SQL Server Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 67 35
Rank change year-on-year +36 -32 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 971 790 1,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.13% 4.92% 7.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.97% 23.92% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 885 636 1,008
10th Percentile £32,200 £32,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,001 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,625 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,135 3,302 3,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.57% 20.55% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,270 1,760 2,452
10th Percentile £31,579 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the North of England.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
North West +38 553 £50,000 - 110
Yorkshire +30 302 £50,000 - 66
North East +36 116 £47,500 - 33
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 36 (3.71%) IIS
2 32 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (2.16%) Umbraco
5 13 (1.34%) ArcGIS
5 13 (1.34%) CMS
6 9 (0.93%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.72%) Confluence
8 6 (0.62%) Apache
8 6 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.21%) Drupal
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) SAS
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.10%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Moodle
Applications
1 36 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.93%) Epicor Tropos
3 7 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.72%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.62%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 589 (60.66%) Azure
2 134 (13.80%) Power Platform
3 126 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
4 123 (12.67%) AWS
5 53 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 34 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (3.50%) GCP
8 31 (3.19%) SaaS
9 26 (2.68%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.27%) Matillion
11 21 (2.16%) Serverless
12 16 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (1.65%) GitHub
12 16 (1.65%) Google Play
13 15 (1.54%) OCI
14 14 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.34%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.24%) Azure App Service
16 12 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.74%) DNS
1 46 (4.74%) SAN
2 39 (4.02%) Firewall
3 36 (3.71%) Internet
4 31 (3.19%) DHCP
5 29 (2.99%) Broadband
6 22 (2.27%) LAN
7 21 (2.16%) VPN
8 19 (1.96%) WAN
9 16 (1.65%) NAS
9 16 (1.65%) SSL
10 12 (1.24%) TCP/IP
11 11 (1.13%) VLAN
12 9 (0.93%) Multicast
13 8 (0.82%) Intranet
13 8 (0.82%) Mobile Broadband
13 8 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.62%) HTTP
15 5 (0.51%) VoIP
15 5 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (12.67%) Power BI
2 98 (10.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (9.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 81 (8.34%) MySQL
6 78 (8.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 76 (7.83%) Relational Database
8 64 (6.59%) MongoDB
9 58 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
10 57 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (4.63%) Data Lake
12 34 (3.50%) Data Vault
13 28 (2.88%) NoSQL
14 27 (2.78%) DB2
15 26 (2.68%) Delta Lake
15 26 (2.68%) Tableau
16 22 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (2.06%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 18 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 77 (7.93%) Git
2 72 (7.42%) JIRA
3 33 (3.40%) GitLab
4 18 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.65%) Jasmine
5 16 (1.65%) Karma Test Runner
6 11 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 10 (1.03%) NUnit
8 6 (0.62%) Dreamweaver
8 6 (0.62%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.62%) MSTest
9 5 (0.51%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.31%) Toad
12 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.21%) Moq
12 2 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 227 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 109 (11.23%) Finance
3 103 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.11%) Retail
5 56 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.63%) Law
7 43 (4.43%) Legal
8 37 (3.81%) Manufacturing
9 35 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (3.19%) Games
11 26 (2.68%) Advertising
11 26 (2.68%) Marketing
12 11 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.03%) Back Office
14 9 (0.93%) Music Industry
14 9 (0.93%) Police
15 8 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.82%) Local Government
16 6 (0.62%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 454 (46.76%) Developer
2 246 (25.33%) .NET Developer
3 124 (12.77%) C# Developer
4 93 (9.58%) Data Engineer
5 91 (9.37%) Senior
6 90 (9.27%) C# .NET Developer
7 73 (7.52%) DBA
8 70 (7.21%) Lead
9 58 (5.97%) Software Engineer
10 57 (5.87%) Analyst
11 55 (5.66%) Support Engineer
12 53 (5.46%) Software Developer
13 46 (4.74%) IT Engineer
13 46 (4.74%) SQL DBA
14 43 (4.43%) IT Support
15 39 (4.02%) Administrator
16 35 (3.60%) SQL Developer
17 33 (3.40%) IT Support Engineer
18 29 (2.99%) Consultant
19 27 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 440 (45.31%) .NET
2 263 (27.09%) ASP.NET
3 253 (26.06%) .NET Core
4 213 (21.94%) AngularJS
5 199 (20.49%) HTML
6 183 (18.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 171 (17.61%) ASP.NET Web API
8 169 (17.40%) Entity Framework
9 154 (15.86%) .NET Framework
10 144 (14.83%) CSS
11 114 (11.74%) React
12 111 (11.43%) HTML5
13 91 (9.37%) Node.js
14 80 (8.24%) Vue
15 73 (7.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 72 (7.42%) RESTful
17 61 (6.28%) XML
18 60 (6.18%) Blazor
19 58 (5.97%) JSON
20 46 (4.74%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.69%) Public Cloud
2 56 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
3 53 (5.46%) Data Structures
3 53 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (4.12%) Reinsurance
5 29 (2.99%) Driving Licence
6 26 (2.68%) Replication
7 23 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 22 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.27%) NHS
9 21 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
10 19 (1.96%) Cloud Native
11 17 (1.75%) Social Media
12 16 (1.65%) iPhone
13 15 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.54%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.44%) BBC
15 13 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.13%) Life Science
17 10 (1.03%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 160 (16.48%) Windows
2 81 (8.34%) Windows Server
3 79 (8.14%) Linux
4 28 (2.88%) VMS
5 24 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (2.37%) Unix
7 20 (2.06%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.75%) Android
9 15 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.62%) AIX
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (37.90%) Agile
2 232 (23.89%) Full Stack Development
3 225 (23.17%) MVC
4 198 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 171 (17.61%) Microservices
6 159 (16.37%) DevOps
7 136 (14.01%) Business Intelligence
8 128 (13.18%) ETL
9 108 (11.12%) Scrum
10 107 (11.02%) TDD
11 90 (9.27%) OO
12 88 (9.06%) Data Modelling
13 79 (8.14%) BDD
14 76 (7.83%) Analytics
14 76 (7.83%) Roadmaps
15 75 (7.72%) Software Engineering
16 74 (7.62%) Mentoring
16 74 (7.62%) Migration
17 69 (7.11%) ERP
18 67 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 515 (53.04%) SQL
2 452 (46.55%) C#
3 310 (31.93%) JavaScript
4 154 (15.86%) T-SQL
5 110 (11.33%) Python
6 82 (8.44%) TypeScript
7 73 (7.52%) PowerShell
8 43 (4.43%) VB.NET
9 39 (4.02%) VB
10 31 (3.19%) Java
11 16 (1.65%) VB6
12 15 (1.54%) VBScript
13 13 (1.34%) PHP
13 13 (1.34%) Ruby
14 11 (1.13%) Delphi
14 11 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.13%) VBA
15 10 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.93%) Perl
17 8 (0.82%) C++
Qualifications
1 126 (12.98%) Degree
2 56 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 41 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.47%) Security Cleared
5 22 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
7 13 (1.34%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.93%) MCSE
11 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.82%) OCP
12 7 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.62%) CCNA
13 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.41%) HNC
15 4 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.41%) MCP
15 4 (0.41%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.74%) QA
3 20 (2.06%) GDPR
4 14 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.13%) SLA
6 9 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.60%) Hyper-V
3 33 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.96%) Docker
6 17 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (1.13%) vSphere
8 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.21%) Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.21%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.75%) Terraform
3 12 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.72%) WSUS
5 6 (0.62%) SCCM
6 4 (0.41%) Ansible
7 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.21%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.10%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.10%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.10%) yum
Vendors
1 541 (55.72%) Microsoft
2 132 (13.59%) Oracle
3 51 (5.25%) Google
4 49 (5.05%) VMware
5 40 (4.12%) Informatica
6 39 (4.02%) Databricks
7 33 (3.40%) Facebook
8 30 (3.09%) IBM
9 28 (2.88%) Cisco
10 20 (2.06%) Apple
11 15 (1.54%) Commvault
11 15 (1.54%) SAP
12 14 (1.44%) Sony
12 14 (1.44%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.93%) Citrix
13 9 (0.93%) Epicor
14 8 (0.82%) Sage
14 8 (0.82%) Veeam
15 7 (0.72%) ESET
15 7 (0.72%) F5