SQL Jobs in the North East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 106 220 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.97% 16.36% 20.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.46% 58.20% 48.84%
Number of salaries quoted 58 190 100
10th Percentile £35,500 £31,250 £33,959
25th Percentile £40,531 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,586
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.07% +11.97%
75th Percentile £76,875 £66,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £77,313
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 262 378 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 32.07% 28.10% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 138 337 240
10th Percentile £36,025 £31,400 £35,609
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £54,621
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.88% +28.52%
75th Percentile £74,144 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £76,250 £79,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North East

SQL
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for SQL in the North East

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North East over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

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 19 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
Tyne and Wear -1 98 £55,000 +10.00% 56
Northumberland +4 4 £62,500 +47.06% 5
Durham -32 4 £25,500 -44.86% 4
SQL
England

SQL
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 6 (5.66%) Jupyter
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) IIS
3 3 (2.83%) SAS
4 2 (1.89%) Mule
4 2 (1.89%) nginx
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.94%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 61 (57.55%) Azure
2 22 (20.75%) AWS
3 5 (4.72%) Serverless
4 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.77%) SaaS
4 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.83%) GCP
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.89%) GitHub
6 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.89%) IaaS
6 2 (1.89%) PaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.55%) SAN
2 2 (1.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.70%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.26%) Data Lake
2 13 (12.26%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.55%) MySQL
3 8 (7.55%) Tableau
4 6 (5.66%) Dremio
4 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.77%) Power BI
7 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.89%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.89%) Metadata
9 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.94%) Redis
9 1 (0.94%) Spotfire
9 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Postman
2 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.89%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.94%) Appium
3 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) JMeter
3 1 (0.94%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.94%) Maven
3 1 (0.94%) Redmine
3 1 (0.94%) Selenium
3 1 (0.94%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.94%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.94%) TestNG
3 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 33 (31.13%) Finance
3 11 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.43%) Advertising
5 9 (8.49%) Automotive
5 9 (8.49%) Marketing
5 9 (8.49%) Retail
6 6 (5.66%) Back Office
6 6 (5.66%) Legal
7 5 (4.72%) Banking
8 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.83%) Games
9 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.89%) Law
10 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Front Office
11 1 (0.94%) iGaming
11 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (23.58%) Software Engineer
2 22 (20.75%) Senior
3 17 (16.04%) Analyst
4 12 (11.32%) Developer
5 11 (10.38%) DBA
5 11 (10.38%) SQL DBA
6 9 (8.49%) Administrator
6 9 (8.49%) Data Scientist
7 8 (7.55%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.66%) C# Software Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Lead
10 5 (4.72%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) IT Support
10 5 (4.72%) Senior DBA
10 5 (4.72%) Senior SQL DBA
11 4 (3.77%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (33.02%) .NET
2 17 (16.04%) AngularJS
3 14 (13.21%) ASP.NET
3 14 (13.21%) React
4 13 (12.26%) .NET Core
5 12 (11.32%) Blazor
6 10 (9.43%) Node.js
7 9 (8.49%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (4.72%) RESTful
9 4 (3.77%) Web Services
10 3 (2.83%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (2.83%) Kafka
11 2 (1.89%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.89%) Entity Framework
11 2 (1.89%) FHIR
11 2 (1.89%) PySpark
12 1 (0.94%) CSS
12 1 (0.94%) jQuery
12 1 (0.94%) JSON
12 1 (0.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Distributed Architecture
2 8 (7.55%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.66%) Equities
4 5 (4.72%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.72%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.77%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.83%) Clustering
6 3 (2.83%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.94%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.94%) Derivative
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Windows
2 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) Debian
3 2 (1.89%) Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.19%) Agile
1 32 (30.19%) Software Engineering
2 31 (29.25%) Computer Science
3 29 (27.36%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.92%) Mentoring
5 17 (16.04%) Microservices
6 16 (15.09%) Data Engineering
7 14 (13.21%) Coaching
7 14 (13.21%) Data Science
8 13 (12.26%) ETL
9 12 (11.32%) High Availability
9 12 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (10.38%) Machine Learning
11 10 (9.43%) Analytics
11 10 (9.43%) Data Analysis
11 10 (9.43%) Data Modelling
11 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.49%) Acceptance Criteria
12 9 (8.49%) Matrix Organization
12 9 (8.49%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.91%) C#
2 32 (30.19%) Python
3 17 (16.04%) JavaScript
3 17 (16.04%) TypeScript
4 16 (15.09%) Java
5 9 (8.49%) R
6 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.72%) C++
8 3 (2.83%) Scala
9 2 (1.89%) Bash
9 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.94%) PHP
10 1 (0.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.94%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (33.02%) Degree
2 11 (10.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) CCNA
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.94%) CISSP
5 1 (0.94%) MCSA
5 1 (0.94%) MCSE
5 1 (0.94%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) QA
2 9 (8.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.89%) GDPR
3 2 (1.89%) HL7
3 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
1 6 (5.66%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.83%) Ansible
3 2 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.43%) Databricks
3 5 (4.72%) Bloomberg
3 5 (4.72%) Reuters
3 5 (4.72%) VMware
4 4 (3.77%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (2.83%) Oracle
6 2 (1.89%) Epicor
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco
7 1 (0.94%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.94%) Veeam