SQL Developer Job Trends in the East Midlands

SQL Developer
England > East Midlands

The median SQL Developer salary in the East Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 5 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% - 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £31,400 - £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £68,750
90th Percentile £66,500 - £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,295 2,111 1,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 95.69% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,540 934 1,464
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.02% -3.07%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SQL Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SQL Developer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the East Midlands

SQL Developer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Derbyshire - 2 £51,250 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 2 £47,000 -
Leicestershire - 1 £50,000 -
SQL Developer
England

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
4 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft