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 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,320 1,339 3,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.37% 15.78% 17.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.67% 40.95% 41.47%
Number of salaries quoted 685 963 1,810
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,520
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,542 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

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 3,600 3,270 7,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.56% 38.53% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 2,429 4,700
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,248
90th Percentile £79,338 £82,548 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 8 November 2024.

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 8 November 2024. 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 -6 735 £50,182 -8.76% 225
Yorkshire -8 392 £47,500 -5.00% 114
North East -1 193 £40,000 -20.00% 58
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 55 (4.17%) SAS
2 48 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.20%) Umbraco
4 27 (2.05%) CMS
5 23 (1.74%) Apache Spark
6 15 (1.14%) Confluence
7 11 (0.83%) Apache
7 11 (0.83%) IIS
8 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.76%) Mule
9 9 (0.68%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.30%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.30%) nginx
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.15%) Appian
12 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.15%) WildFly
13 1 (0.076%) Luigi
Applications
1 72 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 31 (2.35%) Photoshop
3 29 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.076%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 77 (5.83%) NEC Housing
2 13 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.61%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.38%) GoldMine
5 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.15%) iTrent
8 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.076%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.076%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 428 (32.42%) Azure
2 184 (13.94%) Power Platform
3 178 (13.48%) AWS
4 80 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 50 (3.79%) SaaS
7 46 (3.48%) GCP
8 42 (3.18%) Entra ID
9 38 (2.88%) GitHub
10 36 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 28 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (1.97%) Serverless
14 19 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.14%) Azure Functions
15 15 (1.14%) Snowflake
16 13 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (0.91%) dbt
17 12 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.82%) Intranet
2 23 (1.74%) Firewall
3 17 (1.29%) SAN
4 15 (1.14%) DNS
5 10 (0.76%) Network Security
6 9 (0.68%) VPN
7 8 (0.61%) Internet
8 7 (0.53%) DSL
9 6 (0.45%) BGP
9 6 (0.45%) MPLS
9 6 (0.45%) OSPF
10 5 (0.38%) DAB
11 4 (0.30%) DHCP
11 4 (0.30%) SSL
11 4 (0.30%) WAN
12 3 (0.23%) LAN
13 2 (0.15%) HTTP
13 2 (0.15%) Skype
13 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (14.92%) SQL Server
2 175 (13.26%) Power BI
3 110 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 61 (4.62%) MySQL
6 60 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 55 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 55 (4.17%) Tableau
8 50 (3.79%) Data Lake
9 48 (3.64%) MongoDB
10 45 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
11 41 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 35 (2.65%) Relational Database
13 23 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
14 22 (1.67%) Oracle Database
15 21 (1.59%) Power Query
16 20 (1.52%) Metadata
17 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.29%) Big Data
19 13 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 67 (5.08%) Git
2 45 (3.41%) JIRA
3 31 (2.35%) Dreamweaver
4 21 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.29%) Selenium
6 13 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.91%) Postman
8 9 (0.68%) JMeter
8 9 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.68%) SpecFlow
9 8 (0.61%) Maven
9 8 (0.61%) RStudio
10 7 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
10 7 (0.53%) Subversion
10 7 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.45%) GitLab
11 6 (0.45%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.30%) Robot Framework
General
1 401 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 318 (24.09%) Finance
3 245 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 106 (8.03%) Retail
6 98 (7.42%) Legal
7 79 (5.98%) Local Government
8 76 (5.76%) Police
9 66 (5.00%) Banking
10 50 (3.79%) Social Housing
11 49 (3.71%) Manufacturing
12 41 (3.11%) Law
13 40 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
14 33 (2.50%) Marketing
15 29 (2.20%) Aerospace
16 26 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.21%) Automotive
18 15 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 11 (0.83%) Advertising
20 9 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 317 (24.02%) Developer
2 282 (21.36%) Senior
3 263 (19.92%) Analyst
4 115 (8.71%) Consultant
5 110 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 104 (7.88%) Software Engineer
7 94 (7.12%) Lead
8 90 (6.82%) .NET Developer
