SQL Job Trends in Northampton

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 13 27
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL 20 23 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 3.10% 10.85% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.41% 41.82% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 10
10th Percentile £53,825 - £29,775
25th Percentile £56,310 £31,250 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,366 £43,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.55% -7.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68,125 £53,750 £53,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £61,700 £57,250
Northamptonshire median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -11.11%

All Programming Languages
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 68 55 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 10.54% 25.94% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 31 48 53
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,563 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,092 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% +0.18% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,425 £77,250
Northamptonshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,842 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.32% -0.32% -16.67%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

SQL job vacancy trend in Northampton

SQL
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Northampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Northampton over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Northampton

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (30.00%) Serverless
5 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (10.00%) Collibra
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (5.00%) FTP
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) RTP
1 1 (5.00%) RTSP
1 1 (5.00%) SCTP
1 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (5.00%) SS7
1 1 (5.00%) VoIP
1 1 (5.00%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) Power BI
2 8 (40.00%) Tableau
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (15.00%) Power Query
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Analyst
2 10 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 8 (40.00%) Junior
3 8 (40.00%) Junior Analyst
3 8 (40.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 5 (25.00%) Developer
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) Architect
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Architect
7 2 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (20.00%) Node.js
2 4 (20.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) FFmpeg
4 1 (5.00%) GStreamer
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.00%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (5.00%) WebRTC
4 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) CUDA
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Pricing Data
2 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (45.00%) AI
3 6 (30.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle