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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 51 69
Rank change year-on-year -61 +18 -36
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 63 107 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.00% 4.62% 3.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.45% 40.07% 27.71%
Number of salaries quoted 51 62 88
10th Percentile £25,000 £34,750 £34,250
25th Percentile £28,375 £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 £59,750 £53,438 £60,313
90th Percentile £72,250 £62,375 £79,375
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 383 267 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.09% 11.53% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 221 179 204
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% -5.87% -

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -5 21 £32,750 -43.04% 18
Leicestershire -40 20 £42,500 -12.37% 8
Northamptonshire -28 12 £59,732 +19.46% 7
Lincolnshire -16 9 £27,500 -29.82% 5
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 (3.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) SAP Business One
2 2 (3.17%) Exchequer
2 2 (3.17%) Primavera
3 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.59%) Sage 200
3 1 (1.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.79%) Azure
2 12 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 8 (12.70%) AWS
4 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.11%) SaaS
5 5 (7.94%) IaaS
5 5 (7.94%) PaaS
6 4 (6.35%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.35%) SonarCloud
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Stack
8 2 (3.17%) npm
8 2 (3.17%) NuGet
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.29%) Firewall
2 8 (12.70%) MQTT
2 8 (12.70%) VPN
3 5 (7.94%) DNS
4 4 (6.35%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (1.59%) DHCP
5 1 (1.59%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (1.59%) DMZ
5 1 (1.59%) FTP
5 1 (1.59%) HTTP
5 1 (1.59%) RTP
5 1 (1.59%) RTSP
5 1 (1.59%) SCTP
5 1 (1.59%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.59%) SS7
5 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.59%) VoIP
5 1 (1.59%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) Power BI
2 8 (12.70%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.94%) MySQL
4 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (6.35%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.76%) Power Query
6 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.17%) Redis
7 2 (3.17%) Tableau
8 1 (1.59%) DTS
8 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) NUnit
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (26.98%) Finance
4 16 (25.40%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.94%) Law
6 3 (4.76%) Legal
6 3 (4.76%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Advertising
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Developer
2 11 (17.46%) Analyst
3 9 (14.29%) Graduate
3 9 (14.29%) Senior
3 9 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Applications Support
4 7 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 7 (11.11%) SQL Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 6 (9.52%) SQL Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) C# Software Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Graduate Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Graduate Software Developer
7 4 (6.35%) SAP Support
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.16%) .NET
2 6 (9.52%) CSS
3 5 (7.94%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.94%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.94%) ASP.NET
4 4 (6.35%) HTML
4 4 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.35%) React
4 4 (6.35%) Terraform
4 4 (6.35%) YAML
5 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (4.76%) jQuery
5 3 (4.76%) JSON
5 3 (4.76%) XML
6 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.17%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.17%) Google Maps API
6 2 (3.17%) Node.js
6 2 (3.17%) PySpark
6 2 (3.17%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) IoT
2 5 (7.94%) Replication
3 4 (6.35%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.17%) Tandem
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) CUDA
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.59%) Robotics
6 1 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.57%) Windows
2 15 (23.81%) Linux
3 8 (12.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.35%) Ubuntu
4 4 (6.35%) VMS
5 2 (3.17%) Solaris
5 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (25.40%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (22.22%) Agile
4 12 (19.05%) AI
5 11 (17.46%) High Availability
5 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
6 10 (15.87%) DevOps
6 10 (15.87%) ERP
7 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (14.29%) ETL
7 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (12.70%) CI/CD
8 8 (12.70%) Systems Engineering
9 7 (11.11%) Customer Service
10 6 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.52%) Microservices
11 5 (7.94%) Data Integration
11 5 (7.94%) Data Modelling
11 5 (7.94%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.97%) SQL
2 24 (38.10%) C#
3 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
3 10 (15.87%) Python
4 6 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.52%) PHP
5 4 (6.35%) Bash
5 4 (6.35%) C++
5 4 (6.35%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.76%) Java
7 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) Delphi
8 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.59%) Rust
8 1 (1.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.52%) Docker
3 5 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.35%) vSphere
5 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.35%) Galera Cluster
2 4 (6.35%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) SAP
2 5 (7.94%) VMware
3 4 (6.35%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) Sage
5 2 (3.17%) Databricks
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) IFS
5 2 (3.17%) Sybase
5 2 (3.17%) Veracode
6 1 (1.59%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow