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 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 47 47 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -22
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,229 1,986 4,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.20% 5.89% 5.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.62% 23.58% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,624 2,584
10th Percentile £43,000 £46,475 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +5.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +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 5,204 8,423 22,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.00% 24.97% 32.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,830 5,864 9,048
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £116,250 £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 20 May 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 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
Central London +2 231 £67,500 -3.57% 63
West London -37 30 £52,501 +5.00% 10
South London -32 19 £55,000 - 7
East London +9 15 £57,500 +4.55% 56
North London 0 7 £55,000 -24.14%
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
1 106 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 68 (5.53%) IIS
2 68 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.72%) CMS
4 23 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.63%) Apache
6 15 (1.22%) EPiServer
7 14 (1.14%) WordPress
8 11 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
8 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
9 10 (0.81%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.65%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.57%) Confluence
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
13 5 (0.41%) DNN
13 5 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 58 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.22%) 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 62 (5.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (3.74%) Endur
3 29 (2.36%) SDL Web 8
4 23 (1.87%) NEC Housing
5 16 (1.30%) Fidessa
6 11 (0.90%) Elite 3E
7 9 (0.73%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.73%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.65%) PlanetPress Connect
9 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
10 6 (0.49%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 6 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.33%) BusinessWorks
11 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
12 3 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 2 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 624 (50.77%) Azure
2 204 (16.60%) AWS
2 204 (16.60%) Power Platform
3 164 (13.34%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (4.80%) SaaS
6 56 (4.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (3.09%) GCP
8 37 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 37 (3.01%) GitHub
9 36 (2.93%) PaaS
10 34 (2.77%) Serverless
11 32 (2.60%) PowerApps
12 31 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (2.52%) Snowflake
13 29 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (2.28%) IaaS
15 27 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.13%) DNS
1 63 (5.13%) Firewall
2 43 (3.50%) Internet
3 31 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.28%) DHCP
5 20 (1.63%) SAN
6 18 (1.46%) VPN
7 16 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
8 12 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.90%) HTTP
9 11 (0.90%) iSCSI
10 9 (0.73%) WAN
11 8 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
11 8 (0.65%) LAN
11 8 (0.65%) Network Security
11 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.57%) Broadband
12 7 (0.57%) Mobile Broadband
12 7 (0.57%) VoIP
12 7 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (16.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 182 (14.81%) Power BI
3 143 (11.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 141 (11.47%) Relational Database
5 124 (10.09%) Data Warehouse
6 88 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (6.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 76 (6.18%) MongoDB
9 70 (5.70%) RDBMS
10 62 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 62 (5.04%) MySQL
11 41 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
12 39 (3.17%) Data Lake
13 38 (3.09%) Tableau
14 35 (2.85%) DB2
15 28 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
16 27 (2.20%) Oracle Database
17 25 (2.03%) NoSQL
18 19 (1.55%) Big Data
19 18 (1.46%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 140 (11.39%) Git
2 90 (7.32%) JIRA
3 88 (7.16%) Visual Studio
4 45 (3.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (3.25%) TeamCity
6 34 (2.77%) Moq
7 31 (2.52%) NUnit
8 26 (2.12%) Jenkins
9 22 (1.79%) GitLab
10 21 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
11 19 (1.55%) SpecFlow
12 15 (1.22%) git-flow
12 15 (1.22%) Sourcetree
13 12 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.73%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.65%) Mercurial
16 6 (0.49%) Subversion
17 5 (0.41%) MSTest
18 4 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 330 (26.85%) Finance
2 310 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 147 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.38%) Marketing
5 77 (6.27%) Banking
6 70 (5.70%) Games
7 57 (4.64%) Legal
8 45 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (3.58%) Local Government
10 43 (3.50%) Back Office
11 42 (3.42%) Law
12 34 (2.77%) Public Sector
13 32 (2.60%) Retail
