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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 59 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 -39 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 67 117 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.05% 3.38% 8.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.13% 35.78% 42.90%
Number of salaries quoted 46 69 137
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,000 £36,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £56,625 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £83,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

All Database and 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 230 327 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.47% 9.43% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 160 170 288
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £36,100
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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
Derbyshire -11 21 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Leicestershire +8 17 £48,500 +1.57% 13
Northamptonshire +17 16 £25,500 -21.54% 9
Nottinghamshire -17 12 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Lincolnshire -5 1 £50,000 +17.65% 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 14 (20.90%) Confluence
2 6 (8.96%) CMS
3 5 (7.46%) IIS
4 3 (4.48%) Apache
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Exchequer
2 3 (4.48%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (68.66%) Azure
2 27 (40.30%) AWS
3 26 (38.81%) GCP
4 20 (29.85%) Power Platform
5 8 (11.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (11.94%) Snowflake
6 6 (8.96%) SaaS
7 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.48%) ChatGPT
9 3 (4.48%) GitHub
9 3 (4.48%) Sage Pay
10 2 (2.99%) IaaS
10 2 (2.99%) PaaS
10 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.49%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.85%) Power BI
2 15 (22.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (17.91%) Data Lake
4 10 (14.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (13.43%) NoSQL
6 8 (11.94%) BigQuery
7 6 (8.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (7.46%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (7.46%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (7.46%) EDRMS
8 5 (7.46%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (7.46%) GIS
9 4 (5.97%) MySQL
10 2 (2.99%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.49%) Redis
11 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) GitLab
1 20 (29.85%) JIRA
2 18 (26.87%) Bitbucket
2 18 (26.87%) Cucumber
2 18 (26.87%) Maven
2 18 (26.87%) Selenium
2 18 (26.87%) SonarQube
2 18 (26.87%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (10.45%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (40.30%) Finance
2 18 (26.87%) Banking
2 18 (26.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
4 12 (17.91%) Law
4 12 (17.91%) Retail
5 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.46%) Legal
6 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.97%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (5.97%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (40.30%) Developer
2 21 (31.34%) Software Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) SQL Developer
4 7 (10.45%) .NET Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Applications Support
4 7 (10.45%) C# Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Database Developer
5 6 (8.96%) SQL Database Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Applications Support Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Architect
6 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (7.46%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (7.46%) DBA
6 5 (7.46%) Junior
6 5 (7.46%) Junior Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Product Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (46.27%) CSS
1 31 (46.27%) HTML
2 21 (31.34%) .NET
3 19 (28.36%) React
4 18 (26.87%) JPA
4 18 (26.87%) Kafka
4 18 (26.87%) Redux
4 18 (26.87%) Spring
4 18 (26.87%) Spring Boot
5 14 (20.90%) Hibernate
6 11 (16.42%) REST
7 10 (14.93%) ASP.NET
8 8 (11.94%) RESTful
9 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (8.96%) CSS3
10 6 (8.96%) HTML5
11 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 4 (5.97%) Jest
12 4 (5.97%) Laravel
12 4 (5.97%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.85%) Product Ownership
2 18 (26.87%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.46%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.46%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.48%) Legacy Code
4 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.49%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
1 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.27%) DevOps
2 27 (40.30%) Software Engineering
3 25 (37.31%) Agile
4 24 (35.82%) Microservices
5 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
6 20 (29.85%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (29.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (28.36%) Front End Development
7 19 (28.36%) Performance Optimisation
7 19 (28.36%) SDLC
7 19 (28.36%) Test Automation
8 18 (26.87%) Clean Code
8 18 (26.87%) Containerisation
8 18 (26.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (23.88%) TDD
10 11 (16.42%) Mentoring
11 10 (14.93%) MVC
12 9 (13.43%) Data Analysis
12 9 (13.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (79.10%) SQL
2 33 (49.25%) JavaScript
3 18 (26.87%) C#
3 18 (26.87%) Java
4 14 (20.90%) T-SQL
5 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.97%) PHP
7 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.49%) Python
8 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) Degree
2 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (28.36%) QA
2 7 (10.45%) GDPR
3 5 (7.46%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (28.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Solace
2 12 (17.91%) Databricks
3 9 (13.43%) Salesforce
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.46%) Capita
5 5 (7.46%) Civica
5 5 (7.46%) NEC
6 3 (4.48%) OpenAI
6 3 (4.48%) Oracle
6 3 (4.48%) SAP
7 2 (2.99%) Adobe
8 1 (1.49%) HubSpot