SQL Jobs in Merseyside

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 54 168 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 12.16% 12.38% 14.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.55% 49.85% 50.33%
Number of salaries quoted 37 147 75
10th Percentile - £32,900 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,250 £87,500 £69,250
North West median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -4.66% +1.94% +4.04%

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 116 337 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.13% 24.83% 28.52%
Number of salaries quoted 71 258 119
10th Percentile - £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £36,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +13.89% -8.16%
75th Percentile £61,875 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.99% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Merseyside over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 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 +1 42 £40,000 -27.27% 34
Prescot +6 3 - -
St Helens - 3 - - 1
Birkenhead +3 1 - -
Bootle +2 1 - -
Prenton - 1 - -
SQL
North West

SQL
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 18 (33.33%) CMS
1 18 (33.33%) Umbraco
2 3 (5.56%) Confluence
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.85%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) AWS
3 12 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.41%) GCP
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.70%) dbt
6 2 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (1.85%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.85%) VPN
2 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (62.96%) SQL Server
2 12 (22.22%) Power BI
3 3 (5.56%) Tableau
4 2 (3.70%) Big Data
4 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.85%) QlikView
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) JIRA
2 9 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 9 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 9 (16.67%) GitLab
2 9 (16.67%) Maven
2 9 (16.67%) Selenium
2 9 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 9 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (7.41%) Git
4 1 (1.85%) Subversion
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.63%) Finance
3 9 (16.67%) Banking
3 9 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (14.81%) Retail
5 6 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Automotive
6 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.70%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) Developer
2 18 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Data Migration Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Database Developer
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Database Developer
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.70%) Senior
6 2 (3.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (1.85%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (1.85%) ERP Developer
7 1 (1.85%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (55.56%) HTML
2 27 (50.00%) CSS
3 24 (44.44%) HTML5
4 18 (33.33%) jQuery
5 10 (18.52%) Kafka
5 10 (18.52%) React
6 9 (16.67%) JPA
6 9 (16.67%) Redux
6 9 (16.67%) Spring
6 9 (16.67%) Spring Boot
7 6 (11.11%) CSS3
7 6 (11.11%) Jest
7 6 (11.11%) REST
7 6 (11.11%) RESTful
7 6 (11.11%) Sass
8 3 (5.56%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.70%) .NET
9 2 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (3.70%) Blazor
10 1 (1.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) NHS
2 9 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (38.89%) Clean Code
3 18 (33.33%) Content Management
3 18 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 18 (33.33%) Web Development
4 16 (29.63%) Agile
5 13 (24.07%) CI/CD
5 13 (24.07%) DevOps
6 12 (22.22%) Analytics
6 12 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (20.37%) Migration
7 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
8 10 (18.52%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
9 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 9 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (16.67%) Microservices
9 9 (16.67%) SDLC
10 8 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) C#
2 19 (35.19%) JavaScript
3 12 (22.22%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) Python
5 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 7 (12.96%) T-SQL
7 4 (7.41%) R
8 3 (5.56%) C
8 3 (5.56%) C++
8 3 (5.56%) Dart
8 3 (5.56%) MATLAB
8 3 (5.56%) PHP
8 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.56%) Ruby
8 3 (5.56%) Rust
9 1 (1.85%) Bicep
9 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (46.30%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (44.44%) Accessibility
2 18 (33.33%) GDPR
2 18 (33.33%) WCAG
3 9 (16.67%) QA
4 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) HP
2 9 (16.67%) Solace
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.26%) Databricks
5 2 (3.70%) Talend
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.85%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.85%) Meraki
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Orchard