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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 27 62 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.38% 8.96% 30.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.30% 23.85% 46.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6 35 151
10th Percentile £34,750 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +28.62%
75th Percentile £66,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £85,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +8.23%

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 67 260 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.26% 37.57% 64.17%
Number of salaries quoted 23 159 335
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £76,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £97,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +12 25 £55,000 - 49
County Londonderry - 1 £28,000 - 1
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 6 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (18.52%) Apache
3 4 (14.81%) SAS
4 2 (7.41%) Confluence
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) IPv6
1 2 (7.41%) Multicast
1 2 (7.41%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (7.41%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) LAN
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Apache Hive
2 5 (18.52%) Big Data
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) Tableau
3 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
3 4 (14.81%) MySQL
4 3 (11.11%) DB2
5 2 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
5 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.70%) GIS
6 1 (3.70%) Impala
6 1 (3.70%) Looker
6 1 (3.70%) MS Access
6 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI
6 1 (3.70%) QlikView
6 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Archiva
2 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
2 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (7.41%) Vagrant
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Advertising
4 4 (14.81%) Retail
4 4 (14.81%) Wholesale Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Apache Spark Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Risk Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Risk Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Database Developer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) SQL Database Developer
5 2 (7.41%) SQL Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Spring
1 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 5 (18.52%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) Hibernate
3 4 (14.81%) J2EE
3 4 (14.81%) Java EE
3 4 (14.81%) JSON
4 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (7.41%) React
5 1 (3.70%) .NET
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.41%) CCTV
3 2 (7.41%) PKI
3 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) AS400
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Agile
1 8 (29.63%) Analytics
1 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (22.22%) Migration
3 5 (18.52%) Low Latency
3 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
3 5 (18.52%) OO
3 5 (18.52%) OOD
3 5 (18.52%) Scrum
3 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
3 5 (18.52%) Statistical Modelling
4 4 (14.81%) Concurrent Programming
4 4 (14.81%) Data Management
4 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (14.81%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (14.81%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
5 3 (11.11%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.70%) C#
7 1 (3.70%) RPG
7 1 (3.70%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Argo
2 2 (7.41%) Control-M
2 2 (7.41%) Kustomize
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Sybase
3 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk