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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 48 16
Rank change year-on-year -22 -32 +13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 61 118 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.61% 3.84% 10.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.75% 35.22% 46.11%
Number of salaries quoted 59 75 137
10th Percentile £34,750 £33,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,800 £71,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,200 £55,000 £58,079
% change year-on-year +0.36% -5.30% +1.89%

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 228 335 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.75% 10.90% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 167 203 293
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £34,325
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -8.57% -3.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £74,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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 December 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 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
Leicestershire +6 19 £47,500 -8.65% 9
Nottinghamshire -3 15 £75,000 +36.36% 8
Northamptonshire +18 13 £43,000 +39.84% 10
Derbyshire -24 13 £45,000 -5.26% 2
Lincolnshire -13 1 £50,000 +29.03% 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 5 (8.20%) CMS
2 4 (6.56%) IIS
3 3 (4.92%) Apache
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.64%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Exchequer
2 3 (4.92%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.64%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) Power Platform
3 12 (19.67%) AWS
4 10 (16.39%) GCP
5 6 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (9.84%) SaaS
5 6 (9.84%) Snowflake
6 4 (6.56%) GitHub
6 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.92%) ChatGPT
8 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.28%) Sage Pay
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.64%) Figma
9 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.64%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Intranet
1 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) Power BI
2 14 (22.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (18.03%) Data Lake
4 10 (16.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
6 6 (9.84%) NoSQL
6 6 (9.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (8.20%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (6.56%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (6.56%) EDRMS
8 4 (6.56%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (6.56%) GIS
8 4 (6.56%) Redis
9 2 (3.28%) MariaDB
9 2 (3.28%) MySQL
9 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.64%) JUnit
4 1 (1.64%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Law
3 9 (14.75%) Finance
4 6 (9.84%) Games
4 6 (9.84%) Retail
5 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.56%) Legal
6 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (49.18%) Developer
2 14 (22.95%) Senior
3 12 (19.67%) C# Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Senior Developer
4 8 (13.11%) SQL Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Applications Support
5 7 (11.48%) DBA
5 7 (11.48%) Senior C# Developer
6 6 (9.84%) .NET Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Analyst
6 6 (9.84%) Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Database Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) SQL Database Developer
6 6 (9.84%) SQL DBA
7 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (8.20%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.90%) .NET
2 11 (18.03%) .NET Core
2 11 (18.03%) CSS
2 11 (18.03%) HTML
3 8 (13.11%) ASP.NET
4 7 (11.48%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (9.84%) DirectX
5 6 (9.84%) OpenGL
6 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 4 (6.56%) Laravel
6 4 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (6.56%) REST
6 4 (6.56%) RESTful
7 3 (4.92%) jQuery
7 3 (4.92%) XML
8 2 (3.28%) CSS3
8 2 (3.28%) HTML5
8 2 (3.28%) JSON
8 2 (3.28%) SOAP
8 2 (3.28%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) 3D Graphics
1 6 (9.84%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.92%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.92%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Code
3 3 (4.92%) NHS
3 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.92%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
1 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
1 19 (31.15%) Software Engineering
2 17 (27.87%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (19.67%) DevOps
4 10 (16.39%) MVC
5 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
6 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
6 8 (13.11%) Data Analysis
7 7 (11.48%) Agile
7 7 (11.48%) Customer Service
7 7 (11.48%) Event-Driven
7 7 (11.48%) Microservices
7 7 (11.48%) Web Development
8 6 (9.84%) Analytics
8 6 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.84%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (9.84%) Dimensional Modelling
8 6 (9.84%) Mathematics
8 6 (9.84%) Physics
8 6 (9.84%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) SQL
2 26 (42.62%) C#
3 19 (31.15%) T-SQL
4 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.48%) PHP
6 4 (6.56%) C
6 4 (6.56%) Java
7 3 (4.92%) Delphi
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) GDPR
2 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) SCCM
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Databricks
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.84%) Salesforce
4 5 (8.20%) Oracle
5 4 (6.56%) Capita
5 4 (6.56%) Civica
5 4 (6.56%) NEC
6 3 (4.92%) OpenAI
6 3 (4.92%) SAP
7 2 (3.28%) Adobe
8 1 (1.64%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.64%) Sage