SQL Jobs in the North West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,136 1,384 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.06% 18.26% 15.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.90% 46.18% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 904 725 969
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £66,563 £66,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,997 2,997 3,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.18% 39.54% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,412 1,752 2,586
10th Percentile £34,775 £36,250 £34,386
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,800 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £69,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for SQL in the North West

SQL
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 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 -4 574 £55,000 - 164
Cheshire -5 190 £50,000 +5.26% 59
Merseyside +2 169 £55,000 +29.41% 30
Lancashire -5 151 £47,500 +5.56% 20
Cumbria -2 49 £42,500 -2.97% 4
SQL
England

SQL
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 17 (1.50%) Confluence
2 13 (1.14%) IIS
2 13 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.88%) Apache
4 10 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.79%) SAS
6 8 (0.70%) CMS
7 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
9 2 (0.18%) WordPress
10 1 (0.088%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.088%) Captiva
10 1 (0.088%) CICS
10 1 (0.088%) concrete5
10 1 (0.088%) FileNet
10 1 (0.088%) nginx
10 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.088%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.088%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.97%) SAP Business One
3 9 (0.79%) Epicor Tropos
4 5 (0.44%) Magento
5 4 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.18%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 487 (42.87%) Azure
2 236 (20.77%) Power Platform
3 147 (12.94%) AWS
4 112 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (6.87%) IBM Cloud
6 61 (5.37%) GCP
7 59 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (5.19%) Serverless
8 48 (4.23%) Azure Functions
8 48 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 47 (4.14%) Azure API Management
10 46 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 45 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (3.26%) SaaS
12 37 (3.26%) Snowflake
13 27 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 22 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.85%) Entra ID
15 21 (1.85%) Power Automate
16 19 (1.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.76%) WAN
2 19 (1.67%) LAN
3 13 (1.14%) DNS
4 12 (1.06%) Broadband
5 11 (0.97%) Internet
5 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.79%) DHCP
6 9 (0.79%) HTTP
7 8 (0.70%) Firewall
8 7 (0.62%) MQTT
8 7 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.62%) VPN
9 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.53%) SSL
10 5 (0.44%) WLAN
11 3 (0.26%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.26%) DSL
11 3 (0.26%) Intranet
11 3 (0.26%) VLAN
11 3 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (24.65%) SQL Server
2 224 (19.72%) Power BI
3 125 (11.00%) Data Warehouse
4 121 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
5 115 (10.12%) NoSQL
6 95 (8.36%) MongoDB
6 95 (8.36%) Relational Database
7 90 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 85 (7.48%) DB2
9 84 (7.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 72 (6.34%) Tableau
11 71 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 46 (4.05%) Data Lake
13 44 (3.87%) MySQL
14 41 (3.61%) BigQuery
15 25 (2.20%) Looker
16 23 (2.02%) Oracle Database
17 22 (1.94%) Data Vault
18 20 (1.76%) Delta Lake
19 18 (1.58%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 90 (7.92%) Git
2 58 (5.11%) JIRA
3 25 (2.20%) Visual Studio
4 24 (2.11%) GitLab
5 22 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 12 (1.06%) IntelliJ
6 12 (1.06%) JUnit
6 12 (1.06%) Mockito
7 11 (0.97%) Jasmine
7 11 (0.97%) Karma Test Runner
7 11 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.70%) Gradle
9 7 (0.62%) Maven
9 7 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.53%) Dreamweaver
11 5 (0.44%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.44%) JetBrains Rider
11 5 (0.44%) Selenium
11 5 (0.44%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 219 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 184 (16.20%) Finance
3 139 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 56 (4.93%) Retail
6 55 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (4.31%) Manufacturing
8 38 (3.35%) Legal
8 38 (3.35%) Marketing
9 34 (2.99%) Law
10 27 (2.38%) Banking
11 26 (2.29%) Advertising
12 19 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.41%) Games
14 8 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.70%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.62%) Back Office
15 7 (0.62%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.53%) Automotive
16 6 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 394 (34.68%) Developer
