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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 64 164 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.82% 15.72% 17.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.14% 52.56% 45.99%
Number of salaries quoted 46 133 61
10th Percentile - £31,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £51,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.89% +28.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £48,625 £70,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £60,625 £87,500 £60,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% 0.00% +0.00%

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 112 312 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 24.19% 29.91% 38.12%
Number of salaries quoted 82 228 154
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,563 £63,438
90th Percentile £73,500 £85,000 £85,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +3 62 £32,500 -40.91% 16
Wirral +1 1 £36,000 -20.00%
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 27 (42.19%) CMS
1 27 (42.19%) Umbraco
2 3 (4.69%) Apache
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.69%) SAS
3 2 (3.13%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Sage 200
2 1 (1.56%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.81%) AWS
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.69%) SaaS
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.13%) dbt
5 2 (3.13%) Serverless
5 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.56%) Figma
6 1 (1.56%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (42.19%) Intranet
2 1 (1.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (15.63%) Power BI
3 5 (7.81%) Tableau
4 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.69%) Big Data
5 3 (4.69%) DB2
5 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.69%) MySQL
5 3 (4.69%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (4.69%) QlikView
6 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.13%) Metadata
6 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.13%) Spotfire
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) git-flow
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.56%) Subversion
3 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (57.81%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Legal
3 6 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Advertising
5 3 (4.69%) Automotive
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (56.25%) Developer
2 27 (42.19%) Umbraco Developer
3 12 (18.75%) Analyst
4 5 (7.81%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Data Scientist
5 3 (4.69%) .NET Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Analyst Programmer
5 3 (4.69%) Programmer
5 3 (4.69%) RPG Analyst Programmer
5 3 (4.69%) RPG Programmer
5 3 (4.69%) Senior
5 3 (4.69%) SQL Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Strategy Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Systems Developer
5 3 (4.69%) VB.NET Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Fraud Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Report Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (42.19%) CSS
1 27 (42.19%) HTML
1 27 (42.19%) HTML5
1 27 (42.19%) jQuery
2 5 (7.81%) .NET
3 3 (4.69%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.69%) Web Services
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.13%) Entity Framework
4 2 (3.13%) React
4 2 (3.13%) Symfony
4 2 (3.13%) XML
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.56%) Kafka
5 1 (1.56%) Preactjs
5 1 (1.56%) REST
5 1 (1.56%) SignalR
5 1 (1.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (43.75%) NHS
2 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Life Science
3 2 (3.13%) SCADA
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.56%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (45.31%) Clean Code
2 29 (45.31%) Web Development
3 27 (42.19%) Content Management
3 27 (42.19%) Customer Requirements
4 12 (18.75%) Analytics
5 10 (15.63%) ETL
6 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
7 8 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
8 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.94%) Microservices
9 5 (7.81%) Data Analytics
9 5 (7.81%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (7.81%) Data Science
9 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (6.25%) IT Strategy
10 4 (6.25%) Machine Learning
10 4 (6.25%) Test Automation
10 4 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (45.31%) C#
2 14 (21.88%) Python
3 5 (7.81%) PHP
4 3 (4.69%) RPG
4 3 (4.69%) RPG IV
4 3 (4.69%) VB.NET
4 3 (4.69%) VBA
5 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) R
6 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (57.81%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (46.88%) GDPR
2 29 (45.31%) Accessibility
3 27 (42.19%) WCAG
4 4 (6.25%) QA
5 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) HP
2 4 (6.25%) Databricks
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Sage
3 3 (4.69%) Talend
4 2 (3.13%) Aderant
4 2 (3.13%) BT
4 2 (3.13%) Workday
5 1 (1.56%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.56%) Orchard