SSDT Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SSDT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SSDT 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.008% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £45,000 £44,175
% change year-on-year +72.22% +1.87% -11.65%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

SSDT 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 801 628 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.23% 12.29% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 577 382 438
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £78,625 £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

SSDT
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SSDT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

SSDT job vacancy trend in the North West

SSDT
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SSDT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SSDT

SSDT
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 SSDT within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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 - 1 £85,000 - 4
SSDT
England

SSDT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality