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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 76 40
Rank change year-on-year +46 -36 -27
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 558 382 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.83% 4.71% 7.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.31% 23.80% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 510 329 466
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,563
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £58,350
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

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 1,782 1,605 2,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.62% 19.79% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 880 1,322
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £33,888
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,781 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £83,783 £80,000 £80,675
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 19 April 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 19 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
Manchester +37 289 £50,000 -8.90% 64
Cheshire +16 102 £40,000 +2.56% 15
Merseyside +52 88 £55,000 +25.71% 13
Lancashire +3 60 £47,500 -5.00% 6
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 23 (4.12%) IIS
2 16 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 13 (2.33%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.61%) Umbraco
6 8 (1.43%) CMS
7 7 (1.25%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.36%) Drupal
8 2 (0.36%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Kentico
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (2.33%) Epicor Tropos
2 12 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 341 (61.11%) Azure
2 89 (15.95%) Azure DevOps
2 89 (15.95%) Power Platform
3 58 (10.39%) AWS
4 41 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 26 (4.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (4.30%) SaaS
8 17 (3.05%) Matillion
8 17 (3.05%) Snowflake
9 15 (2.69%) Serverless
10 12 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.15%) GCP
10 12 (2.15%) GitHub
11 11 (1.97%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.25%) Google Play
14 7 (1.25%) OCI
15 6 (1.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.73%) DNS
2 24 (4.30%) DHCP
2 24 (4.30%) LAN
3 21 (3.76%) WAN
4 20 (3.58%) Internet
5 19 (3.41%) Firewall
6 14 (2.51%) Broadband
7 13 (2.33%) SAN
8 12 (2.15%) VPN
9 10 (1.79%) NAS
10 9 (1.61%) SSL
10 9 (1.61%) VoIP
11 6 (1.08%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.54%) Intranet
12 3 (0.54%) IP Telephony
12 3 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
12 3 (0.54%) Wireless
12 3 (0.54%) WLAN
13 2 (0.36%) Mobile Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (13.80%) Power BI
2 74 (13.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (10.75%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (10.04%) MySQL
5 54 (9.68%) Relational Database
6 49 (8.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 49 (8.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 37 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (6.09%) Data Lake
8 34 (6.09%) Data Vault
8 34 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (6.09%) MongoDB
9 26 (4.66%) Delta Lake
10 25 (4.48%) NoSQL
11 20 (3.58%) Tableau
12 15 (2.69%) Star Schema
13 13 (2.33%) DynamoDB
13 13 (2.33%) GIS
14 12 (2.15%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.97%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 55 (9.86%) JIRA
2 37 (6.63%) Git
3 30 (5.38%) GitLab
4 12 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.97%) Jasmine
5 11 (1.97%) Karma Test Runner
6 9 (1.61%) NUnit
7 6 (1.08%) Dreamweaver
8 5 (0.90%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.72%) MSTest
10 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 104 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 67 (12.01%) Finance
3 52 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.71%) Retail
5 28 (5.02%) Legal
6 21 (3.76%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.41%) Advertising
8 18 (3.23%) Games
8 18 (3.23%) Law
9 15 (2.69%) Marketing
10 10 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.90%) French Language
13 5 (0.90%) Music Industry
13 5 (0.90%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.72%) Electronics
14 4 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 257 (46.06%) Developer
2 133 (23.84%) .NET Developer
