SQL Server Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 28 50 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 3.11% 5.47% 8.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.56% 33.11% 36.63%
Number of salaries quoted 25 34 33
10th Percentile - £43,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,250 £46,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £54,563 £60,250
90th Percentile - £59,375 £69,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 86 151 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.54% 16.52% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 62 62 83
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £34,750 £39,375 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,974 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,875 £59,785 £66,156
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 November 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 20 November 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 - 14 £35,500 -
Crewe -3 9 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Knutsford -3 2 - - 1
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
3 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) Azure AI
4 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) JUnit
1 1 (3.57%) Maven
1 1 (3.57%) Mockito
1 1 (3.57%) Selenium
1 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (10.71%) Finance
1 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Systems Support
2 9 (32.14%) Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Lead
3 7 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 6 (21.43%) ERP Support
4 6 (21.43%) Lead Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Lead Software Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) DBA
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) .NET
2 8 (28.57%) .NET Core
2 8 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
4 2 (7.14%) React
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) Jest
5 1 (3.57%) JPA
5 1 (3.57%) JWT
5 1 (3.57%) LangChain
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth
5 1 (3.57%) Redux
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Workflow
2 13 (46.43%) ERP
2 13 (46.43%) System Testing
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Test Scripting
4 6 (21.43%) RAD
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Data Management
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (7.14%) AI
8 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security
8 2 (7.14%) ITIL
8 2 (7.14%) Microservices
8 2 (7.14%) Project Management
8 2 (7.14%) Scrum
8 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) SQL
2 9 (32.14%) C#
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (82.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Veracode