SQL Server Job Trends in Nottingham

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 42 33
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 15 9 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 1.03% 1.99% 4.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.27% 16.98% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 32
10th Percentile £24,000 £53,500 -
25th Percentile £25,000 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £50,000 - £83,750
90th Percentile £66,350 - £107,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £32,750 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -43.04% +21.05% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 113 53 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 7.79% 11.73% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 75 45 66
10th Percentile £29,800 £37,500 £40,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £87,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £54,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.68% - -13.64%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Nottingham

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Nottingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Nottingham over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Nottingham

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) NUnit
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Graduate
3 5 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 4 (26.67%) C# Software Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Graduate C# Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Graduate Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Graduate Software Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 4 (26.67%) IT Support
4 4 (26.67%) SAP Support
4 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
4 4 (26.67%) SQL Developer
5 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (13.33%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (13.33%) Classic ASP
4 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
4 2 (13.33%) Google Maps API
4 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 2 (13.33%) XML
5 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (6.67%) HTML
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (6.67%) React Native
5 1 (6.67%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) MVC
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) ERP
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) OOP
4 3 (20.00%) Web Development
5 2 (13.33%) AI
5 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (13.33%) Data Management
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (13.33%) OO
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.67%) Coaching
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.67%) LLM
6 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) C#
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (40.00%) PHP
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (13.33%) Python
6 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) OpenAI