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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -68 0 +30
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 78 103 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.80% 6.72% 6.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.37% 39.02% 42.53%
Number of salaries quoted 62 100 239
10th Percentile £31,300 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £39,688 £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 £68,813 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £61,375 £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 383 264 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.81% 17.23% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 187 226 460
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,225
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £68,075
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -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 25 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 25 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 -20 36 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Northamptonshire -13 27 £59,366 +18.73% 8
Nottinghamshire -30 8 £67,500 +22.73% 11
Derbyshire -37 3 £75,000 +76.47% 3
Lincolnshire -30 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 8 (10.26%) IIS
2 5 (6.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Exchequer
1 4 (5.13%) Primavera
2 3 (3.85%) Sage 200
3 2 (2.56%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.28%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 36 (46.15%) Azure
2 19 (24.36%) Power Platform
3 11 (14.10%) AWS
4 9 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.97%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.97%) IaaS
5 7 (8.97%) npm
5 7 (8.97%) NuGet
5 7 (8.97%) PaaS
5 7 (8.97%) SonarCloud
6 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.13%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.13%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.13%) SaaS
8 2 (2.56%) GCP
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.28%) Figma
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub
9 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.28%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.54%) VPN
2 6 (7.69%) Firewall
3 5 (6.41%) MQTT
3 5 (6.41%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.85%) DNS
4 3 (3.85%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (1.28%) DHCP
5 1 (1.28%) DMZ
5 1 (1.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.79%) Power BI
2 11 (14.10%) Relational Database
3 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (6.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.13%) Redis
7 3 (3.85%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.85%) MySQL
7 3 (3.85%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.85%) Power Query
7 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Git
2 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.28%) JUnit
3 1 (1.28%) Selenium
3 1 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Finance
3 12 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Law
5 6 (7.69%) Games
5 6 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) Developer
2 18 (23.08%) C# Developer
2 18 (23.08%) Senior
3 13 (16.67%) Applications Support
4 11 (14.10%) Analyst
5 7 (8.97%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (8.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Support Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Support Consultant
8 4 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) IT Operations Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) .NET
2 16 (20.51%) .NET Core
3 11 (14.10%) WinForms
3 11 (14.10%) XML
4 8 (10.26%) React
5 7 (8.97%) Node.js
5 7 (8.97%) YAML
6 6 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 6 (7.69%) DirectX
6 6 (7.69%) OpenGL
7 5 (6.41%) CSS
7 5 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.13%) jQuery
9 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET
9 3 (3.85%) HTML
10 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.56%) RESTful
11 1 (1.28%) Kafka
11 1 (1.28%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (10.26%) Replication
3 7 (8.97%) Driving Licence
4 6 (7.69%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (6.41%) IoT
6 4 (5.13%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.13%) NHS
6 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.28%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.21%) Windows
2 13 (16.67%) Linux
3 11 (14.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.85%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.36%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (23.08%) DevOps
4 14 (17.95%) Mentoring
5 13 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 12 (15.38%) SDLC
7 11 (14.10%) Microservices
7 11 (14.10%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (12.82%) Agile
8 10 (12.82%) Migration
9 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.97%) DevSecOps
10 7 (8.97%) ETL
10 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (7.69%) CAD
11 6 (7.69%) Decision-Making
11 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (7.69%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.59%) C#
2 29 (37.18%) SQL
3 13 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 12 (15.38%) Delphi
4 12 (15.38%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.97%) Bash
5 7 (8.97%) Python
6 6 (7.69%) Java
6 6 (7.69%) PHP
7 4 (5.13%) C
7 4 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.56%) C++
9 1 (1.28%) R
9 1 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (5.13%) ISO 22301
2 4 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.26%) Docker
3 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.85%) vSphere
5 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.26%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (8.97%) Terraform
4 4 (5.13%) SCCM
5 3 (3.85%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (3.85%) Grafana
5 3 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.67%) Oracle
3 7 (8.97%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (8.97%) Sage
4 5 (6.41%) VMware
5 3 (3.85%) SAP
5 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.28%) Adobe
7 1 (1.28%) Databricks
7 1 (1.28%) OpenAI