SQL Server Jobs in Northern Ireland

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 43 57 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -29
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 30 56 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.66% 5.59% 6.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.85% 17.45% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 21 41 28
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £26,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +43.84% -18.89%
75th Percentile £62,750 £60,000 £50,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 104 321 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 19.62% 32.04% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 54 124 109
10th Percentile £32,650 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,063 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.56% -11.01% +45.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £67,050 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Northern Ireland

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Northern Ireland

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Northern Ireland

SQL Server
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. 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
County Antrim +16 27 £45,000 -15.89% 14
County Londonderry +9 2 £40,000 -1.23%
County Down +12 1 - -
County Tyrone - 1 - - 2
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (6.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (6.67%) LAN
2 2 (6.67%) VoIP
2 2 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) IP Telephony
3 1 (3.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (6.67%) QlikView
3 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Maven
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) Software Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Database Specialist
7 1 (3.33%) DBA
7 1 (3.33%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) .NET
2 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (30.00%) jQuery
3 6 (20.00%) HTML
4 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 5 (16.67%) CSS
4 5 (16.67%) HTML5
4 5 (16.67%) Web Services
5 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (13.33%) Entity Framework
5 4 (13.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 4 (13.33%) WCF
6 3 (10.00%) Blazor
6 3 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (3.33%) Spring
7 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) CCTV
3 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) EPoS
4 1 (3.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) MVC
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (20.00%) Web Development
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (13.33%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.00%) DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (10.00%) Server Management
5 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.00%) Service Management
5 3 (10.00%) Statistics
5 3 (10.00%) Time Management
6 2 (6.67%) CRM
6 2 (6.67%) ITIL
6 2 (6.67%) ITSM
6 2 (6.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) C#
2 15 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) HND
3 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Sage
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Sybase
3 1 (3.33%) Ubiquiti