Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,067 5,453 10,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.11% 5.38% 6.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.89% 25.23% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,458 4,279 7,125
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +3.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £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 £76,250 £83,750 £79,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +20 4,624 £55,000 -4.35% 999
UK excluding London +19 3,681 £52,500 +1.94% 703
Work from Home +17 2,670 £55,000 -3.51% 741
London -2 1,219 £65,000 -6.40% 332
North of England +38 969 £50,000 - 185
South East +8 857 £55,000 - 142
Midlands +29 718 £50,000 - 167
North West +33 552 £50,000 - 102
West Midlands +26 462 £52,500 +5.00% 100
South West +3 416 £52,500 +5.00% 91
East of England +32 410 £47,500 -7.32% 62
Yorkshire +29 301 £51,498 +3.00% 64
East Midlands +35 256 £47,500 - 67
Scotland -38 203 £52,500 +10.53% 42
North East +40 116 £47,500 +11.76% 20
Wales +11 82 £50,000 +16.28% 14
Northern Ireland -6 31 £50,000 - 10

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 296 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 259 (5.11%) IIS
3 217 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 111 (2.19%) CMS
5 61 (1.20%) Apache
6 51 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 40 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.43%) WordPress
9 20 (0.39%) Confluence
9 20 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
12 16 (0.32%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.30%) JBoss
13 15 (0.30%) Kentico
14 14 (0.28%) Apache Solr
14 14 (0.28%) ArcGIS
15 13 (0.26%) SAS
16 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
17 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 202 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.39%) Photoshop
5 16 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.059%) SPSS
9 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.039%) InDesign
9 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 133 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.81%) Endur
2 41 (0.81%) NEC Housing
3 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
4 20 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.39%) PlanetPress Connect
5 16 (0.32%) Elite 3E
5 16 (0.32%) Fidessa
6 14 (0.28%) Maximo
7 13 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
8 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
8 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
8 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 11 (0.22%) Shopify
9 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
11 7 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
11 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
12 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,861 (56.46%) Azure
2 830 (16.38%) Power Platform
3 822 (16.22%) AWS
4 587 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
5 406 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
6 218 (4.30%) SaaS
7 167 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 152 (3.00%) GCP
9 119 (2.35%) PaaS
10 115 (2.27%) PowerApps
11 114 (2.25%) Serverless
12 110 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 107 (2.11%) GitHub
14 106 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
15 99 (1.95%) Power Automate
16 95 (1.87%) Entra ID
17 93 (1.84%) Snowflake
18 91 (1.80%) IaaS
19 89 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 83 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 264 (5.21%) Firewall
2 210 (4.14%) DNS
3 167 (3.30%) Internet
4 125 (2.47%) WAN
5 120 (2.37%) SAN
6 105 (2.07%) DHCP
7 97 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 93 (1.84%) VPN
9 88 (1.74%) Broadband
10 66 (1.30%) LAN
11 45 (0.89%) VoIP
12 44 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
13 42 (0.83%) HTTP
14 39 (0.77%) SSL
15 32 (0.63%) Wireless
16 31 (0.61%) NAS
17 29 (0.57%) Network Security
18 26 (0.51%) VLAN
19 21 (0.41%) SD-WAN
20 16 (0.32%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (14.86%) Power BI
2 566 (11.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 480 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
4 428 (8.45%) Relational Database
5 409 (8.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 399 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 339 (6.69%) MongoDB
8 306 (6.04%) MySQL
9 297 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
10 264 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
11 186 (3.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 177 (3.49%) Data Lake
13 162 (3.20%) NoSQL
14 112 (2.21%) Oracle Database
15 111 (2.19%) RDBMS
16 89 (1.76%) Tableau
17 78 (1.54%) DB2
18 71 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.16%) MS Access
20 55 (1.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 459 (9.06%) Git
2 280 (5.53%) Visual Studio
3 227 (4.48%) JIRA
4 109 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 80 (1.58%) NUnit
6 67 (1.32%) GitLab
7 63 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
8 62 (1.22%) Moq
9 60 (1.18%) Jenkins
9 60 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 55 (1.09%) Jasmine
11 43 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
12 37 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
13 36 (0.71%) Selenium
14 32 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
14 32 (0.63%) Postman
15 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
16 27 (0.53%) MSTest
17 25 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
18 24 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,262 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 889 (17.54%) Finance
3 439 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (5.47%) Retail
5 196 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 188 (3.71%) Marketing
7 183 (3.61%) Law
8 149 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 144 (2.84%) Games
10 142 (2.80%) Banking
11 141 (2.78%) Legal
12 125 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 99 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 88 (1.74%) Back Office
15 82 (1.62%) Local Government
16 81 (1.60%) Advertising
17 52 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
18 49 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
19 46 (0.91%) Telecoms
20 44 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 2,429 (47.94%) Developer
2 1,189 (23.47%) .NET Developer
3 694 (13.70%) Senior
