SQL Server Jobs in Cheshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 40 9
Rank change year-on-year +12 -31 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 100 56 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.52% 5.98% 14.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 42.92% 41.79% 53.07%
Number of salaries quoted 81 48 69
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £39,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £54,063 £53,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £60,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 233 134 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.19% 14.32% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 150 80 147
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -7.22% +7.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,915 £65,125 £72,500
North West median annual salary £51,000 £54,941 £53,029
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.61% +9.90%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Cheshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Cheshire.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Cheshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Cheshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Chester +19 23 £37,500 +2.00% 7
Warrington -9 23 £30,000 -20.00% 7
Knutsford -4 10 £67,500 +35.00%
Winsford - 9 £40,000 -
Crewe -11 5 £35,000 -12.50%
Northwich - 5 £67,500 -
Macclesfield -4 3 £65,000 -
Runcorn +4 2 £40,000 +6.67%
Neston - 2 £55,000 -
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (7.00%) IIS
2 2 (2.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (2.00%) SAS
3 1 (1.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (17.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (3.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.00%) Azure
2 22 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (16.00%) AWS
3 16 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 13 (13.00%) SaaS
5 10 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.00%) Serverless
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (6.00%) GitHub
7 6 (6.00%) Matillion
7 6 (6.00%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.00%) Commercetools
8 3 (3.00%) GCP
8 3 (3.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.00%) CloudFront
10 1 (1.00%) IaaS
10 1 (1.00%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.00%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) DHCP
1 8 (8.00%) DNS
2 6 (6.00%) Firewall
3 5 (5.00%) LAN
3 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.00%) WAN
4 4 (4.00%) NAS
4 4 (4.00%) SAN
4 4 (4.00%) VoIP
5 3 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.00%) Broadband
6 2 (2.00%) IP Telephony
6 2 (2.00%) VPN
7 1 (1.00%) DMZ
7 1 (1.00%) Network Security
7 1 (1.00%) SSL
7 1 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.00%) Power BI
2 14 (14.00%) MySQL
3 13 (13.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.00%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (6.00%) Star Schema
6 5 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (5.00%) MS Access
7 4 (4.00%) PowerPivot
8 3 (3.00%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (3.00%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.00%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.00%) OLAP
10 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) JIRA
2 7 (7.00%) Jasmine
2 7 (7.00%) Karma Test Runner
3 6 (6.00%) Git
3 6 (6.00%) GitLab
4 5 (5.00%) InstallShield
5 1 (1.00%) NUnit
General
1 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Retail
3 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.00%) Finance
5 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.00%) Advertising
6 3 (3.00%) Games
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.00%) Electronics
7 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Automotive
8 1 (1.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (44.00%) Developer
2 15 (15.00%) .NET Developer
2 15 (15.00%) Analyst
3 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
4 10 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 8 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 7 (7.00%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) IT Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) IT Support
8 5 (5.00%) Lead
8 5 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) SQL Support Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) Administrator
9 4 (4.00%) ERP Support
9 4 (4.00%) IT Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (43.00%) .NET
2 26 (26.00%) ASP.NET
3 18 (18.00%) AngularJS
3 18 (18.00%) HTML
4 16 (16.00%) .NET Core
5 15 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 14 (14.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 11 (11.00%) HTML5
7 11 (11.00%) RESTful
8 10 (10.00%) CSS
8 10 (10.00%) JSON
8 10 (10.00%) Web Services
8 10 (10.00%) XML
9 9 (9.00%) LINQ
10 8 (8.00%) Node.js
11 7 (7.00%) .NET Framework
11 7 (7.00%) REST
11 7 (7.00%) RxJS
11 7 (7.00%) Sass
11 7 (7.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.00%) Life Science
2 7 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.00%) BBC
5 3 (3.00%) Social Media
6 2 (2.00%) NHS
6 2 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.00%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.00%) Windows
2 16 (16.00%) Linux
3 13 (13.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (11.00%) Unix
5 4 (4.00%) VMS
5 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.00%) Agile
2 28 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (22.00%) Full Stack Development
4 19 (19.00%) ERP
5 16 (16.00%) Computer Science
5 16 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 15 (15.00%) MVC
7 14 (14.00%) CI/CD
7 14 (14.00%) DevOps
8 12 (12.00%) Microservices
9 11 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (11.00%) OO
10 9 (9.00%) ETL
11 8 (8.00%) Analytics
11 8 (8.00%) Customer Service
11 8 (8.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
11 8 (8.00%) Multithreading
11 8 (8.00%) Risk Register
11 8 (8.00%) Unit Testing
12 7 (7.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (55.00%) C#
2 44 (44.00%) SQL
3 29 (29.00%) JavaScript
4 19 (19.00%) Python
5 14 (14.00%) PowerShell
6 13 (13.00%) T-SQL
6 13 (13.00%) VB
7 10 (10.00%) VB.NET
8 8 (8.00%) Java
8 8 (8.00%) Perl
8 8 (8.00%) Ruby
9 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
9 7 (7.00%) VB6
10 3 (3.00%) Bash
11 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (31.00%) Degree
2 16 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) MCSE
5 2 (2.00%) SAS Certification
6 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) QA
2 9 (9.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.00%) SLA
5 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (13.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (8.00%) Docker
4 4 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.00%) Firmware
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.00%) SCCM
2 2 (2.00%) WSUS
3 1 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 48 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.00%) VMware
3 14 (14.00%) Facebook
4 13 (13.00%) Epicor
5 6 (6.00%) Apple
6 5 (5.00%) Oracle
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) IBM
7 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.00%) Sony
7 3 (3.00%) Yahoo!
8 2 (2.00%) Citrix
8 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.00%) Verint
9 1 (1.00%) Cisco