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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 41 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 31 72 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.51% 8.57% 8.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.79% 27.48% 50.89%
Number of salaries quoted 28 51 22
10th Percentile £38,750 - £28,775
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year - +35.14% +5.71%
75th Percentile £57,500 £64,375 £56,875
90th Percentile £58,250 £75,000 £68,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% +5.00%

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 136 262 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 19.77% 31.19% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 50 121 43
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £34,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +23.46% +1.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £54,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 0 31 £50,000 - 12
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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Music Industry
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (93.55%) Developer
2 25 (80.65%) Software Developer
3 12 (38.71%) C# Developer
3 12 (38.71%) C# Software Developer
3 12 (38.71%) Senior
3 12 (38.71%) Senior Developer
3 12 (38.71%) Senior Software Developer
4 9 (29.03%) .NET Developer
5 6 (19.35%) .NET Software Developer
5 6 (19.35%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Senior C# Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Senior C# Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.23%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Lead
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Sybase DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (67.74%) .NET
2 19 (61.29%) .NET Framework
2 19 (61.29%) Entity Framework
3 14 (45.16%) .NET Core
4 12 (38.71%) React
5 10 (32.26%) Blazor
5 10 (32.26%) jQuery
6 9 (29.03%) ASP.NET
6 9 (29.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 8 (25.81%) AngularJS
7 8 (25.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (25.81%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (19.35%) CSS
8 6 (19.35%) WCF
8 6 (19.35%) Web Services
9 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET MVC 5
9 5 (16.13%) HTML
9 5 (16.13%) HTML5
10 1 (3.23%) REST
10 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Social Network
2 1 (3.23%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) MVC
2 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (32.26%) End-to-End Testing
3 10 (32.26%) Front End Development
3 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) Responsive Web Design
5 4 (12.90%) Agile
5 4 (12.90%) Observability
5 4 (12.90%) SDLC
5 4 (12.90%) Statistics
5 4 (12.90%) Web Development
6 3 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (9.68%) Microservices
6 3 (9.68%) OO
7 2 (6.45%) CRM
7 2 (6.45%) Migration
7 2 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (3.23%) Performance Management
8 1 (3.23%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (90.32%) C#
2 17 (54.84%) SQL
3 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (16.13%) C
5 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Sybase