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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 70 33
Rank change year-on-year +40 -37 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 975 855 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.65% 4.88% 7.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.30% 23.32% 35.03%
Number of salaries quoted 894 678 1,021
10th Percentile £31,705 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 3,115 3,667 3,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.06% 20.95% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,843 2,619
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 £82,500 £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 27 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 27 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 +42 556 £50,000 - 103
Yorkshire +29 305 £52,500 +5.00% 63
North East +39 114 £47,500 +8.57% 26
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 39 (4.00%) IIS
2 36 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.95%) Umbraco
5 13 (1.33%) ArcGIS
6 11 (1.13%) CMS
7 7 (0.72%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.62%) Apache
8 6 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
8 6 (0.62%) Confluence
9 2 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.21%) Drupal
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.21%) SAS
9 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.21%) WordPress
10 1 (0.10%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.10%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 34 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.54%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.33%) Epicor Tropos
3 7 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.41%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.10%) Magento
7 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 591 (60.62%) Azure
2 142 (14.56%) Power Platform
3 120 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
4 118 (12.10%) AWS
5 60 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 38 (3.90%) GCP
7 36 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (3.49%) SaaS
9 24 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.26%) Matillion
10 22 (2.26%) Serverless
11 15 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.54%) Google Play
11 15 (1.54%) OCI
12 14 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.23%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.13%) DNS
1 50 (5.13%) SAN
2 46 (4.72%) Firewall
3 37 (3.79%) Internet
4 33 (3.38%) DHCP
5 28 (2.87%) Broadband
6 27 (2.77%) LAN
7 24 (2.46%) VPN
7 24 (2.46%) WAN
8 19 (1.95%) NAS
9 18 (1.85%) SSL
10 15 (1.54%) TCP/IP
11 11 (1.13%) VLAN
12 10 (1.03%) VoIP
13 9 (0.92%) Multicast
14 8 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.72%) Intranet
15 7 (0.72%) Mobile Broadband
16 6 (0.62%) HTTP
16 6 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (13.03%) Power BI
2 98 (10.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 96 (9.85%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (9.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 88 (9.03%) MySQL
6 82 (8.41%) Relational Database
7 77 (7.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 59 (6.05%) MongoDB
8 59 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (5.54%) Elasticsearch
10 44 (4.51%) Data Lake
11 34 (3.49%) Data Vault
12 27 (2.77%) DB2
13 26 (2.67%) Delta Lake
14 25 (2.56%) NoSQL
15 24 (2.46%) Tableau
16 22 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (1.85%) Oracle Database
17 18 (1.85%) Star Schema
18 17 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 81 (8.31%) Git
2 76 (7.79%) JIRA
3 33 (3.38%) GitLab
4 19 (1.95%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.64%) Jasmine
5 16 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
6 10 (1.03%) NUnit
7 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.62%) Dreamweaver
8 6 (0.62%) MSTest
9 5 (0.51%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.41%) Postman
11 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.21%) Maven
12 2 (0.21%) Moq
12 2 (0.21%) Selenium
12 2 (0.21%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 236 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 114 (11.69%) Finance
3 104 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.08%) Retail
5 51 (5.23%) Law
6 49 (5.03%) Public Sector
7 41 (4.21%) Legal
8 37 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 31 (3.18%) Games
11 26 (2.67%) Marketing
12 24 (2.46%) Advertising
13 12 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.92%) Music Industry
16 8 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.72%) Back Office
17 7 (0.72%) Health Technology
17 7 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 441 (45.23%) Developer
2 235 (24.10%) .NET Developer
3 116 (11.90%) C# Developer
4 93 (9.54%) Senior
5 91 (9.33%) Data Engineer
6 82 (8.41%) C# .NET Developer
7 72 (7.38%) DBA
8 69 (7.08%) Lead
9 65 (6.67%) Analyst
10 59 (6.05%) Support Engineer
11 53 (5.44%) Software Engineer
12 49 (5.03%) SQL DBA
13 47 (4.82%) IT Engineer
13 47 (4.82%) Software Developer
14 44 (4.51%) IT Support
15 36 (3.69%) Administrator
16 35 (3.59%) IT Support Engineer
17 32 (3.28%) SQL Developer
18 31 (3.18%) Architect
19 27 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (44.41%) .NET
2 259 (26.56%) ASP.NET
3 248 (25.44%) .NET Core
4 207 (21.23%) AngularJS
5 197 (20.21%) HTML
6 177 (18.15%) ASP.NET MVC
7 170 (17.44%) ASP.NET Web API
8 162 (16.62%) Entity Framework
9 149 (15.28%) .NET Framework
10 142 (14.56%) CSS
11 114 (11.69%) React
12 109 (11.18%) HTML5
13 94 (9.64%) Node.js
14 77 (7.90%) Vue
15 72 (7.38%) RESTful
16 71 (7.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 61 (6.26%) XML
18 58 (5.95%) JSON
19 57 (5.85%) Blazor
20 47 (4.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.77%) Public Cloud
2 54 (5.54%) Data Structures
3 52 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
4 50 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (4.21%) Reinsurance
6 29 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.87%) Driving Licence
8 26 (2.67%) Replication
9 23 (2.36%) Enterprise Storage
10 22 (2.26%) Mobile App
10 22 (2.26%) NHS
11 19 (1.95%) Cloud Native
12 17 (1.74%) Social Media
13 16 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.54%) iPhone
15 14 (1.44%) BBC
16 13 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.33%) Life Science
17 12 (1.23%) Data Centre
18 10 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 170 (17.44%) Windows
2 89 (9.13%) Windows Server
3 78 (8.00%) Linux
4 28 (2.87%) VMS
5 26 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (2.15%) Unix
6 21 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 21 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.54%) Android
9 6 (0.62%) AIX
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (36.62%) Agile
2 221 (22.67%) Full Stack Development
2 221 (22.67%) MVC
3 207 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (17.03%) Microservices
5 156 (16.00%) DevOps
6 134 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
7 132 (13.54%) ETL
8 102 (10.46%) Scrum
9 99 (10.15%) TDD
10 89 (9.13%) OO
11 86 (8.82%) Data Modelling
12 84 (8.62%) Roadmaps
13 78 (8.00%) Mentoring
14 75 (7.69%) Software Engineering
15 73 (7.49%) Analytics
15 73 (7.49%) BDD
16 72 (7.38%) Migration
17 68 (6.97%) ERP
18 65 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 521 (53.44%) SQL
2 451 (46.26%) C#
3 304 (31.18%) JavaScript
4 156 (16.00%) T-SQL
5 106 (10.87%) Python
6 77 (7.90%) TypeScript
7 76 (7.79%) PowerShell
8 43 (4.41%) VB.NET
9 39 (4.00%) VB
10 28 (2.87%) Java
11 16 (1.64%) VB6
12 15 (1.54%) VBScript
13 13 (1.33%) PHP
14 12 (1.23%) Ruby
15 11 (1.13%) Delphi
15 11 (1.13%) VBA
16 10 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.82%) Perl
19 7 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 134 (13.74%) Degree
2 56 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 48 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 18 (1.85%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.03%) SC Cleared
9 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.82%) MCSE
9 8 (0.82%) OCP
10 7 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.62%) CCNA
11 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.51%) HND
12 5 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.41%) HNC
13 4 (0.41%) MCP
13 4 (0.41%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.62%) QA
3 21 (2.15%) GDPR
4 14 (1.44%) SLA
5 11 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 87 (8.92%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.79%) Hyper-V
3 33 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.64%) Docker
7 12 (1.23%) vSphere
8 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.21%) Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.21%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.44%) Terraform
3 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.72%) WSUS
5 6 (0.62%) Ansible
5 6 (0.62%) SCCM
6 3 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.21%) vRealize
8 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.10%) Grafana
8 1 (0.10%) Nessus
8 1 (0.10%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 540 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 128 (13.13%) Oracle
3 59 (6.05%) VMware
4 49 (5.03%) Google
5 42 (4.31%) Databricks
6 40 (4.10%) Informatica
7 32 (3.28%) Facebook
8 30 (3.08%) IBM
9 28 (2.87%) Cisco
10 20 (2.05%) Apple
11 15 (1.54%) Commvault
12 14 (1.44%) Sony
12 14 (1.44%) Yahoo!
13 13 (1.33%) Epicor
14 12 (1.23%) SAP
15 10 (1.03%) Citrix
16 9 (0.92%) Veeam
17 8 (0.82%) Zoho
18 7 (0.72%) ESRI
18 7 (0.72%) F5