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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 811 669 964
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.29% 11.97% 9.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.57% 54.52% 41.79%
Number of salaries quoted 566 489 576
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -11.43%
75th Percentile £63,575 £63,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,500 £70,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

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 1,951 1,227 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.72% 21.95% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 937 1,422
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,156 £38,500 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

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 15 September 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 15 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
West Midlands -11 420 £55,000 +7.84% 319
East Midlands -7 391 £45,000 +2.27% 190
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 27 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.59%) IIS
3 16 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (1.36%) Confluence
6 10 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.49%) Apache
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.37%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 143 (17.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.48%) Infor M3
2 11 (1.36%) SAP Business One
3 8 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.86%) Lawson
5 6 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.62%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.37%) Magento
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.37%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.37%) Shopify
9 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.12%) Odoo
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 376 (46.36%) Azure
2 257 (31.69%) Power Platform
3 102 (12.58%) AWS
4 97 (11.96%) Azure AI
5 59 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (4.19%) Entra ID
7 34 (4.19%) SaaS
8 26 (3.21%) GCP
9 25 (3.08%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.71%) GitHub
11 19 (2.34%) PaaS
11 19 (2.34%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.22%) Serverless
13 16 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
14 14 (1.73%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.48%) Azure App Service
15 12 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.92%) Firewall
2 31 (3.82%) DNS
3 23 (2.84%) DHCP
4 19 (2.34%) Internet
5 18 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.60%) VLAN
7 9 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.99%) Network Security
8 8 (0.99%) SAN
8 8 (0.99%) VPN
9 5 (0.62%) HTTP
9 5 (0.62%) SSL
9 5 (0.62%) WAN
10 4 (0.49%) MQTT
11 3 (0.37%) LAN
12 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
12 2 (0.25%) SMS
12 2 (0.25%) Wireless
13 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (31.07%) Power BI
2 121 (14.92%) Tableau
3 92 (11.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 83 (10.23%) SQL Server
5 60 (7.40%) MongoDB
6 50 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (3.70%) Power Query
9 24 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (2.84%) Relational Database
11 22 (2.71%) MySQL
12 18 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (2.10%) Crystal Reports
14 14 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.73%) QlikView
15 13 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (1.48%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.48%) Delta Lake
17 9 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 45 (5.55%) Git
2 24 (2.96%) JIRA
3 15 (1.85%) JUnit
3 15 (1.85%) Maven
4 14 (1.73%) Mockito
5 13 (1.60%) GitLab
5 13 (1.60%) Selenium
6 11 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.23%) JMeter
7 10 (1.23%) Postman
8 6 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.62%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.62%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.62%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.49%) HP UFT
10 4 (0.49%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 234 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 157 (19.36%) Finance
3 155 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.99%) Manufacturing
5 47 (5.80%) Retail
6 35 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.71%) Legal
8 21 (2.59%) Marketing
9 17 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.73%) Advertising
11 13 (1.60%) Law
12 10 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
13 9 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.99%) Social Housing
15 7 (0.86%) Banking
15 7 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.49%) Military
18 3 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 213 (26.26%) Developer
2 206 (25.40%) Analyst
3 134 (16.52%) Data Analyst
4 114 (14.06%) Senior
5 98 (12.08%) Junior
6 94 (11.59%) Junior Analyst
7 93 (11.47%) Junior Data Analyst
8 76 (9.37%) Lead
9 67 (8.26%) .NET Developer
10 62 (7.64%) Data Engineer
11 36 (4.44%) SQL Developer
12 35 (4.32%) Support Analyst
13 34 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
14 33 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
14 33 (4.07%) Data Scientist
15 31 (3.82%) IT Support
16 30 (3.70%) Administrator
16 30 (3.70%) Support Engineer
17 29 (3.58%) Senior Developer
18 24 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (12.82%) .NET
2 71 (8.75%) .NET Core
3 63 (7.77%) ASP.NET
4 62 (7.64%) ASP.NET Core
5 54 (6.66%) React
6 49 (6.04%) CSS
7 46 (5.67%) HTML
8 40 (4.93%) REST
9 33 (4.07%) Node.js
10 32 (3.95%) Entity Framework
11 29 (3.58%) ASP.NET Web API
12 27 (3.33%) RESTful
12 27 (3.33%) Terraform
13 26 (3.21%) LINQ
14 25 (3.08%) Blazor
15 23 (2.84%) PyTorch
16 21 (2.59%) PySpark
16 21 (2.59%) XML
17 20 (2.47%) AngularJS
18 19 (2.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.32%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (3.21%) Clustering
4 21 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.73%) Data Structures
6 14 (1.73%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.73%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.48%) NHS
9 10 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.23%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.11%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.99%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.86%) iSeries
12 7 (0.86%) Mashup
13 6 (0.74%) AS400
13 6 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 65 (8.01%) Windows
2 40 (4.93%) Windows Server
3 35 (4.32%) Linux
4 8 (0.99%) Solaris
5 4 (0.49%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (34.16%) Business Intelligence
2 206 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
3 175 (21.58%) AI
4 170 (20.96%) Agile
5 164 (20.22%) Analytics
6 121 (14.92%) ERP
7 110 (13.56%) Decision-Making
8 102 (12.58%) Mentoring
9 101 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (11.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 88 (10.85%) CI/CD
12 85 (10.48%) Data Modelling
13 78 (9.62%) DevOps
14 77 (9.49%) ETL
15 68 (8.38%) Roadmaps
16 65 (8.01%) Data Analysis
17 62 (7.64%) Actionable Insight
17 62 (7.64%) Data Management
18 59 (7.27%) Software Engineering
19 58 (7.15%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 252 (31.07%) Python
2 120 (14.80%) C#
3 97 (11.96%) JavaScript
4 52 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (5.67%) Java
6 29 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 27 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 23 (2.84%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.59%) PHP
10 18 (2.22%) C++
11 17 (2.10%) Bash
12 15 (1.85%) VBA
13 13 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.74%) RPG
15 4 (0.49%) RPG IV
15 4 (0.49%) RPG/400
16 3 (0.37%) R
16 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.25%) Assembly Language
17 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (11.84%) Azure Certification
2 82 (10.11%) Degree
3 27 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.86%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.62%) ISEB
8 5 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.62%) PMP
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.12%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.88%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.07%) GDPR
3 27 (3.33%) QA
4 13 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.11%) SLA
6 8 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 45 (5.55%) Docker
3 39 (4.81%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.74%) Grafana
5 4 (0.49%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.25%) Ansible
6 2 (0.25%) Nessus
7 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 293 (36.13%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.92%) Oracle
3 47 (5.80%) Databricks
4 27 (3.33%) SAP
5 22 (2.71%) Google
6 17 (2.10%) Infor
7 13 (1.60%) SYSPRO
8 9 (1.11%) Facebook
8 9 (1.11%) Sage
9 8 (0.99%) IBM
9 8 (0.99%) Veeam
10 7 (0.86%) Epicor
10 7 (0.86%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.86%) VMware
11 6 (0.74%) Cisco
11 6 (0.74%) Informatica
11 6 (0.74%) SonicWALL
11 6 (0.74%) YouTube
12 5 (0.62%) Pega
12 5 (0.62%) SolarWinds