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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 21 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,152 820 1,998
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.27% 10.81% 11.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.14% 32.36% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 698 588 1,678
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,813 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 2,943 2,534 4,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.02% 33.41% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,109 1,497 4,172
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,961 £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 11 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 11 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 0 532 £52,500 +5.00% 223
Yorkshire 0 503 £50,000 - 109
North East -10 117 £52,130 +4.26% 59
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 27 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.95%) Apache
6 10 (0.87%) IIS
7 8 (0.69%) Confluence
8 4 (0.35%) JBoss
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.087%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.087%) WildFly
11 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 439 (38.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (0.52%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.43%) Magento
4 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.26%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.087%) Primavera
6 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 635 (55.12%) Azure
2 477 (41.41%) Power Platform
3 325 (28.21%) Azure AI
4 186 (16.15%) AWS
5 70 (6.08%) GitHub
5 70 (6.08%) Serverless
6 65 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (4.69%) GCP
8 53 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 49 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (3.47%) SaaS
12 37 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
13 36 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
15 34 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (2.69%) PowerApps
17 30 (2.60%) Power Automate
18 29 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
19 27 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.39%) Firewall
2 11 (0.95%) DNS
3 8 (0.69%) DMZ
3 8 (0.69%) VLAN
4 7 (0.61%) VPN
5 6 (0.52%) VoIP
6 5 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.43%) STUN
6 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.35%) DHCP
7 4 (0.35%) SAN
8 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.17%) Internet
9 2 (0.17%) Intranet
9 2 (0.17%) LTE
9 2 (0.17%) Network Security
10 1 (0.087%) HTTP
10 1 (0.087%) SMTP
10 1 (0.087%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (40.89%) Power BI
2 406 (35.24%) Tableau
3 136 (11.81%) SQL Server
4 79 (6.86%) NoSQL
5 69 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
6 64 (5.56%) Data Mining
7 48 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (3.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 43 (3.73%) MongoDB
9 43 (3.73%) MySQL
10 39 (3.39%) DynamoDB
11 35 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
11 35 (3.04%) Relational Database
12 32 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (2.69%) Data Lake
14 26 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 24 (2.08%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.65%) Spark SQL
17 15 (1.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 69 (5.99%) Git
2 43 (3.73%) JIRA
3 14 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.13%) Claude Code
5 12 (1.04%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.69%) GitLab
8 6 (0.52%) NUnit
9 4 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.26%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.26%) Postman
11 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.17%) MLflow
11 2 (0.17%) MSTest
11 2 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 521 (45.23%) Social Skills
2 185 (16.06%) Finance
3 178 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (3.99%) Public Sector
5 37 (3.21%) Retail
6 31 (2.69%) Law
6 31 (2.69%) Marketing
7 26 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 25 (2.17%) Legal
9 22 (1.91%) Advertising
10 14 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.69%) Banking
14 7 (0.61%) Games
15 6 (0.52%) Automotive
15 6 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.43%) Agriculture
16 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 478 (41.49%) Analyst
2 405 (35.16%) Data Analyst
3 322 (27.95%) Junior
4 316 (27.43%) Junior Analyst
4 316 (27.43%) Junior Data Analyst
5 259 (22.48%) Developer
6 171 (14.84%) Senior
7 110 (9.55%) Data Engineer
8 87 (7.55%) Lead
9 62 (5.38%) Senior Developer
10 61 (5.30%) Software Engineer
11 60 (5.21%) Trainee
11 60 (5.21%) Trainee Analyst
11 60 (5.21%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 55 (4.77%) .NET Developer
13 50 (4.34%) Software Developer
14 48 (4.17%) SQL Developer
15 42 (3.65%) Java Developer
16 40 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
17 36 (3.13%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (11.72%) .NET
2 72 (6.25%) RESTful
3 69 (5.99%) ASP.NET
4 64 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 63 (5.47%) AngularJS
6 57 (4.95%) HTML
7 56 (4.86%) CSS
7 56 (4.86%) React
8 50 (4.34%) REST
9 46 (3.99%) .NET Framework
10 43 (3.73%) Node.js
11 42 (3.65%) ASP.NET Core
11 42 (3.65%) Vue
12 39 (3.39%) PySpark
13 28 (2.43%) JSON
14 25 (2.17%) Spring
15 23 (2.00%) Entity Framework
16 21 (1.82%) XML
17 20 (1.74%) Middleware
17 20 (1.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (4.77%) Cloud Native
2 21 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (1.65%) Management Information System
4 18 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 17 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 15 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.30%) Replication
6 15 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 10 (0.87%) Driving Licence
9 10 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (0.87%) Product Ownership
9 10 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 9 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 9 (0.78%) Operational Technology
11 8 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.30%) Windows
2 32 (2.78%) Linux
3 30 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.04%) Android
5 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.43%) Debian
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.087%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (41.75%) Business Intelligence
2 389 (33.77%) AI
3 210 (18.23%) Analytics
4 195 (16.93%) Agile
5 172 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 160 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 146 (12.67%) DevOps
8 117 (10.16%) Data Analysis
9 109 (9.46%) Mentoring
10 108 (9.38%) ETL
11 104 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (8.25%) Software Engineering
13 91 (7.90%) Data Engineering
13 91 (7.90%) Data Modelling
14 86 (7.47%) Data Analytics
15 85 (7.38%) Project Management
16 81 (7.03%) Data Pipeline
17 78 (6.77%) Decision-Making
18 69 (5.99%) Business Analysis
19 68 (5.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 573 (49.74%) Python
2 142 (12.33%) C#
3 123 (10.68%) Java
4 80 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 68 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 35 (3.04%) T-SQL
7 25 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 24 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.56%) PHP
11 14 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.95%) Bash
13 11 (0.95%) R
14 10 (0.87%) Scala
15 9 (0.78%) VBA
16 7 (0.61%) C++
17 6 (0.52%) Bicep
17 6 (0.52%) C
18 5 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 326 (28.30%) Azure Certification
2 90 (7.81%) Degree
3 35 (3.04%) Security Cleared
4 29 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.69%) HND
10 6 (0.52%) A+ Certification
10 6 (0.52%) HNC
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.26%) IIBA
12 3 (0.26%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.17%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.17%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.087%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 33 (2.86%) QA
3 22 (1.91%) GDPR
4 16 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.04%) TickIT
6 7 (0.61%) SLA
7 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.17%) HL7
9 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) WCAG
10 1 (0.087%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.087%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 66 (5.73%) Docker
2 35 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.087%) Firmware
7 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 52 (4.51%) Terraform
2 41 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.95%) Ansible
4 5 (0.43%) Grafana
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.26%) Rancher
6 2 (0.17%) Control-M
6 2 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.087%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 570 (49.48%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.95%) Databricks
3 32 (2.78%) Google
4 30 (2.60%) Oracle
5 14 (1.22%) VMware
6 13 (1.13%) HubSpot
7 11 (0.95%) Citrix
8 10 (0.87%) Intapp
8 10 (0.87%) SAP
9 9 (0.78%) Aderant
9 9 (0.78%) Cognos
9 9 (0.78%) iManage
10 8 (0.69%) Cisco
10 8 (0.69%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.61%) Sage
12 6 (0.52%) IBM
12 6 (0.52%) Northgate
13 5 (0.43%) IFS
13 5 (0.43%) Splunk
13 5 (0.43%) Xamarin