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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,153 1,238 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.77% 16.80% 15.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.58% 43.81% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 913 727 950
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%

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 3,068 2,826 3,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 28.65% 38.34% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 1,735 2,541
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,800 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £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 2 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 2 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 -4 578 £54,000 -1.82% 167
Cheshire -3 197 £50,000 +5.26% 41
Merseyside +7 171 £55,000 +29.41% 33
Lancashire -2 153 £47,500 +5.56% 23
Cumbria 0 51 £42,500 -2.97% 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 19 (1.65%) Confluence
2 14 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.13%) IIS
3 13 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.87%) Apache
4 10 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.78%) SAS
6 8 (0.69%) CMS
7 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.087%) CICS
10 1 (0.087%) concrete5
10 1 (0.087%) nginx
Applications
1 73 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.087%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.95%) SAP Business One
3 9 (0.78%) Epicor Tropos
4 5 (0.43%) Magento
5 4 (0.35%) 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 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 492 (42.67%) Azure
2 236 (20.47%) Power Platform
3 150 (13.01%) AWS
4 115 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (6.76%) IBM Cloud
6 60 (5.20%) GCP
6 60 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (4.94%) Serverless
8 47 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 47 (4.08%) Azure Functions
8 47 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 46 (3.99%) Azure API Management
9 46 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
10 42 (3.64%) SaaS
11 37 (3.21%) Snowflake
12 26 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 22 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (1.82%) Entra ID
14 21 (1.82%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.73%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.73%) WAN
2 19 (1.65%) LAN
3 13 (1.13%) DNS
4 12 (1.04%) Broadband
4 12 (1.04%) Internet
5 11 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.78%) DHCP
6 9 (0.78%) HTTP
7 8 (0.69%) Firewall
8 7 (0.61%) MQTT
8 7 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.61%) VPN
9 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) SSL
10 5 (0.43%) WLAN
11 3 (0.26%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.26%) DSL
11 3 (0.26%) Intranet
11 3 (0.26%) VLAN
11 3 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (24.72%) SQL Server
2 224 (19.43%) Power BI
3 128 (11.10%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
5 121 (10.49%) NoSQL
6 97 (8.41%) MongoDB
7 95 (8.24%) Relational Database
8 93 (8.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 86 (7.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 85 (7.37%) DB2
11 74 (6.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 67 (5.81%) Tableau
13 49 (4.25%) Data Lake
14 48 (4.16%) MySQL
15 41 (3.56%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.99%) Oracle Database
17 21 (1.82%) Data Vault
18 20 (1.73%) Looker
19 19 (1.65%) Delta Lake
20 18 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 95 (8.24%) Git
2 59 (5.12%) JIRA
3 24 (2.08%) GitLab
3 24 (2.08%) Visual Studio
4 22 (1.91%) TeamCity
5 12 (1.04%) IntelliJ
5 12 (1.04%) JUnit
5 12 (1.04%) Mockito
6 11 (0.95%) Jasmine
6 11 (0.95%) Karma Test Runner
7 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.69%) Gradle
9 7 (0.61%) Maven
9 7 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.52%) Dreamweaver
11 5 (0.43%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.43%) JetBrains Rider
11 5 (0.43%) Selenium
11 5 (0.43%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 224 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 183 (15.87%) Finance
3 141 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 56 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.86%) Retail
6 50 (4.34%) Manufacturing
7 41 (3.56%) Legal
8 38 (3.30%) Marketing
9 35 (3.04%) Law
10 27 (2.34%) Advertising
11 25 (2.17%) Banking
12 19 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.39%) Games
14 8 (0.69%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.61%) Back Office
15 7 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.52%) Automotive
16 6 (0.52%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 409 (35.47%) Developer
2 193 (16.74%) Senior
3 177 (15.35%) Analyst
4 121 (10.49%) Data Engineer
5 113 (9.80%) Lead
6 107 (9.28%) .NET Developer
7 64 (5.55%) Software Developer
8 63 (5.46%) C# Developer
9 56 (4.86%) Senior Developer
