SQL Server Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 49 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 292 323 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.14% 5.59% 8.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.40% 29.63% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 259 234 341
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £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 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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,106 1,090 1,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.68% 18.85% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 762 669 1,011
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 30 May 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 30 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
Berkshire -18 128 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Oxfordshire +32 97 £47,500 +5.56% 13
Buckinghamshire -7 67 £52,500 - 10
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 (10.96%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.45%) IIS
4 6 (2.05%) CMS
5 5 (1.71%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.71%) JBoss
5 5 (1.71%) Kentico
5 5 (1.71%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.37%) 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 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.68%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 119 (40.75%) Azure
2 55 (18.84%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (16.44%) Power Platform
4 22 (7.53%) AWS
4 22 (7.53%) OneDrive
5 21 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.11%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.77%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.05%) SaaS
10 5 (1.71%) PaaS
11 3 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.03%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.03%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.03%) TestFlight
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%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.73%) Firewall
2 19 (6.51%) DNS
3 18 (6.16%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.42%) DHCP
5 5 (1.71%) Internet
5 5 (1.71%) SAN
5 5 (1.71%) VoIP
5 5 (1.71%) VPN
5 5 (1.71%) Wireless
6 4 (1.37%) Broadband
6 4 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.37%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.37%) NAS
7 3 (1.03%) SSL
7 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.03%) WLAN
8 2 (0.68%) WAN
9 1 (0.34%) FTP
9 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.04%) Power BI
2 33 (11.30%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.88%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (5.82%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.11%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.77%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (3.42%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.71%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (1.71%) MySQL
11 5 (1.71%) Power Query
12 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.68%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (0.68%) Redis
13 2 (0.68%) SSDT
13 2 (0.68%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (15.07%) Git
2 29 (9.93%) Visual Studio
3 16 (5.48%) NUnit
4 9 (3.08%) JIRA
5 6 (2.05%) MSTest
6 4 (1.37%) Subversion
7 3 (1.03%) Selenium
7 3 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.68%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.68%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.34%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.34%) Moq
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 60 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.25%) Finance
3 25 (8.56%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (6.85%) Law
5 19 (6.51%) Manufacturing
6 14 (4.79%) Retail
7 11 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.42%) Back Office
9 7 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.05%) Billing
10 6 (2.05%) Marketing
11 3 (1.03%) Automotive
11 3 (1.03%) Banking
11 3 (1.03%) Games
11 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Legal
12 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (55.48%) Developer
2 82 (28.08%) .NET Developer
3 52 (17.81%) C# Developer
4 45 (15.41%) C# .NET Developer
5 43 (14.73%) Support Engineer
6 39 (13.36%) Senior
7 35 (11.99%) IT Support
7 35 (11.99%) Senior Developer
8 34 (11.64%) IT Engineer
9 33 (11.30%) IT Support Engineer
10 32 (10.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 31 (10.62%) 3rd Line Support
11 31 (10.62%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 31 (10.62%) Software Developer
12 18 (6.16%) Applications Developer
12 18 (6.16%) Senior .NET Developer
13 16 (5.48%) .NET Applications Developer
13 16 (5.48%) C# Application Developer
14 15 (5.14%) Lead
15 14 (4.79%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (55.14%) .NET
2 72 (24.66%) ASP.NET
3 71 (24.32%) React
4 60 (20.55%) .NET Core
4 60 (20.55%) .NET Framework
5 49 (16.78%) AngularJS
6 48 (16.44%) ASP.NET MVC
7 41 (14.04%) Entity Framework
8 35 (11.99%) ASP.NET Web API
9 31 (10.62%) CSS
10 30 (10.27%) HTML
11 26 (8.90%) Vue
12 21 (7.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 19 (6.51%) Node.js
14 15 (5.14%) WPF
15 13 (4.45%) WinForms
16 12 (4.11%) LINQ
16 12 (4.11%) WCF
17 11 (3.77%) CSS3
18 10 (3.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.25%) Replication
2 11 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.42%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.40%) Social Network
6 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.71%) BBC
7 5 (1.71%) Social Media
8 4 (1.37%) Chip and PIN
8 4 (1.37%) EMC VNX
8 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.03%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.03%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.55%) Windows
2 27 (9.25%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.82%) VMS
4 15 (5.14%) Linux
5 8 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.37%) CentOS
6 4 (1.37%) Rocky
6 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.03%) Android
7 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.88%) Agile
2 65 (22.26%) MVC
3 57 (19.52%) Full Stack Development
4 43 (14.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 41 (14.04%) Computer Science
6 40 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
7 35 (11.99%) DevOps
7 35 (11.99%) Microservices
7 35 (11.99%) TDD
8 32 (10.96%) Propensity Modelling
9 29 (9.93%) OO
9 29 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (8.56%) ETL
11 24 (8.22%) BDD
11 24 (8.22%) Scrum
12 20 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (6.85%) Machine Learning
13 18 (6.16%) Change Control
13 18 (6.16%) CRM
13 18 (6.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 167 (57.19%) C#
2 136 (46.58%) SQL
3 101 (34.59%) JavaScript
4 57 (19.52%) TypeScript
5 44 (15.07%) T-SQL
6 19 (6.51%) Java
7 17 (5.82%) Python
8 13 (4.45%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.42%) R
10 9 (3.08%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.05%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.37%) C++
13 4 (1.37%) VBScript
14 3 (1.03%) C
14 3 (1.03%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.03%) PHP
14 3 (1.03%) Swift
14 3 (1.03%) XAML
15 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (26.71%) Degree
2 35 (11.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (8.22%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.42%) PhD
6 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.71%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (1.71%) HNC
7 5 (1.71%) HND
8 4 (1.37%) 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 6 (2.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.03%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (14.73%) Active Directory
2 41 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (13.01%) Docker
4 9 (3.08%) vSphere
5 8 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.40%) SCCM
3 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.03%) Nagios
6 1 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 182 (62.33%) Microsoft
2 53 (18.15%) VMware
3 44 (15.07%) Veeam
4 37 (12.67%) Citrix
5 21 (7.19%) Oracle
6 9 (3.08%) Apple
7 7 (2.40%) Aruba
8 5 (1.71%) Adaptive Insights
8 5 (1.71%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.71%) Facebook
8 5 (1.71%) Google
8 5 (1.71%) Jedox
8 5 (1.71%) Sony
8 5 (1.71%) Tagetik
8 5 (1.71%) Yahoo!
9 4 (1.37%) Adobe
9 4 (1.37%) Meraki
9 4 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.37%) Synology
9 4 (1.37%) Zerto