SQL Job Trends in Birkenhead

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Merseyside > Birkenhead

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birkenhead requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birkenhead 6.25% 4.00% 4.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 75.00% 100.00% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £46,500 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -22.73% +29.41%

All Programming Languages
Birkenhead

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birkenhead.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birkenhead 8.33% 4.00% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £39,375 - -
25th Percentile £47,813 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.47%
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £46,500 £48,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -3.13% -6.34% +13.89%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birkenhead

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birkenhead.

SQL job vacancy trend in Birkenhead

SQL
Salary Trend in Birkenhead

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birkenhead citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birkenhead citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birkenhead by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft