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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 25 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,360 868 1,469
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.09% 8.98% 9.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.51% 32.51% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 966 609 1,038
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year - -3.36% -0.83%

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 3,626 2,670 3,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.24% 27.62% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 1,407 2,887
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £34,750
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 £76,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
% change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%

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 17 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 17 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 +13 680 £52,500 +5.00% 230
Yorkshire +4 457 £51,500 -10.43% 128
North East -1 223 £57,500 +17.35% 94
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 62 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 35 (2.57%) Apache
5 26 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (1.84%) IIS
7 23 (1.69%) Confluence
8 15 (1.10%) 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%) nginx
13 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.074%) JBoss
14 1 (0.074%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 285 (20.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.66%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) Sage 200
3 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 4 (0.29%) Magento
4 4 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.074%) Odoo
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.074%) Primavera
7 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 657 (48.31%) Azure
2 418 (30.74%) Power Platform
3 305 (22.43%) AWS
4 208 (15.29%) Azure AI
5 114 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.01%) GitHub
7 95 (6.99%) GCP
8 93 (6.84%) Serverless
9 80 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 76 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
11 62 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 48 (3.53%) SaaS
15 45 (3.31%) Power Automate
15 45 (3.31%) PowerApps
16 43 (3.16%) Snowflake
17 41 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.76%) Firewall
2 19 (1.40%) DNS
3 14 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.88%) VPN
5 11 (0.81%) DHCP
6 7 (0.51%) LAN
6 7 (0.51%) SAN
6 7 (0.51%) WAN
7 6 (0.44%) Internet
7 6 (0.44%) VLAN
8 4 (0.29%) HTTP
8 4 (0.29%) Network Security
9 3 (0.22%) ATM
9 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.22%) LTE
9 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.15%) Wireless
11 1 (0.074%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.074%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.074%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (29.71%) Power BI
2 240 (17.65%) Tableau
3 173 (12.72%) SQL Server
4 132 (9.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 127 (9.34%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (6.99%) MongoDB
7 69 (5.07%) MySQL
8 67 (4.93%) NoSQL
9 56 (4.12%) DynamoDB
10 52 (3.82%) Relational Database
11 50 (3.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 49 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
13 40 (2.94%) BigQuery
14 39 (2.87%) Data Lake
14 39 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
15 38 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
16 32 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 27 (1.99%) Big Data
18 26 (1.91%) Metadata
19 23 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (7.57%) Git
2 55 (4.04%) JIRA
3 22 (1.62%) GitLab
4 19 (1.40%) Claude Code
5 18 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.18%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.51%) NUnit
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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
1 519 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 235 (17.28%) Finance
3 212 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.25%) Law
5 69 (5.07%) Retail
6 68 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 56 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 47 (3.46%) Marketing
9 42 (3.09%) Legal
10 38 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.84%) Advertising
11 25 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.69%) Games
13 17 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.88%) Banking
14 12 (0.88%) Local Government
14 12 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.74%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 353 (25.96%) Developer
2 329 (24.19%) Analyst
3 237 (17.43%) Data Analyst
4 208 (15.29%) Senior
5 198 (14.56%) Junior
6 183 (13.46%) Data Engineer
7 182 (13.38%) Junior Analyst
8 180 (13.24%) Junior Data Analyst
9 119 (8.75%) Lead
10 106 (7.79%) .NET Developer
11 94 (6.91%) Software Engineer
12 64 (4.71%) Senior Developer
13 55 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
14 48 (3.53%) SQL Developer
15 43 (3.16%) Applications Support
16 41 (3.01%) Software Developer
17 39 (2.87%) DBA
18 37 (2.72%) Java Developer
19 36 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
19 36 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (14.41%) .NET
2 113 (8.31%) ASP.NET
3 102 (7.50%) AngularJS
3 102 (7.50%) React
4 100 (7.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 99 (7.28%) .NET Core
6 87 (6.40%) HTML
7 86 (6.32%) Node.js
8 85 (6.25%) RESTful
9 77 (5.66%) CSS
10 72 (5.29%) Vue
11 65 (4.78%) PySpark
12 61 (4.49%) Entity Framework
13 58 (4.26%) REST
14 46 (3.38%) ASP.NET Web API
15 33 (2.43%) LINQ
16 32 (2.35%) Spring
17 30 (2.21%) .NET Framework
18 29 (2.13%) Spring Boot
19 27 (1.99%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 54 (3.97%) Cloud Native
2 39 (2.87%) Data Structures
3 37 (2.72%) Replication
4 35 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 25 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
7 25 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 23 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.25%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.03%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (0.96%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (0.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.34%) Windows
2 51 (3.75%) Linux
3 43 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.88%) Android
5 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.44%) VMS
7 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.074%) Debian
9 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.074%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (31.84%) Business Intelligence
2 358 (26.32%) AI
3 314 (23.09%) Agile
4 305 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 271 (19.93%) Analytics
6 232 (17.06%) CI/CD
7 205 (15.07%) DevOps
8 188 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 169 (12.43%) Data Modelling
10 168 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
11 166 (12.21%) Data Engineering
12 163 (11.99%) Mentoring
13 161 (11.84%) Decision-Making
14 153 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
14 153 (11.25%) ETL
15 149 (10.96%) Software Engineering
16 109 (8.01%) Data Analysis
17 97 (7.13%) Machine Learning
18 93 (6.84%) Validation
19 86 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 555 (40.81%) Python
2 235 (17.28%) C#
3 142 (10.44%) TypeScript
4 141 (10.37%) JavaScript
5 135 (9.93%) Java
6 36 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 34 (2.50%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.28%) PHP
9 30 (2.21%) Shell Script
10 26 (1.91%) Kotlin
11 22 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 22 (1.62%) Scala
12 15 (1.10%) Bash
12 15 (1.10%) R
13 14 (1.03%) C++
13 14 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.59%) Bicep
14 8 (0.59%) C
14 8 (0.59%) VBA
15 7 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 196 (14.41%) Azure Certification
2 105 (7.72%) Degree
3 65 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 54 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.59%) ACCA
10 7 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.51%) CIMA
11 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.29%) MCSA
12 4 (0.29%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 63 (4.63%) QA
3 29 (2.13%) GDPR
4 17 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.88%) TickIT
6 10 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.51%) SLA
9 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.22%) PMO
11 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.074%) HL7
11 1 (0.074%) IFRS
11 1 (0.074%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 98 (7.21%) Docker
2 36 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) vSphere
8 1 (0.074%) Firmware
8 1 (0.074%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.074%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (5.51%) Terraform
2 49 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.88%) Ansible
5 11 (0.81%) Grafana
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.22%) Control-M
7 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.15%) Kibana
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.074%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.074%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 537 (39.49%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.76%) Databricks
3 60 (4.41%) Google
4 32 (2.35%) VMware
5 29 (2.13%) Oracle
6 14 (1.03%) Sage
6 14 (1.03%) SAP
7 12 (0.88%) Splunk
8 11 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 10 (0.74%) Cognos
9 10 (0.74%) IBM
9 10 (0.74%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.66%) Cisco
10 9 (0.66%) Informatica
10 9 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.59%) Aderant
11 8 (0.59%) Facebook
11 8 (0.59%) iManage
11 8 (0.59%) Intapp
12 7 (0.51%) Salesforce