SQL Jobs in Northern Ireland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 12 3
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 50 143 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.23% 18.57% 33.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.81% 34.46% 54.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24 107 88
10th Percentile £32,700 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £45,313 £36,875 £34,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,654 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% -0.50% +40.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £82,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.19% +7.62%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 210 415 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 30.35% 53.90% 60.33%
Number of salaries quoted 123 254 177
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% +18.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £72,050
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 -11 48 £52,654 +5.31% 55
County Tyrone - 1 £56,000 - 1
County Down - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 4 (8.00%) CMS
1 4 (8.00%) WordPress
2 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (8.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 30 (60.00%) AWS
3 11 (22.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.00%) OCI
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.00%) dbt
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) HTTP
1 11 (22.00%) MQTT
1 11 (22.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 11 (22.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (22.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) GIS
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JUnit
1 4 (8.00%) Maven
2 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 26 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Music Industry
3 8 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (12.00%) Finance
5 5 (10.00%) Banking
6 4 (8.00%) Legal
7 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.00%) Law
8 1 (2.00%) Local Government
8 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (46.00%) Developer
2 16 (32.00%) Senior
3 12 (24.00%) Software Developer
4 11 (22.00%) Architect
4 11 (22.00%) Senior Developer
4 11 (22.00%) Software Architect
5 10 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
6 6 (12.00%) C# Developer
6 6 (12.00%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior C# Software Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Cloud Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Functional Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) React
2 12 (24.00%) AngularJS
3 11 (22.00%) .NET
3 11 (22.00%) Kafka
3 11 (22.00%) Node.js
3 11 (22.00%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (22.00%) RESTful
3 11 (22.00%) Web Services
4 10 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 10 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 10 (20.00%) Blazor
4 10 (20.00%) Entity Framework
5 8 (16.00%) CSS
6 6 (12.00%) REST
6 6 (12.00%) Spring
7 5 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 5 (10.00%) HTML
7 5 (10.00%) JPA
7 5 (10.00%) jQuery
7 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) IoT
2 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Analytics
2 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
3 15 (30.00%) Data Analytics
4 14 (28.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 13 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (22.00%) Computer Vision
7 11 (22.00%) Customer Requirements
7 11 (22.00%) Deep Learning
7 11 (22.00%) Microservices
7 11 (22.00%) Product Management
7 11 (22.00%) Threat Analysis
8 10 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 10 (20.00%) Front End Development
9 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (14.00%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
11 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) C#
3 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) C
6 4 (8.00%) PHP
6 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.00%) VBA
8 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (32.00%) Degree
2 11 (22.00%) Master's Degree
2 11 (22.00%) PhD
3 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Google
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.00%) Oracle
4 4 (8.00%) Hyperion
4 4 (8.00%) JD Edwards
4 4 (8.00%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (4.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.00%) ESRI