SQL Server Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 46 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 295 320 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.98% 5.75% 7.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.72% 30.05% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 258 227 332
10th Percentile £38,375 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,039 £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 £76,625 £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 falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,104 1,065 1,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.91% 19.12% 23.69%
Number of salaries quoted 752 670 992
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,031 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £97,500 £87,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +6.80%

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 12 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 12 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 -20 129 £62,500 -12.28% 20
Oxfordshire +24 99 £47,500 - 16
Buckinghamshire -4 67 £52,500 - 9
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 (10.85%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.41%) IIS
4 6 (2.03%) CMS
5 5 (1.69%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.69%) JBoss
5 5 (1.69%) Kentico
5 5 (1.69%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.36%) WordPress
7 2 (0.68%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.34%) Apache
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (7.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.68%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 127 (43.05%) Azure
2 55 (18.64%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (16.27%) Power Platform
4 22 (7.46%) AWS
4 22 (7.46%) OneDrive
5 20 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.07%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.73%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.69%) PaaS
10 5 (1.69%) SaaS
11 3 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.02%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.68%) Intacct
12 2 (0.68%) Serverless
13 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.58%) Firewall
2 19 (6.44%) DNS
3 18 (6.10%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.39%) DHCP
5 5 (1.69%) Internet
5 5 (1.69%) SAN
5 5 (1.69%) VoIP
5 5 (1.69%) VPN
5 5 (1.69%) Wireless
6 4 (1.36%) Broadband
6 4 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.36%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.36%) NAS
7 3 (1.02%) SSL
7 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.02%) WLAN
8 2 (0.68%) WAN
9 1 (0.34%) FTP
9 1 (0.34%) Network Security
9 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.90%) Power BI
2 33 (11.19%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 23 (7.80%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.76%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.07%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.73%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (3.39%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.03%) MySQL
12 5 (1.69%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (1.69%) Power Query
13 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.68%) Oracle BI EE
14 2 (0.68%) Redis
14 2 (0.68%) SSDT
14 2 (0.68%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (14.58%) Git
2 27 (9.15%) Visual Studio
3 15 (5.08%) NUnit
4 9 (3.05%) JIRA
5 6 (2.03%) MSTest
6 3 (1.02%) Selenium
6 3 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.68%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.68%) Subversion
7 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.68%) 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 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (8.81%) Finance
3 25 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (6.78%) Law
5 19 (6.44%) Manufacturing
6 15 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.75%) Retail
8 13 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (3.39%) Back Office
10 7 (2.37%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.03%) Billing
11 6 (2.03%) Marketing
12 4 (1.36%) Games
13 3 (1.02%) Automotive
13 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Legal
15 1 (0.34%) Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (57.29%) Developer
2 86 (29.15%) .NET Developer
3 53 (17.97%) C# Developer
4 48 (16.27%) C# .NET Developer
5 43 (14.58%) Support Engineer
6 39 (13.22%) Senior
7 35 (11.86%) IT Support
7 35 (11.86%) Senior Developer
8 34 (11.53%) IT Engineer
9 33 (11.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 31 (10.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 31 (10.51%) 3rd Line Support
10 31 (10.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 31 (10.51%) Software Developer
11 20 (6.78%) Senior .NET Developer
12 17 (5.76%) Applications Developer
13 16 (5.42%) SQL Developer
14 15 (5.08%) .NET Applications Developer
14 15 (5.08%) C# Application Developer
14 15 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (54.24%) .NET
2 71 (24.07%) ASP.NET
3 68 (23.05%) React
4 64 (21.69%) .NET Core
5 59 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 50 (16.95%) ASP.NET MVC
7 48 (16.27%) AngularJS
8 42 (14.24%) Entity Framework
9 38 (12.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 31 (10.51%) CSS
10 31 (10.51%) HTML
11 26 (8.81%) Vue
12 19 (6.44%) Node.js
12 19 (6.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 14 (4.75%) WPF
14 12 (4.07%) LINQ
14 12 (4.07%) WinForms
15 11 (3.73%) CSS3
15 11 (3.73%) WCF
16 10 (3.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.15%) Replication
2 11 (3.73%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.37%) Social Network
6 6 (2.03%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.69%) BBC
7 5 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.69%) Social Media
8 4 (1.36%) Chip and PIN
8 4 (1.36%) EMC VNX
8 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.36%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.02%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.98%) Windows
2 26 (8.81%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.76%) VMS
4 15 (5.08%) Linux
5 7 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.36%) CentOS
6 4 (1.36%) Rocky
6 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.68%) Android
7 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.54%) Agile
2 67 (22.71%) MVC
3 60 (20.34%) Full Stack Development
4 41 (13.90%) Artificial Intelligence
5 40 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (13.22%) Computer Science
7 37 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (11.86%) Microservices
9 34 (11.53%) DevOps
9 34 (11.53%) TDD
10 31 (10.51%) OO
11 30 (10.17%) Propensity Modelling
12 29 (9.83%) ETL
13 24 (8.14%) BDD
13 24 (8.14%) Scrum
14 19 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (6.44%) Machine Learning
14 19 (6.44%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 19 (6.44%) Unit Testing
15 18 (6.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 165 (55.93%) C#
2 139 (47.12%) SQL
3 105 (35.59%) JavaScript
4 58 (19.66%) TypeScript
5 40 (13.56%) T-SQL
6 18 (6.10%) Java
6 18 (6.10%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.42%) Python
8 9 (3.05%) R
8 9 (3.05%) VB.NET
9 6 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.69%) PHP
10 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.02%) C
11 3 (1.02%) XAML
12 2 (0.68%) C++
12 2 (0.68%) VBScript
13 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.34%) Swift
13 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (25.08%) Degree
2 33 (11.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.78%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.05%) PhD
6 5 (1.69%) HNC
6 5 (1.69%) HND
7 4 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.68%) MCITP
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) MCSA
10 1 (0.34%) MCSE
10 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.36%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (13.90%) Active Directory
1 41 (13.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (12.20%) Docker
3 9 (3.05%) vSphere
4 8 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (12.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.37%) SCCM
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.36%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (1.36%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.02%) Nagios
6 1 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 177 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 53 (17.97%) VMware
3 44 (14.92%) Veeam
4 37 (12.54%) Citrix
5 22 (7.46%) Oracle
6 8 (2.71%) Apple
7 7 (2.37%) Aruba
8 6 (2.03%) Databricks
9 5 (1.69%) Adaptive Insights
9 5 (1.69%) Anaplan
9 5 (1.69%) Facebook
9 5 (1.69%) Google
9 5 (1.69%) Jedox
9 5 (1.69%) Sony
9 5 (1.69%) Tagetik
9 5 (1.69%) Yahoo!
10 4 (1.36%) EMC
10 4 (1.36%) Meraki
10 4 (1.36%) ProCurve
10 4 (1.36%) Synology