SQL Server Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 28 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 +37 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 32 88 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.87% 6.55% 2.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 46.38% 31.54% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 28 82 24
10th Percentile £25,000 - £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £38,546
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -0.36% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68,375 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £66,239 £75,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% +11.76% +6.25%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 69 279 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 14.81% 20.76% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 60 239 79
10th Percentile £31,599 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,763 £36,625 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £69,063 £71,991 £69,824
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,759 £75,200
North East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £49,557
% change year-on-year +15.79% -4.15% +23.89%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Tyne and Wear

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Tyne and Wear

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Tyne and Wear

SQL Server
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +3 31 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Gateshead +5 1 £29,000 -3.33% 1
SQL Server
North East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) OpenEdge
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
3 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) Slack
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) IaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) SAN
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Selenium
1 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
2 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
3 3 (9.38%) Git
3 3 (9.38%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) Maven
3 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.25%) NUnit
4 2 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
4 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Advertising
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) DBA
3 4 (12.50%) Graduate
3 4 (12.50%) Graduate Developer
3 4 (12.50%) IT Graduate
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Database Developer
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Database Developer
4 3 (9.38%) SQL DBA
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Graduate C# Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 1 (3.13%) PHP Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) .NET
2 10 (31.25%) ASP.NET
3 8 (25.00%) React
4 7 (21.88%) CSS
5 6 (18.75%) .NET Core
6 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (12.50%) HTML
7 4 (12.50%) jQuery
7 4 (12.50%) REST
8 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (9.38%) JPA
8 3 (9.38%) Kafka
8 3 (9.38%) Redux
8 3 (9.38%) Spring
8 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
9 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
9 2 (6.25%) CSS3
9 2 (6.25%) HTML5
9 2 (6.25%) Jest
9 2 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (12.50%) Hedge funds
3 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Solaris
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile
1 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
3 9 (28.13%) MVC
3 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
4 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) OO
5 7 (21.88%) OOP
5 7 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
7 5 (15.63%) E-Commerce
7 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (12.50%) Change Data Capture
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.50%) High Availability
8 4 (12.50%) SDLC
9 3 (9.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) SQL
2 19 (59.38%) C#
3 15 (46.88%) Java
4 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (21.88%) Python
6 5 (15.63%) C++
7 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (12.50%) PHP
8 3 (9.38%) T-SQL
9 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (3.13%) VB.NET
10 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Degree
2 9 (28.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (9.38%) Grafana
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (9.38%) Solace
4 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) Telerik