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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 46 41
Rank change year-on-year -52 -5 +9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 68 131 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.33% 5.97% 4.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.17% 47.12% 37.48%
Number of salaries quoted 55 85 198
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,750 £32,125
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -4.74%
75th Percentile £63,525 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.65%

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 396 278 619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.73% 12.67% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 211 193 392
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,013 £31,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,051 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £69,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -39 25 £42,500 -12.37% 2
Northamptonshire -19 19 £59,366 +18.73% 2
Nottinghamshire -19 18 £35,000 -39.13% 9
Lincolnshire -20 3 £36,000 +9.30% 3
Derbyshire -23 1 £55,000 +29.41% 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 5 (7.35%) IIS
2 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.47%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Exchequer
1 4 (5.88%) Primavera
2 2 (2.94%) Sage 200
2 2 (2.94%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.88%) Azure
2 17 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.76%) AWS
5 7 (10.29%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.29%) IaaS
5 7 (10.29%) PaaS
6 6 (8.82%) SaaS
7 5 (7.35%) npm
7 5 (7.35%) NuGet
7 5 (7.35%) SonarCloud
8 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.88%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.94%) GCP
9 2 (2.94%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Firewall
2 8 (11.76%) MQTT
2 8 (11.76%) VPN
3 5 (7.35%) DNS
4 4 (5.88%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (1.47%) DHCP
5 1 (1.47%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (1.47%) DMZ
5 1 (1.47%) FTP
5 1 (1.47%) HTTP
5 1 (1.47%) Intranet
5 1 (1.47%) RTP
5 1 (1.47%) RTSP
5 1 (1.47%) SCTP
5 1 (1.47%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.47%) SS7
5 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.47%) VoIP
5 1 (1.47%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) Power BI
2 8 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 8 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.35%) MySQL
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.88%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.41%) Power Query
6 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.94%) Redis
8 1 (1.47%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) DTS
8 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.47%) NUnit
3 1 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.47%) Finance
3 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (19.12%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.35%) Law
6 4 (5.88%) Legal
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (1.47%) Advertising
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) Analyst
2 12 (17.65%) C# Developer
3 11 (16.18%) Applications Support
4 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Support Analyst
6 6 (8.82%) SQL Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) ERP Support
8 4 (5.88%) Graduate C# Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) .NET
2 8 (11.76%) XML
3 7 (10.29%) CSS
3 7 (10.29%) React
3 7 (10.29%) WinForms
4 6 (8.82%) .NET Core
4 6 (8.82%) .NET Framework
5 5 (7.35%) HTML
5 5 (7.35%) jQuery
5 5 (7.35%) Node.js
5 5 (7.35%) YAML
6 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.41%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.41%) JSON
8 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.94%) Google Maps API
8 2 (2.94%) REST
8 2 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) IoT
2 8 (11.76%) Replication
3 5 (7.35%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.88%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.47%) CUDA
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.47%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.47%) Life Science
6 1 (1.47%) Robotics
6 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.82%) Windows
2 16 (23.53%) Linux
3 13 (19.12%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.88%) VMS
5 2 (2.94%) Solaris
5 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (23.53%) Agile
4 14 (20.59%) DevOps
5 12 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 11 (16.18%) AI
6 11 (16.18%) High Availability
6 11 (16.18%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (14.71%) SDLC
8 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
8 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (11.76%) ERP
9 8 (11.76%) Microservices
9 8 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.29%) ETL
10 7 (10.29%) Migration
10 7 (10.29%) MVC
11 6 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) C#
2 26 (38.24%) SQL
3 13 (19.12%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.24%) Python
5 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.82%) Delphi
7 5 (7.35%) Bash
7 5 (7.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (7.35%) PHP
8 4 (5.88%) C++
8 4 (5.88%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.41%) Java
10 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.47%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.47%) R
11 1 (1.47%) Rust
11 1 (1.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.94%) ISO 22301
3 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.29%) Docker
3 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.88%) vSphere
5 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.35%) Terraform
4 4 (5.88%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (5.88%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (45.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) Oracle
3 6 (8.82%) Sage
3 6 (8.82%) VMware
4 5 (7.35%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (5.88%) SAP
6 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.94%) Google
7 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.94%) Sybase
8 1 (1.47%) Databricks
8 1 (1.47%) DevExpress