SQL Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 41 62 29
Rank change year-on-year +21 -33 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,659 3,052 5,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.16% 5.12% 7.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.78% 26.54% 34.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,316 2,398 3,993
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +3.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,286 11,501 16,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.34% 19.29% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,147 6,733 10,270
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,721
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +41 968 £50,000 - 205
South East +12 853 £55,000 - 161
Midlands +31 715 £50,000 - 186
North West +39 552 £50,000 - 112
West Midlands +23 460 £52,500 +5.00% 112
South West +6 412 £52,500 +5.00% 98
East of England +28 405 £47,500 -12.04% 64
Yorkshire +33 303 £50,749 +1.50% 66
East Midlands +35 255 £47,500 +2.70% 74
Scotland -33 198 £52,500 +10.53% 47
North East +40 113 £47,500 +11.76% 28
Wales +23 81 £50,000 +16.28% 16
Northern Ireland -4 32 £50,000 - 11
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 210 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 169 (4.62%) IIS
3 114 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.37%) CMS
5 38 (1.04%) Apache
6 35 (0.96%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.38%) Confluence
9 13 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.22%) Apache Solr
12 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.22%) JBoss
12 8 (0.22%) Kentico
12 8 (0.22%) WordPress
13 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.14%) Drupal
14 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 142 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.055%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.055%) InDesign
9 2 (0.055%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 56 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 16 (0.44%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.36%) Epicor Tropos
3 13 (0.36%) Maximo
4 11 (0.30%) Shopify
5 10 (0.27%) Sage 200
6 9 (0.25%) PlanetPress Connect
7 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
11 3 (0.082%) Magento
12 2 (0.055%) nopCommerce
12 2 (0.055%) Sage 50
12 2 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,135 (58.35%) Azure
2 584 (15.96%) Power Platform
3 580 (15.85%) AWS
4 383 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
5 290 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
6 135 (3.69%) SaaS
7 106 (2.90%) GCP
8 95 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (2.00%) Serverless
10 72 (1.97%) PowerApps
11 69 (1.89%) Power Automate
12 68 (1.86%) PaaS
13 67 (1.83%) Entra ID
14 65 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 63 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
16 62 (1.69%) GitHub
17 59 (1.61%) Snowflake
18 57 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
19 48 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 46 (1.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (5.30%) Firewall
2 136 (3.72%) DNS
3 122 (3.33%) Internet
4 110 (3.01%) WAN
5 96 (2.62%) SAN
6 82 (2.24%) Broadband
7 74 (2.02%) DHCP
8 72 (1.97%) VPN
9 67 (1.83%) TCP/IP
10 59 (1.61%) LAN
11 37 (1.01%) SSL
12 36 (0.98%) VoIP
13 34 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (0.79%) HTTP
15 24 (0.66%) Wireless
16 23 (0.63%) NAS
17 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
18 16 (0.44%) VLAN
19 14 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (14.57%) Power BI
2 351 (9.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 335 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
4 317 (8.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 279 (7.63%) Relational Database
6 262 (7.16%) MongoDB
7 256 (7.00%) Elasticsearch
8 253 (6.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 237 (6.48%) MySQL
10 166 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
11 129 (3.53%) NoSQL
12 120 (3.28%) Data Lake
13 108 (2.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 85 (2.32%) Oracle Database
15 55 (1.50%) MS Access
16 49 (1.34%) Tableau
17 43 (1.18%) DB2
18 42 (1.15%) RDBMS
19 41 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
20 37 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 324 (8.85%) Git
2 184 (5.03%) Visual Studio
3 135 (3.69%) JIRA
4 55 (1.50%) Jasmine
5 52 (1.42%) NUnit
5 52 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 50 (1.37%) GitLab
6 50 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
7 43 (1.18%) Karma Test Runner
8 33 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 33 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
9 31 (0.85%) Moq
10 27 (0.74%) Selenium
11 25 (0.68%) Postman
12 23 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
13 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 21 (0.57%) MSTest
15 13 (0.36%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
16 12 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 900 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 522 (14.27%) Finance
3 270 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (6.50%) Retail
5 154 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 145 (3.96%) Manufacturing
7 137 (3.74%) Law
8 84 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 82 (2.24%) Marketing
10 81 (2.21%) Legal
11 77 (2.10%) Games
12 76 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 74 (2.02%) Advertising
14 58 (1.59%) Banking
15 42 (1.15%) Back Office
15 42 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 38 (1.04%) Local Government
17 31 (0.85%) Music Industry
17 31 (0.85%) Police
17 31 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,881 (51.41%) Developer
2 984 (26.89%) .NET Developer
3 490 (13.39%) C# Developer
4 381 (10.41%) Senior
5 349 (9.54%) C# .NET Developer
6 325 (8.88%) Software Developer
7 231 (6.31%) DBA
8 217 (5.93%) Lead
9 210 (5.74%) Analyst
10 204 (5.58%) Senior Developer
11 192 (5.25%) Data Engineer
12 188 (5.14%) Support Engineer
