SQL Server Job Trends in Hertfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 45 19
Rank change year-on-year -35 -26 +44
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 17 48 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.87% 4.64% 8.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.48% 22.75% 49.61%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 115
10th Percentile - £40,625 £25,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,085 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.66% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £50,938 £60,313 £65,625
90th Percentile £59,375 £84,500 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £43,085 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -13.83% +3.09% -11.82%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 83 211 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.27% 20.41% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 66 114 228
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,780 £50,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,938 £76,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,925 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% -13.04%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Hertfordshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Stevenage -10 7 £43,085 -29.94% 5
Hemel Hempstead +14 5 £42,500 -10.53%
Bishop's Stortford -1 2 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Watford -1 1 £60,000 +29.73% 1
Hatfield -10 1 £45,000 - 1
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 4 (23.53%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) NEC Housing
2 1 (5.88%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Boomi
3 1 (5.88%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) FTP
1 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (23.53%) MS Access
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (23.53%) Redis
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
1 4 (23.53%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) Neo4j
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos Connection
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos Event Studio
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos Framework Manager
4 1 (5.88%) OLAP
4 1 (5.88%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Toad
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Postman
2 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Local Government
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Applications Support
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Junior
3 4 (23.53%) Junior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Applications Support
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Administrator
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Graduate C# Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) React
2 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) SignalR
2 4 (23.53%) Vue
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) EDI
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) jQuery
4 1 (5.88%) MDX
4 1 (5.88%) NestJS
4 1 (5.88%) Next.js
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) PySpark
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) Digital Strategy
3 4 (23.53%) ETL
3 4 (23.53%) Workflow
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) AI
5 2 (11.76%) API Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
3 4 (23.53%) VB
4 3 (17.65%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) NEC
2 4 (23.53%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Cognos
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) Talend