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 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -60 +1 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 194 317 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.48% 6.42% 8.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.04% 33.26% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 150 281 403
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,716
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +10.58%

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 807 953 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.30% 19.29% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 425 726 976
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,541
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,875 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +8.33% -6.29% +6.72%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -55 72 £52,500 -4.55% 60
Cheshire -8 43 £50,000 +25.00% 4
Merseyside +17 39 £32,500 -35.00% 7
Cumbria -53 31 £41,000 -13.68% 3
Lancashire -99 9 £52,500 +7.69% 11
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 28 (14.43%) CMS
2 26 (13.40%) Umbraco
3 7 (3.61%) Apache
3 7 (3.61%) IIS
4 5 (2.58%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 84 (43.30%) Azure
2 28 (14.43%) AWS
3 19 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 13 (6.70%) SaaS
6 11 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (5.67%) GCP
7 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.64%) Serverless
8 6 (3.09%) IaaS
8 6 (3.09%) PaaS
8 6 (3.09%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.06%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.06%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.06%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (2.06%) GitHub
10 4 (2.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.40%) Intranet
2 13 (6.70%) DNS
2 13 (6.70%) Firewall
3 8 (4.12%) VPN
4 6 (3.09%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.09%) VLAN
5 5 (2.58%) DHCP
6 4 (2.06%) IPv6
6 4 (2.06%) MPLS
7 2 (1.03%) LAN
7 2 (1.03%) Network Security
7 2 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (1.03%) WAN
8 1 (0.52%) Internet
8 1 (0.52%) NAS
8 1 (0.52%) SAN
8 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (7.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.70%) Power BI
4 11 (5.67%) MySQL
5 9 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.58%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.55%) Power Query
10 3 (1.55%) Tableau
11 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.03%) Big Data
11 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.52%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (6.70%) Git
2 8 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.58%) JIRA
4 4 (2.06%) Jasmine
4 4 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (2.06%) Selenium
4 4 (2.06%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.03%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) git-flow
7 1 (0.52%) NUnit
7 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.31%) Manufacturing
3 11 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.64%) Law
5 7 (3.61%) Finance
5 7 (3.61%) Retail
6 5 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.58%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.55%) Back Office
7 3 (1.55%) Legal
8 2 (1.03%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (60.31%) Developer
2 52 (26.80%) Software Developer
3 26 (13.40%) Umbraco Developer
4 24 (12.37%) Senior
5 21 (10.82%) .NET Developer
6 18 (9.28%) C# Developer
7 16 (8.25%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.70%) C# .NET Developer
9 12 (6.19%) .NET Software Developer
9 12 (6.19%) C# Software Developer
10 11 (5.67%) DBA
11 10 (5.15%) Administrator
11 10 (5.15%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.64%) Lead
12 9 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.61%) Lead Developer
15 6 (3.09%) Analyst
15 6 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.02%) .NET
2 38 (19.59%) .NET Core
3 34 (17.53%) CSS
3 34 (17.53%) HTML
4 31 (15.98%) .NET Framework
5 30 (15.46%) ASP.NET
6 29 (14.95%) HTML5
7 27 (13.92%) jQuery
8 20 (10.31%) React
9 17 (8.76%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.76%) REST
10 9 (4.64%) RESTful
11 8 (4.12%) JSON
12 7 (3.61%) Laravel
12 7 (3.61%) SOAP
12 7 (3.61%) Vue
12 7 (3.61%) XML
13 6 (3.09%) Web Services
13 6 (3.09%) WPF
14 5 (2.58%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.92%) Management Information System
1 27 (13.92%) NHS
2 16 (8.25%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.12%) IoT
3 8 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.61%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.09%) Home Automation
6 4 (2.06%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.06%) Replication
7 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.55%) Digital Signage
7 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.55%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.03%) CCTV
8 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.03%) FMCG
8 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Life Science
8 2 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.79%) Windows
2 17 (8.76%) Linux
3 10 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.61%) Android
5 5 (2.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.58%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.06%) Unix
7 2 (1.03%) Debian
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (44.33%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (38.66%) Agile
3 54 (27.84%) Software Engineering
4 42 (21.65%) Clean Code
5 33 (17.01%) OO
5 33 (17.01%) OOP
6 32 (16.49%) ITIL
7 31 (15.98%) Web Development
8 30 (15.46%) Architectural Design
9 29 (14.95%) Service Delivery
10 28 (14.43%) Business Analysis
11 26 (13.40%) CI/CD
11 26 (13.40%) Content Management
11 26 (13.40%) Customer Requirements
11 26 (13.40%) DevOps
12 25 (12.89%) Information Management
12 25 (12.89%) Mentoring
13 23 (11.86%) Scrum
14 17 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (8.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 118 (60.82%) C#
2 102 (52.58%) SQL
3 29 (14.95%) Java
4 21 (10.82%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.76%) Python
6 16 (8.25%) T-SQL
6 16 (8.25%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.67%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.61%) PHP
9 6 (3.09%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.06%) VB
11 3 (1.55%) Bash
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.03%) Bicep
12 2 (1.03%) Go
12 2 (1.03%) VB6
13 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (47.42%) Degree
2 10 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) MCITP
4 3 (1.55%) MCTS
4 3 (1.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.52%) HND
5 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.95%) GDPR
2 26 (13.40%) Accessibility
2 26 (13.40%) WCAG
3 7 (3.61%) QA
4 6 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.06%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.19%) Docker
3 9 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.61%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.09%) vSphere
6 2 (1.03%) Firmware
6 2 (1.03%) KVM
6 2 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.12%) Terraform
3 5 (2.58%) Ansible
4 4 (2.06%) Puppet
5 2 (1.03%) Nessus
5 2 (1.03%) SCCM
6 1 (0.52%) CloudForms
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (28.35%) Microsoft
2 42 (21.65%) Oracle
3 26 (13.40%) HP
4 18 (9.28%) VMware
5 7 (3.61%) Databricks
5 7 (3.61%) Veeam
6 6 (3.09%) Google
7 4 (2.06%) Sage
7 4 (2.06%) SAP
7 4 (2.06%) Zerto
8 3 (1.55%) Apple
8 3 (1.55%) Cisco
8 3 (1.55%) IBM
8 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.03%) arcserve
9 2 (1.03%) ATG
9 2 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.03%) Lotus
9 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.03%) Sophos