SQL Jobs in the Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,411 1,555 1,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.01% 17.52% 15.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.22% 48.76% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,144 898 1,316
10th Percentile £28,650 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,655
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,875 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,763 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.97% +6.72% +6.67%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,265 3,189 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.48% 35.94% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,687 1,753 3,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £67,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands -5 827 £50,000 - 178
East Midlands -2 573 £45,000 -10.00% 124
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 64 (4.54%) IIS
2 57 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.92%) CMS
5 12 (0.85%) SAS
6 10 (0.71%) Confluence
7 9 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.43%) WordPress
9 5 (0.35%) Apache
9 5 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.35%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.21%) Drupal
10 3 (0.21%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 3 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.14%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) Magnolia
Applications
1 78 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.50%) Trello
5 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.35%) SPSS
6 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 15 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.57%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.28%) Sage 300 ERP
5 4 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.21%) Maximo
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.14%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.071%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.071%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.071%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.071%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.071%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 563 (39.90%) Azure
2 270 (19.14%) Power Platform
3 162 (11.48%) AWS
4 112 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
5 79 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (5.03%) IBM Cloud
7 58 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 58 (4.11%) SaaS
8 43 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 40 (2.83%) GCP
10 39 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 31 (2.20%) Snowflake
12 26 (1.84%) Serverless
13 18 (1.28%) PowerApps
14 17 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (1.13%) GitHub
15 16 (1.13%) Google Analytics
15 16 (1.13%) Matillion
16 15 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.46%) Firewall
2 46 (3.26%) WAN
3 29 (2.06%) DNS
4 28 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.77%) SAN
5 25 (1.77%) VPN
6 24 (1.70%) LAN
7 18 (1.28%) DHCP
8 12 (0.85%) Internet
8 12 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.78%) BIG-IP
10 10 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.71%) VoIP
11 9 (0.64%) SSL
12 8 (0.57%) HTTP
12 8 (0.57%) VLAN
13 6 (0.43%) Broadband
13 6 (0.43%) MPLS
13 6 (0.43%) Wireless
14 5 (0.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 461 (32.67%) SQL Server
2 261 (18.50%) Power BI
3 145 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
5 123 (8.72%) NoSQL
6 102 (7.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 89 (6.31%) MongoDB
7 89 (6.31%) Tableau
8 80 (5.67%) DB2
9 69 (4.89%) Relational Database
10 63 (4.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 50 (3.54%) MySQL
12 49 (3.47%) Data Lake
13 45 (3.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 38 (2.69%) Oracle Database
15 35 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.70%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.49%) Metadata
18 19 (1.35%) Big Data
19 17 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 106 (7.51%) Git
2 59 (4.18%) Visual Studio
3 32 (2.27%) JIRA
4 24 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 13 (0.92%) GitLab
7 11 (0.78%) Jasmine
7 11 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
7 11 (0.78%) Postman
8 10 (0.71%) MSTest
9 8 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.50%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.43%) JUnit
11 6 (0.43%) NUnit
12 5 (0.35%) Selenium
12 5 (0.35%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.35%) Toad
13 4 (0.28%) Android Studio
General
1 374 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 223 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
3 186 (13.18%) Finance
4 123 (8.72%) Retail
5 118 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 112 (7.94%) Law
7 101 (7.16%) Manufacturing
8 95 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (3.83%) Marketing
10 39 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.27%) Legal
12 29 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.77%) Games
14 23 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.42%) Automotive
16 19 (1.35%) Banking
17 16 (1.13%) Local Government
18 15 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (0.92%) Advertising
20 12 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 449 (31.82%) Developer
2 232 (16.44%) Analyst
3 216 (15.31%) Senior
