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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 55 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,063 5,338 10,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.07% 5.38% 6.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.73% 25.01% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,433 4,216 7,153
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,743 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +3.23% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +5.56%

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 18,257 21,342 45,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 21.52% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,529 13,306 21,042
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 18 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 18 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 +21 4,629 £55,000 -3.51% 1,138
UK excluding London +20 3,674 £52,500 +1.94% 836
Work from Home +19 2,668 £55,000 -1.79% 828
London 0 1,223 £65,000 -5.55% 390
North of England +39 971 £50,000 - 223
South East +13 862 £55,000 - 192
Midlands +31 721 £50,000 - 195
North West +38 552 £50,000 - 120
West Midlands +26 465 £52,500 +5.00% 122
South West +13 415 £52,500 +5.00% 96
East of England +29 403 £47,500 -10.80% 65
Yorkshire +32 304 £50,000 - 73
East Midlands +39 256 £47,500 +5.56% 73
Scotland -41 196 £52,500 +10.53% 45
North East +41 115 £47,500 +11.76% 31
Wales +19 80 £50,000 +20.48% 20
Northern Ireland -11 31 £50,000 - 13

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
1 286 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 249 (4.92%) IIS
3 222 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 111 (2.19%) CMS
5 62 (1.22%) Apache
6 50 (0.99%) Umbraco
7 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.45%) Confluence
9 22 (0.43%) WordPress
10 21 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 19 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.32%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.30%) JBoss
15 14 (0.28%) Apache Solr
15 14 (0.28%) ArcGIS
16 13 (0.26%) Kentico
16 13 (0.26%) SAS
17 12 (0.24%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 203 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.059%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.059%) SPSS
10 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 123 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.93%) Endur
3 42 (0.83%) NEC Housing
4 29 (0.57%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.32%) Fidessa
6 16 (0.32%) PlanetPress Connect
7 15 (0.30%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.24%) Epicor Tropos
8 12 (0.24%) Maximo
9 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.22%) Shopify
10 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.20%) Sage X3
11 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
13 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,868 (56.65%) Azure
2 822 (16.24%) Power Platform
3 821 (16.22%) AWS
4 589 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 399 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
6 210 (4.15%) SaaS
7 164 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 150 (2.96%) GCP
9 112 (2.21%) PowerApps
10 111 (2.19%) PaaS
10 111 (2.19%) Serverless
11 109 (2.15%) GitHub
12 104 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 99 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 97 (1.92%) Entra ID
14 97 (1.92%) Power Automate
15 92 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 90 (1.78%) Snowflake
17 88 (1.74%) IaaS
18 75 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 263 (5.19%) Firewall
2 206 (4.07%) DNS
3 166 (3.28%) Internet
4 118 (2.33%) SAN
5 116 (2.29%) WAN
6 101 (1.99%) DHCP
7 98 (1.94%) TCP/IP
8 94 (1.86%) VPN
9 89 (1.76%) Broadband
10 68 (1.34%) LAN
11 48 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.87%) VoIP
13 40 (0.79%) HTTP
14 39 (0.77%) SSL
15 31 (0.61%) Wireless
16 29 (0.57%) NAS
17 28 (0.55%) Network Security
18 25 (0.49%) VLAN
19 21 (0.41%) SD-WAN
20 17 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 751 (14.83%) Power BI
2 566 (11.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 476 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
4 431 (8.51%) Relational Database
5 410 (8.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 394 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 339 (6.70%) MongoDB
8 303 (5.98%) MySQL
9 298 (5.89%) Elasticsearch
10 270 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
11 191 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 176 (3.48%) Data Lake
13 158 (3.12%) NoSQL
14 120 (2.37%) Oracle Database
15 115 (2.27%) RDBMS
16 90 (1.78%) Tableau
17 78 (1.54%) DB2
18 69 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
19 60 (1.19%) MS Access
20 58 (1.15%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 469 (9.26%) Git
2 286 (5.65%) Visual Studio
3 227 (4.48%) JIRA
4 105 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 82 (1.62%) NUnit
6 69 (1.36%) GitLab
7 64 (1.26%) Jenkins
7 64 (1.26%) Moq
7 64 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 60 (1.19%) TeamCity
9 55 (1.09%) Jasmine
10 43 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
11 37 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
12 35 (0.69%) Selenium
13 32 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
13 32 (0.63%) Postman
14 28 (0.55%) MSTest
14 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
15 27 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
16 25 (0.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,262 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 890 (17.58%) Finance
3 452 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (5.45%) Retail
5 198 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 191 (3.77%) Marketing
7 184 (3.63%) Law
8 152 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 151 (2.98%) Games
10 144 (2.84%) Banking
11 138 (2.73%) Legal
12 127 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 98 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 92 (1.82%) Back Office
15 85 (1.68%) Local Government
16 79 (1.56%) Advertising
17 50 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 47 (0.93%) Police
19 46 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
19 46 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,440 (48.19%) Developer
2 1,199 (23.68%) .NET Developer
3 694 (13.71%) Senior
4 651 (12.86%) C# Developer
5 427 (8.43%) C# .NET Developer
