SQL Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 61 30
Rank change year-on-year +20 -31 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,674 3,031 5,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.13% 5.14% 7.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.79% 26.43% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,326 2,383 3,987
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,331 11,468 16,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.22% 19.45% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,140 6,686 10,218
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,839
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,811
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
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
Scotland -41 196 £52,500 +10.53% 45
North East +41 115 £47,500 +11.76% 30
Wales +19 80 £50,000 +20.48% 20
Northern Ireland -11 31 £50,000 - 12
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 209 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 166 (4.52%) IIS
3 114 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.36%) CMS
5 38 (1.03%) Apache
6 34 (0.93%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.44%) Confluence
9 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 8 (0.22%) JBoss
11 8 (0.22%) WordPress
12 7 (0.19%) Kentico
13 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.14%) Drupal
14 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 142 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.082%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 54 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.49%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.33%) Epicor Tropos
4 12 (0.33%) Maximo
5 11 (0.30%) Shopify
6 10 (0.27%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.22%) PlanetPress Connect
8 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
12 3 (0.082%) Magento
13 2 (0.054%) Infor LN
13 2 (0.054%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.054%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 2,152 (58.57%) Azure
2 584 (15.90%) Power Platform
3 582 (15.84%) AWS
4 389 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
5 289 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
6 135 (3.67%) SaaS
7 107 (2.91%) GCP
8 96 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (1.99%) PowerApps
9 73 (1.99%) Serverless
10 70 (1.91%) Entra ID
10 70 (1.91%) Power Automate
11 67 (1.82%) PaaS
12 64 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 64 (1.74%) GitHub
13 61 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
14 59 (1.61%) Snowflake
15 54 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
16 49 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 47 (1.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (5.33%) Firewall
2 135 (3.67%) DNS
3 123 (3.35%) Internet
4 107 (2.91%) WAN
5 98 (2.67%) SAN
6 82 (2.23%) Broadband
7 73 (1.99%) DHCP
8 72 (1.96%) VPN
9 67 (1.82%) TCP/IP
10 60 (1.63%) LAN
11 37 (1.01%) SSL
11 37 (1.01%) VoIP
12 36 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (0.76%) HTTP
14 24 (0.65%) Wireless
15 23 (0.63%) NAS
16 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
17 16 (0.44%) VLAN
18 14 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 537 (14.62%) Power BI
2 353 (9.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 333 (9.06%) Data Warehouse
4 319 (8.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 278 (7.57%) Relational Database
6 262 (7.13%) MongoDB
7 256 (6.97%) Elasticsearch
8 252 (6.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 237 (6.45%) MySQL
10 169 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
11 127 (3.46%) NoSQL
12 121 (3.29%) Data Lake
13 110 (2.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 87 (2.37%) Oracle Database
15 55 (1.50%) MS Access
16 50 (1.36%) Tableau
17 43 (1.17%) DB2
18 42 (1.14%) RDBMS
19 41 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
20 37 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 327 (8.90%) Git
2 186 (5.06%) Visual Studio
3 136 (3.70%) JIRA
4 55 (1.50%) Jasmine
5 52 (1.42%) NUnit
5 52 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 50 (1.36%) GitLab
6 50 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 43 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
8 36 (0.98%) Jenkins
9 33 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
10 31 (0.84%) Moq
11 28 (0.76%) Selenium
12 25 (0.68%) Postman
13 24 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
14 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.57%) MSTest
16 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
17 12 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
17 12 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 905 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 524 (14.26%) Finance
3 277 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (6.45%) Retail
5 155 (4.22%) Public Sector
6 145 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 138 (3.76%) Law
8 84 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (2.18%) Legal
9 80 (2.18%) Marketing
10 78 (2.12%) Games
11 76 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 72 (1.96%) Advertising
13 59 (1.61%) Banking
14 44 (1.20%) Back Office
15 42 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
16 40 (1.09%) Local Government
17 33 (0.90%) Police
18 31 (0.84%) Music Industry
18 31 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,896 (51.61%) Developer
2 992 (27.00%) .NET Developer
3 493 (13.42%) C# Developer
4 384 (10.45%) Senior
5 351 (9.55%) C# .NET Developer
6 329 (8.95%) Software Developer
7 235 (6.40%) DBA
8 218 (5.93%) Lead
9 210 (5.72%) Senior Developer
10 207 (5.63%) Analyst
11 194 (5.28%) Data Engineer
12 189 (5.14%) Support Engineer
13 164 (4.46%) Software Engineer
14 156 (4.25%) SQL DBA
15 151 (4.11%) Consultant
16 142 (3.86%) Administrator
17 117 (3.18%) IT Engineer
18 114 (3.10%) IT Support
19 109 (2.97%) Full Stack Developer
