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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 73 198 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.07% 20.29% 12.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.22% 48.77% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 41 118 63
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,274 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +3.73% +2.60%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,493 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 191 406 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.49% 41.60% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 142 220 146
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,779 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,991 £64,688
90th Percentile £78,786 £95,000 £69,900
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -16 61 £48,199 +6.52% 130
Durham +5 12 £42,250 -16.02% 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 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (38.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.11%) AutoCAD
2 3 (4.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.74%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 34 (46.58%) Azure
2 21 (28.77%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.70%) Azure AI
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (10.96%) AWS
6 6 (8.22%) GitHub
7 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.48%) IaaS
8 4 (5.48%) SaaS
9 2 (2.74%) PaaS
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.37%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) VPN
2 8 (10.96%) DNS
2 8 (10.96%) TCP/IP
2 8 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.14%) SQL Server
2 20 (27.40%) Tableau
3 19 (26.03%) Power BI
4 10 (13.70%) Data Mining
5 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (6.85%) MySQL
7 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (5.48%) Redis
7 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.11%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (4.11%) GIS
8 3 (4.11%) Metadata
8 3 (4.11%) QGIS
8 3 (4.11%) Spatial Data
9 2 (2.74%) Power Query
9 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
1 4 (5.48%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 34 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.77%) Finance
3 20 (27.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Marketing
5 4 (5.48%) Advertising
5 4 (5.48%) Games
5 4 (5.48%) Legal
5 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Billing
6 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Front Office
7 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (41.10%) Analyst
2 22 (30.14%) Data Analyst
3 11 (15.07%) Junior
4 10 (13.70%) Junior Analyst
4 10 (13.70%) Junior Data Analyst
5 9 (12.33%) Developer
5 9 (12.33%) Trainee
5 9 (12.33%) Trainee Analyst
5 9 (12.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 8 (10.96%) Coordinator
6 8 (10.96%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) C# Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) DBA
7 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.85%) SQL DBA
8 4 (5.48%) Administrator
8 4 (5.48%) AWS Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) .NET
2 5 (6.85%) React
3 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.48%) Blazor
3 4 (5.48%) REST
3 4 (5.48%) Vue
4 3 (4.11%) .NET Framework
4 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.11%) Entity Framework
4 3 (4.11%) Itk
5 2 (2.74%) Playwright
6 1 (1.37%) CSS
6 1 (1.37%) jQuery
6 1 (1.37%) RESTful
6 1 (1.37%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) LIMS
2 5 (6.85%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.48%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.48%) Clustering
4 3 (4.11%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Derivative
6 1 (1.37%) EPoS
6 1 (1.37%) Equities
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.07%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 8 (10.96%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (26.03%) Analytics
3 18 (24.66%) AI
4 16 (21.92%) Computer Science
5 14 (19.18%) Data Analysis
5 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.81%) Data Analytics
7 11 (15.07%) Agile
8 10 (13.70%) Decision-Making
8 10 (13.70%) Project Management
9 9 (12.33%) Business Analysis
9 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.33%) DevOps
9 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (12.33%) Visualisation
10 8 (10.96%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
12 6 (8.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) Python
2 13 (17.81%) C#
3 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.48%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.11%) Bicep
5 3 (4.11%) Tcl
6 2 (2.74%) Java
7 1 (1.37%) C++
7 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Degree
2 12 (16.44%) HND
3 11 (15.07%) HNC
4 10 (13.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.74%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.59%) Docker
3 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Terraform
2 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (46.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) Informatica
3 4 (5.48%) RedGate
3 4 (5.48%) Talend
4 3 (4.11%) ESRI
4 3 (4.11%) Siemens
4 3 (4.11%) VMware
5 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.37%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) Nimble Storage