SQL Server Jobs in Northamptonshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 59 42
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 49 29 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.57% 2.72% 3.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 77.78% 39.73% 16.05%
Number of salaries quoted 23 26 13
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £23,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,438 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £58,500
East Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +15.38%

All Database and 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 63 73 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.45% 6.85% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 29 50 46
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -15.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £82,500
East Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Northamptonshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Northamptonshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Northampton -6 22 £50,000 +33.33% 11
Kettering +14 1 - - 1
Wellingborough - 1 - -
Brackley - 1 - -
Corby - 1 - -
Daventry - 1 - -
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 25 (51.02%) Confluence
2 8 (16.33%) IIS
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.08%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.08%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) Azure
2 27 (55.10%) AWS
3 25 (51.02%) GCP
4 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.08%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) DHCP
1 8 (16.33%) DNS
2 6 (12.24%) Firewall
2 6 (12.24%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (12.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
1 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (10.20%) Power BI
1 5 (10.20%) RDBMS
1 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (53.06%) JIRA
2 25 (51.02%) Bitbucket
2 25 (51.02%) Cucumber
2 25 (51.02%) GitLab
2 25 (51.02%) Maven
2 25 (51.02%) Selenium
2 25 (51.02%) SonarQube
2 25 (51.02%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.04%) Postman
General
1 27 (55.10%) Finance
1 27 (55.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (51.02%) Banking
3 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Law
4 2 (4.08%) Marketing
4 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (51.02%) Software Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Developer
4 6 (12.24%) .NET Developer
4 6 (12.24%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (12.24%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) C# Developer
5 5 (10.20%) SQL Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.16%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (8.16%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Junior
7 3 (6.12%) Junior Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Junior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Junior C# Developer
8 2 (4.08%) SAN Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (61.22%) HTML
2 28 (57.14%) CSS
3 26 (53.06%) React
4 25 (51.02%) Hibernate
4 25 (51.02%) JPA
4 25 (51.02%) Kafka
4 25 (51.02%) Redux
4 25 (51.02%) Spring
4 25 (51.02%) Spring Boot
5 9 (18.37%) .NET
6 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET
7 4 (8.16%) .NET Core
7 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (51.02%) Enterprise Software
1 25 (51.02%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.04%) Graphic Design
2 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Windows
1 8 (16.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) SDLC
2 28 (57.14%) Agile
3 27 (55.10%) DevOps
4 26 (53.06%) CI/CD
4 26 (53.06%) Clean Code
4 26 (53.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (53.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (51.02%) Containerisation
5 25 (51.02%) Front End Development
5 25 (51.02%) Microservices
5 25 (51.02%) Performance Optimisation
5 25 (51.02%) Software Engineering
5 25 (51.02%) TDD
5 25 (51.02%) Test Automation
6 5 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.20%) Data Analysis
6 5 (10.20%) Database Tuning
6 5 (10.20%) ERP
6 5 (10.20%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (10.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 35 (71.43%) SQL
2 25 (51.02%) Java
3 8 (16.33%) C#
4 5 (10.20%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.08%) PHP
5 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.08%) Python
6 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) Degree
1 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
1 2 (4.08%) MCP
1 2 (4.08%) MCSA
1 2 (4.08%) MCSE
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (51.02%) QA
System Software
1 25 (51.02%) Docker
2 8 (16.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.24%) Hyper-V
3 6 (12.24%) Terminal Services
3 6 (12.24%) vSphere
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (51.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) Solace
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) VMware
4 6 (12.24%) Dell
4 6 (12.24%) HP
4 6 (12.24%) NetApp
5 2 (4.08%) arcserve
5 2 (4.08%) HubSpot
5 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) Zoho
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle