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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 20 9
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,086 717 2,004
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.95% 10.09% 12.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.97% 32.56% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 638 581 1,680
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,750 £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 £68,250 £67,500
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 2,787 2,202 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.28% 30.99% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 1,489 4,149
10th Percentile £32,900 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,934 £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 1 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 1 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
Yorkshire 0 491 £50,000 - 114
North West +3 488 £55,000 +10.00% 221
North East -12 107 £51,000 +2.00% 48
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 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.92%) Apache
5 8 (0.74%) Confluence
6 6 (0.55%) IIS
7 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) 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
1 434 (39.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
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
3 4 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.28%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.28%) 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
1 600 (55.25%) Azure
2 462 (42.54%) Power Platform
3 321 (29.56%) Azure AI
4 181 (16.67%) AWS
5 68 (6.26%) Serverless
6 67 (6.17%) GitHub
7 54 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.88%) Amazon S3
9 51 (4.70%) GCP
10 49 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (3.68%) SaaS
13 34 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (2.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 32 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
16 31 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (2.49%) PowerApps
18 26 (2.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.29%) Firewall
2 10 (0.92%) DNS
3 8 (0.74%) DMZ
3 8 (0.74%) 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 (0.28%) SAN
7 3 (0.28%) 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
1 457 (42.08%) Power BI
2 408 (37.57%) Tableau
3 110 (10.13%) SQL Server
4 85 (7.83%) NoSQL
5 69 (6.35%) Data Mining
6 63 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (3.68%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 35 (3.22%) MySQL
11 32 (2.95%) Data Lake
12 31 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
12 31 (2.85%) Relational Database
13 27 (2.49%) MongoDB
14 25 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (1.93%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (1.57%) Spark SQL
19 15 (1.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (5.71%) Git
2 41 (3.78%) JIRA
3 14 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.01%) Bitbucket
4 11 (1.01%) Claude Code
5 10 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.74%) GitLab
7 5 (0.46%) NUnit
8 4 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.28%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.18%) MLflow
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%) Selenium
11 1 (0.092%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.092%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 510 (46.96%) Social Skills
2 175 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
3 173 (15.93%) Finance
4 47 (4.33%) Public Sector
5 34 (3.13%) Retail
6 29 (2.67%) Legal
7 27 (2.49%) Marketing
8 25 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 20 (1.84%) Advertising
10 19 (1.75%) Law
11 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.64%) Banking
13 7 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.46%) Automotive
15 5 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Agriculture
16 4 (0.37%) Back Office
16 4 (0.37%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 483 (44.48%) Analyst
2 410 (37.75%) Data Analyst
3 323 (29.74%) Junior
4 316 (29.10%) Junior Analyst
4 316 (29.10%) Junior Data Analyst
5 222 (20.44%) Developer
6 166 (15.29%) Senior
7 105 (9.67%) Data Engineer
8 83 (7.64%) Lead
9 65 (5.99%) Trainee
9 65 (5.99%) Trainee Analyst
9 65 (5.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 62 (5.71%) Software Engineer
11 60 (5.52%) Senior Developer
12 46 (4.24%) Software Developer
13 42 (3.87%) SQL Developer
14 41 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 40 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
16 35 (3.22%) Applications Support
17 33 (3.04%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (10.59%) .NET
2 64 (5.89%) RESTful
3 54 (4.97%) React
4 48 (4.42%) AngularJS
5 47 (4.33%) ASP.NET
6 46 (4.24%) .NET Framework
6 46 (4.24%) CSS
6 46 (4.24%) HTML
7 45 (4.14%) REST
8 44 (4.05%) .NET Core
9 37 (3.41%) Node.js
9 37 (3.41%) PySpark
10 31 (2.85%) Vue
11 26 (2.39%) JSON
12 23 (2.12%) Spring
13 22 (2.03%) ASP.NET Core
14 21 (1.93%) XML
15 20 (1.84%) SOAP
16 18 (1.66%) Middleware
17 17 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (5.52%) Cloud Native
2 20 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 15 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
5 14 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 13 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (0.92%) Driving Licence
7 10 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 9 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 9 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 8 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (0.74%) Legacy Code
9 8 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.41%) Windows
2 30 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 21 (1.93%) Linux
4 11 (1.01%) Android
5 9 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.46%) Debian
8 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (43.00%) Business Intelligence
2 381 (35.08%) AI
3 196 (18.05%) Analytics
4 172 (15.84%) Agile
5 157 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (14.09%) CI/CD
7 132 (12.15%) DevOps
8 118 (10.87%) Data Analysis
9 106 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 98 (9.02%) ETL
11 97 (8.93%) Software Engineering
12 92 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (8.38%) Project Management
14 88 (8.10%) Data Engineering
15 87 (8.01%) Data Modelling
16 85 (7.83%) Data Analytics
17 82 (7.55%) Data Pipeline
18 78 (7.18%) Decision-Making
19 74 (6.81%) Business Analysis
20 61 (5.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 568 (52.30%) Python
2 115 (10.59%) C#
3 112 (10.31%) Java
4 70 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.97%) TypeScript
6 32 (2.95%) T-SQL
7 23 (2.12%) Kotlin
7 23 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.57%) PHP
9 16 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.92%) Bash
12 9 (0.83%) R
12 9 (0.83%) Scala
12 9 (0.83%) VBA
13 7 (0.64%) C++
14 6 (0.55%) Bicep
14 6 (0.55%) C
15 5 (0.46%) Go
16 3 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 325 (29.93%) Azure Certification
2 85 (7.83%) Degree
3 33 (3.04%) Security Cleared
4 28 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.12%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.74%) HND
9 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.55%) A+ Certification
10 6 (0.55%) HNC
10 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.28%) IIBA
12 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.18%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.092%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.092%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 27 (2.49%) QA
3 20 (1.84%) GDPR
4 16 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.10%) TickIT
6 7 (0.64%) SLA
7 6 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.18%) HL7
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.18%) WCAG
9 1 (0.092%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 66 (6.08%) Docker
2 33 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.28%) 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 53 (4.88%) Terraform
2 39 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.92%) Ansible
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.28%) Grafana
5 3 (0.28%) 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
1 532 (48.99%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.34%) Databricks
3 29 (2.67%) Google
4 28 (2.58%) Oracle
5 11 (1.01%) Aderant
5 11 (1.01%) Citrix
5 11 (1.01%) HubSpot
6 10 (0.92%) Intapp
6 10 (0.92%) VMware
7 9 (0.83%) iManage
8 8 (0.74%) Cisco
8 8 (0.74%) Cognos
8 8 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.74%) 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%) Palantir
12 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud