SQL Server Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
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 Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 70 33
Rank change year-on-year +39 -37 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 971 823 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.49% 4.89% 7.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.30% 23.64% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 889 657 1,013
10th Percentile £31,916 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence 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 database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,102 3,481 3,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.54% 20.66% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,294 1,789 2,505
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +9.76% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,938 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
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 Server within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +38 552 £50,000 - 121
Yorkshire +32 304 £50,000 - 74
North East +41 115 £47,500 +11.76% 30
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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 37 (3.81%) IIS
2 35 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.96%) Umbraco
5 13 (1.34%) ArcGIS
6 12 (1.24%) CMS
7 8 (0.82%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.72%) Confluence
9 6 (0.62%) Apache
9 6 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.21%) Drupal
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) SAS
10 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.10%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Moodle
Applications
1 35 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.54%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.24%) Epicor Tropos
3 7 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.72%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 590 (60.76%) Azure
2 137 (14.11%) Power Platform
3 123 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (12.46%) AWS
5 58 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 34 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (3.50%) GCP
8 30 (3.09%) SaaS
9 25 (2.57%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.27%) Matillion
11 20 (2.06%) Serverless
12 16 (1.65%) GitHub
12 16 (1.65%) Google Play
13 15 (1.54%) OCI
14 14 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.34%) Power Automate
16 12 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.84%) DNS
1 47 (4.84%) SAN
2 42 (4.33%) Firewall
3 36 (3.71%) Internet
4 32 (3.30%) DHCP
5 29 (2.99%) Broadband
6 25 (2.57%) LAN
7 23 (2.37%) VPN
8 22 (2.27%) WAN
9 16 (1.65%) SSL
10 15 (1.54%) NAS
11 13 (1.34%) TCP/IP
12 11 (1.13%) VLAN
13 9 (0.93%) Multicast
14 8 (0.82%) Mobile Broadband
14 8 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.72%) Intranet
16 6 (0.62%) HTTP
16 6 (0.62%) VoIP
17 5 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (12.77%) Power BI
2 100 (10.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (8.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 82 (8.44%) MySQL
6 81 (8.34%) Relational Database
7 73 (7.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 64 (6.59%) MongoDB
9 62 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
10 57 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (4.43%) Data Lake
12 34 (3.50%) Data Vault
13 27 (2.78%) DB2
14 26 (2.68%) Delta Lake
14 26 (2.68%) NoSQL
15 25 (2.57%) Tableau
16 22 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
17 21 (2.16%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.85%) Star Schema
19 16 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 78 (8.03%) Git
2 74 (7.62%) JIRA
3 33 (3.40%) GitLab
4 19 (1.96%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.65%) Jasmine
5 16 (1.65%) Karma Test Runner
6 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 10 (1.03%) NUnit
8 7 (0.72%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.62%) Dreamweaver
9 6 (0.62%) MSTest
10 5 (0.51%) InstallShield
11 4 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.31%) Toad
13 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.21%) Selenium
13 2 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 234 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 110 (11.33%) Finance
3 103 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (7.00%) Retail
5 54 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.15%) Law
7 43 (4.43%) Legal
8 37 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.19%) Games
10 30 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 26 (2.68%) Advertising
11 26 (2.68%) Marketing
12 12 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.03%) Back Office
15 9 (0.93%) Local Government
15 9 (0.93%) Music Industry
15 9 (0.93%) Police
16 8 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 450 (46.34%) Developer
