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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 22 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,351 867 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.89% 9.08% 9.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.43% 32.79% 36.51%
Number of salaries quoted 980 598 945
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,100 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £71,313 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
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 3,609 2,644 3,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.74% 27.70% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 1,380 2,679
10th Percentile £37,275 £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 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,850 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 31 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 31 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 +13 683 £50,051 +0.10% 248
Yorkshire +3 442 £50,000 -13.04% 117
North East 0 226 £57,500 +21.05% 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 63 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 36 (2.66%) Apache
5 27 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (1.85%) IIS
7 23 (1.70%) Confluence
8 17 (1.26%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.37%) CMS
11 4 (0.30%) Anypoint
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
14 1 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.074%) WildFly
Applications
1 249 (18.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 4 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
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%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.074%) Odoo
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 628 (46.48%) Azure
2 394 (29.16%) Power Platform
3 312 (23.09%) AWS
4 178 (13.18%) Azure AI
5 116 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (8.36%) GitHub
7 100 (7.40%) Serverless
8 99 (7.33%) GCP
9 83 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 81 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
11 69 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
13 53 (3.92%) SaaS
14 51 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 47 (3.48%) Power Automate
15 47 (3.48%) PowerApps
16 43 (3.18%) Snowflake
17 42 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
19 36 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.70%) Firewall
2 19 (1.41%) DNS
3 15 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.81%) DHCP
4 11 (0.81%) VPN
5 9 (0.67%) LAN
5 9 (0.67%) WAN
6 7 (0.52%) SAN
7 6 (0.44%) 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 (0.074%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.074%) SMS
12 1 (0.074%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (28.13%) Power BI
2 199 (14.73%) Tableau
3 167 (12.36%) SQL Server
4 132 (9.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 128 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (7.03%) MongoDB
7 69 (5.11%) MySQL
8 67 (4.96%) NoSQL
9 58 (4.29%) DynamoDB
10 52 (3.85%) Relational Database
11 50 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
12 47 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 41 (3.03%) BigQuery
14 40 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
15 39 (2.89%) Data Lake
16 38 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
17 28 (2.07%) Big Data
17 28 (2.07%) Metadata
17 28 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 23 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 104 (7.70%) Git
2 55 (4.07%) JIRA
3 23 (1.70%) GitLab
4 18 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 18 (1.33%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.52%) NUnit
7 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.30%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.22%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.22%) Postman
10 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.15%) YouTrack
General
1 505 (37.38%) Social Skills
2 231 (17.10%) Finance
3 211 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.59%) Law
5 73 (5.40%) Public Sector
6 68 (5.03%) Retail
7 59 (4.37%) Manufacturing
8 50 (3.70%) Marketing
9 44 (3.26%) Legal
10 42 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.85%) Advertising
12 24 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.70%) Games
14 18 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.96%) Banking
15 13 (0.96%) Local Government
15 13 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (0.89%) Billing
16 12 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 358 (26.50%) Developer
2 293 (21.69%) Analyst
3 210 (15.54%) Senior
4 197 (14.58%) Data Analyst
5 195 (14.43%) Data Engineer
6 168 (12.44%) Junior
7 152 (11.25%) Junior Analyst
8 150 (11.10%) Junior Data Analyst
9 117 (8.66%) Lead
10 106 (7.85%) .NET Developer
11 93 (6.88%) Software Engineer
12 60 (4.44%) Senior Developer
13 56 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
14 47 (3.48%) SQL Developer
15 45 (3.33%) Software Developer
16 41 (3.03%) Applications Support
17 38 (2.81%) Java Developer
18 37 (2.74%) Architect
18 37 (2.74%) Databricks Engineer
18 37 (2.74%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (14.73%) .NET
2 114 (8.44%) ASP.NET
3 104 (7.70%) AngularJS
4 102 (7.55%) React
5 100 (7.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 99 (7.33%) .NET Core
7 88 (6.51%) Node.js
8 87 (6.44%) HTML
9 83 (6.14%) RESTful
10 78 (5.77%) Terraform
11 77 (5.70%) CSS
12 73 (5.40%) PySpark
12 73 (5.40%) Vue
13 61 (4.52%) Entity Framework
14 58 (4.29%) REST
15 46 (3.40%) ASP.NET Web API
16 33 (2.44%) LINQ
16 33 (2.44%) Spring
17 30 (2.22%) Spring Boot
18 28 (2.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (4.15%) Cloud Native
2 42 (3.11%) Data Structures
3 36 (2.66%) Replication
4 35 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 24 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
9 20 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.26%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.18%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.04%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
14 13 (0.96%) Driving Licence
14 13 (0.96%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.52%) Windows
2 50 (3.70%) Linux
3 44 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.89%) Android
5 9 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.44%) VMS
7 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.074%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (31.01%) Business Intelligence
2 337 (24.94%) AI
3 323 (23.91%) Agile
4 311 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
5 266 (19.69%) Analytics
6 238 (17.62%) CI/CD
7 208 (15.40%) DevOps
8 199 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 175 (12.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 174 (12.88%) Data Modelling
11 172 (12.73%) Mentoring
12 171 (12.66%) Data Engineering
13 167 (12.36%) Decision-Making
13 167 (12.36%) ETL
14 154 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
15 149 (11.03%) Software Engineering
16 99 (7.33%) Data Analysis
17 97 (7.18%) Machine Learning
18 96 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
19 93 (6.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 521 (38.56%) Python
2 234 (17.32%) C#
3 148 (10.95%) JavaScript
4 146 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 140 (10.36%) Java
6 39 (2.89%) PowerShell
7 32 (2.37%) PHP
8 31 (2.29%) Shell Script
8 31 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 27 (2.00%) Kotlin
10 24 (1.78%) Scala
11 21 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.33%) C++
13 17 (1.26%) R
14 15 (1.11%) Bash
14 15 (1.11%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.59%) Bicep
15 8 (0.59%) C
15 8 (0.59%) VBA
16 7 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 165 (12.21%) Azure Certification
2 109 (8.07%) Degree
3 66 (4.89%) Security Cleared
4 54 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.59%) ACCA
9 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.52%) CIMA
11 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.30%) MCSA
12 4 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 65 (4.81%) QA
3 31 (2.29%) GDPR
4 16 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.89%) TickIT
6 11 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.30%) SLA
11 3 (0.22%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.22%) PMO
12 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.074%) HL7
12 1 (0.074%) IFRS
12 1 (0.074%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 103 (7.62%) Docker
2 38 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) 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 48 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.89%) Ansible
4 11 (0.81%) Grafana
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%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Puppet
8 1 (0.074%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.074%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.074%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 502 (37.16%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.96%) Databricks
3 65 (4.81%) Google
4 32 (2.37%) VMware
5 31 (2.29%) Oracle
6 18 (1.33%) SAP
7 16 (1.18%) Sage
8 12 (0.89%) Splunk
9 11 (0.81%) Aderant
9 11 (0.81%) HubSpot
10 10 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.67%) Cisco
11 9 (0.67%) Cognos
11 9 (0.67%) IBM
11 9 (0.67%) Informatica
11 9 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.67%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.59%) Facebook
12 8 (0.59%) iManage
12 8 (0.59%) Intapp