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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 25 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,163 817 1,987
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.12% 10.36% 11.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.51% 30.45% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 724 579 1,669
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,577 £68,500 £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 3,020 2,683 4,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.89% 34.02% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 1,451 4,189
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £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 18 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 18 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 +1 544 £52,500 +5.00% 229
Yorkshire 0 499 £50,000 - 113
North East -6 120 £52,500 +2.44% 76
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 28 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.95%) Apache
6 10 (0.86%) IIS
7 8 (0.69%) Confluence
8 5 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.34%) JBoss
9 4 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.086%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.086%) SAS
12 1 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 427 (36.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.086%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (0.52%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.43%) Magento
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.26%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.086%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.086%) Primavera
6 1 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 636 (54.69%) Azure
2 470 (40.41%) Power Platform
3 310 (26.66%) Azure AI
4 195 (16.77%) AWS
5 74 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (6.19%) GitHub
7 70 (6.02%) Serverless
8 56 (4.82%) GCP
9 52 (4.47%) Amazon S3
10 47 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (3.53%) SaaS
12 40 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 37 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
14 36 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
15 34 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (2.84%) PowerApps
17 32 (2.75%) Power Automate
18 28 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
19 27 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.38%) Firewall
2 10 (0.86%) DNS
3 8 (0.69%) DMZ
3 8 (0.69%) VLAN
4 6 (0.52%) VPN
5 5 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.43%) SAN
5 5 (0.43%) STUN
5 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.43%) VoIP
6 3 (0.26%) DHCP
6 3 (0.26%) LTE
6 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.17%) Internet
7 2 (0.17%) Intranet
7 2 (0.17%) Network Security
8 1 (0.086%) HTTP
8 1 (0.086%) TCAP
8 1 (0.086%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (39.90%) Power BI
2 387 (33.28%) Tableau
3 134 (11.52%) SQL Server
4 82 (7.05%) NoSQL
5 70 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
6 59 (5.07%) Data Mining
7 52 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (4.30%) MongoDB
9 48 (4.13%) MySQL
9 48 (4.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 40 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
11 39 (3.35%) DynamoDB
12 36 (3.10%) Relational Database
13 33 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (2.49%) Data Lake
15 28 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 25 (2.15%) BigQuery
17 20 (1.72%) Spark SQL
18 19 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
19 15 (1.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 75 (6.45%) Git
2 43 (3.70%) JIRA
3 14 (1.20%) Claude Code
3 14 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 11 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.69%) GitLab
7 6 (0.52%) NUnit
8 4 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.26%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.17%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) MSTest
10 2 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 509 (43.77%) Social Skills
2 185 (15.91%) Finance
3 181 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (5.16%) Public Sector
5 36 (3.10%) Retail
6 32 (2.75%) Marketing
7 31 (2.67%) Law
8 27 (2.32%) Manufacturing
9 26 (2.24%) Legal
10 20 (1.72%) Advertising
11 15 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.60%) Banking
15 7 (0.60%) Games
15 7 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.52%) Automotive
17 5 (0.43%) Agriculture
17 5 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 458 (39.38%) Analyst
2 385 (33.10%) Data Analyst
3 307 (26.40%) Junior
4 301 (25.88%) Junior Analyst
4 301 (25.88%) Junior Data Analyst
5 260 (22.36%) Developer
6 181 (15.56%) Senior
7 115 (9.89%) Data Engineer
8 96 (8.25%) Lead
9 71 (6.10%) Software Engineer
10 61 (5.25%) Senior Developer
11 55 (4.73%) Trainee
11 55 (4.73%) Trainee Analyst
11 55 (4.73%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 53 (4.56%) .NET Developer
13 51 (4.39%) SQL Developer
14 49 (4.21%) Software Developer
15 42 (3.61%) Java Developer
16 41 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
17 37 (3.18%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (11.69%) .NET
2 78 (6.71%) RESTful
3 67 (5.76%) ASP.NET
4 64 (5.50%) AngularJS
5 60 (5.16%) .NET Core
6 58 (4.99%) HTML
7 57 (4.90%) CSS
8 55 (4.73%) React
9 51 (4.39%) REST
10 50 (4.30%) Node.js
11 44 (3.78%) .NET Framework
12 42 (3.61%) Vue
13 41 (3.53%) ASP.NET Core
14 40 (3.44%) PySpark
15 28 (2.41%) JSON
16 26 (2.24%) Spring
17 23 (1.98%) Entity Framework
18 21 (1.81%) XML
19 20 (1.72%) Kafka
19 20 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.30%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
3 19 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (1.63%) Onboarding
4 18 (1.55%) Management Information System
5 16 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (1.29%) Data Structures
6 15 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.20%) Replication
8 13 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 11 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (0.95%) Operational Technology
10 10 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (0.86%) Driving Licence
10 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.77%) Mobile App
12 8 (0.69%) Hedge funds
12 8 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.27%) Windows
2 31 (2.67%) Linux
3 30 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.03%) Android
5 7 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.43%) Debian
8 2 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.086%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (40.93%) Business Intelligence
2 374 (32.16%) AI
3 211 (18.14%) Analytics
4 202 (17.37%) Agile
5 179 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (14.36%) CI/CD
7 154 (13.24%) DevOps
8 125 (10.75%) Mentoring
9 114 (9.80%) Data Analysis
10 112 (9.63%) ETL
11 108 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 106 (9.11%) Software Engineering
13 100 (8.60%) Data Modelling
14 94 (8.08%) Data Engineering
15 83 (7.14%) Data Analytics
16 82 (7.05%) Decision-Making
17 80 (6.88%) Data Pipeline
18 79 (6.79%) Project Management
19 76 (6.53%) Full-Stack Development
20 66 (5.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 562 (48.32%) Python
2 147 (12.64%) C#
3 139 (11.95%) Java
4 93 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 67 (5.76%) TypeScript
6 34 (2.92%) T-SQL
7 24 (2.06%) Kotlin
8 23 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.55%) PHP
11 14 (1.20%) Bash
12 13 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.12%) R
13 12 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.95%) C++
14 11 (0.95%) Scala
15 8 (0.69%) VBA
16 6 (0.52%) Bicep
17 5 (0.43%) C
18 4 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 313 (26.91%) Azure Certification
2 90 (7.74%) Degree
3 40 (3.44%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 28 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.69%) HND
10 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.52%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.52%) HNC
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.26%) IIBA
13 3 (0.26%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.26%) MCSA
13 3 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 33 (2.84%) QA
3 24 (2.06%) GDPR
4 16 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.03%) TickIT
6 7 (0.60%) SLA
7 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.086%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.086%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 63 (5.42%) Docker
2 35 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.86%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.086%) Firmware
7 1 (0.086%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 55 (4.73%) Terraform
2 36 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.95%) Ansible
4 5 (0.43%) Grafana
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (0.26%) 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 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.086%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 553 (47.55%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.99%) Databricks
3 33 (2.84%) Google
4 30 (2.58%) Oracle
5 15 (1.29%) VMware
6 13 (1.12%) HubSpot
7 11 (0.95%) SAP
8 10 (0.86%) Citrix
8 10 (0.86%) Intapp
9 9 (0.77%) Aderant
9 9 (0.77%) Cognos
9 9 (0.77%) iManage
10 8 (0.69%) Cisco
10 8 (0.69%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.60%) Sage
12 6 (0.52%) IBM
12 6 (0.52%) Northgate
13 5 (0.43%) Adobe
13 5 (0.43%) Splunk
13 5 (0.43%) Xamarin