SQL Jobs in the North West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -34 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 484 1,138 1,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.23% 11.13% 18.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.75% 38.11% 46.43%
Number of salaries quoted 303 906 729
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +1.94% +4.04%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,964 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +6.19%

All Programming Languages
North West

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,332 2,986 3,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.03% 29.21% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 2,407 1,763
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in the North West

SQL
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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 -7 252 £55,000 - 696
Cheshire -10 96 £36,500 -27.00% 385
Lancashire -79 80 £55,030 +15.85% 243
Merseyside -5 54 £40,000 -27.27% 187
Cumbria -102 2 £52,750 +24.12% 3
SQL
England

SQL
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 47 (9.71%) Confluence
2 19 (3.93%) CMS
3 18 (3.72%) Umbraco
4 11 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.45%) Apache
5 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.45%) SAS
6 6 (1.24%) IIS
7 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.86%) Unit4 Business World
2 5 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.03%) Sage 200
2 5 (1.03%) Sage CRM
3 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 223 (46.07%) Azure
2 187 (38.64%) AWS
3 68 (14.05%) Power Platform
4 67 (13.84%) GCP
5 18 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (3.72%) SaaS
6 17 (3.51%) Serverless
7 14 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.48%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (1.86%) GitHub
11 8 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.45%) dbt
12 7 (1.45%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.72%) Intranet
2 10 (2.07%) DNS
3 8 (1.65%) DHCP
4 6 (1.24%) Firewall
5 5 (1.03%) NAS
5 5 (1.03%) SAN
5 5 (1.03%) VSAN
6 2 (0.41%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.41%) VLAN
6 2 (0.41%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) WAN
7 1 (0.21%) ADSL
7 1 (0.21%) Internet
7 1 (0.21%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (38.43%) SQL Server
2 64 (13.22%) Power BI
3 30 (6.20%) NoSQL
4 28 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (5.37%) Relational Database
6 25 (5.17%) MySQL
7 18 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.10%) Big Data
9 14 (2.89%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (2.89%) Tableau
10 12 (2.48%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.24%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.24%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.03%) Data Hub
14 5 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 120 (24.79%) JIRA
2 117 (24.17%) Selenium
3 113 (23.35%) Cucumber
3 113 (23.35%) GitLab
3 113 (23.35%) Maven
4 112 (23.14%) SonarQube
4 112 (23.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 111 (22.93%) Bitbucket
6 41 (8.47%) Git
7 8 (1.65%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (1.03%) ClearCase
9 5 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.03%) JMeter
9 5 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.62%) JUnit
10 3 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.62%) Postman
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 176 (36.36%) Finance
2 138 (28.51%) Banking
3 129 (26.65%) Social Skills
4 117 (24.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (21.90%) Retail
6 72 (14.88%) Investment Banking
7 70 (14.46%) Corporate Banking
8 48 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
9 29 (5.99%) Aerospace
10 22 (4.55%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.10%) Law
12 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Back Office
13 5 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.03%) Legal
13 5 (1.03%) Marketing
13 5 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.83%) Advertising
14 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (27.48%) Software Engineer
2 100 (20.66%) Developer
3 61 (12.60%) Lead
4 59 (12.19%) Analyst
5 51 (10.54%) Senior
6 33 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 22 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 21 (4.34%) .NET Developer
9 18 (3.72%) Umbraco Developer
10 16 (3.31%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.10%) Architect
11 15 (3.10%) Support Specialist
12 14 (2.89%) Support Analyst
13 13 (2.69%) IT Support
13 13 (2.69%) Software Developer
14 12 (2.48%) Applications Support
14 12 (2.48%) C# Developer
14 12 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (2.48%) SQL Developer
15 11 (2.27%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (32.02%) HTML
2 151 (31.20%) CSS
3 130 (26.86%) React
4 123 (25.41%) Kafka
5 118 (24.38%) Spring
6 117 (24.17%) Spring Boot
7 110 (22.73%) Redux
8 109 (22.52%) JPA
9 91 (18.80%) HTML5
9 91 (18.80%) RESTful
10 78 (16.12%) REST
11 74 (15.29%) Jest
11 74 (15.29%) Sass
12 73 (15.08%) CSS3
13 54 (11.16%) .NET
14 42 (8.68%) Hibernate
15 20 (4.13%) .NET Framework
15 20 (4.13%) jQuery
16 16 (3.31%) XML
17 15 (3.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 117 (24.17%) Product Ownership
2 110 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (4.13%) NHS
4 15 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.45%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.45%) EPoS
7 7 (1.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 7 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.03%) CCTV
9 5 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.03%) LIMS
10 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.82%) Linux
2 19 (3.93%) Windows
3 4 (0.83%) Unix
3 4 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (44.01%) Agile
2 159 (32.85%) DevOps
3 154 (31.82%) SDLC
4 150 (30.99%) Software Engineering
5 146 (30.17%) CI/CD
6 137 (28.31%) Microservices
7 129 (26.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 128 (26.45%) Test Automation
9 120 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (24.59%) Containerisation
11 118 (24.38%) Performance Optimisation
12 113 (23.35%) Mentoring
13 110 (22.73%) Front End Development
14 105 (21.69%) Migration
15 93 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 82 (16.94%) User Experience
17 75 (15.50%) Strategic Thinking
18 73 (15.08%) Business Intelligence
19 70 (14.46%) Analytics
19 70 (14.46%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 182 (37.60%) Java
2 169 (34.92%) JavaScript
3 97 (20.04%) TypeScript
4 95 (19.63%) Python
5 75 (15.50%) C#
6 23 (4.75%) PHP
6 23 (4.75%) T-SQL
7 14 (2.89%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.48%) R
10 8 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.45%) Bash
11 7 (1.45%) C++
11 7 (1.45%) C-shell
11 7 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.45%) Go
11 7 (1.45%) Korn
12 6 (1.24%) MATLAB
12 6 (1.24%) VBA
13 5 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 119 (24.59%) Degree
2 30 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.10%) Azure Certification
4 13 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.27%) PhD
6 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.24%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.03%) HNC
9 5 (1.03%) HND
9 5 (1.03%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (24.38%) QA
2 94 (19.42%) Accessibility
3 28 (5.79%) GDPR
4 21 (4.34%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.72%) WCAG
6 6 (1.24%) ISO 9001
6 6 (1.24%) SLA
7 5 (1.03%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.03%) HL7
7 5 (1.03%) NIST
8 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.21%) PMO
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (29.96%) Docker
2 7 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.03%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 129 (26.65%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.34%) Terraform
3 5 (1.03%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.83%) Istio
5 3 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.41%) Kibana
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.41%) SCCM
6 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) Argo
7 1 (0.21%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.21%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 109 (22.52%) Solace
2 71 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 65 (13.43%) Oracle
4 19 (3.93%) Google
5 18 (3.72%) HP
6 16 (3.31%) Databricks
7 14 (2.89%) VMware
8 10 (2.07%) Informatica
9 5 (1.03%) Sage
10 4 (0.83%) Splunk
11 3 (0.62%) Adobe
11 3 (0.62%) DocuSign
11 3 (0.62%) Facebook
11 3 (0.62%) iManage
11 3 (0.62%) Intapp
11 3 (0.62%) New Relic
11 3 (0.62%) SAP
11 3 (0.62%) Talend
12 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.41%) Meraki