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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 30 65
Rank change year-on-year -25 +35 -40
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 123 262 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.62% 5.54% 4.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 44.09% 36.44% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 78 241 114
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £26,400
25th Percentile £41,563 £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 £54,688 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,375 £66,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year - -3.08% +3.18%

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 279 719 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.48% 15.21% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 188 451 279
10th Percentile £31,775 £31,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £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 28 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 28 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 +11 48 £50,000 +33.33% 49
Leicestershire +17 29 £48,500 +7.78% 54
Derbyshire -5 21 £42,500 -15.00% 84
Nottinghamshire -26 19 £55,000 +10.00% 51
Lincolnshire -5 5 £32,938 -12.17% 44
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 (27.64%) Confluence
2 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.69%) IIS
4 6 (4.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.81%) Moqups
2 1 (0.81%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.63%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 96 (78.05%) Azure
2 42 (34.15%) AWS
3 36 (29.27%) GCP
4 21 (17.07%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.94%) IaaS
6 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.88%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.25%) PaaS
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.63%) GitHub
11 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.81%) Figma
11 1 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) DHCP
1 11 (8.94%) DNS
2 9 (7.32%) Firewall
3 6 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (4.88%) SAN
4 3 (2.44%) LAN
4 3 (2.44%) VPN
4 3 (2.44%) WAN
5 2 (1.63%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.63%) Wireless
6 1 (0.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.45%) Power BI
1 19 (15.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 17 (13.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (13.01%) Data Lake
3 16 (13.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.69%) MySQL
6 6 (4.88%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.81%) Big Data
9 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (32.52%) JIRA
2 39 (31.71%) Bitbucket
2 39 (31.71%) Cucumber
2 39 (31.71%) GitLab
2 39 (31.71%) Maven
2 39 (31.71%) Selenium
2 39 (31.71%) SonarQube
2 39 (31.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (8.94%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.81%) Git
4 1 (0.81%) NUnit
4 1 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 58 (47.15%) Finance
2 45 (36.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (31.71%) Banking
4 22 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (13.82%) Social Skills
6 15 (12.20%) Law
7 9 (7.32%) Retail
8 5 (4.07%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Marketing
10 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Games
11 1 (0.81%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (31.71%) Software Engineer
2 22 (17.89%) Developer
3 11 (8.94%) Analyst
3 11 (8.94%) Data Engineer
4 10 (8.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (8.13%) DBA
5 8 (6.50%) Administrator
5 8 (6.50%) C# Developer
5 8 (6.50%) SQL DBA
5 8 (6.50%) SQL Developer
6 7 (5.69%) .NET Developer
6 7 (5.69%) Lead
6 7 (5.69%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support
7 6 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (4.88%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) Project Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) Team Leader
8 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (34.15%) React
2 41 (33.33%) CSS
2 41 (33.33%) HTML
3 39 (31.71%) JPA
3 39 (31.71%) Kafka
3 39 (31.71%) Redux
3 39 (31.71%) Spring
3 39 (31.71%) Spring Boot
4 34 (27.64%) Hibernate
5 16 (13.01%) .NET
6 10 (8.13%) REST
7 7 (5.69%) .NET Core
7 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.88%) Jest
9 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (4.07%) CSS3
9 5 (4.07%) HTML5
9 5 (4.07%) RESTful
9 5 (4.07%) Sass
10 4 (3.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (31.71%) Enterprise Software
1 39 (31.71%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.13%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.07%) Replication
4 3 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.63%) Robotics
6 1 (0.81%) Clustering
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.07%) Windows
2 20 (16.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (39.84%) DevOps
2 46 (37.40%) Agile
2 46 (37.40%) SDLC
3 44 (35.77%) Software Engineering
4 42 (34.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (34.15%) Microservices
5 41 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 41 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 41 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (31.71%) Containerisation
6 39 (31.71%) Performance Optimisation
6 39 (31.71%) Test Automation
7 34 (27.64%) Clean Code
7 34 (27.64%) TDD
8 28 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (15.45%) ETL
11 17 (13.82%) Data Analysis
12 15 (12.20%) Analytics
13 10 (8.13%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (68.29%) SQL
2 50 (40.65%) JavaScript
3 41 (33.33%) Java
4 23 (18.70%) T-SQL
5 17 (13.82%) C#
6 7 (5.69%) Python
7 6 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.25%) PHP
9 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.63%) C++
10 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (4.07%) Degree
2 4 (3.25%) DBS Check
2 4 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) MCP
4 2 (1.63%) MCSA
4 2 (1.63%) MCSE
4 2 (1.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (33.33%) QA
2 12 (9.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (31.71%) Docker
2 21 (17.07%) Active Directory
3 16 (13.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (8.13%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.88%) Terminal Services
5 6 (4.88%) vSphere
6 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (32.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.25%) SCCM
2 4 (3.25%) Terraform
3 3 (2.44%) SCOM
4 2 (1.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.81%) Autotask
5 1 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 45 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 39 (31.71%) Solace
3 17 (13.82%) VMware
4 11 (8.94%) Databricks
5 6 (4.88%) Dell
5 6 (4.88%) HP
5 6 (4.88%) NetApp
5 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.63%) arcserve
6 2 (1.63%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.63%) Zoho
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) SnapLogic