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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,328 820 1,363
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.57% 8.77% 9.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.70% 32.87% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 997 547 781
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £77,500 £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 3,619 2,495 3,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.17% 26.68% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 1,242 2,222
10th Percentile £38,675 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 22 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 22 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 +12 674 £52,500 +5.00% 501
Yorkshire +4 427 £50,000 -16.67% 252
North East +4 227 £57,500 +21.05% 99
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 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 36 (2.71%) Apache
5 26 (1.96%) IIS
5 26 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (1.73%) Confluence
7 18 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
8 17 (1.28%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.38%) CMS
11 4 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) nginx
13 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.075%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.075%) WildFly
Applications
1 184 (13.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 6 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 5 (0.38%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.30%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.30%) Shopify
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Magento
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.075%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 542 (40.81%) Azure
2 331 (24.92%) Power Platform
3 311 (23.42%) AWS
4 120 (9.04%) GitHub
5 116 (8.73%) Azure AI
6 114 (8.58%) Serverless
7 112 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (7.15%) GCP
9 90 (6.78%) Amazon S3
10 83 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 81 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
12 58 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
13 56 (4.22%) SaaS
14 51 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
15 48 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 44 (3.31%) Power Automate
16 44 (3.31%) Snowflake
17 43 (3.24%) PowerApps
18 37 (2.79%) Entra ID
18 37 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.73%) Firewall
2 18 (1.36%) DNS
3 17 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.83%) DHCP
4 11 (0.83%) VPN
5 9 (0.68%) LAN
5 9 (0.68%) WAN
6 7 (0.53%) SAN
7 6 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.38%) VLAN
9 4 (0.30%) HTTP
9 4 (0.30%) 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%) Wireless
12 1 (0.075%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.075%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (23.87%) Power BI
2 165 (12.42%) SQL Server
3 132 (9.94%) Tableau
4 127 (9.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 127 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
5 91 (6.85%) MongoDB
6 70 (5.27%) MySQL
7 62 (4.67%) NoSQL
8 58 (4.37%) DynamoDB
9 53 (3.99%) Relational Database
10 52 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
11 45 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 41 (3.09%) BigQuery
12 41 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
13 38 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (2.79%) Data Lake
15 35 (2.64%) Metadata
16 28 (2.11%) Big Data
16 28 (2.11%) Spark SQL
16 28 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 100 (7.53%) Git
2 60 (4.52%) JIRA
3 29 (2.18%) GitLab
4 19 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 17 (1.28%) Claude Code
6 8 (0.60%) Postman
7 7 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.53%) JMeter
8 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.45%) 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 (0.30%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 462 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 241 (18.15%) Finance
3 229 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 95 (7.15%) Law
6 73 (5.50%) Retail
7 63 (4.74%) Manufacturing
8 53 (3.99%) Marketing
9 47 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (3.54%) Legal
10 23 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (1.73%) Games
11 22 (1.66%) Advertising
11 22 (1.66%) General Ledger
12 19 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.28%) Billing
14 16 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.05%) Banking
15 14 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 334 (25.15%) Developer
2 247 (18.60%) Analyst
3 228 (17.17%) Senior
4 218 (16.42%) Data Engineer
5 134 (10.09%) Data Analyst
6 107 (8.06%) Junior
7 104 (7.83%) Lead
8 102 (7.68%) .NET Developer
9 93 (7.00%) Junior Analyst
10 90 (6.78%) Junior Data Analyst
10 90 (6.78%) Software Engineer
11 65 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
12 58 (4.37%) Senior Developer
13 46 (3.46%) Applications Support
14 39 (2.94%) Databricks Engineer
14 39 (2.94%) Software Developer
15 38 (2.86%) Databricks Data Engineer
16 36 (2.71%) Consultant
17 34 (2.56%) Architect
17 34 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (14.46%) .NET
2 109 (8.21%) ASP.NET
3 96 (7.23%) .NET Core
4 95 (7.15%) ASP.NET Core
4 95 (7.15%) React
5 93 (7.00%) AngularJS
6 85 (6.40%) Node.js
7 84 (6.33%) PySpark
8 80 (6.02%) HTML
9 76 (5.72%) RESTful
10 74 (5.57%) Terraform
11 70 (5.27%) Vue
12 68 (5.12%) CSS
13 58 (4.37%) Entity Framework
14 54 (4.07%) REST
15 44 (3.31%) ASP.NET Web API
16 33 (2.48%) LINQ
17 31 (2.33%) Spring
18 30 (2.26%) XML
19 28 (2.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 42 (3.16%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 39 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 37 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.79%) Replication
6 36 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
10 18 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.20%) Hedge funds
13 14 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.05%) Driving Licence
14 13 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (0.90%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 62 (4.67%) Windows
2 52 (3.92%) Linux
3 43 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.83%) Android
5 9 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.45%) VMS
7 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.23%) Unix
7 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.075%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (28.39%) Business Intelligence
2 334 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
3 323 (24.32%) Agile
4 291 (21.91%) AI
4 291 (21.91%) Analytics
5 248 (18.67%) CI/CD
6 212 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (15.29%) DevOps
8 197 (14.83%) Decision-Making
8 197 (14.83%) Mentoring
9 191 (14.38%) ETL
10 188 (14.16%) Data Engineering
11 175 (13.18%) Data Modelling
12 173 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
13 167 (12.58%) Data Pipeline
14 150 (11.30%) Software Engineering
15 109 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 100 (7.53%) Validation
17 99 (7.45%) Data Analysis
18 96 (7.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 465 (35.02%) Python
2 225 (16.94%) C#
3 157 (11.82%) JavaScript
4 149 (11.22%) TypeScript
5 135 (10.17%) Java
6 44 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 32 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 31 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 28 (2.11%) PHP
10 26 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.81%) C++
11 24 (1.81%) Scala
12 22 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 17 (1.28%) R
15 15 (1.13%) Bash
16 8 (0.60%) Bicep
16 8 (0.60%) C
17 7 (0.53%) Go
18 6 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 119 (8.96%) Degree
2 104 (7.83%) Azure Certification
3 77 (5.80%) Security Cleared
4 65 (4.89%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.60%) ACCA
10 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.53%) CIMA
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.30%) MCSA
13 4 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (13.86%) Data Quality
2 68 (5.12%) QA
3 29 (2.18%) GDPR
4 17 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.90%) TickIT
6 11 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.38%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.075%) HL7
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 106 (7.98%) Docker
2 41 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.30%) vSphere
7 1 (0.075%) Firmware
7 1 (0.075%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.075%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.90%) Grafana
4 11 (0.83%) Ansible
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.23%) Control-M
6 3 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.23%) Kibana
7 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.075%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.075%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.075%) VxRail
Vendors
1 442 (33.28%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.85%) Databricks
3 63 (4.74%) Google
4 44 (3.31%) Oracle
5 31 (2.33%) VMware
6 25 (1.88%) SAP
7 19 (1.43%) Sage
8 16 (1.20%) Aderant
9 14 (1.05%) Informatica
10 12 (0.90%) Cisco
10 12 (0.90%) Splunk
11 11 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.68%) HubSpot
12 9 (0.68%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.60%) IBM
13 8 (0.60%) iManage
13 8 (0.60%) Intapp
14 7 (0.53%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.53%) Facebook