SQL Jobs in Northern Ireland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 19 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 68 345 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 13.10% 34.53% 19.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.17% 56.19% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 31 115 61
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +33.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £65,000 £61,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

SQL is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 199 614 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 38.34% 61.46% 54.77%
Number of salaries quoted 92 246 248
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,563 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

SQL
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

SQL
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SQL in Northern Ireland

SQL
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 within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 7 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 -15 65 £45,000 -10.00% 31
Newry +1 2 £50,000 -
County Down 0 2 £50,000 +2.56%
SQL
UK

SQL
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 5 (7.35%) CMS
2 3 (4.41%) IIS
2 3 (4.41%) Umbraco
2 3 (4.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.94%) SAS
3 2 (2.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.47%) Confluence
4 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) AWS
2 10 (14.71%) Azure
3 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) IaaS
7 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) DHCP
1 1 (1.47%) DNS
1 1 (1.47%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.47%) Firewall
1 1 (1.47%) IP Telephony
1 1 (1.47%) ISDN
1 1 (1.47%) MPLS
1 1 (1.47%) PBX
1 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.47%) VLAN
1 1 (1.47%) VPN
1 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle Database 11g
3 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.82%) Power BI
4 4 (5.88%) Big Data
4 4 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.41%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.41%) Tableau
6 2 (2.94%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.94%) JasperReports
6 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (2.94%) QlikView
6 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.47%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 9 (13.24%) JIRA
2 7 (10.29%) Git
3 4 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.88%) Maven
3 4 (5.88%) Selenium
4 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.94%) FitNesse
4 2 (2.94%) Gradle
4 2 (2.94%) NUnit
4 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.94%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.47%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle APEX
General
1 19 (27.94%) Finance
2 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.82%) Law
5 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.47%) Billing
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (47.06%) Developer
2 21 (30.88%) Senior
3 13 (19.12%) Senior Developer
4 10 (14.71%) Analyst
5 9 (13.24%) Consultant
5 9 (13.24%) Oracle Consultant
5 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Database Developer
7 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Database Developer
8 5 (7.35%) .NET Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Business Analyst
8 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Applications Support
9 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.53%) .NET
2 7 (10.29%) Spring
2 7 (10.29%) XML
3 6 (8.82%) CSS
3 6 (8.82%) HTML
4 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.35%) jQuery
4 5 (7.35%) Web Services
5 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.41%) Blazor
5 3 (4.41%) JSON
5 3 (4.41%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.94%) Ajax
6 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.94%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.94%) Kafka
6 2 (2.94%) Pandas
6 2 (2.94%) RESTful
6 2 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.41%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.47%) CCTV
5 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 4 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (1.47%) Android
3 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.47%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) Actionable Insight
2 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (23.53%) Migration
4 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (16.18%) Secure Coding
6 10 (14.71%) MVC
6 10 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (13.24%) Cost Management
7 9 (13.24%) Data Validation
7 9 (13.24%) Financial Modelling
7 9 (13.24%) Validation
8 8 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (11.76%) Unit Testing
8 8 (11.76%) Web Development
9 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (10.29%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.82%) Data Migration
10 6 (8.82%) Design Patterns
10 6 (8.82%) SDLC
11 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) C#
2 9 (13.24%) Java
2 9 (13.24%) JavaScript
2 9 (13.24%) PL/SQL
2 9 (13.24%) Python
3 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.94%) Bash
4 2 (2.94%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) R
5 1 (1.47%) Scala
5 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) Degree
2 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
2 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) OCP
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.94%) PhD
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Oracle
2 9 (13.24%) Hyperion
3 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.41%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) Minitab
6 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.47%) Sybase
6 1 (1.47%) VMware