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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,153 1,439 1,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.89% 18.07% 15.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.59% 44.28% 37.41%
Number of salaries quoted 927 691 1,010
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

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 2,912 3,250 3,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.03% 40.81% 41.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,371 1,790 2,688
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £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 27 April 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 27 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 -1 584 £55,000 - 156
Cheshire -3 199 £50,000 +1.27% 45
Merseyside 0 170 £52,500 +23.53% 23
Lancashire -2 151 £46,124 +2.50% 17
Cumbria 0 44 £42,500 +21.43% 2
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 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.30%) Confluence
3 13 (1.13%) IIS
4 12 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.87%) Apache
7 8 (0.69%) CMS
7 8 (0.69%) SAS
8 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.35%) Captiva
9 4 (0.35%) FileNet
9 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.26%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) WordPress
12 1 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.087%) concrete5
12 1 (0.087%) nginx
Applications
1 72 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.087%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.21%) Epicor Tropos
2 13 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.95%) SAP Business One
4 5 (0.43%) Magento
5 4 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.17%) Demantra
7 2 (0.17%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle ASCP
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.087%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.087%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.087%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.087%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.087%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 505 (43.80%) Azure
2 250 (21.68%) Power Platform
3 158 (13.70%) AWS
4 109 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (6.76%) IBM Cloud
6 66 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (5.38%) GCP
8 59 (5.12%) Serverless
9 54 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
10 53 (4.60%) Azure API Management
11 49 (4.25%) Azure Logic Apps
12 48 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 48 (4.16%) Azure Functions
13 37 (3.21%) SaaS
13 37 (3.21%) Snowflake
14 33 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 24 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (1.82%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.73%) GitHub
18 18 (1.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.82%) WAN
2 20 (1.73%) LAN
3 12 (1.04%) Broadband
3 12 (1.04%) DNS
3 12 (1.04%) Firewall
4 11 (0.95%) Internet
4 11 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.87%) DHCP
6 9 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.78%) VPN
7 7 (0.61%) HTTP
7 7 (0.61%) MQTT
7 7 (0.61%) SSL
7 7 (0.61%) VoIP
8 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.43%) WLAN
10 4 (0.35%) 4G
10 4 (0.35%) NAS
10 4 (0.35%) SAN
11 3 (0.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (25.41%) SQL Server
2 235 (20.38%) Power BI
3 129 (11.19%) Data Warehouse
4 126 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
5 111 (9.63%) NoSQL
6 99 (8.59%) MongoDB
7 97 (8.41%) Relational Database
8 92 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 88 (7.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 87 (7.55%) DB2
11 79 (6.85%) Tableau
12 74 (6.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 48 (4.16%) MySQL
14 43 (3.73%) Data Lake
15 41 (3.56%) BigQuery
16 32 (2.78%) Looker
17 26 (2.25%) Oracle Database
18 22 (1.91%) Data Vault
19 20 (1.73%) Delta Lake
20 19 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 92 (7.98%) Git
2 59 (5.12%) JIRA
3 28 (2.43%) Visual Studio
4 25 (2.17%) GitLab
5 24 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 16 (1.39%) IntelliJ
6 16 (1.39%) JUnit
6 16 (1.39%) Mockito
7 12 (1.04%) Gradle
8 11 (0.95%) Jasmine
8 11 (0.95%) Karma Test Runner
8 11 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.69%) Selenium
10 7 (0.61%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.61%) Maven
10 7 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.52%) Dreamweaver
12 5 (0.43%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.43%) JetBrains Rider
13 4 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 221 (19.17%) Social Skills
2 178 (15.44%) Finance
3 141 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 68 (5.90%) Retail
6 57 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (4.60%) Manufacturing
8 38 (3.30%) Marketing
9 37 (3.21%) Law
10 30 (2.60%) Legal
11 24 (2.08%) Advertising
12 22 (1.91%) Banking
13 19 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.30%) Games
15 10 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.61%) Back Office
19 6 (0.52%) Automotive
19 6 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 396 (34.35%) Developer
2 184 (15.96%) Senior
3 174 (15.09%) Analyst
4 122 (10.58%) Data Engineer
5 100 (8.67%) Lead
6 97 (8.41%) .NET Developer
7 61 (5.29%) Software Engineer
