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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 65 61 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 7.50% 13.12% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.63% 62.89% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 37 45 30
10th Percentile £24,750 - £26,125
25th Percentile £26,250 £21,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -25.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £60,938
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,400 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 160 97 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 18.45% 20.86% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 81 63 86
10th Percentile £26,250 £21,250 £34,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £25,625 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £59,688
90th Percentile £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 0 44 £45,500 +1.11% 9
Alfreton -1 4 £60,000 -
Ashbourne -1 3 - -
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 7 (10.77%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.08%) Azure
2 22 (33.85%) Power Platform
3 17 (26.15%) Azure AI
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.62%) GitHub
4 3 (4.62%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.08%) AWS
5 2 (3.08%) GCP
5 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.08%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.54%) Boomi
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (4.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) Power BI
2 18 (27.69%) Tableau
3 6 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.08%) Power Query
7 1 (1.54%) QlikView
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) JIRA
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.54%) Subversion
4 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Finance
3 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Law
5 6 (9.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Analyst
2 20 (30.77%) Data Analyst
3 14 (21.54%) Junior
3 14 (21.54%) Junior Analyst
3 14 (21.54%) Junior Data Analyst
4 12 (18.46%) Developer
4 12 (18.46%) Software Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Senior
5 9 (13.85%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (12.31%) Graduate
7 7 (10.77%) Data Scientist
7 7 (10.77%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) IT Support
7 7 (10.77%) Support Analyst
8 6 (9.23%) .NET Developer
9 5 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) SAP Support
9 5 (7.69%) SAP Support Analyst
9 5 (7.69%) Senior SAP Support Analyst
9 5 (7.69%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) React
2 8 (12.31%) .NET
3 7 (10.77%) .NET Core
4 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET
4 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (9.23%) PyTorch
4 6 (9.23%) TensorFlow
5 4 (6.15%) CSS
5 4 (6.15%) HTML
5 4 (6.15%) Hugging Face
6 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (4.62%) Blazor
6 3 (4.62%) JSON
6 3 (4.62%) ML.NET
6 3 (4.62%) Node.js
7 2 (3.08%) Matplotlib
7 2 (3.08%) scikit-learn
7 2 (3.08%) Seaborn
8 1 (1.54%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.62%) Digital TV
2 2 (3.08%) Driving Licence
2 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.54%) CCTV
3 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.54%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (29.23%) AI
3 18 (27.69%) Agile
4 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
5 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (16.92%) Analytics
7 10 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 10 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 9 (13.85%) Decision-Making
8 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (12.31%) Data Science
9 8 (12.31%) Incident Management
10 7 (10.77%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.77%) Data Analysis
10 7 (10.77%) Data Analytics
10 7 (10.77%) ERP
10 7 (10.77%) ITSM
10 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (9.23%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 27 (41.54%) Python
2 12 (18.46%) C#
3 11 (16.92%) C++
4 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.08%) R
6 1 (1.54%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Azure Certification
1 14 (21.54%) Degree
2 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.54%) HND
2 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) SAP
3 1 (1.54%) Databricks
3 1 (1.54%) SYSPRO