SQL Server Jobs in Kent

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Kent

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 76 17
Rank change year-on-year +56 -59 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 138 22 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 8.68% 2.11% 11.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 43.67% 16.79% 49.55%
Number of salaries quoted 131 21 105
10th Percentile £37,500 - £27,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +15.85% -3.53%
75th Percentile £65,250 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 - £60,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 316 131 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 19.89% 12.58% 23.90%
Number of salaries quoted 239 82 187
10th Percentile £32,250 £26,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £38,688 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +26.51% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65,250 £60,938 £52,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £63,000 £67,500
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Kent over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Canterbury - 24 £65,000 - 1
Tunbridge Wells - 20 £47,500 - 2
Dartford - 11 £40,000 - 1
Maidstone +17 10 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Chatham +18 8 £63,500 - 1
Broadstairs - 7 £47,500 -
Folkestone - 6 £55,000 -
Sevenoaks -4 5 £55,000 +4.76% 1
West Malling - 4 £65,000 -
Sittingbourne - 1 £60,000 - 1
Swanley - 1 £52,500 -
Margate - 1 - - 1
Rochester - 1 - - 2
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (2.90%) Apache
1 4 (2.90%) ColdFusion
1 4 (2.90%) IIS
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.45%) Drupal
2 2 (1.45%) WordPress
3 1 (0.72%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.90%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.90%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 104 (75.36%) Azure
2 45 (32.61%) AWS
3 12 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.97%) GCP
5 10 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (7.25%) IaaS
5 10 (7.25%) PaaS
5 10 (7.25%) Serverless
6 7 (5.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (5.07%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.62%) SaaS
8 4 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.17%) Azure App Service
9 3 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.97%) Internet
2 7 (5.07%) HTTP
3 3 (2.17%) Broadband
4 2 (1.45%) Firewall
4 2 (1.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
1 18 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.59%) MySQL
3 15 (10.87%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (9.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (8.70%) Power BI
6 11 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (7.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (5.07%) DynamoDB
8 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.90%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.90%) DB2
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (1.45%) JIRA
2 2 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (18.12%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.49%) Finance
3 12 (8.70%) Retail
4 8 (5.80%) Games
4 8 (5.80%) Marketing
5 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.17%) Advertising
6 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.45%) French Language
7 2 (1.45%) German Language
7 2 (1.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 108 (78.26%) Developer
2 79 (57.25%) .NET Developer
3 26 (18.84%) C# Developer
4 25 (18.12%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (11.59%) Azure Developer
6 15 (10.87%) DBA
7 10 (7.25%) Lead
7 10 (7.25%) Senior
8 8 (5.80%) JavaScript Developer
8 8 (5.80%) SQL DBA
9 7 (5.07%) AWS Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Backend Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Internet Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Agile .NET Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Agile C# Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Agile Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Junior Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Social Media Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (69.57%) .NET
2 71 (51.45%) ASP.NET
3 68 (49.28%) AngularJS
4 66 (47.83%) ASP.NET Web API
5 46 (33.33%) React
6 43 (31.16%) Vue
7 40 (28.99%) .NET Core
7 40 (28.99%) ASP.NET MVC
8 39 (28.26%) HTML
9 33 (23.91%) Entity Framework
10 32 (23.19%) HTML5
11 27 (19.57%) RESTful
12 26 (18.84%) .NET Framework
13 23 (16.67%) CSS
14 21 (15.22%) LINQ
15 19 (13.77%) Node.js
16 12 (8.70%) CSS3
17 11 (7.97%) Web Services
18 10 (7.25%) jQuery
19 7 (5.07%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.22%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.97%) Algorithms
4 10 (7.25%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.62%) BBC
6 5 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.62%) Social Media
7 4 (2.90%) PMI
8 2 (1.45%) Clustering
8 2 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.25%) Windows
2 4 (2.90%) Linux
3 3 (2.17%) VMS
4 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (54.35%) Agile
2 70 (50.72%) Microservices
3 67 (48.55%) Full Stack Development
4 45 (32.61%) MVC
5 27 (19.57%) TDD
6 25 (18.12%) BDD
7 18 (13.04%) Kanban
7 18 (13.04%) Scrum
8 17 (12.32%) Data Protection
9 16 (11.59%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 16 (11.59%) Multithreading
9 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (9.42%) Analytics
12 13 (9.42%) CI/CD
12 13 (9.42%) Computer Science
13 11 (7.97%) DevOps
13 11 (7.97%) Migration
13 11 (7.97%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 95 (68.84%) C#
2 68 (49.28%) JavaScript
3 46 (33.33%) SQL
4 40 (28.99%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.97%) Java
6 8 (5.80%) T-SQL
7 7 (5.07%) PHP
8 6 (4.35%) Python
9 4 (2.90%) C++
9 4 (2.90%) CFML
9 4 (2.90%) RPG
10 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) Degree
2 13 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.25%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.90%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.25%) GDPR
1 10 (7.25%) HIPAA
2 5 (3.62%) QA
3 4 (2.90%) COBIT
4 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.17%) Docker
1 3 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 58 (42.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.39%) Google
3 8 (5.80%) Facebook
4 5 (3.62%) Apple
4 5 (3.62%) Oracle
4 5 (3.62%) Sony
4 5 (3.62%) Yahoo!
5 4 (2.90%) Adobe
6 2 (1.45%) RedGate
6 2 (1.45%) Veeam
6 2 (1.45%) VMware