SQL Server Jobs in the North West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 46 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 243 944 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.91% 10.45% 8.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.10% 41.86% 37.88%
Number of salaries quoted 203 467 585
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,395 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,875 £56,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £72,500 £64,900
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +11.65% +3.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 835 2,255 1,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.32% 24.96% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 638 1,156 1,453
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,056 £83,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% +9.09%

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -17 136 £57,500 +4.77% 94
Lancashire +20 43 £50,000 +17.65% 22
Cheshire -11 39 £40,500 -4.71% 37
Merseyside -33 18 £51,250 +9.04% 30
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 15 (6.17%) IIS
2 8 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.65%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) SAS
4 3 (1.23%) NServiceBus
4 3 (1.23%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.82%) CMS
Applications
1 20 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.06%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.41%) ReMetrica
Cloud Services
1 104 (42.80%) Azure
2 45 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (16.46%) Power Platform
4 32 (13.17%) AWS
5 29 (11.93%) SaaS
6 19 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (6.58%) Entra ID
9 12 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.53%) IaaS
10 11 (4.53%) PaaS
11 6 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.65%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.65%) Azure Event Grid
13 4 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.65%) GCP
14 3 (1.23%) WhatsApp
14 3 (1.23%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.17%) Firewall
2 14 (5.76%) LAN
3 13 (5.35%) DNS
3 13 (5.35%) Structured Cabling
3 13 (5.35%) VoIP
3 13 (5.35%) WAN
4 9 (3.70%) DHCP
4 9 (3.70%) NAS
4 9 (3.70%) SAN
5 5 (2.06%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (1.65%) IP Telephony
7 2 (0.82%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.82%) FTP
7 2 (0.82%) PBX
7 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.82%) VPN
7 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.82%) WLAN
8 1 (0.41%) Network Security
8 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.40%) Power BI
2 34 (13.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 29 (11.93%) MySQL
4 24 (9.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (8.23%) Relational Database
7 19 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.88%) Tableau
11 6 (2.47%) Data Mining
11 6 (2.47%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.47%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.65%) Tableau Desktop
12 4 (1.65%) Tableau Server
13 3 (1.23%) Big Data
13 3 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (1.23%) OLAP
13 3 (1.23%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 13 (5.35%) Git
2 8 (3.29%) JIRA
3 6 (2.47%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.65%) Postman
4 4 (1.65%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.23%) git-flow
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.82%) Maven
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.41%) MSTest
7 1 (0.41%) NUnit
7 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 65 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.70%) Finance
4 22 (9.05%) Law
5 16 (6.58%) Retail
6 8 (3.29%) Legal
6 8 (3.29%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.88%) Marketing
7 7 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (2.88%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.06%) Advertising
9 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Banking
12 1 (0.41%) French Language
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (39.92%) Developer
2 44 (18.11%) .NET Developer
3 39 (16.05%) Senior
4 28 (11.52%) Analyst
4 28 (11.52%) C# Developer
5 27 (11.11%) SQL Developer
6 20 (8.23%) Applications Support
6 20 (8.23%) Architect
7 18 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (7.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 17 (7.00%) Data Engineer
8 17 (7.00%) SQL Server Developer
9 14 (5.76%) Support Engineer
10 13 (5.35%) Support Analyst
11 12 (4.94%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.53%) Lead
12 11 (4.53%) Senior Applications Support
12 11 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.12%) Applications Support Analyst
14 9 (3.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (39.09%) .NET
2 51 (20.99%) .NET Core
3 37 (15.23%) ASP.NET
4 24 (9.88%) HTML
5 20 (8.23%) CSS
6 18 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web API
7 16 (6.58%) AngularJS
7 16 (6.58%) REST
8 14 (5.76%) SOAP
9 13 (5.35%) .NET Framework
9 13 (5.35%) HTML5
10 12 (4.94%) Web Services
11 10 (4.12%) Entity Framework
12 9 (3.70%) Middleware
12 9 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.70%) React
13 8 (3.29%) Hibernate
13 8 (3.29%) Spring
14 7 (2.88%) JSON
14 7 (2.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (5.35%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.53%) Virtual Team
5 10 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.47%) Fat Client
7 6 (2.47%) Replication
7 6 (2.47%) Thin Client
8 5 (2.06%) Reinsurance
8 5 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.65%) Life Science
10 3 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.75%) Windows
2 54 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 26 (10.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 25 (10.29%) Windows 10
5 17 (7.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.06%) Linux
7 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.23%) Unix
9 2 (0.82%) CentOS
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (20.99%) Agile
3 43 (17.70%) DevOps
4 42 (17.28%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (11.93%) ETL
6 25 (10.29%) OOP
7 24 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (9.05%) ITIL
8 22 (9.05%) Software Engineering
9 20 (8.23%) MVC
9 20 (8.23%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (7.82%) Mentoring
10 19 (7.82%) Project Delivery
10 19 (7.82%) Unit Testing
10 19 (7.82%) Web Development
11 18 (7.41%) CI/CD
11 18 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (7.00%) Data Modelling
13 15 (6.17%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (5.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 138 (56.79%) SQL
2 92 (37.86%) C#
3 69 (28.40%) T-SQL
4 52 (21.40%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.17%) Python
7 14 (5.76%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.12%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.29%) Java
10 4 (1.65%) Go
11 3 (1.23%) PHP
12 2 (0.82%) Perl
12 2 (0.82%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) Bash
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (16.46%) Degree
2 16 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) MCTS
8 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) SLA
2 9 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (3.70%) QA
3 8 (3.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (23.05%) Active Directory
2 24 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.35%) vSphere
4 9 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (2.88%) Docker
6 6 (2.47%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.82%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.82%) OpenSIPS
8 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (5.35%) Nessus
2 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.23%) Ansible
3 3 (1.23%) MIIS
4 2 (0.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Identity Management
4 2 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.82%) Terraform
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 86 (35.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.35%) VMware
3 17 (7.00%) Oracle
4 14 (5.76%) Sophos
5 13 (5.35%) arcserve
5 13 (5.35%) Databricks
6 10 (4.12%) iManage
7 6 (2.47%) Epicor
8 4 (1.65%) Software AG
8 4 (1.65%) Verint
8 4 (1.65%) webMethods
9 3 (1.23%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.23%) Cisco
9 3 (1.23%) SAP
9 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.23%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.82%) Informatica
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.41%) Veeam