SQL Server Jobs in Leicester

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 43 55
Rank change year-on-year +33 +12 -36
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 25 30 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 15.53% 4.89% 5.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 62.50% 20.27% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 20 29 27
10th Percentile £46,700 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £43,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +22.22% +0.56%
75th Percentile £59,938 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £61,375 - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £49,250 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.44% - +3.87%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 40 148 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 24.84% 24.14% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32 56 46
10th Percentile £41,275 £36,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £44,352
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +18.37% -11.30%
75th Percentile £57,813 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £85,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.89% +18.75% -23.81%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Leicester

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Leicester.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Leicester

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Leicester over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Leicester

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (16.00%) IaaS
2 4 (16.00%) PaaS
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (44.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (32.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Maven
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
2 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (52.00%) Law
3 12 (48.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) DBA
2 8 (32.00%) Administrator
2 8 (32.00%) SQL DBA
3 6 (24.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Applications Support
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) REST
1 6 (24.00%) SOAP
2 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) YAML
3 3 (12.00%) CSS
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
4 2 (8.00%) Ajax
4 2 (8.00%) Blazor
4 2 (8.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (8.00%) jQuery
4 2 (8.00%) JSON
4 2 (8.00%) Middleware
4 2 (8.00%) Web Services
4 2 (8.00%) WPF
4 2 (8.00%) XML
5 1 (4.00%) JPA
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) Redux
5 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) CMDB
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
1 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Analytics
1 10 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 10 (40.00%) ETL
1 10 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (32.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (20.00%) Data Management
4 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Application Security
5 4 (16.00%) CRM
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Data Integration
7 2 (8.00%) ETL Development
7 2 (8.00%) Refactoring
7 2 (8.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) SQL
2 12 (48.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) VB
6 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) SCOM
3 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Databricks
2 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (4.00%) SnapLogic
4 1 (4.00%) Solace
4 1 (4.00%) VMware