9 73 (5.53%) Senior Analyst
10 69 (5.23%) Implementation Consultant
11 67 (5.08%) Business Analyst
12 58 (4.39%) IT Analyst
13 56 (4.24%) Data Scientist
13 56 (4.24%) Software Developer
14 54 (4.09%) Business IT Analyst
14 54 (4.09%) IT Business Analyst
15 46 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
16 44 (3.33%) Senior Developer
17 40 (3.03%) C# Developer
18 37 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (20.83%) .NET
2 130 (9.85%) HTML
3 89 (6.74%) CSS
4 80 (6.06%) React
5 75 (5.68%) .NET Core
6 73 (5.53%) ASP.NET
7 63 (4.77%) .NET Framework
8 62 (4.70%) AngularJS
9 55 (4.17%) Web Services
10 53 (4.02%) RESTful
11 52 (3.94%) REST
12 47 (3.56%) Node.js
13 42 (3.18%) jQuery
14 38 (2.88%) XML
15 37 (2.80%) Blazor
16 35 (2.65%) Vue
17 31 (2.35%) JSON
18 30 (2.27%) HTML5
19 25 (1.89%) Kafka
20 24 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (5.91%) Management Information System
2 48 (3.64%) Housing Association
3 34 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.35%) NHS
6 25 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 13 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 13 (0.98%) Driving Licence
11 12 (0.91%) Data Centre
11 12 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.83%) Reinsurance
13 10 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
14 9 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (0.68%) FMCG
14 9 (0.68%) Life Science
14 9 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (7.20%) Windows
2 74 (5.61%) Linux
3 70 (5.30%) Unix
4 36 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.36%) Solaris
6 12 (0.91%) Android
6 12 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.23%) VMS
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Debian
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.076%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (26.14%) Agile
2 250 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
3 206 (15.61%) Business Intelligence
4 184 (13.94%) Analytics
5 174 (13.18%) Software Engineering
6 160 (12.12%) DevOps
7 145 (10.98%) Computer Science
7 145 (10.98%) ETL
8 144 (10.91%) Mentoring
9 143 (10.83%) Coaching
9 143 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 129 (9.77%) Data Modelling
11 109 (8.26%) Data Science
12 101 (7.65%) CI/CD
12 101 (7.65%) Customer Service
13 93 (7.05%) Data Management
14 90 (6.82%) Data Engineering
14 90 (6.82%) Scrum
15 89 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 88 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 289 (21.89%) Python
2 286 (21.67%) C#
3 187 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 81 (6.14%) Java
5 76 (5.76%) T-SQL
6 60 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 59 (4.47%) R
8 54 (4.09%) TypeScript
9 47 (3.56%) PL/SQL
10 46 (3.48%) VB
11 34 (2.58%) PHP
12 32 (2.42%) C++
13 24 (1.82%) VBA
14 20 (1.52%) Bash
14 20 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (1.14%) Scala
15 15 (1.14%) VB.NET
16 10 (0.76%) COBOL
17 9 (0.68%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 8 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 300 (22.73%) Degree
2 98 (7.42%) DBS Check
3 62 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (3.71%) Security Cleared
5 40 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.61%) CCNP
11 7 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.45%) CIPD
12 6 (0.45%) JNCIS
13 5 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.38%) MBA
13 5 (0.38%) MCITP
14 3 (0.23%) CBAP
14 3 (0.23%) CCNA
14 3 (0.23%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (8.48%) Accessibility
2 70 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 64 (4.85%) QA
4 43 (3.26%) GDPR
5 21 (1.59%) WCAG
6 18 (1.36%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.83%) SLA
8 2 (0.15%) EMIR
8 2 (0.15%) HL7
8 2 (0.15%) IFRS
8 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.15%) MiFID
8 2 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.076%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 74 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.58%) Docker
3 24 (1.82%) RACF
4 19 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.45%) vSphere
8 5 (0.38%) Firmware
9 4 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.076%) XenApp
11 1 (0.076%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (2.80%) Terraform
2 29 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.06%) Ansible
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.30%) Grafana
6 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.23%) WSUS
7 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Puppet
8 1 (0.076%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.076%) Packer
8 1 (0.076%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.076%) SCCM
8 1 (0.076%) SCOM
8 1 (0.076%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.076%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.076%) yum
Vendors
1 268 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 121 (9.17%) Oracle
3 77 (5.83%) NEC
4 51 (3.86%) Citrix
5 46 (3.48%) Google
6 43 (3.26%) Databricks
7 36 (2.73%) IFS
8 28 (2.12%) VMware
9 25 (1.89%) Informatica
10 24 (1.82%) CyberArk
11 22 (1.67%) HP
12 18 (1.36%) SAP
13 16 (1.21%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.91%) Sage
15 9 (0.68%) Epicor
15 9 (0.68%) Micro Focus
16 7 (0.53%) Adobe
17 6 (0.45%) BT
17 6 (0.45%) Cisco
17 6 (0.45%) webMethods