SQL Server Jobs in the East Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 37 61
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 -37
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 129 258 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.73% 4.78% 4.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 44.64% 36.54% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 83 224 112
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,625 £29,075
25th Percentile £36,875 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £59,063
90th Percentile £62,250 £66,425 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,250 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +4.09% -0.90% +0.91%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 289 706 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.59% 13.08% 18.26%
Number of salaries quoted 194 424 276
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,375 £67,850 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
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 Server within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Northamptonshire +26 48 £50,000 +33.33% 21
Leicestershire +25 31 £48,500 +7.78% 39
Derbyshire 0 28 £41,250 -17.50% 28
Nottinghamshire -24 16 £57,500 +15.00% 27
Lincolnshire -9 5 £32,938 -12.17% 10
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (26.36%) Confluence
2 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.20%) IIS
4 6 (4.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.78%) Moqups
2 1 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Exchequer
2 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.55%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 98 (75.97%) Azure
2 43 (33.33%) AWS
3 39 (30.23%) GCP
4 29 (22.48%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (8.53%) IaaS
7 8 (6.20%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.10%) PaaS
11 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.78%) Figma
11 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.78%) SaaS
11 1 (0.78%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.53%) DHCP
1 11 (8.53%) DNS
2 9 (6.98%) Firewall
3 6 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (4.65%) SAN
4 3 (2.33%) LAN
4 3 (2.33%) VPN
4 3 (2.33%) WAN
5 2 (1.55%) Wireless
6 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.71%) Power BI
2 23 (17.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 19 (14.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (14.73%) Data Lake
4 16 (12.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (10.85%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.65%) MySQL
6 6 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.65%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.88%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.88%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (3.88%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (3.88%) EDRMS
7 5 (3.88%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (3.88%) GIS
8 1 (0.78%) Big Data
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (31.01%) JIRA
2 39 (30.23%) Bitbucket
2 39 (30.23%) Cucumber
2 39 (30.23%) GitLab
2 39 (30.23%) Maven
2 39 (30.23%) Selenium
2 39 (30.23%) SonarQube
2 39 (30.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (6.20%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.55%) Git
5 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.78%) NUnit
5 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 62 (48.06%) Finance
2 45 (34.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (30.23%) Banking
4 23 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
6 19 (14.73%) Law
7 12 (9.30%) Retail
8 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.65%) Legal
10 5 (3.88%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (3.88%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.33%) Marketing
12 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.78%) Games
13 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) Software Engineer
2 23 (17.83%) Developer
3 17 (13.18%) Analyst
4 11 (8.53%) SQL Developer
5 10 (7.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) DBA
6 9 (6.98%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.20%) Administrator
7 8 (6.20%) SQL DBA
8 7 (5.43%) C# Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Lead
8 7 (5.43%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (4.65%) Database Developer
9 6 (4.65%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Project Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.65%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (33.33%) CSS
1 43 (33.33%) HTML
2 42 (32.56%) React
3 39 (30.23%) JPA
3 39 (30.23%) Kafka
3 39 (30.23%) Redux
3 39 (30.23%) Spring
3 39 (30.23%) Spring Boot
4 34 (26.36%) Hibernate
5 16 (12.40%) .NET
6 13 (10.08%) REST
7 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.65%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.65%) Jest
8 6 (4.65%) SOAP
9 5 (3.88%) CSS3
9 5 (3.88%) HTML5
9 5 (3.88%) RESTful
9 5 (3.88%) Sass
10 4 (3.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (31.01%) Product Ownership
2 39 (30.23%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.75%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.88%) Replication
6 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.78%) Clustering
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.28%) Windows
2 20 (15.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.09%) DevOps
2 46 (35.66%) Agile
3 45 (34.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (34.11%) SDLC
4 44 (34.11%) Software Engineering
5 43 (33.33%) Microservices
6 42 (32.56%) CI/CD
7 41 (31.78%) Front End Development
8 40 (31.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (31.01%) Test Automation
9 39 (30.23%) Containerisation
9 39 (30.23%) Performance Optimisation
10 36 (27.91%) Clean Code
11 35 (27.13%) TDD
12 32 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (16.28%) Data Analysis
15 18 (13.95%) ETL
16 15 (11.63%) Analytics
17 14 (10.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 92 (71.32%) SQL
2 50 (38.76%) JavaScript
3 41 (31.78%) Java
4 24 (18.60%) T-SQL
5 15 (11.63%) C#
6 7 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.88%) Python
8 4 (3.10%) PHP
9 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.55%) C++
10 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (3.88%) Degree
2 4 (3.10%) DBS Check
2 4 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.55%) MCP
4 2 (1.55%) MCSA
4 2 (1.55%) MCSE
4 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (31.78%) QA
2 11 (8.53%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.65%) GDPR
4 5 (3.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (31.01%) Docker
2 21 (16.28%) Active Directory
3 16 (12.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.75%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.65%) Terminal Services
5 6 (4.65%) vSphere
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (31.01%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.10%) SCCM
2 4 (3.10%) Terraform
3 3 (2.33%) SCOM
4 2 (1.55%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.78%) Autotask
5 1 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 44 (34.11%) Microsoft
2 39 (30.23%) Solace
3 17 (13.18%) VMware
4 15 (11.63%) Databricks
5 13 (10.08%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.65%) Dell
6 6 (4.65%) HP
6 6 (4.65%) NetApp
7 5 (3.88%) Capita
7 5 (3.88%) Civica
7 5 (3.88%) NEC
8 2 (1.55%) arcserve
8 2 (1.55%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.55%) Zoho
9 1 (0.78%) Adobe
9 1 (0.78%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.78%) IBM
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle
9 1 (0.78%) SnapLogic