SQL Server Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 55 46 32
Rank change year-on-year -9 -14 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 290 319 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.95% 5.70% 7.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.29% 29.92% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 257 228 332
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £33,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £95,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £76,750 £115,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,103 1,066 1,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.03% 19.04% 23.87%
Number of salaries quoted 755 667 998
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,089 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £97,500 £85,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -25 125 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Oxfordshire +26 99 £47,500 +5.56% 14
Buckinghamshire -7 66 £52,500 - 13
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 32 (11.03%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.48%) IIS
4 6 (2.07%) CMS
5 5 (1.72%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.72%) JBoss
5 5 (1.72%) Kentico
5 5 (1.72%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.38%) WordPress
7 2 (0.69%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.34%) Apache
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.69%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 120 (41.38%) Azure
2 55 (18.97%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (16.55%) Power Platform
4 22 (7.59%) AWS
4 22 (7.59%) OneDrive
5 20 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.14%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.79%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.07%) SaaS
10 5 (1.72%) PaaS
11 3 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.03%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.03%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.69%) Intacct
12 2 (0.69%) Serverless
13 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.34%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.83%) Firewall
2 19 (6.55%) DNS
3 18 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.45%) DHCP
5 5 (1.72%) Internet
5 5 (1.72%) SAN
5 5 (1.72%) VoIP
5 5 (1.72%) VPN
5 5 (1.72%) Wireless
6 4 (1.38%) Broadband
6 4 (1.38%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.38%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.38%) NAS
7 3 (1.03%) SSL
7 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.03%) WLAN
8 2 (0.69%) WAN
9 1 (0.34%) FTP
9 1 (0.34%) Network Security
9 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.14%) Power BI
2 33 (11.38%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.93%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (5.86%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.79%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (3.45%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.07%) MySQL
12 5 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (1.72%) Power Query
13 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.69%) Oracle BI EE
14 2 (0.69%) Redis
14 2 (0.69%) SSDT
14 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (15.17%) Git
2 27 (9.31%) Visual Studio
3 15 (5.17%) NUnit
4 9 (3.10%) JIRA
5 6 (2.07%) MSTest
6 3 (1.03%) Selenium
6 3 (1.03%) Subversion
6 3 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.34%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.34%) Moq
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 61 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (8.97%) Finance
3 25 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (6.90%) Law
5 19 (6.55%) Manufacturing
6 14 (4.83%) Retail
7 12 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.79%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.45%) Back Office
10 7 (2.41%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.07%) Billing
11 6 (2.07%) Marketing
12 4 (1.38%) Games
13 3 (1.03%) Automotive
13 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.69%) Legal
15 1 (0.34%) Banking
Job Titles
1 161 (55.52%) Developer
2 83 (28.62%) .NET Developer
3 50 (17.24%) C# Developer
4 45 (15.52%) C# .NET Developer
5 43 (14.83%) Support Engineer
6 38 (13.10%) Senior
7 35 (12.07%) IT Support
8 34 (11.72%) IT Engineer
8 34 (11.72%) Senior Developer
9 33 (11.38%) IT Support Engineer
10 31 (10.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 31 (10.69%) 3rd Line Support
10 31 (10.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 31 (10.69%) Software Developer
11 19 (6.55%) Senior .NET Developer
12 17 (5.86%) Applications Developer
13 15 (5.17%) .NET Applications Developer
13 15 (5.17%) C# Application Developer
13 15 (5.17%) Lead
14 14 (4.83%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (54.48%) .NET
2 70 (24.14%) ASP.NET
3 68 (23.45%) React
4 62 (21.38%) .NET Core
5 59 (20.34%) .NET Framework
6 49 (16.90%) ASP.NET MVC
7 48 (16.55%) AngularJS
8 42 (14.48%) Entity Framework
9 37 (12.76%) ASP.NET Web API
10 29 (10.00%) CSS
10 29 (10.00%) HTML
11 26 (8.97%) Vue
12 19 (6.55%) Node.js
12 19 (6.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 14 (4.83%) WPF
14 12 (4.14%) LINQ
14 12 (4.14%) WinForms
15 11 (3.79%) CSS3
15 11 (3.79%) WCF
16 10 (3.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.31%) Replication
2 11 (3.79%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.41%) Social Network
5 6 (2.07%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.72%) BBC
6 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.72%) Social Media
7 4 (1.38%) Chip and PIN
7 4 (1.38%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.38%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (1.03%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.66%) Windows
2 27 (9.31%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.86%) VMS
4 15 (5.17%) Linux
5 8 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.38%) CentOS
6 4 (1.38%) Rocky
6 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.69%) Android
8 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (33.45%) Agile
2 66 (22.76%) MVC
3 58 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
4 42 (14.48%) Artificial Intelligence
5 40 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 35 (12.07%) Microservices
7 34 (11.72%) DevOps
7 34 (11.72%) TDD
8 31 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (10.69%) Propensity Modelling
9 30 (10.34%) OO
10 25 (8.62%) ETL
11 24 (8.28%) BDD
11 24 (8.28%) Scrum
12 20 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (6.90%) Machine Learning
13 19 (6.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 19 (6.55%) Software Engineering
14 18 (6.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (56.55%) C#
2 134 (46.21%) SQL
3 102 (35.17%) JavaScript
4 57 (19.66%) TypeScript
5 41 (14.14%) T-SQL
6 18 (6.21%) Java
7 17 (5.86%) Python
8 13 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.45%) R
10 9 (3.10%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.38%) PHP
14 3 (1.03%) C
14 3 (1.03%) C++
14 3 (1.03%) XAML
15 2 (0.69%) VBScript
16 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.34%) Swift
16 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (26.21%) Degree
2 34 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (7.24%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.45%) PhD
6 9 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.72%) HNC
7 5 (1.72%) HND
8 4 (1.38%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) MCITP
11 1 (0.34%) CCNA
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) MCSA
11 1 (0.34%) MCSE
11 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.38%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (14.48%) Active Directory
2 41 (14.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (12.76%) Docker
4 9 (3.10%) vSphere
5 8 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.41%) SCCM
3 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.38%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.03%) Nagios
6 1 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 178 (61.38%) Microsoft
2 53 (18.28%) VMware
3 44 (15.17%) Veeam
4 37 (12.76%) Citrix
5 22 (7.59%) Oracle
6 9 (3.10%) Apple
7 7 (2.41%) Aruba
8 5 (1.72%) Adaptive Insights
8 5 (1.72%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.72%) Facebook
8 5 (1.72%) Google
8 5 (1.72%) Jedox
8 5 (1.72%) Sony
8 5 (1.72%) Tagetik
8 5 (1.72%) Yahoo!
9 4 (1.38%) Adobe
9 4 (1.38%) EMC
9 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.38%) Synology
9 4 (1.38%) Zerto