SQL Job Trends in Merseyside

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 57 57 160
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 7.38% 14.11% 16.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.16% 55.34% 57.97%
Number of salaries quoted 37 46 149
10th Percentile - - £33,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £41,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -38.10% +34.15%
75th Percentile £57,500 £49,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £87,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -0.97%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 98 103 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 12.69% 25.50% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 77 86 250
10th Percentile - - £32,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Merseyside

SQL
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Merseyside over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
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 within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
Liverpool -12 55 £41,000 +26.15% 24
Prescot - 1 £44,986 -
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (1.75%) CMS
Applications
1 37 (64.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) Azure
2 25 (43.86%) Power Platform
3 14 (24.56%) Azure AI
4 4 (7.02%) AWS
4 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (57.89%) Tableau
2 25 (43.86%) Power BI
3 17 (29.82%) Data Mining
4 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.75%) Looker
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) MLflow
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 24 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (40.35%) Finance
3 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Marketing
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Automotive
5 1 (1.75%) Billing
5 1 (1.75%) Law
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Analyst
2 33 (57.89%) Data Analyst
3 17 (29.82%) Trainee
3 17 (29.82%) Trainee Analyst
3 17 (29.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 14 (24.56%) Junior
4 14 (24.56%) Junior Analyst
4 14 (24.56%) Junior Data Analyst
5 11 (19.30%) Developer
6 10 (17.54%) Senior
7 7 (12.28%) Senior Developer
7 7 (12.28%) Senior SQL Developer
7 7 (12.28%) SQL Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Administrator
8 3 (5.26%) DBA
8 3 (5.26%) SQL DBA
9 2 (3.51%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Data Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) .NET
1 3 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.75%) Next.js
2 1 (1.75%) Node.js
2 1 (1.75%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.75%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.75%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.75%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (40.35%) Analytics
3 21 (36.84%) Data Analysis
4 20 (35.09%) Data Analytics
5 18 (31.58%) Project Management
6 17 (29.82%) AI
6 17 (29.82%) Business Analysis
7 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
9 6 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (10.53%) Visualisation
10 4 (7.02%) Data Science
11 3 (5.26%) CRM
11 3 (5.26%) Data Visualisation
11 3 (5.26%) Logistics
11 3 (5.26%) Statistics
11 3 (5.26%) Translating Business Requirements
12 2 (3.51%) E-Commerce
12 2 (3.51%) ITIL
12 2 (3.51%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Python
2 2 (3.51%) Bash
2 2 (3.51%) C#
2 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.75%) Java
3 1 (1.75%) PHP
3 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.02%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 35 (61.40%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.51%) Google
2 2 (3.51%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.75%) Aderant
3 1 (1.75%) Civica
3 1 (1.75%) Hotjar
3 1 (1.75%) iManage
3 1 (1.75%) Intapp
3 1 (1.75%) Northgate
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle
3 1 (1.75%) Orchard