SQL Server Jobs in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 34 55 43
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,629 4,822 9,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.35% 5.47% 6.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.29% 25.33% 25.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,069 3,824 6,361
10th Percentile £34,316 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,759 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,743 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +3.23% +8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,280 19,033 37,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.67% 21.58% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,422 11,991 18,918
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 £77,500 £84,056 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the England region 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
London 0 1,223 £65,000 -5.55% 392
North of England +39 971 £50,000 - 224
South East +13 862 £55,000 - 191
Midlands +31 721 £50,000 - 195
North West +38 552 £50,000 - 121
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% 64
Yorkshire +32 304 £50,000 - 74
East Midlands +39 256 £47,500 +5.56% 73
North East +41 115 £47,500 +11.76% 30
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 281 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 218 (4.71%) IIS
3 209 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 105 (2.27%) CMS
5 50 (1.08%) Apache
6 47 (1.02%) Umbraco
7 33 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.50%) Confluence
9 22 (0.48%) WordPress
10 19 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 17 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 16 (0.35%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.32%) JBoss
14 14 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 14 (0.30%) ArcGIS
15 13 (0.28%) Kentico
16 10 (0.22%) SAS
16 10 (0.22%) WildFly
17 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 183 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.41%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.065%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.065%) SPSS
10 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.022%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.022%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 110 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (0.99%) Endur
3 41 (0.89%) NEC Housing
4 29 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
5 19 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.35%) Fidessa
7 15 (0.32%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
9 11 (0.24%) Maximo
9 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.24%) Shopify
10 10 (0.22%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.22%) Sage X3
11 8 (0.17%) PlanetPress Connect
11 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,614 (56.47%) Azure
2 753 (16.27%) Power Platform
3 730 (15.77%) AWS
4 536 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
5 375 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
6 188 (4.06%) SaaS
7 155 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 128 (2.77%) GCP
9 106 (2.29%) PowerApps
10 101 (2.18%) GitHub
10 101 (2.18%) Serverless
11 99 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 93 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 93 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 89 (1.92%) Snowflake
14 85 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 85 (1.84%) PaaS
15 78 (1.69%) Entra ID
16 62 (1.34%) IaaS
17 61 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 234 (5.06%) Firewall
2 201 (4.34%) DNS
3 155 (3.35%) Internet
4 118 (2.55%) SAN
5 98 (2.12%) DHCP
5 98 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 89 (1.92%) WAN
7 78 (1.69%) Broadband
8 75 (1.62%) VPN
9 68 (1.47%) LAN
10 46 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (0.95%) VoIP
12 40 (0.86%) HTTP
13 39 (0.84%) SSL
14 29 (0.63%) NAS
15 27 (0.58%) Wireless
16 22 (0.48%) Network Security
17 21 (0.45%) VLAN
18 16 (0.35%) FIX Connectivity
18 16 (0.35%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 684 (14.78%) Power BI
2 522 (11.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 427 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
4 395 (8.53%) Relational Database
5 372 (8.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 349 (7.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 317 (6.85%) MongoDB
8 276 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
8 276 (5.96%) MySQL
9 250 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
10 173 (3.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 164 (3.54%) Data Lake
12 141 (3.05%) NoSQL
13 106 (2.29%) Oracle Database
14 95 (2.05%) RDBMS
15 87 (1.88%) Tableau
16 78 (1.69%) DB2
17 66 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
18 58 (1.25%) MS Access
19 45 (0.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 428 (9.25%) Git
2 265 (5.72%) Visual Studio
3 213 (4.60%) JIRA
4 86 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 78 (1.69%) NUnit
6 68 (1.47%) GitLab
7 62 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 59 (1.27%) Jenkins
9 58 (1.25%) TeamCity
10 55 (1.19%) Moq
11 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
12 32 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
13 31 (0.67%) Selenium
14 30 (0.65%) Postman
15 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
15 27 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
16 26 (0.56%) MSTest
16 26 (0.56%) SpecFlow
17 25 (0.54%) Bitbucket
18 22 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,146 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 789 (17.04%) Finance
3 418 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (5.70%) Retail
5 190 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 176 (3.80%) Marketing
7 158 (3.41%) Law
8 141 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 140 (3.02%) Games
10 134 (2.89%) Legal
11 111 (2.40%) Banking
12 88 (1.90%) Back Office
13 84 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
14 80 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 76 (1.64%) Advertising
16 73 (1.58%) Local Government
17 47 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
18 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
19 37 (0.80%) Telecoms
20 32 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,269 (49.02%) Developer
2 1,149 (24.82%) .NET Developer
3 630 (13.61%) Senior
4 618 (13.35%) C# Developer
5 407 (8.79%) C# .NET Developer
6 345 (7.45%) Lead
7 341 (7.37%) Software Developer
8 333 (7.19%) Analyst
9 313 (6.76%) Senior Developer
10 250 (5.40%) Data Engineer
11 248 (5.36%) DBA
12 209 (4.52%) Support Engineer
13 201 (4.34%) Consultant
14 188 (4.06%) Full Stack Developer
15 180 (3.89%) Software Engineer
16 159 (3.43%) Administrator
17 151 (3.26%) SQL DBA
18 130 (2.81%) Architect
19 128 (2.77%) Support Analyst
20 126 (2.72%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,274 (49.13%) .NET
2 1,348 (29.12%) ASP.NET
3 1,066 (23.03%) .NET Core
4 1,016 (21.95%) AngularJS
5 988 (21.34%) HTML
6 881 (19.03%) ASP.NET MVC
7 835 (18.04%) .NET Framework
8 792 (17.11%) Entity Framework
9 776 (16.76%) ASP.NET Web API
10 740 (15.99%) CSS
11 666 (14.39%) React
12 480 (10.37%) HTML5
13 467 (10.09%) Vue
14 368 (7.95%) RESTful
15 327 (7.06%) Web Services
16 313 (6.76%) Node.js
17 298 (6.44%) REST
18 259 (5.60%) jQuery
19 257 (5.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 253 (5.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 211 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
2 210 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
3 152 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 126 (2.72%) Public Cloud
5 119 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
6 114 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 114 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 111 (2.40%) Replication
8 81 (1.75%) Clustering
9 74 (1.60%) Product Ownership
10 70 (1.51%) Cloud Native
11 63 (1.36%) Driving Licence
12 60 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 52 (1.12%) NHS
13 52 (1.12%) Reinsurance
14 45 (0.97%) Swaptions
15 44 (0.95%) Algorithms
16 39 (0.84%) Data Centre
17 38 (0.82%) iPhone
18 37 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 786 (16.98%) Windows
2 357 (7.71%) Linux
3 334 (7.22%) Windows Server
4 100 (2.16%) Unix
5 96 (2.07%) VMS
6 83 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 81 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 75 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (1.49%) Android
10 50 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.89%) CentOS
12 36 (0.78%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.58%) Solaris
14 24 (0.52%) zOS
15 23 (0.50%) AIX
16 22 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
17 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 17 (0.37%) Apple iOS
19 16 (0.35%) Windows 7
20 13 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,691 (36.53%) Agile
2 1,151 (24.86%) MVC
3 1,095 (23.66%) Full Stack Development
4 860 (18.58%) DevOps
5 810 (17.50%) Microservices
6 804 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
7 751 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
8 571 (12.34%) Scrum
8 571 (12.34%) TDD
9 563 (12.16%) ETL
10 401 (8.66%) BDD
11 399 (8.62%) Computer Science
12 372 (8.04%) CI/CD
13 356 (7.69%) Data Modelling
14 346 (7.47%) Software Engineering
15 319 (6.89%) Roadmaps
16 318 (6.87%) Analytics
17 316 (6.83%) OO
18 312 (6.74%) Mentoring
19 296 (6.39%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,359 (50.96%) SQL
2 2,289 (49.45%) C#
3 1,544 (33.35%) JavaScript
4 721 (15.58%) T-SQL
5 546 (11.80%) TypeScript
6 448 (9.68%) Python
7 305 (6.59%) PowerShell
8 275 (5.94%) Java
9 160 (3.46%) VB.NET
10 159 (3.43%) VB
11 73 (1.58%) PHP
12 69 (1.49%) C++
12 69 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 63 (1.36%) Bash
14 55 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 51 (1.10%) R
16 42 (0.91%) Bicep
17 41 (0.89%) XPath
18 39 (0.84%) C
19 38 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 749 (16.18%) Degree
2 239 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 192 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 177 (3.82%) Security Cleared
5 104 (2.25%) SC Cleared
6 62 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 35 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 30 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
10 27 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 24 (0.52%) MCSE
12 18 (0.39%) MCP
13 17 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.37%) CCNA
13 17 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (0.28%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.26%) HND
15 12 (0.26%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (4.88%) QA
2 182 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 69 (1.49%) SLA
4 63 (1.36%) GDPR
5 52 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 34 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.13%) GMP
9 6 (0.13%) NIST
10 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.11%) WCAG
11 4 (0.086%) COBIT
11 4 (0.086%) MiFID
11 4 (0.086%) NCSC
11 4 (0.086%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.065%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.043%) PMO
System Software
1 361 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 203 (4.39%) Docker
3 190 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 101 (2.18%) Hyper-V
6 55 (1.19%) vSphere
7 37 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.37%) XenApp
9 15 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.086%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.065%) Firmware
13 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.043%) NFS
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.022%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 214 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 127 (2.74%) Terraform
3 44 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (0.91%) SCCM
5 39 (0.84%) Ansible
6 26 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.52%) Nagios
8 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
9 20 (0.43%) Grafana
10 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.32%) WSUS
13 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.24%) MIIS
15 10 (0.22%) Puppet
16 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.19%) Foglight
17 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
18 7 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,432 (52.54%) Microsoft
2 549 (11.86%) Oracle
3 299 (6.46%) VMware
4 158 (3.41%) Google
5 150 (3.24%) Databricks
6 108 (2.33%) Veeam
7 99 (2.14%) Citrix
8 78 (1.69%) Facebook
9 77 (1.66%) IBM
10 73 (1.58%) Sybase
11 69 (1.49%) Cisco
12 62 (1.34%) SAP
13 61 (1.32%) Apple
14 59 (1.27%) Informatica
15 58 (1.25%) Red Hat
16 49 (1.06%) TIBCO
17 45 (0.97%) NEC
17 45 (0.97%) OpenLink
18 41 (0.89%) Adobe
19 39 (0.84%) F5