SQL Server Job Trends in Ipswich

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Ipswich 1.74% - 5.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.16% - 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £53,125 - -
25th Percentile £54,063 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 - £40,000
75th Percentile £64,063 - £42,500
90th Percentile £65,375 - -
Suffolk median annual salary £55,000 - £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 38 15 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ipswich 13.19% 11.11% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 18
10th Percentile £35,250 £47,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,188 £50,000 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +33.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £59,400 £72,625
Suffolk median annual salary £47,739 £50,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -4.52% +20.48% -30.83%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Ipswich

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Ipswich

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (60.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Airbyte
3 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Power Query
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Applications Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) HTML5
1 3 (60.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle