SQL Job Trends in the North East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 88 88 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.07% 14.10% 15.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.72% 46.81% 55.86%
Number of salaries quoted 42 64 210
10th Percentile - £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +4.88%
75th Percentile £54,688 £73,333 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,621 £84,625 £77,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 261 188 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.01% 30.13% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 191 143 390
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,187 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,144 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £84,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SQL job vacancy trend in the North East

SQL
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North East over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in the North East

SQL
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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Tyne and Wear -15 70 £47,500 -5.00% 51
Durham +11 17 - - 3
SQL
England

SQL
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 (1.14%) Apache
1 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.14%) IIS
1 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 47 (53.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) AutoCAD
2 3 (3.41%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (57.95%) Azure
2 33 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 26 (29.55%) Azure AI
4 12 (13.64%) AWS
5 7 (7.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (7.95%) IaaS
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub
6 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.27%) PaaS
8 2 (2.27%) SaaS
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) VPN
2 5 (5.68%) DMZ
2 5 (5.68%) Firewall
2 5 (5.68%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (5.68%) STUN
2 5 (5.68%) VLAN
2 5 (5.68%) VoIP
3 4 (4.55%) DNS
3 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (46.59%) Tableau
2 32 (36.36%) Power BI
3 18 (20.45%) SQL Server
4 16 (18.18%) Data Mining
5 6 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.55%) Metadata
7 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.55%) MySQL
7 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.41%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (3.41%) GIS
8 3 (3.41%) QGIS
8 3 (3.41%) Redis
8 3 (3.41%) Spatial Data
9 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.27%) Power Query
9 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.41%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.14%) Git
General
1 51 (57.95%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (27.27%) Finance
4 5 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Legal
5 4 (4.55%) Marketing
5 4 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Games
6 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.27%) Billing
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (55.68%) Analyst
2 43 (48.86%) Data Analyst
3 26 (29.55%) Junior
3 26 (29.55%) Junior Analyst
3 26 (29.55%) Junior Data Analyst
4 15 (17.05%) Trainee
4 15 (17.05%) Trainee Analyst
4 15 (17.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 5 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Developer
5 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Senior
5 5 (5.68%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) VoIP Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) VoIP Support Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Administrator
6 4 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) REST
2 5 (5.68%) .NET
2 5 (5.68%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.41%) Itk
3 3 (3.41%) React
3 3 (3.41%) RESTful
3 3 (3.41%) Vue
4 1 (1.14%) Kafka
4 1 (1.14%) Playwright
4 1 (1.14%) PySpark
4 1 (1.14%) Spring
4 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.55%) LIMS
3 3 (3.41%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.41%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.27%) Clustering
4 2 (2.27%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.14%) EPoS
5 1 (1.14%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.64%) Windows
2 9 (10.23%) Linux
3 8 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.68%) Debian
5 4 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.77%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (38.64%) AI
3 25 (28.41%) Analytics
4 20 (22.73%) Data Analysis
5 18 (20.45%) Data Analytics
6 16 (18.18%) Project Management
7 15 (17.05%) Business Analysis
8 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 10 (11.36%) Decision-Making
11 9 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.23%) DevOps
11 9 (10.23%) Visualisation
12 8 (9.09%) Agile
12 8 (9.09%) High Availability
13 7 (7.95%) ETL
14 6 (6.82%) Actionable Insight
14 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 6 (6.82%) Mentoring
15 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (69.32%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.82%) C#
4 5 (5.68%) Bash
4 5 (5.68%) Java
5 4 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.41%) Tcl
6 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.14%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (35.23%) Azure Certification
2 13 (14.77%) Degree
3 7 (7.95%) HNC
3 7 (7.95%) HND
4 2 (2.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) Docker
3 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Cisco
3 3 (3.41%) ESRI
3 3 (3.41%) Informatica
3 3 (3.41%) Siemens
3 3 (3.41%) VMware
4 2 (2.27%) RedGate
4 2 (2.27%) Talend
5 1 (1.14%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.14%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) Intapp
5 1 (1.14%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle