SQL Server Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 27 49 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 3.37% 8.94% 3.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.91% 74.24% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 25
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% +33.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £55,000 £56,250
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
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 66 66 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.23% 12.04% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 31 38 59
10th Percentile - £35,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,625 £61,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £68,750
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 Northamptonshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Northamptonshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Northampton -15 24 £59,366 +18.73% 7
Brackley +3 1 - -
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Power Platform
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.81%) OneDrive
4 3 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) LoRaWAN
1 3 (11.11%) MQTT
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) Power BI
2 11 (40.74%) Relational Database
3 5 (18.52%) Redis
4 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (11.11%) MySQL
5 3 (11.11%) Neo4j
5 3 (11.11%) Power Query
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Law
2 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) C# Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
4 4 (14.81%) IT Manager
4 4 (14.81%) IT Operations Manager
4 4 (14.81%) Operations Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.70%) C Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Rust Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) WinForms
1 11 (40.74%) XML
2 6 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (18.52%) .NET
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.41%) REST
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 3 (11.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (48.15%) SDLC
3 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Server Virtualisation
6 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 3 (11.11%) ETL
6 3 (11.11%) High Availability
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) C#
2 11 (40.74%) Delphi
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.70%) C
6 1 (3.70%) Python
6 1 (3.70%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (14.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (14.81%) ISO 22301
1 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) vSphere
3 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Galera Cluster
1 3 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) VMware