SQL Server Jobs in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 53 43
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,634 4,844 9,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.36% 5.47% 6.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.30% 25.38% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,071 3,844 6,414
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,759 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% +2.78% +8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,293 19,086 38,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.68% 21.57% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,414 12,044 19,009
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,056 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £96,250
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London 0 1,229 £65,000 -5.55% 421
North of England +38 967 £50,000 - 239
South East +12 865 £55,000 - 210
Midlands +29 720 £50,000 - 195
North West +35 549 £50,000 - 122
West Midlands +24 465 £52,500 +5.00% 124
South West +9 416 £52,500 +5.00% 105
East of England +28 404 £47,500 -7.32% 72
Yorkshire +25 304 £50,000 - 84
East Midlands +36 255 £47,500 +5.56% 71
North East +42 114 £47,500 +11.76% 34
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 278 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 218 (4.70%) IIS
3 210 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 109 (2.35%) CMS
5 50 (1.08%) Apache
6 47 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 33 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.50%) Confluence
9 22 (0.47%) WordPress
10 19 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 17 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 16 (0.35%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.32%) ArcGIS
13 15 (0.32%) JBoss
14 14 (0.30%) Apache Solr
15 13 (0.28%) Kentico
16 10 (0.22%) SAS
16 10 (0.22%) WildFly
17 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 184 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.065%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.065%) SPSS
10 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.022%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.022%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 109 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (0.99%) Endur
3 41 (0.88%) NEC Housing
4 33 (0.71%) SDL Web 8
5 19 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.35%) Fidessa
7 15 (0.32%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
9 11 (0.24%) Maximo
9 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.24%) Shopify
10 10 (0.22%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.22%) Sage X3
11 8 (0.17%) PlanetPress Connect
11 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,610 (56.32%) Azure
2 752 (16.23%) Power Platform
3 729 (15.73%) AWS
4 534 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
5 370 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
6 188 (4.06%) SaaS
7 151 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 128 (2.76%) GCP
9 106 (2.29%) PowerApps
10 101 (2.18%) GitHub
10 101 (2.18%) Serverless
11 96 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 93 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 90 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
13 90 (1.94%) Snowflake
14 86 (1.86%) PaaS
15 85 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 77 (1.66%) Entra ID
17 62 (1.34%) IaaS
18 58 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 233 (5.03%) Firewall
2 202 (4.36%) DNS
3 155 (3.34%) Internet
4 118 (2.55%) SAN
5 99 (2.14%) DHCP
5 99 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 90 (1.94%) WAN
7 78 (1.68%) Broadband
8 76 (1.64%) VPN
9 69 (1.49%) LAN
10 46 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 43 (0.93%) VoIP
12 40 (0.86%) HTTP
13 39 (0.84%) SSL
14 29 (0.63%) NAS
15 27 (0.58%) Wireless
16 22 (0.47%) Network Security
17 21 (0.45%) VLAN
18 16 (0.35%) FIX Connectivity
18 16 (0.35%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (14.80%) Power BI
2 521 (11.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 426 (9.19%) Data Warehouse
4 394 (8.50%) Relational Database
5 374 (8.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 344 (7.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 317 (6.84%) MongoDB
8 276 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
9 274 (5.91%) MySQL
10 247 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
11 174 (3.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 163 (3.52%) Data Lake
13 142 (3.06%) NoSQL
14 109 (2.35%) Oracle Database
15 95 (2.05%) RDBMS
16 87 (1.88%) Tableau
17 78 (1.68%) DB2
18 66 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
19 58 (1.25%) MS Access
20 45 (0.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 432 (9.32%) Git
2 267 (5.76%) Visual Studio
3 217 (4.68%) JIRA
4 86 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 81 (1.75%) NUnit
6 71 (1.53%) GitLab
7 63 (1.36%) TeamCity
8 62 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 59 (1.27%) Moq
10 58 (1.25%) Jenkins
11 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
12 34 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
13 31 (0.67%) Selenium
14 30 (0.65%) Postman
15 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
15 27 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
15 27 (0.58%) SpecFlow
16 26 (0.56%) MSTest
17 25 (0.54%) Bitbucket
18 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,149 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 788 (17.00%) Finance
3 416 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (5.68%) Retail
5 190 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 180 (3.88%) Marketing
7 158 (3.41%) Law
8 141 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 140 (3.02%) Games
10 135 (2.91%) Legal
11 111 (2.40%) Banking
12 89 (1.92%) Back Office
13 84 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
14 80 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 76 (1.64%) Advertising
16 73 (1.58%) Local Government
17 47 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
18 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
19 37 (0.80%) Telecoms
20 32 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,273 (49.05%) Developer
2 1,149 (24.79%) .NET Developer
3 637 (13.75%) Senior
4 621 (13.40%) C# Developer
5 408 (8.80%) C# .NET Developer
6 345 (7.44%) Lead
7 340 (7.34%) Software Developer
