SQL Job Trends in Derbyshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL 29 35 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 5.65% 13.11% 7.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.42% 42.17% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 20 25 24
10th Percentile £30,600 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £37,500 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £69,000 £46,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £72,975 £53,250 £68,000
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -5.00%

All Programming Languages
Derbyshire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 48 83 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 9.36% 31.09% 20.70%
Number of salaries quoted 31 54 50
10th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £53,438 £59,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £64,250 £73,750
East Midlands median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

SQL job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Derbyshire

SQL
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
Derby -8 20 £57,500 +43.75% 21
Chesterfield -5 3 £43,250 +1.76% 17
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) NEC Housing
1 1 (3.45%) SAP Business One
1 1 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Power Platform
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) Azure AI
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.45%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Power BI
2 6 (20.69%) Tableau
3 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Power Query
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Games
2 2 (6.90%) Law
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.90%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Local Government
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Junior
4 6 (20.69%) Data Analyst
4 6 (20.69%) Junior Analyst
4 6 (20.69%) Junior Data Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Data Manager
5 4 (13.79%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
7 2 (6.90%) IT Support
7 2 (6.90%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (6.90%) SQL Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.90%) DirectX
2 2 (6.90%) OpenGL
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) Django
3 1 (3.45%) Doctrine
3 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.45%) Flask
3 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) OpenID
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SAML
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (31.03%) AI
3 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
3 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (17.24%) Data Governance
4 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
4 5 (17.24%) Logistics
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (13.79%) Data Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Data Strategy
5 4 (13.79%) ETL
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (13.79%) Virtual Team Management
5 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
6 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) PHP
5 1 (3.45%) R
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) SLA
3 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.45%) NCSC
4 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Cognos
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Magma
4 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) NEC
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) SAP