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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 54 43
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,607 4,874 9,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.37% 5.46% 6.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.30% 25.44% 25.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 3,854 6,392
10th Percentile £34,490 £36,250 £33,250
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% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,759 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.97% +6.70%

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 15,203 19,159 37,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 21.45% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,417 12,078 19,019
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £97,500 £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 14 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 14 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 -2 1,221 £65,000 -5.55% 352
North of England +41 968 £50,000 - 205
South East +12 853 £55,000 - 159
Midlands +31 715 £50,000 - 172
North West +39 552 £50,000 - 114
West Midlands +23 460 £52,500 +5.00% 101
South West +6 412 £52,500 +5.00% 93
East of England +28 405 £47,500 -12.04% 61
Yorkshire +33 303 £50,749 +1.50% 65
East Midlands +35 255 £47,500 +2.70% 71
North East +40 113 £47,500 +11.76% 27
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
1 284 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 220 (4.78%) IIS
3 207 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 103 (2.24%) CMS
5 49 (1.06%) Apache
6 48 (1.04%) Umbraco
7 31 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.48%) WordPress
9 21 (0.46%) Confluence
10 19 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 17 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 16 (0.35%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.33%) JBoss
14 14 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 14 (0.30%) ArcGIS
14 14 (0.30%) Kentico
15 10 (0.22%) SAS
15 10 (0.22%) WildFly
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 181 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.23%) 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%) SPSS
10 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.043%) InDesign
10 2 (0.043%) S-PLUS
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
1 114 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (0.96%) Endur
3 39 (0.85%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.59%) SDL Web 8
5 19 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.35%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.35%) Fidessa
7 13 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
8 12 (0.26%) 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 9 (0.20%) PlanetPress Connect
12 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
13 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
14 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,594 (56.31%) Azure
2 749 (16.26%) Power Platform
3 726 (15.76%) AWS
4 530 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
5 378 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
6 189 (4.10%) SaaS
7 153 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 127 (2.76%) GCP
9 105 (2.28%) PowerApps
10 101 (2.19%) Serverless
11 100 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 100 (2.17%) GitHub
12 95 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 92 (2.00%) Power Automate
14 90 (1.95%) Snowflake
15 88 (1.91%) PaaS
16 83 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 77 (1.67%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.35%) IaaS
19 60 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 234 (5.08%) Firewall
2 204 (4.43%) DNS
3 154 (3.34%) Internet
4 117 (2.54%) SAN
5 102 (2.21%) DHCP
6 97 (2.11%) TCP/IP
7 91 (1.98%) WAN
8 77 (1.67%) Broadband
9 75 (1.63%) VPN
10 68 (1.48%) LAN
11 45 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.96%) VoIP
13 41 (0.89%) HTTP
14 39 (0.85%) SSL
15 29 (0.63%) NAS
16 28 (0.61%) Wireless
17 23 (0.50%) Network Security
18 22 (0.48%) VLAN
19 16 (0.35%) FIX Connectivity
19 16 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 676 (14.67%) Power BI
2 522 (11.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 427 (9.27%) Data Warehouse
4 392 (8.51%) Relational Database
5 373 (8.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 347 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 318 (6.90%) MongoDB
8 277 (6.01%) MySQL
9 276 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
10 244 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
11 169 (3.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 162 (3.52%) Data Lake
13 140 (3.04%) NoSQL
14 104 (2.26%) Oracle Database
15 93 (2.02%) RDBMS
16 86 (1.87%) Tableau
17 78 (1.69%) DB2
18 66 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
19 58 (1.26%) MS Access
20 45 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 420 (9.12%) Git
2 261 (5.67%) Visual Studio
3 208 (4.51%) JIRA
4 86 (1.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 76 (1.65%) NUnit
6 67 (1.45%) GitLab
7 61 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 57 (1.24%) Jenkins
9 56 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 53 (1.15%) Moq
11 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
12 31 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 30 (0.65%) Postman
13 30 (0.65%) Selenium
14 27 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
15 26 (0.56%) MSTest
15 26 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
15 26 (0.56%) SpecFlow
16 25 (0.54%) Bitbucket
17 22 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,141 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 786 (17.06%) Finance
3 409 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (5.73%) Retail
5 189 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 174 (3.78%) Marketing
7 157 (3.41%) Law
8 141 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 137 (2.97%) Games
10 136 (2.95%) Legal
11 109 (2.37%) Banking
12 86 (1.87%) Back Office
13 84 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 80 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 78 (1.69%) Advertising
16 70 (1.52%) Local Government
17 47 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
18 43 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
19 36 (0.78%) Telecoms
20 33 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,248 (48.80%) Developer
2 1,140 (24.74%) .NET Developer
