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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 10 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL 28 36 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 5.48% 12.81% 6.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.22% 43.37% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 15
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £37,500 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £69,000 £48,063 £49,875
90th Percentile £73,200 £53,125 £60,750
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -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 45 83 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 8.81% 29.54% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 28 54 35
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,000 £53,438 £61,500
90th Percentile £72,575 £64,250 £75,250
East Midlands median annual salary £45,195 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.61% -4.76% -2.78%

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 30 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 30 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 -7 19 £58,750 +38.24% 95
Chesterfield -7 3 £43,250 +1.76% 89
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:

Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) NEC Housing
1 1 (3.57%) SAP Business One
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Power Platform
2 11 (39.29%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Azure AI
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.57%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) Power BI
2 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (17.86%) Tableau
4 3 (10.71%) BigQuery
4 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Power Query
5 1 (3.57%) SAP HANA
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Retail
3 2 (7.14%) Games
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Junior
4 5 (17.86%) Data Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Data Manager
4 5 (17.86%) Junior Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Junior Data Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) SQL Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Database Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
5 4 (14.29%) SQL Database Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Lead
6 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.14%) 3D Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Data Scientist
7 2 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Application Support Team Leader
8 1 (3.57%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 2 (7.14%) DirectX
2 2 (7.14%) OpenGL
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.57%) Doctrine
3 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.57%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) OpenID
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) SAML
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (25.00%) AI
3 6 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (21.43%) Data Governance
3 6 (21.43%) Logistics
3 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
4 5 (17.86%) Data Strategy
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (17.86%) Virtual Team Management
4 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
5 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.71%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) T-SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) NCSC
3 1 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Databricks
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Cognos
4 1 (3.57%) Informatica
4 1 (3.57%) Magma
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) NEC
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) SAP