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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -46 -6 +37
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 83 95 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.23% 6.58% 7.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.48% 36.12% 46.34%
Number of salaries quoted 68 93 244
10th Percentile £31,600 £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 £69,313 £60,000 £60,125
90th Percentile £80,544 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 339 263 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.12% 18.21% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 183 226 470
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £31,863
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 April 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 April 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 -14 37 £47,500 -7.32% 7
Northamptonshire -8 27 £57,000 +14.00% 11
Nottinghamshire -22 13 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Derbyshire -40 3 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Lincolnshire -27 1 £27,000 -16.92% 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 8 (9.64%) IIS
2 6 (7.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.41%) CMS
5 1 (1.20%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Exchequer
1 4 (4.82%) Primavera
2 3 (3.61%) Sage 200
3 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.20%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 39 (46.99%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) Power Platform
3 15 (18.07%) AWS
4 11 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (10.84%) SaaS
6 7 (8.43%) Entra ID
6 7 (8.43%) IaaS
6 7 (8.43%) npm
6 7 (8.43%) NuGet
6 7 (8.43%) PaaS
6 7 (8.43%) SonarCloud
7 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.02%) GCP
8 5 (6.02%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.82%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.41%) GitHub
10 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) VPN
2 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.61%) Firewall
3 3 (3.61%) LoRaWAN
3 3 (3.61%) MQTT
4 1 (1.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) Power BI
2 11 (13.25%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (8.43%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.82%) Redis
8 3 (3.61%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (3.61%) MySQL
8 3 (3.61%) Neo4j
9 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) JUnit
3 1 (1.20%) Selenium
3 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Law
5 6 (7.23%) Games
5 6 (7.23%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Developer
2 18 (21.69%) C# Developer
3 16 (19.28%) Senior
4 11 (13.25%) Applications Support
5 10 (12.05%) Analyst
6 7 (8.43%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (8.43%) Architect
6 7 (8.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Support Analyst
7 6 (7.23%) DBA
7 6 (7.23%) Senior C# Developer
7 6 (7.23%) SQL DBA
8 5 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) IT Operations Manager
9 4 (4.82%) Lead
9 4 (4.82%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.94%) .NET
2 16 (19.28%) .NET Core
3 12 (14.46%) XML
4 11 (13.25%) WinForms
5 9 (10.84%) React
6 7 (8.43%) Node.js
6 7 (8.43%) YAML
7 6 (7.23%) .NET Framework
7 6 (7.23%) DirectX
7 6 (7.23%) OpenGL
8 5 (6.02%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.02%) CSS
8 5 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.82%) HTML
10 3 (3.61%) jQuery
10 3 (3.61%) RESTful
11 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (2.41%) JSON
11 2 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (9.64%) Replication
3 7 (8.43%) Driving Licence
4 6 (7.23%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (6.02%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.82%) NHS
6 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.82%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.61%) Client/Server
7 3 (3.61%) IoT
7 3 (3.61%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.61%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.20%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.89%) Windows
2 10 (12.05%) Linux
3 8 (9.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (24.10%) DevOps
3 19 (22.89%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
5 16 (19.28%) Microservices
6 14 (16.87%) CI/CD
7 13 (15.66%) Agile
7 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
8 12 (14.46%) SDLC
9 11 (13.25%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (12.05%) Migration
10 10 (12.05%) Roadmaps
11 8 (9.64%) Test Automation
12 7 (8.43%) DevSecOps
12 7 (8.43%) ETL
12 7 (8.43%) Event-Driven
12 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (7.23%) CAD
13 6 (7.23%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.19%) C#
2 30 (36.14%) SQL
3 13 (15.66%) T-SQL
4 12 (14.46%) Delphi
5 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.43%) Bash
7 5 (6.02%) Java
7 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.02%) PHP
8 4 (4.82%) C
8 4 (4.82%) Python
9 3 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.20%) C++
10 1 (1.20%) R
10 1 (1.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (6.02%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (4.82%) ISO 22301
2 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.61%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (18.07%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.64%) Docker
3 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.64%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (8.43%) Terraform
4 4 (4.82%) SCCM
5 3 (3.61%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (3.61%) Grafana
5 3 (3.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (30.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.66%) Oracle
3 7 (8.43%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (8.43%) Sage
4 4 (4.82%) VMware
5 3 (3.61%) SAP
5 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.20%) Adobe
7 1 (1.20%) Databricks
7 1 (1.20%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.20%) OpenAI