SQL Server Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 25 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2 6 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 0.28% 4.08% 5.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 31.58% 53.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 26
10th Percentile - £26,413 -
25th Percentile - £26,656 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £28,375 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -24.33% +31.58%
75th Percentile - £34,219 £53,438
90th Percentile - £36,938 £55,000
East Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +12.24% +3.16% +5.56%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 56 19 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 7.72% 12.93% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 47
10th Percentile £35,000 £23,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £25,875 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +12.68%
75th Percentile £51,500 £60,000 £45,625
90th Percentile £55,000 £68,500 £55,000
East Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Lincoln -24 1 £27,000 -4.85% 2
Immingham - 1 - -
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DMZ
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) QA Technician
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware