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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,336 867 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.90% 9.05% 9.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.06% 32.70% 37.06%
Number of salaries quoted 967 607 1,016
10th Percentile £35,228 £30,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £71,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
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 3,605 2,651 3,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.93% 27.67% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 1,394 2,838
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £77,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 24 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 24 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 +11 679 £52,500 +5.00% 202
Yorkshire +3 438 £51,500 -10.43% 108
North East +2 219 £58,750 +23.68% 72
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 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 36 (2.69%) Apache
5 27 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (1.87%) IIS
7 23 (1.72%) Confluence
8 16 (1.20%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.30%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.22%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.15%) CICS
13 2 (0.15%) nginx
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.075%) JBoss
Applications
1 247 (18.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) Sage 200
3 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 4 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.22%) Magento
5 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.075%) Odoo
7 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.075%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 628 (47.01%) Azure
2 390 (29.19%) Power Platform
3 308 (23.05%) AWS
4 178 (13.32%) Azure AI
5 115 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (8.46%) GitHub
7 97 (7.26%) GCP
8 95 (7.11%) Serverless
9 82 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 79 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
11 64 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
13 53 (3.97%) SaaS
14 51 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 46 (3.44%) Power Automate
15 46 (3.44%) PowerApps
16 43 (3.22%) Snowflake
17 42 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
19 36 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.72%) Firewall
2 19 (1.42%) DNS
3 14 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.82%) DHCP
4 11 (0.82%) VPN
5 8 (0.60%) LAN
5 8 (0.60%) WAN
6 7 (0.52%) SAN
7 6 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.37%) VLAN
9 4 (0.30%) HTTP
9 4 (0.30%) Network Security
10 3 (0.22%) ATM
10 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.22%) LTE
10 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.15%) Wireless
12 1 (0.075%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.075%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (28.22%) Power BI
2 199 (14.90%) Tableau
3 169 (12.65%) SQL Server
4 132 (9.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 129 (9.66%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (7.11%) MongoDB
7 69 (5.16%) MySQL
7 69 (5.16%) NoSQL
8 58 (4.34%) DynamoDB
9 54 (4.04%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
11 47 (3.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 41 (3.07%) BigQuery
13 40 (2.99%) Data Lake
13 40 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
14 38 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 30 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 27 (2.02%) Big Data
17 26 (1.95%) Metadata
18 23 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 104 (7.78%) Git
2 55 (4.12%) JIRA
3 22 (1.65%) GitLab
4 19 (1.42%) Claude Code
5 18 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.20%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.52%) NUnit
8 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.22%) Postman
11 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 500 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 227 (16.99%) Finance
3 206 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.36%) Law
5 69 (5.16%) Retail
6 68 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 58 (4.34%) Manufacturing
8 49 (3.67%) Marketing
9 42 (3.14%) Legal
10 38 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.87%) Advertising
12 24 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.72%) Games
14 18 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.97%) Banking
15 13 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (0.90%) Local Government
16 12 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.75%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 359 (26.87%) Developer
2 293 (21.93%) Analyst
3 210 (15.72%) Senior
4 197 (14.75%) Data Analyst
5 182 (13.62%) Data Engineer
6 168 (12.57%) Junior
7 152 (11.38%) Junior Analyst
8 150 (11.23%) Junior Data Analyst
9 120 (8.98%) Lead
10 106 (7.93%) .NET Developer
11 95 (7.11%) Software Engineer
12 64 (4.79%) Senior Developer
13 56 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 48 (3.59%) SQL Developer
15 44 (3.29%) Software Developer
16 43 (3.22%) Applications Support
17 39 (2.92%) DBA
17 39 (2.92%) Java Developer
18 36 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (14.82%) .NET
2 114 (8.53%) ASP.NET
3 104 (7.78%) AngularJS
4 102 (7.63%) React
5 100 (7.49%) ASP.NET Core
6 99 (7.41%) .NET Core
7 89 (6.66%) Node.js
8 87 (6.51%) HTML
9 85 (6.36%) RESTful
10 77 (5.76%) CSS
10 77 (5.76%) Terraform
11 72 (5.39%) Vue
12 65 (4.87%) PySpark
13 61 (4.57%) Entity Framework
14 58 (4.34%) REST
15 46 (3.44%) ASP.NET Web API
16 33 (2.47%) LINQ
16 33 (2.47%) Spring
17 30 (2.25%) .NET Framework
17 30 (2.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.27%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 36 (2.69%) Replication
4 35 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 26 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
10 20 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.27%) Hedge funds
13 16 (1.20%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.05%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
15 13 (0.97%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.49%) Windows
2 50 (3.74%) Linux
3 44 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.90%) Android
5 9 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.45%) VMS
7 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.075%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (30.46%) Business Intelligence
2 331 (24.78%) AI
3 320 (23.95%) Agile
4 310 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (19.61%) Analytics
6 236 (17.66%) CI/CD
7 209 (15.64%) DevOps
8 195 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 170 (12.72%) Data Modelling
10 169 (12.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 167 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 166 (12.43%) Mentoring
13 162 (12.13%) Decision-Making
14 155 (11.60%) Data Pipeline
15 152 (11.38%) ETL
16 150 (11.23%) Software Engineering
17 99 (7.41%) Data Analysis
18 96 (7.19%) Machine Learning
19 93 (6.96%) Validation
20 90 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 519 (38.85%) Python
2 234 (17.51%) C#
3 146 (10.93%) TypeScript
4 144 (10.78%) JavaScript
5 138 (10.33%) Java
6 38 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.47%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.40%) PHP
9 30 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 28 (2.10%) Kotlin
11 23 (1.72%) Scala
12 21 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (1.20%) R
14 15 (1.12%) Bash
14 15 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 14 (1.05%) C++
16 8 (0.60%) Bicep
16 8 (0.60%) C
16 8 (0.60%) VBA
17 7 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 165 (12.35%) Azure Certification
2 105 (7.86%) Degree
3 66 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 54 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.90%) DBS Check
7 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.60%) ACCA
9 7 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.52%) CIMA
10 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.30%) MCSA
11 4 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.15%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 65 (4.87%) QA
3 30 (2.25%) GDPR
4 16 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.90%) TickIT
6 11 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.45%) SLA
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.22%) PMO
11 1 (0.075%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.075%) HL7
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 102 (7.63%) Docker
2 37 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.075%) Firmware
8 1 (0.075%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.075%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.90%) Ansible
4 11 (0.82%) Grafana
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.22%) Control-M
6 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.15%) Kibana
7 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Puppet
8 1 (0.075%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.075%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.075%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.075%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.075%) VxRail
Vendors
1 501 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.89%) Databricks
3 64 (4.79%) Google
4 32 (2.40%) VMware
5 30 (2.25%) Oracle
6 16 (1.20%) Sage
6 16 (1.20%) SAP
7 12 (0.90%) Splunk
8 11 (0.82%) HubSpot
9 10 (0.75%) Cognos
9 10 (0.75%) IBM
9 10 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.67%) Informatica
10 9 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.60%) Aderant
11 8 (0.60%) Cisco
11 8 (0.60%) Facebook
11 8 (0.60%) iManage
11 8 (0.60%) Intapp
11 8 (0.60%) Salesforce