SQL Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 47 60 32
Rank change year-on-year +13 -28 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 415 338 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.43% 5.06% 8.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.43% 26.30% 33.09%
Number of salaries quoted 374 259 468
10th Percentile £33,250 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,163 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,078 £73,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,364 1,285 2,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.56% 19.23% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 973 816 1,465
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £31,680
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,244 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,193 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,375 £85,000
England 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 South West

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the South West 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
Bristol +14 127 £60,000 +33.33% 30
Wiltshire +29 88 £51,000 -7.27% 13
Devon +30 68 £47,500 +5.56% 16
Gloucestershire -43 44 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Dorset -44 39 £57,500 +9.52% 10
Somerset +15 36 £50,000 -14.67% 12
Cornwall -13 3 £42,500 -14.14% 3
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 24 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.93%) IIS
5 6 (1.45%) CMS
5 6 (1.45%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.20%) Apache
6 5 (1.20%) NServiceBus
6 5 (1.20%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.72%) Confluence
8 3 (0.72%) GlassFish
8 3 (0.72%) JBoss
8 3 (0.72%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.72%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (0.72%) WildFly
9 2 (0.48%) nginx
9 2 (0.48%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.72%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.93%) Maximo
2 6 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.96%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.96%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.48%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 250 (60.24%) Azure
2 81 (19.52%) Azure DevOps
3 74 (17.83%) Power Platform
4 66 (15.90%) AWS
5 35 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (5.54%) GCP
7 8 (1.93%) GitHub
7 8 (1.93%) SaaS
8 7 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.45%) Google Play
9 6 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.20%) Azure Storage
10 5 (1.20%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.20%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.34%) SAN
2 15 (3.61%) LAN
3 14 (3.37%) WAN
4 11 (2.65%) Broadband
5 7 (1.69%) Internet
6 6 (1.45%) DNS
7 5 (1.20%) HTTP
7 5 (1.20%) WLAN
8 4 (0.96%) Firewall
8 4 (0.96%) SSL
8 4 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.96%) VoIP
8 4 (0.96%) Wireless
9 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.72%) VPN
10 2 (0.48%) Network Security
11 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.24%) NAS
11 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (16.63%) Power BI
2 52 (12.53%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (11.81%) Relational Database
4 39 (9.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 34 (8.19%) MySQL
6 31 (7.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (6.27%) MongoDB
8 24 (5.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (4.34%) NoSQL
10 15 (3.61%) Big Data
11 13 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.65%) Data Lake
12 11 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (2.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 10 (2.41%) Tableau
14 9 (2.17%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.93%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.93%) Flink
15 8 (1.93%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.93%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 66 (15.90%) Git
2 22 (5.30%) Visual Studio
3 14 (3.37%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (2.89%) Oracle Forms
5 10 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.41%) Selenium
6 7 (1.69%) Postman
6 7 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (1.69%) Subversion
7 6 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.20%) JIRA
9 4 (0.96%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.96%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.96%) Mocha
9 4 (0.96%) Toad
10 3 (0.72%) Maven
10 3 (0.72%) Moq
10 3 (0.72%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.72%) xUnit.net
11 1 (0.24%) RSpec
General
1 134 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.35%) Finance
3 46 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.78%) Retail
5 15 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.17%) Banking
