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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,352 834 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.81% 8.86% 9.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.32% 32.74% 36.58%
Number of salaries quoted 995 563 887
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 3,623 2,547 3,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.57% 27.07% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,771 1,290 2,518
10th Percentile £36,550 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,780 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,525 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 7 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 7 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 +13 685 £50,000 - 358
Yorkshire +1 439 £50,000 -13.04% 157
North East 0 228 £56,250 +17.80% 87
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 62 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 36 (2.66%) Apache
5 27 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (1.78%) IIS
7 23 (1.70%) Confluence
8 17 (1.26%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.37%) CMS
11 4 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.22%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.15%) nginx
14 1 (0.074%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.074%) WildFly
Applications
1 234 (17.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.52%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.30%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.30%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
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 (0.074%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 607 (44.90%) Azure
2 376 (27.81%) Power Platform
3 311 (23.00%) AWS
4 163 (12.06%) Azure AI
5 113 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
6 111 (8.21%) GitHub
7 105 (7.77%) Serverless
8 94 (6.95%) GCP
9 82 (6.07%) Amazon S3
10 81 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
11 74 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
12 59 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
13 56 (4.14%) SaaS
14 50 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 45 (3.33%) Power Automate
15 45 (3.33%) PowerApps
16 43 (3.18%) Snowflake
17 40 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (2.66%) Entra ID
19 35 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.70%) Firewall
2 19 (1.41%) DNS
3 17 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.81%) DHCP
4 11 (0.81%) VPN
5 9 (0.67%) LAN
5 9 (0.67%) WAN
6 7 (0.52%) SAN
7 6 (0.44%) Internet
8 5 (0.37%) VLAN
9 4 (0.30%) HTTP
9 4 (0.30%) Network Security
10 3 (0.22%) ATM
10 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.22%) LTE
10 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.15%) SMS
11 2 (0.15%) Wireless
12 1 (0.074%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.074%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (26.78%) Power BI
2 184 (13.61%) Tableau
3 165 (12.20%) SQL Server
4 132 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 128 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (7.03%) MongoDB
7 68 (5.03%) MySQL
8 64 (4.73%) NoSQL
9 56 (4.14%) DynamoDB
10 50 (3.70%) Relational Database
11 48 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
12 46 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 40 (2.96%) BigQuery
14 39 (2.88%) Data Lake
14 39 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
15 38 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (2.22%) Metadata
16 30 (2.22%) Spark SQL
17 28 (2.07%) Big Data
17 28 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 97 (7.17%) Git
2 53 (3.92%) JIRA
3 24 (1.78%) GitLab
4 18 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 17 (1.26%) Claude Code
6 14 (1.04%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.52%) NUnit
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.22%) Postman
11 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.15%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.15%) YouTrack
General
1 496 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 237 (17.53%) Finance
3 219 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (6.51%) Law
5 85 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 68 (5.03%) Retail
7 60 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 51 (3.77%) Marketing
9 44 (3.25%) Legal
10 42 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.78%) Advertising
11 24 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.70%) Games
13 18 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.96%) Banking
14 13 (0.96%) Local Government
14 13 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.89%) Billing
15 12 (0.89%) General Ledger
15 12 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 343 (25.37%) Developer
2 280 (20.71%) Analyst
3 214 (15.83%) Senior
4 207 (15.31%) Data Engineer
5 181 (13.39%) Data Analyst
6 152 (11.24%) Junior
7 137 (10.13%) Junior Analyst
8 135 (9.99%) Junior Data Analyst
9 117 (8.65%) Lead
10 105 (7.77%) .NET Developer
11 95 (7.03%) Software Engineer
12 57 (4.22%) Senior Developer
13 56 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
14 43 (3.18%) Software Developer
15 41 (3.03%) Applications Support
16 40 (2.96%) SQL Developer
17 38 (2.81%) Databricks Engineer
18 37 (2.74%) Databricks Data Engineer
18 37 (2.74%) DBA
18 37 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (14.72%) .NET
2 114 (8.43%) ASP.NET
3 100 (7.40%) ASP.NET Core
4 98 (7.25%) .NET Core
4 98 (7.25%) AngularJS
4 98 (7.25%) React
5 85 (6.29%) Node.js
6 82 (6.07%) HTML
7 80 (5.92%) PySpark
8 79 (5.84%) RESTful
9 78 (5.77%) Terraform
10 74 (5.47%) Vue
11 72 (5.33%) CSS
12 61 (4.51%) Entity Framework
13 55 (4.07%) REST
14 46 (3.40%) ASP.NET Web API
15 33 (2.44%) LINQ
16 32 (2.37%) Spring
17 29 (2.14%) Spring Boot
18 27 (2.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.22%) Cloud Native
2 40 (2.96%) Data Structures
3 37 (2.74%) Replication
4 36 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
5 35 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 30 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
11 20 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.26%) Hedge funds
14 16 (1.18%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.04%) Data Centre
16 13 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
16 13 (0.96%) Driving Licence
16 13 (0.96%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.51%) Windows
2 51 (3.77%) Linux
3 44 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.89%) Android
5 9 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.44%) VMS
7 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (30.33%) Business Intelligence
2 328 (24.26%) AI
3 323 (23.89%) Agile
4 320 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 275 (20.34%) Analytics
6 239 (17.68%) CI/CD
7 210 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (14.94%) DevOps
9 181 (13.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 181 (13.39%) Mentoring
10 180 (13.31%) Data Engineering
11 178 (13.17%) ETL
12 177 (13.09%) Decision-Making
13 172 (12.72%) Data Modelling
14 157 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
15 151 (11.17%) Software Engineering
16 102 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
17 99 (7.32%) Data Analysis
18 96 (7.10%) Machine Learning
19 94 (6.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 506 (37.43%) Python
2 233 (17.23%) C#
3 155 (11.46%) JavaScript
4 147 (10.87%) TypeScript
5 139 (10.28%) Java
6 43 (3.18%) PowerShell
7 31 (2.29%) PHP
7 31 (2.29%) Shell Script
7 31 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 25 (1.85%) C++
9 24 (1.78%) Kotlin
9 24 (1.78%) Scala
10 18 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.26%) R
12 15 (1.11%) Bash
13 8 (0.59%) Bicep
13 8 (0.59%) C
13 8 (0.59%) VBA
14 7 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 150 (11.09%) Azure Certification
2 110 (8.14%) Degree
3 66 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 54 (3.99%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.59%) ACCA
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.52%) CIMA
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.30%) MCSA
13 4 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
13 4 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (13.17%) Data Quality
2 63 (4.66%) QA
3 31 (2.29%) GDPR
4 16 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.89%) TickIT
6 11 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.22%) PMO
11 2 (0.15%) SLA
12 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.074%) HL7
12 1 (0.074%) IFRS
12 1 (0.074%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 102 (7.54%) Docker
2 40 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.074%) Firmware
8 1 (0.074%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.074%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.89%) Ansible
4 11 (0.81%) Grafana
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%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.074%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.074%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.074%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 487 (36.02%) Microsoft
2 95 (7.03%) Databricks
3 64 (4.73%) Google
4 34 (2.51%) Oracle
5 32 (2.37%) VMware
6 23 (1.70%) SAP
7 19 (1.41%) Sage
8 12 (0.89%) Splunk
9 11 (0.81%) Aderant
9 11 (0.81%) Cisco
9 11 (0.81%) HubSpot
10 10 (0.74%) Informatica
10 10 (0.74%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.74%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.67%) IBM
11 9 (0.67%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.59%) Cognos
12 8 (0.59%) Facebook
12 8 (0.59%) iManage
12 8 (0.59%) Intapp