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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 2,016 3,695 2,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.53% 21.43% 15.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.06% 51.04% 35.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,674 1,501 2,017
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 £65,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £77,500 £70,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,140
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.81% +5.03%

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 5,032 7,239 7,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.78% 41.98% 43.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,169 3,616 5,475
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,063 £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 13 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 13 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 1,143 £52,500 +1.87% 223
Yorkshire -6 622 £47,500 -9.52% 158
North East -1 253 £50,000 -4.76% 43
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 49 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.79%) Confluence
3 32 (1.59%) IIS
4 29 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (1.04%) SAS
7 13 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.64%) CMS
8 12 (0.60%) Apache
8 12 (0.60%) Captiva
8 12 (0.60%) FileNet
8 12 (0.60%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.20%) Drupal
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.099%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.099%) CICS
12 2 (0.099%) WordPress
13 1 (0.050%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 111 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.74%) SAP Business One
2 14 (0.69%) Epicor Tropos
3 13 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Magento
5 8 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.15%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.15%) Shopify
9 2 (0.099%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.099%) SAP MII
10 1 (0.050%) Demantra
10 1 (0.050%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle ASCP
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 802 (39.78%) Azure
2 419 (20.78%) Power Platform
3 317 (15.72%) AWS
4 155 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (6.85%) GCP
6 120 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
7 96 (4.76%) Serverless
8 78 (3.87%) IBM Cloud
9 77 (3.82%) SaaS
10 69 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 65 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 59 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
13 54 (2.68%) Snowflake
14 51 (2.53%) Azure API Management
15 50 (2.48%) Azure Functions
16 47 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
17 46 (2.28%) GitHub
18 40 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
19 39 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 36 (1.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.48%) Firewall
2 43 (2.13%) LAN
3 42 (2.08%) WAN
4 34 (1.69%) DNS
5 28 (1.39%) VPN
6 25 (1.24%) Broadband
6 25 (1.24%) DHCP
6 25 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.99%) Internet
8 17 (0.84%) VLAN
9 16 (0.79%) WLAN
10 13 (0.64%) HTTP
10 13 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.60%) SAN
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%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (25.40%) SQL Server
2 391 (19.39%) Power BI
3 221 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
4 199 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
5 161 (7.99%) NoSQL
6 154 (7.64%) MySQL
7 140 (6.94%) MongoDB
7 140 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 133 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 128 (6.35%) Relational Database
10 127 (6.30%) Tableau
11 106 (5.26%) DB2
12 103 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 91 (4.51%) BigQuery
14 71 (3.52%) Data Lake
15 40 (1.98%) Oracle Database
16 39 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
17 36 (1.79%) Looker
18 33 (1.64%) Redis
19 31 (1.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 152 (7.54%) Git
2 94 (4.66%) JIRA
3 39 (1.93%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.79%) GitLab
4 36 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 33 (1.64%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.14%) JUnit
7 20 (0.99%) Selenium
8 17 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 16 (0.79%) Jasmine
9 16 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
10 15 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.74%) Mockito
11 14 (0.69%) IntelliJ
11 14 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (0.64%) Gradle
12 13 (0.64%) IBM UrbanCode
12 13 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.55%) Maven
13 11 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 470 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 351 (17.41%) Finance
3 240 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 142 (7.04%) Retail
6 122 (6.05%) Manufacturing
7 81 (4.02%) Banking
8 80 (3.97%) Law
9 78 (3.87%) Marketing
10 63 (3.13%) Legal
11 60 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 54 (2.68%) Games
13 39 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.64%) Advertising
15 18 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.69%) Aerospace
17 14 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.64%) Health Technology
19 12 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 629 (31.20%) Developer
2 323 (16.02%) Analyst
3 319 (15.82%) Senior
4 207 (10.27%) Lead
5 172 (8.53%) Data Engineer
6 158 (7.84%) .NET Developer
7 156 (7.74%) Software Engineer
8 111 (5.51%) Software Developer
9 102 (5.06%) C# Developer
10 83 (4.12%) Senior Developer
11 72 (3.57%) DBA
11 72 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 69 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
13 62 (3.08%) Architect
13 62 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
14 61 (3.03%) Digital Analyst
14 61 (3.03%) Performance Analyst
15 60 (2.98%) Digital Performance Analyst
15 60 (2.98%) SQL Developer
16 57 (2.83%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (26.54%) .NET
2 265 (13.14%) HTML
3 243 (12.05%) ASP.NET
4 241 (11.95%) CSS
5 176 (8.73%) REST
6 174 (8.63%) AngularJS
7 147 (7.29%) .NET Core
8 145 (7.19%) Web Services
9 131 (6.50%) React
10 130 (6.45%) Vue
11 117 (5.80%) jQuery
12 109 (5.41%) Node.js
13 99 (4.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 97 (4.81%) ASP.NET Core
15 93 (4.61%) .NET Framework
16 92 (4.56%) RESTful
17 87 (4.32%) Entity Framework
18 78 (3.87%) Backbone.js
18 78 (3.87%) Ember.js
19 69 (3.42%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 142 (7.04%) Data Structures
2 95 (4.71%) Algorithms
3 86 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 83 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (3.87%) Blockchain
5 78 (3.87%) Public Cloud
6 48 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 43 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 38 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 37 (1.84%) Client/Server
10 34 (1.69%) NHS
11 32 (1.59%) Cloud Native
12 30 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.39%) Reinsurance
14 26 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 26 (1.29%) Online Games
15 23 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.09%) Mainframe
17 19 (0.94%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 253 (12.55%) Windows
2 174 (8.63%) Linux
3 94 (4.66%) Android
4 87 (4.32%) Apple iOS
5 60 (2.98%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.69%) Unix
7 24 (1.19%) VMS
8 21 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (0.99%) Windows 10
10 19 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.15%) Windows Vista
14 2 (0.099%) zOS
15 1 (0.050%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (29.96%) Agile
2 438 (21.73%) Business Intelligence
3 415 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 291 (14.43%) Mentoring
5 287 (14.24%) DevOps
6 265 (13.14%) Analytics
7 260 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 243 (12.05%) ETL
9 238 (11.81%) Coaching
10 234 (11.61%) Visualisation
11 223 (11.06%) Full Stack Development
12 186 (9.23%) Data Modelling
12 186 (9.23%) Migration
13 185 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence
13 185 (9.18%) Design Patterns
14 183 (9.08%) Decision-Making
15 177 (8.78%) MVC
16 166 (8.23%) ERP
17 149 (7.39%) User Experience
18 146 (7.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 607 (30.11%) C#
2 372 (18.45%) JavaScript
3 343 (17.01%) Python
4 241 (11.95%) T-SQL
5 175 (8.68%) Java
6 77 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 62 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 56 (2.78%) PHP
9 51 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 48 (2.38%) VB
11 40 (1.98%) VB.NET
12 36 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 20 (0.99%) Groovy
13 20 (0.99%) R
13 20 (0.99%) VBA
14 19 (0.94%) Go
15 16 (0.79%) VB6
16 15 (0.74%) VBScript
16 15 (0.74%) XAML
17 14 (0.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 263 (13.05%) Degree
2 90 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 40 (1.98%) DBS Check
5 27 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 14 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 11 (0.55%) 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%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 56 (2.78%) QA
3 34 (1.69%) 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%) GMP
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
1 120 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 99 (4.91%) Docker
3 36 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.45%) Firmware
7 8 (0.40%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
8 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.25%) vSphere
9 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) RACF
10 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.099%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.050%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 60 (2.98%) Terraform
2 57 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.19%) Ansible
4 16 (0.79%) Grafana
4 16 (0.79%) Progress Chef
5 14 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.30%) SCOM
8 5 (0.25%) Puppet
9 3 (0.15%) Kibana
10 2 (0.099%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.099%) logstash
10 2 (0.099%) MAINVIEW
10 2 (0.099%) SCCM
10 2 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.099%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.099%) vRealize
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.050%) Istio
Vendors
1 543 (26.93%) Microsoft
2 146 (7.24%) Oracle
3 131 (6.50%) IBM
4 90 (4.46%) Google
5 78 (3.87%) Red Hat
6 70 (3.47%) SAP
7 53 (2.63%) Databricks
8 43 (2.13%) VMware
9 32 (1.59%) Informatica
10 28 (1.39%) Epicor
11 26 (1.29%) F5
12 24 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.84%) Pega
14 16 (0.79%) Commvault
15 14 (0.69%) Teradata
16 12 (0.60%) CA
16 12 (0.60%) IFS
16 12 (0.60%) Kofax
17 11 (0.55%) Cisco
17 11 (0.55%) Citrix