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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 47 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,220 1,924 4,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.14% 5.81% 5.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.35% 23.30% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,576 2,562
10th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,050
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,000
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 £85,000
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 5,225 8,259 22,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.01% 24.94% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,854 5,739 9,010
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 24 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 24 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 0 233 £65,000 -7.14% 65
West London -42 29 £53,750 +7.50% 16
South London -27 19 £55,000 - 9
East London +8 14 £57,500 +4.55% 6
North London -1 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
1 103 (8.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 67 (5.49%) IIS
4 60 (4.92%) CMS
5 23 (1.89%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.64%) Apache
7 15 (1.23%) EPiServer
8 14 (1.15%) WordPress
9 12 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
10 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.82%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.66%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.57%) Confluence
13 7 (0.57%) JBoss
13 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.57%) WildFly
14 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
15 5 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 59 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.31%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) SPSS
7 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 59 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (3.44%) Endur
3 30 (2.46%) SDL Web 8
4 23 (1.89%) NEC Housing
5 17 (1.39%) Fidessa
6 10 (0.82%) Elite 3E
7 9 (0.74%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.74%) SAP Business One
8 7 (0.57%) PlanetPress Connect
8 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.41%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 5 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
11 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 2 (0.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 627 (51.39%) Azure
2 204 (16.72%) Power Platform
3 201 (16.48%) AWS
4 164 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (4.75%) SaaS
7 57 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 37 (3.03%) GCP
9 36 (2.95%) GitHub
10 35 (2.87%) PaaS
11 34 (2.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 33 (2.70%) Serverless
13 32 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (2.62%) Snowflake
14 31 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (2.54%) PowerApps
15 29 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (2.30%) IaaS
17 26 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
18 25 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.25%) DNS
2 61 (5.00%) Firewall
3 43 (3.52%) Internet
4 32 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.38%) DHCP
6 18 (1.48%) SAN
7 17 (1.39%) FIX Connectivity
8 14 (1.15%) VPN
9 12 (0.98%) HTTP
10 11 (0.90%) iSCSI
11 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.74%) WAN
13 8 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (0.66%) LAN
13 8 (0.66%) Network Security
13 8 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (0.57%) Broadband
14 7 (0.57%) Mobile Broadband
14 7 (0.57%) VoIP
14 7 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (16.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 183 (15.00%) Power BI
3 142 (11.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 137 (11.23%) Relational Database
5 123 (10.08%) Data Warehouse
6 86 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
7 82 (6.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 75 (6.15%) MongoDB
9 67 (5.49%) RDBMS
10 63 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 60 (4.92%) MySQL
12 41 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (3.28%) Data Lake
14 39 (3.20%) Tableau
15 35 (2.87%) DB2
16 29 (2.38%) Oracle Database
17 27 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
18 25 (2.05%) NoSQL
19 19 (1.56%) Big Data
20 17 (1.39%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 142 (11.64%) Git
2 90 (7.38%) Visual Studio
3 88 (7.21%) JIRA
4 44 (3.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 36 (2.95%) Moq
7 32 (2.62%) NUnit
8 26 (2.13%) Jenkins
9 22 (1.80%) GitLab
9 22 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
10 20 (1.64%) SpecFlow
11 16 (1.31%) git-flow
11 16 (1.31%) Sourcetree
12 12 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.90%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.74%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.66%) Mercurial
16 6 (0.49%) MSTest
17 5 (0.41%) Subversion
18 4 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 330 (27.05%) Finance
2 300 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 144 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (8.36%) Marketing
5 78 (6.39%) Banking
6 66 (5.41%) Games
7 56 (4.59%) Legal
8 45 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (3.61%) Local Government
10 42 (3.44%) Law
11 41 (3.36%) Back Office
12 34 (2.79%) Public Sector
13 32 (2.62%) Retail
14 21 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.64%) Front Office
16 17 (1.39%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.90%) Billing
19 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
