SQL Server Job Trends in Leicestershire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire 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 32 29 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -23 +34
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 22 29 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 3.85% 6.62% 17.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.93% 50.88% 72.95%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 65
10th Percentile £36,300 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +36.85%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,825 £62,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £51,000 £50,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.02% -0.02%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 58 57 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 10.16% 13.01% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 46 39 90
10th Percentile £36,000 £32,250 £36,475
25th Percentile £41,563 £38,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -6.91% +20.56%
75th Percentile £67,625 £59,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Leicestershire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Leicestershire 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
Leicester -5 19 £48,500 -15.65% 4
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 2 (9.09%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Sage 200
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) npm
3 2 (9.09%) NuGet
3 2 (9.09%) SonarCloud
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 4 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (27.27%) Law
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) DBA
2 7 (31.82%) SQL DBA
3 5 (22.73%) Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Administrator
4 4 (18.18%) Applications Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Applications Support
4 4 (18.18%) Applications Support Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Support Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Sage 200 Support
6 2 (9.09%) Sage Support
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) .NET Core
2 3 (13.64%) React
3 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) YAML
4 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.55%) DirectX
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) Middleware
4 1 (4.55%) Next.js
4 1 (4.55%) OpenGL
4 1 (4.55%) pytest
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Structures
2 5 (22.73%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (18.18%) Driving Licence
3 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (18.18%) NHS
3 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
4 3 (13.64%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.55%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
6 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Analytics
2 7 (31.82%) Reverse Engineering
3 6 (27.27%) ETL
3 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Speech Recognition
6 3 (13.64%) Case Management
6 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
6 3 (13.64%) Microservices
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 2 (9.09%) Data Management
7 2 (9.09%) DataOps
7 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) T-SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) C
4 3 (13.64%) PHP
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) Delphi
6 1 (4.55%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) SCCM
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (9.09%) Sage
3 1 (4.55%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle