SQL Job Trends in the East Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 266 285 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 10.55% 12.41% 19.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.15% 45.02% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 220 185 271
10th Percentile £27,450 £31,250 £32,140
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,313 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £67,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £56,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% - -

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 428 633 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.98% 27.56% 38.99%
Number of salaries quoted 350 384 537
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SQL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SQL
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in the East Midlands

SQL
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 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Nottinghamshire +6 101 £35,000 -26.32% 39
Northamptonshire +10 51 £58,750 +11.90% 23
Lincolnshire +9 42 £30,000 -47.83% 15
Leicestershire -3 41 £45,390 +6.80% 21
Derbyshire -19 28 £60,000 +41.18% 18
SQL
England

SQL
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 10 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) CICS
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) SAP Business One
2 3 (1.13%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.75%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.75%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (31.58%) Azure
2 63 (23.68%) Power Platform
3 57 (21.43%) SaaS
4 30 (11.28%) Azure AI
5 28 (10.53%) AWS
6 11 (4.14%) Serverless
7 10 (3.76%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.76%) GCP
8 9 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.26%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.50%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.13%) GitHub
12 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.13%) PaaS
12 3 (1.13%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (14.66%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (2.26%) Firewall
3 5 (1.88%) DHCP
3 5 (1.88%) DNS
3 5 (1.88%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.88%) VPN
4 2 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (23.31%) Power BI
2 51 (19.17%) Tableau
3 33 (12.41%) SQL Server
4 17 (6.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 11 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.38%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.63%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.88%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.50%) Redis
12 3 (1.13%) Big Data
12 3 (1.13%) MySQL
12 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.13%) Power Query
13 2 (0.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (3.76%) Git
2 2 (0.75%) GitLab
2 2 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 108 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 79 (29.70%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (19.92%) Retail
4 44 (16.54%) Law
5 38 (14.29%) Marketing
6 27 (10.15%) Finance
7 23 (8.65%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.01%) Games
10 7 (2.63%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.50%) Local Government
11 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.13%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.38%) Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 116 (43.61%) Analyst
2 66 (24.81%) 2nd Line Support
3 55 (20.68%) Data Analyst
4 53 (19.92%) Developer
5 50 (18.80%) Support Analyst
6 41 (15.41%) Senior
7 40 (15.04%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 37 (13.91%) Junior
9 35 (13.16%) Junior Analyst
10 30 (11.28%) Junior Data Analyst
11 27 (10.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 17 (6.39%) Senior Developer
13 15 (5.64%) Data Engineer
14 14 (5.26%) ERP Analyst
14 14 (5.26%) Lead
15 13 (4.89%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
15 13 (4.89%) ERP Support
15 13 (4.89%) SaaS Analyst
15 13 (4.89%) Software Analyst
15 13 (4.89%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.40%) .NET
2 24 (9.02%) HTML
3 20 (7.52%) CSS
4 18 (6.77%) React
5 17 (6.39%) Node.js
6 16 (6.02%) .NET Core
7 8 (3.01%) REST
8 7 (2.63%) ASP.NET
8 7 (2.63%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (2.26%) DirectX
9 6 (2.26%) OpenGL
10 4 (1.50%) Laravel
10 4 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.13%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.13%) CSS3
11 3 (1.13%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.13%) HTML5
11 3 (1.13%) SOAP
12 2 (0.75%) JSON
12 2 (0.75%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.17%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.26%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (1.88%) iSeries
5 5 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.50%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.13%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.13%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Replication
8 2 (0.75%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.75%) Mashup
8 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.38%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.38%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.38%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.01%) Windows
2 6 (2.26%) Linux
3 2 (0.75%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.46%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (23.68%) Mentoring
3 60 (22.56%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (22.56%) CRM
4 58 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (19.17%) Logistics
6 48 (18.05%) E-Commerce
7 47 (17.67%) ERP
8 45 (16.92%) Customer Service
8 45 (16.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 39 (14.66%) Analytical Thinking
9 39 (14.66%) Data Privacy
10 37 (13.91%) AI
11 30 (11.28%) Analytics
12 27 (10.15%) Incident Management
13 26 (9.77%) Software Engineering
14 25 (9.40%) Decision-Making
15 22 (8.27%) Batch Management
15 22 (8.27%) Data Science
15 22 (8.27%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (33.46%) Python
2 63 (23.68%) C#
3 26 (9.77%) JavaScript
4 18 (6.77%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.51%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.26%) PHP
7 5 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.75%) Bash
9 2 (0.75%) C
9 2 (0.75%) Java
9 2 (0.75%) Perl
9 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.38%) COBOL
10 1 (0.38%) JCL
10 1 (0.38%) Natural
10 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (12.03%) Degree
2 31 (11.65%) Azure Certification
3 29 (10.90%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.90%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.01%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.26%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.75%) HND
6 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.75%) PMP
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.78%) QA
2 25 (9.40%) SLA
3 21 (7.89%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.14%) GDPR
5 10 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) MOM
Vendors
1 60 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.89%) Databricks
3 15 (5.64%) Oracle
4 9 (3.38%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.63%) Zoho
6 6 (2.26%) SAP
7 5 (1.88%) Cisco
8 3 (1.13%) Civica
8 3 (1.13%) Northgate
8 3 (1.13%) VMware
9 2 (0.75%) Allen-Bradley
9 2 (0.75%) Cognos
9 2 (0.75%) Sage
9 2 (0.75%) Siemens
9 2 (0.75%) Toshiba
10 1 (0.38%) Adobe
10 1 (0.38%) Epicor
10 1 (0.38%) IBM
10 1 (0.38%) Informatica
10 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft