SQL Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 30 19
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 125 103 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.14% 8.46% 9.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.53% 52.02% 38.11%
Number of salaries quoted 93 53 78
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 301 198 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.78% 16.27% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 234 114 170
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,250 £32,950
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -9.26% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Buckinghamshire

SQL
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -14 82 £50,000 +4.71% 25
Marlow +11 6 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Newport Pagnell -2 3 - -
High Wycombe -8 3 £37,500 -14.29% 6
Aylesbury - 3 £30,000 - 1
Gerrards Cross - 2 £37,250 -
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (8.00%) IIS
2 4 (3.20%) SAS
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Magento
1 3 (2.40%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.40%) Sage X3
1 3 (2.40%) Shopify
2 2 (1.60%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.80%) Finacle
3 1 (0.80%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.80%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.80%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (42.40%) Azure
2 23 (18.40%) SaaS
3 21 (16.80%) Power Platform
4 20 (16.00%) AWS
5 8 (6.40%) Azure AI
5 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (6.40%) GCP
5 8 (6.40%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.60%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.60%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.60%) Serverless
8 1 (0.80%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.80%) PaaS
8 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) VPN
1 1 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.80%) Power BI
1 21 (16.80%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.60%) Tableau
3 9 (7.20%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.40%) GIS
6 3 (2.40%) Metadata
6 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.60%) MySQL
7 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.60%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (1.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.80%) Power Query
8 1 (0.80%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (0.80%) Git
2 1 (0.80%) Postman
2 1 (0.80%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (20.80%) Finance
4 10 (8.00%) Legal
5 9 (7.20%) Advertising
6 8 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.80%) Retail
8 5 (4.00%) Law
8 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Banking
10 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.60%) Electronics
12 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (32.00%) Analyst
2 32 (25.60%) Applications Support
3 17 (13.60%) Support Analyst
4 16 (12.80%) Senior
5 14 (11.20%) Applications Support Analyst
6 13 (10.40%) Support Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) Data Analyst
8 10 (8.00%) Lead
9 9 (7.20%) Data Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Software Support Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Architect
10 8 (6.40%) Junior
10 8 (6.40%) Junior Analyst
10 8 (6.40%) Junior Data Analyst
11 7 (5.60%) Graduate
12 6 (4.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) 3rd Line Support
12 6 (4.80%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Integration Architect
13 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.80%) .NET
2 12 (9.60%) REST
3 9 (7.20%) JSON
3 9 (7.20%) SOAP
4 8 (6.40%) Middleware
4 8 (6.40%) XML
5 5 (4.00%) JWT
5 5 (4.00%) Kafka
5 5 (4.00%) OAuth
5 5 (4.00%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (4.00%) RESTful
6 4 (3.20%) XML Messaging
7 3 (2.40%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.40%) React
7 3 (2.40%) Vue
7 3 (2.40%) WinForms
8 2 (1.60%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.60%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.60%) AS400
5 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.80%) FMCG
6 1 (0.80%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.80%) NHS
6 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.80%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (24.80%) Agile
3 24 (19.20%) Analytics
3 24 (19.20%) Decision-Making
4 22 (17.60%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (17.60%) Data Modelling
5 21 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (15.20%) ERP
7 18 (14.40%) AI
8 17 (13.60%) Software Engineering
9 16 (12.80%) DevOps
10 14 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (10.40%) Mentoring
12 12 (9.60%) CI/CD
12 12 (9.60%) Coaching
12 12 (9.60%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (8.80%) Actionable Insight
13 11 (8.80%) Data Analysis
13 11 (8.80%) Data Governance
13 11 (8.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.60%) C#
2 21 (16.80%) Python
3 11 (8.80%) T-SQL
4 10 (8.00%) Java
5 5 (4.00%) VB.NET
6 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (20.00%) Degree
2 11 (8.80%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.80%) HNC
6 1 (0.80%) HND
6 1 (0.80%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.40%) SLA
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (27.20%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.20%) Google
3 7 (5.60%) SAP
4 6 (4.80%) Sage
5 5 (4.00%) Oracle
6 3 (2.40%) Databricks
7 2 (1.60%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.60%) Yardi
8 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.80%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.80%) FIS
8 1 (0.80%) Laserfiche
8 1 (0.80%) Temenos