SQL Job Trends in Coventry

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 6
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 34 10 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 10.56% 6.49% 19.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.67% 20.83% 51.11%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 45
10th Percentile - £48,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £54,688 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +22.45% -7.98%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,438 £54,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £60,250
West Midlands median annual salary £47,085 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.32% +5.00% -

All Programming Languages
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 51 48 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 15.84% 31.17% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 37 32 88
10th Percentile £40,455 £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £53,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.15% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £69,250 £88,700 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Coventry

SQL
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Coventry

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Coventry over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Coventry

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 10 (29.41%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) Azure AI
4 4 (11.76%) SaaS
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (5.88%) AWS
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) Power BI
2 11 (32.35%) Tableau
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (5.88%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) Looker
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
1 2 (5.88%) Postman
2 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Analyst
1 9 (26.47%) Data Analyst
1 9 (26.47%) Junior
1 9 (26.47%) Junior Analyst
1 9 (26.47%) Junior Data Analyst
2 8 (23.53%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Marketing Executive
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.88%) DataOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) .NET Core
3 4 (11.76%) PySpark
4 2 (5.88%) REST
4 2 (5.88%) XML
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) EDI
5 1 (2.94%) Flutter
5 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.94%) gRPC
5 1 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (2.94%) Kafka
5 1 (2.94%) Node.js
5 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) React Native
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.76%) Blog
2 4 (11.76%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (26.47%) AI
3 8 (23.53%) B2B
3 8 (23.53%) Mentoring
4 7 (20.59%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Analytics
4 7 (20.59%) Logistics
5 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Campaign Management
7 4 (11.76%) Competitive Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.76%) Copywriting
7 4 (11.76%) CRM
7 4 (11.76%) Email Marketing
7 4 (11.76%) ERP
7 4 (11.76%) Market Research
7 4 (11.76%) SEO
7 4 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) C#
2 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) HubSpot
3 3 (8.82%) Databricks