3 627 (13.61%) Senior
4 611 (13.26%) C# Developer
5 403 (8.75%) C# .NET Developer
6 342 (7.42%) Lead
7 340 (7.38%) Analyst
8 335 (7.27%) Software Developer
9 305 (6.62%) Senior Developer
10 247 (5.36%) Data Engineer
11 244 (5.30%) DBA
12 208 (4.51%) Support Engineer
13 202 (4.38%) Consultant
14 183 (3.97%) Full Stack Developer
15 178 (3.86%) Software Engineer
16 157 (3.41%) Administrator
17 149 (3.23%) SQL DBA
18 133 (2.89%) Support Analyst
19 128 (2.78%) Architect
20 125 (2.71%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,260 (49.06%) .NET
2 1,338 (29.04%) ASP.NET
3 1,062 (23.05%) .NET Core
4 1,007 (21.86%) AngularJS
5 982 (21.32%) HTML
6 877 (19.04%) ASP.NET MVC
7 827 (17.95%) .NET Framework
8 783 (17.00%) Entity Framework
9 768 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
10 734 (15.93%) CSS
11 657 (14.26%) React
12 476 (10.33%) HTML5
13 460 (9.98%) Vue
14 364 (7.90%) RESTful
15 325 (7.05%) Web Services
16 312 (6.77%) Node.js
17 303 (6.58%) REST
18 259 (5.62%) jQuery
19 255 (5.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 252 (5.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
2 207 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
3 152 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 128 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 119 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 114 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 114 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 109 (2.37%) Replication
8 82 (1.78%) Clustering
9 72 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 69 (1.50%) Cloud Native
11 61 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 60 (1.30%) Driving Licence
13 53 (1.15%) Reinsurance
14 52 (1.13%) NHS
15 43 (0.93%) Algorithms
15 43 (0.93%) Swaptions
16 39 (0.85%) Data Centre
17 38 (0.82%) iPhone
18 37 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 782 (16.97%) Windows
2 352 (7.64%) Linux
3 329 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.11%) Unix
5 96 (2.08%) VMS
6 84 (1.82%) Windows 10
7 78 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 74 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (1.50%) Android
10 49 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.89%) CentOS
12 37 (0.80%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.59%) Solaris
14 24 (0.52%) zOS
15 23 (0.50%) AIX
16 20 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 19 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 17 (0.37%) Apple iOS
19 16 (0.35%) Windows 7
20 13 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,672 (36.29%) Agile
2 1,149 (24.94%) MVC
3 1,081 (23.46%) Full Stack Development
4 843 (18.30%) DevOps
5 804 (17.45%) Microservices
6 799 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
7 746 (16.19%) Business Intelligence
8 566 (12.29%) Scrum
9 565 (12.26%) TDD
10 563 (12.22%) ETL
11 400 (8.68%) BDD
12 395 (8.57%) Computer Science
13 360 (7.81%) CI/CD
14 349 (7.58%) Data Modelling
15 348 (7.55%) Software Engineering
16 316 (6.86%) OO
17 314 (6.82%) Roadmaps
18 311 (6.75%) Analytics
19 305 (6.62%) Mentoring
20 295 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,352 (51.05%) SQL
2 2,276 (49.40%) C#
3 1,542 (33.47%) JavaScript
4 720 (15.63%) T-SQL
5 543 (11.79%) TypeScript
6 448 (9.72%) Python
7 308 (6.69%) PowerShell
8 272 (5.90%) Java
9 161 (3.49%) VB.NET
10 157 (3.41%) VB
11 73 (1.58%) PHP
12 69 (1.50%) PL/SQL
13 68 (1.48%) C++
14 62 (1.35%) Bash
15 52 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 51 (1.11%) R
17 42 (0.91%) Bicep
18 40 (0.87%) XPath
19 39 (0.85%) C
20 38 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 743 (16.13%) Degree
2 239 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 193 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 176 (3.82%) Security Cleared
5 104 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 62 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 36 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 27 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 25 (0.54%) MCSE
11 24 (0.52%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.41%) MCP
13 18 (0.39%) CCNA
13 18 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.28%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.26%) HND
17 12 (0.26%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (4.78%) QA
2 181 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 69 (1.50%) SLA
4 63 (1.37%) GDPR
5 48 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 35 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.13%) GMP
10 6 (0.13%) NIST
11 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.11%) WCAG
12 4 (0.087%) COBIT
12 4 (0.087%) MiFID
12 4 (0.087%) NCSC
12 4 (0.087%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.065%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.065%) PMO
System Software
1 365 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 202 (4.38%) Docker
3 193 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 106 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 100 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 55 (1.19%) vSphere
7 36 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.37%) XenApp
9 16 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.087%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.065%) Firmware
13 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.022%) NFS
15 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 212 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 127 (2.76%) Terraform
3 46 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (0.93%) SCCM
5 39 (0.85%) Ansible
6 26 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.52%) Nagios
8 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
9 20 (0.43%) Grafana
10 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.35%) WSUS
12 15 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.24%) MIIS
15 10 (0.22%) Puppet
16 9 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.20%) Foglight
17 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
18 7 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,425 (52.64%) Microsoft
2 540 (11.72%) Oracle
3 302 (6.56%) VMware
4 154 (3.34%) Google
5 150 (3.26%) Databricks
6 110 (2.39%) Veeam
7 99 (2.15%) Citrix
8 78 (1.69%) Facebook
8 78 (1.69%) IBM
9 71 (1.54%) Sybase
10 68 (1.48%) Cisco
11 63 (1.37%) SAP
12 61 (1.32%) Apple
13 60 (1.30%) Informatica
14 57 (1.24%) Red Hat
15 47 (1.02%) TIBCO
16 43 (0.93%) OpenLink
17 42 (0.91%) Adobe
17 42 (0.91%) NEC
18 38 (0.82%) HP