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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 125 108 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 11.36% 10.40% 13.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.13% 37.63% 30.17%
Number of salaries quoted 87 72 86
10th Percentile £31,700 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £52,250 £60,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 198 287 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 18.00% 27.65% 44.14%
Number of salaries quoted 146 151 230
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £39,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £67,688 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +3 69 £49,000 +15.29% 55
Newport Pagnell - 8 - - 2
High Wycombe -4 4 £43,750 -32.69% 14
Amersham - 3 £47,500 -
Chesham -5 2 £65,000 +100.00%
Buckingham - 1 - -
Chalfont St Giles - 1 - - 1
Beaconsfield - 1 - -
Marlow - 1 - -
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 16 (12.80%) IIS
2 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) Appian
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) SAS
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.80%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.80%) Azure
2 28 (22.40%) Power Platform
3 15 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.40%) GCP
5 7 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.80%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.20%) SaaS
8 3 (2.40%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.60%) AWS
9 2 (1.60%) GitHub
10 1 (0.80%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.80%) Boomi
10 1 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.80%) IaaS
10 1 (0.80%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (0.80%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) SSL
2 1 (0.80%) Intranet
2 1 (0.80%) PBX
2 1 (0.80%) RFID
2 1 (0.80%) RTP
2 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.40%) Power BI
2 23 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (18.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (17.60%) SQL Server
4 19 (15.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (6.40%) Tableau
6 6 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.80%) Metadata
7 5 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.00%) Power Query
7 5 (4.00%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.20%) PowerPivot
9 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.40%) MySQL
9 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (19.20%) JIRA
2 5 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) Postman
4 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 59 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 37 (29.60%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Finance
4 5 (4.00%) Law
4 5 (4.00%) Retail
5 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.40%) Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Legal
8 1 (0.80%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (38.40%) Analyst
2 18 (14.40%) Support Analyst
3 15 (12.00%) Applications Support
3 15 (12.00%) Software Engineer
3 15 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 13 (10.40%) Applications Support Analyst
4 13 (10.40%) Data Analyst
4 13 (10.40%) IT Support
5 12 (9.60%) Developer
5 12 (9.60%) IT Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) IT Support Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Software Support Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (5.60%) Senior
8 7 (5.60%) Technical Support
9 6 (4.80%) SQL Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Quality Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.80%) .NET
2 14 (11.20%) .NET Framework
3 12 (9.60%) Entity Framework
3 12 (9.60%) WinForms
4 11 (8.80%) HTML
5 9 (7.20%) ASP.NET
6 8 (6.40%) REST
7 6 (4.80%) XML
8 5 (4.00%) JSON
9 3 (2.40%) Flash
9 3 (2.40%) RESTful
9 3 (2.40%) Spring
9 3 (2.40%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.60%) CSS
10 2 (1.60%) Kafka
10 2 (1.60%) React
10 2 (1.60%) Web Services
11 1 (0.80%) jQuery
11 1 (0.80%) Pandas
11 1 (0.80%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.40%) Clustering
4 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) IBM Storwize
5 2 (1.60%) AS400
5 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.60%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.80%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.80%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.80%) Replication
6 1 (0.80%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 34 (27.20%) Windows
2 6 (4.80%) Linux
3 3 (2.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.20%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (22.40%) Computer Science
4 26 (20.80%) Decision-Making
5 20 (16.00%) ETL
6 19 (15.20%) Analytics
6 19 (15.20%) DevOps
7 16 (12.80%) Software Engineering
8 15 (12.00%) Data Engineering
9 13 (10.40%) Agile
9 13 (10.40%) AI
9 13 (10.40%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 13 (10.40%) Machine Learning
10 12 (9.60%) Data Analysis
11 10 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (8.00%) Data Governance
11 10 (8.00%) Data Modelling
11 10 (8.00%) Visualisation
12 9 (7.20%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (7.20%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) Python
2 34 (27.20%) T-SQL
3 27 (21.60%) C#
4 14 (11.20%) Java
5 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.60%) PHP
7 11 (8.80%) C
8 9 (7.20%) C++
8 9 (7.20%) Dart
8 9 (7.20%) MATLAB
8 9 (7.20%) R
8 9 (7.20%) Ruby
8 9 (7.20%) Rust
8 9 (7.20%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (3.20%) VBA
11 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (42.40%) Degree
2 27 (21.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.20%) A+ Certification
3 4 (3.20%) ACCA
3 4 (3.20%) CIMA
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.60%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.20%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.60%) Docker
3 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) ZABBIX
2 1 (0.80%) Control-M
2 1 (0.80%) Kibana
2 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.60%) Sage
2 12 (9.60%) Xamarin
3 9 (7.20%) Google
4 6 (4.80%) Databricks
4 6 (4.80%) SAP
4 6 (4.80%) Zoho
5 5 (4.00%) IBM
6 2 (1.60%) Cognos
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle
6 2 (1.60%) Talend
7 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.80%) Dell
7 1 (0.80%) Epicor
7 1 (0.80%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.80%) Informatica
7 1 (0.80%) Jitterbit
7 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.80%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.80%) Software AG