SQL Jobs in the North of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 2,011 3,614 2,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.38% 21.40% 15.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.61% 50.98% 35.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,657 1,485 2,011
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,100
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.89% +4.95%

All Programming Languages
North of England

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,077 7,089 7,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.72% 41.98% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 3,565 5,449
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North of England

SQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the North of England.

Salary trend for SQL in the North of England

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the North of England

SQL
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
North West -3 1,135 £52,500 +1.87% 264
Yorkshire -7 621 £47,500 -9.52% 173
North East -1 257 £50,000 -4.76% 50
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 46 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.84%) Confluence
3 32 (1.59%) IIS
4 28 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (1.09%) SAS
7 13 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.65%) CMS
8 11 (0.55%) Apache
9 10 (0.50%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.45%) Captiva
10 9 (0.45%) FileNet
10 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Drupal
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.099%) WordPress
13 1 (0.050%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.050%) Moodle
13 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 109 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.75%) SAP Business One
2 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.60%) Epicor Tropos
3 10 (0.50%) Magento
4 8 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.15%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.15%) Shopify
8 2 (0.099%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.099%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.099%) SAP MII
9 1 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.050%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.050%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 801 (39.83%) Azure
2 408 (20.29%) Power Platform
3 313 (15.56%) AWS
4 157 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
5 133 (6.61%) GCP
6 115 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
7 96 (4.77%) Serverless
8 78 (3.88%) IBM Cloud
9 77 (3.83%) SaaS
10 66 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 65 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 57 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 54 (2.69%) Snowflake
14 50 (2.49%) Azure Functions
15 48 (2.39%) Azure API Management
16 45 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
17 44 (2.19%) GitHub
18 41 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
19 37 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 35 (1.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.44%) Firewall
2 42 (2.09%) LAN
3 41 (2.04%) WAN
4 34 (1.69%) DNS
5 27 (1.34%) VPN
6 25 (1.24%) Broadband
6 25 (1.24%) DHCP
7 24 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.94%) Internet
9 17 (0.85%) VLAN
10 16 (0.80%) WLAN
11 13 (0.65%) HTTP
11 13 (0.65%) SAN
11 13 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.50%) MQTT
12 10 (0.50%) Network Security
12 10 (0.50%) SSL
13 9 (0.45%) Multicast
14 6 (0.30%) FTP
14 6 (0.30%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (25.46%) SQL Server
2 383 (19.05%) Power BI
3 220 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
4 194 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
5 161 (8.01%) NoSQL
6 151 (7.51%) MySQL
7 140 (6.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 139 (6.91%) MongoDB
9 131 (6.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 126 (6.27%) Relational Database
11 122 (6.07%) Tableau
12 105 (5.22%) DB2
13 100 (4.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 91 (4.53%) BigQuery
15 69 (3.43%) Data Lake
16 40 (1.99%) Oracle Database
17 38 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
18 33 (1.64%) Redis
19 32 (1.59%) Looker
20 30 (1.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 152 (7.56%) Git
2 92 (4.57%) JIRA
3 37 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.79%) GitLab
4 36 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 32 (1.59%) TeamCity
6 22 (1.09%) JUnit
7 20 (0.99%) Selenium
8 18 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 16 (0.80%) Jasmine
9 16 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
10 15 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
11 14 (0.70%) Mockito
12 13 (0.65%) IntelliJ
12 13 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.60%) Gradle
13 12 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.55%) Maven
14 11 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 472 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 361 (17.95%) Finance
3 238 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 141 (7.01%) Retail
6 120 (5.97%) Manufacturing
7 90 (4.48%) Banking
8 79 (3.93%) Law
8 79 (3.93%) Marketing
9 75 (3.73%) Legal
10 60 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 54 (2.69%) Games
12 39 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.69%) Advertising
14 17 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.70%) Health Technology
16 13 (0.65%) Tech for Good
17 12 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 626 (31.13%) Developer
2 330 (16.41%) Senior
3 329 (16.36%) Analyst
4 208 (10.34%) Lead
5 172 (8.55%) Data Engineer
6 158 (7.86%) .NET Developer
7 155 (7.71%) Software Engineer
8 115 (5.72%) Software Developer
9 105 (5.22%) C# Developer
10 81 (4.03%) Senior Developer
11 73 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 71 (3.53%) DBA
13 69 (3.43%) Full Stack Developer
14 61 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
14 61 (3.03%) Digital Analyst
14 61 (3.03%) Performance Analyst
15 60 (2.98%) Digital Performance Analyst
16 59 (2.93%) Architect
16 59 (2.93%) SQL Developer
17 58 (2.88%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (26.60%) .NET
2 265 (13.18%) HTML
3 242 (12.03%) ASP.NET
4 241 (11.98%) CSS
5 175 (8.70%) REST
6 174 (8.65%) AngularJS
7 150 (7.46%) .NET Core
8 142 (7.06%) Web Services
9 130 (6.46%) Vue
10 129 (6.41%) React
11 118 (5.87%) jQuery
12 108 (5.37%) Node.js
13 100 (4.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 97 (4.82%) ASP.NET Core
15 95 (4.72%) .NET Framework
16 91 (4.53%) RESTful
17 89 (4.43%) Entity Framework
18 78 (3.88%) Backbone.js
18 78 (3.88%) Ember.js
19 71 (3.53%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 141 (7.01%) Data Structures
2 95 (4.72%) Algorithms
3 85 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 84 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (3.88%) Blockchain
5 78 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 60 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 44 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 44 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 37 (1.84%) Client/Server
8 37 (1.84%) e-Learning
9 34 (1.69%) NHS
10 33 (1.64%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.49%) Onboarding
11 30 (1.49%) Reinsurance
12 26 (1.29%) Data Centre
12 26 (1.29%) Online Games
13 23 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.09%) Mainframe
15 19 (0.94%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 253 (12.58%) Windows
2 170 (8.45%) Linux
3 94 (4.67%) Android
4 87 (4.33%) Apple iOS
5 60 (2.98%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.49%) Unix
7 24 (1.19%) VMS
8 21 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.20%) Debian
11 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (29.79%) Agile
2 429 (21.33%) Business Intelligence
3 414 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 290 (14.42%) DevOps
5 288 (14.32%) Mentoring
6 260 (12.93%) Software Engineering
7 259 (12.88%) Analytics
8 248 (12.33%) Coaching
9 241 (11.98%) ETL
10 230 (11.44%) Visualisation
11 226 (11.24%) Full Stack Development
12 184 (9.15%) Data Modelling
12 184 (9.15%) Migration
13 183 (9.10%) Artificial Intelligence
14 181 (9.00%) Decision-Making
14 181 (9.00%) Design Patterns
15 178 (8.85%) MVC
16 163 (8.11%) ERP
17 148 (7.36%) Computer Science
17 148 (7.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 604 (30.03%) C#
2 373 (18.55%) JavaScript
3 342 (17.01%) Python
4 237 (11.79%) T-SQL
5 170 (8.45%) Java
6 76 (3.78%) TypeScript
7 75 (3.73%) PowerShell
8 54 (2.69%) PHP
9 50 (2.49%) PL/SQL
9 50 (2.49%) VB
10 41 (2.04%) VB.NET
11 36 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (0.99%) Groovy
12 20 (0.99%) R
13 19 (0.94%) Go
13 19 (0.94%) VBA
14 16 (0.80%) VB6
14 16 (0.80%) XAML
15 15 (0.75%) Bash
15 15 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 262 (13.03%) Degree
2 90 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 41 (2.04%) DBS Check
5 27 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 14 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 12 (0.60%) CIPD
9 10 (0.50%) Security Cleared
10 8 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.40%) OCP
10 8 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.40%) PhD
11 7 (0.35%) ACCA
11 7 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.30%) CISA
12 6 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.25%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 54 (2.69%) QA
3 31 (1.54%) GDPR
4 23 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.09%) SLA
6 8 (0.40%) PSD2
7 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.15%) WCAG
9 2 (0.099%) HL7
9 2 (0.099%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.050%) CRD IV
10 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.050%) PMO
10 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.050%) WAI
System Software
1 132 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 95 (4.72%) Docker
3 36 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.75%) RACF
7 9 (0.45%) Firmware
8 8 (0.40%) VMware Server
9 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.25%) vSphere
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.050%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.050%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 60 (2.98%) Terraform
2 56 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.14%) Ansible
4 16 (0.80%) Progress Chef
5 15 (0.75%) Grafana
6 14 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.30%) SCOM
9 5 (0.25%) Puppet
10 3 (0.15%) Kibana
11 2 (0.099%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.099%) logstash
11 2 (0.099%) SCCM
11 2 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.099%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.099%) vRealize
12 1 (0.050%) Istio
12 1 (0.050%) Packer
12 1 (0.050%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 557 (27.70%) Microsoft
2 141 (7.01%) Oracle
3 127 (6.32%) IBM
4 88 (4.38%) Google
5 78 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 67 (3.33%) SAP
7 50 (2.49%) Databricks
8 44 (2.19%) VMware
9 34 (1.69%) Informatica
10 26 (1.29%) Epicor
10 26 (1.29%) F5
11 21 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 16 (0.80%) Commvault
13 14 (0.70%) Pega
13 14 (0.70%) Teradata
14 13 (0.65%) CyberArk
15 12 (0.60%) CA
15 12 (0.60%) IFS
16 11 (0.55%) Cisco
17 10 (0.50%) Citrix