SQL Server Jobs in the North West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 43 59
Rank change year-on-year -47 +16 -29
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 270 459 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.52% 4.31% 5.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.14% 26.12% 25.30%
Number of salaries quoted 143 403 311
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65,625 £63,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £71,250 £84,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 747 1,757 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.74% 16.51% 20.88%
Number of salaries quoted 437 1,115 896
10th Percentile £33,500 £33,609 £33,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +2.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £84,964 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the North West.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North West over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 July 2025. 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
Manchester -11 125 £55,000 +7.84% 93
Cheshire +8 73 £36,000 -24.21% 14
Lancashire -50 40 £50,000 +17.65% 66
Merseyside +1 31 £32,500 -40.91% 16
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (14.81%) Confluence
2 14 (5.19%) IIS
3 13 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (4.44%) CMS
4 12 (4.44%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.74%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.07%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 169 (62.59%) Azure
2 140 (51.85%) AWS
3 45 (16.67%) GCP
4 18 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.44%) SaaS
6 11 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (2.22%) GitHub
9 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.48%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.48%) Firebase
10 4 (1.48%) Serverless
11 2 (0.74%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.37%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.37%) dbt
12 1 (0.37%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.37%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.44%) DNS
2 11 (4.07%) Intranet
3 10 (3.70%) Firewall
4 9 (3.33%) DHCP
5 8 (2.96%) SAN
6 7 (2.59%) NAS
6 7 (2.59%) VLAN
7 4 (1.48%) VSAN
8 3 (1.11%) DMZ
8 3 (1.11%) VPN
9 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.37%) RTP
10 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.37%) STUN
10 1 (0.37%) VoIP
10 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.85%) MongoDB
2 18 (6.67%) Power BI
3 17 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (3.33%) MySQL
7 8 (2.96%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.22%) Data Hub
8 6 (2.22%) SQL CLR
9 5 (1.85%) Big Data
10 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.11%) Metadata
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.74%) Redis
12 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.37%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 111 (41.11%) Bitbucket
1 111 (41.11%) Maven
2 110 (40.74%) Cucumber
2 110 (40.74%) GitLab
2 110 (40.74%) JIRA
2 110 (40.74%) Selenium
2 110 (40.74%) SonarQube
2 110 (40.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 25 (9.26%) Git
4 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.11%) JMeter
5 3 (1.11%) NUnit
5 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.37%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.37%) JUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.37%) Mockito
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 134 (49.63%) Finance
2 113 (41.85%) Banking
3 109 (40.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (32.59%) Retail
5 70 (25.93%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (25.93%) Investment Banking
6 43 (15.93%) Social Skills
7 13 (4.81%) Back Office
8 9 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.59%) Law
10 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (41.48%) Software Engineer
2 93 (34.44%) Developer
3 40 (14.81%) .NET Developer
4 33 (12.22%) Senior
5 21 (7.78%) Senior Developer
6 16 (5.93%) Lead
7 12 (4.44%) Lead Developer
8 11 (4.07%) C# Developer
8 11 (4.07%) Umbraco Developer
9 10 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 10 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
9 10 (3.70%) SQL Developer
10 9 (3.33%) Software Developer
10 9 (3.33%) Systems Support
11 8 (2.96%) Lead .NET Developer
11 8 (2.96%) Support Specialist
12 7 (2.59%) C# .NET Developer
12 7 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.59%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (54.07%) CSS
2 143 (52.96%) HTML
3 123 (45.56%) Kafka
3 123 (45.56%) React
4 111 (41.11%) Spring Boot
5 110 (40.74%) JPA
5 110 (40.74%) Redux
6 109 (40.37%) Spring
7 84 (31.11%) HTML5
8 81 (30.00%) RESTful
9 75 (27.78%) Jest
9 75 (27.78%) REST
9 75 (27.78%) Sass
10 73 (27.04%) CSS3
11 71 (26.30%) .NET
12 40 (14.81%) Hibernate
13 35 (12.96%) .NET Core
14 23 (8.52%) ASP.NET
15 16 (5.93%) .NET Framework
16 15 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 113 (41.85%) Product Ownership
2 109 (40.37%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.07%) NHS
4 10 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 6 (2.22%) Clustering
6 6 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.85%) EPoS
7 5 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.37%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.52%) Windows
2 19 (7.04%) Linux
3 13 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.74%) Debian
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (60.74%) Agile
2 138 (51.11%) Microservices
3 134 (49.63%) DevOps
4 133 (49.26%) CI/CD
5 130 (48.15%) Performance Optimisation
6 128 (47.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 124 (45.93%) Software Engineering
8 123 (45.56%) SDLC
9 118 (43.70%) Containerisation
10 114 (42.22%) Front End Development
11 112 (41.48%) Test Automation
12 92 (34.07%) Mentoring
13 84 (31.11%) Migration
14 79 (29.26%) User Experience
15 71 (26.30%) Responsive Web Design
16 70 (25.93%) Strategic Thinking
17 64 (23.70%) Clean Code
18 57 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
20 50 (18.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 195 (72.22%) SQL
2 147 (54.44%) JavaScript
3 118 (43.70%) Java
4 85 (31.48%) TypeScript
5 73 (27.04%) C#
6 22 (8.15%) Python
7 16 (5.93%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.59%) PHP
9 2 (0.74%) Bicep
9 2 (0.74%) C++
9 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.37%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) R
10 1 (0.37%) Ruby
10 1 (0.37%) VB6
10 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (9.26%) Degree
2 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
2 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (1.48%) DBS Check
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.74%) CISM
4 2 (0.74%) CISSP
4 2 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (41.48%) QA
2 82 (30.37%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.81%) GDPR
4 11 (4.07%) WCAG
5 7 (2.59%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.74%) NCSC
7 2 (0.74%) NIST
7 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 124 (45.93%) Docker
2 13 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (42.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.22%) Terraform
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.48%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.37%) Grafana
5 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (40.37%) Solace
2 54 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.30%) VMware
4 11 (4.07%) HP
5 9 (3.33%) Splunk
6 7 (2.59%) Oracle
7 6 (2.22%) Veeam
8 5 (1.85%) Google
8 5 (1.85%) MobileIron
9 4 (1.48%) Cisco
10 3 (1.11%) ESET
10 3 (1.11%) Sophos
11 2 (0.74%) Talend
12 1 (0.37%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.37%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.37%) IBM
12 1 (0.37%) Imperva
12 1 (0.37%) Rollbar
12 1 (0.37%) SAP
12 1 (0.37%) Veracode