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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 9
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,092 745 1,995
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.94% 10.36% 11.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.86% 32.73% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 642 583 1,677
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £66,500
90th Percentile £83,400 £82,500 £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 2,810 2,276 4,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.27% 31.65% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,985 1,498 4,136
10th Percentile £33,100 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,954 £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 4 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 4 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 +2 493 £53,250 +6.50% 226
Yorkshire 0 493 £50,000 - 117
North East -14 106 £45,000 -10.00% 50
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 26 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.92%) Apache
5 8 (0.73%) Confluence
6 6 (0.55%) IIS
7 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.092%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.092%) WildFly
10 1 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 438 (40.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 6 (0.55%) NEC Housing
2 5 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.46%) Magento
2 5 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.27%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.27%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.092%) Primavera
6 1 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 602 (55.13%) Azure
2 465 (42.58%) Power Platform
3 322 (29.49%) Azure AI
4 178 (16.30%) AWS
5 68 (6.23%) Serverless
6 64 (5.86%) GitHub
7 55 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 51 (4.67%) GCP
10 50 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (3.66%) SaaS
13 34 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
16 31 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
18 27 (2.47%) PowerApps
19 26 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
19 26 (2.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.28%) Firewall
2 10 (0.92%) DNS
3 8 (0.73%) DMZ
3 8 (0.73%) VPN
4 7 (0.64%) VoIP
5 6 (0.55%) VLAN
6 5 (0.46%) DHCP
6 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.46%) STUN
6 5 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.27%) SAN
7 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.18%) HTTP
8 2 (0.18%) Intranet
8 2 (0.18%) Network Security
9 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.092%) SMTP
9 1 (0.092%) TCAP
9 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 460 (42.12%) Power BI
2 408 (37.36%) Tableau
3 116 (10.62%) SQL Server
4 82 (7.51%) NoSQL
5 69 (6.32%) Data Mining
6 64 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (3.66%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 37 (3.39%) MySQL
10 36 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
11 32 (2.93%) Relational Database
12 31 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
12 31 (2.84%) Data Lake
13 28 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (2.56%) MongoDB
14 22 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.92%) BigQuery
16 18 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.65%) Spark SQL
17 14 (1.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 62 (5.68%) Git
2 41 (3.75%) JIRA
3 14 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.10%) Claude Code
5 10 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 10 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.73%) GitLab
7 6 (0.55%) NUnit
8 4 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.27%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.18%) MLflow
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.18%) Postman
10 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.092%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.092%) Maven
11 1 (0.092%) MSTest
11 1 (0.092%) Selenium
11 1 (0.092%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 509 (46.61%) Social Skills
2 177 (16.21%) Finance
3 173 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (4.30%) Public Sector
5 35 (3.21%) Retail
6 27 (2.47%) Legal
6 27 (2.47%) Marketing
7 25 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.01%) Law
9 21 (1.92%) Advertising
10 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.64%) Banking
12 7 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.46%) Automotive
14 5 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Back Office
15 4 (0.37%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 483 (44.23%) Analyst
2 411 (37.64%) Data Analyst
3 323 (29.58%) Junior
4 316 (28.94%) Junior Analyst
4 316 (28.94%) Junior Data Analyst
5 226 (20.70%) Developer
6 164 (15.02%) Senior
7 104 (9.52%) Data Engineer
8 82 (7.51%) Lead
9 65 (5.95%) Trainee
9 65 (5.95%) Trainee Analyst
9 65 (5.95%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 60 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 60 (5.49%) Software Engineer
11 46 (4.21%) Software Developer
12 44 (4.03%) SQL Developer
13 41 (3.75%) Java Developer
14 38 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
15 36 (3.30%) .NET Developer
16 35 (3.21%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (10.71%) .NET
2 65 (5.95%) RESTful
3 52 (4.76%) React
4 49 (4.49%) ASP.NET
5 48 (4.40%) AngularJS
6 46 (4.21%) CSS
6 46 (4.21%) HTML
6 46 (4.21%) REST
7 45 (4.12%) .NET Core
7 45 (4.12%) .NET Framework
8 37 (3.39%) Node.js
8 37 (3.39%) PySpark
9 30 (2.75%) Vue
10 26 (2.38%) JSON
11 24 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 23 (2.11%) Spring
13 21 (1.92%) XML
14 20 (1.83%) SOAP
15 18 (1.65%) Middleware
16 17 (1.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 19 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (1.74%) Management Information System
3 15 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
4 14 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 13 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (0.92%) Driving Licence
7 10 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 9 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (0.82%) Operational Technology
8 9 (0.82%) Product Ownership
8 9 (0.82%) Replication
9 8 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.73%) Legacy Code
9 8 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.30%) Windows
2 30 (2.75%) Windows Server
3 24 (2.20%) Linux
4 11 (1.01%) Android
5 8 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.46%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.18%) VMS
9 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (42.95%) Business Intelligence
2 380 (34.80%) AI
3 199 (18.22%) Analytics
4 173 (15.84%) Agile
5 158 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 132 (12.09%) DevOps
8 118 (10.81%) Data Analysis
9 104 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 98 (8.97%) ETL
11 95 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (8.70%) Software Engineering
12 90 (8.24%) Project Management
13 89 (8.15%) Data Engineering
14 86 (7.88%) Data Analytics
14 86 (7.88%) Data Modelling
15 80 (7.33%) Data Pipeline
16 75 (6.87%) Decision-Making
17 74 (6.78%) Business Analysis
18 62 (5.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 564 (51.65%) Python
2 118 (10.81%) C#
3 113 (10.35%) Java
4 69 (6.32%) JavaScript
5 53 (4.85%) TypeScript
6 31 (2.84%) T-SQL
7 23 (2.11%) Kotlin
7 23 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.56%) PHP
9 16 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.92%) Bash
11 10 (0.92%) Scala
12 9 (0.82%) R
12 9 (0.82%) VBA
13 7 (0.64%) C++
14 6 (0.55%) Bicep
14 6 (0.55%) C
14 6 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 325 (29.76%) Azure Certification
2 85 (7.78%) Degree
3 33 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 28 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.73%) HND
9 6 (0.55%) A+ Certification
9 6 (0.55%) HNC
9 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.27%) IIBA
11 3 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.18%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.092%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 28 (2.56%) QA
3 20 (1.83%) GDPR
4 16 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.10%) TickIT
6 7 (0.64%) SLA
7 6 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.18%) HL7
9 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.18%) WCAG
10 1 (0.092%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 61 (5.59%) Docker
2 33 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.092%) Firmware
7 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (4.67%) Terraform
2 38 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.92%) Ansible
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.27%) Grafana
5 3 (0.27%) Rancher
6 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.18%) Kibana
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 535 (48.99%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.40%) Databricks
3 30 (2.75%) Oracle
4 29 (2.66%) Google
5 11 (1.01%) Aderant
5 11 (1.01%) Citrix
5 11 (1.01%) HubSpot
6 10 (0.92%) Intapp
7 9 (0.82%) iManage
7 9 (0.82%) VMware
8 8 (0.73%) Cisco
8 8 (0.73%) Cognos
8 8 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.73%) SAP
9 7 (0.64%) Sage
10 6 (0.55%) IBM
10 6 (0.55%) Northgate
11 5 (0.46%) IFS
12 4 (0.37%) DevExpress
12 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud