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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL 51 42 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 11.38% 8.62% 6.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.20% 48.84% 29.49%
Number of salaries quoted 34 27 16
10th Percentile £25,625 £31,250 £36,875
25th Percentile £34,750 £36,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £62,188 £52,500 £56,563
90th Percentile £69,000 £60,500 £69,375
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -

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 82 86 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 18.30% 17.66% 22.94%
Number of salaries quoted 46 43 48
10th Percentile £28,063 £36,250 £39,625
25th Percentile £35,625 £37,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +11.68%
75th Percentile £63,438 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £61,000 £67,375
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +4.76%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 -7 20 £45,000 +5.88% 14
Chesterfield -4 9 £26,750 -37.06% 2
Glossop - 3 - -
High Peak - 3 - -
Belper -2 1 - -
Buxton - 1 - - 1
Alfreton - 1 - - 2
Ashbourne - 1 - -
Bakewell - 1 - -
Dronfield - 1 - -
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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (7.84%) Exchequer
3 1 (1.96%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Power Platform
2 19 (37.25%) Azure
3 11 (21.57%) GCP
4 9 (17.65%) AWS
5 8 (15.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (15.69%) Snowflake
6 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.96%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 20 (39.22%) Power BI
3 10 (19.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (17.65%) NoSQL
5 8 (15.69%) BigQuery
5 8 (15.69%) Data Lake
6 5 (9.80%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (7.84%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (7.84%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (7.84%) EDRMS
7 4 (7.84%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (7.84%) GIS
7 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.96%) Looker
9 1 (1.96%) Metadata
9 1 (1.96%) MySQL
9 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 6 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 6 (11.76%) GitLab
1 6 (11.76%) JIRA
1 6 (11.76%) Maven
1 6 (11.76%) Selenium
1 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
1 6 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.96%) MLflow
General
1 15 (29.41%) Finance
2 14 (27.45%) Retail
3 7 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (13.73%) Manufacturing
4 6 (11.76%) Banking
5 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Law
6 4 (7.84%) Legal
6 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) Analyst
3 11 (21.57%) SQL Developer
4 7 (13.73%) Database Developer
4 7 (13.73%) SQL Database Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Data Manager
5 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Administrator
6 5 (9.80%) Applications Support
6 5 (9.80%) Data Administrator
6 5 (9.80%) Data Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (7.84%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Lead
9 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Junior
10 1 (1.96%) Analytics Manager
10 1 (1.96%) Junior QA Analyst
10 1 (1.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) HTML
2 6 (11.76%) CSS
2 6 (11.76%) JPA
2 6 (11.76%) Kafka
2 6 (11.76%) React
2 6 (11.76%) Redux
2 6 (11.76%) Spring
2 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.84%) CSS3
3 4 (7.84%) HTML5
3 4 (7.84%) Jest
3 4 (7.84%) REST
3 4 (7.84%) RESTful
3 4 (7.84%) Sass
4 2 (3.92%) .NET
4 2 (3.92%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.96%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.96%) NumPy
5 1 (1.96%) Symfony
5 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 5 (9.80%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (31.37%) DevOps
3 14 (27.45%) Agile
3 14 (27.45%) Test Automation
4 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
5 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
6 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (19.61%) Customer Service
6 10 (19.61%) Data Analysis
6 10 (19.61%) Visualisation
7 9 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
7 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 8 (15.69%) AI
8 8 (15.69%) Computer Science
8 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
8 8 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (15.69%) Data Strategy
8 8 (15.69%) Dimensional Modelling
8 8 (15.69%) Machine Learning
9 7 (13.73%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) Python
2 14 (27.45%) Java
3 13 (25.49%) JavaScript
4 11 (21.57%) TypeScript
5 8 (15.69%) C++
5 8 (15.69%) PHP
5 8 (15.69%) R
5 8 (15.69%) T-SQL
6 7 (13.73%) C
6 7 (13.73%) C#
6 7 (13.73%) Dart
6 7 (13.73%) MATLAB
6 7 (13.73%) Ruby
6 7 (13.73%) Rust
7 3 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) HND
4 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) GDPR
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Databricks
2 6 (11.76%) SAP
2 6 (11.76%) Solace
3 5 (9.80%) NEC
3 5 (9.80%) Oracle
3 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.84%) Capita
4 4 (7.84%) Civica
5 3 (5.88%) Cognos
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.96%) Informatica
7 1 (1.96%) Magma
7 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft