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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 31 70
Rank change year-on-year -67 +39 -27
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 287 552 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.59% 5.60% 4.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.71% 30.60% 25.89%
Number of salaries quoted 164 501 329
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,385
25th Percentile £39,375 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £61,938 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,125 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 761 1,804 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.51% 18.29% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 439 1,280 875
10th Percentile £32,800 £33,609 £33,850
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% +4.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -30 115 £57,500 +13.86% 153
Cheshire -4 67 £50,000 +25.00% 34
Merseyside +9 43 £32,500 -40.91% 21
Cumbria -59 31 £41,000 -21.90%
Lancashire -91 31 £50,890 +19.74% 60
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 39 (13.59%) Confluence
2 20 (6.97%) CMS
2 20 (6.97%) Umbraco
3 10 (3.48%) IIS
4 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 170 (59.23%) Azure
2 136 (47.39%) AWS
3 46 (16.03%) GCP
4 17 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.88%) SaaS
6 7 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.09%) Serverless
8 5 (1.74%) Azure Functions
8 5 (1.74%) GitHub
8 5 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.05%) Firebase
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.70%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.35%) dbt
12 1 (0.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.97%) Intranet
2 10 (3.48%) DNS
3 6 (2.09%) DHCP
3 6 (2.09%) NAS
3 6 (2.09%) SAN
4 5 (1.74%) Firewall
4 5 (1.74%) VSAN
5 2 (0.70%) DMZ
5 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.70%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) RTP
6 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.01%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.92%) Power BI
3 16 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.48%) MySQL
6 9 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.39%) Data Hub
8 4 (1.39%) SQL CLR
8 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.05%) Big Data
9 3 (1.05%) Metadata
9 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.35%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 111 (38.68%) JIRA
2 110 (38.33%) Bitbucket
2 110 (38.33%) Maven
3 109 (37.98%) Cucumber
3 109 (37.98%) GitLab
3 109 (37.98%) Selenium
3 109 (37.98%) SonarQube
3 109 (37.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 21 (7.32%) Git
5 6 (2.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.05%) JMeter
7 3 (1.05%) NUnit
8 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 128 (44.60%) Finance
2 114 (39.72%) Banking
3 109 (37.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (28.57%) Retail
5 70 (24.39%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (24.39%) Investment Banking
6 43 (14.98%) Social Skills
7 9 (3.14%) Back Office
8 8 (2.79%) Law
9 6 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Automotive
11 2 (0.70%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Local Government
11 2 (0.70%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) Military
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (41.81%) Software Engineer
2 119 (41.46%) Developer
3 38 (13.24%) Software Developer
4 33 (11.50%) Senior
5 29 (10.10%) .NET Developer
6 20 (6.97%) Umbraco Developer
7 19 (6.62%) Senior Developer
8 16 (5.57%) C# Developer
9 10 (3.48%) Lead
9 10 (3.48%) SQL Developer
10 9 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
10 9 (3.14%) Data Engineer
11 8 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.44%) Database Developer
12 7 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.44%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.44%) Senior .NET Developer
12 7 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (2.09%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (52.61%) CSS
2 147 (51.22%) HTML
3 125 (43.55%) React
4 118 (41.11%) Kafka
5 110 (38.33%) Spring Boot
6 109 (37.98%) JPA
6 109 (37.98%) Redux
6 109 (37.98%) Spring
7 93 (32.40%) HTML5
8 82 (28.57%) RESTful
9 74 (25.78%) REST
9 74 (25.78%) Sass
10 73 (25.44%) CSS3
11 70 (24.39%) Jest
12 62 (21.60%) .NET
13 39 (13.59%) Hibernate
14 31 (10.80%) .NET Core
15 24 (8.36%) ASP.NET
16 22 (7.67%) jQuery
17 20 (6.97%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 113 (39.37%) Product Ownership
2 109 (37.98%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (9.41%) Management Information System
4 20 (6.97%) NHS
5 6 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.70%) Clustering
8 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.70%) EPoS
9 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.35%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.35%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.27%) Windows
2 16 (5.57%) Linux
3 6 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.39%) Android
4 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Debian
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (66.20%) Agile
2 159 (55.40%) Software Engineering
3 130 (45.30%) DevOps
4 129 (44.95%) CI/CD
5 127 (44.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 125 (43.55%) Performance Optimisation
7 124 (43.21%) Microservices
8 121 (42.16%) Containerisation
8 121 (42.16%) SDLC
9 111 (38.68%) Test Automation
10 110 (38.33%) Front End Development
11 95 (33.10%) Mentoring
12 84 (29.27%) Migration
13 81 (28.22%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (27.18%) User Experience
15 71 (24.74%) Clean Code
16 70 (24.39%) Responsive Web Design
16 70 (24.39%) Strategic Thinking
17 54 (18.82%) TDD
18 46 (16.03%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 186 (64.81%) SQL
2 145 (50.52%) Java
3 140 (48.78%) JavaScript
4 104 (36.24%) C#
5 80 (27.87%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.92%) Python
6 17 (5.92%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.14%) PHP
8 3 (1.05%) Bicep
9 2 (0.70%) C++
9 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.35%) Bash
10 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.35%) Ruby
10 1 (0.35%) VB
10 1 (0.35%) VB6
10 1 (0.35%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (23.00%) Degree
2 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
2 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (1.39%) DBS Check
3 4 (1.39%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.05%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.70%) CISM
5 2 (0.70%) CISSP
5 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (39.72%) QA
2 91 (31.71%) Accessibility
3 22 (7.67%) GDPR
4 20 (6.97%) WCAG
5 6 (2.09%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.74%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.70%) NCSC
7 2 (0.70%) NIST
7 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 119 (41.46%) Docker
2 7 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.74%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.70%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (40.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.14%) Terraform
3 5 (1.74%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (37.98%) Solace
2 45 (15.68%) Microsoft
3 39 (13.59%) Oracle
4 20 (6.97%) HP
5 12 (4.18%) VMware
6 6 (2.09%) Google
7 5 (1.74%) Databricks
8 4 (1.39%) Splunk
9 3 (1.05%) Sage
9 3 (1.05%) SAP
10 2 (0.70%) Cisco
10 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.70%) Veeam
11 1 (0.35%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.35%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.35%) ESET
11 1 (0.35%) Facebook
11 1 (0.35%) Imperva
11 1 (0.35%) MobileIron
11 1 (0.35%) Talend