SQL Server Jobs in the South East

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 39 47 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 881 772 1,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.80% 5.69% 8.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.92% 31.87% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 800 634 1,194
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £75,242
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,760 2,422 5,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.03% 17.86% 24.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,032 1,647 3,051
10th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
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 the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South East.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the South East 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
Thames Valley -4 294 £52,500 -12.50% 39
Hampshire +7 160 £57,500 +8.49% 27
Kent +56 141 £60,000 +26.32% 12
Surrey +5 139 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Berkshire -21 128 £62,500 -10.71% 17
Oxfordshire +29 99 £47,500 +5.56% 12
Buckinghamshire -10 67 £52,500 - 10
East Sussex -12 65 £47,500 -13.64% 8
West Sussex +5 54 £55,000 -8.33%
Sussex - 11 £60,000 -
Middlesex -11 6 £44,658 -42.38% 1
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 67 (7.60%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (2.95%) IIS
4 12 (1.36%) CMS
5 10 (1.14%) Apache
6 6 (0.68%) Kentico
6 6 (0.68%) WordPress
7 5 (0.57%) Confluence
7 5 (0.57%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.57%) JBoss
7 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.45%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.45%) TWiki
9 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.57%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.45%) SDL Web 8
4 2 (0.23%) Magento
4 2 (0.23%) nopCommerce
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.23%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 510 (57.89%) Azure
2 154 (17.48%) AWS
3 109 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 91 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (4.77%) SaaS
7 26 (2.95%) OneDrive
8 25 (2.84%) PaaS
9 23 (2.61%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.27%) IaaS
11 18 (2.04%) PowerApps
12 17 (1.93%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.70%) Serverless
14 14 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.59%) GCP
15 13 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (1.25%) GitHub
17 11 (1.25%) Google Play
18 10 (1.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.06%) Firewall
2 40 (4.54%) Internet
3 26 (2.95%) VoIP
4 25 (2.84%) DNS
5 18 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.82%) Broadband
7 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.25%) SAN
9 10 (1.14%) DHCP
10 9 (1.02%) HTTP
10 9 (1.02%) Network Security
10 9 (1.02%) VPN
10 9 (1.02%) WAN
11 8 (0.91%) SSL
12 7 (0.79%) LAN
13 5 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
13 5 (0.57%) iSCSI
13 5 (0.57%) Wireless
14 4 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.45%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.01%) Power BI
2 86 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
3 78 (8.85%) MongoDB
4 74 (8.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 60 (6.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 47 (5.33%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (4.65%) MySQL
9 40 (4.54%) Relational Database
10 34 (3.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 19 (2.16%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.25%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.91%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.91%) MariaDB
15 8 (0.91%) Power Query
15 8 (0.91%) Redis
15 8 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 94 (10.67%) Git
2 50 (5.68%) Visual Studio
3 37 (4.20%) JIRA
4 27 (3.06%) NUnit
5 16 (1.82%) Selenium
6 13 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 13 (1.48%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.02%) eggPlant
8 8 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.79%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.79%) Postman
10 6 (0.68%) MSTest
11 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.57%) Jenkins
11 5 (0.57%) Moq
11 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.57%) Subversion
12 4 (0.45%) GitLab
13 3 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 182 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 123 (13.96%) Finance
3 55 (6.24%) Retail
4 42 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (3.41%) Marketing
6 30 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.18%) Games
8 24 (2.72%) Manufacturing
9 22 (2.50%) Law
10 16 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.59%) Advertising
12 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.36%) Back Office
13 12 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.14%) Banking
15 9 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.68%) Billing
16 6 (0.68%) Music Industry
