SQL Job Trends in Nottingham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 74 108 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 14.60% 21.01% 25.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.66% 48.43% 55.03%
Number of salaries quoted 64 62 90
10th Percentile - £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £55,625 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,625 £86,000 £78,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 122 223 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 24.06% 43.39% 45.68%
Number of salaries quoted 111 129 154
10th Percentile £28,750 £38,750 £31,625
25th Percentile £29,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £83,750 £75,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Nottingham

SQL
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Nottingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Nottingham over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Nottingham

SQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (21.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.08%) SaaS
2 20 (27.03%) Azure
3 18 (24.32%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.11%) AWS
4 6 (8.11%) Azure AI
5 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.05%) GCP
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.32%) Power BI
2 15 (20.27%) Tableau
3 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.05%) Big Data
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.70%) Power Query
8 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.35%) Metadata
8 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Git
General
1 28 (37.84%) Marketing
2 25 (33.78%) Law
3 23 (31.08%) Social Skills
4 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (22.97%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (17.57%) Finance
6 9 (12.16%) Retail
7 4 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.41%) Games
8 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Police
9 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (62.16%) Analyst
2 28 (37.84%) Support Analyst
3 27 (36.49%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (31.08%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 18 (24.32%) Data Analyst
6 15 (20.27%) Developer
7 12 (16.22%) Senior
8 11 (14.86%) Junior
8 11 (14.86%) Junior Analyst
9 8 (10.81%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (10.81%) Customer Analyst
9 8 (10.81%) Digital Analyst
9 8 (10.81%) Digital Analytics Analyst
10 6 (8.11%) Analytics Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Digital Analytics Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Digital Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) .NET
2 4 (5.41%) REST
3 3 (4.05%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.70%) CSS
4 2 (2.70%) Deno
4 2 (2.70%) DirectX
4 2 (2.70%) HTML
4 2 (2.70%) Laravel
4 2 (2.70%) Node.js
4 2 (2.70%) OpenGL
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.70%) PySpark
4 2 (2.70%) React
4 2 (2.70%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (2.70%) SOAP
4 2 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (2.70%) Vue
4 2 (2.70%) Yii
5 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.05%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.70%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.70%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.70%) iSeries
3 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
1 2 (2.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.68%) Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.68%) Incident Management
2 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (22.97%) Batch Management
3 17 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (22.97%) Patch Management
4 16 (21.62%) CRM
5 14 (18.92%) Mentoring
6 13 (17.57%) Data Science
7 11 (14.86%) Analytics
8 10 (13.51%) Agile
8 10 (13.51%) Customer Experience
8 10 (13.51%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (13.51%) E-Commerce
8 10 (13.51%) Economics
8 10 (13.51%) Statistics
8 10 (13.51%) Visualisation
9 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
10 8 (10.81%) AI
10 8 (10.81%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.32%) Python
2 17 (22.97%) C#
3 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.05%) PHP
5 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.70%) Ruby
5 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) Degree
3 8 (10.81%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.97%) SLA
2 8 (10.81%) QA
3 5 (6.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.41%) GDPR
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) Databricks
2 8 (10.81%) Oracle
2 8 (10.81%) Salesforce