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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 62 56
Rank change year-on-year -53 -6 -32
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 65 93 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.97% 3.98% 3.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.91% 37.35% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 55 49 80
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,950 £31,125
25th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
90th Percentile £62,730 £63,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 363 249 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.41% 10.65% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 226 157 183
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £74,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% 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 2 October 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 2 October 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
Nottinghamshire -8 22 £37,500 -34.78% 23
Lincolnshire 0 19 £47,500 +21.21% 19
Leicestershire -41 16 £42,500 -12.37% 5
Northamptonshire -39 5 £64,866 +39.50% 4
Derbyshire -30 3 - - 9
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 2 (3.08%) CMS
1 2 (3.08%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.54%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.54%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.77%) AWS
3 7 (10.77%) SaaS
4 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Stack
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 2 (3.08%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.08%) IaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) PaaS
6 2 (3.08%) SonarCloud
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.54%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Firewall
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) MQTT
2 5 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (1.54%) DHCP
3 1 (1.54%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (1.54%) DMZ
3 1 (1.54%) FTP
3 1 (1.54%) HTTP
3 1 (1.54%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (1.54%) RTP
3 1 (1.54%) RTSP
3 1 (1.54%) SCTP
3 1 (1.54%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.54%) SS7
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.54%) VoIP
3 1 (1.54%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Power BI
2 8 (12.31%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (9.23%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (6.15%) MySQL
4 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.62%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.08%) Redis
6 2 (3.08%) Tableau
7 1 (1.54%) DTS
7 1 (1.54%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) NUnit
2 1 (1.54%) Postman
General
1 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.00%) Finance
3 13 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.62%) Legal
5 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.08%) Law
5 2 (3.08%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Advertising
6 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (38.46%) Developer
2 9 (13.85%) Graduate
2 9 (13.85%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Power Platform Developer
3 7 (10.77%) Software Developer
3 7 (10.77%) Support Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) .NET Developer
4 6 (9.23%) Analyst
4 6 (9.23%) IT Support
4 6 (9.23%) SQL Developer
5 5 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Applications Support
6 4 (6.15%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) SAP Support
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Support Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.77%) .NET
2 8 (12.31%) CSS
3 7 (10.77%) HTML
4 6 (9.23%) .NET Core
4 6 (9.23%) .NET Framework
4 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET
5 5 (7.69%) REST
6 4 (6.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (6.15%) Entity Framework
6 4 (6.15%) JSON
6 4 (6.15%) React
7 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.62%) XML
8 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.08%) Google Maps API
8 2 (3.08%) HTML5
8 2 (3.08%) jQuery
8 2 (3.08%) RESTful
8 2 (3.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) IoT
2 3 (4.62%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.62%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Replication
3 2 (3.08%) Tandem
4 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.54%) CUDA
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.54%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.54%) Robotics
4 1 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Windows
2 10 (15.38%) Linux
3 7 (10.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.15%) VMS
5 2 (3.08%) Solaris
5 2 (3.08%) Unix
5 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (24.62%) Agile
3 14 (21.54%) AI
4 13 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (15.38%) Customer Service
6 9 (13.85%) ERP
7 8 (12.31%) DevOps
7 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (12.31%) High Availability
7 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.77%) ETL
8 7 (10.77%) Mentoring
9 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.23%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.69%) Data Integration
10 5 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (7.69%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.85%) SQL
2 22 (33.85%) C#
3 10 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.31%) Python
6 5 (7.69%) PHP
7 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (4.62%) C++
9 2 (3.08%) Bash
9 2 (3.08%) Java
9 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.15%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Backup Exec
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Galera Cluster
2 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Google
2 4 (6.15%) SAP
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Cognos
4 2 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
4 2 (3.08%) Datto
4 2 (3.08%) IFS
4 2 (3.08%) Sybase
4 2 (3.08%) Veeam
4 2 (3.08%) Veracode
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.54%) Sage