6 383 (7.56%) Software Developer
7 380 (7.51%) Lead
8 378 (7.47%) Analyst
9 340 (6.72%) Senior Developer
10 302 (5.96%) DBA
11 269 (5.31%) Data Engineer
12 218 (4.31%) Consultant
13 217 (4.29%) Support Engineer
14 205 (4.05%) Software Engineer
15 197 (3.89%) Full Stack Developer
16 182 (3.59%) SQL DBA
17 179 (3.54%) Administrator
18 148 (2.92%) Support Analyst
19 135 (2.67%) Architect
20 132 (2.61%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,448 (48.35%) .NET
2 1,453 (28.70%) ASP.NET
3 1,136 (22.44%) .NET Core
4 1,102 (21.77%) AngularJS
5 1,062 (20.98%) HTML
6 952 (18.80%) ASP.NET MVC
7 908 (17.93%) .NET Framework
8 863 (17.05%) Entity Framework
9 833 (16.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 810 (16.00%) CSS
11 715 (14.12%) React
12 506 (9.99%) HTML5
13 491 (9.70%) Vue
14 393 (7.76%) RESTful
15 347 (6.85%) Web Services
16 334 (6.60%) Node.js
17 320 (6.32%) REST
18 293 (5.79%) jQuery
19 282 (5.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 257 (5.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 234 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
2 233 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 169 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 157 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 140 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 136 (2.69%) Replication
7 126 (2.49%) Data Structures
8 115 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 104 (2.05%) Clustering
10 92 (1.82%) Cloud Native
11 84 (1.66%) Product Ownership
12 64 (1.26%) Driving Licence
13 61 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 54 (1.07%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.05%) NHS
16 52 (1.03%) Algorithms
16 52 (1.03%) Reinsurance
17 46 (0.91%) Swaptions
18 43 (0.85%) Social Media
19 39 (0.77%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 850 (16.79%) Windows
2 399 (7.88%) Linux
3 379 (7.49%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.15%) VMS
5 106 (2.09%) Unix
6 84 (1.66%) Windows 10
7 82 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 80 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 70 (1.38%) Android
10 52 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 45 (0.89%) CentOS
12 38 (0.75%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
13 27 (0.53%) Solaris
14 24 (0.47%) zOS
15 22 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 18 (0.36%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.32%) Windows 7
19 13 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,802 (35.59%) Agile
2 1,238 (24.45%) MVC
3 1,150 (22.71%) Full Stack Development
4 946 (18.68%) DevOps
5 908 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 846 (16.71%) Microservices
7 817 (16.14%) Business Intelligence
8 617 (12.19%) ETL
9 610 (12.05%) TDD
10 598 (11.81%) Scrum
11 445 (8.79%) Computer Science
12 417 (8.24%) BDD
13 411 (8.12%) CI/CD
14 394 (7.78%) Software Engineering
15 376 (7.43%) Mentoring
16 369 (7.29%) Data Modelling
17 347 (6.85%) OO
18 343 (6.77%) Analytics
19 334 (6.60%) Roadmaps
20 312 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,602 (51.39%) SQL
2 2,474 (48.86%) C#
3 1,661 (32.81%) JavaScript
4 816 (16.12%) T-SQL
5 581 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 462 (9.13%) Python
7 346 (6.83%) PowerShell
8 316 (6.24%) Java
9 169 (3.34%) VB
10 165 (3.26%) VB.NET
11 85 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 79 (1.56%) C++
12 79 (1.56%) PHP
13 75 (1.48%) Bash
14 55 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 54 (1.07%) C
15 54 (1.07%) R
16 46 (0.91%) VBA
17 42 (0.83%) Bicep
18 41 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 855 (16.89%) Degree
2 267 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 217 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 204 (4.03%) Security Cleared
5 114 (2.25%) SC Cleared
6 69 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 42 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 35 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
10 30 (0.59%) CCNA
10 30 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 24 (0.47%) MCSE
13 19 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.36%) MCP
15 15 (0.30%) HND
16 13 (0.26%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (5.00%) QA
2 199 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 73 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 73 (1.44%) SLA
4 65 (1.28%) GDPR
5 34 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.30%) WAI
7 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.16%) WCAG
11 6 (0.12%) GMP
11 6 (0.12%) NIST
12 5 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.079%) COBIT
13 4 (0.079%) MiFID
13 4 (0.079%) NCSC
13 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.059%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 387 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 230 (4.54%) Docker
3 215 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 125 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 58 (1.15%) vSphere
7 42 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 38 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) XenApp
10 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.099%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.059%) Firmware
14 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.040%) NFS
15 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 224 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 151 (2.98%) Terraform
3 62 (1.22%) Ansible
4 52 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 46 (0.91%) SCCM
6 31 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.49%) Grafana
8 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
8 24 (0.47%) Nagios
9 18 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.32%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.30%) WSUS
12 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.22%) MIIS
14 11 (0.22%) Puppet
15 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.18%) Foglight
16 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,639 (52.12%) Microsoft
2 581 (11.48%) Oracle
3 340 (6.72%) VMware
4 171 (3.38%) Google
5 155 (3.06%) Databricks
6 111 (2.19%) Veeam
7 101 (1.99%) Citrix
8 86 (1.70%) Cisco
9 84 (1.66%) Facebook
10 77 (1.52%) IBM
11 76 (1.50%) Sybase
12 67 (1.32%) Apple
13 64 (1.26%) SAP
14 59 (1.17%) Informatica
15 58 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 50 (0.99%) TIBCO
17 48 (0.95%) NEC
18 46 (0.91%) OpenLink
19 41 (0.81%) Adobe
19 41 (0.81%) HP