SQL Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 116 124 169
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 7.20% 19.17% 14.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 67.76% 44.71%
Number of salaries quoted 72 103 79
10th Percentile £24,100 - £32,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,625 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £83,000
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 290 183 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 18.00% 28.28% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 218 155 246
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,250 £80,000 £75,000
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £46,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.95% -1.58% -13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Nottinghamshire

SQL
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Nottingham -14 92 £42,500 -19.05% 17
Mansfield +7 16 £31,000 -11.43% 2
Sutton-in-Ashfield -1 5 £70,000 +75.00%
Worksop -9 2 £26,250 +1.94% 2
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 30 (25.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) SAP Business One
2 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.86%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.41%) Azure
2 41 (35.34%) Power Platform
3 17 (14.66%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (10.34%) AWS
4 12 (10.34%) Azure AI
5 7 (6.03%) GCP
6 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.31%) SaaS
7 4 (3.45%) Supabase
8 3 (2.59%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.86%) Dagster
10 1 (0.86%) dbt
10 1 (0.86%) GitHub
10 1 (0.86%) PaaS
10 1 (0.86%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.93%) DHCP
1 15 (12.93%) DNS
2 12 (10.34%) Firewall
2 12 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (35.34%) Power BI
2 17 (14.66%) Tableau
3 11 (9.48%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.31%) Power Query
5 5 (4.31%) QlikView
6 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.72%) Db2
8 2 (1.72%) Easytrieve
8 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.86%) GIS
9 1 (0.86%) MySQL
9 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Git
2 4 (3.45%) GitLab
2 4 (3.45%) Storybook
3 1 (0.86%) NUnit
General
1 41 (35.34%) Analytical Skills
1 41 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.00%) Finance
3 15 (12.93%) Retail
4 10 (8.62%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.86%) Advertising
9 1 (0.86%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.86%) Games
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Marketing
9 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (27.59%) Analyst
1 32 (27.59%) Developer
2 25 (21.55%) Data Analyst
3 19 (16.38%) Senior
4 16 (13.79%) IT Support
5 15 (12.93%) Data Scientist
6 13 (11.21%) Junior
7 12 (10.34%) IT Support Technician
7 12 (10.34%) IT Technician
7 12 (10.34%) Junior Analyst
7 12 (10.34%) Junior Data Analyst
7 12 (10.34%) Software Developer
7 12 (10.34%) Support Technician
8 11 (9.48%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 11 (9.48%) C# Software Developer
8 11 (9.48%) Graduate C# Developer
8 11 (9.48%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 11 (9.48%) Graduate Developer
8 11 (9.48%) Graduate Software Developer
8 11 (9.48%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) PyTorch
2 10 (8.62%) .NET
2 10 (8.62%) React
3 8 (6.90%) CSS
4 7 (6.03%) .NET Core
4 7 (6.03%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (6.03%) Pandas
4 7 (6.03%) scikit-learn
5 6 (5.17%) ASP.NET
5 6 (5.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (5.17%) Blazor
5 6 (5.17%) Hugging Face
5 6 (5.17%) LINQ
5 6 (5.17%) REST
5 6 (5.17%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.45%) Next.js
6 4 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (3.45%) Vitest
7 3 (2.59%) jQuery
8 2 (1.72%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
1 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.72%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.86%) Replication
4 1 (0.86%) Robotics
4 1 (0.86%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.83%) Windows
2 12 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.62%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (31.03%) Analytics
2 36 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (25.00%) Agile
3 29 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 23 (19.83%) Actionable Insight
5 22 (18.97%) Computer Science
6 20 (17.24%) AI
7 19 (16.38%) Roadmaps
8 18 (15.52%) Data Science
8 18 (15.52%) Decision-Making
9 16 (13.79%) Data Analytics
9 16 (13.79%) Data Modelling
9 16 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
9 16 (13.79%) Visualisation
10 15 (12.93%) Data Analysis
10 15 (12.93%) Data Management
10 15 (12.93%) Machine Learning
10 15 (12.93%) Statistics
11 13 (11.21%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.21%) Python
2 21 (18.10%) C#
3 12 (10.34%) VBA
4 11 (9.48%) PHP
5 8 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.59%) C++
9 3 (2.59%) Java
10 2 (1.72%) Assembly Language
10 2 (1.72%) COBOL
10 2 (1.72%) JCL
11 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.86%) R
11 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.86%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (13.79%) Degree
2 12 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.17%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) SLA
2 8 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.45%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.86%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 17 (14.66%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.34%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.31%) Docker
4 2 (1.72%) Firmware
4 2 (1.72%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (39.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.07%) Databricks
3 6 (5.17%) Google
4 5 (4.31%) SYSPRO
5 4 (3.45%) SAP
6 2 (1.72%) Cisco
6 2 (1.72%) IBM
7 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.86%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.86%) ESRI
7 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle
7 1 (0.86%) Sage