SQL Server Job Trends in Norfolk

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 27 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -14 +11
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2 13 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Norfolk 0.86% 4.58% 9.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 41.94% 68.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile - £41,500 £29,750
25th Percentile - £47,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +18.92%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £65,625
90th Percentile - £60,500 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12 31 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Norfolk 5.15% 10.92% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 14
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,375 £30,950
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,813 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile - £63,000 £81,125
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% -4.35%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Norfolk

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Norfolk

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 3 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
King's Lynn +4 2 £60,000 -
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) Flutter
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) DevExpress