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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 63 30
Rank change year-on-year +22 -33 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,662 3,079 5,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.17% 5.12% 7.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.83% 26.54% 34.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 2,420 3,986
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,875
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% +3.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.97% +6.70%

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 12,275 11,601 16,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.33% 19.30% 22.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8,135 6,800 10,257
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,698
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,225
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 13 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 13 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 +41 966 £50,000 - 204
South East +15 855 £55,000 - 159
Midlands +29 715 £50,000 - 187
North West +34 551 £50,000 - 111
West Midlands +26 460 £52,500 +5.00% 112
South West +4 413 £52,500 +5.00% 99
East of England +31 407 £47,500 -12.04% 64
Yorkshire +31 302 £51,498 +3.00% 67
East Midlands +37 255 £47,500 +2.70% 75
Scotland -35 199 £52,500 +10.53% 46
North East +44 113 £47,500 +11.76% 27
Wales +17 81 £50,000 +16.28% 17
Northern Ireland -7 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
1 211 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 169 (4.61%) IIS
3 116 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.37%) CMS
5 38 (1.04%) Apache
6 35 (0.96%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.38%) Confluence
9 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.22%) Apache Solr
12 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.22%) JBoss
12 8 (0.22%) Kentico
12 8 (0.22%) WordPress
13 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.14%) Drupal
14 5 (0.14%) SAS
14 5 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 144 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.055%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.055%) InDesign
9 2 (0.055%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 58 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 16 (0.44%) NEC Housing
3 14 (0.38%) Maximo
4 13 (0.35%) Epicor Tropos
5 11 (0.30%) Shopify
6 10 (0.27%) PlanetPress Connect
6 10 (0.27%) Sage 200
7 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
11 3 (0.082%) Magento
12 2 (0.055%) Sage 50
12 2 (0.055%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.055%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 2,135 (58.30%) Azure
2 588 (16.06%) Power Platform
3 580 (15.84%) AWS
4 384 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
5 291 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
6 135 (3.69%) SaaS
7 107 (2.92%) GCP
8 96 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (1.99%) PowerApps
9 73 (1.99%) Serverless
10 70 (1.91%) Power Automate
11 68 (1.86%) PaaS
12 67 (1.83%) Entra ID
13 66 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 64 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
15 62 (1.69%) GitHub
16 60 (1.64%) Snowflake
17 58 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
18 48 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 46 (1.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (5.32%) Firewall
2 136 (3.71%) DNS
3 122 (3.33%) Internet
4 109 (2.98%) WAN
5 97 (2.65%) SAN
6 82 (2.24%) Broadband
7 74 (2.02%) DHCP
8 71 (1.94%) VPN
9 67 (1.83%) TCP/IP
10 57 (1.56%) LAN
11 37 (1.01%) SSL
12 36 (0.98%) VoIP
13 33 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (0.79%) HTTP
15 24 (0.66%) Wireless
16 23 (0.63%) NAS
17 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
18 16 (0.44%) VLAN
19 14 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 536 (14.64%) Power BI
2 352 (9.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 338 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
4 317 (8.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 279 (7.62%) Relational Database
6 263 (7.18%) MongoDB
7 257 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
8 255 (6.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 236 (6.44%) MySQL
10 164 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
11 129 (3.52%) NoSQL
12 119 (3.25%) Data Lake
13 109 (2.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 85 (2.32%) Oracle Database
15 55 (1.50%) MS Access
16 49 (1.34%) Tableau
17 43 (1.17%) DB2
18 42 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
18 42 (1.15%) RDBMS
19 37 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 323 (8.82%) Git
2 184 (5.02%) Visual Studio
3 136 (3.71%) JIRA
4 55 (1.50%) Jasmine
5 53 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 52 (1.42%) NUnit
7 51 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 50 (1.37%) GitLab
9 43 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
10 33 (0.90%) Jenkins
10 33 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (0.85%) Moq
12 27 (0.74%) Selenium
13 25 (0.68%) Postman
14 23 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
15 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.57%) MSTest
17 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
18 12 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
18 12 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 903 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 524 (14.31%) Finance
3 271 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (6.50%) Retail
5 153 (4.18%) Public Sector
6 144 (3.93%) Manufacturing
7 137 (3.74%) Law
8 84 (2.29%) Marketing
8 84 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 81 (2.21%) Legal
10 77 (2.10%) Games
11 75 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 74 (2.02%) Advertising
13 58 (1.58%) Banking
14 43 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 41 (1.12%) Back Office
16 38 (1.04%) Local Government
17 33 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 31 (0.85%) Music Industry
18 31 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,879 (51.31%) Developer
