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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 23 52
Rank change year-on-year -49 +29 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 136 403 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.07% 6.52% 5.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.50% 44.00% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 113 370 164
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 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - -10.80% +12.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £65,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,001
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%

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 406 916 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.14% 14.82% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 285 779 519
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £36,747
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,264 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 19 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 19 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
Hertfordshire -20 38 £47,000 -11.32% 14
Bedfordshire +3 33 £53,000 -7.83% 7
Essex -6 27 £47,500 +5.56% 20
Cambridgeshire +13 24 £27,500 -42.11% 28
Norfolk -31 11 £30,500 -32.22% 10
Suffolk -41 3 £27,000 -36.47% 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 23 (16.91%) IIS
2 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (9.56%) Confluence
3 13 (9.56%) SharePoint
4 11 (8.09%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 83 (61.03%) Azure
2 26 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 25 (18.38%) AWS
4 22 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.56%) Entra ID
6 13 (9.56%) GCP
7 11 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (8.09%) PowerApps
8 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (5.88%) Power Automate
9 6 (4.41%) SaaS
10 4 (2.94%) GitHub
10 4 (2.94%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.94%) PaaS
11 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.47%) dbt
11 2 (1.47%) IaaS
12 1 (0.74%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.50%) FTP
2 14 (10.29%) Firewall
3 8 (5.88%) DMARC
3 8 (5.88%) SSL
4 6 (4.41%) VLAN
5 3 (2.21%) DHCP
5 3 (2.21%) DNS
5 3 (2.21%) HTTP
5 3 (2.21%) VoIP
6 2 (1.47%) VPN
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%) Wi-Fi
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
5 7 (5.15%) 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 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.21%) Big Data
8 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.47%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.47%) OLTP
9 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (13.97%) JIRA
1 19 (13.97%) Maven
2 18 (13.24%) Bitbucket
3 16 (11.76%) 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 45 (33.09%) 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
5 9 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Czech Language
6 8 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Retail
7 7 (5.15%) Local Government
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 48 (35.29%) Developer
2 24 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 17 (12.50%) Analyst
3 17 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 16 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 13 (9.56%) Senior
6 12 (8.82%) Graduate
6 12 (8.82%) Graduate Developer
6 12 (8.82%) IT Graduate
7 10 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.35%) SQL Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Support Analyst
8 9 (6.62%) Applications Specialist
8 9 (6.62%) Applications Support Specialist
8 9 (6.62%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) IT Support
8 9 (6.62%) Support Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.88%) .NET
2 33 (24.26%) CSS
3 31 (22.79%) HTML
4 28 (20.59%) REST
5 23 (16.91%) ASP.NET
5 23 (16.91%) XML
6 22 (16.18%) .NET Framework
6 22 (16.18%) Web Services
7 21 (15.44%) React
7 21 (15.44%) SOAP
8 20 (14.71%) JSON
9 18 (13.24%) Spring
10 17 (12.50%) Kafka
11 16 (11.76%) jQuery
12 15 (11.03%) JPA
12 15 (11.03%) Redux
12 15 (11.03%) Spring Boot
13 13 (9.56%) Hibernate
14 12 (8.82%) Entity Framework
15 9 (6.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.91%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (13.24%) 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 41 (30.15%) Windows
2 26 (19.12%) Windows Server
3 23 (16.91%) Linux
4 9 (6.62%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.88%) Unix
6 3 (2.21%) Android
6 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.47%) SUSE
7 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.18%) Agile
2 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (24.26%) DevOps
4 27 (19.85%) Computer Science
4 27 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (19.85%) MVC
5 25 (18.38%) CI/CD
6 24 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
7 22 (16.18%) Microservices
8 21 (15.44%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (14.71%) Containerisation
9 20 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 19 (13.97%) Clean Code
11 18 (13.24%) Customer Service
11 18 (13.24%) SDLC
12 16 (11.76%) ETL
12 16 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 15 (11.03%) Project Management
13 15 (11.03%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 81 (59.56%) SQL
2 42 (30.88%) Java
3 35 (25.74%) C#
4 31 (22.79%) JavaScript
5 20 (14.71%) PowerShell
6 18 (13.24%) T-SQL
7 17 (12.50%) C++
8 15 (11.03%) PHP
9 8 (5.88%) VBA
10 6 (4.41%) Python
11 5 (3.68%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.94%) C
12 4 (2.94%) VB.NET
13 3 (2.21%) Bash
13 3 (2.21%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (26.47%) Degree
2 19 (13.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.21%) 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 8 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.41%) GxP
4 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 24 (17.65%) 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 25 (18.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.21%) SCCM
5 2 (1.47%) SCOM
6 1 (0.74%) Autotask
6 1 (0.74%) WMI
6 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (52.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.71%) Oracle
3 15 (11.03%) Solace
4 6 (4.41%) Infor
4 6 (4.41%) SAP
5 3 (2.21%) 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%) DevExpress
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%) Talend