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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,139 1,380 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.01% 18.20% 15.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.83% 46.17% 37.85%
Number of salaries quoted 906 720 962
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 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.52% +4.74%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,313 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,763 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.97% +6.72% +6.67%

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 3,011 2,989 3,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.10% 39.42% 40.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,421 1,741 2,567
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £34,500
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 £68,750 £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 29 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 29 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 -4 575 £54,000 -1.82% 163
Cheshire -5 191 £50,000 +5.26% 59
Merseyside +2 169 £55,000 +29.41% 30
Lancashire -6 152 £47,500 +5.56% 19
Cumbria -2 49 £42,500 -2.97% 3
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 (1.49%) Confluence
2 13 (1.14%) IIS
2 13 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.05%) 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%) CICS
10 1 (0.088%) concrete5
10 1 (0.088%) nginx
Applications
1 70 (6.15%) 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 13 (1.14%) 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 (42.76%) Azure
2 236 (20.72%) Power Platform
3 147 (12.91%) AWS
4 112 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (6.85%) IBM Cloud
6 60 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (5.18%) GCP
7 59 (5.18%) Serverless
8 48 (4.21%) Azure Functions
8 48 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
9 47 (4.13%) Azure API Management
10 46 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 45 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (3.34%) SaaS
13 37 (3.25%) Snowflake
14 27 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (1.84%) Entra ID
16 21 (1.84%) Power Automate
17 18 (1.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.76%) WAN
2 19 (1.67%) LAN
3 13 (1.14%) DNS
4 12 (1.05%) Broadband
4 12 (1.05%) Internet
5 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.79%) DHCP
6 9 (0.79%) HTTP
7 8 (0.70%) Firewall
8 7 (0.61%) MQTT
8 7 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.61%) 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
1 281 (24.67%) SQL Server
2 224 (19.67%) Power BI
3 125 (10.97%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
5 117 (10.27%) NoSQL
6 96 (8.43%) MongoDB
7 95 (8.34%) Relational Database
8 91 (7.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 86 (7.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 85 (7.46%) DB2
11 73 (6.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 71 (6.23%) Tableau
13 47 (4.13%) Data Lake
14 45 (3.95%) MySQL
15 41 (3.60%) BigQuery
16 24 (2.11%) Looker
17 23 (2.02%) Oracle Database
18 22 (1.93%) Data Vault
19 20 (1.76%) Delta Lake
20 18 (1.58%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 92 (8.08%) Git
2 57 (5.00%) JIRA
3 25 (2.19%) Visual Studio
4 24 (2.11%) GitLab
5 22 (1.93%) TeamCity
6 12 (1.05%) IntelliJ
6 12 (1.05%) JUnit
6 12 (1.05%) 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 (0.61%) Maven
9 7 (0.61%) 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%) Postman
General
1 219 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 181 (15.89%) Finance
3 140 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 56 (4.92%) Retail
6 55 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (4.21%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.42%) Legal
9 37 (3.25%) Marketing
10 34 (2.99%) Law
11 26 (2.28%) Advertising
12 25 (2.19%) Banking
13 19 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.40%) Games
15 8 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.70%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.61%) Back Office
17 6 (0.53%) Automotive
17 6 (0.53%) Spanish Language
17 6 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 397 (34.86%) Developer
2 192 (16.86%) Senior
3 177 (15.54%) Analyst
4 121 (10.62%) Data Engineer
5 108 (9.48%) Lead
6 104 (9.13%) .NET Developer
7 63 (5.53%) C# Developer
8 61 (5.36%) Software Developer
9 56 (4.92%) Senior Developer
10 53 (4.65%) Software Engineer
11 50 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (4.30%) Full Stack Developer
13 48 (4.21%) Full Stack Engineer
14 47 (4.13%) Azure Developer
15 39 (3.42%) DBA
15 39 (3.42%) SQL Developer
16 38 (3.34%) Lead Developer
17 36 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
18 33 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
19 32 (2.81%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (28.88%) .NET
2 184 (16.15%) HTML
3 176 (15.45%) CSS
4 159 (13.96%) ASP.NET
5 151 (13.26%) REST
6 120 (10.54%) Web Services
7 119 (10.45%) AngularJS
8 105 (9.22%) React
9 100 (8.78%) jQuery
10 91 (7.99%) Vue
11 83 (7.29%) ASP.NET Core
12 82 (7.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 78 (6.85%) Backbone.js
13 78 (6.85%) Ember.js
14 65 (5.71%) Node.js
15 63 (5.53%) .NET Core
16 51 (4.48%) Entity Framework
17 50 (4.39%) .NET Framework
18 48 (4.21%) HTML5
19 40 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.54%) Data Structures
2 88 (7.73%) Algorithms
3 83 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (6.85%) Blockchain
5 67 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (4.13%) Public Cloud
7 37 (3.25%) e-Learning
8 32 (2.81%) Management Information System
9 31 (2.72%) Reinsurance
10 21 (1.84%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.84%) 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 (11.94%) Windows
2 116 (10.18%) Linux
3 93 (8.17%) Android
4 87 (7.64%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.14%) VMS
6 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.53%) Unix
8 4 (0.35%) Debian
8 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.088%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (30.29%) Agile
2 245 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
3 211 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (14.40%) Full Stack Development
5 157 (13.78%) DevOps
6 146 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 141 (12.38%) Analytics
7 141 (12.38%) ETL
8 140 (12.29%) Visualisation
9 139 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
10 132 (11.59%) MVC
11 128 (11.24%) Design Patterns
12 118 (10.36%) Coaching
12 118 (10.36%) Software Engineering
13 117 (10.27%) Data Modelling
14 116 (10.18%) User Experience
15 115 (10.10%) OO
16 113 (9.92%) Migration
17 111 (9.75%) OOP
18 103 (9.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 367 (32.22%) C#
2 245 (21.51%) JavaScript
3 242 (21.25%) Python
4 140 (12.29%) T-SQL
5 118 (10.36%) Java
6 46 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 43 (3.78%) TypeScript
8 41 (3.60%) VB
9 33 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 29 (2.55%) PL/SQL
11 26 (2.28%) PHP
12 21 (1.84%) VB.NET
13 14 (1.23%) Go
14 13 (1.14%) R
15 12 (1.05%) Scala
16 11 (0.97%) VB6
16 11 (0.97%) VBScript
17 9 (0.79%) Swift
18 8 (0.70%) Bash
19 7 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 142 (12.47%) Degree
2 49 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (2.55%) 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 (0.61%) ACCA
8 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.53%) CISA
9 6 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.44%) Security Cleared
11 4 (0.35%) HNC
11 4 (0.35%) HND
11 4 (0.35%) MBA
12 3 (0.26%) CCNA
12 3 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.26%) MCSA
12 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.99%) QA
3 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.61%) SLA
6 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.35%) GDPR
8 3 (0.26%) WCAG
9 2 (0.18%) HL7
9 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.088%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.95%) Docker
3 21 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.97%) RACF
5 9 (0.79%) Firmware
5 9 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.26%) vSphere
8 2 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.088%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.088%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.088%) XenApp
9 1 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (2.11%) Terraform
2 15 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.53%) Ansible
3 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.18%) vRealize
5 1 (0.088%) Grafana
5 1 (0.088%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (0.088%) Nessus
5 1 (0.088%) Packer
5 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 296 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.90%) IBM
3 78 (6.85%) Red Hat
4 74 (6.50%) Oracle
5 41 (3.60%) Databricks
6 38 (3.34%) Google
7 36 (3.16%) SAP
8 35 (3.07%) Informatica
9 15 (1.32%) Commvault
10 12 (1.05%) CA
10 12 (1.05%) F5
10 12 (1.05%) Teradata
11 11 (0.97%) VMware
12 10 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 10 (0.88%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.79%) Epicor
14 8 (0.70%) Facebook
15 6 (0.53%) Civica
15 6 (0.53%) Dataiku
15 6 (0.53%) ServiceNow