4 644 (12.71%) C# Developer
5 420 (8.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 394 (7.78%) Analyst
7 382 (7.54%) Software Developer
8 381 (7.52%) Lead
9 334 (6.59%) Senior Developer
10 299 (5.90%) DBA
11 269 (5.31%) Data Engineer
12 224 (4.42%) Consultant
13 216 (4.26%) Support Engineer
14 199 (3.93%) Software Engineer
15 194 (3.83%) Full Stack Developer
16 184 (3.63%) SQL DBA
17 180 (3.55%) Administrator
18 155 (3.06%) Support Analyst
19 138 (2.72%) Applications Support
20 133 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,436 (48.08%) .NET
2 1,449 (28.60%) ASP.NET
3 1,135 (22.40%) .NET Core
4 1,093 (21.57%) AngularJS
5 1,057 (20.86%) HTML
6 952 (18.79%) ASP.NET MVC
7 903 (17.82%) .NET Framework
8 852 (16.81%) Entity Framework
9 822 (16.22%) ASP.NET Web API
10 806 (15.91%) CSS
11 703 (13.87%) React
12 503 (9.93%) HTML5
13 481 (9.49%) Vue
14 391 (7.72%) RESTful
15 343 (6.77%) Web Services
16 331 (6.53%) Node.js
16 331 (6.53%) REST
17 293 (5.78%) jQuery
18 279 (5.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 259 (5.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 232 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
2 231 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
3 175 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 163 (3.22%) Public Cloud
5 140 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 134 (2.64%) Replication
7 129 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 116 (2.29%) Mobile App
9 112 (2.21%) Clustering
10 94 (1.86%) Cloud Native
11 80 (1.58%) Product Ownership
12 64 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 61 (1.20%) Driving Licence
14 55 (1.09%) Data Centre
15 54 (1.07%) Reinsurance
16 53 (1.05%) NHS
17 51 (1.01%) Algorithms
18 43 (0.85%) Social Media
19 40 (0.79%) Onboarding
19 40 (0.79%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 849 (16.76%) Windows
2 396 (7.82%) Linux
3 378 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.15%) VMS
5 101 (1.99%) Unix
6 83 (1.64%) Windows 10
7 80 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 77 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 69 (1.36%) Android
10 54 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
11 45 (0.89%) CentOS
12 40 (0.79%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
13 27 (0.53%) Solaris
14 24 (0.47%) zOS
15 21 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.34%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.32%) Windows 7
19 13 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,784 (35.21%) Agile
2 1,239 (24.45%) MVC
3 1,135 (22.40%) Full Stack Development
4 941 (18.57%) DevOps
5 911 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
6 841 (16.60%) Microservices
7 822 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
8 624 (12.31%) ETL
9 610 (12.04%) TDD
10 592 (11.68%) Scrum
11 441 (8.70%) Computer Science
12 414 (8.17%) BDD
13 406 (8.01%) CI/CD
14 396 (7.82%) Software Engineering
15 370 (7.30%) Mentoring
16 357 (7.05%) Data Modelling
17 346 (6.83%) OO
18 342 (6.75%) Analytics
19 324 (6.39%) Roadmaps
20 313 (6.18%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,614 (51.59%) SQL
2 2,466 (48.67%) C#
3 1,660 (32.76%) JavaScript
4 817 (16.12%) T-SQL
5 579 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 465 (9.18%) Python
7 349 (6.89%) PowerShell
8 314 (6.20%) Java
9 166 (3.28%) VB.NET
10 162 (3.20%) VB
11 85 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 78 (1.54%) PHP
13 77 (1.52%) C++
14 76 (1.50%) Bash
15 54 (1.07%) C
15 54 (1.07%) R
16 52 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 43 (0.85%) VBA
18 42 (0.83%) Bicep
19 40 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 852 (16.81%) Degree
2 269 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 220 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 209 (4.12%) Security Cleared
5 115 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 70 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 63 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 32 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
10 31 (0.61%) CCNA
10 31 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (0.49%) MCSE
12 24 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.37%) MCP
14 16 (0.32%) HND
15 14 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.26%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (4.89%) QA
2 196 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 74 (1.46%) SLA
4 70 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.28%) GDPR
6 35 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.30%) WAI
8 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
13 5 (0.099%) NIST
14 4 (0.079%) COBIT
14 4 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.079%) MiFID
14 4 (0.079%) NCSC
14 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) JSP 440
System Software
1 397 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 228 (4.50%) Docker
3 223 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 126 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 105 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 57 (1.12%) vSphere
7 50 (0.99%) VMware NSX
8 35 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) XenApp
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.099%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.039%) Firmware
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) NFS
15 1 (0.020%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 224 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 152 (3.00%) Terraform
3 60 (1.18%) Ansible
4 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.97%) SCCM
6 30 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.51%) Grafana
8 24 (0.47%) Nagios
9 21 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
10 16 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.32%) WSUS
11 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.22%) MIIS
15 10 (0.20%) Puppet
16 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.18%) Foglight
17 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,645 (52.20%) Microsoft
2 560 (11.05%) Oracle
3 353 (6.97%) VMware
4 165 (3.26%) Google
5 160 (3.16%) Databricks
6 109 (2.15%) Veeam
7 101 (1.99%) Citrix
8 86 (1.70%) Cisco
9 84 (1.66%) Facebook
10 79 (1.56%) IBM
11 70 (1.38%) Sybase
12 67 (1.32%) Apple
13 66 (1.30%) SAP
14 58 (1.14%) Informatica
14 58 (1.14%) Red Hat
15 45 (0.89%) NEC
16 44 (0.87%) HP
16 44 (0.87%) TIBCO
17 42 (0.83%) Adobe
18 40 (0.79%) OpenLink