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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 49 49
Rank change year-on-year -57 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 69 123 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.17% 5.35% 3.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.21% 43.01% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 55 77 121
10th Percentile £25,800 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £37,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £59,750 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £71,050 £61,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 401 286 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.80% 12.44% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 224 196 255
10th Percentile £29,475 £29,156 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,051 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -2.11% -3.85%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -42 25 £42,500 -12.37% 4
Nottinghamshire -14 21 £32,750 -43.04% 7
Northamptonshire -24 14 £59,732 +19.46% 6
Lincolnshire -15 7 £27,500 -3.08% 6
Derbyshire -33 1 £55,000 +22.22% 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 3 (4.35%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Exchequer
1 4 (5.80%) Primavera
1 4 (5.80%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.45%) Sage 200
2 1 (1.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (56.52%) Azure
2 14 (20.29%) Power Platform
3 9 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.04%) IaaS
3 9 (13.04%) PaaS
3 9 (13.04%) SaaS
4 8 (11.59%) AWS
5 7 (10.14%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.25%) SonarCloud
7 4 (5.80%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.35%) npm
8 3 (4.35%) NuGet
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.04%) Firewall
2 8 (11.59%) MQTT
2 8 (11.59%) VPN
3 5 (7.25%) DNS
4 4 (5.80%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (1.45%) DHCP
5 1 (1.45%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (1.45%) DMZ
5 1 (1.45%) FTP
5 1 (1.45%) HTTP
5 1 (1.45%) RTP
5 1 (1.45%) RTSP
5 1 (1.45%) SCTP
5 1 (1.45%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.45%) SS7
5 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.45%) VoIP
5 1 (1.45%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Power BI
2 8 (11.59%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.14%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (7.25%) MySQL
6 4 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.80%) Neo4j
7 3 (4.35%) Power Query
7 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.90%) Redis
8 2 (2.90%) Tableau
9 1 (1.45%) DTS
9 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) NUnit
2 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Finance
3 16 (23.19%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.25%) Law
5 3 (4.35%) Legal
5 3 (4.35%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Advertising
7 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (31.88%) Developer
2 14 (20.29%) Analyst
3 11 (15.94%) Applications Support
4 10 (14.49%) Senior
4 10 (14.49%) Software Developer
4 10 (14.49%) Support Analyst
5 9 (13.04%) C# Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (10.14%) Graduate
6 7 (10.14%) SQL Developer
7 5 (7.25%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) SQL Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) ERP Support
8 4 (5.80%) Graduate C# Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.43%) .NET
2 7 (10.14%) .NET Core
2 7 (10.14%) .NET Framework
2 7 (10.14%) CSS
3 6 (8.70%) React
4 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.25%) HTML
4 5 (7.25%) XML
4 5 (7.25%) YAML
5 4 (5.80%) jQuery
5 4 (5.80%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.80%) WinForms
6 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.35%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.35%) JSON
6 3 (4.35%) Node.js
7 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (2.90%) Google Maps API
7 2 (2.90%) PySpark
7 2 (2.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) IoT
2 5 (7.25%) Replication
3 4 (5.80%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.90%) Tandem
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) CUDA
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.45%) Robotics
5 1 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.33%) Windows
2 16 (23.19%) Linux
3 12 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.80%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.80%) VMS
5 2 (2.90%) Solaris
5 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (20.29%) Agile
4 13 (18.84%) DevOps
4 13 (18.84%) Mentoring
5 12 (17.39%) AI
5 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (15.94%) High Availability
7 10 (14.49%) ERP
7 10 (14.49%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 9 (13.04%) ETL
8 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (11.59%) Microservices
9 8 (11.59%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (10.14%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.14%) SDLC
11 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (8.70%) MVC
12 5 (7.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (46.38%) SQL
2 28 (40.58%) C#
3 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.49%) Python
5 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (8.70%) PHP
7 5 (7.25%) Bash
8 4 (5.80%) C++
8 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.35%) Delphi
9 3 (4.35%) Java
10 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.45%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.45%) Rust
11 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.14%) Docker
3 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.80%) vSphere
5 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.25%) Terraform
4 4 (5.80%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (5.80%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (7.25%) Oracle
2 5 (7.25%) Sage
2 5 (7.25%) SAP
2 5 (7.25%) VMware
3 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.90%) Databricks
4 2 (2.90%) Google
4 2 (2.90%) IFS
4 2 (2.90%) Sybase
4 2 (2.90%) Veracode
5 1 (1.45%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAI