SQL Server Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 27 39
Rank change year-on-year -60 +12 +17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 29 47 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.10% 5.65% 4.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.36% 55.29% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 29 42 76
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,500 £37,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £44,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% -11.50% +4.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,375 £67,968
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.65%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 217 85 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 8.23% 10.22% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 164 76 257
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,438 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,499 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £44,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.51% -15.71% -
75th Percentile £69,375 £60,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £80,175 £71,875 £83,759
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in the North East

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North East over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the North East

SQL Server
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the North East region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Tyne and Wear -58 25 £57,500 +21.05% 14
Durham -12 3 £46,500 +32.86%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (3.45%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) IaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DMZ
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
1 5 (17.24%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (17.24%) STUN
1 5 (17.24%) VLAN
1 5 (17.24%) VoIP
1 5 (17.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) MySQL
2 5 (17.24%) Redis
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (17.24%) TeamCity
3 4 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
4 3 (10.34%) Artifactory
4 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
4 3 (10.34%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Law
4 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Support Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) VoIP Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) VoIP Support Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Administrator
3 4 (13.79%) Angular Developer
3 4 (13.79%) DBA
3 4 (13.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (13.79%) SQL DBA
4 3 (10.34%) Database Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead C# Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
2 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
2 5 (17.24%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (13.79%) React Native
4 3 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (10.34%) Entity Framework
4 3 (10.34%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) SignalR
5 2 (6.90%) Node.js
5 2 (6.90%) React
5 2 (6.90%) Vue
6 1 (3.45%) JSON
6 1 (3.45%) Middleware
6 1 (3.45%) RAML
6 1 (3.45%) SOAP
6 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.24%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Windows
3 5 (17.24%) Debian
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) High Availability
1 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
5 5 (17.24%) Unit Testing
6 4 (13.79%) AI
6 4 (13.79%) Code Quality
6 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (13.79%) Mobile Development
6 4 (13.79%) SDLC
7 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Refactoring
7 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) SQL
2 10 (34.48%) C#
2 10 (34.48%) TypeScript
3 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
3 8 (27.59%) Python
4 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
5 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.34%) Java
7 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Control-M
2 3 (10.34%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Infor
4 1 (3.45%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce