SQL Job Trends in Birmingham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 183 282 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 10.63% 14.96% 13.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.93% 48.96% 39.65%
Number of salaries quoted 139 104 147
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £45,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,850 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 374 576 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.73% 30.56% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 317 258 374
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,525 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SQL job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SQL
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Birmingham

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.37%) IIS
3 7 (3.83%) Apache
4 4 (2.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.09%) Confluence
5 2 (1.09%) nginx
5 2 (1.09%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (16.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 86 (46.99%) Azure
2 56 (30.60%) Power Platform
3 22 (12.02%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (11.48%) SaaS
5 15 (8.20%) AWS
6 10 (5.46%) Azure AI
7 8 (4.37%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.28%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.28%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.64%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.09%) Route 53
13 2 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) DNS
2 3 (1.64%) FTP
2 3 (1.64%) NAS
2 3 (1.64%) SAN
3 2 (1.09%) DHCP
3 2 (1.09%) Firewall
3 2 (1.09%) HTTP
3 2 (1.09%) IMAP
3 2 (1.09%) Intranet
3 2 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.09%) SMTP
3 2 (1.09%) SSH
4 1 (0.55%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.96%) Power BI
2 42 (22.95%) SQL Server
3 30 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (13.66%) Tableau
5 14 (7.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (7.10%) Data Mining
7 11 (6.01%) Data Lake
8 10 (5.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (4.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (4.92%) Power Query
10 8 (4.37%) Delta Lake
10 8 (4.37%) MySQL
11 6 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.64%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.64%) Parquet
12 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (3.28%) JUnit
1 6 (3.28%) Maven
1 6 (3.28%) Mockito
2 4 (2.19%) Git
3 3 (1.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.09%) git-flow
4 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.09%) Moq
4 2 (1.09%) MSTest
4 2 (1.09%) NSubstitute
4 2 (1.09%) NUnit
4 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 48 (26.23%) Finance
2 43 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.46%) Law
4 10 (5.46%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.92%) Legal
6 8 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.37%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.83%) Retail
8 6 (3.28%) Marketing
9 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Automotive
10 3 (1.64%) Banking
10 3 (1.64%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Back Office
12 1 (0.55%) Billing
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) Analyst
1 42 (22.95%) Data Engineer
2 35 (19.13%) Senior
3 26 (14.21%) Developer
4 24 (13.11%) Data Analyst
5 22 (12.02%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (11.48%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Support Engineer
9 13 (7.10%) Trainee
10 12 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Trainee Analyst
10 12 (6.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 11 (6.01%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (6.01%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Junior
12 10 (5.46%) Junior Analyst
13 7 (3.83%) Applications Support
13 7 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.46%) REST
2 9 (4.92%) PySpark
3 7 (3.83%) .NET
4 6 (3.28%) LAMP
5 5 (2.73%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.73%) HTML
5 5 (2.73%) React
6 4 (2.19%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.19%) CSS
6 4 (2.19%) jQuery
6 4 (2.19%) Spring
7 3 (1.64%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.64%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.09%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.09%) EDI
8 2 (1.09%) LDAP
8 2 (1.09%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (1.09%) Symfony
8 2 (1.09%) XML
8 2 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.28%) FMCG
1 6 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (3.28%) Pricing Data
1 6 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.73%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.19%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.19%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.19%) Clustering
3 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.64%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.09%) Replication
5 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.20%) Windows
2 13 (7.10%) Linux
3 10 (5.46%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.73%) VMS
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.79%) Business Intelligence
2 51 (27.87%) Agile
3 46 (25.14%) Analytics
3 46 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (19.13%) Mentoring
5 33 (18.03%) AI
6 28 (15.30%) Data Engineering
6 28 (15.30%) Decision-Making
7 26 (14.21%) ETL
8 23 (12.57%) Data Analytics
8 23 (12.57%) DevOps
9 22 (12.02%) Data Analysis
10 21 (11.48%) CI/CD
11 17 (9.29%) ERP
11 17 (9.29%) Service Delivery
12 16 (8.74%) Coaching
13 15 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (8.20%) Data Modelling
13 15 (8.20%) Migration
14 14 (7.65%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.25%) Python
2 17 (9.29%) JavaScript
3 14 (7.65%) Java
4 12 (6.56%) PHP
5 10 (5.46%) C#
5 10 (5.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (5.46%) R
6 8 (4.37%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.83%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.19%) Bash
9 4 (2.19%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.09%) C
10 2 (1.09%) C++
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.55%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.55%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (8.74%) Degree
2 12 (6.56%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.46%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.92%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.09%) CEH
8 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (1.64%) SLA
4 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) WCAG
5 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) COBIT
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (4.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.64%) vSphere
3 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
3 2 (1.09%) Dovecot
3 2 (1.09%) Postfix
3 2 (1.09%) Squid
4 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.73%) Terraform
3 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.09%) Nessus
4 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.09%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 72 (39.34%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.58%) Databricks
3 20 (10.93%) Oracle
4 9 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.19%) UiPath
7 3 (1.64%) Cisco
7 3 (1.64%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (1.64%) VMware
8 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.09%) Veeam
9 1 (0.55%) ESRI
9 1 (0.55%) Google
9 1 (0.55%) IFS
9 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.55%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.55%) RedGate
9 1 (0.55%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.55%) Splunk