10 55 (4.77%) Software Engineer
11 49 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (4.25%) Full Stack Developer
12 48 (4.16%) Full Stack Engineer
13 47 (4.08%) Azure Developer
14 41 (3.56%) Lead Developer
15 40 (3.47%) DBA
15 40 (3.47%) SQL Developer
16 37 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
17 33 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
18 32 (2.78%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (29.14%) .NET
2 188 (16.31%) HTML
3 178 (15.44%) CSS
4 160 (13.88%) ASP.NET
5 152 (13.18%) REST
6 121 (10.49%) Web Services
7 119 (10.32%) AngularJS
8 106 (9.19%) React
9 100 (8.67%) jQuery
10 91 (7.89%) Vue
11 83 (7.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 82 (7.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 78 (6.76%) Backbone.js
13 78 (6.76%) Ember.js
14 65 (5.64%) .NET Core
14 65 (5.64%) Node.js
15 51 (4.42%) .NET Framework
15 51 (4.42%) Entity Framework
16 48 (4.16%) HTML5
17 40 (3.47%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 122 (10.58%) Data Structures
2 88 (7.63%) Algorithms
3 83 (7.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (6.76%) Blockchain
5 67 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 37 (3.21%) e-Learning
8 32 (2.78%) Management Information System
9 31 (2.69%) Reinsurance
10 22 (1.91%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.65%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.65%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
15 11 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.87%) Blog
16 10 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 137 (11.88%) Windows
2 117 (10.15%) Linux
3 93 (8.07%) Android
4 87 (7.55%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.13%) VMS
6 8 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.52%) Unix
8 4 (0.35%) Debian
8 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (30.88%) Agile
2 244 (21.16%) Business Intelligence
3 213 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (14.57%) Full Stack Development
5 162 (14.05%) DevOps
6 147 (12.75%) Mentoring
7 144 (12.49%) ETL
8 143 (12.40%) Analytics
9 141 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
10 135 (11.71%) Visualisation
11 134 (11.62%) MVC
12 131 (11.36%) Design Patterns
13 123 (10.67%) Software Engineering
14 118 (10.23%) Coaching
14 118 (10.23%) User Experience
15 116 (10.06%) Data Modelling
15 116 (10.06%) OO
16 113 (9.80%) Migration
17 111 (9.63%) OOP
18 104 (9.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 374 (32.44%) C#
2 249 (21.60%) JavaScript
3 245 (21.25%) Python
4 140 (12.14%) T-SQL
5 120 (10.41%) Java
6 46 (3.99%) PowerShell
7 42 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 41 (3.56%) VB
9 33 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 28 (2.43%) PL/SQL
11 27 (2.34%) PHP
12 21 (1.82%) VB.NET
13 14 (1.21%) Go
14 13 (1.13%) R
14 13 (1.13%) Scala
15 11 (0.95%) VB6
15 11 (0.95%) VBScript
16 9 (0.78%) Swift
17 8 (0.69%) Bash
18 7 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 143 (12.40%) Degree
2 50 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (1.39%) DBS Check
5 13 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.69%) PhD
8 7 (0.61%) ACCA
8 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.52%) CISA
9 6 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.52%) Security Cleared
10 4 (0.35%) HNC
10 4 (0.35%) HND
10 4 (0.35%) MBA
11 3 (0.26%) BC Cleared
11 3 (0.26%) CCNA
11 3 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.26%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 35 (3.04%) QA
3 16 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.61%) SLA
6 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.35%) GDPR
8 3 (0.26%) WCAG
9 2 (0.17%) HL7
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.087%) PMO
10 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.90%) Docker
3 21 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.95%) RACF
5 9 (0.78%) Firmware
5 9 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.26%) vSphere
8 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.087%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.087%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.087%) XenApp
9 1 (0.087%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (2.08%) Terraform
2 14 (1.21%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.52%) Ansible
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.17%) vRealize
5 1 (0.087%) Grafana
5 1 (0.087%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (0.087%) Nessus
5 1 (0.087%) Packer
5 1 (0.087%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 297 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.81%) IBM
3 78 (6.76%) Red Hat
4 74 (6.42%) Oracle
5 41 (3.56%) Databricks
6 40 (3.47%) Google
7 37 (3.21%) Informatica
8 36 (3.12%) SAP
9 15 (1.30%) Commvault
10 12 (1.04%) CA
10 12 (1.04%) F5
10 12 (1.04%) Teradata
11 11 (0.95%) VMware
12 10 (0.87%) CyberArk
12 10 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.78%) Epicor
13 9 (0.78%) Facebook
14 6 (0.52%) Cisco
14 6 (0.52%) Civica
14 6 (0.52%) ServiceNow