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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 27 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,373 854 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.35% 8.91% 9.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.15% 31.54% 37.81%
Number of salaries quoted 964 607 1,076
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,875
25th Percentile £42,410 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year - +4.36% -2.31%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.61% -4.17%

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 3,599 2,708 3,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.64% 28.25% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 1,451 3,008
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +12 678 £52,500 +5.00% 217
Yorkshire +4 475 £51,500 -9.25% 132
North East 0 220 £55,000 +15.18% 69
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 60 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.40%) Apache
5 25 (1.82%) IIS
6 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (1.53%) Confluence
8 14 (1.02%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.29%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.15%) CICS
13 2 (0.15%) nginx
13 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 331 (24.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
6 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.66%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.36%) Shopify
4 4 (0.29%) Magento
4 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.073%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 679 (49.45%) Azure
2 445 (32.41%) Power Platform
3 300 (21.85%) AWS
4 239 (17.41%) Azure AI
5 107 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (7.36%) GitHub
7 94 (6.85%) GCP
8 91 (6.63%) Serverless
9 77 (5.61%) Amazon S3
10 61 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
11 60 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
12 59 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
14 45 (3.28%) PowerApps
15 43 (3.13%) Power Automate
16 40 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 40 (2.91%) SaaS
17 38 (2.77%) Snowflake
18 33 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
19 32 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.82%) Firewall
2 18 (1.31%) DNS
3 13 (0.95%) VPN
4 12 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.80%) DHCP
6 7 (0.51%) SAN
6 7 (0.51%) VLAN
7 6 (0.44%) Internet
8 4 (0.29%) LAN
8 4 (0.29%) WAN
9 3 (0.22%) ATM
9 3 (0.22%) DMZ
9 3 (0.22%) HTTP
9 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.22%) LTE
9 3 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.22%) STUN
9 3 (0.22%) VoIP
9 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 435 (31.68%) Power BI
2 285 (20.76%) Tableau
3 167 (12.16%) SQL Server
4 126 (9.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 124 (9.03%) Data Warehouse
6 104 (7.57%) MongoDB
7 76 (5.54%) NoSQL
8 72 (5.24%) MySQL
9 50 (3.64%) DynamoDB
9 50 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 49 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
11 46 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
11 46 (3.35%) Relational Database
12 41 (2.99%) BigQuery
13 38 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (2.62%) Data Lake
15 31 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 29 (2.11%) Data Mining
17 26 (1.89%) Big Data
18 24 (1.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 99 (7.21%) Git
2 55 (4.01%) JIRA
3 21 (1.53%) GitLab
4 19 (1.38%) Claude Code
5 18 (1.31%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.24%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.51%) NUnit
8 6 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.36%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.22%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.22%) MLflow
11 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.22%) Postman
11 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 522 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 233 (16.97%) Finance
3 223 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.61%) Law
6 60 (4.37%) Retail
7 46 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 45 (3.28%) Marketing
9 40 (2.91%) Legal
10 33 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.04%) Advertising
12 25 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.38%) Games
14 15 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.87%) Local Government
17 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.73%) Banking
18 9 (0.66%) Billing
18 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 367 (26.73%) Analyst
2 341 (24.84%) Developer
3 281 (20.47%) Data Analyst
4 226 (16.46%) Junior
5 211 (15.37%) Junior Analyst
5 211 (15.37%) Junior Data Analyst
6 207 (15.08%) Senior
7 182 (13.26%) Data Engineer
8 114 (8.30%) Lead
9 106 (7.72%) .NET Developer
10 99 (7.21%) Software Engineer
11 63 (4.59%) Senior Developer
12 52 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
13 48 (3.50%) SQL Developer
14 42 (3.06%) Applications Support
15 41 (2.99%) DBA
16 38 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
16 38 (2.77%) Software Developer
17 37 (2.69%) Administrator
17 37 (2.69%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (13.91%) .NET
2 112 (8.16%) ASP.NET
3 104 (7.57%) React
4 101 (7.36%) AngularJS
5 100 (7.28%) ASP.NET Core
6 99 (7.21%) .NET Core
7 97 (7.06%) RESTful
8 84 (6.12%) HTML
8 84 (6.12%) Node.js
9 76 (5.54%) CSS
10 73 (5.32%) Vue
11 63 (4.59%) PySpark
12 61 (4.44%) Entity Framework
13 56 (4.08%) REST
14 45 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web API
15 33 (2.40%) LINQ
16 32 (2.33%) Spring
17 31 (2.26%) .NET Framework
18 29 (2.11%) Spring Boot
19 28 (2.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.30%) Cloud Native
2 40 (2.91%) Data Structures
3 35 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.26%) Replication
5 27 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
6 23 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 20 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.24%) Hedge funds
10 17 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 13 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.95%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.95%) Operational Technology
12 12 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.86%) Windows
2 41 (2.99%) Linux
3 39 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.87%) Android
5 5 (0.36%) VMS
5 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) Debian
8 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.073%) Unix
8 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (33.79%) Business Intelligence
2 372 (27.09%) AI
3 302 (22.00%) Agile
4 286 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 272 (19.81%) Analytics
6 226 (16.46%) CI/CD
7 192 (13.98%) DevOps
8 171 (12.45%) Mentoring
9 170 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 170 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 167 (12.16%) Data Modelling
11 160 (11.65%) Data Engineering
12 150 (10.92%) Decision-Making
13 149 (10.85%) Software Engineering
14 146 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
14 146 (10.63%) ETL
15 123 (8.96%) Data Analysis
16 92 (6.70%) Machine Learning
17 90 (6.55%) Test Automation
18 89 (6.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 586 (42.68%) Python
2 232 (16.90%) C#
3 140 (10.20%) Java
4 137 (9.98%) TypeScript
5 135 (9.83%) JavaScript
6 36 (2.62%) T-SQL
7 31 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 30 (2.18%) PHP
9 24 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 24 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 24 (1.75%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.46%) Scala
11 18 (1.31%) R
12 15 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.02%) Bash
14 12 (0.87%) C++
15 8 (0.58%) VBA
16 7 (0.51%) Bicep
17 6 (0.44%) C
18 5 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 228 (16.61%) Azure Certification
2 106 (7.72%) Degree
3 62 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 51 (3.71%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 11 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.58%) ACCA
10 7 (0.51%) CIMA
11 6 (0.44%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.29%) MCSA
13 4 (0.29%) Tableau Certification
13 4 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.15%) HND
15 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 60 (4.37%) QA
3 26 (1.89%) GDPR
4 16 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.87%) TickIT
6 9 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.51%) SLA
9 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.22%) PMO
11 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.073%) HL7
11 1 (0.073%) IFRS
11 1 (0.073%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 94 (6.85%) Docker
2 30 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) vSphere
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
8 1 (0.073%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.073%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 71 (5.17%) Terraform
2 48 (3.50%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.80%) Ansible
3 11 (0.80%) Grafana
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.22%) Control-M
6 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.15%) Kibana
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.073%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.073%) Puppet
8 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 569 (41.44%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.48%) Databricks
3 56 (4.08%) Google
4 29 (2.11%) Oracle
4 29 (2.11%) VMware
5 12 (0.87%) HubSpot
5 12 (0.87%) SAP
5 12 (0.87%) Splunk
6 11 (0.80%) Sage
7 10 (0.73%) Cognos
8 9 (0.66%) Aderant
8 9 (0.66%) IBM
8 9 (0.66%) iManage
8 9 (0.66%) Informatica
8 9 (0.66%) Intapp
8 9 (0.66%) MuleSoft
8 9 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.58%) Facebook
10 7 (0.51%) Alteryx
10 7 (0.51%) Salesforce