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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL 33 40 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 7.60% 10.31% 7.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.89% 42.55% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 27 27 16
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -3.41% -6.13%
75th Percentile £69,000 £50,000 £49,313
90th Percentile £70,500 £56,750 £69,375
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -

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 57 94 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 13.13% 24.23% 22.18%
Number of salaries quoted 40 58 39
10th Percentile £34,750 £37,125 £37,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £69,000 £54,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,975 £63,250 £70,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,695 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.61% -9.09% +3.77%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -5 22 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Chesterfield -5 2 £43,250 +4.85% 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 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Exchequer
2 1 (3.03%) NEC Housing
2 1 (3.03%) SAP Business One
2 1 (3.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 3 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.06%) AWS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.03%) BigCommerce
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
7 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) Power BI
2 13 (39.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (24.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (18.18%) BigQuery
4 6 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 4 (12.12%) Tableau
6 3 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (9.09%) EDRMS
6 3 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (9.09%) GIS
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.03%) Looker
7 1 (3.03%) Metadata
7 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.03%) Power Query
7 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
7 1 (3.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MLflow
General
1 8 (24.24%) Retail
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Law
2 3 (9.09%) Legal
2 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Games
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Analyst
2 8 (24.24%) SQL Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Database Developer
3 7 (21.21%) SQL Database Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Data Manager
5 5 (15.15%) Engineering Manager
6 4 (12.12%) Applications Support
6 4 (12.12%) Junior
7 3 (9.09%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Junior Data Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (9.09%) Support Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) 3D Developer
8 2 (6.06%) C# Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
8 2 (6.06%) Senior
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.06%) DirectX
2 2 (6.06%) OpenGL
3 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.03%) Doctrine
3 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.03%) Keras
3 1 (3.03%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (3.03%) Metaflow
3 1 (3.03%) NumPy
3 1 (3.03%) Pandas
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.03%) Symfony
3 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Virtual Team
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (30.30%) Visualisation
3 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (21.21%) Data Governance
3 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
3 7 (21.21%) Data Strategy
3 7 (21.21%) Data Visualisation
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Logistics
3 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
4 6 (18.18%) AI
4 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
4 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 6 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (18.18%) Virtual Team Management
5 4 (12.12%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) T-SQL
3 3 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.06%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) PHP
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubeflow
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Databricks
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) NEC
2 4 (12.12%) Salesforce
3 3 (9.09%) Capita
3 3 (9.09%) Civica
4 2 (6.06%) Cognos
5 1 (3.03%) Informatica
5 1 (3.03%) Magma
5 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.03%) SAP