SQL Jobs in the North West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,170 1,211 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.44% 16.57% 15.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.15% 43.53% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 918 727 961
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,698
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,125 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,853 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £84,974 £75,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,149 2,782 3,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 28.09% 38.06% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,496 1,727 2,554
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,800 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% +0.08% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the North West

SQL
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Manchester -4 586 £52,500 -8.70% 161
Cheshire -5 198 £50,000 +1.01% 43
Merseyside +8 175 £55,000 +29.41% 34
Lancashire -3 155 £47,500 +5.56% 24
Cumbria -1 53 £45,000 +2.74% 6
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 21 (1.79%) Confluence
2 16 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.11%) IIS
3 13 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.94%) Apache
5 10 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.77%) SAS
7 8 (0.68%) CMS
7 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.60%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.085%) concrete5
10 1 (0.085%) WildFly
Applications
1 73 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.94%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.60%) Epicor Tropos
4 5 (0.43%) Magento
5 4 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.17%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.085%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 496 (42.39%) Azure
2 234 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 152 (12.99%) AWS
4 117 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (6.67%) IBM Cloud
6 61 (5.21%) GCP
7 57 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (4.87%) Serverless
8 50 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 47 (4.02%) Azure Functions
10 46 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
10 46 (3.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 45 (3.85%) Azure API Management
12 44 (3.76%) SaaS
13 37 (3.16%) Snowflake
14 25 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.88%) GitHub
16 21 (1.79%) Entra ID
16 21 (1.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.54%) WAN
2 17 (1.45%) LAN
3 12 (1.03%) Broadband
3 12 (1.03%) DNS
3 12 (1.03%) Internet
4 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.77%) HTTP
6 8 (0.68%) DHCP
6 8 (0.68%) Firewall
7 7 (0.60%) MQTT
7 7 (0.60%) VPN
8 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.51%) SSL
8 6 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.43%) WLAN
10 3 (0.26%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.26%) DSL
10 3 (0.26%) Intranet
11 2 (0.17%) SMS
11 2 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (24.53%) SQL Server
2 222 (18.97%) Power BI
3 133 (11.37%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
5 123 (10.51%) NoSQL
6 98 (8.38%) MongoDB
6 98 (8.38%) Relational Database
7 96 (8.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 88 (7.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 84 (7.18%) DB2
10 73 (6.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 65 (5.56%) Tableau
12 53 (4.53%) Data Lake
13 49 (4.19%) MySQL
14 41 (3.50%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.97%) Oracle Database
16 21 (1.79%) Data Mining
16 21 (1.79%) Data Vault
17 19 (1.62%) Delta Lake
18 18 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 97 (8.29%) Git
2 61 (5.21%) JIRA
3 25 (2.14%) GitLab
4 24 (2.05%) TeamCity
4 24 (2.05%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.03%) IntelliJ
5 12 (1.03%) JUnit
5 12 (1.03%) Mockito
6 11 (0.94%) Jasmine
6 11 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
7 10 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.68%) Gradle
8 8 (0.68%) Maven
9 7 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.51%) Dreamweaver
10 6 (0.51%) Selenium
10 6 (0.51%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.43%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.43%) JetBrains Rider
11 5 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 227 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 187 (15.98%) Finance
3 145 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 57 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.53%) Retail
7 49 (4.19%) Manufacturing
8 44 (3.76%) Legal
9 39 (3.33%) Marketing
10 37 (3.16%) Law
11 28 (2.39%) Advertising
12 24 (2.05%) Banking
13 18 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.37%) Games
15 9 (0.77%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.60%) Back Office
17 7 (0.60%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.51%) Automotive
18 6 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 417 (35.64%) Developer
2 200 (17.09%) Senior
3 178 (15.21%) Analyst
4 129 (11.03%) Data Engineer
