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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -49 -14 +25
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 69 122 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.48% 6.51% 5.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.45% 46.56% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 53 77 239
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,593 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,900 £62,750 £66,700
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -3.51%

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 374 262 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.03% 13.98% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 185 182 450
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,050 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £63,051 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,300 £67,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,875 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.07% +11.09% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -36 28 £45,000 -7.22% 3
Northamptonshire -9 26 £59,732 +19.46% 8
Nottinghamshire -22 10 £30,500 -44.55% 10
Lincolnshire -27 2 £27,000 -18.03% 2
Derbyshire -31 1 £55,000 +37.50% 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 7 (10.14%) IIS
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Exchequer
1 4 (5.80%) Primavera
1 4 (5.80%) Sage 200
2 2 (2.90%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.45%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.07%) Azure
2 19 (27.54%) Power Platform
3 10 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.59%) AWS
5 7 (10.14%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.14%) IaaS
5 7 (10.14%) npm
5 7 (10.14%) NuGet
5 7 (10.14%) PaaS
5 7 (10.14%) SonarCloud
6 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.80%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.80%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
8 2 (2.90%) GCP
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.45%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) Firewall
1 8 (11.59%) VPN
2 7 (10.14%) MQTT
3 5 (7.25%) DNS
4 3 (4.35%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.45%) DHCP
6 1 (1.45%) DMZ
6 1 (1.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) Power BI
2 12 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.14%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (5.80%) MySQL
5 4 (5.80%) Redis
6 3 (4.35%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (4.35%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.35%) Power Query
7 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.19%) Finance
3 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.80%) Law
6 3 (4.35%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Developer
2 15 (21.74%) C# Developer
3 12 (17.39%) Applications Support
4 11 (15.94%) Analyst
4 11 (15.94%) Senior
5 7 (10.14%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Software Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Support Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (7.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Operations Manager
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Support Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.64%) .NET
2 12 (17.39%) WinForms
3 11 (15.94%) XML
4 9 (13.04%) .NET Core
5 8 (11.59%) React
6 7 (10.14%) Node.js
6 7 (10.14%) YAML
7 6 (8.70%) .NET Framework
7 6 (8.70%) CSS
7 6 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (7.25%) jQuery
9 3 (4.35%) HTML
10 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
10 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.90%) REST
10 2 (2.90%) RESTful
11 1 (1.45%) Entity Framework
11 1 (1.45%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Replication
2 7 (10.14%) IoT
2 7 (10.14%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.80%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.90%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.45%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.45%) Life Science
5 1 (1.45%) NHS
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Robotics
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (36.23%) Windows
2 16 (23.19%) Linux
3 13 (18.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.80%) VMS
5 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.45%) Solaris
6 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (28.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (23.19%) DevOps
5 14 (20.29%) SDLC
6 12 (17.39%) Agile
6 12 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 11 (15.94%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.49%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (13.04%) Microservices
9 9 (13.04%) Migration
10 8 (11.59%) AI
10 8 (11.59%) High Availability
10 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (11.59%) Test Automation
11 7 (10.14%) DevSecOps
11 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (10.14%) Systems Engineering
12 6 (8.70%) Computer Science
13 5 (7.25%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 30 (43.48%) C#
2 24 (34.78%) SQL
3 16 (23.19%) PowerShell
4 11 (15.94%) Delphi
5 8 (11.59%) Python
6 7 (10.14%) Bash
7 5 (7.25%) PHP
8 4 (5.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.35%) C++
9 3 (4.35%) Java
10 1 (1.45%) C
10 1 (1.45%) R
10 1 (1.45%) Rust
10 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (5.80%) ISO 22301
2 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.80%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (23.19%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.04%) Docker
3 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.35%) vSphere
5 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Kubernetes
1 8 (11.59%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (10.14%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) Galera Cluster
3 3 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.90%) Grafana
5 1 (1.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (40.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) Oracle
3 8 (11.59%) Sage
4 7 (10.14%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (7.25%) VMware
6 3 (4.35%) SAP
6 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.45%) Databricks
8 1 (1.45%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.45%) Sybase