SQL Jobs in the North of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 2,022 3,437 2,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.11% 20.77% 15.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.12% 50.08% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 1,485 1,995
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £59,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%

All Programming Languages
North of England

SQL is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,169 6,863 7,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.41% 41.47% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,241 3,532 5,430
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North of England

SQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for SQL in the North of England

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the North of England

SQL
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 -2 1,136 £52,500 +1.94% 273
Yorkshire -7 626 £47,000 -10.05% 163
North East -1 262 £50,000 -4.76% 49
SQL
England

SQL
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 44 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.83%) Confluence
3 31 (1.53%) IIS
4 28 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.19%) SAS
6 23 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.69%) CMS
8 13 (0.64%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.59%) Apache
10 11 (0.54%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.15%) Captiva
11 3 (0.15%) Drupal
11 3 (0.15%) FileNet
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.099%) WordPress
13 1 (0.049%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.049%) Moodle
Applications
1 108 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.74%) SAP Business One
2 13 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Magento
4 9 (0.45%) Epicor Tropos
5 8 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 4 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.15%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.15%) Shopify
9 2 (0.099%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.099%) SAP MII
10 1 (0.049%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.049%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.049%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 795 (39.32%) Azure
2 402 (19.88%) Power Platform
3 304 (15.03%) AWS
4 161 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
5 127 (6.28%) GCP
6 113 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
7 95 (4.70%) Serverless
8 82 (4.06%) SaaS
9 78 (3.86%) IBM Cloud
10 66 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
11 65 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 57 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 52 (2.57%) Snowflake
14 50 (2.47%) Azure Functions
15 48 (2.37%) Azure API Management
16 47 (2.32%) Entra ID
17 45 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
18 41 (2.03%) GitHub
19 40 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
20 36 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.37%) Firewall
2 40 (1.98%) LAN
3 39 (1.93%) WAN
4 34 (1.68%) DNS
5 26 (1.29%) VPN
6 25 (1.24%) Broadband
6 25 (1.24%) DHCP
7 22 (1.09%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.94%) Internet
9 17 (0.84%) VLAN
10 15 (0.74%) SAN
10 15 (0.74%) WLAN
11 13 (0.64%) HTTP
11 13 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.49%) MQTT
12 10 (0.49%) Network Security
13 9 (0.45%) Multicast
13 9 (0.45%) SSL
14 6 (0.30%) FTP
14 6 (0.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (25.12%) SQL Server
2 378 (18.69%) Power BI
3 216 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
4 193 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
5 163 (8.06%) NoSQL
6 151 (7.47%) MySQL
7 140 (6.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 137 (6.78%) MongoDB
9 130 (6.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 129 (6.38%) Relational Database
11 119 (5.89%) Tableau
12 104 (5.14%) DB2
13 100 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 90 (4.45%) BigQuery
15 70 (3.46%) Data Lake
16 39 (1.93%) Oracle Database
17 35 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
18 32 (1.58%) Redis
19 30 (1.48%) Big Data
20 28 (1.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 153 (7.57%) Git
2 85 (4.20%) JIRA
3 36 (1.78%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.73%) GitLab
5 34 (1.68%) Jenkins
6 33 (1.63%) TeamCity
7 21 (1.04%) JUnit
8 18 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 16 (0.79%) Jasmine
9 16 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
9 16 (0.79%) Selenium
10 14 (0.69%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.64%) Mockito
11 13 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.59%) IntelliJ
13 11 (0.54%) Gradle
14 10 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.49%) Maven
14 10 (0.49%) Postman
15 8 (0.40%) CircleCI
General
1 475 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 367 (18.15%) Finance
3 240 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 137 (6.78%) Retail
6 120 (5.93%) Manufacturing
7 95 (4.70%) Banking
8 87 (4.30%) Legal
9 80 (3.96%) Marketing
10 75 (3.71%) Law
11 59 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 56 (2.77%) Games
13 39 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (1.68%) Advertising
15 17 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.79%) Tech for Good
17 14 (0.69%) Aerospace
17 14 (0.69%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 630 (31.16%) Developer
2 346 (17.11%) Senior
3 334 (16.52%) Analyst
4 210 (10.39%) Lead
5 173 (8.56%) Data Engineer
6 163 (8.06%) .NET Developer
7 149 (7.37%) Software Engineer
8 117 (5.79%) Software Developer
9 109 (5.39%) C# Developer
10 84 (4.15%) Senior Developer
11 74 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 72 (3.56%) DBA
