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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 25 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,213 820 2,030
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.04% 10.32% 11.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.58% 31.26% 39.71%
Number of salaries quoted 794 576 1,668
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,688 £66,034
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £84,120
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%

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 3,228 2,623 5,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.07% 33.00% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 1,373 4,280
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,999 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,080 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +1 591 £55,000 +10.00% 257
Yorkshire -4 484 £50,750 -6.41% 113
North East -4 138 £53,750 - 62
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 37 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.57%) Apache
6 13 (1.07%) IIS
7 10 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.66%) Confluence
9 6 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.16%) JBoss
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.082%) CMS
12 1 (0.082%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.082%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.082%) WildFly
12 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 397 (32.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) SPSS
7 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.74%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 8 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.49%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.41%) Magento
5 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.25%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.082%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.082%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.082%) Primavera
8 1 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 630 (51.94%) Azure
2 461 (38.00%) Power Platform
3 281 (23.17%) Azure AI
4 222 (18.30%) AWS
5 81 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (6.68%) Serverless
6 77 (6.35%) GitHub
7 65 (5.36%) Amazon S3
8 59 (4.86%) GCP
9 53 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
11 43 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 43 (3.54%) SaaS
12 40 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (3.05%) PowerApps
15 36 (2.97%) Power Automate
16 28 (2.31%) AWS Step Functions
17 27 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.65%) Firewall
2 10 (0.82%) DNS
3 8 (0.66%) DMZ
3 8 (0.66%) VLAN
4 7 (0.58%) SAN
4 7 (0.58%) VPN
5 5 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.41%) STUN
5 5 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.41%) VoIP
6 4 (0.33%) DHCP
7 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.25%) LTE
7 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.16%) Internet
8 2 (0.16%) Network Security
9 1 (0.082%) HTTP
9 1 (0.082%) SMTP
9 1 (0.082%) TCAP
9 1 (0.082%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (37.43%) Power BI
2 359 (29.60%) Tableau
3 146 (12.04%) SQL Server
4 86 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
5 84 (6.92%) NoSQL
6 59 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 54 (4.45%) Data Mining
7 54 (4.45%) MongoDB
8 53 (4.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 49 (4.04%) MySQL
10 46 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
11 42 (3.46%) DynamoDB
12 41 (3.38%) Relational Database
13 38 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
14 36 (2.97%) Data Lake
15 31 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 27 (2.23%) BigQuery
17 25 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (1.65%) Spark SQL
19 19 (1.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 79 (6.51%) Git
2 44 (3.63%) JIRA
3 16 (1.32%) Claude Code
4 15 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.15%) GitLab
6 11 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.49%) NUnit
8 5 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.25%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.16%) MLflow
11 2 (0.16%) MSTest
11 2 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.16%) Postman
11 2 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 500 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 201 (16.57%) Finance
3 197 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (5.11%) Public Sector
5 37 (3.05%) Marketing
5 37 (3.05%) Retail
6 36 (2.97%) Law
7 28 (2.31%) Manufacturing
8 25 (2.06%) Legal
9 22 (1.81%) Advertising
10 17 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.82%) Games
14 9 (0.74%) Banking
14 9 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.49%) Automotive
16 5 (0.41%) Agriculture
16 5 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 435 (35.86%) Analyst
2 356 (29.35%) Data Analyst
3 277 (22.84%) Junior
4 272 (22.42%) Developer
5 271 (22.34%) Junior Analyst
5 271 (22.34%) Junior Data Analyst
6 200 (16.49%) Senior