3 80 (14.34%) Data Engineer
4 68 (12.19%) C# Developer
5 43 (7.71%) Senior
6 42 (7.53%) C# .NET Developer
7 39 (6.99%) DBA
8 38 (6.81%) Lead
9 34 (6.09%) Software Engineer
10 33 (5.91%) Analyst
11 31 (5.56%) SQL DBA
12 24 (4.30%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (3.94%) Administrator
13 22 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.94%) SQL Developer
14 21 (3.76%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.23%) Systems Developer
16 16 (2.87%) Informatica Engineer
17 15 (2.69%) Azure Developer
17 15 (2.69%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (42.83%) .NET
2 148 (26.52%) ASP.NET
3 130 (23.30%) .NET Core
4 121 (21.68%) HTML
5 103 (18.46%) AngularJS
6 100 (17.92%) ASP.NET MVC
7 89 (15.95%) CSS
8 83 (14.87%) Entity Framework
9 72 (12.90%) HTML5
10 68 (12.19%) ASP.NET Web API
11 65 (11.65%) .NET Framework
12 54 (9.68%) React
13 46 (8.24%) Node.js
14 40 (7.17%) Blazor
15 39 (6.99%) XML
16 38 (6.81%) RESTful
17 37 (6.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 35 (6.27%) CSS3
19 34 (6.09%) JSON
20 32 (5.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.78%) Data Structures
2 46 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 41 (7.35%) Reinsurance
4 36 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.51%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.33%) Replication
8 12 (2.15%) NHS
8 12 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.79%) Social Network
10 9 (1.61%) BBC
10 9 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.61%) Social Media
11 7 (1.25%) iPhone
11 7 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.25%) Life Science
11 7 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.08%) Clustering
12 6 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 107 (19.18%) Windows
2 56 (10.04%) Windows Server
3 50 (8.96%) Linux
4 18 (3.23%) VMS
4 18 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (2.51%) Unix
7 9 (1.61%) Windows 10
8 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.25%) Android
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (41.22%) Agile
2 131 (23.48%) Full Stack Development
3 123 (22.04%) MVC
4 112 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (17.92%) ETL
6 94 (16.85%) DevOps
7 82 (14.70%) Microservices
8 79 (14.16%) Data Modelling
9 78 (13.98%) Scrum
10 69 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
11 64 (11.47%) TDD
12 55 (9.86%) Mentoring
13 54 (9.68%) OO
14 53 (9.50%) Analytics
15 51 (9.14%) Data Integration
16 50 (8.96%) BDD
17 49 (8.78%) Migration
18 39 (6.99%) CI/CD
19 37 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 37 (6.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 296 (53.05%) SQL
2 262 (46.95%) C#
3 173 (31.00%) JavaScript
4 90 (16.13%) T-SQL
5 89 (15.95%) Python
6 49 (8.78%) PowerShell
7 44 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 32 (5.73%) VB.NET
9 28 (5.02%) VB
10 19 (3.41%) Java
11 13 (2.33%) PHP
12 11 (1.97%) Delphi
12 11 (1.97%) VB6
12 11 (1.97%) VBScript
13 10 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.61%) Ruby
15 8 (1.43%) Perl
16 4 (0.72%) Go
17 3 (0.54%) Bash
18 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (13.26%) Degree
2 20 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (2.51%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.72%) HNC
9 4 (0.72%) HND
10 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.36%) MCSE
11 2 (0.36%) SAS Certification
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.56%) QA
3 20 (3.58%) GDPR
4 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.08%) SLA
6 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.51%) Docker
5 13 (2.33%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.43%) vSphere
7 7 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 2 (0.36%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.43%) Terraform
4 4 (0.72%) Ansible
4 4 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.54%) Nessus
6 2 (0.36%) SCCM
6 2 (0.36%) vRealize
6 2 (0.36%) WSUS
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 293 (52.51%) Microsoft
2 80 (14.34%) Oracle
3 41 (7.35%) Databricks
4 40 (7.17%) Informatica
5 38 (6.81%) VMware
6 27 (4.84%) Facebook
7 22 (3.94%) Google
8 21 (3.76%) Cisco
9 15 (2.69%) Apple
9 15 (2.69%) Commvault
10 13 (2.33%) Epicor
11 9 (1.61%) IBM
11 9 (1.61%) Sony
11 9 (1.61%) Yahoo!
12 7 (1.25%) ESRI
12 7 (1.25%) F5
12 7 (1.25%) Sophos
13 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.72%) SAP
14 4 (0.72%) Twitter