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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 -48
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 44 87 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.23% 6.67% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 64.71% 34.25% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 35 86 20
10th Percentile - £35,721 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £36,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +24.29% -11.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £87,500 £57,438
90th Percentile £67,250 £90,000 £58,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 68 254 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 15.81% 19.48% 16.68%
Number of salaries quoted 56 177 83
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,828
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £57,813 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,499 £90,000 £71,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +7.84% -7.07% +4.26%

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 12 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 12 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 33 £32,500 -40.91% 12
St Helens - 4 £47,500 -
Prescot +7 3 - -
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 20 (45.45%) CMS
1 20 (45.45%) Umbraco
2 3 (6.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 4 (9.09%) Serverless
4 3 (6.82%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Figma
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (45.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.82%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (2.27%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) JIRA
2 10 (22.73%) Bitbucket
3 9 (20.45%) Cucumber
3 9 (20.45%) GitLab
3 9 (20.45%) Maven
3 9 (20.45%) Selenium
3 9 (20.45%) SonarQube
3 9 (20.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (13.64%) Git
5 1 (2.27%) git-flow
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.27%) Subversion
5 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 9 (20.45%) Banking
3 9 (20.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (15.91%) Retail
5 6 (13.64%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Automotive
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (59.09%) Developer
2 20 (45.45%) Umbraco Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Database Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) SQL Database Developer
6 3 (6.82%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Financial Analyst
8 1 (2.27%) Lead
8 1 (2.27%) Lead Software Developer
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Analyst
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (65.91%) CSS
1 29 (65.91%) HTML
2 26 (59.09%) HTML5
3 20 (45.45%) jQuery
4 12 (27.27%) React
5 9 (20.45%) JPA
5 9 (20.45%) Kafka
5 9 (20.45%) Redux
5 9 (20.45%) Spring
5 9 (20.45%) Spring Boot
6 6 (13.64%) CSS3
6 6 (13.64%) Jest
6 6 (13.64%) REST
6 6 (13.64%) RESTful
6 6 (13.64%) Sass
7 3 (6.82%) .NET
7 3 (6.82%) Hibernate
8 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.55%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (47.73%) NHS
2 9 (20.45%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (20.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Clean Code
1 23 (52.27%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (47.73%) Web Development
3 20 (45.45%) Content Management
3 20 (45.45%) Customer Requirements
4 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 10 (22.73%) Agile
6 10 (22.73%) DevOps
6 10 (22.73%) Front End Development
6 10 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 10 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.45%) Microservices
7 9 (20.45%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (20.45%) SDLC
8 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 7 (15.91%) Analytics
9 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (15.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (86.36%) SQL
2 23 (52.27%) C#
3 15 (34.09%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.45%) Java
5 7 (15.91%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.09%) Python
7 3 (6.82%) Bicep
7 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.27%) VB
8 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (54.55%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (59.09%) Accessibility
2 20 (45.45%) GDPR
2 20 (45.45%) WCAG
3 9 (20.45%) QA
4 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (45.45%) HP
2 9 (20.45%) Solace
3 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.09%) Databricks