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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,371 873 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.21% 9.08% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.78% 32.37% 37.86%
Number of salaries quoted 972 614 1,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £35,750 £38,750
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 £78,375 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -0.86% -3.33%

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 3,629 2,697 3,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.44% 28.05% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,750 1,431 2,957
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £76,075 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +4.10% -6.15%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +12 681 £52,500 +5.00% 252
Yorkshire +3 468 £50,750 -10.57% 132
North East -1 222 £55,000 +14.58% 76
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 61 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 34 (2.48%) Apache
5 26 (1.90%) IIS
6 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (1.60%) Confluence
8 14 (1.02%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.36%) 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%) nginx
13 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.073%) WildFly
Applications
1 307 (22.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.73%) 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 5 (0.36%) Shopify
4 4 (0.29%) Magento
4 4 (0.29%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.073%) Odoo
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.073%) Primavera
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 670 (48.87%) Azure
2 430 (31.36%) Power Platform
3 311 (22.68%) AWS
4 223 (16.27%) Azure AI
5 111 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (7.73%) GitHub
7 100 (7.29%) GCP
8 94 (6.86%) Serverless
9 80 (5.84%) Amazon S3
10 65 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
11 63 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
12 60 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 45 (3.28%) PowerApps
15 44 (3.21%) Power Automate
16 41 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 41 (2.99%) SaaS
16 41 (2.99%) Snowflake
17 35 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
18 34 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.75%) Firewall
2 18 (1.31%) DNS
3 13 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 13 (0.95%) VPN
4 11 (0.80%) DHCP
5 7 (0.51%) SAN
5 7 (0.51%) VLAN
6 6 (0.44%) Internet
7 4 (0.29%) HTTP
7 4 (0.29%) LAN
7 4 (0.29%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) ATM
8 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.22%) LTE
8 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.15%) Network Security
9 2 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.15%) STUN
9 2 (0.15%) VoIP
9 2 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (30.56%) Power BI
2 262 (19.11%) Tableau
3 170 (12.40%) SQL Server
4 128 (9.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 128 (9.34%) Data Warehouse
5 104 (7.59%) MongoDB
6 78 (5.69%) NoSQL
7 74 (5.40%) MySQL
8 54 (3.94%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
9 49 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 48 (3.50%) Relational Database
11 47 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
12 46 (3.36%) BigQuery
13 39 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 38 (2.77%) Data Lake
15 32 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 26 (1.90%) Big Data
16 26 (1.90%) Metadata
17 24 (1.75%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 99 (7.22%) Git
2 53 (3.87%) JIRA
3 21 (1.53%) GitLab
4 19 (1.39%) Claude Code
5 18 (1.31%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.24%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.51%) NUnit
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.22%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.22%) MLflow
11 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.22%) Postman
11 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 519 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 233 (16.99%) Finance
3 218 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.91%) Law
6 66 (4.81%) Retail
7 52 (3.79%) Manufacturing
8 45 (3.28%) Marketing
9 39 (2.84%) Legal
10 35 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (1.90%) Advertising
12 25 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (1.53%) Games
14 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.88%) Local Government
15 12 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.73%) Banking
Job Titles
1 350 (25.53%) Analyst
1 350 (25.53%) Developer
2 259 (18.89%) Data Analyst
3 211 (15.39%) Junior
4 208 (15.17%) Senior
5 196 (14.30%) Junior Analyst
6 195 (14.22%) Junior Data Analyst
7 182 (13.27%) Data Engineer
8 117 (8.53%) Lead
9 106 (7.73%) .NET Developer
10 105 (7.66%) Software Engineer
11 65 (4.74%) Senior Developer
12 53 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
13 49 (3.57%) SQL Developer
14 42 (3.06%) Applications Support
15 39 (2.84%) DBA
15 39 (2.84%) Software Developer
16 37 (2.70%) Java Developer
16 37 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
17 36 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (14.30%) .NET
2 113 (8.24%) ASP.NET
3 103 (7.51%) React
4 102 (7.44%) AngularJS
5 100 (7.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 99 (7.22%) .NET Core
7 96 (7.00%) RESTful
8 86 (6.27%) Node.js
9 85 (6.20%) HTML
10 75 (5.47%) CSS
11 73 (5.32%) Vue
12 62 (4.52%) PySpark
13 61 (4.45%) Entity Framework
14 55 (4.01%) REST
15 46 (3.36%) ASP.NET Web API
16 33 (2.41%) LINQ
17 32 (2.33%) Spring
18 31 (2.26%) .NET Framework
19 29 (2.12%) Spring Boot
20 27 (1.97%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.38%) Cloud Native
2 39 (2.84%) Data Structures
3 35 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (2.41%) Replication
5 32 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 25 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 25 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 23 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.24%) Hedge funds
12 17 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 13 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.95%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (0.80%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.01%) Windows
2 46 (3.36%) Linux
3 41 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.88%) Android
5 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.36%) VMS
7 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.15%) Debian
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.073%) Unix
9 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (32.60%) Business Intelligence
2 361 (26.33%) AI
3 314 (22.90%) Agile
4 291 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (19.91%) Analytics
6 230 (16.78%) CI/CD
7 200 (14.59%) DevOps
8 175 (12.76%) Mentoring
9 172 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 169 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 166 (12.11%) Data Modelling
12 163 (11.89%) Data Engineering
13 158 (11.52%) Software Engineering
14 155 (11.31%) Decision-Making
15 152 (11.09%) ETL
16 147 (10.72%) Data Pipeline
17 115 (8.39%) Data Analysis
18 92 (6.71%) Machine Learning
19 89 (6.49%) Validation
20 88 (6.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 570 (41.58%) Python
2 236 (17.21%) C#
3 140 (10.21%) Java
3 140 (10.21%) TypeScript
4 136 (9.92%) JavaScript
5 34 (2.48%) T-SQL
6 32 (2.33%) PHP
6 32 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 27 (1.97%) Shell Script
8 26 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 23 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 20 (1.46%) Scala
11 18 (1.31%) R
12 14 (1.02%) Bash
12 14 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.88%) C++
14 8 (0.58%) VBA
15 7 (0.51%) Bicep
16 6 (0.44%) C
16 6 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 212 (15.46%) Azure Certification
2 108 (7.88%) Degree
3 63 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 52 (3.79%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.58%) ACCA
10 7 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.51%) CIMA
11 6 (0.44%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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
1 156 (11.38%) Data Quality
2 61 (4.45%) QA
3 26 (1.90%) GDPR
4 16 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.88%) TickIT
6 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.51%) SLA
8 5 (0.36%) 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 99 (7.22%) Docker
2 32 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.36%) 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 73 (5.32%) Terraform
2 50 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.80%) Ansible
3 11 (0.80%) Grafana
4 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.22%) Control-M
6 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.15%) Kibana
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.073%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.073%) Puppet
8 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 549 (40.04%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.49%) Databricks
3 66 (4.81%) Google
4 30 (2.19%) VMware
5 28 (2.04%) Oracle
6 12 (0.88%) SAP
6 12 (0.88%) Splunk
7 11 (0.80%) HubSpot
7 11 (0.80%) Sage
8 10 (0.73%) Cognos
8 10 (0.73%) IBM
8 10 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.66%) Informatica
9 9 (0.66%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.58%) Aderant
10 8 (0.58%) Facebook
10 8 (0.58%) iManage
10 8 (0.58%) Intapp
11 7 (0.51%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.44%) Apple