4 120 (8.50%) Software Developer
5 94 (6.66%) Azure Engineer
6 92 (6.52%) .NET Developer
7 85 (6.02%) Data Engineer
8 84 (5.95%) Data Analyst
9 83 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
10 82 (5.81%) C# Developer
11 79 (5.60%) Lead
12 76 (5.39%) Full Stack Engineer
13 69 (4.89%) Senior Developer
14 68 (4.82%) Software Engineer
15 63 (4.46%) Consultant
16 58 (4.11%) Administrator
16 58 (4.11%) Applications Support
17 55 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
18 52 (3.69%) DBA
18 52 (3.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (33.73%) .NET
2 269 (19.06%) HTML
3 240 (17.01%) ASP.NET
4 216 (15.31%) CSS
5 175 (12.40%) React
6 170 (12.05%) AngularJS
7 156 (11.06%) REST
8 133 (9.43%) Web Services
9 124 (8.79%) Vue
10 123 (8.72%) jQuery
11 116 (8.22%) .NET Core
12 97 (6.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 93 (6.59%) ASP.NET Core
14 80 (5.67%) .NET Framework
15 77 (5.46%) ASP.NET MVC
16 74 (5.24%) Ember.js
17 71 (5.03%) Backbone.js
18 69 (4.89%) Entity Framework
19 56 (3.97%) RESTful
19 56 (3.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.58%) Data Structures
2 86 (6.09%) Algorithms
3 71 (5.03%) Blockchain
3 71 (5.03%) e-Learning
3 71 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 62 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 54 (3.83%) Mobile App
6 50 (3.54%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.98%) Clustering
8 26 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.42%) Driving Licence
10 20 (1.42%) NHS
10 20 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.13%) FMCG
13 15 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.99%) Product Ownership
14 14 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 235 (16.65%) Windows
2 166 (11.76%) Linux
3 77 (5.46%) Android
4 73 (5.17%) Apple iOS
5 53 (3.76%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.63%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.28%) Unix
8 13 (0.92%) VMS
8 13 (0.92%) Windows 7
9 12 (0.85%) CentOS
10 11 (0.78%) Debian
10 11 (0.78%) SUSE
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.071%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (24.45%) Agile
2 338 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 278 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
4 221 (15.66%) MVC
5 194 (13.75%) Full Stack Development
6 189 (13.39%) Analytics
7 170 (12.05%) DevOps
8 159 (11.27%) Mentoring
9 147 (10.42%) Web Development
10 146 (10.35%) Software Engineering
11 140 (9.92%) ETL
12 135 (9.57%) Artificial Intelligence
12 135 (9.57%) Coaching
13 133 (9.43%) User Experience
14 114 (8.08%) Data Modelling
15 110 (7.80%) OO
16 106 (7.51%) Visualisation
17 98 (6.95%) Design Patterns
18 97 (6.87%) OOP
19 96 (6.80%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 488 (34.59%) C#
2 339 (24.03%) JavaScript
3 199 (14.10%) Python
4 143 (10.13%) T-SQL
5 80 (5.67%) Java
6 56 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 51 (3.61%) VB
8 49 (3.47%) VB.NET
9 40 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 36 (2.55%) C++
11 34 (2.41%) PL/SQL
12 32 (2.27%) C
12 32 (2.27%) PHP
13 24 (1.70%) R
14 22 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (1.56%) XAML
15 16 (1.13%) Assembly Language
16 15 (1.06%) Bash
17 14 (0.99%) RPG
18 12 (0.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 239 (16.94%) Degree
2 63 (4.46%) DBS Check
3 48 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 40 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.41%) Security Cleared
6 24 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.35%) SC Cleared
8 10 (0.71%) HNC
9 9 (0.64%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.43%) HND
10 6 (0.43%) OCP
10 6 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (0.35%) CAPM
11 5 (0.35%) ISEB
11 5 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.35%) PMP
12 4 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 49 (3.47%) QA
3 26 (1.84%) SLA
4 21 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.99%) GDPR
6 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.071%) ITGC
8 1 (0.071%) NCSC
8 1 (0.071%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (4.32%) Active Directory
1 61 (4.32%) Docker
2 31 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.71%) RACF
7 6 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.28%) pfSense
9 3 (0.21%) XenApp
9 3 (0.21%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.071%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.071%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.20%) Terraform
3 11 (0.78%) SCCM
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.28%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.14%) MIIS
8 2 (0.14%) Nessus
8 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.071%) Ansible
9 1 (0.071%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.071%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.071%) Kibana
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Statspack
9 1 (0.071%) SCOM
9 1 (0.071%) WSUS
Vendors
1 430 (30.47%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.52%) IBM
3 91 (6.45%) Databricks
4 72 (5.10%) Oracle
5 71 (5.03%) Red Hat
6 64 (4.54%) VMware
7 41 (2.91%) Google
8 18 (1.28%) Cisco
9 17 (1.20%) SAP
10 16 (1.13%) DevExpress
10 16 (1.13%) Informatica
10 16 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.99%) F5
11 14 (0.99%) Veeam
11 14 (0.99%) Xamarin
12 13 (0.92%) Apple
12 13 (0.92%) HP
13 12 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 12 (0.85%) SYSPRO
14 10 (0.71%) CyberArk