7 138 (11.38%) Data Engineer
8 101 (8.33%) Lead
9 74 (6.10%) Software Engineer
10 64 (5.28%) Senior Developer
11 57 (4.70%) .NET Developer
12 53 (4.37%) SQL Developer
13 50 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
13 50 (4.12%) Trainee
13 50 (4.12%) Trainee Analyst
13 50 (4.12%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 48 (3.96%) Software Developer
15 44 (3.63%) Java Developer
16 40 (3.30%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (11.46%) .NET
2 75 (6.18%) RESTful
3 70 (5.77%) AngularJS
4 65 (5.36%) ASP.NET
5 62 (5.11%) .NET Core
5 62 (5.11%) HTML
6 61 (5.03%) CSS
7 60 (4.95%) Node.js
8 59 (4.86%) React
9 52 (4.29%) REST
10 48 (3.96%) PySpark
11 45 (3.71%) Vue
12 42 (3.46%) ASP.NET Core
13 38 (3.13%) .NET Framework
14 29 (2.39%) JSON
15 27 (2.23%) Entity Framework
16 25 (2.06%) Spring
17 23 (1.90%) Kafka
18 21 (1.73%) Spring Boot
19 19 (1.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 24 (1.98%) Data Structures
2 24 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
3 22 (1.81%) Management Information System
3 22 (1.81%) Onboarding
4 21 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.32%) Replication
7 15 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (0.99%) Operational Technology
9 11 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 11 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 11 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 9 (0.74%) Driving Licence
10 9 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.71%) Windows
2 36 (2.97%) Windows Server
3 27 (2.23%) Linux
4 13 (1.07%) Android
5 7 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.41%) Debian
8 3 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.082%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (38.91%) Business Intelligence
2 370 (30.50%) AI
3 242 (19.95%) Analytics
4 218 (17.97%) Agile
5 205 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 182 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 169 (13.93%) DevOps
8 137 (11.29%) Mentoring
9 128 (10.55%) ETL
10 126 (10.39%) Data Modelling
11 124 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (9.89%) Data Analysis
13 117 (9.65%) Data Engineering
14 113 (9.32%) Software Engineering
15 105 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
16 102 (8.41%) Decision-Making
17 91 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
18 83 (6.84%) Data Analytics
19 74 (6.10%) Project Management
20 72 (5.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 574 (47.32%) Python
2 158 (13.03%) C#
3 142 (11.71%) Java
4 102 (8.41%) JavaScript
5 74 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 37 (3.05%) T-SQL
7 27 (2.23%) Kotlin
8 24 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.32%) Bash
10 16 (1.32%) PHP
11 15 (1.24%) R
12 12 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.99%) Scala
12 12 (0.99%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.74%) C++
14 8 (0.66%) VBA
15 7 (0.58%) Bicep
16 3 (0.25%) Go
16 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 286 (23.58%) Azure Certification
2 89 (7.34%) Degree
3 53 (4.37%) Security Cleared
4 43 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.66%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.66%) HND
8 6 (0.49%) A+ Certification
8 6 (0.49%) HNC
8 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.33%) MCSA
9 4 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
9 4 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.25%) IIBA
10 3 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.30%) QA
3 25 (2.06%) GDPR
4 14 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.99%) TickIT
6 7 (0.58%) SLA
7 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.082%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.082%) IFRS
10 1 (0.082%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.082%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.082%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (5.77%) Docker
2 38 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.25%) vSphere
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.082%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.082%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.082%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (5.03%) Terraform
2 35 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.91%) Ansible
4 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.41%) Grafana
6 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.16%) Control-M
7 2 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
7 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.16%) Rancher
8 1 (0.082%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 548 (45.18%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.19%) Databricks
3 38 (3.13%) Google
4 34 (2.80%) Oracle
5 18 (1.48%) VMware
6 15 (1.24%) HubSpot
7 11 (0.91%) Citrix
7 11 (0.91%) Cognos
7 11 (0.91%) SAP
8 10 (0.82%) Intapp
9 9 (0.74%) Aderant
9 9 (0.74%) iManage
10 8 (0.66%) Cisco
10 8 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.58%) Adobe
11 7 (0.58%) IBM
11 7 (0.58%) Sage
12 6 (0.49%) Northgate
12 6 (0.49%) Splunk
13 5 (0.41%) Xamarin