games
12 5 (1.17%) Advertising
13 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.93%) Automotive
13 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.93%) Marketing
14 3 (0.70%) German Language
15 2 (0.47%) Law
15 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 228 (53.27%) Developer
2 124 (28.97%) .NET Developer
3 78 (18.22%) C# Developer
4 72 (16.82%) Senior
5 63 (14.72%) C# .NET Developer
6 53 (12.38%) Senior Developer
6 53 (12.38%) Software Developer
7 39 (9.11%) Software Engineer
8 31 (7.24%) DBA
8 31 (7.24%) Senior .NET Developer
9 25 (5.84%) Senior C# Developer
10 24 (5.61%) Administrator
10 24 (5.61%) SQL DBA
11 23 (5.37%) Analyst
11 23 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (4.67%) Consultant
12 20 (4.67%) Lead
13 19 (4.44%) C# Software Developer
14 17 (3.97%) Senior C# .NET Developer
14 17 (3.97%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (55.37%) .NET
2 149 (34.81%) ASP.NET
3 121 (28.27%) CSS
4 118 (27.57%) HTML
5 113 (26.40%) .NET Core
6 111 (25.93%) AngularJS
7 100 (23.36%) .NET Framework
8 96 (22.43%) Entity Framework
9 88 (20.56%) React
10 69 (16.12%) Vue
11 68 (15.89%) ASP.NET MVC
12 64 (14.95%) ASP.NET Web API
13 33 (7.71%) jQuery
13 33 (7.71%) LESS
14 31 (7.24%) Blazor
15 27 (6.31%) HTML5
16 25 (5.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 23 (5.37%) CSS3
18 22 (5.14%) REST
19 17 (3.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.44%) Mobile App
1 19 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 16 (3.74%) Virtual Team
3 15 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.34%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.34%) Replication
6 8 (1.87%) AS400
7 7 (1.64%) Digital TV
7 7 (1.64%) Social Network
7 7 (1.64%) VAX
8 6 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.40%) CCTV
8 6 (1.40%) iPhone
8 6 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.17%) EMC VNX
9 5 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 61 (14.25%) Windows
2 44 (10.28%) Linux
3 31 (7.24%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.80%) Android
6 11 (2.57%) VMS
7 9 (2.10%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.64%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.40%) AIX
9 6 (1.40%) Unix
10 5 (1.17%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.70%) Solaris
12 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (35.51%) Agile
2 123 (28.74%) MVC
3 108 (25.23%) Full Stack Development
4 104 (24.30%) DevOps
5 74 (17.29%) Business Intelligence
6 71 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (15.65%) CI/CD
8 66 (15.42%) Microservices
9 58 (13.55%) Software Engineering
10 51 (11.92%) Scrum
11 45 (10.51%) Design Patterns
12 42 (9.81%) TDD
13 38 (8.88%) Mentoring
14 36 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (8.41%) ETL
15 33 (7.71%) Clean Code
16 32 (7.48%) Migration
17 30 (7.01%) Machine Learning
18 29 (6.78%) BDD
19 28 (6.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 231 (53.97%) C#
2 200 (46.73%) SQL
3 174 (40.65%) JavaScript
4 64 (14.95%) TypeScript
5 48 (11.21%) T-SQL
6 31 (7.24%) Java
7 29 (6.78%) Python
8 26 (6.07%) VB.NET
9 15 (3.50%) PHP
9 15 (3.50%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.57%) VB
11 8 (1.87%) Scala
12 7 (1.64%) Bicep
12 7 (1.64%) Go
13 6 (1.40%) C++
14 5 (1.17%) Bash
14 5 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.70%) C
15 3 (0.70%) XAML
16 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (13.55%) Degree
2 29 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.70%) MCPD
8 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) MCSA
9 1 (0.23%) MCSD
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.84%) QA
2 9 (2.10%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.40%) SLA
4 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 33 (7.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (7.24%) Docker
3 25 (5.84%) Active Directory
4 23 (5.37%) Hyper-V
5 14 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.57%) XenApp
7 5 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.93%) vSphere
9 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 27 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.80%) Nagios
2 12 (2.80%) Terraform
3 10 (2.34%) SCCM
4 7 (1.64%) EMC VPLEX
5 5 (1.17%) Ansible
5 5 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (1.17%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Statspack
6 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.23%) SCOM
8 1 (0.23%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 226 (52.80%) Microsoft
2 56 (13.08%) Oracle
3 38 (8.88%) VMware
4 20 (4.67%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.74%) Veeam
6 14 (3.27%) Citrix
6 14 (3.27%) Google
7 12 (2.80%) EMC
8 11 (2.57%) Sybase
9 10 (2.34%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.34%) Xamarin
10 8 (1.87%) Cisco
10 8 (1.87%) HP
10 8 (1.87%) IBM
10 8 (1.87%) Teradata
11 7 (1.64%) Centreon
11 7 (1.64%) Twitter
12 6 (1.40%) SAP
13 5 (1.17%) Apple
13 5 (1.17%) Aruba