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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 33 70
Rank change year-on-year -68 +37 -28
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 277 547 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.57% 5.33% 4.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.74% 30.19% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 152 496 315
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,520
25th Percentile £39,375 £40,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,167
90th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%

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 754 1,812 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.71% 17.64% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 416 1,253 859
10th Percentile £34,253 £33,122 £34,578
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,650 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £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 29 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 29 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 -26 110 £55,043 +10.09% 75
Cheshire -6 64 £48,750 +21.88% 24
Merseyside +6 37 £32,500 -40.91% 25
Lancashire -80 36 £50,000 +17.65% 39
Cumbria -60 30 £41,000 -21.90%
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 (14.08%) Confluence
2 18 (6.50%) CMS
2 18 (6.50%) Umbraco
3 11 (3.97%) IIS
4 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 160 (57.76%) Azure
2 131 (47.29%) AWS
3 45 (16.25%) GCP
4 18 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.69%) SaaS
6 7 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 6 (2.17%) Serverless
8 5 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.81%) GitHub
9 4 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.08%) Firebase
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.36%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.36%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.36%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.14%) Intranet
2 10 (3.61%) DNS
3 7 (2.53%) DHCP
3 7 (2.53%) NAS
3 7 (2.53%) SAN
4 6 (2.17%) Firewall
5 5 (1.81%) VSAN
6 2 (0.72%) DMZ
6 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.72%) VLAN
6 2 (0.72%) VPN
7 1 (0.36%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.39%) MongoDB
2 18 (6.50%) Power BI
3 16 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.89%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.89%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.81%) Big Data
7 5 (1.81%) Data Hub
7 5 (1.81%) MySQL
7 5 (1.81%) SQL CLR
8 3 (1.08%) Metadata
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 111 (40.07%) JIRA
2 110 (39.71%) Bitbucket
2 110 (39.71%) Maven
3 109 (39.35%) Cucumber
3 109 (39.35%) GitLab
3 109 (39.35%) Selenium
3 109 (39.35%) SonarQube
3 109 (39.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 24 (8.66%) Git
5 6 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.81%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.08%) JMeter
8 3 (1.08%) NUnit
9 1 (0.36%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.36%) Subversion
9 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (46.57%) Finance
2 114 (41.16%) Banking
3 109 (39.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (30.32%) Retail
5 70 (25.27%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (25.27%) Investment Banking
6 45 (16.25%) Social Skills
7 11 (3.97%) Back Office
8 7 (2.53%) Law
9 6 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Legal
10 2 (0.72%) Local Government
10 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (40.79%) Software Engineer
2 112 (40.43%) Developer
3 36 (13.00%) Software Developer
4 32 (11.55%) .NET Developer
5 27 (9.75%) Senior
6 19 (6.86%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.14%) Umbraco Developer
8 13 (4.69%) C# Developer
9 11 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.61%) Lead
10 10 (3.61%) SQL Developer
11 9 (3.25%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (2.89%) Senior .NET Developer
13 7 (2.53%) Analyst
13 7 (2.53%) Database Developer
13 7 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.53%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.17%) DBA
15 5 (1.81%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (53.79%) CSS
2 144 (51.99%) HTML
3 121 (43.68%) React
4 120 (43.32%) Kafka
5 110 (39.71%) Spring Boot
6 109 (39.35%) JPA
6 109 (39.35%) Redux
6 109 (39.35%) Spring
7 90 (32.49%) HTML5
8 81 (29.24%) RESTful
9 74 (26.71%) Jest
9 74 (26.71%) REST
9 74 (26.71%) Sass
10 73 (26.35%) CSS3
11 58 (20.94%) .NET
12 39 (14.08%) Hibernate
13 29 (10.47%) .NET Core
14 21 (7.58%) ASP.NET
15 19 (6.86%) jQuery
16 14 (5.05%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 113 (40.79%) Product Ownership
2 109 (39.35%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (9.75%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.14%) NHS
5 7 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.08%) Clustering
9 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.72%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.72%) EPoS
11 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.36%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.50%) Windows
2 16 (5.78%) Linux
3 7 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.36%) Debian
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (66.06%) Agile
2 149 (53.79%) Software Engineering
3 129 (46.57%) Microservices
4 128 (46.21%) CI/CD
5 127 (45.85%) Performance Optimisation
6 126 (45.49%) Full-Stack Development
7 125 (45.13%) DevOps
8 120 (43.32%) SDLC
9 118 (42.60%) Containerisation
10 111 (40.07%) Test Automation
11 110 (39.71%) Front End Development
12 91 (32.85%) Mentoring
13 85 (30.69%) Migration
14 78 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (28.16%) User Experience
15 70 (25.27%) Responsive Web Design
15 70 (25.27%) Strategic Thinking
16 67 (24.19%) Clean Code
17 50 (18.05%) TDD
18 48 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 185 (66.79%) SQL
2 144 (51.99%) Java
3 137 (49.46%) JavaScript
4 95 (34.30%) C#
5 83 (29.96%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.86%) Python
7 17 (6.14%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.81%) PHP
9 2 (0.72%) Bicep
9 2 (0.72%) C++
9 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Ruby
10 1 (0.36%) VB
10 1 (0.36%) VB6
10 1 (0.36%) VBA
10 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (22.02%) Degree
2 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (1.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.44%) DBS Check
3 4 (1.44%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.72%) CISM
5 2 (0.72%) CISSP
5 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (40.43%) QA
2 88 (31.77%) Accessibility
3 20 (7.22%) GDPR
4 17 (6.14%) WCAG
5 6 (2.17%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.44%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.72%) NCSC
7 2 (0.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 122 (44.04%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.81%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (41.52%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.53%) Terraform
3 5 (1.81%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (39.35%) Solace
2 44 (15.88%) Microsoft
3 38 (13.72%) Oracle
4 17 (6.14%) HP
5 13 (4.69%) VMware
6 6 (2.17%) Google
6 6 (2.17%) Splunk
7 4 (1.44%) Databricks
8 3 (1.08%) Cisco
8 3 (1.08%) Sage
8 3 (1.08%) SAP
8 3 (1.08%) Veeam
9 2 (0.72%) ESET
9 2 (0.72%) MobileIron
9 2 (0.72%) Sophos
10 1 (0.36%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.36%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.36%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.36%) Talend