2 982 (26.82%) .NET Developer
3 489 (13.35%) C# Developer
4 383 (10.46%) Senior
5 348 (9.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 326 (8.90%) Software Developer
7 232 (6.34%) DBA
8 217 (5.93%) Lead
9 212 (5.79%) Analyst
10 204 (5.57%) Senior Developer
11 192 (5.24%) Data Engineer
12 188 (5.13%) Support Engineer
13 162 (4.42%) Software Engineer
14 155 (4.23%) Consultant
14 155 (4.23%) SQL DBA
15 142 (3.88%) Administrator
16 117 (3.19%) IT Engineer
17 114 (3.11%) IT Support
18 106 (2.89%) Full Stack Developer
19 105 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,884 (51.45%) .NET
2 1,183 (32.30%) ASP.NET
3 960 (26.22%) .NET Core
4 893 (24.39%) AngularJS
5 816 (22.28%) HTML
6 799 (21.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 714 (19.50%) Entity Framework
8 709 (19.36%) .NET Framework
8 709 (19.36%) ASP.NET Web API
9 616 (16.82%) CSS
10 580 (15.84%) React
11 430 (11.74%) Vue
12 402 (10.98%) HTML5
13 284 (7.76%) Node.js
14 283 (7.73%) RESTful
15 219 (5.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 217 (5.93%) jQuery
17 216 (5.90%) Blazor
18 214 (5.84%) REST
19 207 (5.65%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 160 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
2 152 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
3 124 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 108 (2.95%) Data Structures
4 108 (2.95%) Mobile App
5 104 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 103 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 95 (2.59%) Replication
8 77 (2.10%) Clustering
9 67 (1.83%) Cloud Native
10 51 (1.39%) Driving Licence
11 47 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.28%) Product Ownership
12 43 (1.17%) NHS
13 39 (1.06%) Reinsurance
14 38 (1.04%) iPhone
15 35 (0.96%) Data Centre
16 34 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
17 33 (0.90%) Social Media
17 33 (0.90%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 557 (15.21%) Windows
2 279 (7.62%) Windows Server
3 248 (6.77%) Linux
4 102 (2.79%) VMS
5 57 (1.56%) Android
6 55 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 55 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 52 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 45 (1.23%) Unix
9 42 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.68%) AIX
11 20 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.44%) Windows 7
13 15 (0.41%) CentOS
14 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 13 (0.35%) Debian
16 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.19%) SUSE
18 6 (0.16%) Apple iOS
18 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,351 (36.89%) Agile
2 1,038 (28.35%) MVC
3 933 (25.48%) Full Stack Development
4 673 (18.38%) Microservices
5 662 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
6 616 (16.82%) DevOps
7 574 (15.67%) Business Intelligence
8 452 (12.34%) TDD
9 408 (11.14%) Scrum
10 374 (10.21%) ETL
11 350 (9.56%) BDD
12 270 (7.37%) CI/CD
13 263 (7.18%) OO
14 260 (7.10%) Mentoring
15 258 (7.05%) Software Engineering
16 253 (6.91%) Computer Science
17 249 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence
18 233 (6.36%) Roadmaps
19 226 (6.17%) Migration
20 222 (6.06%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,924 (52.54%) C#
2 1,859 (50.76%) SQL
3 1,300 (35.50%) JavaScript
4 516 (14.09%) T-SQL
5 490 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 263 (7.18%) Python
7 202 (5.52%) PowerShell
8 196 (5.35%) Java
9 153 (4.18%) VB.NET
10 116 (3.17%) VB
11 70 (1.91%) PHP
12 64 (1.75%) C++
13 48 (1.31%) C
14 32 (0.87%) XAML
15 31 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 30 (0.82%) Bash
16 30 (0.82%) R
17 29 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.79%) VB6
18 26 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 522 (14.25%) Degree
2 187 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 187 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 162 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 86 (2.35%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 38 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 29 (0.79%) CCNA
8 29 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
10 22 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.46%) MCSE
12 14 (0.38%) HND
13 13 (0.35%) MCP
14 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (0.33%) OCP
14 12 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.41%) QA
2 136 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 49 (1.34%) GDPR
4 47 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 32 (0.87%) SLA
6 20 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.41%) WAI
8 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.11%) COBIT
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.11%) WCAG
11 3 (0.082%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.082%) PMO
12 2 (0.055%) HL7
12 2 (0.055%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 260 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 190 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (4.56%) Docker
4 114 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.81%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 40 (1.09%) vSphere
8 30 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.41%) XenApp
10 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.055%) Firmware
13 2 (0.055%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 144 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.48%) Terraform
3 39 (1.06%) Ansible
4 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (0.74%) 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%) MIIS
10 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.25%) 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%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 4 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,030 (55.43%) Microsoft
2 339 (9.26%) Oracle
3 292 (7.97%) VMware
4 145 (3.96%) Google
5 89 (2.43%) Veeam
6 81 (2.21%) Facebook
7 79 (2.16%) Citrix
7 79 (2.16%) Databricks
8 62 (1.69%) Cisco
9 61 (1.67%) Apple
10 56 (1.53%) IBM
11 45 (1.23%) Informatica
12 41 (1.12%) SAP
13 30 (0.82%) Sony
13 30 (0.82%) Yahoo!
14 26 (0.71%) Xamarin
15 24 (0.66%) Red Hat
15 24 (0.66%) Salesforce
16 23 (0.63%) Adobe
17 22 (0.60%) NetApp