8 336 (7.25%) Analyst
9 315 (6.80%) Senior Developer
10 250 (5.39%) Data Engineer
11 248 (5.35%) DBA
12 209 (4.51%) Support Engineer
13 201 (4.34%) Consultant
14 193 (4.16%) Full Stack Developer
15 180 (3.88%) Software Engineer
16 159 (3.43%) Administrator
17 150 (3.24%) SQL DBA
18 128 (2.76%) Architect
18 128 (2.76%) Support Analyst
19 126 (2.72%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,275 (49.09%) .NET
2 1,354 (29.22%) ASP.NET
3 1,068 (23.05%) .NET Core
4 1,018 (21.97%) AngularJS
5 996 (21.49%) HTML
6 887 (19.14%) ASP.NET MVC
7 838 (18.08%) .NET Framework
8 795 (17.16%) Entity Framework
9 776 (16.75%) ASP.NET Web API
10 750 (16.18%) CSS
11 669 (14.44%) React
12 481 (10.38%) HTML5
13 467 (10.08%) Vue
14 373 (8.05%) RESTful
15 332 (7.16%) Web Services
16 312 (6.73%) Node.js
17 298 (6.43%) REST
18 263 (5.68%) jQuery
19 257 (5.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 255 (5.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 212 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
2 210 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
3 152 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 126 (2.72%) Public Cloud
5 119 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
6 115 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 114 (2.46%) Data Structures
8 111 (2.40%) Replication
9 81 (1.75%) Clustering
10 76 (1.64%) Product Ownership
11 72 (1.55%) Cloud Native
12 63 (1.36%) Driving Licence
13 60 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 52 (1.12%) NHS
14 52 (1.12%) Reinsurance
15 45 (0.97%) Swaptions
16 44 (0.95%) Algorithms
17 39 (0.84%) Data Centre
18 38 (0.82%) iPhone
19 37 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 784 (16.92%) Windows
2 355 (7.66%) Linux
3 333 (7.19%) Windows Server
4 100 (2.16%) Unix
5 96 (2.07%) VMS
6 83 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 80 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 73 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (1.49%) Android
10 49 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.88%) CentOS
12 36 (0.78%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.58%) Solaris
14 24 (0.52%) zOS
15 23 (0.50%) AIX
16 22 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
17 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 17 (0.37%) Apple iOS
19 16 (0.35%) Windows 7
20 13 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,696 (36.60%) Agile
2 1,157 (24.97%) MVC
3 1,103 (23.80%) Full Stack Development
4 861 (18.58%) DevOps
5 809 (17.46%) Microservices
6 803 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 751 (16.21%) Business Intelligence
8 576 (12.43%) TDD
9 573 (12.37%) Scrum
10 561 (12.11%) ETL
11 404 (8.72%) Computer Science
12 403 (8.70%) BDD
13 374 (8.07%) CI/CD
14 355 (7.66%) Data Modelling
15 346 (7.47%) Software Engineering
16 316 (6.82%) OO
16 316 (6.82%) Roadmaps
17 315 (6.80%) Analytics
18 312 (6.73%) Mentoring
19 298 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,361 (50.95%) SQL
2 2,290 (49.42%) C#
3 1,554 (33.53%) JavaScript
4 725 (15.65%) T-SQL
5 549 (11.85%) TypeScript
6 450 (9.71%) Python
7 304 (6.56%) PowerShell
8 274 (5.91%) Java
9 160 (3.45%) VB.NET
10 158 (3.41%) VB
11 74 (1.60%) PHP
12 69 (1.49%) C++
12 69 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 63 (1.36%) Bash
14 55 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 50 (1.08%) R
16 42 (0.91%) Bicep
16 42 (0.91%) XPath
17 39 (0.84%) C
18 37 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 754 (16.27%) Degree
2 240 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 191 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 177 (3.82%) Security Cleared
5 104 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 61 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 35 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 30 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
10 27 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 24 (0.52%) MCSE
12 18 (0.39%) MCP
13 17 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.37%) CCNA
13 17 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (0.28%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.26%) HND
15 12 (0.26%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (4.86%) QA
2 182 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 70 (1.51%) SLA
4 63 (1.36%) GDPR
5 52 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 34 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.13%) GMP
9 6 (0.13%) NIST
10 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.11%) WCAG
11 4 (0.086%) COBIT
11 4 (0.086%) MiFID
11 4 (0.086%) NCSC
11 4 (0.086%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.065%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.043%) PMO
System Software
1 360 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 204 (4.40%) Docker
3 190 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 102 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 55 (1.19%) vSphere
7 37 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.37%) XenApp
9 15 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.086%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.065%) Firmware
13 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.043%) NFS
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.022%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 214 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 126 (2.72%) Terraform
3 45 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (0.91%) SCCM
5 38 (0.82%) Ansible
6 26 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.52%) Nagios
8 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
9 19 (0.41%) Grafana
10 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.32%) WSUS
13 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.24%) MIIS
15 10 (0.22%) Puppet
16 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.19%) Foglight
17 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
18 7 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,428 (52.40%) Microsoft
2 551 (11.89%) Oracle
3 299 (6.45%) VMware
4 158 (3.41%) Google
5 146 (3.15%) Databricks
6 109 (2.35%) Veeam
7 99 (2.14%) Citrix
8 78 (1.68%) Facebook
9 77 (1.66%) IBM
10 73 (1.58%) Sybase
11 69 (1.49%) Cisco
12 62 (1.34%) SAP
13 61 (1.32%) Apple
14 59 (1.27%) Informatica
15 58 (1.25%) Red Hat
16 49 (1.06%) TIBCO
17 45 (0.97%) NEC
17 45 (0.97%) OpenLink
18 42 (0.91%) Adobe
19 39 (0.84%) F5