5 113 (9.66%) Lead
6 106 (9.06%) .NET Developer
7 65 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 64 (5.47%) C# Developer
9 56 (4.79%) Senior Developer
10 55 (4.70%) Software Engineer
11 49 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (4.19%) Full Stack Developer
12 48 (4.10%) Full Stack Engineer
13 47 (4.02%) Azure Developer
14 43 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
15 41 (3.50%) Lead Developer
16 40 (3.42%) SQL Developer
17 39 (3.33%) DBA
18 35 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
19 33 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (28.72%) .NET
2 194 (16.58%) HTML
3 182 (15.56%) CSS
4 159 (13.59%) ASP.NET
5 153 (13.08%) REST
6 122 (10.43%) Web Services
7 120 (10.26%) AngularJS
8 108 (9.23%) React
9 100 (8.55%) jQuery
10 92 (7.86%) Vue
11 83 (7.09%) ASP.NET Core
12 82 (7.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 78 (6.67%) Backbone.js
13 78 (6.67%) Ember.js
14 66 (5.64%) Node.js
15 65 (5.56%) .NET Core
16 51 (4.36%) .NET Framework
16 51 (4.36%) Entity Framework
17 48 (4.10%) HTML5
18 42 (3.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.60%) Data Structures
2 88 (7.52%) Algorithms
3 83 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (6.67%) Blockchain
5 67 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (4.02%) Public Cloud
7 37 (3.16%) e-Learning
8 34 (2.91%) Reinsurance
9 31 (2.65%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.71%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.62%) Product Ownership
14 15 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
16 12 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.85%) Blog
17 10 (0.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 136 (11.62%) Windows
2 118 (10.09%) Linux
3 93 (7.95%) Android
4 87 (7.44%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.11%) VMS
6 7 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.51%) Unix
8 4 (0.34%) Debian
8 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.085%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (31.11%) Agile
2 242 (20.68%) Business Intelligence
3 214 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (14.53%) Full Stack Development
5 166 (14.19%) DevOps
6 152 (12.99%) ETL
7 148 (12.65%) Analytics
8 147 (12.56%) Mentoring
9 143 (12.22%) Artificial Intelligence
10 137 (11.71%) MVC
11 133 (11.37%) Visualisation
12 132 (11.28%) Design Patterns
13 124 (10.60%) Software Engineering
14 119 (10.17%) Data Modelling
15 118 (10.09%) Coaching
15 118 (10.09%) User Experience
16 117 (10.00%) OO
17 114 (9.74%) Migration
18 112 (9.57%) OOP
19 106 (9.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 372 (31.79%) C#
2 254 (21.71%) JavaScript
3 253 (21.62%) Python
4 141 (12.05%) T-SQL
5 122 (10.43%) Java
6 46 (3.93%) PowerShell
7 44 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 41 (3.50%) VB
9 33 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 30 (2.56%) PHP
11 29 (2.48%) PL/SQL
12 21 (1.79%) VB.NET
13 16 (1.37%) Go
14 14 (1.20%) Scala
15 13 (1.11%) R
16 11 (0.94%) VB6
16 11 (0.94%) VBScript
17 9 (0.77%) Swift
18 8 (0.68%) Bash
19 7 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 149 (12.74%) Degree
2 53 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (1.45%) DBS Check
5 13 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.68%) PhD
8 7 (0.60%) ACCA
8 7 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.51%) CISA
9 6 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.51%) Security Cleared
10 5 (0.43%) MBA
11 4 (0.34%) HNC
11 4 (0.34%) HND
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.26%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.17%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 38 (3.25%) QA
3 16 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.60%) SLA
6 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.34%) GDPR
8 3 (0.26%) WCAG
9 2 (0.17%) HL7
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.085%) PMO
10 1 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 65 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.85%) Docker
3 21 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.85%) RACF
5 9 (0.77%) Firmware
6 8 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.26%) vSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.085%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.085%) XenApp
10 1 (0.085%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (1.88%) Terraform
2 16 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.17%) vRealize
6 1 (0.085%) Grafana
6 1 (0.085%) Nessus
6 1 (0.085%) Packer
6 1 (0.085%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.085%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 299 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.52%) IBM
3 78 (6.67%) Oracle
3 78 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 43 (3.68%) Databricks
4 43 (3.68%) Informatica
5 41 (3.50%) Google
6 36 (3.08%) SAP
7 15 (1.28%) Commvault
8 13 (1.11%) CA
9 12 (1.03%) F5
9 12 (1.03%) Teradata
10 10 (0.85%) CyberArk
10 10 (0.85%) Facebook
10 10 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.85%) VMware
11 7 (0.60%) Epicor
12 6 (0.51%) Civica
12 6 (0.51%) Dataiku
12 6 (0.51%) ServiceNow