SQL Server Jobs in the North East

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 29 71
Rank change year-on-year -10 +42 -45
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 36 114 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.47% 6.05% 3.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.37% 30.73% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 32 103 35
10th Percentile £25,350 £31,250 £37,673
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £68,250 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £66,137 £72,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%

All Database and 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 76 371 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 9.43% 19.68% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 67 311 101
10th Percentile £31,599 £31,250 £36,332
25th Percentile £39,525 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £49,557
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +0.89% +23.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,459 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North East

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the North East.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the North East

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

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 21 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
Tyne and Wear -2 36 £51,875 +9.21% 32
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
3 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) Slack
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) PuTTY
2 1 (2.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) MySQL
2 4 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 4 (11.11%) Power BI
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.78%) HBase
5 1 (2.78%) Impala
5 1 (2.78%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.89%) Selenium
2 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
3 4 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) JIRA
4 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.33%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Maven
4 3 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.56%) NUnit
5 2 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
5 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Advertising
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) DBA
4 5 (13.89%) SQL DBA
5 4 (11.11%) Graduate
5 4 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (11.11%) IT Graduate
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) SQL Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) Database Developer
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) SQL Database Developer
6 3 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Graduate C# Developer
8 1 (2.78%) IT Support Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) PHP Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior DBA
8 1 (2.78%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) .NET
2 10 (27.78%) ASP.NET
3 8 (22.22%) React
4 7 (19.44%) CSS
5 6 (16.67%) .NET Core
6 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (11.11%) HTML
7 4 (11.11%) jQuery
7 4 (11.11%) Kafka
7 4 (11.11%) REST
8 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (8.33%) JPA
8 3 (8.33%) Redux
8 3 (8.33%) Spring
8 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
9 2 (5.56%) HTML5
9 2 (5.56%) Jest
9 2 (5.56%) RESTful
9 2 (5.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.11%) Hedge funds
3 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) Solaris
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Agile
1 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
3 9 (25.00%) DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) MVC
4 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 8 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (19.44%) OO
5 7 (19.44%) OOP
6 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (16.67%) High Availability
7 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.89%) E-Commerce
7 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
8 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (11.11%) Change Data Capture
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (72.22%) SQL
2 19 (52.78%) C#
3 16 (44.44%) Java
4 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 8 (22.22%) Python
5 5 (13.89%) C++
5 5 (13.89%) T-SQL
6 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) PHP
7 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.78%) Bash
8 1 (2.78%) PROC SQL
8 1 (2.78%) R
8 1 (2.78%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Degree
2 9 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (13.89%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.78%) HDFS
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Control-M
3 1 (2.78%) Kibana
3 1 (2.78%) logstash
3 1 (2.78%) Oozie
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (8.33%) Informatica
3 3 (8.33%) Solace
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.56%) RedGate
4 2 (5.56%) Talend
4 2 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Telerik