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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 38 24
Rank change year-on-year -53 -14 +33
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 77 101 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.72% 6.12% 6.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.42% 39.30% 42.07%
Number of salaries quoted 61 97 237
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £69,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £61,750 £66,900
England median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -4.35%

All Database & 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 377 257 668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.44% 15.59% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 182 217 453
10th Percentile £31,300 £32,500 £31,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SQL Server job vacancy trend 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 1 May 2026.

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 May 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
Leicestershire -33 35 £45,000 -10.00% 8
Northamptonshire -1 26 £59,732 +19.46% 7
Nottinghamshire -23 9 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Derbyshire -39 3 £75,000 +71.43% 5
Lincolnshire -29 2 £27,000 -4.85% 1
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.09%) IIS
2 5 (6.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Exchequer
1 4 (5.19%) Primavera
1 4 (5.19%) Sage 200
2 2 (2.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 36 (46.75%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) Power Platform
3 11 (14.29%) AWS
4 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.09%) IaaS
5 7 (9.09%) npm
5 7 (9.09%) NuGet
5 7 (9.09%) PaaS
5 7 (9.09%) SonarCloud
6 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.19%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.19%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.19%) SaaS
8 2 (2.60%) GCP
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.30%) GitHub
9 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) VPN
2 6 (7.79%) Firewall
3 5 (6.49%) MQTT
3 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.90%) DNS
4 3 (3.90%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (1.30%) DHCP
5 1 (1.30%) DMZ
5 1 (1.30%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.08%) Power BI
2 11 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.19%) Redis
7 3 (3.90%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (3.90%) MySQL
7 3 (3.90%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.90%) Power Query
8 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) JUnit
3 1 (1.30%) Selenium
3 1 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.79%) Games
5 6 (7.79%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (31.17%) Developer
2 18 (23.38%) C# Developer
2 18 (23.38%) Senior
3 13 (16.88%) Applications Support
4 11 (14.29%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Support Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) Senior C# Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) IT Manager
8 4 (5.19%) IT Operations Manager
8 4 (5.19%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (27.27%) .NET
2 16 (20.78%) .NET Core
3 12 (15.58%) WinForms
4 11 (14.29%) XML
5 8 (10.39%) React
6 7 (9.09%) Node.js
6 7 (9.09%) YAML
7 6 (7.79%) .NET Framework
7 6 (7.79%) DirectX
7 6 (7.79%) OpenGL
7 6 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.19%) CSS
8 4 (5.19%) jQuery
9 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.60%) HTML
9 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.60%) RESTful
10 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (10.39%) Replication
3 7 (9.09%) Driving Licence
4 6 (7.79%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (6.49%) IoT
6 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.19%) NHS
6 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.90%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.60%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.30%) Life Science
9 1 (1.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.57%) Windows
2 13 (16.88%) Linux
3 11 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (24.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (24.68%) DevOps
3 14 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 13 (16.88%) CI/CD
4 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
5 12 (15.58%) SDLC
6 11 (14.29%) Microservices
6 11 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (12.99%) Agile
7 10 (12.99%) Migration
8 8 (10.39%) Test Automation
9 7 (9.09%) DevSecOps
9 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.79%) Decision-Making
10 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (7.79%) Mathematics
10 6 (7.79%) Physics
10 6 (7.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.16%) C#
2 29 (37.66%) SQL
3 14 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 12 (15.58%) Delphi
5 11 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 7 (9.09%) Bash
6 7 (9.09%) Python
7 6 (7.79%) Java
7 6 (7.79%) PHP
8 4 (5.19%) C
8 4 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.60%) C++
11 1 (1.30%) R
11 1 (1.30%) Rust
11 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (6.49%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (5.19%) ISO 22301
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (20.78%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.39%) Docker
3 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.90%) vSphere
5 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.39%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (9.09%) Terraform
4 4 (5.19%) SCCM
5 3 (3.90%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (3.90%) Grafana
5 3 (3.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (32.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.88%) Oracle
3 8 (10.39%) Sage
4 7 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (6.49%) VMware
6 3 (3.90%) SAP
6 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.30%) Databricks
8 1 (1.30%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.30%) OpenAI