SQL Job Trends in Lincolnshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 48 12 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 6.37% 5.38% 7.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.06% 33.33% 39.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29 8 40
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,594 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,516 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -21.88% -13.04%
75th Percentile £55,000 £42,813 £42,500
90th Percentile £59,500 £53,500 £43,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Programming Languages
Lincolnshire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Lincolnshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 102 36 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 13.53% 16.14% 19.17%
Number of salaries quoted 59 26 111
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,150 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.71% +9.68%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £65,000 £60,000
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.63% -9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Lincolnshire over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Lincolnshire

SQL
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 within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 11 July 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 -1 25 £50,000 +76.21% 5
Scunthorpe +2 6 £45,000 - 5
Grimsby +1 6 £40,000 +53.85% 7
Spalding - 2 £65,000 - 1
Immingham 0 1 - -
Stamford - 1 - - 1
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) Azure
2 21 (43.75%) Power Platform
3 16 (33.33%) Azure AI
4 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (8.33%) Oracle CX
6 2 (4.17%) AWS
6 2 (4.17%) OCI
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) Broadband
2 1 (2.08%) DHCP
2 1 (2.08%) DMZ
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (43.75%) Power BI
2 16 (33.33%) Tableau
3 9 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
5 5 (10.42%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Analyst
2 19 (39.58%) Data Analyst
2 19 (39.58%) Developer
3 16 (33.33%) Junior
3 16 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
3 16 (33.33%) Junior Data Analyst
4 9 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 5 (10.42%) ERP Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) ERP Support
5 5 (10.42%) Report Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) SQL Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Support Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (6.25%) SQL BI Developer
7 3 (6.25%) SSRS Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure Support
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) .NET
1 9 (18.75%) .NET Core
1 9 (18.75%) ASP.NET
1 9 (18.75%) ASP.NET Core
1 9 (18.75%) Entity Framework
1 9 (18.75%) LINQ
2 5 (10.42%) CSS
2 5 (10.42%) HTML
3 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (8.33%) RESTful
3 4 (8.33%) Vue
4 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.08%) LDAP
4 1 (2.08%) OAuth
4 1 (2.08%) OpenID
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) SAML
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.08%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (35.42%) AI
3 11 (22.92%) ERP
4 10 (20.83%) Agile
5 9 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.42%) Data Management
7 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 5 (10.42%) OO
8 4 (8.33%) CRM
8 4 (8.33%) Multithreading
8 4 (8.33%) SOA
9 3 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
9 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (4.17%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
10 2 (4.17%) SDLC
10 2 (4.17%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) C#
3 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.08%) Bash
4 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 30 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Epicor
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Infor
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) VMware