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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 27 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,338 846 2,011
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.42% 8.98% 11.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.66% 31.19% 39.59%
Number of salaries quoted 927 598 1,566
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,563 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,759
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3,461 2,712 5,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.61% 28.77% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 1,451 4,036
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +10 656 £52,500 +5.00% 215
Yorkshire +3 480 £52,130 -9.34% 110
North East -1 202 £55,000 +8.91% 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 46 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.02%) Apache
5 23 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.64%) IIS
7 20 (1.49%) Confluence
8 12 (0.90%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.15%) CICS
12 2 (0.15%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) JBoss
12 2 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 361 (26.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 8 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) Magento
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.075%) Primavera
7 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 688 (51.42%) Azure
2 464 (34.68%) Power Platform
3 272 (20.33%) AWS
4 267 (19.96%) Azure AI
5 99 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (6.88%) GitHub
7 87 (6.50%) Serverless
8 78 (5.83%) GCP
9 71 (5.31%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
12 54 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 44 (3.29%) PowerApps
15 41 (3.06%) Power Automate
16 39 (2.91%) SaaS
17 38 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
19 32 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
20 27 (2.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.02%) Firewall
2 18 (1.35%) DNS
3 14 (1.05%) VPN
4 12 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.82%) DHCP
6 8 (0.60%) VLAN
7 7 (0.52%) SAN
8 5 (0.37%) DMZ
8 5 (0.37%) Internet
8 5 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.37%) STUN
8 5 (0.37%) VoIP
9 4 (0.30%) LAN
9 4 (0.30%) WAN
10 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.22%) LTE
10 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.15%) Network Security
12 1 (0.075%) HTTP
12 1 (0.075%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (34.16%) Power BI
2 319 (23.84%) Tableau
3 152 (11.36%) SQL Server
4 119 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 105 (7.85%) Data Warehouse
6 102 (7.62%) MongoDB
7 80 (5.98%) NoSQL
8 63 (4.71%) MySQL
9 52 (3.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 48 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
11 45 (3.36%) DynamoDB
12 43 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
13 40 (2.99%) Relational Database
14 35 (2.62%) Data Mining
15 33 (2.47%) Data Lake
16 32 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 29 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 28 (2.09%) BigQuery
19 26 (1.94%) Big Data
20 23 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 86 (6.43%) Git
2 53 (3.96%) JIRA
3 19 (1.42%) Claude Code
3 19 (1.42%) GitLab
4 16 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.45%) NUnit
8 5 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.30%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.22%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.22%) MLflow
10 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.22%) Postman
10 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 509 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 223 (16.67%) Finance
3 204 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 66 (4.93%) Law
6 50 (3.74%) Retail
7 42 (3.14%) Marketing
8 39 (2.91%) Legal
9 36 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 27 (2.02%) Advertising
11 25 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.20%) Games
14 15 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.67%) Banking
16 9 (0.67%) General Ledger
16 9 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.60%) Billing
17 8 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 392 (29.30%) Analyst
2 329 (24.59%) Developer
3 309 (23.09%) Data Analyst
4 249 (18.61%) Junior
5 241 (18.01%) Junior Analyst
5 241 (18.01%) Junior Data Analyst
6 200 (14.95%) Senior
7 168 (12.56%) Data Engineer
8 107 (8.00%) Lead
9 102 (7.62%) .NET Developer
10 93 (6.95%) Software Engineer
11 60 (4.48%) Senior Developer
12 51 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
13 50 (3.74%) SQL Developer
14 43 (3.21%) Java Developer
15 41 (3.06%) Applications Support
16 38 (2.84%) DBA
16 38 (2.84%) Software Developer
17 36 (2.69%) Administrator
18 35 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (13.53%) .NET
2 106 (7.92%) ASP.NET
3 101 (7.55%) AngularJS
4 98 (7.32%) RESTful
5 97 (7.25%) .NET Core
5 97 (7.25%) React
6 96 (7.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 81 (6.05%) HTML
7 81 (6.05%) Node.js
8 76 (5.68%) CSS
9 74 (5.53%) Vue
10 61 (4.56%) PySpark
11 58 (4.33%) Entity Framework
12 55 (4.11%) REST
13 44 (3.29%) ASP.NET Web API
14 33 (2.47%) LINQ
14 33 (2.47%) Spring
15 30 (2.24%) .NET Framework
15 30 (2.24%) Spring Boot
16 28 (2.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 55 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 35 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (2.54%) Data Structures
4 28 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
5 24 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 22 (1.64%) Replication
7 21 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.20%) Hedge funds
11 14 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.97%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.90%) Product Ownership
14 11 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.11%) Windows
2 39 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.47%) Linux
4 16 (1.20%) Android
5 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.37%) Debian
6 5 (0.37%) VMS
7 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (36.02%) Business Intelligence
2 382 (28.55%) AI
3 266 (19.88%) Agile
4 264 (19.73%) Analytics
5 259 (19.36%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (15.77%) CI/CD
7 184 (13.75%) DevOps
8 165 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 155 (11.58%) Mentoring
10 149 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 149 (11.14%) Data Modelling
11 144 (10.76%) Software Engineering
12 134 (10.01%) Data Pipeline
13 133 (9.94%) Data Engineering
13 133 (9.94%) Decision-Making
14 129 (9.64%) ETL
15 115 (8.59%) Data Analysis
16 87 (6.50%) Test Automation
17 82 (6.13%) Machine Learning
17 82 (6.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 583 (43.57%) Python
2 220 (16.44%) C#
3 140 (10.46%) Java
4 132 (9.87%) TypeScript
5 130 (9.72%) JavaScript
6 35 (2.62%) T-SQL
7 28 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 25 (1.87%) Kotlin
8 25 (1.87%) PHP
9 23 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.35%) R
10 18 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.27%) Scala
12 16 (1.20%) Bash
13 12 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.60%) C++
15 7 (0.52%) Bicep
16 6 (0.45%) VBA
17 5 (0.37%) Go
18 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 258 (19.28%) Azure Certification
2 97 (7.25%) Degree
3 60 (4.48%) Security Cleared
4 47 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (0.97%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.45%) ACCA
10 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.37%) CIMA
11 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.30%) HND
11 4 (0.30%) MCSA
11 4 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.22%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.15%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (10.01%) Data Quality
2 48 (3.59%) QA
3 24 (1.79%) GDPR
4 15 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.90%) TickIT
6 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.52%) SLA
8 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.15%) PMO
11 1 (0.075%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.075%) HL7
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.075%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 84 (6.28%) Docker
2 33 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) vSphere
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.075%) Firmware
9 1 (0.075%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.075%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (4.78%) Terraform
2 51 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.82%) Ansible
4 8 (0.60%) Grafana
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.22%) Control-M
7 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.15%) Kibana
8 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.075%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.075%) Rancher
9 1 (0.075%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.075%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 580 (43.35%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.50%) Databricks
3 47 (3.51%) Google
4 35 (2.62%) Oracle
5 28 (2.09%) VMware
6 16 (1.20%) HubSpot
7 13 (0.97%) SAP
8 11 (0.82%) Cognos
8 11 (0.82%) Splunk
9 10 (0.75%) Sage
10 9 (0.67%) Aderant
10 9 (0.67%) iManage
10 9 (0.67%) Intapp
10 9 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.60%) Facebook
11 8 (0.60%) IBM
12 7 (0.52%) Adobe
12 7 (0.52%) Informatica
12 7 (0.52%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.45%) MuleSoft