SQL Server Job Trends in Essex

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 37 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 17 18 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 2.45% 3.95% 7.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 42.50% 32.14% 55.17%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 32
10th Percentile - £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £52,500 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +35.29% -15.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £53,750 - £73,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 40 56 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 5.76% 12.28% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 32 28 53
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £42,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,500 - £81,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% -4.35%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Essex

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Essex over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Essex

SQL Server
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Essex region over the 6 months to 14 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
Basildon - 6 £48,750 -
Chelmsford - 3 £52,500 - 1
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £25,000 -
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
3 2 (11.76%) PowerPivot
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Graduate
2 7 (41.18%) Graduate Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Applications Support
3 6 (35.29%) Applications Support Analyst
4 5 (29.41%) Business Support Analyst
4 5 (29.41%) Business Systems Analyst
4 5 (29.41%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (29.41%) Systems Support
4 5 (29.41%) Systems Support Analyst
5 4 (23.53%) Azure Developer
5 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
5 4 (23.53%) Graduate C# Developer
5 4 (23.53%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 4 (23.53%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 4 (23.53%) IT Graduate
5 4 (23.53%) PHP Developer
5 4 (23.53%) SQL Developer
6 3 (17.65%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) CSS
1 7 (41.18%) HTML
1 7 (41.18%) jQuery
1 7 (41.18%) JSON
1 7 (41.18%) REST
1 7 (41.18%) SOAP
1 7 (41.18%) Web Services
1 7 (41.18%) XML
2 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
1 7 (41.18%) MVC
1 7 (41.18%) OOP
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) OO
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.88%) ETL
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.88%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) C++
2 7 (41.18%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) PHP
3 2 (11.76%) VBA
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 7 (41.18%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft