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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 27 21
Rank change year-on-year -49 -6 +36
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 82 94 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.32% 6.53% 7.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.39% 35.88% 46.81%
Number of salaries quoted 68 90 246
10th Percentile £31,600 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £38,188 £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 £69,313 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,544 £61,375 £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 323 262 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.13% 18.19% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 181 222 473
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
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 25 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 25 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 -5 38 £47,500 -8.65% 8
Northamptonshire -12 24 £55,000 +12.82% 8
Nottinghamshire -15 14 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Derbyshire -40 3 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Lincolnshire -28 1 £27,000 -16.92% 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 8 (9.76%) IIS
2 6 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.44%) Apache
4 2 (2.44%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Exchequer
1 4 (4.88%) Primavera
2 3 (3.66%) Sage 200
3 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.44%) SAP Business One
3 2 (2.44%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (48.78%) Azure
2 17 (20.73%) Power Platform
3 15 (18.29%) AWS
4 11 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (10.98%) SaaS
6 7 (8.54%) Entra ID
6 7 (8.54%) IaaS
6 7 (8.54%) npm
6 7 (8.54%) NuGet
6 7 (8.54%) PaaS
6 7 (8.54%) SonarCloud
7 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.10%) GCP
9 4 (4.88%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.66%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.44%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.44%) GitHub
11 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) VPN
2 4 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) Firewall
3 2 (2.44%) Intranet
3 2 (2.44%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (2.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.29%) Power BI
2 11 (13.41%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.54%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (6.10%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.88%) Redis
8 3 (3.66%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.44%) MySQL
9 2 (2.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.22%) GitLab
3 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) JUnit
3 1 (1.22%) Selenium
3 1 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.85%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Law
4 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Games
6 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Marketing
10 1 (1.22%) Legal
10 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) Developer
2 18 (21.95%) C# Developer
3 16 (19.51%) Senior
4 11 (13.41%) Applications Support
5 8 (9.76%) Analyst
6 7 (8.54%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (8.54%) Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) DBA
6 7 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Support Analyst
7 6 (7.32%) Senior C# Developer
7 6 (7.32%) SQL DBA
8 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) IT Operations Manager
9 4 (4.88%) Lead
9 4 (4.88%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (35.37%) .NET
2 16 (19.51%) .NET Core
3 12 (14.63%) XML
4 11 (13.41%) WinForms
5 9 (10.98%) React
6 7 (8.54%) Node.js
6 7 (8.54%) YAML
7 6 (7.32%) .NET Framework
7 6 (7.32%) CSS
7 6 (7.32%) DirectX
7 6 (7.32%) OpenGL
8 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.10%) HTML
8 5 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.88%) jQuery
9 4 (4.88%) RESTful
10 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (2.44%) JSON
10 2 (2.44%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (8.54%) Replication
3 6 (7.32%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.32%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.88%) NHS
4 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.66%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.66%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.66%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.44%) IoT
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.22%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.22%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.39%) Windows
2 9 (10.98%) Linux
2 9 (10.98%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
1 20 (24.39%) DevOps
1 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (21.95%) Software Engineering
3 17 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (19.51%) Microservices
5 14 (17.07%) Agile
5 14 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
6 12 (14.63%) SDLC
7 11 (13.41%) Migration
7 11 (13.41%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (12.20%) Roadmaps
9 8 (9.76%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.54%) DevSecOps
10 7 (8.54%) Event-Driven
10 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (7.32%) Mathematics
11 6 (7.32%) Reverse Engineering
11 6 (7.32%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) C#
2 29 (35.37%) SQL
3 12 (14.63%) Delphi
3 12 (14.63%) T-SQL
4 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.54%) Bash
6 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.32%) PHP
7 5 (6.10%) Java
8 4 (4.88%) C
8 4 (4.88%) Python
9 1 (1.22%) C++
9 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.22%) R
9 1 (1.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) Degree
2 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (4.88%) ISO 22301
2 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.66%) SLA
4 2 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 14 (17.07%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.76%) Docker
3 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (8.54%) Terraform
4 4 (4.88%) SCCM
5 3 (3.66%) Grafana
6 2 (2.44%) Galera Cluster
6 2 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.85%) Oracle
3 7 (8.54%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (8.54%) Sage
4 4 (4.88%) SAP
5 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.66%) VMware
6 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.22%) Adobe
7 1 (1.22%) Databricks
7 1 (1.22%) HubSpot