13 163 (4.45%) Software Engineer
14 154 (4.21%) SQL DBA
15 152 (4.15%) Consultant
16 141 (3.85%) Administrator
17 117 (3.20%) IT Engineer
18 115 (3.14%) IT Support
19 107 (2.92%) Full Stack Developer
20 105 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,886 (51.54%) .NET
2 1,182 (32.30%) ASP.NET
3 960 (26.24%) .NET Core
4 892 (24.38%) AngularJS
5 818 (22.36%) HTML
6 798 (21.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 714 (19.51%) Entity Framework
8 710 (19.40%) ASP.NET Web API
9 709 (19.38%) .NET Framework
10 618 (16.89%) CSS
11 582 (15.91%) React
12 431 (11.78%) Vue
13 402 (10.99%) HTML5
14 284 (7.76%) Node.js
15 283 (7.73%) RESTful
16 219 (5.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 217 (5.93%) jQuery
18 216 (5.90%) Blazor
19 213 (5.82%) REST
20 207 (5.66%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 160 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
2 151 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 125 (3.42%) Public Cloud
4 108 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 107 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 105 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 102 (2.79%) Management Information System
8 95 (2.60%) Replication
9 77 (2.10%) Clustering
10 66 (1.80%) Cloud Native
11 51 (1.39%) Driving Licence
12 47 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 47 (1.28%) Product Ownership
13 43 (1.18%) NHS
14 39 (1.07%) Reinsurance
15 38 (1.04%) iPhone
16 35 (0.96%) Data Centre
17 34 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
18 33 (0.90%) Social Media
18 33 (0.90%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 558 (15.25%) Windows
2 281 (7.68%) Windows Server
3 248 (6.78%) Linux
4 102 (2.79%) VMS
5 56 (1.53%) Android
6 55 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 55 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 52 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 45 (1.23%) Unix
9 41 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.68%) AIX
11 19 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.44%) Windows 7
13 15 (0.41%) CentOS
14 13 (0.36%) Debian
14 13 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.19%) SUSE
17 6 (0.16%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,353 (36.98%) Agile
2 1,037 (28.34%) MVC
3 934 (25.53%) Full Stack Development
4 675 (18.45%) Microservices
5 659 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
6 612 (16.73%) DevOps
7 568 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
8 453 (12.38%) TDD
9 407 (11.12%) Scrum
10 372 (10.17%) ETL
11 351 (9.59%) BDD
12 269 (7.35%) CI/CD
13 263 (7.19%) OO
14 260 (7.11%) Mentoring
15 259 (7.08%) Software Engineering
16 253 (6.91%) Computer Science
17 248 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence
18 233 (6.37%) Roadmaps
19 223 (6.09%) Migration
20 222 (6.07%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,927 (52.66%) C#
2 1,854 (50.67%) SQL
3 1,302 (35.58%) JavaScript
4 517 (14.13%) T-SQL
5 490 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 262 (7.16%) Python
7 202 (5.52%) PowerShell
8 197 (5.38%) Java
9 153 (4.18%) VB.NET
10 116 (3.17%) VB
11 72 (1.97%) PHP
12 65 (1.78%) C++
13 48 (1.31%) C
14 32 (0.87%) XAML
15 31 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 30 (0.82%) Bash
17 29 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.79%) R
17 29 (0.79%) VB6
18 26 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 521 (14.24%) Degree
2 187 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 187 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 162 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 86 (2.35%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 38 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 29 (0.79%) CCNA
8 29 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
10 23 (0.63%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.46%) MCSE
12 14 (0.38%) HND
13 13 (0.36%) MCP
14 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (0.33%) OCP
14 12 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (5.38%) QA
2 137 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 49 (1.34%) GDPR
4 47 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 33 (0.90%) SLA
6 20 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.41%) WAI
8 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.11%) COBIT
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.11%) WCAG
11 3 (0.082%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.082%) PMO
12 2 (0.055%) HL7
12 2 (0.055%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 260 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 191 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (4.56%) Docker
4 114 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.81%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 40 (1.09%) vSphere
8 30 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.41%) XenApp
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.055%) Firmware
13 2 (0.055%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 144 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.49%) Terraform
3 39 (1.07%) Ansible
4 35 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.71%) SCCM
6 16 (0.44%) Nagios
7 13 (0.36%) FortiGate
7 13 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (0.27%) MIIS
10 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.25%) WSUS
11 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.16%) Grafana
13 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.14%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.11%) Backup Exec
15 4 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,027 (55.40%) Microsoft
2 339 (9.26%) Oracle
3 293 (8.01%) VMware
4 145 (3.96%) Google
5 88 (2.41%) Veeam
6 81 (2.21%) Facebook
7 79 (2.16%) Citrix
8 78 (2.13%) Databricks
9 61 (1.67%) Apple
9 61 (1.67%) Cisco
10 55 (1.50%) IBM
11 45 (1.23%) Informatica
12 41 (1.12%) SAP
13 30 (0.82%) Sony
13 30 (0.82%) Yahoo!
14 26 (0.71%) Xamarin
15 23 (0.63%) Adobe
15 23 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.63%) Salesforce
16 22 (0.60%) EMC