8 59 (5.12%) C# Developer
8 59 (5.12%) Senior Developer
9 54 (4.68%) Software Developer
10 53 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
11 51 (4.42%) Full Stack Developer
12 48 (4.16%) Azure Developer
13 47 (4.08%) Full Stack Engineer
14 42 (3.64%) DBA
15 39 (3.38%) SQL Developer
16 35 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 34 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
18 32 (2.78%) Consultant
19 31 (2.69%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (28.01%) .NET
2 182 (15.78%) HTML
3 175 (15.18%) CSS
4 159 (13.79%) ASP.NET
5 150 (13.01%) REST
6 121 (10.49%) Web Services
7 119 (10.32%) AngularJS
8 105 (9.11%) React
9 100 (8.67%) jQuery
10 91 (7.89%) Vue
11 83 (7.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 82 (7.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 78 (6.76%) Backbone.js
13 78 (6.76%) Ember.js
14 64 (5.55%) Node.js
15 59 (5.12%) .NET Core
16 49 (4.25%) Entity Framework
17 47 (4.08%) HTML5
18 46 (3.99%) .NET Framework
19 38 (3.30%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.32%) Data Structures
2 90 (7.81%) Algorithms
3 84 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (6.76%) Blockchain
5 66 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 37 (3.21%) e-Learning
8 31 (2.69%) Management Information System
9 30 (2.60%) Reinsurance
10 22 (1.91%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.65%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.39%) Product Ownership
14 16 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
15 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (0.87%) Blog
17 10 (0.87%) Mainframe
18 9 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 142 (12.32%) Windows
2 122 (10.58%) Linux
3 92 (7.98%) Android
4 88 (7.63%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.13%) VMS
5 13 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.04%) Unix
7 8 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.35%) Debian
9 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.26%) Windows Vista
10 3 (0.26%) zOS
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (30.44%) Agile
2 256 (22.20%) Business Intelligence
3 216 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
4 161 (13.96%) Full Stack Development
5 158 (13.70%) DevOps
6 148 (12.84%) ETL
7 147 (12.75%) Analytics
8 145 (12.58%) Visualisation
9 144 (12.49%) Mentoring
10 140 (12.14%) Artificial Intelligence
11 130 (11.27%) MVC
12 128 (11.10%) Design Patterns
13 119 (10.32%) Migration
14 117 (10.15%) Data Modelling
15 116 (10.06%) User Experience
16 113 (9.80%) Coaching
17 112 (9.71%) Software Engineering
18 111 (9.63%) OOP
19 110 (9.54%) OO
20 103 (8.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 368 (31.92%) C#
2 245 (21.25%) JavaScript
3 243 (21.08%) Python
4 151 (13.10%) T-SQL
5 126 (10.93%) Java
6 43 (3.73%) TypeScript
7 38 (3.30%) PowerShell
8 37 (3.21%) VB
9 35 (3.04%) PL/SQL
10 32 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 29 (2.52%) PHP
12 21 (1.82%) VB.NET
13 14 (1.21%) Go
14 12 (1.04%) R
14 12 (1.04%) Scala
15 11 (0.95%) VB6
15 11 (0.95%) VBScript
16 10 (0.87%) C++
17 9 (0.78%) Swift
18 8 (0.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 142 (12.32%) Degree
2 50 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (1.21%) DBS Check
5 13 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 9 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.61%) ACCA
7 7 (0.61%) PhD
8 6 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.52%) CISA
8 6 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.35%) HNC
9 4 (0.35%) HND
10 3 (0.26%) CCNA
10 3 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.26%) MBA
10 3 (0.26%) MCSA
10 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.17%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 31 (2.69%) QA
3 18 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.95%) SLA
6 9 (0.78%) GDPR
7 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.35%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.26%) WCAG
10 2 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.087%) GMP
11 1 (0.087%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 54 (4.68%) Docker
3 19 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.78%) Firmware
6 7 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.35%) RACF
8 3 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.17%) vSphere
10 1 (0.087%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 25 (2.17%) Terraform
2 22 (1.91%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.61%) Ansible
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.26%) MAINVIEW
5 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.17%) Grafana
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.17%) vRealize
7 1 (0.087%) Nessus
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.087%) Packer
7 1 (0.087%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.087%) SCCM
Vendors
1 286 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 97 (8.41%) IBM
3 84 (7.29%) Oracle
4 78 (6.76%) Red Hat
5 44 (3.82%) Databricks
6 41 (3.56%) SAP
7 39 (3.38%) Google
8 33 (2.86%) Informatica
9 15 (1.30%) Commvault
9 15 (1.30%) VMware
10 14 (1.21%) Epicor
11 12 (1.04%) F5
11 12 (1.04%) Teradata
12 11 (0.95%) CA
13 10 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.87%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.78%) Pega
15 7 (0.61%) Civica
15 7 (0.61%) Facebook
16 6 (0.52%) Dataiku