SQL Developer Job Trends in Derby

SQL Developer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median SQL Developer salary in Derby is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Derby 2.25% - 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% - 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £40,125
25th Percentile £42,500 - £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £41,250
75th Percentile £50,938 - £42,813
90th Percentile £57,125 - £43,375
Derbyshire median annual salary £45,000 - £41,250

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Derby. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Derby with a recognized job title 218 153 133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.20% 98.08% 97.79%
Number of salaries quoted 142 103 82
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £37,500 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,375 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £57,188
90th Percentile £66,125 £67,500 £64,875
Derbyshire median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SQL Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Derby.

SQL Developer job vacancy trend in Derby

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in Derby

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in Derby.

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in Derby

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Derby region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Databricks
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (60.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) GDPR
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks