SQL Server Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 35 68
Rank change year-on-year -50 +33 -33
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 429 975 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.65% 4.86% 4.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.17% 30.72% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 281 881 633
10th Percentile £26,000 £32,500 £32,550
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,890 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,521 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.65% +2.73%

All Database and 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 1,186 3,174 3,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.10% 15.81% 20.41%
Number of salaries quoted 790 2,263 1,759
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,663 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 13 June 2025.

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 13 June 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
North West -66 260 £50,000 - 214
Yorkshire -21 127 £52,500 +9.37% 62
North East -2 46 £47,500 - 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 50 (11.66%) Confluence
2 21 (4.90%) IIS
3 17 (3.96%) CMS
3 17 (3.96%) Umbraco
4 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.93%) SAS
6 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) iTrent
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 284 (66.20%) Azure
2 174 (40.56%) AWS
3 59 (13.75%) GCP
4 36 (8.39%) Power Platform
5 34 (7.93%) SaaS
6 24 (5.59%) GitHub
7 16 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.63%) Azure Functions
9 7 (1.63%) Serverless
10 6 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.93%) Azure Stack
11 4 (0.93%) Firebase
11 4 (0.93%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.70%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.70%) IaaS
12 3 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.36%) SAN
2 17 (3.96%) DNS
3 16 (3.73%) Firewall
3 16 (3.73%) Intranet
4 13 (3.03%) DHCP
5 9 (2.10%) NAS
6 8 (1.86%) Multicast
7 6 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.40%) VLAN
7 6 (1.40%) VPN
8 5 (1.17%) VSAN
9 3 (0.70%) WAN
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.47%) DMZ
10 2 (0.47%) FCoE
10 2 (0.47%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.47%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.47%) PuTTY
11 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.86%) MongoDB
2 36 (8.39%) Power BI
3 30 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (6.53%) MySQL
5 22 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (4.66%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.63%) Big Data
10 7 (1.63%) DB2
11 5 (1.17%) Data Hub
11 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.17%) Metadata
11 5 (1.17%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.17%) SQL CLR
12 4 (0.93%) Biml
12 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 129 (30.07%) JIRA
2 119 (27.74%) Bitbucket
2 119 (27.74%) Selenium
3 116 (27.04%) SonarQube
4 115 (26.81%) GitLab
4 115 (26.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 114 (26.57%) Maven
6 113 (26.34%) Cucumber
7 38 (8.86%) Git
8 12 (2.80%) TeamCity
9 11 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (1.86%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.17%) NUnit
12 5 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
14 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.70%) JMeter
15 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 169 (39.39%) Finance
2 121 (28.21%) Banking
3 112 (26.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (25.64%) Social Skills
5 99 (23.08%) Retail
6 72 (16.78%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (16.78%) Investment Banking
7 31 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.56%) Back Office
9 11 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.33%) Advertising
11 9 (2.10%) Law
11 9 (2.10%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.40%) Legal
13 5 (1.17%) Marketing
14 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.47%) Local Government
15 1 (0.23%) Automotive
15 1 (0.23%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 163 (38.00%) Developer
2 131 (30.54%) Software Engineer
3 48 (11.19%) Senior
3 48 (11.19%) SQL Developer
4 41 (9.56%) .NET Developer
5 29 (6.76%) IT Support
6 26 (6.06%) Database Developer
6 26 (6.06%) Support Engineer
7 22 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 22 (5.13%) SQL Database Developer
8 21 (4.90%) IT Engineer
9 19 (4.43%) C# Developer
9 19 (4.43%) IT Support Engineer
10 18 (4.20%) Software Developer
11 17 (3.96%) Data Engineer
12 16 (3.73%) Analyst
12 16 (3.73%) Software Support Engineer
12 16 (3.73%) Umbraco Developer
13 14 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.26%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (41.03%) CSS
2 163 (38.00%) HTML
3 147 (34.27%) React
4 127 (29.60%) Kafka
5 114 (26.57%) .NET
5 114 (26.57%) Spring Boot
6 113 (26.34%) JPA
6 113 (26.34%) Redux
7 112 (26.11%) Spring
8 95 (22.14%) HTML5
9 88 (20.51%) RESTful
10 83 (19.35%) REST
11 79 (18.41%) CSS3
12 77 (17.95%) Jest
12 77 (17.95%) Sass
13 51 (11.89%) .NET Core
13 51 (11.89%) ASP.NET
14 41 (9.56%) Hibernate
15 33 (7.69%) .NET Framework
16 31 (7.23%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 117 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 113 (26.34%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (6.76%) Mobile App
4 20 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.73%) NHS
6 12 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.10%) Clustering
8 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.86%) Replication
9 6 (1.40%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.17%) EPoS
10 5 (1.17%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.93%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.93%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.70%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.62%) Windows
2 27 (6.29%) Linux
3 20 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.20%) Android
5 12 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (2.10%) Windows 10
8 8 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.40%) Unix
10 3 (0.70%) Solaris
11 1 (0.23%) Debian
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (48.02%) Agile
2 157 (36.60%) CI/CD
2 157 (36.60%) DevOps
3 150 (34.97%) Software Engineering
4 143 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 137 (31.93%) Containerisation
6 136 (31.70%) Microservices
7 135 (31.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 130 (30.30%) SDLC
9 125 (29.14%) Test Automation
10 117 (27.27%) Front End Development
11 112 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (25.87%) Migration
13 102 (23.78%) Mentoring
14 87 (20.28%) User Experience
15 75 (17.48%) Clean Code
15 75 (17.48%) Responsive Web Design
16 72 (16.78%) Strategic Thinking
17 66 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 52 (12.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 303 (70.63%) SQL
2 168 (39.16%) JavaScript
3 147 (34.27%) Java
4 128 (29.84%) C#
5 91 (21.21%) TypeScript
6 65 (15.15%) T-SQL
7 38 (8.86%) Python
8 19 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.73%) PHP
10 13 (3.03%) C++
11 6 (1.40%) Bash
11 6 (1.40%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.17%) Bicep
12 5 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.70%) R
13 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.47%) PROC SQL
14 2 (0.47%) VBScript
15 1 (0.23%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 62 (14.45%) Degree
2 38 (8.86%) DBS Check
3 19 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.93%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.93%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CISM
9 2 (0.47%) CISSP
9 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.47%) MCITP
9 2 (0.47%) MCSE
9 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (29.14%) QA
2 89 (20.75%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.90%) GDPR
4 16 (3.73%) WCAG
5 6 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.40%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) NCSC
8 2 (0.47%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 135 (31.47%) Docker
2 25 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.40%) vSphere
6 5 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.47%) HDFS
8 2 (0.47%) KVM
8 2 (0.47%) NFS
8 2 (0.47%) SRDF
8 2 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.47%) Xen
9 1 (0.23%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 130 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.20%) Terraform
3 10 (2.33%) Ansible
4 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.17%) Grafana
5 5 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.70%) SCCM
8 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.47%) Control-M
8 2 (0.47%) Kibana
8 2 (0.47%) logstash
8 2 (0.47%) Oozie
8 2 (0.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 155 (36.13%) Microsoft
2 112 (26.11%) Solace
3 29 (6.76%) VMware
4 18 (4.20%) Zoho
5 17 (3.96%) HP
6 16 (3.73%) Oracle
7 13 (3.03%) Cisco
8 9 (2.10%) Google
8 9 (2.10%) Splunk
9 8 (1.86%) IBM
9 8 (1.86%) Veeam
10 6 (1.40%) Databricks
10 6 (1.40%) Informatica
10 6 (1.40%) SAP
11 5 (1.17%) MobileIron
11 5 (1.17%) Talend
12 4 (0.93%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.70%) NetApp
13 3 (0.70%) RedGate