SQL Server Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SQL Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 66 28
Rank change year-on-year +10 -38 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 98 127 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.22% 3.19% 7.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 38.89% 29.26% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54 85 117
10th Percentile £29,369 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £54,750 £54,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 252 434 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.85% 10.90% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 165 192 256
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% +0.78% +7.50%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 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 18 September 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 +32 37 £50,000 +53.85% 11
Derbyshire -5 23 £45,000 -5.26% 10
Leicestershire +27 21 £48,500 +7.78% 6
Nottinghamshire -15 12 £57,500 +21.05% 10
Lincolnshire -4 4 £39,188 -7.79% 6
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 (34.69%) Confluence
2 7 (7.14%) IIS
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.06%) CMS
5 2 (2.04%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Exchequer
2 2 (2.04%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 76 (77.55%) Azure
2 43 (43.88%) GCP
3 41 (41.84%) AWS
4 26 (26.53%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (8.16%) Snowflake
6 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.10%) IaaS
8 4 (4.08%) PaaS
9 2 (2.04%) ChatGPT
9 2 (2.04%) GitHub
9 2 (2.04%) Sage Pay
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) DHCP
1 6 (6.12%) DNS
2 5 (5.10%) Firewall
3 4 (4.08%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (4.08%) SAN
4 2 (2.04%) Intranet
5 1 (1.02%) LAN
5 1 (1.02%) VPN
5 1 (1.02%) WAN
5 1 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) Power BI
2 19 (19.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (15.31%) Data Lake
4 13 (13.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (13.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (9.18%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.16%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.10%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (5.10%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.10%) EDRMS
7 5 (5.10%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (5.10%) GIS
8 4 (4.08%) MySQL
9 2 (2.04%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (41.84%) GitLab
1 41 (41.84%) JIRA
2 39 (39.80%) Bitbucket
2 39 (39.80%) Cucumber
2 39 (39.80%) Maven
2 39 (39.80%) Selenium
2 39 (39.80%) SonarQube
2 39 (39.80%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (5.10%) Git
3 5 (5.10%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.02%) NUnit
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 52 (53.06%) Finance
2 41 (41.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (39.80%) Banking
4 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (14.29%) Law
6 13 (13.27%) Retail
7 10 (10.20%) Social Skills
8 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
9 5 (5.10%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
9 5 (5.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (41.84%) Software Engineer
2 25 (25.51%) Developer
3 15 (15.31%) SQL Developer
4 9 (9.18%) Applications Support
4 9 (9.18%) Database Developer
4 9 (9.18%) SQL Database Developer
5 8 (8.16%) DBA
5 8 (8.16%) SQL DBA
6 7 (7.14%) Administrator
6 7 (7.14%) Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) C# Developer
8 5 (5.10%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (4.08%) Junior
9 4 (4.08%) Junior Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (48.98%) CSS
2 47 (47.96%) HTML
3 39 (39.80%) JPA
3 39 (39.80%) Kafka
3 39 (39.80%) React
3 39 (39.80%) Redux
3 39 (39.80%) Spring
3 39 (39.80%) Spring Boot
4 34 (34.69%) Hibernate
5 15 (15.31%) REST
6 12 (12.24%) .NET
7 7 (7.14%) ASP.NET
7 7 (7.14%) CSS3
7 7 (7.14%) HTML5
7 7 (7.14%) RESTful
8 6 (6.12%) SOAP
9 5 (5.10%) Jest
9 5 (5.10%) Sass
10 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (4.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (41.84%) Product Ownership
2 39 (39.80%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.16%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.10%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.10%) Replication
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.20%) Windows
1 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) DevOps
2 46 (46.94%) Software Engineering
3 44 (44.90%) CI/CD
4 43 (43.88%) Agile
5 41 (41.84%) Microservices
6 40 (40.82%) Front End Development
6 40 (40.82%) SDLC
6 40 (40.82%) Test Automation
7 39 (39.80%) Containerisation
7 39 (39.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (39.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (39.80%) Performance Optimisation
8 38 (38.78%) Clean Code
9 35 (35.71%) TDD
10 26 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (14.29%) ETL
13 13 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (13.27%) Visualisation
14 12 (12.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (85.71%) SQL
2 49 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 40 (40.82%) Java
4 20 (20.41%) T-SQL
5 10 (10.20%) C#
6 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.08%) PHP
8 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.04%) Python
9 1 (1.02%) C++
9 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
1 4 (4.08%) Degree
2 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) MCP
3 2 (2.04%) MCSA
3 2 (2.04%) MCSE
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (40.82%) QA
2 8 (8.16%) Data Quality
3 7 (7.14%) GDPR
4 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (40.82%) Docker
2 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.08%) Terminal Services
3 4 (4.08%) vSphere
4 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (39.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.08%) Terraform
3 2 (2.04%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.02%) Autotask
Vendors
1 39 (39.80%) Solace
2 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.29%) Databricks
4 11 (11.22%) Salesforce
5 8 (8.16%) VMware
6 5 (5.10%) Capita
6 5 (5.10%) Civica
6 5 (5.10%) NEC
7 4 (4.08%) Dell
7 4 (4.08%) HP
7 4 (4.08%) NetApp
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle
9 2 (2.04%) arcserve
9 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
9 2 (2.04%) SAP
10 1 (1.02%) Adobe