8 8 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.69%) Legal
9 7 (1.69%) Local Government
10 6 (1.45%) Games
10 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.20%) Automotive
12 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Advertising
13 3 (0.72%) German Language
13 3 (0.72%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.48%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (51.57%) Developer
2 119 (28.67%) .NET Developer
3 73 (17.59%) Senior
4 71 (17.11%) C# Developer
5 58 (13.98%) C# .NET Developer
6 53 (12.77%) Software Developer
7 52 (12.53%) Senior Developer
8 40 (9.64%) Software Engineer
9 32 (7.71%) DBA
10 30 (7.23%) Senior .NET Developer
11 26 (6.27%) Analyst
12 25 (6.02%) Administrator
13 24 (5.78%) Senior C# Developer
13 24 (5.78%) SQL DBA
14 21 (5.06%) Consultant
14 21 (5.06%) Lead
15 18 (4.34%) C# Software Developer
15 18 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (3.86%) Senior C# .NET Developer
16 16 (3.86%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (54.46%) .NET
2 142 (34.22%) ASP.NET
3 114 (27.47%) CSS
4 111 (26.75%) HTML
5 109 (26.27%) .NET Core
6 108 (26.02%) AngularJS
7 97 (23.37%) .NET Framework
8 92 (22.17%) Entity Framework
9 80 (19.28%) React
10 70 (16.87%) ASP.NET MVC
11 66 (15.90%) Vue
12 58 (13.98%) ASP.NET Web API
13 33 (7.95%) jQuery
14 31 (7.47%) LESS
15 28 (6.75%) HTML5
16 27 (6.51%) Blazor
17 25 (6.02%) REST
18 24 (5.78%) CSS3
19 23 (5.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 16 (3.86%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.58%) Onboarding
2 17 (4.10%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.86%) Virtual Team
4 13 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.65%) Replication
6 10 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.93%) AS400
8 7 (1.69%) CCTV
8 7 (1.69%) Digital TV
8 7 (1.69%) Social Network
8 7 (1.69%) VAX
9 6 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.45%) iPhone
9 6 (1.45%) Learning Management System
10 5 (1.20%) EMC VNX
10 5 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.25%) Windows
2 37 (8.92%) Linux
3 25 (6.02%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.89%) Android
6 11 (2.65%) VMS
7 9 (2.17%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.69%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.45%) AIX
9 6 (1.45%) Unix
10 5 (1.20%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.72%) Solaris
12 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (35.66%) Agile
2 121 (29.16%) MVC
3 111 (26.75%) DevOps
4 95 (22.89%) Full Stack Development
5 80 (19.28%) Business Intelligence
6 69 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (15.90%) CI/CD
8 62 (14.94%) Software Engineering
9 61 (14.70%) Microservices
10 51 (12.29%) Scrum
11 46 (11.08%) Design Patterns
12 42 (10.12%) TDD
13 40 (9.64%) Mentoring
14 37 (8.92%) ETL
15 36 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (8.19%) Clean Code
17 31 (7.47%) Machine Learning
17 31 (7.47%) Migration
18 29 (6.99%) BDD
19 28 (6.75%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 217 (52.29%) C#
2 186 (44.82%) SQL
3 170 (40.96%) JavaScript
4 60 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 48 (11.57%) T-SQL
6 31 (7.47%) Python
7 30 (7.23%) Java
8 20 (4.82%) VB.NET
9 14 (3.37%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.17%) PHP
10 9 (2.17%) VB
11 8 (1.93%) Scala
12 7 (1.69%) Go
13 6 (1.45%) Bicep
13 6 (1.45%) C++
14 5 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.96%) Bash
16 3 (0.72%) C
16 3 (0.72%) XAML
17 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (12.29%) Degree
2 30 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.72%) MCPD
9 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) MCSA
10 1 (0.24%) MCSD
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.75%) QA
2 9 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (8.43%) Docker
2 28 (6.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.27%) Active Directory
4 22 (5.30%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.65%) XenApp
7 5 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.96%) vSphere
9 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.89%) Nagios
3 11 (2.65%) Terraform
4 9 (2.17%) SCCM
5 7 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
6 5 (1.20%) Ansible
6 5 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (1.20%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 219 (52.77%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.73%) Oracle
3 33 (7.95%) VMware
4 18 (4.34%) Google
5 15 (3.61%) Citrix
5 15 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.61%) Veeam
6 12 (2.89%) EMC
7 11 (2.65%) IBM
7 11 (2.65%) SolarWinds
7 11 (2.65%) Sybase
8 10 (2.41%) Xamarin
9 8 (1.93%) SAP
9 8 (1.93%) Teradata
10 7 (1.69%) Centreon
10 7 (1.69%) Twitter
11 5 (1.20%) Apple
11 5 (1.20%) Aruba
11 5 (1.20%) Meraki
12 4 (0.96%) Cognos