16 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 563 (63.90%) Developer
2 337 (38.25%) .NET Developer
3 157 (17.82%) C# Developer
4 126 (14.30%) C# .NET Developer
5 102 (11.58%) Senior
6 87 (9.88%) Software Developer
7 82 (9.31%) Senior Developer
8 71 (8.06%) Support Engineer
9 49 (5.56%) Lead
10 48 (5.45%) Full Stack Developer
11 40 (4.54%) IT Support
12 39 (4.43%) IT Engineer
13 38 (4.31%) IT Support Engineer
14 37 (4.20%) DBA
15 36 (4.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 36 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support
15 36 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 34 (3.86%) Consultant
16 34 (3.86%) Senior .NET Developer
17 33 (3.75%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (63.56%) .NET
2 346 (39.27%) ASP.NET
3 286 (32.46%) .NET Core
4 270 (30.65%) AngularJS
5 245 (27.81%) ASP.NET MVC
6 231 (26.22%) Entity Framework
7 230 (26.11%) ASP.NET Web API
8 220 (24.97%) React
9 215 (24.40%) .NET Framework
10 196 (22.25%) HTML
11 158 (17.93%) CSS
12 154 (17.48%) Vue
13 122 (13.85%) HTML5
14 89 (10.10%) Node.js
15 86 (9.76%) RESTful
16 66 (7.49%) LINQ
17 63 (7.15%) CSS3
18 58 (6.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 57 (6.47%) Blazor
20 51 (5.79%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.60%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (3.52%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.29%) Replication
4 26 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.48%) N-Tier
8 11 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.25%) iPhone
8 11 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.14%) BBC
9 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.14%) Social Media
10 9 (1.02%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.91%) Digital TV
12 7 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.79%) Social Network
13 6 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.68%) Driving Licence
14 4 (0.45%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 120 (13.62%) Windows
2 67 (7.60%) Windows Server
3 32 (3.63%) Linux
4 29 (3.29%) VMS
5 15 (1.70%) Android
6 14 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.45%) AIX
10 4 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.45%) Rocky
11 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.11%) Unix
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (46.08%) Agile
2 310 (35.19%) Full Stack Development
3 296 (33.60%) MVC
4 231 (26.22%) Microservices
5 162 (18.39%) TDD
6 128 (14.53%) BDD
7 119 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (13.17%) Computer Science
9 113 (12.83%) Scrum
10 108 (12.26%) DevOps
11 100 (11.35%) Business Intelligence
12 82 (9.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 78 (8.85%) Kanban
14 69 (7.83%) OO
15 58 (6.58%) CI/CD
16 56 (6.36%) ETL
17 54 (6.13%) Unit Testing
18 53 (6.02%) Mentoring
18 53 (6.02%) Test Automation
19 51 (5.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 573 (65.04%) C#
2 391 (44.38%) JavaScript
3 340 (38.59%) SQL
4 175 (19.86%) TypeScript
5 78 (8.85%) T-SQL
6 64 (7.26%) Java
7 39 (4.43%) Python
8 32 (3.63%) PHP
9 24 (2.72%) C++
10 20 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.70%) VB.NET
12 13 (1.48%) Bicep
13 11 (1.25%) R
14 10 (1.14%) C
15 7 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.68%) VB
17 5 (0.57%) Objective-C
18 4 (0.45%) CFML
18 4 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 169 (19.18%) Degree
2 80 (9.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 32 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (3.18%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.14%) PhD
8 8 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.57%) HNC
9 5 (0.57%) HND
10 4 (0.45%) CCNA
10 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.23%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.13%) QA
2 17 (1.93%) GDPR
3 10 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 8 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.45%) COBIT
6 4 (0.45%) SLA
7 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 67 (7.60%) Docker
3 61 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.70%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.59%) vSphere
7 5 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) pfSense
9 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 64 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.38%) Terraform
3 9 (1.02%) MIIS
4 8 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (0.91%) SCCM
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.57%) Nagios
6 4 (0.45%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.23%) Ansible
9 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) NetCrunch
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 464 (52.67%) Microsoft
2 80 (9.08%) VMware
3 52 (5.90%) Veeam
4 47 (5.33%) Google
4 47 (5.33%) Oracle
5 42 (4.77%) Citrix
6 17 (1.93%) Facebook
7 14 (1.59%) Apple
8 10 (1.14%) Sony
8 10 (1.14%) Yahoo!
9 9 (1.02%) Adobe
9 9 (1.02%) Cisco
9 9 (1.02%) EMC
10 8 (0.91%) Aruba
10 8 (0.91%) Palo Alto
10 8 (0.91%) Zerto
11 6 (0.68%) RedGate
12 5 (0.57%) Anaplan
12 5 (0.57%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.57%) Synology