SQL Server Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 67 32
Rank change year-on-year +36 -35 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 984 867 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.74% 4.88% 7.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.57% 23.05% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 907 690 1,025
10th Percentile £31,579 £32,975 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,334 £55,175
90th Percentile £78,500 £77,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,117 3,762 3,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.19% 21.18% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,841 2,679
10th Percentile £31,579 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the North of England.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
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 Server within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
North West +47 558 £50,000 - 102
Yorkshire +29 309 £52,500 +5.00% 62
North East +41 117 £47,500 +14.46% 20
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 41 (4.17%) IIS
2 37 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (2.03%) Umbraco
5 13 (1.32%) ArcGIS
6 11 (1.12%) CMS
7 7 (0.71%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.61%) Apache
8 6 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
8 6 (0.61%) Confluence
9 2 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.20%) Drupal
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) SAS
9 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
10 1 (0.10%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.10%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 34 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.63%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.32%) Epicor Tropos
3 7 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.61%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.10%) Magento
6 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 593 (60.26%) Azure
2 142 (14.43%) Power Platform
3 120 (12.20%) AWS
3 120 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 38 (3.86%) GCP
6 37 (3.76%) SaaS
7 35 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (2.44%) Snowflake
9 22 (2.24%) Matillion
9 22 (2.24%) Serverless
10 15 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (1.52%) Google Play
10 15 (1.52%) OCI
11 14 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (1.32%) Entra ID
12 13 (1.32%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.18%) SAN
2 50 (5.08%) DNS
3 48 (4.88%) Firewall
4 37 (3.76%) Internet
5 33 (3.35%) DHCP
6 29 (2.95%) LAN
7 28 (2.85%) Broadband
8 26 (2.64%) WAN
9 24 (2.44%) VPN
10 20 (2.03%) NAS
11 18 (1.83%) SSL
12 15 (1.52%) TCP/IP
13 13 (1.32%) VoIP
14 11 (1.12%) VLAN
15 9 (0.91%) Multicast
16 8 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.71%) Intranet
17 7 (0.71%) Mobile Broadband
18 6 (0.61%) HTTP
18 6 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (12.91%) Power BI
2 98 (9.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 96 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (9.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 91 (9.25%) MySQL
6 83 (8.43%) Relational Database
7 78 (7.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 59 (6.00%) MongoDB
9 57 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
10 54 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (4.37%) Data Lake
12 34 (3.46%) Data Vault
13 27 (2.74%) DB2
14 26 (2.64%) Delta Lake
15 25 (2.54%) NoSQL
16 24 (2.44%) Tableau
17 22 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
18 18 (1.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 18 (1.83%) Star Schema
19 15 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 83 (8.43%) Git
2 76 (7.72%) JIRA
3 34 (3.46%) GitLab
4 19 (1.93%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.63%) Jasmine
5 16 (1.63%) Karma Test Runner
6 9 (0.91%) NUnit
6 9 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.61%) Dreamweaver
7 6 (0.61%) MSTest
8 5 (0.51%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.51%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.41%) Postman
10 3 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.20%) Moq
11 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.20%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 234 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 111 (11.28%) Finance
3 102 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.01%) Retail
5 52 (5.28%) Law
6 45 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.07%) Legal
8 38 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (3.35%) Manufacturing
10 31 (3.15%) Games
11 26 (2.64%) Marketing
12 24 (2.44%) Advertising
13 12 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.91%) Music Industry
16 8 (0.81%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.61%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 449 (45.63%) Developer
2 240 (24.39%) .NET Developer
3 117 (11.89%) C# Developer
4 95 (9.65%) Senior
