SQL Jobs in Tyne and Wear

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 71 182 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 15.20% 13.56% 17.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.97% 54.17% 49.39%
Number of salaries quoted 60 165 84
10th Percentile £24,625 £31,250 £34,300
25th Percentile £38,975 £41,976 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £70,694 £73,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £83,759 £68,750
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +28.83%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 145 336 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 31.05% 25.04% 35.95%
Number of salaries quoted 125 310 193
10th Percentile £31,599 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,123 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +12.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,759 £77,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +29.41%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Tyne and Wear

SQL
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary trend for SQL in Tyne and Wear

SQL
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Tyne and Wear

SQL
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 within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 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 +2 59 £55,000 +10.00% 65
Prudhoe - 6 £22,500 -
Sunderland -6 4 £42,123 -41.09% 16
Jarrow - 1 £39,100 -
SQL
North East

SQL
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 7 (9.86%) Confluence
1 7 (9.86%) Jupyter
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.41%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.41%) SAS
4 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.41%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.70%) Azure
2 8 (11.27%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.63%) SaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) IaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.82%) PaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Serverless
6 2 (2.82%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.41%) dbt
7 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) SAN
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) Internet
2 2 (2.82%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.82%) WAN
2 2 (2.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (35.21%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.08%) Data Lake
3 8 (11.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (11.27%) Tableau
4 7 (9.86%) Dremio
5 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
5 6 (8.45%) Power BI
6 3 (4.23%) MySQL
6 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.82%) EDMS
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.41%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.41%) Parquet
8 1 (1.41%) Redis
8 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 4 (5.63%) GitLab
3 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.23%) Maven
3 3 (4.23%) Selenium
3 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.41%) Git
5 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (49.30%) Finance
2 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Advertising
3 8 (11.27%) Marketing
4 7 (9.86%) Law
5 6 (8.45%) Back Office
5 6 (8.45%) Retail
6 4 (5.63%) Banking
7 3 (4.23%) Automotive
7 3 (4.23%) Games
7 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.82%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Front Office
8 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.41%) iGaming
9 1 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Analyst
2 20 (28.17%) Software Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Developer
4 8 (11.27%) Data Analyst
5 7 (9.86%) SQL Analyst
5 7 (9.86%) Support Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) IT Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) IT Support
6 6 (8.45%) IT Support Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) SQL Support Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) C# Developer
7 5 (7.04%) DBA
7 5 (7.04%) SQL Developer
8 4 (5.63%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.63%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Lead
8 4 (5.63%) Senior
8 4 (5.63%) SQL DBA
8 4 (5.63%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.62%) .NET
2 13 (18.31%) React
3 12 (16.90%) ASP.NET
4 11 (15.49%) .NET Core
5 10 (14.08%) AngularJS
6 7 (9.86%) Node.js
7 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (5.63%) Blazor
8 4 (5.63%) CSS
8 4 (5.63%) HTML
8 4 (5.63%) Kafka
9 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (4.23%) JPA
9 3 (4.23%) Redux
9 3 (4.23%) RESTful
9 3 (4.23%) Spring
9 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.82%) CSS3
10 2 (2.82%) HTML5
10 2 (2.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Equities
1 6 (8.45%) Hedge funds
1 6 (8.45%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.04%) Reference Data
3 4 (5.63%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) Housing Association
5 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.41%) Derivative
6 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Solaris
2 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) Software Engineering
2 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (30.99%) Agile
4 17 (23.94%) Computer Science
5 12 (16.90%) High Availability
5 12 (16.90%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (14.08%) Data Analysis
7 8 (11.27%) DevOps
7 8 (11.27%) Microservices
7 8 (11.27%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (9.86%) Analytics
8 7 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (9.86%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.86%) ITSM
8 7 (9.86%) MVC
8 7 (9.86%) Visualisation
9 6 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.45%) E-Commerce
9 6 (8.45%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.03%) C#
2 18 (25.35%) Python
3 12 (16.90%) Java
3 12 (16.90%) TypeScript
4 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.68%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.04%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.82%) C++
7 2 (2.82%) Progress 4GL
8 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.41%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) R
8 1 (1.41%) Scala
8 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (38.03%) Degree
2 9 (12.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.41%) CISSP
4 1 (1.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) Data Quality
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 6 (8.45%) SLA
3 5 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.04%) SOC 2
4 4 (5.63%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.68%) Databricks
3 5 (7.04%) Bloomberg
3 5 (7.04%) Nimble Storage
3 5 (7.04%) Reuters
4 3 (4.23%) Solace
5 2 (2.82%) Capita
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) Progress
5 2 (2.82%) Sun
6 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.41%) Telerik
6 1 (1.41%) VMware