20 106 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,895 (51.58%) .NET
2 1,188 (32.34%) ASP.NET
3 965 (26.27%) .NET Core
4 901 (24.52%) AngularJS
5 820 (22.32%) HTML
6 800 (21.77%) ASP.NET MVC
7 720 (19.60%) Entity Framework
8 717 (19.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 713 (19.41%) .NET Framework
10 619 (16.85%) CSS
11 588 (16.00%) React
12 439 (11.95%) Vue
13 405 (11.02%) HTML5
14 284 (7.73%) Node.js
15 283 (7.70%) RESTful
16 220 (5.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 218 (5.93%) Blazor
18 215 (5.85%) jQuery
19 209 (5.69%) CSS3
19 209 (5.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 162 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
2 154 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
3 123 (3.35%) Public Cloud
4 109 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 107 (2.91%) Mobile App
6 105 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 104 (2.83%) Management Information System
8 97 (2.64%) Replication
9 74 (2.01%) Clustering
10 67 (1.82%) Cloud Native
11 53 (1.44%) Driving Licence
12 49 (1.33%) Product Ownership
13 47 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 43 (1.17%) NHS
15 39 (1.06%) Reinsurance
16 38 (1.03%) iPhone
17 34 (0.93%) Data Centre
17 34 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.93%) Social Network
18 33 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 563 (15.32%) Windows
2 286 (7.78%) Windows Server
3 251 (6.83%) Linux
4 102 (2.78%) VMS
5 57 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (1.52%) Android
6 56 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 47 (1.28%) Unix
9 41 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.68%) AIX
11 22 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.44%) Windows 7
13 15 (0.41%) CentOS
14 13 (0.35%) Debian
14 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.19%) SUSE
17 6 (0.16%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,368 (37.23%) Agile
2 1,036 (28.20%) MVC
3 945 (25.72%) Full Stack Development
4 683 (18.59%) Microservices
5 659 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
6 621 (16.90%) DevOps
7 569 (15.49%) Business Intelligence
8 455 (12.38%) TDD
9 410 (11.16%) Scrum
10 374 (10.18%) ETL
11 352 (9.58%) BDD
12 273 (7.43%) CI/CD
13 264 (7.19%) Mentoring
14 263 (7.16%) OO
15 258 (7.02%) Software Engineering
16 254 (6.91%) Computer Science
17 248 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence
18 234 (6.37%) Roadmaps
19 223 (6.07%) Kanban
19 223 (6.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,935 (52.67%) C#
2 1,856 (50.52%) SQL
3 1,301 (35.41%) JavaScript
4 519 (14.13%) T-SQL
5 493 (13.42%) TypeScript
6 263 (7.16%) Python
7 200 (5.44%) PowerShell
8 197 (5.36%) Java
9 152 (4.14%) VB.NET
10 116 (3.16%) VB
11 72 (1.96%) PHP
12 66 (1.80%) C++
13 48 (1.31%) C
14 33 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 32 (0.87%) XAML
16 31 (0.84%) Bash
16 31 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.79%) R
17 29 (0.79%) VB6
18 26 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 525 (14.29%) Degree
2 186 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 186 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 161 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 86 (2.34%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 37 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 29 (0.79%) CCNA
8 29 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 26 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
10 16 (0.44%) MCSE
11 14 (0.38%) HND
12 13 (0.35%) MCP
13 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.33%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
13 12 (0.33%) OCP
13 12 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.47%) QA
2 137 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 49 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.33%) GDPR
4 33 (0.90%) SLA
5 20 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.41%) WAI
7 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.16%) GMP
8 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.11%) COBIT
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.11%) WCAG
11 3 (0.082%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.054%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.054%) PMO
13 1 (0.027%) HL7
System Software
1 260 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 188 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 168 (4.57%) Docker
4 115 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 104 (2.83%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 40 (1.09%) vSphere
8 30 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.41%) XenApp
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.054%) Firmware
13 2 (0.054%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.027%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 146 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 92 (2.50%) Terraform
3 39 (1.06%) Ansible
4 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.71%) SCCM
6 16 (0.44%) Nagios
7 13 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 13 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.27%) MIIS
10 9 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.24%) WSUS
11 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.16%) Grafana
13 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.14%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.11%) Backup Exec
15 4 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,032 (55.31%) Microsoft
2 344 (9.36%) Oracle
3 290 (7.89%) VMware
4 149 (4.06%) Google
5 88 (2.40%) Veeam
6 81 (2.20%) Facebook
7 80 (2.18%) Citrix
8 78 (2.12%) Databricks
9 61 (1.66%) Apple
9 61 (1.66%) Cisco
10 54 (1.47%) IBM
11 45 (1.22%) Informatica
12 41 (1.12%) SAP
13 30 (0.82%) Sony
13 30 (0.82%) Yahoo!
14 26 (0.71%) Xamarin
15 23 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.63%) Salesforce
16 22 (0.60%) NEC
16 22 (0.60%) NetApp