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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 24 53
Rank change year-on-year -40 +29 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 136 410 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.06% 6.69% 4.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.37% 44.28% 27.40%
Number of salaries quoted 113 375 165
10th Percentile £25,100 £26,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

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 463 926 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.81% 15.10% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 309 787 526
10th Percentile £29,100 £28,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £35,529 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £75,000 £80,000
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 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 May 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 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
Bedfordshire -1 35 £53,000 -7.83% 4
Hertfordshire -33 35 £44,000 -12.00% 10
Essex 0 29 £47,500 +5.56% 17
Cambridgeshire +7 22 £27,500 -42.11% 38
Norfolk -28 12 £30,500 -32.22% 20
Suffolk -40 3 £27,000 -36.47% 2
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 22 (16.18%) IIS
2 14 (10.29%) SharePoint
3 13 (9.56%) Confluence
4 12 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (7.35%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 81 (59.56%) Azure
2 25 (18.38%) AWS
3 24 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 22 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.56%) GCP
7 12 (8.82%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (6.62%) PowerApps
9 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (5.15%) Power Automate
9 7 (5.15%) SaaS
10 5 (3.68%) GitHub
11 4 (2.94%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.94%) PaaS
12 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.47%) dbt
12 2 (1.47%) IaaS
13 1 (0.74%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.50%) FTP
2 12 (8.82%) Firewall
3 7 (5.15%) DMARC
3 7 (5.15%) SSL
3 7 (5.15%) VLAN
4 4 (2.94%) DHCP
4 4 (2.94%) DNS
5 3 (2.21%) HTTP
5 3 (2.21%) VoIP
5 3 (2.21%) VPN
6 2 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.74%) Internet
7 1 (0.74%) Network Security
7 1 (0.74%) RTP
7 1 (0.74%) SNMP
7 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.32%) MySQL
2 19 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (12.50%) Power BI
4 8 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.88%) GIS
4 8 (5.88%) MariaDB
4 8 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (4.41%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.21%) Big Data
9 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.47%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.47%) OLTP
10 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (14.71%) JIRA
2 19 (13.97%) Bitbucket
2 19 (13.97%) Maven
3 17 (12.50%) Git
4 15 (11.03%) Cucumber
4 15 (11.03%) GitLab
4 15 (11.03%) Selenium
4 15 (11.03%) SonarQube
4 15 (11.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (5.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (2.21%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.21%) Gradle
6 3 (2.21%) Subversion
7 1 (0.74%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.74%) Moq
7 1 (0.74%) MSTest
7 1 (0.74%) NUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.74%) xUnit.net
General
1 46 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 43 (31.62%) Finance
3 15 (11.03%) Banking
3 15 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.62%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Retail
7 7 (5.15%) Czech Language
7 7 (5.15%) Local Government
7 7 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.41%) Advertising
8 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Aviation
9 2 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.47%) Marketing
9 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 50 (36.76%) Developer
2 24 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 19 (13.97%) .NET Developer
4 17 (12.50%) Analyst
4 17 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.29%) Senior
6 12 (8.82%) Graduate
6 12 (8.82%) Graduate Developer
6 12 (8.82%) IT Graduate
7 11 (8.09%) SQL Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Support Analyst
8 10 (7.35%) Support Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Applications Specialist
9 9 (6.62%) Applications Support Specialist
9 9 (6.62%) Support Specialist
10 8 (5.88%) .NET Software Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
10 8 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) IT Support
10 8 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (32.35%) .NET
2 33 (24.26%) CSS
3 31 (22.79%) HTML
4 28 (20.59%) REST
5 24 (17.65%) .NET Framework
5 24 (17.65%) ASP.NET
6 22 (16.18%) Web Services
6 22 (16.18%) XML
7 21 (15.44%) React
8 20 (14.71%) SOAP
9 19 (13.97%) JSON
10 18 (13.24%) Spring
11 17 (12.50%) jQuery
11 17 (12.50%) Kafka
12 15 (11.03%) JPA
12 15 (11.03%) Redux
12 15 (11.03%) Spring Boot
13 14 (10.29%) Entity Framework
14 13 (9.56%) Hibernate
15 9 (6.62%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.18%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (11.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.47%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) CCTV
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) NHS
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (28.68%) Windows
2 25 (18.38%) Windows Server
3 23 (16.91%) Linux
4 10 (7.35%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.15%) Unix
6 3 (2.21%) Android
6 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.47%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.18%) Agile
2 36 (26.47%) DevOps
3 33 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (21.32%) MVC
5 28 (20.59%) Computer Science
6 27 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 23 (16.91%) Microservices
9 22 (16.18%) Performance Optimisation
10 21 (15.44%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (14.71%) Containerisation
12 19 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (13.97%) SDLC
12 19 (13.97%) Software Engineering
13 18 (13.24%) Clean Code
14 17 (12.50%) Customer Service
15 16 (11.76%) ETL
15 16 (11.76%) Test Automation
16 15 (11.03%) Project Management
16 15 (11.03%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 82 (60.29%) SQL
2 42 (30.88%) Java
3 36 (26.47%) C#
4 29 (21.32%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.97%) PowerShell
5 19 (13.97%) T-SQL
6 18 (13.24%) C++
7 16 (11.76%) PHP
8 7 (5.15%) VBA
9 6 (4.41%) Python
10 5 (3.68%) C
10 5 (3.68%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.94%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.21%) Bash
12 3 (2.21%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (27.21%) Degree
2 20 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.03%) QA
2 7 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.41%) GxP
4 4 (2.94%) SLA
5 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 25 (18.38%) Docker
2 16 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.47%) vSphere
4 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (19.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.15%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.21%) SCCM
5 2 (1.47%) Autotask
5 2 (1.47%) SCOM
6 1 (0.74%) WMI
6 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (51.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.97%) Oracle
3 15 (11.03%) Solace
4 6 (4.41%) Infor
4 6 (4.41%) SAP
5 4 (2.94%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.47%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.47%) arcserve
6 2 (1.47%) Aruba
6 2 (1.47%) Avaya
6 2 (1.47%) Cisco
6 2 (1.47%) Citrix
6 2 (1.47%) Databricks
6 2 (1.47%) Datto
6 2 (1.47%) Linksys
6 2 (1.47%) VMware
7 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.74%) Informatica
7 1 (0.74%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.74%) Telerik