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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -43 -10 +31
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 78 99 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.30% 6.35% 8.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.74% 36.13% 49.32%
Number of salaries quoted 67 87 248
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,375 £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 £71,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,645 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,650 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% - -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 303 274 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.94% 17.59% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 178 218 472
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,625 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,125
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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -4 36 £48,000 -7.69% 8
Northamptonshire -6 23 £55,000 +15.79% 12
Nottinghamshire -15 13 £75,000 +36.36% 9
Derbyshire -41 3 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Lincolnshire -28 1 £27,000 -16.92% 2
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 6 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.85%) CMS
5 2 (2.56%) Apache
6 1 (1.28%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Exchequer
1 3 (3.85%) Primavera
1 3 (3.85%) Sage 200
2 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.56%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (47.44%) Azure
2 16 (20.51%) Power Platform
3 15 (19.23%) AWS
4 9 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.26%) SaaS
6 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (7.69%) npm
6 6 (7.69%) NuGet
6 6 (7.69%) SonarCloud
7 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.41%) GCP
7 5 (6.41%) IaaS
7 5 (6.41%) PaaS
8 4 (5.13%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.56%) ChatGPT
10 2 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.56%) GitHub
10 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) VPN
2 4 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.56%) Intranet
4 1 (1.28%) Firewall
4 1 (1.28%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (1.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) Power BI
2 10 (12.82%) Relational Database
3 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (8.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (8.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.41%) Redis
8 3 (3.85%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.28%) MySQL
10 1 (1.28%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (16.67%) 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 12 (15.38%) Finance
3 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Law
4 6 (7.69%) Games
5 4 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (34.62%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) C# Developer
3 16 (20.51%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) Applications Support
5 8 (10.26%) DBA
6 7 (8.97%) Architect
6 7 (8.97%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.97%) SQL DBA
7 6 (7.69%) Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.13%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (38.46%) .NET
2 15 (19.23%) .NET Core
3 11 (14.10%) XML
4 10 (12.82%) WinForms
5 8 (10.26%) React
6 7 (8.97%) CSS
6 7 (8.97%) HTML
7 6 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 6 (7.69%) DirectX
7 6 (7.69%) Node.js
7 6 (7.69%) OpenGL
7 6 (7.69%) YAML
8 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
8 5 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (5.13%) RESTful
10 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (3.85%) jQuery
11 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 2 (2.56%) JSON
11 2 (2.56%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (8.97%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.69%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (7.69%) Replication
4 5 (6.41%) Driving Licence
5 4 (5.13%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.13%) NHS
5 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.85%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.85%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.56%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.28%) IoT
8 1 (1.28%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.79%) Windows
2 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 7 (8.97%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
1 19 (24.36%) Software Engineering
2 18 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (23.08%) DevOps
3 16 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (17.95%) Microservices
5 12 (15.38%) Agile
5 12 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
6 11 (14.10%) SDLC
7 10 (12.82%) Migration
7 10 (12.82%) Roadmaps
8 9 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (8.97%) Analytics
9 7 (8.97%) ETL
9 7 (8.97%) Event-Driven
9 7 (8.97%) Reverse Engineering
9 7 (8.97%) Test Automation
10 6 (7.69%) CAD
10 6 (7.69%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.72%) C#
2 29 (37.18%) SQL
3 13 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 11 (14.10%) Delphi
5 10 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.69%) Bash
8 5 (6.41%) PHP
9 4 (5.13%) C
9 4 (5.13%) Java
10 2 (2.56%) Python
11 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (5.13%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) 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
3 3 (3.85%) SLA
4 2 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.97%) Docker
3 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (7.69%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) SCCM
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
5 1 (1.28%) Galera Cluster
5 1 (1.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.38%) Oracle
3 6 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (7.69%) Sage
4 4 (5.13%) SAP
5 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.28%) Adobe
6 1 (1.28%) Databricks
6 1 (1.28%) HubSpot