SQL Job Trends in the Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 838 673 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.47% 12.47% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.59% 50.98% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 537 474 1,104
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,825
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,051 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,079
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,838 1,320 3,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.19% 24.46% 24.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,257 985 2,672
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £39,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SQL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SQL
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

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 5 July 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
West Midlands -8 440 £55,000 +4.76% 121
East Midlands -6 398 £45,000 -2.17% 122
SQL
England

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 33 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.15%) Confluence
3 17 (2.03%) IIS
4 14 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.84%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.48%) Apache
9 3 (0.36%) SAS
9 3 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 234 (27.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.48%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.36%) Magento
3 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 446 (53.22%) Azure
2 338 (40.33%) Power Platform
3 185 (22.08%) Azure AI
4 100 (11.93%) AWS
5 55 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.82%) Snowflake
8 27 (3.22%) Entra ID
9 23 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (2.74%) SaaS
10 22 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.63%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.51%) Serverless
12 20 (2.39%) PaaS
12 20 (2.39%) PowerApps
13 18 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (2.15%) GCP
14 17 (2.03%) GitHub
15 13 (1.55%) Azure App Service
16 12 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.89%) Firewall
2 24 (2.86%) DNS
3 20 (2.39%) DHCP
3 20 (2.39%) Internet
4 16 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.31%) VLAN
5 11 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.07%) SAN
7 8 (0.95%) Network Security
8 5 (0.60%) VPN
9 4 (0.48%) FTP
9 4 (0.48%) MQTT
10 3 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.36%) LAN
10 3 (0.36%) WAN
11 2 (0.24%) HTTP
11 2 (0.24%) SMS
12 1 (0.12%) DMZ
12 1 (0.12%) RTP
12 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (39.50%) Power BI
2 209 (24.94%) Tableau
3 92 (10.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 71 (8.47%) SQL Server
5 55 (6.56%) MongoDB
6 37 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (3.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (2.63%) MySQL
9 22 (2.63%) Power Query
10 20 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.91%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.55%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.31%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.95%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.95%) GIS
16 7 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
17 6 (0.72%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 34 (4.06%) JIRA
2 19 (2.27%) Git
3 10 (1.19%) JUnit
3 10 (1.19%) Maven
3 10 (1.19%) Mockito
4 8 (0.95%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.72%) Selenium
6 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.36%) Gatling
7 3 (0.36%) GitLab
7 3 (0.36%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.36%) JMeter
7 3 (0.36%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.36%) Postman
7 3 (0.36%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 289 (34.49%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.06%) Finance
3 140 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.37%) Retail
5 41 (4.89%) Manufacturing
6 37 (4.42%) Law
7 31 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.27%) Legal
10 16 (1.91%) Marketing
11 12 (1.43%) Advertising
12 10 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.07%) Local Government
14 7 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.72%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.48%) Banking
17 4 (0.48%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 300 (35.80%) Analyst
2 236 (28.16%) Data Analyst
3 194 (23.15%) Developer
4 192 (22.91%) Junior
5 189 (22.55%) Junior Analyst
6 188 (22.43%) Junior Data Analyst
7 106 (12.65%) Senior
8 64 (7.64%) Data Engineer
9 63 (7.52%) .NET Developer
10 59 (7.04%) Lead
11 40 (4.77%) Data Scientist
12 37 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
13 35 (4.18%) IT Support
13 35 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (4.18%) Support Engineer
14 31 (3.70%) Administrator
15 30 (3.58%) Support Analyst
16 28 (3.34%) IT Engineer
16 28 (3.34%) Software Developer
16 28 (3.34%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (11.46%) .NET
2 67 (8.00%) .NET Core
3 63 (7.52%) ASP.NET
4 62 (7.40%) HTML
5 60 (7.16%) ASP.NET Core
6 58 (6.92%) CSS
7 57 (6.80%) React
8 47 (5.61%) Node.js
9 27 (3.22%) ASP.NET Web API
9 27 (3.22%) Entity Framework
10 25 (2.98%) Blazor
10 25 (2.98%) REST
11 24 (2.86%) RESTful
12 23 (2.74%) PyTorch
13 22 (2.63%) LINQ
14 17 (2.03%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.03%) TensorFlow
14 17 (2.03%) Vue
15 15 (1.79%) Hugging Face
15 15 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.06%) Management Information System
2 26 (3.10%) Clustering
3 22 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 15 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.55%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.07%) NHS
8 9 (1.07%) Onboarding
9 8 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.84%) iSeries
11 6 (0.72%) AS400
11 6 (0.72%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.72%) IoT
11 6 (0.72%) PKI
11 6 (0.72%) Replication
12 4 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.80%) Windows
2 35 (4.18%) Windows Server
3 28 (3.34%) Linux
4 7 (0.84%) Solaris
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (40.33%) Business Intelligence
2 238 (28.40%) AI
3 167 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
4 160 (19.09%) Analytics
5 146 (17.42%) Agile
6 100 (11.93%) Decision-Making
7 87 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (10.26%) Mentoring
9 85 (10.14%) Data Modelling
10 76 (9.07%) Data Analysis
11 74 (8.83%) CI/CD
11 74 (8.83%) ETL
12 66 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (7.64%) DevOps
13 64 (7.64%) ERP
14 60 (7.16%) Actionable Insight
14 60 (7.16%) Computer Science
15 59 (7.04%) Data Analytics
15 59 (7.04%) Roadmaps
16 55 (6.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 355 (42.36%) Python
2 113 (13.48%) C#
3 79 (9.43%) JavaScript
4 42 (5.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.58%) PHP
6 25 (2.98%) Java
6 25 (2.98%) T-SQL
7 19 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.15%) C++
8 18 (2.15%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.79%) VBA
10 14 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.67%) R
11 13 (1.55%) Bash
12 6 (0.72%) RPG
13 4 (0.48%) RPG IV
13 4 (0.48%) RPG/400
14 3 (0.36%) Rust
14 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 184 (21.96%) Azure Certification
2 80 (9.55%) Degree
3 22 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.91%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.84%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.36%) CITP
8 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.36%) MCSA
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.12%) CCAB
9 1 (0.12%) CIMA
9 1 (0.12%) HND
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 23 (2.74%) SLA
3 21 (2.51%) GDPR
4 15 (1.79%) QA
5 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.12%) NCSC
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.42%) Hyper-V
3 35 (4.18%) Docker
4 6 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 31 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.74%) Terraform
3 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.36%) Grafana
5 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 364 (43.44%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.73%) Databricks
3 26 (3.10%) Oracle
4 18 (2.15%) Google
5 12 (1.43%) SAP
6 9 (1.07%) Veeam
7 8 (0.95%) ESRI
7 8 (0.95%) Facebook
7 8 (0.95%) IBM
7 8 (0.95%) SonicWALL
8 6 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.72%) SYSPRO
8 6 (0.72%) VMware
9 5 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.60%) Sage
9 5 (0.60%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.48%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.48%) Epicor
10 4 (0.48%) Informatica
10 4 (0.48%) YouTube