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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,304 802 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.42% 8.47% 9.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.08% 32.44% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 988 530 747
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,332 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 3,614 2,472 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.01% 26.12% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,776 1,221 2,102
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +12 673 £52,500 +5.00% 438
Yorkshire +5 408 £50,000 -16.67% 224
North East +7 223 £55,000 +15.18% 90
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 59 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 37 (2.84%) Apache
5 25 (1.92%) IIS
6 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (1.61%) Confluence
8 18 (1.38%) Jupyter
8 18 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.31%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.31%) CMS
12 3 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) nginx
13 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.077%) WildFly
Applications
1 167 (12.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
2 9 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 6 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.31%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.31%) Shopify
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Magento
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.077%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 522 (40.03%) Azure
2 314 (24.08%) Power Platform
3 299 (22.93%) AWS
4 116 (8.90%) GitHub
5 111 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (8.05%) Serverless
7 101 (7.75%) Azure AI
8 96 (7.36%) GCP
9 86 (6.60%) Amazon S3
10 79 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
11 58 (4.45%) SaaS
12 57 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
13 49 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 45 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (3.37%) Snowflake
16 43 (3.30%) Power Automate
17 42 (3.22%) PowerApps
18 37 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (2.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.69%) Firewall
2 17 (1.30%) DNS
3 16 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.84%) DHCP
4 11 (0.84%) VPN
5 9 (0.69%) LAN
5 9 (0.69%) WAN
6 7 (0.54%) SAN
7 6 (0.46%) Internet
8 5 (0.38%) VLAN
9 4 (0.31%) HTTP
9 4 (0.31%) Network Security
10 3 (0.23%) ATM
10 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.23%) LTE
10 3 (0.23%) SMS
10 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.15%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
11 2 (0.15%) Wireless
12 1 (0.077%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (23.01%) Power BI
2 169 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 126 (9.66%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (9.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 112 (8.59%) Tableau
6 91 (6.98%) MongoDB
7 69 (5.29%) MySQL
8 57 (4.37%) NoSQL
9 55 (4.22%) Relational Database
10 54 (4.14%) DynamoDB
11 48 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
12 44 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 42 (3.22%) BigQuery
14 40 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
15 39 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
16 37 (2.84%) Data Lake
17 36 (2.76%) Metadata
18 29 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 27 (2.07%) Big Data
20 26 (1.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 101 (7.75%) Git
2 59 (4.52%) JIRA
3 31 (2.38%) GitLab
4 18 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 17 (1.30%) Claude Code
6 8 (0.61%) Postman
7 7 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.54%) JMeter
8 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.38%) NUnit
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.15%) Appium
General
1 446 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 244 (18.71%) Finance
3 229 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 96 (7.36%) Law
6 74 (5.67%) Retail
7 64 (4.91%) Manufacturing
8 53 (4.06%) Marketing
9 51 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 45 (3.45%) Legal
11 24 (1.84%) General Ledger
12 23 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.76%) Games
13 21 (1.61%) Advertising
13 21 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.46%) Billing
15 18 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.00%) Banking
17 13 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 327 (25.08%) Developer
2 236 (18.10%) Analyst
3 231 (17.71%) Senior
4 218 (16.72%) Data Engineer
5 119 (9.13%) Data Analyst
6 101 (7.75%) .NET Developer
7 99 (7.59%) Lead
8 92 (7.06%) Junior
9 88 (6.75%) Software Engineer
10 78 (5.98%) Junior Analyst
11 75 (5.75%) Junior Data Analyst
12 66 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
13 58 (4.45%) Senior Developer
14 47 (3.60%) Applications Support
15 41 (3.14%) Software Developer
16 39 (2.99%) SQL Developer
17 38 (2.91%) Databricks Engineer
18 37 (2.84%) Databricks Data Engineer
19 35 (2.68%) Consultant
20 34 (2.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (14.65%) .NET
2 107 (8.21%) ASP.NET
3 95 (7.29%) .NET Core
4 94 (7.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 94 (7.21%) React
5 86 (6.60%) AngularJS
6 84 (6.44%) PySpark
7 81 (6.21%) Node.js
8 73 (5.60%) RESTful
9 71 (5.44%) HTML
10 70 (5.37%) Terraform
11 62 (4.75%) Vue
12 61 (4.68%) CSS
13 57 (4.37%) Entity Framework
14 54 (4.14%) REST
15 43 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web API
16 33 (2.53%) LINQ
17 29 (2.22%) XML
18 28 (2.15%) JSON
18 28 (2.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 56 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.14%) Product Ownership
3 39 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 39 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 37 (2.84%) Replication
5 36 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
10 18 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.15%) Driving Licence
13 15 (1.15%) Hedge funds
14 14 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
16 12 (0.92%) Data Centre
17 11 (0.84%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.60%) Windows
2 51 (3.91%) Linux
3 41 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.77%) Android
5 8 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.46%) VMS
7 3 (0.23%) Unix
7 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (27.61%) Business Intelligence
2 335 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
3 317 (24.31%) Agile
4 295 (22.62%) Analytics
5 282 (21.63%) AI
6 243 (18.63%) CI/CD
7 212 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (15.18%) Decision-Making
9 197 (15.11%) DevOps
10 194 (14.88%) ETL
11 193 (14.80%) Mentoring
12 185 (14.19%) Data Engineering
13 178 (13.65%) Data Modelling
14 169 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
15 165 (12.65%) Full-Stack Development
16 149 (11.43%) Software Engineering
17 113 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 98 (7.52%) Machine Learning
18 98 (7.52%) Validation
19 97 (7.44%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 446 (34.20%) Python
2 220 (16.87%) C#
3 150 (11.50%) JavaScript
4 144 (11.04%) TypeScript
5 135 (10.35%) Java
6 45 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 32 (2.45%) Shell Script
8 31 (2.38%) T-SQL
9 26 (1.99%) PHP
9 26 (1.99%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.84%) C++
10 24 (1.84%) Scala
11 22 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 21 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 17 (1.30%) R
14 15 (1.15%) Bash
15 8 (0.61%) Bicep
15 8 (0.61%) C
16 7 (0.54%) Go
17 6 (0.46%) RPG
Qualifications
1 120 (9.20%) Degree
2 88 (6.75%) Azure Certification
3 76 (5.83%) Security Cleared
4 65 (4.98%) SC Cleared
5 28 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.61%) ACCA
10 8 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.54%) CIMA
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.31%) MCSA
13 4 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (14.34%) Data Quality
2 67 (5.14%) QA
3 28 (2.15%) GDPR
4 17 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.92%) TickIT
6 11 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.54%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.077%) HL7
11 1 (0.077%) IFRS
11 1 (0.077%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 100 (7.67%) Docker
2 39 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.077%) Firmware
6 1 (0.077%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.077%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.92%) Grafana
4 11 (0.84%) Ansible
5 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.23%) Control-M
6 3 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.23%) Kibana
6 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.23%) Puppet
6 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.077%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 433 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.90%) Databricks
3 67 (5.14%) Google
4 46 (3.53%) Oracle
5 30 (2.30%) VMware
6 23 (1.76%) SAP
7 18 (1.38%) Aderant
8 17 (1.30%) Sage
9 15 (1.15%) Informatica
10 13 (1.00%) Cisco
11 11 (0.84%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.84%) Splunk
12 9 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 9 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.61%) IBM
13 8 (0.61%) iManage
13 8 (0.61%) Intapp
14 7 (0.54%) Facebook
15 6 (0.46%) Adobe