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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 24 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,177 797 1,996
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.02% 10.32% 11.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.80% 31.12% 40.02%
Number of salaries quoted 747 553 1,657
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,245 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% +2.49% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,108 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,400 £81,250 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 3,114 2,561 4,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.93% 33.17% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,289 1,322 4,216
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,999 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £67,804
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,698 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 0 561 £52,500 +5.00% 272
Yorkshire -2 492 £50,000 -4.76% 165
North East -8 124 £55,000 +4.76% 95
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 32 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.27%) Apache
6 12 (1.02%) IIS
7 8 (0.68%) Confluence
8 7 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.34%) JBoss
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.085%) CMS
12 1 (0.085%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.085%) WildFly
12 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 411 (34.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.17%) SPSS
6 1 (0.085%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 7 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.51%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.42%) Magento
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.25%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.085%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.085%) Primavera
7 1 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.085%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 628 (53.36%) Azure
2 467 (39.68%) Power Platform
3 294 (24.98%) Azure AI
4 209 (17.76%) AWS
5 78 (6.63%) Serverless
6 75 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (6.29%) GitHub
8 61 (5.18%) Amazon S3
9 58 (4.93%) GCP
10 53 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (3.57%) SaaS
12 41 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
14 39 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
15 38 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (2.97%) PowerApps
17 34 (2.89%) Power Automate
18 29 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
19 26 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.44%) Firewall
2 9 (0.76%) DNS
3 8 (0.68%) DMZ
3 8 (0.68%) VLAN
4 6 (0.51%) SAN
4 6 (0.51%) VPN
5 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.42%) STUN
5 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.42%) VoIP
6 3 (0.25%) DHCP
6 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.25%) LTE
6 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.17%) Internet
7 2 (0.17%) Network Security
8 1 (0.085%) HTTP
8 1 (0.085%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.085%) TCAP
8 1 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 460 (39.08%) Power BI
2 372 (31.61%) Tableau
3 140 (11.89%) SQL Server
4 83 (7.05%) NoSQL
5 74 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (4.67%) Data Mining
7 52 (4.42%) MongoDB
8 51 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (4.33%) MySQL
8 51 (4.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 42 (3.57%) DynamoDB
10 40 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
11 39 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
11 39 (3.31%) Relational Database
12 32 (2.72%) Data Lake
13 30 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 26 (2.21%) BigQuery
15 22 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (1.70%) Spark SQL
17 15 (1.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 79 (6.71%) Git
2 43 (3.65%) JIRA
3 16 (1.36%) Claude Code
4 15 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 12 (1.02%) GitLab
6 11 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.51%) NUnit
8 4 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.17%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) MSTest
10 2 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 501 (42.57%) Social Skills
2 191 (16.23%) Finance
3 183 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (5.27%) Public Sector
5 35 (2.97%) Retail
6 34 (2.89%) Marketing
7 33 (2.80%) Law
8 26 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 24 (2.04%) Legal
10 20 (1.70%) Advertising
11 16 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.68%) Banking
16 7 (0.59%) Games
16 7 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.51%) Automotive
18 5 (0.42%) Agriculture
18 5 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 446 (37.89%) Analyst
2 370 (31.44%) Data Analyst
3 293 (24.89%) Junior
4 286 (24.30%) Junior Analyst
4 286 (24.30%) Junior Data Analyst
5 260 (22.09%) Developer
6 189 (16.06%) Senior
7 122 (10.37%) Data Engineer
8 98 (8.33%) Lead
9 71 (6.03%) Software Engineer
10 61 (5.18%) Senior Developer
11 53 (4.50%) SQL Developer
12 51 (4.33%) .NET Developer
12 51 (4.33%) Trainee
12 51 (4.33%) Trainee Analyst
12 51 (4.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 50 (4.25%) Software Developer
14 45 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
15 43 (3.65%) Java Developer
16 39 (3.31%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (11.38%) .NET
2 78 (6.63%) RESTful
3 68 (5.78%) AngularJS
4 64 (5.44%) ASP.NET
5 60 (5.10%) .NET Core
6 57 (4.84%) HTML
7 56 (4.76%) CSS
8 54 (4.59%) Node.js
8 54 (4.59%) React
9 53 (4.50%) REST
10 44 (3.74%) PySpark
11 42 (3.57%) Vue
12 39 (3.31%) ASP.NET Core
13 38 (3.23%) .NET Framework
14 29 (2.46%) JSON
15 27 (2.29%) Spring
16 24 (2.04%) Entity Framework
17 23 (1.95%) Kafka
18 21 (1.78%) Middleware
18 21 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.16%) Cloud Native
2 24 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
3 21 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (1.78%) Management Information System
4 20 (1.70%) Onboarding
5 19 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.27%) Replication
8 15 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 11 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (0.93%) Operational Technology
10 11 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.76%) Driving Licence
13 8 (0.68%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.40%) Windows
2 32 (2.72%) Windows Server
3 28 (2.38%) Linux
4 12 (1.02%) Android
5 7 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.42%) Debian
8 2 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.085%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (40.19%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (31.10%) AI
3 220 (18.69%) Analytics
4 205 (17.42%) Agile
5 187 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
6 173 (14.70%) CI/CD
7 160 (13.59%) DevOps
8 128 (10.88%) Mentoring
9 119 (10.11%) ETL
10 116 (9.86%) Data Analysis
11 113 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (9.26%) Data Modelling
13 106 (9.01%) Software Engineering
14 101 (8.58%) Data Engineering
15 87 (7.39%) Data Pipeline
16 86 (7.31%) Decision-Making
17 81 (6.88%) Data Analytics
18 80 (6.80%) Full-Stack Development
19 75 (6.37%) Project Management
20 69 (5.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 563 (47.83%) Python
2 148 (12.57%) C#
3 144 (12.23%) Java
4 94 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 67 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 35 (2.97%) T-SQL
7 26 (2.21%) Kotlin
8 23 (1.95%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (1.44%) PHP
11 15 (1.27%) Bash
12 14 (1.19%) R
13 12 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.02%) Scala
13 12 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.85%) C++
15 8 (0.68%) VBA
16 6 (0.51%) Bicep
17 4 (0.34%) Go
18 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 300 (25.49%) Azure Certification
2 88 (7.48%) Degree
3 45 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 35 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 26 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.68%) HND
9 6 (0.51%) A+ Certification
9 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.51%) HNC
9 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.34%) MCSA
10 4 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.25%) IIBA
11 3 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.14%) QA
3 25 (2.12%) GDPR
4 15 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.02%) TickIT
6 7 (0.59%) SLA
7 6 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.17%) HL7
9 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.085%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.085%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 66 (5.61%) Docker
2 36 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.085%) Firmware
7 1 (0.085%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 58 (4.93%) Terraform
2 33 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.93%) Ansible
4 5 (0.42%) Grafana
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.25%) Rancher
6 2 (0.17%) Control-M
6 2 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 541 (45.96%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.01%) Databricks
3 35 (2.97%) Google
4 33 (2.80%) Oracle
5 16 (1.36%) VMware
6 14 (1.19%) HubSpot
7 11 (0.93%) SAP
8 10 (0.85%) Citrix
8 10 (0.85%) Cognos
8 10 (0.85%) Intapp
9 9 (0.76%) Aderant
9 9 (0.76%) iManage
10 8 (0.68%) Cisco
10 8 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.59%) Sage
12 6 (0.51%) Adobe
12 6 (0.51%) IBM
12 6 (0.51%) Northgate
12 6 (0.51%) Splunk
13 5 (0.42%) Xamarin