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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL 39 42 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 9.38% 9.42% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.00% 44.68% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 34 27 15
10th Percentile £32,300 £31,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £49,875
90th Percentile £69,000 £60,500 £70,000
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 65 94 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 15.63% 21.08% 22.42%
Number of salaries quoted 47 50 40
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +14.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £70,250
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -1 24 £45,000 -2.70% 13
Chesterfield -3 5 £31,000 -27.06% 2
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 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Exchequer
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.56%) NEC Housing
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Business One
3 1 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Power Platform
2 14 (35.90%) Azure
3 9 (23.08%) GCP
4 8 (20.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (20.51%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.69%) AWS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.56%) BigCommerce
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (53.85%) Power BI
2 16 (41.03%) SQL Server
3 10 (25.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (23.08%) NoSQL
5 8 (20.51%) BigQuery
5 8 (20.51%) Data Lake
6 4 (10.26%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (10.26%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (10.26%) EDRMS
6 4 (10.26%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (10.26%) GIS
6 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.13%) Tableau
8 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.56%) Metadata
8 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 10 (25.64%) Retail
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Law
4 4 (10.26%) Legal
4 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Games
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) SQL Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Analyst
4 7 (17.95%) Database Developer
4 7 (17.95%) SQL Database Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Data Manager
6 5 (12.82%) Applications Support
6 5 (12.82%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (10.26%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (10.26%) Support Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Data Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Junior
8 3 (7.69%) Lead
9 2 (5.13%) Administrator
9 2 (5.13%) Data Administrator
9 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Data Scientist
9 2 (5.13%) Junior Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Senior
10 1 (2.56%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.56%) DirectX
2 1 (2.56%) Doctrine
2 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.56%) Keras
2 1 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.56%) Metaflow
2 1 (2.56%) NumPy
2 1 (2.56%) OpenGL
2 1 (2.56%) Pandas
2 1 (2.56%) PySpark
2 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.56%) Symfony
2 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 6 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.56%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (30.77%) Visualisation
3 10 (25.64%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
4 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
5 8 (20.51%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (20.51%) Data Strategy
5 8 (20.51%) Decision-Making
5 8 (20.51%) Dimensional Modelling
5 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
6 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (17.95%) Customer Service
6 7 (17.95%) Data Analysis
6 7 (17.95%) Data Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) Data Governance
6 7 (17.95%) Logistics
6 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
7 6 (15.38%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) T-SQL
3 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) C++
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) PHP
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) HND
3 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 19650
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubeflow
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Databricks
2 5 (12.82%) NEC
2 5 (12.82%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.26%) Capita
3 4 (10.26%) Civica
4 3 (7.69%) Cognos
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.69%) SAP
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Informatica
6 1 (2.56%) Magma
6 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft