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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 66 184 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.31% 13.56% 17.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.48% 53.96% 48.92%
Number of salaries quoted 58 164 80
10th Percentile £23,875 £31,250 £33,850
25th Percentile £39,288 £41,976 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,759 £68,750
North East median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +26.51%

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 139 341 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 28.02% 25.13% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 121 312 188
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
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 - - +22.22%

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 21 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 21 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 53 £56,500 +13.00% 66
Prudhoe - 6 £22,500 -
Sunderland -7 5 £51,250 -27.56% 22
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 (10.61%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.03%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.03%) SAS
3 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) IIS
4 1 (1.52%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.52%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 32 (48.48%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) AWS
2 7 (10.61%) GitHub
2 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) SAN
2 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) Internet
2 2 (3.03%) Unified Communications
2 2 (3.03%) WAN
2 2 (3.03%) Wireless
3 1 (1.52%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (39.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 7 (10.61%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.61%) Power BI
3 7 (10.61%) Tableau
4 6 (9.09%) MySQL
5 5 (7.58%) Dremio
5 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.03%) EDMS
7 2 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.52%) HBase
8 1 (1.52%) Impala
8 1 (1.52%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) JIRA
2 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 3 (4.55%) Maven
3 3 (4.55%) Selenium
3 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.03%) Git
4 2 (3.03%) Postman
General
1 32 (48.48%) Finance
2 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Advertising
4 7 (10.61%) Law
5 6 (9.09%) Marketing
6 4 (6.06%) Back Office
6 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Retail
7 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.03%) Front Office
8 2 (3.03%) Games
8 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Automotive
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Analyst
2 18 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Developer
4 7 (10.61%) DBA
4 7 (10.61%) SQL Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Support Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) IT Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) IT Support
5 6 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) SQL DBA
5 6 (9.09%) SQL Support Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) SQL Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior
7 4 (6.06%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Administrator
8 3 (4.55%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Database Developer
8 3 (4.55%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.33%) .NET
2 10 (15.15%) React
3 9 (13.64%) ASP.NET
4 8 (12.12%) .NET Core
5 7 (10.61%) AngularJS
6 6 (9.09%) Node.js
7 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (7.58%) HTML
8 4 (6.06%) CSS
8 4 (6.06%) Kafka
9 3 (4.55%) JPA
9 3 (4.55%) Redux
9 3 (4.55%) RESTful
9 3 (4.55%) Spring
9 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
10 2 (3.03%) Blazor
10 2 (3.03%) CSS3
10 2 (3.03%) HTML5
10 2 (3.03%) Jest
10 2 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 5 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.06%) Equities
3 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.55%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.03%) Housing Association
5 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.52%) Clustering
6 1 (1.52%) Derivative
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.52%) Solaris
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
2 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (31.82%) Software Engineering
3 20 (30.30%) Agile
4 16 (24.24%) Computer Science
5 12 (18.18%) High Availability
6 11 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (13.64%) Data Analysis
7 9 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.61%) DevOps
8 7 (10.61%) ITSM
9 6 (9.09%) Analytics
9 6 (9.09%) Incident Management
9 6 (9.09%) Microservices
9 6 (9.09%) MVC
9 6 (9.09%) SDLC
9 6 (9.09%) Visualisation
10 5 (7.58%) CI/CD
10 5 (7.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.85%) C#
2 17 (25.76%) Python
3 13 (19.70%) Java
4 10 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.09%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.55%) C++
8 3 (4.55%) R
9 2 (3.03%) PHP
9 2 (3.03%) Progress 4GL
10 1 (1.52%) Bash
10 1 (1.52%) C
10 1 (1.52%) Dart
10 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.52%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.52%) PROC SQL
10 1 (1.52%) Ruby
10 1 (1.52%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (39.39%) Degree
2 10 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.52%) CISSP
4 1 (1.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) Data Quality
1 7 (10.61%) QA
2 6 (9.09%) SLA
3 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.58%) SOC 2
4 4 (6.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.52%) HDFS
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Kibana
3 1 (1.52%) logstash
3 1 (1.52%) Oozie
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) Databricks
3 5 (7.58%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (4.55%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.55%) Informatica
4 3 (4.55%) Reuters
4 3 (4.55%) Solace
5 2 (3.03%) Capita
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle
5 2 (3.03%) Progress
5 2 (3.03%) RedGate
5 2 (3.03%) Sun
5 2 (3.03%) Talend
6 1 (1.52%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) SAP
6 1 (1.52%) Telerik
6 1 (1.52%) VMware