5 90 (9.15%) Data Engineer
6 83 (8.43%) C# .NET Developer
7 69 (7.01%) Lead
8 68 (6.91%) DBA
9 66 (6.71%) Analyst
10 59 (6.00%) Support Engineer
11 53 (5.39%) Software Engineer
12 49 (4.98%) Software Developer
12 49 (4.98%) SQL DBA
13 46 (4.67%) IT Engineer
14 43 (4.37%) IT Support
15 34 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
15 34 (3.46%) SQL Developer
16 33 (3.35%) Administrator
17 31 (3.15%) Architect
18 29 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (44.51%) .NET
2 260 (26.42%) ASP.NET
3 252 (25.61%) .NET Core
4 207 (21.04%) AngularJS
5 199 (20.22%) HTML
6 176 (17.89%) ASP.NET MVC
7 170 (17.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 162 (16.46%) Entity Framework
9 149 (15.14%) .NET Framework
10 144 (14.63%) CSS
11 118 (11.99%) React
12 109 (11.08%) HTML5
13 95 (9.65%) Node.js
14 78 (7.93%) Vue
15 72 (7.32%) RESTful
15 72 (7.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 62 (6.30%) XML
17 58 (5.89%) Blazor
17 58 (5.89%) JSON
18 48 (4.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.71%) Public Cloud
2 54 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 53 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
4 46 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (4.17%) Reinsurance
6 31 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 26 (2.64%) Replication
8 24 (2.44%) Driving Licence
9 23 (2.34%) Enterprise Storage
10 22 (2.24%) Mobile App
10 22 (2.24%) NHS
11 19 (1.93%) Cloud Native
12 17 (1.73%) Social Media
13 16 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.52%) iPhone
15 14 (1.42%) BBC
16 13 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.32%) Life Science
17 12 (1.22%) Data Centre
17 12 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 176 (17.89%) Windows
2 94 (9.55%) Windows Server
3 78 (7.93%) Linux
4 29 (2.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (2.85%) VMS
6 25 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (2.34%) Windows 10
8 21 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (1.73%) Unix
10 15 (1.52%) Android
11 6 (0.61%) AIX
12 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (36.38%) Agile
2 223 (22.66%) Full Stack Development
3 221 (22.46%) MVC
4 212 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (16.87%) Microservices
6 156 (15.85%) DevOps
7 134 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
8 131 (13.31%) ETL
9 102 (10.37%) Scrum
10 99 (10.06%) TDD
11 89 (9.04%) OO
12 86 (8.74%) Roadmaps
13 85 (8.64%) Data Modelling
14 80 (8.13%) Mentoring
15 77 (7.83%) Software Engineering
16 73 (7.42%) BDD
17 72 (7.32%) Analytics
17 72 (7.32%) Migration
18 70 (7.11%) ERP
19 67 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 528 (53.66%) SQL
2 455 (46.24%) C#
3 304 (30.89%) JavaScript
4 158 (16.06%) T-SQL
5 106 (10.77%) Python
6 76 (7.72%) PowerShell
6 76 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 43 (4.37%) VB.NET
8 39 (3.96%) VB
9 28 (2.85%) Java
10 16 (1.63%) VB6
11 15 (1.52%) VBScript
12 13 (1.32%) PHP
13 12 (1.22%) Ruby
14 11 (1.12%) Delphi
14 11 (1.12%) VBA
15 10 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.81%) Perl
18 7 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 140 (14.23%) Degree
2 56 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.42%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.22%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.02%) SC Cleared
9 8 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.81%) MCSE
9 8 (0.81%) OCP
9 8 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.61%) CCNA
11 6 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.51%) HND
12 5 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.41%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.67%) QA
3 21 (2.13%) GDPR
4 16 (1.63%) SLA
5 9 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.30%) WCAG
8 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 91 (9.25%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.76%) Hyper-V
3 35 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.63%) Docker
7 14 (1.42%) vSphere
8 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.20%) Firmware
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.42%) Terraform
3 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.71%) WSUS
5 6 (0.61%) Ansible
5 6 (0.61%) SCCM
6 4 (0.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.30%) Nessus
7 3 (0.30%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.20%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.20%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.10%) Grafana
9 1 (0.10%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 546 (55.49%) Microsoft
2 125 (12.70%) Oracle
3 63 (6.40%) VMware
4 49 (4.98%) Google
5 42 (4.27%) Databricks
6 40 (4.07%) Informatica
7 32 (3.25%) Facebook
8 30 (3.05%) IBM
9 27 (2.74%) Cisco
10 20 (2.03%) Apple
11 15 (1.52%) Commvault
12 14 (1.42%) Sony
12 14 (1.42%) Yahoo!
13 13 (1.32%) Epicor
14 12 (1.22%) SAP
15 10 (1.02%) Citrix
16 9 (0.91%) Veeam
16 9 (0.91%) Zoho
17 8 (0.81%) Sophos
18 7 (0.71%) ESRI