SQL Server Jobs in Leicestershire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 60 56
Rank change year-on-year +22 -4 -38
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 33 53 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 4.73% 4.82% 5.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 48.53% 21.46% 24.43%
Number of salaries quoted 22 48 36
10th Percentile - £35,750 £31,375
25th Percentile £46,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £45,000 £44,352
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% +1.46% +2.38%
75th Percentile £59,000 £61,250 £62,813
90th Percentile £62,375 £65,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -1.10%

All Database and 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 68 247 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 9.76% 22.47% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 47 86 70
10th Percentile £41,500 £35,750 £13,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +18.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £57,500 £64,375 £56,500
90th Percentile £60,500 £85,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Leicestershire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Leicestershire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

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 22 May 2025. 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 +34 24 £48,500 -11.82% 9
Market Harborough - 2 - -
Hinckley - 1 - -
Wigston - 1 - -
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) IaaS
3 4 (12.12%) PaaS
4 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DHCP
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
1 3 (9.09%) VPN
2 2 (6.06%) SAN
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
3 1 (3.03%) LAN
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (30.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (27.27%) Data Lake
5 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.03%) Big Data
6 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 6 (18.18%) Cucumber
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
1 6 (18.18%) Maven
1 6 (18.18%) Selenium
1 6 (18.18%) SonarQube
1 6 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (51.52%) Finance
3 15 (45.45%) Law
4 6 (18.18%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) DBA
2 8 (24.24%) Administrator
2 8 (24.24%) SQL DBA
3 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Applications Support
6 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Software Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Software Implementation Consultant
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.03%) CRM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) CSS
1 8 (24.24%) HTML
2 6 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 6 (18.18%) JPA
2 6 (18.18%) Kafka
2 6 (18.18%) React
2 6 (18.18%) Redux
2 6 (18.18%) REST
2 6 (18.18%) SOAP
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
2 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.12%) YAML
4 3 (9.09%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) Ajax
5 2 (6.06%) Bootstrap
5 2 (6.06%) jQuery
5 2 (6.06%) JSON
5 2 (6.06%) Web Services
5 2 (6.06%) XML
6 1 (3.03%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Data Structures
2 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.09%) Clustering
4 2 (6.06%) CMDB
4 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.06%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
1 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.03%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Analytics
1 11 (33.33%) ETL
2 10 (30.30%) Data Analysis
2 10 (30.30%) DevOps
2 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) Reverse Engineering
3 8 (24.24%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (21.21%) SDLC
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 6 (18.18%) Microservices
5 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) TDD
5 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (81.82%) SQL
2 11 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
6 4 (12.12%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) Python
7 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 6 (18.18%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (9.09%) SCCM
3 3 (9.09%) SCOM
4 1 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Solace
3 5 (15.15%) Databricks
4 4 (12.12%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) SnapLogic
6 1 (3.03%) VMware