SQL Server Jobs in the North West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 33 70 42
Rank change year-on-year +37 -28 -25
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 547 363 682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.33% 4.79% 7.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.19% 24.98% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 496 315 459
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,520 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,938 £37,500 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,167 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £67,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,812 1,453 2,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.64% 19.17% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 859 1,248
10th Percentile £33,122 £34,578 £33,171
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £66,650 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £80,000 £79,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +25 291 £50,000 -4.76% 68
Cheshire +5 93 £40,000 - 21
Merseyside +55 86 £55,000 +18.60% 16
Lancashire -5 58 £42,500 -15.00% 12
Cumbria - 19 £52,500 - 2
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 20 (3.66%) IIS
2 13 (2.38%) ArcGIS
2 13 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.65%) Apache Solr
4 9 (1.65%) Umbraco
5 8 (1.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.37%) Drupal
6 2 (0.37%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Kentico
7 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.65%) Epicor Tropos
3 7 (1.28%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 339 (61.97%) Azure
2 91 (16.64%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (15.36%) Power Platform
4 59 (10.79%) AWS
5 34 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (4.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 18 (3.29%) SaaS
8 18 (3.29%) Snowflake
9 17 (3.11%) Matillion
10 16 (2.93%) Serverless
11 13 (2.38%) GitHub
12 12 (2.19%) GCP
13 11 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (2.01%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.83%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.28%) Google Play
16 7 (1.28%) OCI
17 6 (1.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.48%) DNS
2 22 (4.02%) DHCP
3 20 (3.66%) Internet
3 20 (3.66%) LAN
4 17 (3.11%) WAN
5 15 (2.74%) Firewall
6 14 (2.56%) Broadband
7 12 (2.19%) VPN
8 9 (1.65%) SAN
8 9 (1.65%) SSL
9 6 (1.10%) NAS
9 6 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.91%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.55%) Intranet
11 3 (0.55%) VoIP
11 3 (0.55%) Wireless
11 3 (0.55%) WLAN
12 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.37%) HTTP
12 2 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (13.71%) Power BI
2 71 (12.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (11.33%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (9.14%) Relational Database
5 47 (8.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 46 (8.41%) MySQL
6 46 (8.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 41 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (6.95%) MongoDB
9 37 (6.76%) Data Lake
10 36 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (6.22%) Data Vault
12 26 (4.75%) Delta Lake
12 26 (4.75%) NoSQL
13 20 (3.66%) Tableau
14 15 (2.74%) Star Schema
15 13 (2.38%) DynamoDB
15 13 (2.38%) GIS
16 11 (2.01%) Oracle Database
16 11 (2.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 56 (10.24%) JIRA
2 36 (6.58%) Git
3 30 (5.48%) GitLab
4 12 (2.19%) Visual Studio
5 11 (2.01%) Jasmine
5 11 (2.01%) Karma Test Runner
6 9 (1.65%) NUnit
7 6 (1.10%) Dreamweaver
8 5 (0.91%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.73%) MSTest
10 3 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 102 (18.65%) Social Skills
2 70 (12.80%) Finance
3 55 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.13%) Retail
5 29 (5.30%) Legal
5 29 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.66%) Advertising
7 19 (3.47%) Games
8 16 (2.93%) Law
9 15 (2.74%) Marketing
10 9 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.46%) Back Office
12 7 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.28%) Local Government
12 7 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.28%) Police
13 5 (0.91%) French Language
13 5 (0.91%) Music Industry
13 5 (0.91%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 258 (47.17%) Developer
2 136 (24.86%) .NET Developer
3 83 (15.17%) Data Engineer
4 67 (12.25%) C# Developer
5 44 (8.04%) DBA
6 43 (7.86%) C# .NET Developer
7 42 (7.68%) Senior
8 36 (6.58%) Lead
9 35 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 29 (5.30%) Administrator
10 29 (5.30%) SQL DBA
11 24 (4.39%) Analyst
11 24 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (4.20%) SQL Developer
13 20 (3.66%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) Systems Developer
15 16 (2.93%) Azure Developer
15 16 (2.93%) Informatica Engineer
15 16 (2.93%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (42.96%) .NET
2 148 (27.06%) ASP.NET
3 132 (24.13%) .NET Core
4 126 (23.03%) HTML
5 106 (19.38%) AngularJS
6 103 (18.83%) ASP.NET MVC
7 94 (17.18%) CSS
8 88 (16.09%) Entity Framework
9 73 (13.35%) HTML5
10 70 (12.80%) ASP.NET Web API
11 69 (12.61%) .NET Framework
12 56 (10.24%) React
13 50 (9.14%) Node.js
14 40 (7.31%) Blazor
15 39 (7.13%) XML
16 38 (6.95%) RESTful
16 38 (6.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 36 (6.58%) CSS3
18 34 (6.22%) JSON
18 34 (6.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.96%) Data Structures
2 47 (8.59%) Public Cloud
3 43 (7.86%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (7.31%) Reinsurance
5 27 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.38%) Replication
7 12 (2.19%) NHS
8 10 (1.83%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.83%) Social Network
9 9 (1.65%) BBC
9 9 (1.65%) Social Media
10 7 (1.28%) iPhone
10 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.10%) Clustering
11 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.10%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 99 (18.10%) Windows
2 50 (9.14%) Linux
3 46 (8.41%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.02%) Unix
5 18 (3.29%) VMS
6 9 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.46%) Android
8 6 (1.10%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (42.96%) Agile
2 137 (25.05%) Full Stack Development
3 128 (23.40%) MVC
4 100 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (18.10%) ETL
6 96 (17.55%) DevOps
7 83 (15.17%) Microservices
8 82 (14.99%) Data Modelling
9 81 (14.81%) Scrum
10 71 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
11 67 (12.25%) TDD
12 56 (10.24%) Analytics
13 54 (9.87%) OO
14 53 (9.69%) BDD
14 53 (9.69%) Mentoring
15 51 (9.32%) Data Integration
16 50 (9.14%) Migration
17 42 (7.68%) CI/CD
18 37 (6.76%) Data Engineering
19 36 (6.58%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 280 (51.19%) SQL
2 254 (46.44%) C#
3 176 (32.18%) JavaScript
4 92 (16.82%) Python
5 84 (15.36%) T-SQL
6 48 (8.78%) PowerShell
6 48 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 32 (5.85%) VB.NET
8 28 (5.12%) VB
9 22 (4.02%) Java
10 13 (2.38%) PHP
11 11 (2.01%) Delphi
11 11 (2.01%) VB6
11 11 (2.01%) VBScript
12 10 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (1.83%) Ruby
13 9 (1.65%) Perl
14 5 (0.91%) Go
15 3 (0.55%) Bash
16 2 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (11.33%) Degree
2 22 (4.02%) Security Cleared
3 16 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.01%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.73%) HNC
9 4 (0.73%) HND
10 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.37%) MCSE
11 2 (0.37%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.15%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.48%) QA
3 20 (3.66%) GDPR
4 13 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (2.74%) Docker
4 12 (2.19%) Hyper-V
4 12 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.91%) vSphere
7 2 (0.37%) Firmware
7 2 (0.37%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.83%) Terraform
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.37%) SCCM
4 2 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.37%) vRealize
4 2 (0.37%) WSUS
5 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 285 (52.10%) Microsoft
2 84 (15.36%) Oracle
3 40 (7.31%) Informatica
4 38 (6.95%) Databricks
5 28 (5.12%) Facebook
5 28 (5.12%) VMware
6 23 (4.20%) Cisco
6 23 (4.20%) Google
7 15 (2.74%) Apple
7 15 (2.74%) Commvault
8 9 (1.65%) Epicor
8 9 (1.65%) IBM
8 9 (1.65%) Sony
8 9 (1.65%) Yahoo!
9 7 (1.28%) ESRI
9 7 (1.28%) F5
9 7 (1.28%) NEC
10 6 (1.10%) ESET
10 6 (1.10%) Sophos
11 5 (0.91%) Salesforce