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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 347 265 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 7.63% 14.47% 12.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.77% 53.00% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 186 179 394
10th Percentile £24,750 £27,050 £28,150
25th Percentile £35,185 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £55,188
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 742 500 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.32% 27.29% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 442 373 942
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -6 101 £42,500 -12.37% 21
Nottinghamshire -6 79 £42,500 -26.09% 42
Northamptonshire +11 75 £55,000 +15.79% 14
Derbyshire +2 59 £28,286 +14.87% 17
Lincolnshire -2 32 £42,500 -15.00% 11
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 15 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.03%) Confluence
3 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.73%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) CICS
5 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 136 (39.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) SAP Business One
2 4 (1.15%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 219 (63.11%) Azure
2 163 (46.97%) Power Platform
3 127 (36.60%) Azure AI
4 52 (14.99%) AWS
5 25 (7.20%) Serverless
6 23 (6.63%) Amazon S3
6 23 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (4.61%) Entra ID
9 14 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.31%) GCP
10 8 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.02%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.73%) SaaS
13 5 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.15%) npm
14 4 (1.15%) NuGet
14 4 (1.15%) SonarCloud
15 3 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.19%) Firewall
2 10 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (2.59%) Internet
4 8 (2.31%) DNS
5 7 (2.02%) Network Security
5 7 (2.02%) SAN
6 4 (1.15%) DHCP
6 4 (1.15%) MQTT
6 4 (1.15%) VPN
7 3 (0.86%) LAN
7 3 (0.86%) WAN
8 2 (0.58%) Broadband
8 2 (0.58%) HTTP
8 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.29%) DMZ
9 1 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (46.40%) Power BI
2 138 (39.77%) Tableau
3 31 (8.93%) SQL Server
4 21 (6.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.75%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.31%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (1.73%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.73%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.73%) Power Query
9 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.15%) MySQL
10 4 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.15%) Redis
11 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.03%) JIRA
2 13 (3.75%) Git
3 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.29%) MLflow
4 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 156 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (12.10%) Finance
4 26 (7.49%) Law
5 16 (4.61%) Retail
6 9 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.31%) Games
8 7 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.15%) Marketing
9 4 (1.15%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.86%) Banking
10 3 (0.86%) Legal
10 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Advertising
11 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.29%) Local Government
12 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (48.13%) Analyst
2 145 (41.79%) Data Analyst
3 135 (38.90%) Junior
3 135 (38.90%) Junior Analyst
4 130 (37.46%) Junior Data Analyst
5 73 (21.04%) Developer
6 54 (15.56%) Senior
7 23 (6.63%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.63%) Software Developer
8 21 (6.05%) C# Developer
9 18 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (5.19%) Support Analyst
10 17 (4.90%) Data Scientist
10 17 (4.90%) IT Support
10 17 (4.90%) Lead
10 17 (4.90%) Support Engineer
11 16 (4.61%) .NET Developer
12 15 (4.32%) Administrator
13 13 (3.75%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.75%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.10%) HTML
2 36 (10.37%) React
3 35 (10.09%) Node.js
4 34 (9.80%) CSS
5 33 (9.51%) .NET
6 25 (7.20%) .NET Core
7 19 (5.48%) ASP.NET
8 13 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
9 10 (2.88%) Entity Framework
10 9 (2.59%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.59%) REST
11 8 (2.31%) Pandas
12 7 (2.02%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.02%) jQuery
13 6 (1.73%) DirectX
13 6 (1.73%) Laravel
13 6 (1.73%) OpenGL
13 6 (1.73%) scikit-learn
14 5 (1.44%) LINQ
14 5 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.75%) Clustering
2 7 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (1.73%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (1.73%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.15%) IoT
5 4 (1.15%) Replication
5 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.86%) Mainframe
6 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.58%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.58%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.58%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.58%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.58%) PKI
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.76%) Windows
2 13 (3.75%) Linux
3 8 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) VMS
5 3 (0.86%) Solaris
5 3 (0.86%) zOS
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (45.53%) Business Intelligence
2 138 (39.77%) AI
3 57 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (13.26%) Analytics
5 44 (12.68%) Agile
6 39 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 32 (9.22%) Software Engineering
8 30 (8.65%) Computer Science
9 26 (7.49%) Data Modelling
10 24 (6.92%) Data Science
11 22 (6.34%) Mentoring
12 20 (5.76%) DevOps
12 20 (5.76%) Incident Management
12 20 (5.76%) Process Improvement
12 20 (5.76%) Roadmaps
13 19 (5.48%) Decision-Making
13 19 (5.48%) Machine Learning
14 18 (5.19%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (5.19%) Visualisation
15 17 (4.90%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 199 (57.35%) Python
2 43 (12.39%) C#
3 40 (11.53%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.61%) PHP
4 16 (4.61%) T-SQL
5 15 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.73%) Bash
7 6 (1.73%) R
8 4 (1.15%) C++
8 4 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.86%) COBOL
9 3 (0.86%) JCL
10 2 (0.58%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.58%) Java
11 1 (0.29%) Natural
11 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) VB
11 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 129 (37.18%) Azure Certification
2 32 (9.22%) Degree
3 16 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.88%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.58%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.58%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.19%) SLA
3 6 (1.73%) GDPR
4 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.86%) QA
6 2 (0.58%) NCSC
6 2 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (8.07%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.90%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.73%) Docker
4 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (1.73%) Terraform
2 5 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) MOM
3 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (49.86%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.36%) Databricks
3 10 (2.88%) Oracle
4 8 (2.31%) Google
5 7 (2.02%) SonicWALL
5 7 (2.02%) Veeam
6 6 (1.73%) VMware
7 5 (1.44%) SAP
8 4 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.15%) Sage
9 3 (0.86%) IBM
10 2 (0.58%) Civica
10 2 (0.58%) Northgate
10 2 (0.58%) Orchard
11 1 (0.29%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco
11 1 (0.29%) DevExpress
11 1 (0.29%) Epicor
11 1 (0.29%) ESRI
11 1 (0.29%) Sybase