13 67 (3.31%) Full Stack Developer
14 65 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
15 64 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
16 61 (3.02%) Digital Analyst
16 61 (3.02%) Lead Developer
16 61 (3.02%) Performance Analyst
17 60 (2.97%) Digital Performance Analyst
18 58 (2.87%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (27.10%) .NET
2 271 (13.40%) HTML
3 247 (12.22%) ASP.NET
4 245 (12.12%) CSS
5 178 (8.80%) AngularJS
6 176 (8.70%) REST
7 154 (7.62%) .NET Core
8 142 (7.02%) Web Services
9 131 (6.48%) Vue
10 127 (6.28%) React
11 118 (5.84%) jQuery
12 109 (5.39%) Node.js
13 100 (4.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 99 (4.90%) .NET Framework
14 99 (4.90%) ASP.NET Core
15 93 (4.60%) Entity Framework
16 92 (4.55%) RESTful
17 78 (3.86%) Backbone.js
17 78 (3.86%) Ember.js
18 71 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 143 (7.07%) Data Structures
2 95 (4.70%) Algorithms
3 85 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 84 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 79 (3.91%) Public Cloud
6 78 (3.86%) Blockchain
7 70 (3.46%) Management Information System
8 47 (2.32%) Product Ownership
9 42 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (1.83%) Client/Server
10 37 (1.83%) e-Learning
11 34 (1.68%) NHS
12 33 (1.63%) Cloud Native
13 31 (1.53%) Reinsurance
14 29 (1.43%) Onboarding
15 26 (1.29%) Online Games
16 25 (1.24%) Data Centre
17 23 (1.14%) Mobile App
18 22 (1.09%) Mainframe
19 20 (0.99%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 254 (12.56%) Windows
2 160 (7.91%) Linux
3 95 (4.70%) Android
4 87 (4.30%) Apple iOS
5 63 (3.12%) Windows Server
6 24 (1.19%) VMS
7 22 (1.09%) Unix
7 22 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.20%) Debian
11 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.049%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (29.82%) Agile
2 429 (21.22%) Business Intelligence
3 409 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
4 291 (14.39%) Mentoring
5 285 (14.09%) DevOps
6 259 (12.81%) Analytics
7 258 (12.76%) Software Engineering
8 252 (12.46%) Coaching
9 236 (11.67%) ETL
10 229 (11.33%) Visualisation
11 227 (11.23%) Full Stack Development
12 184 (9.10%) Artificial Intelligence
13 182 (9.00%) Data Modelling
13 182 (9.00%) Design Patterns
14 181 (8.95%) Decision-Making
15 178 (8.80%) Migration
15 178 (8.80%) MVC
16 161 (7.96%) ERP
17 149 (7.37%) User Experience
18 148 (7.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 610 (30.17%) C#
2 373 (18.45%) JavaScript
3 342 (16.91%) Python
4 236 (11.67%) T-SQL
5 159 (7.86%) Java
6 87 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 76 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 53 (2.62%) PHP
9 51 (2.52%) VB
10 49 (2.42%) PL/SQL
11 41 (2.03%) VB.NET
12 36 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 22 (1.09%) VBA
14 20 (0.99%) Groovy
14 20 (0.99%) R
15 19 (0.94%) Go
16 16 (0.79%) VB6
16 16 (0.79%) XAML
17 15 (0.74%) Bash
17 15 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 258 (12.76%) Degree
2 91 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 70 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 26 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 14 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 12 (0.59%) CIPD
9 10 (0.49%) Security Cleared
10 8 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.40%) OCP
10 8 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.40%) PhD
11 7 (0.35%) ACCA
11 7 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.30%) CISA
12 6 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 55 (2.72%) QA
3 26 (1.29%) GDPR
4 22 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 22 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.09%) SLA
5 8 (0.40%) PSD2
6 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.15%) WCAG
8 2 (0.099%) HL7
8 2 (0.099%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.099%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.049%) CRD IV
9 1 (0.049%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.049%) PMO
9 1 (0.049%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 145 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 90 (4.45%) Docker
3 37 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (1.68%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (1.24%) RACF
7 9 (0.45%) Firmware
8 8 (0.40%) VMware Server
9 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.25%) vSphere
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.049%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.049%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 61 (3.02%) Terraform
2 53 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.24%) Ansible
4 17 (0.84%) Progress Chef
5 15 (0.74%) Grafana
6 14 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.30%) Puppet
8 6 (0.30%) SCOM
9 3 (0.15%) Kibana
10 2 (0.099%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.099%) logstash
10 2 (0.099%) SCCM
10 2 (0.099%) SQL Sentry
10 2 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.099%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.099%) vRealize
11 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.049%) Packer
11 1 (0.049%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 571 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.73%) Oracle
3 121 (5.98%) IBM
4 90 (4.45%) Google
5 78 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 61 (3.02%) SAP
7 50 (2.47%) Databricks
8 44 (2.18%) VMware
9 35 (1.73%) Informatica
10 26 (1.29%) F5
11 24 (1.19%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.14%) Epicor
13 16 (0.79%) Commvault
14 15 (0.74%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.69%) Teradata
16 12 (0.59%) CA
16 12 (0.59%) IFS
17 11 (0.54%) Cisco
18 10 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
18 10 (0.49%) MuleSoft