SQL Job Trends in County Antrim

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 15 28 43
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 4.11% 8.59% 15.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.46% 23.73% 37.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 31
10th Percentile £50,375 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £37,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.72% +0.62% +1.52%
75th Percentile £72,188 £53,904 £62,750
90th Percentile £76,125 £65,250 £78,750
Northern Ireland median annual salary £45,250 £50,309 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.05% +0.62% +3.09%

All Programming Languages
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 39 118 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 10.68% 36.20% 42.22%
Number of salaries quoted 22 51 90
10th Percentile £48,375 £46,713 £33,675
25th Percentile £62,203 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £89,063 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £100,000 £85,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £74,915 £80,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +45.45% +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

SQL job vacancy trend in County Antrim

SQL
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in County Antrim over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in County Antrim

SQL
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Belfast -2 13 - - 23
SQL
Northern Ireland

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Azure AI
4 4 (26.67%) AWS
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Boomi
7 1 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (6.67%) iPaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 1 (6.67%) SaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Tableau
3 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) Parquet
5 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Junior
2 5 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Junior Data Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Commercial Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (13.33%) React
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Avro
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) AI
2 6 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Visual Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (6.67%) RedGate