SQL Server Jobs in the East of England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 30 43
Rank change year-on-year -49 +13 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 129 332 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.38% 5.16% 5.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.73% 39.67% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 106 292 152
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £64,688 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £57,443
% change year-on-year +1.82% -4.25% +4.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 449 837 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.76% 13.00% 17.20%
Number of salaries quoted 313 681 439
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £43,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £63,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,738 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Hertfordshire -15 39 £44,000 -10.66% 16
Essex -5 33 £47,500 +7.95% 19
Cambridgeshire +18 28 £40,000 -15.79% 27
Bedfordshire -5 20 £53,000 -7.83% 4
Norfolk -19 9 £30,500 -32.22% 3
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 24 (18.60%) IIS
2 13 (10.08%) Confluence
2 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.98%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 85 (65.89%) Azure
2 25 (19.38%) Power Platform
3 21 (16.28%) AWS
4 20 (15.50%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.08%) GCP
6 12 (9.30%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (9.30%) Entra ID
7 10 (7.75%) PowerApps
8 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (6.98%) Power Automate
9 7 (5.43%) Boomi
10 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.55%) IaaS
11 2 (1.55%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.55%) PaaS
12 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.73%) FTP
2 11 (8.53%) Firewall
3 9 (6.98%) DMARC
3 9 (6.98%) SSL
4 1 (0.78%) CATAPAN
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) Internet
4 1 (0.78%) IPsec
4 1 (0.78%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.78%) Multicast
4 1 (0.78%) OSPF
4 1 (0.78%) RTP
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) SMS
4 1 (0.78%) SNMP
4 1 (0.78%) SSH
4 1 (0.78%) VLAN
4 1 (0.78%) VoIP
4 1 (0.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.58%) MySQL
2 15 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.63%) Power BI
3 9 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (6.20%) GIS
5 6 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (4.65%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.88%) MariaDB
6 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) Big Data
8 1 (0.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (12.40%) GitLab
1 16 (12.40%) JIRA
1 16 (12.40%) Maven
2 15 (11.63%) Bitbucket
2 15 (11.63%) Cucumber
2 15 (11.63%) Selenium
2 15 (11.63%) SonarQube
2 15 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (8.53%) Git
4 7 (5.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.78%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 42 (32.56%) Finance
3 15 (11.63%) Banking
3 15 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.98%) Czech Language
4 9 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Local Government
6 6 (4.65%) Advertising
7 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.55%) Marketing
9 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 46 (35.66%) Developer
2 24 (18.60%) Applications Support
3 18 (13.95%) Analyst
4 17 (13.18%) Graduate
4 17 (13.18%) Graduate Developer
4 17 (13.18%) IT Graduate
5 16 (12.40%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Support Analyst
8 10 (7.75%) Senior
8 10 (7.75%) SQL Developer
9 9 (6.98%) Administrator
9 9 (6.98%) Applications Support Analyst
9 9 (6.98%) IT Administrator
9 9 (6.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.88%) .NET
2 38 (29.46%) CSS
3 33 (25.58%) HTML
4 23 (17.83%) REST
4 23 (17.83%) Web Services
4 23 (17.83%) XML
5 22 (17.05%) ASP.NET
5 22 (17.05%) JSON
6 21 (16.28%) SOAP
7 18 (13.95%) jQuery
7 18 (13.95%) React
8 15 (11.63%) JPA
8 15 (11.63%) Kafka
8 15 (11.63%) Redux
8 15 (11.63%) Spring
8 15 (11.63%) Spring Boot
9 13 (10.08%) Hibernate
10 11 (8.53%) Vue
11 10 (7.75%) .NET Framework
12 9 (6.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (23.26%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 15 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.78%) NHS
4 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.78%) PKI
4 1 (0.78%) Robotics
4 1 (0.78%) Smartcard
4 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.46%) Windows
2 22 (17.05%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.53%) Linux
4 9 (6.98%) Unix
5 8 (6.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.96%) Agile
2 37 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (23.26%) Computer Science
4 29 (22.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (20.93%) Performance Optimisation
7 26 (20.16%) CI/CD
8 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
9 24 (18.60%) Clean Code
10 23 (17.83%) DevOps
11 21 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (16.28%) MVC
12 19 (14.73%) OO
12 19 (14.73%) Scrum
13 17 (13.18%) CRM
13 17 (13.18%) SDLC
14 15 (11.63%) Containerisation
14 15 (11.63%) Front End Development
14 15 (11.63%) Microservices
14 15 (11.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (55.04%) SQL
2 42 (32.56%) Java
3 39 (30.23%) JavaScript
4 32 (24.81%) C#
5 17 (13.18%) C++
5 17 (13.18%) PHP
5 17 (13.18%) PowerShell
6 14 (10.85%) T-SQL
7 11 (8.53%) PL/SQL
8 10 (7.75%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.98%) VBA
10 5 (3.88%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.10%) Python
12 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (28.68%) Degree
2 23 (17.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.78%) CCNA
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.63%) QA
2 9 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.10%) GxP
4 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (11.63%) Docker
2 12 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.78%) Nessus
4 1 (0.78%) WMI
4 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (55.81%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.38%) Oracle
3 15 (11.63%) Solace
4 9 (6.98%) DevExpress
5 7 (5.43%) Dell
6 6 (4.65%) IFS
7 4 (3.10%) Infor
7 4 (3.10%) SAP
8 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco
9 1 (0.78%) Informatica
9 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.78%) Talend
9 1 (0.78%) Telerik
9 1 (0.78%) Veeam
9 1 (0.78%) VMware