2 243 (25.03%) .NET Developer
3 120 (12.36%) C# Developer
4 91 (9.37%) Senior
5 90 (9.27%) Data Engineer
6 87 (8.96%) C# .NET Developer
7 73 (7.52%) DBA
8 67 (6.90%) Lead
9 63 (6.49%) Analyst
10 57 (5.87%) Software Engineer
11 56 (5.77%) Support Engineer
12 50 (5.15%) Software Developer
13 47 (4.84%) IT Engineer
13 47 (4.84%) SQL DBA
14 44 (4.53%) IT Support
15 39 (4.02%) Administrator
16 34 (3.50%) IT Support Engineer
16 34 (3.50%) SQL Developer
17 28 (2.88%) Architect
18 27 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 440 (45.31%) .NET
2 263 (27.09%) ASP.NET
3 253 (26.06%) .NET Core
4 214 (22.04%) AngularJS
5 200 (20.60%) HTML
6 183 (18.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 174 (17.92%) ASP.NET Web API
8 170 (17.51%) Entity Framework
9 155 (15.96%) .NET Framework
10 145 (14.93%) CSS
11 118 (12.15%) React
12 111 (11.43%) HTML5
13 96 (9.89%) Node.js
14 82 (8.44%) Vue
15 73 (7.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 72 (7.42%) RESTful
17 61 (6.28%) XML
18 59 (6.08%) Blazor
19 58 (5.97%) JSON
20 47 (4.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.59%) Public Cloud
2 56 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
3 53 (5.46%) Data Structures
3 53 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (4.02%) Reinsurance
5 31 (3.19%) Driving Licence
6 26 (2.68%) Replication
7 24 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.37%) Enterprise Storage
9 22 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 22 (2.27%) NHS
10 19 (1.96%) Cloud Native
11 17 (1.75%) Social Media
12 16 (1.65%) iPhone
13 15 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.44%) BBC
14 14 (1.44%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.13%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.13%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 163 (16.79%) Windows
2 82 (8.44%) Windows Server
3 79 (8.14%) Linux
4 28 (2.88%) VMS
5 24 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (2.27%) Unix
7 20 (2.06%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.75%) Android
9 16 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.62%) AIX
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (37.49%) Agile
2 228 (23.48%) Full Stack Development
3 225 (23.17%) MVC
4 202 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
5 171 (17.61%) Microservices
6 156 (16.07%) DevOps
7 135 (13.90%) Business Intelligence
8 128 (13.18%) ETL
9 107 (11.02%) Scrum
9 107 (11.02%) TDD
10 90 (9.27%) OO
11 85 (8.75%) Data Modelling
12 82 (8.44%) Roadmaps
13 80 (8.24%) Software Engineering
14 79 (8.14%) BDD
15 74 (7.62%) Analytics
15 74 (7.62%) Mentoring
16 72 (7.42%) Migration
17 68 (7.00%) ERP
17 68 (7.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 515 (53.04%) SQL
2 456 (46.96%) C#
3 311 (32.03%) JavaScript
4 154 (15.86%) T-SQL
5 108 (11.12%) Python
6 81 (8.34%) TypeScript
7 74 (7.62%) PowerShell
8 43 (4.43%) VB.NET
9 39 (4.02%) VB
10 30 (3.09%) Java
11 16 (1.65%) VB6
12 15 (1.54%) VBScript
13 13 (1.34%) PHP
14 12 (1.24%) Ruby
15 11 (1.13%) Delphi
15 11 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.13%) VBA
16 10 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.82%) C++
17 8 (0.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 130 (13.39%) Degree
2 57 (5.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 44 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.37%) Security Cleared
6 15 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
7 12 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.24%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.82%) MCSE
9 8 (0.82%) OCP
10 7 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.62%) CCNA
11 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.41%) HNC
13 4 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.41%) MCP
13 4 (0.41%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.63%) QA
3 20 (2.06%) GDPR
4 14 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.13%) SLA
6 9 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.81%) Hyper-V
3 33 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.75%) Docker
7 11 (1.13%) vSphere
8 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.21%) Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.21%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.75%) Terraform
3 12 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.72%) WSUS
5 6 (0.62%) SCCM
6 5 (0.51%) Ansible
7 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.21%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.10%) Grafana
9 1 (0.10%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.10%) yum
Vendors
1 543 (55.92%) Microsoft
2 135 (13.90%) Oracle
3 53 (5.46%) VMware
4 51 (5.25%) Google
5 39 (4.02%) Databricks
5 39 (4.02%) Informatica
6 32 (3.30%) Facebook
7 30 (3.09%) IBM
8 28 (2.88%) Cisco
9 20 (2.06%) Apple
10 15 (1.54%) Commvault
11 14 (1.44%) SAP
11 14 (1.44%) Sony
11 14 (1.44%) Yahoo!
12 12 (1.24%) Epicor
13 10 (1.03%) Citrix
14 8 (0.82%) Veeam
15 7 (0.72%) ESRI
15 7 (0.72%) F5
15 7 (0.72%) Zoho