14 22 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.71%) Front Office
16 17 (1.38%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.98%) Billing
19 9 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
20 8 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 485 (39.46%) Developer
2 281 (22.86%) Senior
3 201 (16.35%) .NET Developer
4 154 (12.53%) Analyst
5 152 (12.37%) C# Developer
6 130 (10.58%) Lead
7 116 (9.44%) Senior Developer
8 83 (6.75%) Full Stack Developer
9 79 (6.43%) C# .NET Developer
10 71 (5.78%) Architect
11 69 (5.61%) Applications Support
11 69 (5.61%) Data Engineer
12 65 (5.29%) Support Analyst
13 59 (4.80%) Consultant
14 53 (4.31%) DBA
14 53 (4.31%) Software Developer
15 52 (4.23%) Senior C# Developer
16 45 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 42 (3.42%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 40 (3.25%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (39.30%) .NET
2 248 (20.18%) ASP.NET
3 235 (19.12%) HTML
4 188 (15.30%) AngularJS
4 188 (15.30%) CSS
5 179 (14.56%) .NET Framework
6 159 (12.94%) .NET Core
7 146 (11.88%) ASP.NET MVC
8 139 (11.31%) Web Services
9 130 (10.58%) Entity Framework
10 112 (9.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 112 (9.11%) RESTful
11 107 (8.71%) React
12 101 (8.22%) HTML5
13 98 (7.97%) REST
14 97 (7.89%) XML
15 82 (6.67%) jQuery
16 77 (6.27%) SOAP
17 65 (5.29%) JSON
18 61 (4.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 45 (3.66%) Swaptions
5 31 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.36%) Replication
8 28 (2.28%) Legacy Code
9 27 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 27 (2.20%) Hedge funds
10 26 (2.12%) Clustering
10 26 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.95%) Life Science
12 22 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.55%) Data Centre
15 18 (1.46%) Housing Association
16 17 (1.38%) Data Fabric
16 17 (1.38%) Data Structures
17 16 (1.30%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 256 (20.83%) Windows
2 125 (10.17%) Linux
3 83 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.39%) Unix
5 30 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.12%) CentOS
6 26 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (1.63%) Solaris
9 20 (1.63%) zOS
10 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.73%) Android
12 8 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.57%) VMS
14 6 (0.49%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (32.14%) Agile
2 285 (23.19%) DevOps
3 212 (17.25%) ETL
4 208 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
5 197 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (15.95%) Full Stack Development
6 196 (15.95%) MVC
7 176 (14.32%) Scrum
8 166 (13.51%) Computer Science
9 158 (12.86%) Microservices
10 150 (12.21%) Data Modelling
11 149 (12.12%) TDD
12 131 (10.66%) Analytics
13 120 (9.76%) ITIL
14 116 (9.44%) CI/CD
15 115 (9.36%) Software Engineering
16 102 (8.30%) Mentoring
17 92 (7.49%) Roadmaps
18 83 (6.75%) OO
19 82 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 649 (52.81%) SQL
2 471 (38.32%) C#
3 340 (27.66%) JavaScript
4 267 (21.72%) T-SQL
5 194 (15.79%) Python
6 116 (9.44%) PowerShell
7 111 (9.03%) Java
8 81 (6.59%) TypeScript
9 47 (3.82%) VB
10 44 (3.58%) Bash
11 42 (3.42%) PL/SQL
12 40 (3.25%) XPath
13 28 (2.28%) Perl
14 24 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (1.87%) R
16 22 (1.79%) Bicep
16 22 (1.79%) Ruby
17 15 (1.22%) VBA
18 13 (1.06%) Scala
19 9 (0.73%) C++
Qualifications
1 277 (22.54%) Degree
2 69 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.55%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.65%) MCSE
8 8 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (0.41%) MCP
10 5 (0.41%) MCSA
11 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.33%) CISM
11 4 (0.33%) CISSP
11 4 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 41 (3.34%) QA
3 37 (3.01%) SLA
4 19 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.14%) GDPR
5 14 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.49%) NIST
7 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.33%) MiFID
9 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.081%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.081%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.081%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (8.71%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.50%) Docker
3 26 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.46%) vSphere
5 10 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.16%) NFS
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.081%) Firmware
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.081%) vCloud
9 1 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.80%) Terraform
3 24 (1.95%) Prometheus
4 23 (1.87%) Ansible
5 20 (1.63%) SCCM
6 19 (1.55%) Grafana
7 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.81%) Puppet
10 9 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (0.73%) Foglight
10 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.65%) Nagios
12 6 (0.49%) WSUS
13 5 (0.41%) Control-M
13 5 (0.41%) Istio
14 4 (0.33%) Nessus
14 4 (0.33%) PaperCut
14 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 538 (43.78%) Microsoft
2 226 (18.39%) Oracle
3 68 (5.53%) Databricks
4 61 (4.96%) Sybase
5 49 (3.99%) TIBCO
5 49 (3.99%) VMware
6 45 (3.66%) OpenLink
7 35 (2.85%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.03%) Bloomberg
10 24 (1.95%) Veeam
11 23 (1.87%) HP
11 23 (1.87%) NEC
12 21 (1.71%) Adobe
12 21 (1.71%) Cisco
12 21 (1.71%) Citrix
12 21 (1.71%) Reuters
12 21 (1.71%) SAP
13 19 (1.55%) F5
13 19 (1.55%) IBM