SQL Job Trends in the North of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 27 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,364 850 1,623
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.43% 8.93% 10.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.37% 31.27% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 951 608 1,203
10th Percentile £35,381 £30,675 £32,650
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year - +4.36% -2.31%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £83,759
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
North of England

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,555 2,718 4,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 28.55% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,682 1,461 3,320
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,868 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

SQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in the North of England

SQL
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 July 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 +12 669 £52,500 +5.00% 193
Yorkshire +4 481 £51,815 -9.89% 108
North East +1 214 £55,000 +14.58% 74
SQL
England

SQL
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 53 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.13%) Apache
5 25 (1.83%) IIS
6 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (1.47%) Confluence
8 13 (0.95%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.29%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.15%) CICS
13 2 (0.15%) JBoss
13 2 (0.15%) nginx
13 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 352 (25.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.66%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.29%) Magento
3 4 (0.29%) Shopify
3 4 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.073%) Primavera
6 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 688 (50.44%) Azure
2 458 (33.58%) Power Platform
3 287 (21.04%) AWS
4 253 (18.55%) Azure AI
5 104 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (6.96%) GitHub
7 88 (6.45%) Serverless
8 87 (6.38%) GCP
9 74 (5.43%) Amazon S3
10 59 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
11 58 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
12 52 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 47 (3.45%) PowerApps
14 45 (3.30%) Power Automate
15 39 (2.86%) SaaS
16 38 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 34 (2.49%) Snowflake
18 32 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
19 30 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.91%) Firewall
2 18 (1.32%) DNS
3 13 (0.95%) VPN
4 12 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.81%) DHCP
6 7 (0.51%) SAN
6 7 (0.51%) VLAN
7 6 (0.44%) Internet
8 4 (0.29%) DMZ
8 4 (0.29%) LAN
8 4 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.29%) STUN
8 4 (0.29%) VoIP
8 4 (0.29%) WAN
9 3 (0.22%) ATM
9 3 (0.22%) HTTP
9 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.22%) LTE
9 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (32.92%) Power BI
2 303 (22.21%) Tableau
3 162 (11.88%) SQL Server
4 124 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 120 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
6 102 (7.48%) MongoDB
7 76 (5.57%) NoSQL
8 68 (4.99%) MySQL
9 52 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 47 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
11 46 (3.37%) DynamoDB
12 44 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
12 44 (3.23%) Relational Database
13 36 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.64%) BigQuery
13 36 (2.64%) Data Lake
14 34 (2.49%) Data Mining
15 31 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 26 (1.91%) Big Data
17 23 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (6.60%) Git
2 54 (3.96%) JIRA
3 20 (1.47%) GitLab
4 19 (1.39%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.44%) NUnit
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) MLflow
11 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.22%) Postman
11 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 523 (38.34%) Social Skills
2 237 (17.38%) Finance
3 217 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 69 (5.06%) Law
6 56 (4.11%) Retail
7 43 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 42 (3.08%) Marketing
9 41 (3.01%) Legal
10 30 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.98%) Advertising
12 25 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.32%) Games
14 14 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.81%) Local Government
17 9 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.66%) Banking
17 9 (0.66%) Billing
17 9 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 382 (28.01%) Analyst
2 336 (24.63%) Developer
3 298 (21.85%) Data Analyst
4 239 (17.52%) Junior
5 226 (16.57%) Junior Analyst
5 226 (16.57%) Junior Data Analyst
6 201 (14.74%) Senior
7 175 (12.83%) Data Engineer
8 111 (8.14%) Lead
9 103 (7.55%) .NET Developer
10 96 (7.04%) Software Engineer
11 62 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 51 (3.74%) Senior Data Engineer
13 49 (3.59%) SQL Developer
14 44 (3.23%) Applications Support
15 41 (3.01%) DBA
16 38 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
16 38 (2.79%) Java Developer
17 37 (2.71%) Administrator
17 37 (2.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (13.56%) .NET
2 110 (8.06%) ASP.NET
3 102 (7.48%) React
4 99 (7.26%) AngularJS
4 99 (7.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 96 (7.04%) .NET Core
5 96 (7.04%) RESTful
6 83 (6.09%) Node.js
7 82 (6.01%) HTML
8 75 (5.50%) CSS
9 73 (5.35%) Vue
10 61 (4.47%) PySpark
11 60 (4.40%) Entity Framework
12 55 (4.03%) REST
13 45 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web API
14 33 (2.42%) LINQ
14 33 (2.42%) Spring
15 30 (2.20%) .NET Framework
15 30 (2.20%) Spring Boot
16 28 (2.05%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.18%) Cloud Native
2 37 (2.71%) Data Structures
3 34 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (1.98%) Replication
6 25 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
7 22 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.32%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.25%) Hedge funds
10 17 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 13 (0.95%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.95%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.89%) Windows
2 39 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 38 (2.79%) Linux
4 12 (0.88%) Android
5 5 (0.37%) VMS
6 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.29%) Debian
6 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.073%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (34.82%) Business Intelligence
2 378 (27.71%) AI
3 290 (21.26%) Agile
4 274 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
5 267 (19.57%) Analytics
6 216 (15.84%) CI/CD
7 185 (13.56%) DevOps
8 169 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 164 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 163 (11.95%) Mentoring
11 158 (11.58%) Data Modelling
12 148 (10.85%) Data Engineering
13 144 (10.56%) Software Engineering
14 142 (10.41%) Decision-Making
15 139 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
16 138 (10.12%) ETL
17 125 (9.16%) Data Analysis
18 88 (6.45%) Test Automation
19 87 (6.38%) Machine Learning
20 81 (5.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 589 (43.18%) Python
2 226 (16.57%) C#
3 139 (10.19%) Java
4 135 (9.90%) TypeScript
5 132 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 37 (2.71%) T-SQL
7 29 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.05%) PHP
9 23 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 22 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (1.54%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.39%) R
12 19 (1.39%) Scala
13 14 (1.03%) Bash
13 14 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.73%) C++
15 8 (0.59%) VBA
16 7 (0.51%) Bicep
17 5 (0.37%) C
17 5 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 244 (17.89%) Azure Certification
2 101 (7.40%) Degree
3 59 (4.33%) Security Cleared
4 49 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.51%) ACCA
11 6 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.44%) CIMA
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.29%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.29%) MCSA
13 4 (0.29%) Tableau Certification
13 4 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.15%) HND
15 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (10.63%) Data Quality
2 55 (4.03%) QA
3 25 (1.83%) GDPR
4 15 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.88%) TickIT
6 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.51%) SLA
8 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.22%) PMO
10 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.073%) HL7
10 1 (0.073%) IFRS
10 1 (0.073%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 86 (6.30%) Docker
2 31 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) vSphere
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
8 1 (0.073%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.073%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (4.84%) Terraform
2 49 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.81%) Ansible
3 11 (0.81%) Grafana
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.22%) Control-M
5 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.073%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.073%) Puppet
7 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 582 (42.67%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.38%) Databricks
3 49 (3.59%) Google
4 30 (2.20%) Oracle
5 29 (2.13%) VMware
6 13 (0.95%) HubSpot
6 13 (0.95%) Splunk
7 12 (0.88%) SAP
8 11 (0.81%) Cognos
9 10 (0.73%) IBM
9 10 (0.73%) Sage
10 9 (0.66%) Aderant
10 9 (0.66%) iManage
10 9 (0.66%) Informatica
10 9 (0.66%) Intapp
10 9 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.59%) Facebook
11 8 (0.59%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.59%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.44%) Alteryx