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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 48 58
Rank change year-on-year -52 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 70 120 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.16% 5.15% 3.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.77% 41.96% 31.17%
Number of salaries quoted 57 74 116
10th Percentile £26,500 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,438 £57,188
90th Percentile £70,450 £62,125 £65,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -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 394 286 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.55% 12.28% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 226 197 248
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £64,950 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -34 25 £42,500 -12.37% 2
Nottinghamshire -17 21 £32,750 -43.04% 9
Northamptonshire -33 13 £59,732 +19.46% 5
Lincolnshire -16 9 £27,500 -29.82% 4
Derbyshire -25 1 £55,000 +22.22% 4
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 3 (4.29%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Exchequer
1 4 (5.71%) Primavera
1 4 (5.71%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.43%) Sage 200
2 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) Power Platform
3 9 (12.86%) IaaS
3 9 (12.86%) PaaS
3 9 (12.86%) SaaS
4 8 (11.43%) AWS
4 8 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.14%) SonarCloud
7 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.29%) npm
8 3 (4.29%) NuGet
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.43%) GCP
10 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) Firewall
2 8 (11.43%) MQTT
2 8 (11.43%) VPN
3 5 (7.14%) DNS
4 4 (5.71%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (1.43%) DHCP
5 1 (1.43%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (1.43%) DMZ
5 1 (1.43%) FTP
5 1 (1.43%) HTTP
5 1 (1.43%) RTP
5 1 (1.43%) RTSP
5 1 (1.43%) SCTP
5 1 (1.43%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.43%) SS7
5 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.43%) VoIP
5 1 (1.43%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) Power BI
2 8 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.14%) MySQL
5 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.71%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.29%) Power Query
6 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.86%) Redis
7 2 (2.86%) Tableau
8 1 (1.43%) DTS
8 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) NUnit
2 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 16 (22.86%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.14%) Law
5 3 (4.29%) Legal
5 3 (4.29%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Developer
2 15 (21.43%) Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Applications Support
3 11 (15.71%) Support Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
4 10 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Graduate
6 8 (11.43%) C# Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (10.00%) SQL Developer
8 6 (8.57%) SQL Analyst
9 5 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
9 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Support Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) .NET Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Applications Support Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Graduate Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Graduate Software Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.00%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 7 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 7 (10.00%) CSS
3 6 (8.57%) React
4 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.14%) HTML
4 5 (7.14%) Terraform
4 5 (7.14%) YAML
5 4 (5.71%) jQuery
5 4 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.71%) XML
6 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.29%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.29%) JSON
6 3 (4.29%) Node.js
6 3 (4.29%) WinForms
7 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.86%) Google Maps API
7 2 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) IoT
2 5 (7.14%) Replication
3 4 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.86%) Tandem
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) CUDA
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Robotics
5 1 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.86%) Windows
2 16 (22.86%) Linux
3 12 (17.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.71%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.71%) VMS
5 2 (2.86%) Solaris
5 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (24.29%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (20.00%) Agile
4 12 (17.14%) AI
4 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (17.14%) DevOps
4 12 (17.14%) Mentoring
5 11 (15.71%) High Availability
6 10 (14.29%) ERP
6 10 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.86%) ETL
7 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (11.43%) Microservices
8 8 (11.43%) Systems Engineering
9 7 (10.00%) Customer Service
10 6 (8.57%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (8.57%) MVC
10 6 (8.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) SQL
2 27 (38.57%) C#
3 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.29%) Python
5 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (8.57%) PHP
7 5 (7.14%) Bash
8 4 (5.71%) C++
8 4 (5.71%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.29%) Java
10 2 (2.86%) Delphi
10 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.43%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.43%) Rust
11 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.00%) Docker
3 5 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.71%) vSphere
5 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (5.71%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (55.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (7.14%) Sage
2 5 (7.14%) SAP
2 5 (7.14%) VMware
3 4 (5.71%) Oracle
4 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.86%) Databricks
5 2 (2.86%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) IFS
5 2 (2.86%) Sybase
5 2 (2.86%) Veracode
6 1 (1.43%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) OpenAI