20 8 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 489 (40.08%) Developer
2 280 (22.95%) Senior
3 204 (16.72%) .NET Developer
4 156 (12.79%) C# Developer
5 150 (12.30%) Analyst
6 125 (10.25%) Lead
7 117 (9.59%) Senior Developer
8 86 (7.05%) Full Stack Developer
9 82 (6.72%) C# .NET Developer
10 70 (5.74%) Data Engineer
11 69 (5.66%) Architect
12 67 (5.49%) Applications Support
13 64 (5.25%) Support Analyst
14 57 (4.67%) Consultant
15 54 (4.43%) DBA
15 54 (4.43%) Senior C# Developer
16 52 (4.26%) Software Developer
17 45 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 44 (3.61%) Full-Stack C# Developer
19 39 (3.20%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (39.84%) .NET
2 251 (20.57%) ASP.NET
3 239 (19.59%) HTML
4 193 (15.82%) CSS
5 191 (15.66%) AngularJS
6 182 (14.92%) .NET Framework
7 161 (13.20%) .NET Core
8 148 (12.13%) ASP.NET MVC
9 139 (11.39%) Web Services
10 133 (10.90%) Entity Framework
11 115 (9.43%) RESTful
12 112 (9.18%) ASP.NET Web API
13 109 (8.93%) React
14 101 (8.28%) HTML5
15 98 (8.03%) REST
16 97 (7.95%) XML
17 85 (6.97%) jQuery
18 77 (6.31%) SOAP
19 63 (5.16%) JSON
19 63 (5.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.57%) Greenfield Project
2 61 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.36%) Swaptions
5 30 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.38%) Legacy Code
6 29 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 29 (2.38%) Replication
7 27 (2.21%) Hedge funds
8 26 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 26 (2.13%) Clustering
9 24 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.97%) Life Science
10 22 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.72%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (1.48%) Housing Association
14 17 (1.39%) Data Fabric
14 17 (1.39%) Eurex
15 16 (1.31%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 253 (20.74%) Windows
2 125 (10.25%) Linux
3 81 (6.64%) Windows Server
4 55 (4.51%) Unix
5 29 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.21%) CentOS
6 27 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.72%) Solaris
10 20 (1.64%) zOS
11 10 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.74%) Android
13 8 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.57%) VMS
15 6 (0.49%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.16%) AIX
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (32.46%) Agile
2 285 (23.36%) DevOps
3 211 (17.30%) ETL
4 208 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
5 200 (16.39%) Full Stack Development
6 198 (16.23%) MVC
7 194 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
8 178 (14.59%) Scrum
9 170 (13.93%) Computer Science
10 158 (12.95%) Microservices
11 153 (12.54%) TDD
12 145 (11.89%) Data Modelling
13 131 (10.74%) Analytics
14 120 (9.84%) ITIL
15 115 (9.43%) CI/CD
16 114 (9.34%) Software Engineering
17 102 (8.36%) Mentoring
18 90 (7.38%) Roadmaps
19 84 (6.89%) OO
20 83 (6.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 657 (53.85%) SQL
2 474 (38.85%) C#
3 344 (28.20%) JavaScript
4 267 (21.89%) T-SQL
5 196 (16.07%) Python
6 117 (9.59%) PowerShell
7 107 (8.77%) Java
8 82 (6.72%) TypeScript
9 44 (3.61%) Bash
10 43 (3.52%) VB
11 42 (3.44%) PL/SQL
12 41 (3.36%) XPath
13 28 (2.30%) Perl
14 24 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.97%) R
15 23 (1.89%) Ruby
16 22 (1.80%) Bicep
17 16 (1.31%) VBA
18 13 (1.07%) Scala
19 10 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 278 (22.79%) Degree
2 71 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.95%) Security Cleared
4 21 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 21 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (1.56%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (0.57%) MCSE
10 6 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
11 5 (0.41%) MCP
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) CISM
12 4 (0.33%) CISSP
12 4 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.33%) MCSA
13 3 (0.25%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.44%) QA
3 36 (2.95%) SLA
4 19 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.15%) GDPR
6 13 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.49%) NIST
8 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.41%) MiFID
10 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (8.69%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.52%) Docker
3 27 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.56%) vSphere
5 10 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.16%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
10 1 (0.082%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.082%) Firmware
10 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.082%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 68 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 58 (4.75%) Terraform
3 24 (1.97%) Prometheus
4 23 (1.89%) Ansible
5 19 (1.56%) SCCM
6 18 (1.48%) Grafana
7 16 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.82%) Puppet
10 9 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (0.74%) Foglight
10 9 (0.74%) Nagios
10 9 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.49%) WSUS
12 5 (0.41%) Control-M
12 5 (0.41%) Istio
13 4 (0.33%) Nessus
13 4 (0.33%) PaperCut
13 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 534 (43.77%) Microsoft
2 221 (18.11%) Oracle
3 67 (5.49%) Databricks
4 57 (4.67%) Sybase
5 48 (3.93%) VMware
6 44 (3.61%) TIBCO
7 41 (3.36%) OpenLink
8 36 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.13%) Bloomberg
10 25 (2.05%) Veeam
11 24 (1.97%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.89%) NEC
13 22 (1.80%) Adobe
13 22 (1.80%) Cisco
13 22 (1.80%) Reuters
13 22 (1.80%) SAP
14 21 (1.72%) HP
15 20 (1.64%) Citrix
16 19 (1.56%) F5
16 19 (1.56%) IBM