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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,331 819 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.65% 8.73% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.99% 32.53% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 993 545 803
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 3,598 2,518 3,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.27% 26.83% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,761 1,255 2,299
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,806
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +11 676 £52,500 +5.00% 536
Yorkshire +3 430 £50,000 -13.04% 267
North East +6 225 £57,500 +19.79% 111
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 59 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 36 (2.70%) Apache
5 27 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (1.88%) IIS
7 23 (1.73%) Confluence
8 18 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 17 (1.28%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.38%) CMS
12 4 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.23%) SAS
14 2 (0.15%) nginx
14 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.075%) OpenEdge
15 1 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.075%) WildFly
Applications
1 200 (15.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 7 (0.53%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.30%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.30%) Shopify
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Magento
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.075%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 560 (42.07%) Azure
2 346 (26.00%) Power Platform
3 315 (23.67%) AWS
4 132 (9.92%) Azure AI
5 119 (8.94%) GitHub
6 114 (8.56%) Serverless
7 111 (8.34%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (6.99%) GCP
9 91 (6.84%) Amazon S3
10 84 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
11 82 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
12 59 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
13 56 (4.21%) SaaS
14 48 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 48 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
15 45 (3.38%) Power Automate
16 44 (3.31%) PowerApps
17 42 (3.16%) Snowflake
18 37 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
18 37 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.73%) Firewall
2 19 (1.43%) DNS
3 17 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.83%) DHCP
4 11 (0.83%) VPN
5 9 (0.68%) LAN
5 9 (0.68%) WAN
6 7 (0.53%) SAN
7 6 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.38%) VLAN
9 4 (0.30%) HTTP
9 4 (0.30%) Network Security
10 3 (0.23%) ATM
10 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.23%) LTE
10 3 (0.23%) SMS
10 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.15%) Wireless
12 1 (0.075%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.075%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (24.94%) Power BI
2 160 (12.02%) SQL Server
3 148 (11.12%) Tableau
4 127 (9.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 123 (9.24%) Data Warehouse
6 92 (6.91%) MongoDB
7 68 (5.11%) MySQL
8 64 (4.81%) NoSQL
9 59 (4.43%) DynamoDB
10 53 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
11 52 (3.91%) Relational Database
12 44 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 40 (3.01%) BigQuery
13 40 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
14 38 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (2.78%) Data Lake
16 34 (2.55%) Metadata
17 28 (2.10%) Big Data
17 28 (2.10%) Spark SQL
17 28 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (7.36%) Git
2 59 (4.43%) JIRA
3 29 (2.18%) GitLab
4 19 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.20%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.60%) Postman
8 7 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.45%) JMeter
9 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.38%) NUnit
10 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.15%) YouTrack
General
1 468 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 238 (17.88%) Finance
3 223 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.69%) Law
6 72 (5.41%) Retail
7 62 (4.66%) Manufacturing
8 53 (3.98%) Marketing
9 46 (3.46%) Legal
10 42 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.80%) Advertising
11 24 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.73%) Games
13 18 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.28%) General Ledger
15 14 (1.05%) Banking
15 14 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.98%) Local Government
17 12 (0.90%) Billing
17 12 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 337 (25.32%) Developer
2 254 (19.08%) Analyst
3 226 (16.98%) Senior
4 213 (16.00%) Data Engineer
5 149 (11.19%) Data Analyst
6 123 (9.24%) Junior
7 108 (8.11%) Junior Analyst
8 105 (7.89%) Junior Data Analyst
8 105 (7.89%) Lead
9 102 (7.66%) .NET Developer
10 90 (6.76%) Software Engineer
11 64 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
12 58 (4.36%) Senior Developer
13 42 (3.16%) Applications Support
13 42 (3.16%) Software Developer
14 38 (2.85%) Databricks Engineer
15 37 (2.78%) Databricks Data Engineer
16 36 (2.70%) SQL Developer
17 35 (2.63%) Architect
17 35 (2.63%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (14.50%) .NET
2 109 (8.19%) ASP.NET
3 96 (7.21%) .NET Core
3 96 (7.21%) AngularJS
3 96 (7.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 95 (7.14%) React
5 85 (6.39%) Node.js
6 82 (6.16%) HTML
7 81 (6.09%) PySpark
8 77 (5.79%) RESTful
9 75 (5.63%) Terraform
10 72 (5.41%) CSS
11 69 (5.18%) Vue
12 58 (4.36%) Entity Framework
13 53 (3.98%) REST
14 44 (3.31%) ASP.NET Web API
15 33 (2.48%) LINQ
15 33 (2.48%) Spring
16 30 (2.25%) Spring Boot
16 30 (2.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.28%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.01%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
5 37 (2.78%) Replication
6 36 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
11 18 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.20%) Hedge funds
14 14 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
15 13 (0.98%) Driving Licence
16 12 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.58%) Windows
2 51 (3.83%) Linux
3 44 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.83%) Android
5 9 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.45%) VMS
7 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.075%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (29.23%) Business Intelligence
2 330 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
3 325 (24.42%) Agile
4 302 (22.69%) AI
5 284 (21.34%) Analytics
6 245 (18.41%) CI/CD
7 206 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (15.25%) DevOps
9 194 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 189 (14.20%) Decision-Making
11 185 (13.90%) Data Engineering
11 185 (13.90%) ETL
12 175 (13.15%) Full-Stack Development
13 169 (12.70%) Data Modelling
14 161 (12.10%) Data Pipeline
15 146 (10.97%) Software Engineering
16 107 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 100 (7.51%) Data Analysis
17 100 (7.51%) Validation
18 96 (7.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 478 (35.91%) Python
2 227 (17.05%) C#
3 158 (11.87%) JavaScript
4 150 (11.27%) TypeScript
5 141 (10.59%) Java
6 44 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 31 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 30 (2.25%) PHP
8 30 (2.25%) T-SQL
9 27 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 26 (1.95%) C++
11 24 (1.80%) Scala
12 22 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 17 (1.28%) R
15 15 (1.13%) Bash
16 8 (0.60%) C
17 7 (0.53%) Bicep
17 7 (0.53%) Go
18 6 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 119 (8.94%) Azure Certification
2 116 (8.72%) Degree
3 77 (5.79%) Security Cleared
4 65 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 27 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.60%) ACCA
10 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.53%) CIMA
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.30%) MCSA
13 4 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 67 (5.03%) QA
3 29 (2.18%) GDPR
4 17 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.90%) TickIT
6 11 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) PMO
10 3 (0.23%) SLA
11 1 (0.075%) HL7
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 105 (7.89%) Docker
2 41 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.075%) Firmware
8 1 (0.075%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.075%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.90%) Ansible
3 12 (0.90%) Grafana
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (0.23%) Control-M
5 3 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.15%) Puppet
6 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.075%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.075%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.075%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.075%) VxRail
Vendors
1 454 (34.11%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.61%) Databricks
3 63 (4.73%) Google
4 44 (3.31%) Oracle
5 32 (2.40%) VMware
6 23 (1.73%) SAP
7 19 (1.43%) Sage
8 13 (0.98%) Informatica
9 12 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 12 (0.90%) Splunk
10 11 (0.83%) Aderant
10 11 (0.83%) Cisco
11 10 (0.75%) HubSpot
11 10 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.68%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.60%) Facebook
13 8 (0.60%) IBM
13 8 (0.60%) iManage
13 8 (0.60%) Intapp
14 7 (0.53%) Cognos