SQL Server Jobs in Lancashire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -86 -4 +18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 13 58 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.64% 4.50% 7.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.66% 31.87% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11 35 44
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £33,225
25th Percentile £39,060 £34,375 £37,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,890 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £53,093 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £56,649
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 83 182 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.11% 14.13% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 37 145 92
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,000 £34,100
25th Percentile £40,620 £40,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £47,886
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +4.42% +6.41%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,450 £80,000 £57,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% -3.77% -0.05%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Lancashire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Lancashire.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Lancashire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Lancashire over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Lancashire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Lancaster +9 5 £50,890 +19.74%
Blackburn -22 5 £57,500 +107.21% 5
Chorley +3 3 £40,000 -15.79% 3
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Information Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Information Systems Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 5 (38.46%) .NET Core
2 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
2 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 5 (38.46%) WinForms
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) Entity Framework
3 3 (23.08%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) API Development
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Coaching
2 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
2 5 (38.46%) High Availability
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Line Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) MVC
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
6 1 (7.69%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft