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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 49 23
Rank change year-on-year -40 -26 +30
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 16 34 137
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.68% 4.18% 7.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 18.89% 45.21%
Number of salaries quoted 16 32 125
10th Percentile £33,125 £39,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -16.98% -11.67%
75th Percentile £50,000 £64,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,500
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%

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 96 180 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.09% 22.14% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 62 129 274
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,500 £26,938
25th Percentile £40,313 £48,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +21.95% -14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +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 19 April 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 19 April 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
Hemel Hempstead - 4 £42,500 -
Hatfield - 4 £45,000 -
Stevenage -16 3 £65,000 +54.76% 1
Bishop's Stortford -3 2 £50,000 -13.04%
Watford -12 1 £60,000 +36.36%
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 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Boomi
3 1 (6.25%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Redis
2 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Cognos Connection
4 1 (6.25%) Cognos Event Studio
4 1 (6.25%) Cognos Framework Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) OLAP
4 1 (6.25%) Pentaho
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Junior
3 4 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Graduate Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Graduate Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (12.50%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) React
2 6 (37.50%) .NET
2 6 (37.50%) CSS
3 4 (25.00%) HTML
3 4 (25.00%) NestJS
3 4 (25.00%) Next.js
3 4 (25.00%) Node.js
3 4 (25.00%) SignalR
3 4 (25.00%) Vue
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery
5 1 (6.25%) MDX
5 1 (6.25%) PySpark
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) API Development
3 4 (25.00%) API Integration
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 4 (25.00%) Web Development
4 3 (18.75%) TDD
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Debt
5 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) Information Management
5 2 (12.50%) OO
5 2 (12.50%) OOP
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Secure Coding
5 2 (12.50%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) C++
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Cognos
1 1 (6.25%) IBM
1 1 (6.25%) Informatica
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) Talend