SQL Server Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 61 28
Rank change year-on-year -70 -33 +39
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 230 437 966
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.21% 5.57% 5.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.33% 37.29% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 210 288 887
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,800 £31,831
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,772 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £78,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.05%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,500 1,172 2,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.92% 14.93% 16.99%
Number of salaries quoted 945 795 2,271
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +13.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,061 £65,603
90th Percentile £84,600 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,639 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.94% -11.54%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in the North of England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SQL Server

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 17 May 2026.

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 17 May 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
North West -38 142 £50,000 -1.75% 41
Yorkshire -90 68 £44,500 -15.24% 31
North East -52 20 £57,500 +12.20% 6
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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 23 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.91%) IIS
4 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.87%) CMS
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.87%) nginx
5 2 (0.87%) WordPress
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.30%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.87%) Magento
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 123 (53.48%) Azure
2 47 (20.43%) AWS
3 27 (11.74%) Power Platform
4 24 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.70%) SaaS
6 14 (6.09%) GitHub
7 13 (5.65%) GCP
7 13 (5.65%) Power Automate
8 12 (5.22%) Serverless
9 10 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (3.91%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.70%) Firewall
2 19 (8.26%) DNS
3 16 (6.96%) DHCP
4 14 (6.09%) VLAN
5 11 (4.78%) VPN
6 8 (3.48%) DMZ
7 5 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.17%) STUN
7 5 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.17%) VoIP
8 4 (1.74%) Network Security
8 4 (1.74%) WAN
9 3 (1.30%) LAN
9 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.87%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.43%) SAN
11 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.48%) MySQL
2 25 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.00%) Power BI
4 13 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.78%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.91%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.61%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.17%) Power Query
8 5 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.74%) DB2
10 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.87%) PostHog
11 2 (0.87%) Redis
11 2 (0.87%) Tableau
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 18 (7.83%) Git
2 8 (3.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.04%) JIRA
4 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.87%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) MSTest
4 2 (0.87%) NUnit
4 2 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 37 (16.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.87%) Finance
3 21 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.26%) Law
5 12 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.22%) Retail
6 9 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.48%) Advertising
7 8 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.61%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.30%) Banking
10 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (44.35%) Developer
2 48 (20.87%) Software Developer
3 40 (17.39%) Senior
4 26 (11.30%) DBA
5 25 (10.87%) .NET Developer
6 23 (10.00%) Administrator
6 23 (10.00%) Lead
7 20 (8.70%) C# Developer
8 19 (8.26%) SQL Developer
9 18 (7.83%) Database Engineer
9 18 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.83%) SQL DBA
10 16 (6.96%) Data Engineer
11 15 (6.52%) C# Software Developer
11 15 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (6.52%) IT Support
11 15 (6.52%) Lead Developer
11 15 (6.52%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (6.52%) Senior Software Developer
12 12 (5.22%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (38.70%) .NET
2 53 (23.04%) ASP.NET
3 51 (22.17%) .NET Core
4 28 (12.17%) .NET Framework
5 18 (7.83%) CSS
6 14 (6.09%) HTML
6 14 (6.09%) RESTful
7 13 (5.65%) React
8 10 (4.35%) REST
9 9 (3.91%) ASP.NET Core
9 9 (3.91%) Entity Framework
10 7 (3.04%) AWS CDK
10 7 (3.04%) Blazor
11 6 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (2.61%) Vue
11 6 (2.61%) Web Services
12 5 (2.17%) FreeSWITCH
12 5 (2.17%) JSON
13 4 (1.74%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.74%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.26%) Legacy Applications
2 15 (6.52%) Replication
3 12 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.04%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.30%) CMDB
7 3 (1.30%) Contactless
7 3 (1.30%) EMV
7 3 (1.30%) Java Card
7 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.30%) Smartcard
8 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.87%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.87%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 35 (15.22%) Windows
2 34 (14.78%) Linux
3 24 (10.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.17%) Debian
4 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.74%) Android
5 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.09%) Agile
1 60 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (15.22%) DevOps
3 35 (15.22%) ETL
4 31 (13.48%) CI/CD
5 29 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (11.74%) Analytics
7 20 (8.70%) High Availability
8 18 (7.83%) RAD
9 17 (7.39%) E-Commerce
9 17 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (6.96%) Computer Science
10 16 (6.96%) Data Modelling
10 16 (6.96%) Mentoring
10 16 (6.96%) Migration
10 16 (6.96%) Patch Management
10 16 (6.96%) Software Engineering
11 15 (6.52%) Microservices
11 15 (6.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 132 (57.39%) SQL
2 97 (42.17%) C#
3 26 (11.30%) Python
4 22 (9.57%) T-SQL
5 20 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.83%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.96%) PHP
8 12 (5.22%) Java
8 12 (5.22%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.04%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (2.17%) Bash
11 5 (2.17%) C++
12 2 (0.87%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.43%) Delphi
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (10.00%) Degree
2 11 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.04%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.04%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.43%) MCITP
8 1 (0.43%) MCSE
8 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.04%) QA
3 6 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.17%) GDPR
5 4 (1.74%) SLA
6 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.43%) HL7
8 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (12.17%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.43%) Docker
3 6 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.87%) vSphere
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (4.78%) Terraform
2 7 (3.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.61%) Grafana
4 5 (2.17%) Ansible
5 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.30%) Puppet
7 2 (0.87%) Control-M
7 2 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.65%) Oracle
3 12 (5.22%) VMware
4 10 (4.35%) Cisco
5 6 (2.61%) Databricks
6 4 (1.74%) Citrix
6 4 (1.74%) Veeam
7 3 (1.30%) IFS
7 3 (1.30%) Zoho
8 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.87%) Cognos
8 2 (0.87%) Facebook
8 2 (0.87%) IBM
8 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.87%) Splunk
8 2 (0.87%) WatchGuard
9 1 (0.43%) Dell
9 1 (0.43%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.43%) Google