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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 40 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 493 1,491 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.30% 8.70% 9.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.15% 35.98% 37.02%
Number of salaries quoted 418 848 1,219
10th Percentile £34,625 £32,500 £31,650
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,833 £55,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +11.65% +3.00%

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 1,691 4,144 4,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.62% 24.17% 24.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 2,226 3,104
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,850 £87,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% +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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -22 243 £50,000 - 182
Yorkshire +1 217 £55,000 +4.76% 104
North East +8 33 £45,000 +9.76% 47
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 21 (4.26%) IIS
2 17 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.84%) Umbraco
4 9 (1.83%) Confluence
5 8 (1.62%) MS Exchange
6 4 (0.81%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.81%) SAS
6 4 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.81%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.61%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.20%) ReMetrica
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 225 (45.64%) Azure
2 74 (15.01%) Power Platform
3 63 (12.78%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (11.36%) SaaS
5 55 (11.16%) AWS
6 30 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.07%) Entra ID
9 21 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (3.45%) PaaS
11 15 (3.04%) GCP
12 14 (2.84%) IaaS
13 12 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (1.62%) Serverless
16 7 (1.42%) Azure Stack
16 7 (1.42%) Mimecast
16 7 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.51%) Firewall
2 28 (5.68%) DNS
3 19 (3.85%) LAN
4 18 (3.65%) DHCP
4 18 (3.65%) SAN
4 18 (3.65%) WAN
5 16 (3.25%) VoIP
6 13 (2.64%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (1.83%) NAS
8 8 (1.62%) Internet
8 8 (1.62%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.62%) VPN
9 7 (1.42%) WLAN
10 5 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.81%) IP Telephony
11 4 (0.81%) SSL
12 3 (0.61%) AMQP
12 3 (0.61%) FTP
12 3 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.39%) Power BI
2 62 (12.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 55 (11.16%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (10.75%) Relational Database
5 48 (9.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 42 (8.52%) MySQL
7 27 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (2.84%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.03%) Tableau
11 9 (1.83%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (1.62%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.42%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.22%) Big Data
14 6 (1.22%) Data Mining
15 5 (1.01%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
16 4 (0.81%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 56 (11.36%) Git
2 21 (4.26%) JIRA
3 11 (2.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 10 (2.03%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.22%) Postman
5 6 (1.22%) SoapUI
6 5 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.81%) Maven
7 4 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.61%) git-flow
8 3 (0.61%) GitLab
8 3 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.20%) MSTest
10 1 (0.20%) NUnit
10 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.20%) Subversion
10 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.37%) Finance
3 49 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.72%) Law
5 30 (6.09%) Retail
6 17 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.64%) Health Technology
8 12 (2.43%) Legal
9 10 (2.03%) Marketing
10 9 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.22%) Back Office
12 6 (1.22%) Banking
12 6 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Advertising
14 4 (0.81%) Billing
14 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 180 (36.51%) Developer
2 97 (19.68%) Senior
3 77 (15.62%) .NET Developer
4 47 (9.53%) Analyst
5 39 (7.91%) C# Developer
6 34 (6.90%) Architect
6 34 (6.90%) Lead
6 34 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 34 (6.90%) SQL Developer
7 31 (6.29%) Software Developer
8 30 (6.09%) Support Engineer
9 29 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 28 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (5.48%) Applications Support
12 25 (5.07%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.87%) Support Analyst
14 23 (4.67%) C# .NET Developer
14 23 (4.67%) SQL Server Developer
15 21 (4.26%) DBA
16 18 (3.65%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (42.80%) .NET
2 90 (18.26%) .NET Core
3 73 (14.81%) HTML
4 64 (12.98%) CSS
5 58 (11.76%) ASP.NET
6 51 (10.34%) .NET Framework
7 40 (8.11%) React
8 31 (6.29%) AngularJS
9 29 (5.88%) Web Services
10 28 (5.68%) jQuery
11 24 (4.87%) ASP.NET Web API
12 20 (4.06%) Entity Framework
13 19 (3.85%) REST
13 19 (3.85%) RESTful
14 18 (3.65%) HTML5
14 18 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.45%) Node.js
15 17 (3.45%) SOAP
16 14 (2.84%) Middleware
17 13 (2.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.25%) Virtual Team
4 15 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.83%) Low-Code
7 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.42%) Replication
10 6 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.22%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.22%) Thin Client
11 5 (1.01%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 112 (22.72%) Windows
2 76 (15.42%) Windows Server
3 39 (7.91%) Windows Server 2012
4 25 (5.07%) Windows 10
5 24 (4.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (3.45%) Linux
7 10 (2.03%) Unix
8 9 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.41%) CentOS
10 1 (0.20%) Android
10 1 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (26.98%) Agile
2 107 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (18.66%) DevOps
4 76 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
5 72 (14.60%) Software Engineering
6 54 (10.95%) Mentoring
7 51 (10.34%) CI/CD
8 47 (9.53%) ITIL
9 45 (9.13%) ETL
9 45 (9.13%) Unit Testing
10 44 (8.92%) Full Stack Development
11 42 (8.52%) MVC
12 38 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (7.30%) Data Modelling
14 35 (7.10%) OOP
15 34 (6.90%) Containerisation
15 34 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 30 (6.09%) Customer Service
16 30 (6.09%) Line Management
17 29 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 259 (52.54%) SQL
2 196 (39.76%) C#
3 105 (21.30%) JavaScript
4 104 (21.10%) T-SQL
5 37 (7.51%) PowerShell
6 22 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.06%) Java
8 19 (3.85%) Python
9 18 (3.65%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.83%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.01%) PHP
12 4 (0.81%) Delphi
12 4 (0.81%) Go
13 3 (0.61%) VB
14 2 (0.41%) Bash
14 2 (0.41%) Perl
14 2 (0.41%) VB6
15 1 (0.20%) C
15 1 (0.20%) R
15 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (14.60%) Degree
2 31 (6.29%) Security Cleared
3 29 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.42%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.61%) HND
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.20%) MCTS
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.06%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (2.64%) QA
3 13 (2.64%) SLA
4 7 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.81%) WCAG
6 3 (0.61%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (18.05%) Active Directory
2 40 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.25%) vSphere
4 14 (2.84%) Virtual Servers
5 12 (2.43%) Docker
6 8 (1.62%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.41%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.41%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 13 (2.64%) Nessus
2 12 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.61%) Ansible
5 3 (0.61%) MIIS
5 3 (0.61%) Terraform
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Identity Management
6 2 (0.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.20%) Grafana
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) Puppet
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 205 (41.58%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.74%) VMware
3 39 (7.91%) Oracle
4 20 (4.06%) Cisco
5 17 (3.45%) Databricks
6 14 (2.84%) Sophos
7 13 (2.64%) arcserve
7 13 (2.64%) Zoho
8 10 (2.03%) iManage
9 8 (1.62%) ESET
10 7 (1.42%) Epicor
10 7 (1.42%) SAP
11 6 (1.22%) Citrix
12 5 (1.01%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.01%) Google
13 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.81%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.81%) Software AG
13 4 (0.81%) Verint
13 4 (0.81%) webMethods