SQL Server Jobs in Merseyside

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 24 81
Rank change year-on-year +7 +57 -52
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 36 87 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 8.74% 6.71% 2.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 59.02% 34.39% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 36 86 21
10th Percentile - £35,721 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +25.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £87,500 £57,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £90,000 £58,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 61 253 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.81% 19.52% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 58 176 85
10th Percentile - £31,250 £30,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,999 £90,000 £70,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £53,941
% change year-on-year +7.84% -5.45% +1.58%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Merseyside

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Merseyside

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Merseyside over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Merseyside

SQL Server
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 3 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
Liverpool +13 34 £32,500 -40.91% 21
St Helens - 1 £47,500 -
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 21 (58.33%) CMS
1 21 (58.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 4 (11.11%) Serverless
3 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Figma
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (58.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (2.78%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) git-flow
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.78%) Subversion
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.78%) Automotive
2 1 (2.78%) Finance
2 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Developer
2 21 (58.33%) Umbraco Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Database Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Database Developer
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Lead
7 1 (2.78%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) SQL Data Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) CSS
1 21 (58.33%) HTML
1 21 (58.33%) HTML5
1 21 (58.33%) jQuery
2 3 (8.33%) .NET
2 3 (8.33%) React
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.56%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.78%) Blazor
4 1 (2.78%) Preactjs
4 1 (2.78%) SignalR
4 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (61.11%) NHS
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (61.11%) Web Development
3 21 (58.33%) Clean Code
3 21 (58.33%) Content Management
3 21 (58.33%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (19.44%) Analytics
4 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.89%) MVC
6 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.11%) Data Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Data Strategy
7 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (8.33%) Database Optimisation
7 3 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (5.56%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 30 (83.33%) SQL
2 24 (66.67%) C#
3 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) Bicep
5 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.78%) VB
6 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (58.33%) Accessibility
1 21 (58.33%) GDPR
1 21 (58.33%) WCAG
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) HP
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Databricks