2 192 (16.90%) Senior
3 177 (15.58%) Analyst
4 121 (10.65%) Data Engineer
5 107 (9.42%) Lead
6 103 (9.07%) .NET Developer
7 62 (5.46%) C# Developer
8 60 (5.28%) Software Developer
9 56 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 54 (4.75%) Software Engineer
11 50 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (4.31%) Full Stack Developer
13 48 (4.23%) Full Stack Engineer
14 47 (4.14%) Azure Developer
15 38 (3.35%) DBA
15 38 (3.35%) Lead Developer
15 38 (3.35%) SQL Developer
16 36 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
17 33 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
18 32 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (28.79%) .NET
2 184 (16.20%) HTML
3 176 (15.49%) CSS
4 158 (13.91%) ASP.NET
5 151 (13.29%) REST
6 120 (10.56%) Web Services
7 119 (10.48%) AngularJS
8 105 (9.24%) React
9 100 (8.80%) jQuery
10 91 (8.01%) Vue
11 83 (7.31%) ASP.NET Core
12 82 (7.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 78 (6.87%) Backbone.js
13 78 (6.87%) Ember.js
14 64 (5.63%) Node.js
15 63 (5.55%) .NET Core
16 51 (4.49%) Entity Framework
17 49 (4.31%) .NET Framework
18 48 (4.23%) HTML5
19 40 (3.52%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.56%) Data Structures
2 88 (7.75%) Algorithms
3 83 (7.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (6.87%) Blockchain
5 67 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 37 (3.26%) e-Learning
8 32 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 31 (2.73%) Reinsurance
10 21 (1.85%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.67%) Product Ownership
12 15 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
14 11 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (0.88%) Blog
15 10 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 136 (11.97%) Windows
2 117 (10.30%) Linux
3 92 (8.10%) Android
4 87 (7.66%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.14%) VMS
6 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.62%) Unix
8 4 (0.35%) Debian
8 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (30.55%) Agile
2 246 (21.65%) Business Intelligence
3 211 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (14.44%) Full Stack Development
5 159 (14.00%) DevOps
6 147 (12.94%) Mentoring
7 142 (12.50%) ETL
7 142 (12.50%) Visualisation
8 141 (12.41%) Analytics
9 138 (12.15%) Artificial Intelligence
10 132 (11.62%) MVC
11 128 (11.27%) Design Patterns
12 119 (10.48%) Coaching
13 116 (10.21%) Data Modelling
13 116 (10.21%) Software Engineering
13 116 (10.21%) User Experience
14 115 (10.12%) OO
15 114 (10.04%) Migration
16 111 (9.77%) OOP
17 102 (8.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 365 (32.13%) C#
2 244 (21.48%) JavaScript
3 242 (21.30%) Python
4 139 (12.24%) T-SQL
5 119 (10.48%) Java
6 47 (4.14%) PowerShell
7 43 (3.79%) TypeScript
8 41 (3.61%) VB
9 33 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 29 (2.55%) PL/SQL
11 26 (2.29%) PHP
12 21 (1.85%) VB.NET
13 14 (1.23%) Go
14 13 (1.14%) R
15 12 (1.06%) Scala
16 11 (0.97%) VB6
16 11 (0.97%) VBScript
17 9 (0.79%) Swift
18 8 (0.70%) Bash
19 7 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 139 (12.24%) Degree
2 49 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (1.32%) DBS Check
5 13 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 10 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.70%) PhD
8 7 (0.62%) ACCA
8 7 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.53%) CISA
9 6 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.35%) HNC
10 4 (0.35%) HND
10 4 (0.35%) MBA
10 4 (0.35%) Security Cleared
11 3 (0.26%) CCNA
11 3 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.26%) MCSA
11 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.99%) QA
3 16 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.62%) SLA
6 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.44%) GDPR
7 3 (0.26%) WCAG
8 2 (0.18%) HL7
8 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.088%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.96%) Docker
3 20 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.97%) RACF
5 9 (0.79%) Firmware
6 8 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) vSphere
9 1 (0.088%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.088%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 24 (2.11%) Terraform
2 15 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.62%) Ansible
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.18%) vRealize
7 1 (0.088%) Grafana
7 1 (0.088%) MAINVIEW
7 1 (0.088%) Nessus
7 1 (0.088%) Packer
7 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 296 (26.06%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.10%) IBM
3 78 (6.87%) Red Hat
4 75 (6.60%) Oracle
5 40 (3.52%) Databricks
6 38 (3.35%) Google
6 38 (3.35%) SAP
7 35 (3.08%) Informatica
8 15 (1.32%) Commvault
9 12 (1.06%) CA
9 12 (1.06%) F5
9 12 (1.06%) Teradata
10 10 (0.88%) CyberArk
10 10 (0.88%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.88%) VMware
11 9 (0.79%) Epicor
12 8 (0.70%) Facebook
13 7 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.53%) Cisco
14 6 (0.53%) Dataiku