SQL Server Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 21 38
Rank change year-on-year -45 +17 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5 28 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 0.49% 7.00% 3.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.68% 51.85% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 30
10th Percentile £28,150 £25,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,875 £25,750 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -33.33% +2.63%
75th Percentile £46,000 £62,500 £60,938
90th Percentile - £66,250 £65,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 88 54 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 8.62% 13.50% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 73 51 86
10th Percentile £39,000 £25,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% -3.16%
75th Percentile £74,987 £63,750 £60,938
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £73,125
South Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +13.04% -3.16%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Sheffield over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Sheffield

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SGI