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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -20
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 35 49 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 4.53% 5.25% 7.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.84% 32.67% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 21 33 31
10th Percentile - £43,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,250 £46,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £61,375
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

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 95 150 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.31% 16.06% 22.68%
Number of salaries quoted 59 61 82
10th Percentile £34,100 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £34,750 £41,250 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,178
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +24.45% -10.72%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £60,188
90th Percentile £62,450 £60,000 £67,457
North West median annual salary £53,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% -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 6 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 6 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 - 15 £35,500 -
Crewe -4 6 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Knutsford 0 2 - - 1
Warrington +13 1 - - 19
Ellesmere Port +5 1 - - 1
Runcorn +2 1 - -
Macclesfield -4 1 - -
Chester -4 1 - - 3
Northwich - 1 - -
Wilmslow - 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 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
1 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Bitbucket
1 12 (34.29%) Cucumber
1 12 (34.29%) GitLab
1 12 (34.29%) JIRA
1 12 (34.29%) Maven
1 12 (34.29%) Selenium
1 12 (34.29%) SonarQube
1 12 (34.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.86%) JUnit
2 1 (2.86%) Mockito
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Banking
2 11 (31.43%) Corporate Banking
2 11 (31.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (31.43%) Investment Banking
2 11 (31.43%) Retail
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Software Engineer
1 11 (31.43%) Systems Support
2 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) ERP Support
3 5 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Lead Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Lead Software Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Support Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) React
2 12 (34.29%) CSS
2 12 (34.29%) HTML
2 12 (34.29%) Jest
2 12 (34.29%) JPA
2 12 (34.29%) Redux
2 12 (34.29%) RESTful
2 12 (34.29%) Spring Boot
3 11 (31.43%) CSS3
3 11 (31.43%) HTML5
3 11 (31.43%) Kafka
3 11 (31.43%) REST
3 11 (31.43%) Sass
3 11 (31.43%) Spring
4 6 (17.14%) .NET
5 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.86%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (31.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Agile
2 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) DevOps
3 14 (40.00%) Workflow
4 13 (37.14%) ERP
4 13 (37.14%) Microservices
4 13 (37.14%) System Testing
4 13 (37.14%) User Experience
5 12 (34.29%) Front End Development
5 12 (34.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (34.29%) Mentoring
5 12 (34.29%) Migration
5 12 (34.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (34.29%) Responsive Web Design
5 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
5 12 (34.29%) Test Automation
6 11 (31.43%) Containerisation
6 11 (31.43%) SDLC
6 11 (31.43%) Strategic Thinking
6 11 (31.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 31 (88.57%) SQL
2 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
3 12 (34.29%) Java
3 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
4 6 (17.14%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) Accessibility
1 11 (31.43%) QA
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (31.43%) Solace
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Veracode