SQL Server Jobs in Cheshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -30
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 71 77 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.45% 4.32% 6.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 55.91% 31.82% 36.51%
Number of salaries quoted 14 62 42
10th Percentile £33,725 £26,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £54,688 £62,188 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,500 £70,875 £65,000
North West median annual salary £50,890 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.22% +2.00% +2.04%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 127 242 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.33% 13.57% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 40 132 86
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -2.73%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,854 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £71,250 £68,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.57%

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 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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
Widnes - 9 £35,500 - 7
Crewe +7 8 £52,500 +34.62%
Chester +9 5 £60,000 +33.33% 8
Warrington +13 3 - - 12
Runcorn +5 3 - -
Macclesfield +3 3 - -
Ellesmere Port -1 3 - -
Northwich -6 3 - -
Wilmslow - 3 - - 3
Knutsford +10 2 - - 2
Congleton - 2 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Sandbach - 2 - -
Winsford +6 1 - -
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 22 (30.99%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) SAS
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 61 (85.92%) Azure
2 55 (77.46%) AWS
3 21 (29.58%) GCP
4 1 (1.41%) Azure App Service
4 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (78.87%) Bitbucket
1 56 (78.87%) Cucumber
1 56 (78.87%) GitLab
1 56 (78.87%) JIRA
1 56 (78.87%) Maven
1 56 (78.87%) Selenium
1 56 (78.87%) SonarQube
1 56 (78.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.41%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.41%) JUnit
2 1 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (1.41%) Mockito
2 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 59 (83.10%) Finance
2 55 (77.46%) Banking
2 55 (77.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (47.89%) Corporate Banking
3 34 (47.89%) Investment Banking
3 34 (47.89%) Retail
4 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.82%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (77.46%) Software Engineer
2 7 (9.86%) Developer
3 5 (7.04%) Systems Support
4 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
5 3 (4.23%) C# Developer
5 3 (4.23%) ERP Support
6 2 (2.82%) .NET Developer
6 2 (2.82%) .NET Software Developer
6 2 (2.82%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (2.82%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (2.82%) Data Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Lead
6 2 (2.82%) Lead Developer
6 2 (2.82%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (2.82%) Support Specialist
7 1 (1.41%) Analyst
7 1 (1.41%) Java Developer
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Support Analyst
7 1 (1.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (80.28%) React
2 56 (78.87%) CSS
2 56 (78.87%) HTML
2 56 (78.87%) JPA
2 56 (78.87%) Redux
2 56 (78.87%) Spring Boot
3 55 (77.46%) Kafka
3 55 (77.46%) Spring
4 35 (49.30%) Jest
4 35 (49.30%) REST
4 35 (49.30%) RESTful
4 35 (49.30%) Sass
5 34 (47.89%) CSS3
5 34 (47.89%) HTML5
6 22 (30.99%) Hibernate
7 6 (8.45%) .NET
7 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET
8 5 (7.04%) .NET Core
9 3 (4.23%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 55 (77.46%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (77.46%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (84.51%) Agile
2 58 (81.69%) DevOps
3 57 (80.28%) CI/CD
3 57 (80.28%) Microservices
4 56 (78.87%) Front End Development
4 56 (78.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 56 (78.87%) Test Automation
5 55 (77.46%) Containerisation
5 55 (77.46%) Performance Optimisation
5 55 (77.46%) SDLC
5 55 (77.46%) Software Engineering
6 35 (49.30%) Responsive Web Design
6 35 (49.30%) User Experience
7 34 (47.89%) Mentoring
7 34 (47.89%) Migration
7 34 (47.89%) Strategic Thinking
8 22 (30.99%) Clean Code
8 22 (30.99%) TDD
9 21 (29.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.86%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 68 (95.77%) SQL
2 58 (81.69%) JavaScript
3 56 (78.87%) Java
4 36 (50.70%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.45%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) Python
7 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.41%) VB
8 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (78.87%) QA
2 34 (47.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (78.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (78.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (77.46%) Solace
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.41%) Veracode