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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 67 271 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.14% 12.49% 14.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.53% 48.92% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 62 225 95
10th Percentile £24,775 £31,250 £38,760
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £54,242
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.82% +35.61%
75th Percentile £69,563 £70,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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 144 554 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.20% 25.53% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 123 473 224
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,600 £38,825
25th Percentile £39,525 £41,250 £44,858
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,525 £77,050
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 62 £52,500 -4.55% 81
Northumberland +4 3 £62,500 +47.06%
Durham -29 2 £28,125 -35.71% 13
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 7 (10.45%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.99%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.99%) SAS
3 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.49%) IIS
4 1 (1.49%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) iTrent
1 1 (1.49%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 36 (53.73%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) GitHub
3 9 (13.43%) AWS
3 9 (13.43%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.97%) GCP
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.48%) Serverless
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) SAN
2 3 (4.48%) Firewall
3 2 (2.99%) Internet
3 2 (2.99%) PuTTY
3 2 (2.99%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.99%) WAN
3 2 (2.99%) Wireless
4 1 (1.49%) NAS
4 1 (1.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (44.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (13.43%) Data Lake
2 9 (13.43%) MongoDB
2 9 (13.43%) Power BI
3 8 (11.94%) MySQL
3 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.96%) Tableau
5 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.48%) Dremio
6 3 (4.48%) Metadata
6 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.99%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.99%) EDMS
7 2 (2.99%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (2.99%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (2.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) JIRA
2 6 (8.96%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.48%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) GitLab
3 3 (4.48%) Maven
3 3 (4.48%) Selenium
3 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (41.79%) Finance
2 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Advertising
4 7 (10.45%) Law
5 4 (5.97%) Retail
6 3 (4.48%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Electronics
8 1 (1.49%) Front Office
8 1 (1.49%) Games
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Developer
2 14 (20.90%) Analyst
2 14 (20.90%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) DBA
4 8 (11.94%) SQL DBA
5 7 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) IT Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) SQL Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Support Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) IT Support
6 6 (8.96%) IT Support Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) SQL Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) SQL Support Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Administrator
8 4 (5.97%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Database Developer
9 3 (4.48%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.34%) .NET
2 9 (13.43%) ASP.NET
2 9 (13.43%) React
3 7 (10.45%) Kafka
4 6 (8.96%) .NET Core
4 6 (8.96%) Node.js
5 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (7.46%) CSS
5 5 (7.46%) HTML
5 5 (7.46%) PySpark
6 3 (4.48%) JPA
6 3 (4.48%) Redux
6 3 (4.48%) RESTful
6 3 (4.48%) Spring
6 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.99%) Jest
7 2 (2.99%) Plotly
7 2 (2.99%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Hedge funds
1 5 (7.46%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Clustering
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.99%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.49%) Equities
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Unix
2 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Solaris
3 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (28.36%) Agile
3 17 (25.37%) Software Engineering
4 13 (19.40%) High Availability
5 12 (17.91%) Computer Science
5 12 (17.91%) ETL
6 11 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (14.93%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (14.93%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (11.94%) Project Management
10 7 (10.45%) Analytics
10 7 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
10 7 (10.45%) Data Analysis
10 7 (10.45%) DevOps
10 7 (10.45%) Incident Management
10 7 (10.45%) Mentoring
10 7 (10.45%) MVC
11 6 (8.96%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) C#
2 16 (23.88%) Java
2 16 (23.88%) Python
3 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
3 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
4 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.96%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.97%) C++
6 4 (5.97%) PHP
6 4 (5.97%) R
7 3 (4.48%) C
8 2 (2.99%) Bash
8 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.99%) PROC SQL
8 2 (2.99%) Progress 4GL
8 2 (2.99%) Scala
9 1 (1.49%) Dart
9 1 (1.49%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.49%) Ruby
9 1 (1.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (31.34%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (10.45%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CCNA
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.49%) MCSA
5 1 (1.49%) MCSE
5 1 (1.49%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (10.45%) QA
3 6 (8.96%) SLA
4 5 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (7.46%) SOC 2
5 4 (5.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Flume
3 2 (2.99%) HDFS
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Kibana
3 2 (2.99%) logstash
3 2 (2.99%) Oozie
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) Databricks
3 5 (7.46%) Informatica
3 5 (7.46%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle
4 3 (4.48%) RedGate
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
4 3 (4.48%) Solace
4 3 (4.48%) Talend
5 2 (2.99%) Capita
5 2 (2.99%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (2.99%) Progress
5 2 (2.99%) Sun
5 2 (2.99%) VMware
6 1 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco
6 1 (1.49%) Epicor
6 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.49%) Reuters
6 1 (1.49%) Telerik