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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 51 47
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,706 4,602 9,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.03% 5.53% 6.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.03% 25.75% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 3,668 6,362
10th Percentile £33,975 £36,588 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,759 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 15,672 17,869 39,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.74% 21.46% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,497 11,566 18,942
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,999 £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 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 7 June 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 7 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
London -3 1,230 £67,500 -1.92% 302
North of England +35 973 £50,000 - 206
South East +8 881 £55,000 - 111
Midlands +20 752 £50,000 - 157
North West +39 557 £50,000 - 114
West Midlands +13 484 £52,500 +5.00% 97
South West +9 428 £52,500 +5.00% 68
East of England +26 411 £47,500 -8.65% 56
Yorkshire +28 301 £50,000 - 59
East Midlands +33 268 £47,500 - 60
North East +30 115 £47,500 -0.18% 35
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
1 265 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 213 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 212 (4.50%) IIS
4 121 (2.57%) CMS
5 50 (1.06%) Apache
6 49 (1.04%) Umbraco
7 33 (0.70%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.47%) Confluence
8 22 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
8 22 (0.47%) WordPress
9 18 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 16 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 16 (0.34%) EPiServer
10 16 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 15 (0.32%) Apache Solr
11 15 (0.32%) JBoss
12 13 (0.28%) Kentico
13 10 (0.21%) SAS
13 10 (0.21%) WildFly
14 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 185 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.49%) Photoshop
4 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.085%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.064%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.064%) SPSS
10 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 103 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (0.89%) Endur
3 40 (0.85%) NEC Housing
4 37 (0.79%) SDL Web 8
5 18 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 18 (0.38%) Fidessa
6 14 (0.30%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.30%) Sage 200
7 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 11 (0.23%) SAP Business One
7 11 (0.23%) Shopify
8 9 (0.19%) Sage X3
9 8 (0.17%) Maximo
9 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
10 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
11 6 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
11 6 (0.13%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 2,673 (56.80%) Azure
2 747 (15.87%) Power Platform
3 736 (15.64%) AWS
4 538 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 371 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
6 187 (3.97%) SaaS
7 157 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 124 (2.63%) GCP
9 104 (2.21%) PowerApps
10 100 (2.12%) Serverless
11 97 (2.06%) GitHub
12 93 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 92 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
14 91 (1.93%) Power Automate
14 91 (1.93%) Snowflake
15 90 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 79 (1.68%) Entra ID
16 79 (1.68%) PaaS
17 61 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
18 59 (1.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (4.91%) Firewall
2 201 (4.27%) DNS
3 155 (3.29%) Internet
4 117 (2.49%) SAN
5 100 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 99 (2.10%) DHCP
7 88 (1.87%) WAN
8 78 (1.66%) Broadband
9 71 (1.51%) LAN
10 69 (1.47%) VPN
11 46 (0.98%) VoIP
11 46 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
12 41 (0.87%) HTTP
13 39 (0.83%) SSL
14 30 (0.64%) NAS
15 28 (0.59%) Wireless
16 26 (0.55%) Network Security
17 18 (0.38%) FIX Connectivity
18 17 (0.36%) VLAN
19 16 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 688 (14.62%) Power BI
2 515 (10.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 415 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 392 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 368 (7.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 348 (7.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 317 (6.74%) MongoDB
8 291 (6.18%) MySQL
9 278 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
10 253 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
11 178 (3.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 167 (3.55%) Data Lake
13 139 (2.95%) NoSQL
14 112 (2.38%) Oracle Database
15 92 (1.95%) Tableau
16 91 (1.93%) RDBMS
17 78 (1.66%) DB2
18 64 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
19 62 (1.32%) MS Access
20 47 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 456 (9.69%) Git
2 273 (5.80%) Visual Studio
3 217 (4.61%) JIRA
4 85 (1.81%) NUnit
5 79 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 73 (1.55%) GitLab
7 66 (1.40%) Moq
8 65 (1.38%) TeamCity
9 63 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
10 54 (1.15%) Jenkins
11 38 (0.81%) Jasmine
12 37 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
13 32 (0.68%) Selenium
14 31 (0.66%) SpecFlow
15 29 (0.62%) MSTest
16 28 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 27 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
18 26 (0.55%) Postman
19 23 (0.49%) Bitbucket
19 23 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,154 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 798 (16.96%) Finance
3 418 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (5.67%) Retail
5 191 (4.06%) Public Sector
6 185 (3.93%) Marketing
7 157 (3.34%) Manufacturing
8 153 (3.25%) Law
9 139 (2.95%) Games
10 132 (2.80%) Legal
11 111 (2.36%) Banking
12 86 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 85 (1.81%) Back Office
14 83 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 82 (1.74%) Advertising
16 70 (1.49%) Local Government
17 43 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
17 43 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (0.76%) Telecoms
