SQL Server Jobs in the East Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 28 67
Rank change year-on-year -31 +39 -42
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 133 256 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.79% 5.70% 4.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 45.24% 35.85% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 89 234 113
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,625 £26,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,425 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,001
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%

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 294 714 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.59% 15.88% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 206 445 283
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 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 19 May 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
Northamptonshire +9 49 £50,000 +33.33% 12
Leicestershire +19 34 £49,250 +9.44% 14
Derbyshire -9 23 £42,500 -15.00% 12
Nottinghamshire -27 20 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Lincolnshire -6 6 £28,375 -24.33% 4
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (25.56%) Confluence
2 10 (7.52%) IIS
3 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) Moqups
2 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.50%) Odoo
2 1 (0.75%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 99 (74.44%) Azure
2 41 (30.83%) AWS
3 34 (25.56%) GCP
4 20 (15.04%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.52%) IaaS
6 7 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.26%) GitHub
8 3 (2.26%) PaaS
9 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.75%) Figma
10 1 (0.75%) Intacct
10 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.77%) Firewall
2 12 (9.02%) DHCP
2 12 (9.02%) DNS
3 9 (6.77%) SAN
4 7 (5.26%) VPN
5 6 (4.51%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (2.26%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.26%) LAN
6 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.26%) WAN
6 3 (2.26%) Wireless
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 17 (12.78%) Power BI
3 16 (12.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (11.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (11.28%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (10.53%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.02%) MySQL
7 5 (3.76%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.75%) Big Data
9 1 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 40 (30.08%) JIRA
2 39 (29.32%) Bitbucket
2 39 (29.32%) Cucumber
2 39 (29.32%) GitLab
2 39 (29.32%) Maven
2 39 (29.32%) Selenium
2 39 (29.32%) SonarQube
2 39 (29.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (9.02%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.50%) Git
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) NUnit
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 59 (44.36%) Finance
2 45 (33.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (29.32%) Banking
4 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (14.29%) Law
6 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
7 7 (5.26%) Retail
8 5 (3.76%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.26%) Marketing
10 2 (1.50%) Legal
10 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
11 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (30.08%) Software Engineer
2 26 (19.55%) Developer
3 12 (9.02%) Analyst
4 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (7.52%) DBA
6 9 (6.77%) Administrator
7 8 (6.02%) C# Developer
7 8 (6.02%) SQL DBA
8 7 (5.26%) .NET Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Lead
8 7 (5.26%) Project Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (4.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (4.51%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Team Leader
10 5 (3.76%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (3.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (33.83%) CSS
1 45 (33.83%) HTML
2 42 (31.58%) React
3 39 (29.32%) JPA
3 39 (29.32%) Kafka
3 39 (29.32%) Redux
3 39 (29.32%) Spring
3 39 (29.32%) Spring Boot
4 34 (25.56%) Hibernate
5 21 (15.79%) .NET
6 11 (8.27%) REST
7 9 (6.77%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.02%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.51%) Jest
9 6 (4.51%) jQuery
9 6 (4.51%) RESTful
9 6 (4.51%) SOAP
10 5 (3.76%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (3.76%) CSS3
10 5 (3.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.32%) Enterprise Software
1 39 (29.32%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.52%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.76%) Replication
4 4 (3.01%) Clustering
5 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.26%) Robotics
6 2 (1.50%) CMDB
6 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.55%) Windows
2 24 (18.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.09%) Agile
2 47 (35.34%) SDLC
3 46 (34.59%) DevOps
4 45 (33.83%) Software Engineering
5 43 (32.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (32.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (32.33%) Microservices
6 41 (30.83%) CI/CD
6 41 (30.83%) Front End Development
7 39 (29.32%) Containerisation
7 39 (29.32%) Performance Optimisation
7 39 (29.32%) Test Automation
8 34 (25.56%) Clean Code
8 34 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (25.56%) TDD
9 19 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (14.29%) ETL
10 17 (12.78%) Data Analysis
11 14 (10.53%) Analytics
12 11 (8.27%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 88 (66.17%) SQL
2 54 (40.60%) JavaScript
3 41 (30.83%) Java
4 23 (17.29%) C#
4 23 (17.29%) T-SQL
5 10 (7.52%) Python
6 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.01%) PHP
9 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.50%) C++
10 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.50%) VB
11 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Degree
2 4 (3.01%) DBS Check
2 4 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.50%) MCP
4 2 (1.50%) MCSA
4 2 (1.50%) MCSE
4 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (31.58%) QA
2 11 (8.27%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (29.32%) Docker
2 22 (16.54%) Active Directory
3 16 (12.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.52%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.51%) Terminal Services
5 6 (4.51%) vSphere
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (30.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.01%) SCCM
3 3 (2.26%) SCOM
3 3 (2.26%) Terraform
4 2 (1.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.75%) Autotask
5 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 49 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 39 (29.32%) Solace
3 17 (12.78%) VMware
4 8 (6.02%) Databricks
5 6 (4.51%) Dell
5 6 (4.51%) HP
5 6 (4.51%) NetApp
6 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.50%) arcserve
7 2 (1.50%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.50%) Zoho
8 1 (0.75%) Adobe
8 1 (0.75%) Apple
8 1 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.75%) IBM
8 1 (0.75%) Sage
8 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.75%) Xamarin