SQL Jobs in the North of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 844 2,007 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.35% 10.70% 14.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.46% 38.81% 41.77%
Number of salaries quoted 602 1,557 1,448
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,759 £77,513
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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 3,074 5,171 4,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.14% 27.58% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,716 4,025 3,285
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,113 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £84,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North of England

SQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the North of England.

Salary trend for SQL in the North of England

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 -32 486 £50,000 -4.76% 429
Yorkshire -18 297 £57,500 +27.08% 261
North East -12 61 £50,000 -4.76% 79
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (8.77%) Confluence
2 31 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (2.37%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.90%) Apache
6 13 (1.54%) CMS
7 12 (1.42%) IIS
7 12 (1.42%) SAS
8 11 (1.30%) Umbraco
9 8 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 47 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (2.84%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.59%) Sage 200
3 5 (0.59%) Sage CRM
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.12%) Magento
6 1 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 434 (51.42%) Azure
2 277 (32.82%) AWS
3 125 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 103 (12.20%) GCP
5 47 (5.57%) SaaS
6 44 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (4.15%) GitHub
8 31 (3.67%) Entra ID
9 30 (3.55%) Serverless
10 27 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (2.61%) Power Automate
14 21 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (2.25%) PowerApps
16 17 (2.01%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.90%) Snowflake
18 11 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
19 10 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.15%) Firewall
2 18 (2.13%) DNS
3 17 (2.01%) Wireless
4 15 (1.78%) WAN
5 14 (1.66%) SAN
6 12 (1.42%) LAN
7 11 (1.30%) DHCP
7 11 (1.30%) Intranet
8 10 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (1.18%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.07%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.95%) VLAN
11 7 (0.83%) Multicast
11 7 (0.83%) WPA
12 6 (0.71%) NAS
12 6 (0.71%) VPN
13 5 (0.59%) BGP
13 5 (0.59%) MPLS
13 5 (0.59%) OSPF
14 4 (0.47%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (34.72%) SQL Server
2 113 (13.39%) Power BI
3 63 (7.46%) NoSQL
4 52 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (6.16%) MySQL
5 46 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.50%) MongoDB
7 30 (3.55%) Data Lake
8 27 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (3.08%) Tableau
10 24 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (2.13%) Big Data
13 17 (2.01%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 13 (1.54%) Metadata
15 10 (1.18%) Spark SQL
16 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.07%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 163 (19.31%) JIRA
2 121 (14.34%) Selenium
3 120 (14.22%) GitLab
3 120 (14.22%) Maven
4 119 (14.10%) Bitbucket
4 119 (14.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 118 (13.98%) SonarQube
6 117 (13.86%) Cucumber
7 62 (7.35%) Git
8 10 (1.18%) Jenkins
9 8 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.83%) JUnit
10 7 (0.83%) MLflow
10 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.59%) ClearCase
11 5 (0.59%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.59%) JMeter
11 5 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.47%) Cypress.io
General
1 246 (29.15%) Finance
2 243 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 154 (18.25%) Banking
4 129 (15.28%) Retail
5 124 (14.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 75 (8.89%) Investment Banking
7 72 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (8.53%) Corporate Banking
8 49 (5.81%) Law
9 48 (5.69%) Manufacturing
10 32 (3.79%) Public Sector
11 19 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (2.25%) Marketing
12 14 (1.66%) Advertising
13 12 (1.42%) Back Office
13 12 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.07%) Legal
14 9 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 217 (25.71%) Developer
2 167 (19.79%) Software Engineer
3 128 (15.17%) Analyst
4 105 (12.44%) Senior
5 63 (7.46%) Data Engineer
6 61 (7.23%) Lead
7 54 (6.40%) SQL Developer
8 50 (5.92%) Support Analyst
9 48 (5.69%) IT Support
10 42 (4.98%) Data Analyst
11 34 (4.03%) IT Analyst
12 33 (3.91%) .NET Developer
13 32 (3.79%) IT Support Analyst
14 31 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
15 30 (3.55%) Architect
16 29 (3.44%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.44%) Software Developer
17 28 (3.32%) Support Specialist
18 27 (3.20%) C# Developer
19 26 (3.08%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (20.73%) HTML
2 158 (18.72%) CSS
3 152 (18.01%) React
4 129 (15.28%) Kafka
5 128 (15.17%) .NET
5 128 (15.17%) Spring Boot
6 127 (15.05%) Spring
7 115 (13.63%) Redux
8 114 (13.51%) JPA
9 105 (12.44%) RESTful
10 93 (11.02%) REST
11 87 (10.31%) HTML5
12 77 (9.12%) Jest
12 77 (9.12%) Sass
13 76 (9.00%) CSS3
14 47 (5.57%) Hibernate
15 44 (5.21%) ASP.NET
16 36 (4.27%) Node.js
17 32 (3.79%) .NET Core
18 30 (3.55%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 158 (18.72%) Product Ownership
2 114 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
3 28 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 26 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.78%) EPoS
6 15 (1.78%) NHS
7 14 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.54%) CCTV
8 13 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.30%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.18%) Clustering
11 9 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.95%) Replication
13 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 7 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (7.58%) Windows
2 52 (6.16%) Linux
3 35 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.01%) Windows 10
5 14 (1.66%) Unix
6 11 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (1.18%) Mac OS X
8 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (36.26%) Agile
2 224 (26.54%) CI/CD
3 223 (26.42%) DevOps
4 204 (24.17%) Software Engineering
5 191 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (20.73%) Microservices
7 161 (19.08%) Mentoring
8 151 (17.89%) Containerisation
9 148 (17.54%) Test Automation
10 143 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 140 (16.59%) SDLC
12 138 (16.35%) Migration
13 134 (15.88%) Business Intelligence
14 129 (15.28%) Performance Optimisation
15 116 (13.74%) Front End Development
16 108 (12.80%) Analytics
17 101 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 94 (11.14%) User Experience
19 85 (10.07%) ETL
20 76 (9.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 226 (26.78%) JavaScript
2 202 (23.93%) Python
3 201 (23.82%) Java
4 163 (19.31%) C#
5 126 (14.93%) TypeScript
6 72 (8.53%) T-SQL
7 44 (5.21%) PHP
8 34 (4.03%) R
9 32 (3.79%) PowerShell
10 22 (2.61%) C++
11 18 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (2.01%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.78%) C
14 13 (1.54%) Dart
14 13 (1.54%) MATLAB
14 13 (1.54%) Ruby
14 13 (1.54%) Rust
15 11 (1.30%) Bash
16 10 (1.18%) VB.NET
17 9 (1.07%) Go
Qualifications
1 130 (15.40%) Degree
2 49 (5.81%) DBS Check
3 47 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 30 (3.55%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (3.55%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.78%) MCSA
8 13 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.30%) PhD
10 10 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.18%) CCNP
11 9 (1.07%) MCSE
12 5 (0.59%) HNC
12 5 (0.59%) HND
12 5 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.47%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (16.11%) QA
2 91 (10.78%) Accessibility
3 48 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.03%) GDPR
5 25 (2.96%) SLA
6 20 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (2.13%) NIST
8 11 (1.30%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.30%) WCAG
9 10 (1.18%) ISO 9001
10 9 (1.07%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.59%) HL7
13 4 (0.47%) Basel II
13 4 (0.47%) Basel III
13 4 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.47%) IFRS
13 4 (0.47%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.36%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 177 (20.97%) Docker
2 49 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.61%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.36%) HDFS
7 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.36%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) NFS
8 1 (0.12%) SRDF
8 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 167 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.50%) Terraform
3 16 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.71%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.59%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.59%) Istio
5 5 (0.59%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.59%) SCCM
5 5 (0.59%) WSUS
6 4 (0.47%) PaperCut
6 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.36%) Ansible
7 3 (0.36%) Kibana
7 3 (0.36%) logstash
7 3 (0.36%) Oozie
7 3 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.24%) Grafana
8 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 187 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 112 (13.27%) Solace
3 50 (5.92%) Databricks
4 43 (5.09%) Oracle
5 31 (3.67%) Google
6 27 (3.20%) VMware
7 22 (2.61%) Cisco
8 15 (1.78%) Informatica
9 12 (1.42%) SAP
10 11 (1.30%) HP
11 10 (1.18%) IBM
12 8 (0.95%) Talend
13 6 (0.71%) Facebook
13 6 (0.71%) Sage
13 6 (0.71%) Veeam
14 5 (0.59%) Draytek
14 5 (0.59%) Meraki
14 5 (0.59%) MobileIron
14 5 (0.59%) Ubiquiti
14 5 (0.59%) UiPath