19 34 (0.72%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,347 (49.87%) Developer
2 1,190 (25.29%) .NET Developer
3 650 (13.81%) C# Developer
4 647 (13.75%) Senior
5 429 (9.12%) C# .NET Developer
6 351 (7.46%) Software Developer
7 341 (7.25%) Lead
8 326 (6.93%) Senior Developer
9 320 (6.80%) Analyst
10 253 (5.38%) Data Engineer
11 246 (5.23%) DBA
12 210 (4.46%) Full Stack Developer
13 208 (4.42%) Support Engineer
14 203 (4.31%) Consultant
15 188 (3.99%) Software Engineer
16 161 (3.42%) Administrator
17 145 (3.08%) SQL DBA
18 140 (2.97%) SQL Developer
19 135 (2.87%) Senior C# Developer
20 128 (2.72%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,338 (49.68%) .NET
2 1,390 (29.54%) ASP.NET
3 1,090 (23.16%) .NET Core
4 1,053 (22.38%) AngularJS
5 1,035 (21.99%) HTML
6 893 (18.98%) ASP.NET MVC
7 859 (18.25%) .NET Framework
8 814 (17.30%) Entity Framework
9 805 (17.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 786 (16.70%) CSS
11 702 (14.92%) React
12 488 (10.37%) Vue
13 482 (10.24%) HTML5
14 388 (8.24%) RESTful
15 335 (7.12%) Web Services
16 310 (6.59%) Node.js
17 293 (6.23%) REST
18 266 (5.65%) jQuery
19 265 (5.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 257 (5.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
2 212 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
3 154 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 125 (2.66%) Public Cloud
5 118 (2.51%) Mobile App
6 112 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 110 (2.34%) Replication
8 108 (2.29%) Data Structures
9 79 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 78 (1.66%) Clustering
11 72 (1.53%) Cloud Native
12 62 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (1.27%) Driving Licence
14 53 (1.13%) NHS
15 49 (1.04%) Reinsurance
16 45 (0.96%) Algorithms
17 44 (0.93%) Data Centre
18 41 (0.87%) Swaptions
19 38 (0.81%) iPhone
19 38 (0.81%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 800 (17.00%) Windows
2 376 (7.99%) Linux
3 349 (7.42%) Windows Server
4 106 (2.25%) Unix
5 98 (2.08%) VMS
6 84 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 82 (1.74%) Windows 10
8 74 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 71 (1.51%) Android
10 49 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 43 (0.91%) CentOS
11 43 (0.91%) Ubuntu
12 30 (0.64%) Solaris
13 24 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
13 24 (0.51%) zOS
14 23 (0.49%) AIX
15 20 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (0.40%) Apple iOS
17 16 (0.34%) Windows 7
18 14 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,753 (37.25%) Agile
2 1,169 (24.84%) MVC
3 1,150 (24.44%) Full Stack Development
4 866 (18.40%) DevOps
5 837 (17.79%) Microservices
6 823 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 738 (15.68%) Business Intelligence
8 589 (12.52%) TDD
9 587 (12.47%) Scrum
10 554 (11.77%) ETL
11 428 (9.09%) Computer Science
12 406 (8.63%) BDD
13 379 (8.05%) CI/CD
14 362 (7.69%) Data Modelling
15 348 (7.39%) Software Engineering
16 328 (6.97%) OO
17 324 (6.88%) Mentoring
18 317 (6.74%) Analytics
19 305 (6.48%) Roadmaps
20 291 (6.18%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,397 (50.93%) SQL
2 2,354 (50.02%) C#
3 1,594 (33.87%) JavaScript
4 715 (15.19%) T-SQL
5 566 (12.03%) TypeScript
6 470 (9.99%) Python
7 313 (6.65%) PowerShell
8 270 (5.74%) Java
9 165 (3.51%) VB.NET
10 157 (3.34%) VB
11 87 (1.85%) PHP
12 74 (1.57%) C++
13 67 (1.42%) Bash
14 62 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 57 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 51 (1.08%) R
17 50 (1.06%) Bicep
18 44 (0.93%) XPath
19 42 (0.89%) VBA
20 40 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 776 (16.49%) Degree
2 246 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 185 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 173 (3.68%) Security Cleared
5 104 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 59 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 34 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
10 25 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 23 (0.49%) MCSE
12 19 (0.40%) MCP
13 18 (0.38%) CCNA
13 18 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.30%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.25%) HND
17 12 (0.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (4.97%) QA
2 179 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 76 (1.61%) SLA
4 67 (1.42%) GDPR
5 53 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 38 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.13%) GMP
10 6 (0.13%) MiFID
10 6 (0.13%) NIST
11 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.11%) WCAG
12 4 (0.085%) COBIT
12 4 (0.085%) NCSC
12 4 (0.085%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.064%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.042%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 360 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 209 (4.44%) Docker
3 197 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
5 101 (2.15%) Hyper-V
6 56 (1.19%) vSphere
7 37 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.36%) XenApp
9 14 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.085%) Firmware
13 4 (0.085%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.064%) NFS
15 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.021%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 215 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 125 (2.66%) Terraform
3 44 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (0.91%) SCCM
5 39 (0.83%) Ansible
6 26 (0.55%) Nagios
6 26 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
8 19 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.38%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.34%) Grafana
11 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.32%) WSUS
12 13 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
13 12 (0.25%) MIIS
14 10 (0.21%) Puppet
15 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.19%) Foglight
15 9 (0.19%) SCOM
16 8 (0.17%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2,450 (52.06%) Microsoft
2 544 (11.56%) Oracle
3 302 (6.42%) VMware
4 159 (3.38%) Google
5 143 (3.04%) Databricks
6 115 (2.44%) Veeam
7 96 (2.04%) Citrix
8 82 (1.74%) Cisco
9 79 (1.68%) Facebook
10 73 (1.55%) IBM
11 69 (1.47%) Sybase
12 67 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 61 (1.30%) Apple
14 60 (1.27%) SAP
15 56 (1.19%) Informatica
16 49 (1.04%) Adobe
17 44 (0.93%) NEC
18 42 (0.89%) HP
19 41 (0.87%) OpenLink
19 41 (0.87%) TIBCO