SQL Developer Job Trends in the North of England

SQL Developer
England > North of England

The median SQL Developer salary in the North of England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 252 287
Rank change year-on-year -2 +35 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 29 6 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.086% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.093% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 27 4 56
10th Percentile £27,600 £45,150 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,438 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,125 £66,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 12,519 6,454 13,811
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.80% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,822 3,621 11,239
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SQL Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

SQL Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the North of England

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the North of England

SQL Developer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire -26 15 £55,000 +25.00% 2
North West 0 14 £60,000 +9.09% 6
SQL Developer
England

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 March 2026, SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) C#
4 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
4 7 (24.14%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (20.69%) .NET
6 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.79%) DevOps
7 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
7 4 (13.79%) ETL
7 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
8 3 (10.34%) Agile
8 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (10.34%) PHP
8 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
9 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
9 2 (6.90%) Analytics
9 2 (6.90%) API Integration
9 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
9 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (6.90%) Power BI
9 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
9 2 (6.90%) REST
9 2 (6.90%) SOAP
9 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.45%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Magento
1 1 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) OLAP
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.34%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Law
2 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.90%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) J2EE
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (13.79%) DevOps
2 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
2 4 (13.79%) ETL
3 3 (10.34%) Agile
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
3 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
4 2 (6.90%) Analytics
4 2 (6.90%) API Integration
4 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
4 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (3.45%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (3.45%) Change Management
5 1 (3.45%) Data Engineering
5 1 (3.45%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (3.45%) Logistics
5 1 (3.45%) Order Management
5 1 (3.45%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) PHP
3 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Cognos
2 1 (3.45%) IBM
2 1 (3.45%) Sage
2 1 (3.45%) VMware
2 1 (3.45%) WooCommerce