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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 798 674 979
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.06% 12.11% 10.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.90% 54.98% 42.14%
Number of salaries quoted 568 495 536
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,938 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
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 1,226 2,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.38% 22.03% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 939 1,304
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,299 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 29 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 29 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 -14 423 £55,000 +10.00% 282
East Midlands -10 375 £45,500 +7.06% 156
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 25 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.76%) IIS
3 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.13%) Confluence
7 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.38%) Apache
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 116 (14.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.25%) Notion
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (1.75%) Infor M3
2 13 (1.63%) SAP Business One
3 8 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.88%) Lawson
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.63%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.50%) Magento
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.38%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.38%) Shopify
9 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.13%) Odoo
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 337 (42.23%) Azure
2 223 (27.94%) Power Platform
3 95 (11.90%) AWS
4 64 (8.02%) Azure AI
5 60 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (4.51%) SaaS
8 35 (4.39%) Entra ID
9 25 (3.13%) GCP
10 23 (2.88%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.76%) GitHub
12 19 (2.38%) PaaS
13 18 (2.26%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.26%) Serverless
14 15 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
16 13 (1.63%) PowerApps
17 12 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (1.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.64%) Firewall
2 33 (4.14%) DNS
3 25 (3.13%) DHCP
4 18 (2.26%) Internet
4 18 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.63%) VLAN
6 8 (1.00%) VPN
7 7 (0.88%) Network Security
7 7 (0.88%) SAN
8 6 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.63%) HTTP
9 5 (0.63%) SSL
10 4 (0.50%) MQTT
11 3 (0.38%) WAN
12 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
12 2 (0.25%) SMS
12 2 (0.25%) Wireless
13 1 (0.13%) BIG-IP
13 1 (0.13%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (27.32%) Power BI
2 95 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (11.53%) SQL Server
4 89 (11.15%) Tableau
5 61 (7.64%) MongoDB
6 56 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (5.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 35 (4.39%) Power Query
9 25 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 24 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (2.51%) MySQL
13 17 (2.13%) Crystal Reports
14 16 (2.01%) Data Lake
14 16 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (1.75%) Delta Lake
16 14 (1.75%) QlikView
17 13 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (1.63%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 48 (6.02%) Git
2 21 (2.63%) JIRA
3 15 (1.88%) JUnit
3 15 (1.88%) Maven
4 14 (1.75%) GitLab
4 14 (1.75%) Mockito
5 10 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.25%) Postman
5 10 (1.25%) Selenium
6 9 (1.13%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.13%) JMeter
7 8 (1.00%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.63%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.63%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.50%) Storybook
9 4 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 214 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 170 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
3 166 (20.80%) Finance
4 85 (10.65%) Manufacturing
5 40 (5.01%) Retail
6 39 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 23 (2.88%) Legal
8 22 (2.76%) Marketing
9 16 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.75%) Advertising
11 13 (1.63%) Law
12 11 (1.38%) Fire and Rescue
12 11 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.00%) Social Housing
15 7 (0.88%) Banking
15 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.75%) Military
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 219 (27.44%) Developer
2 177 (22.18%) Analyst
3 119 (14.91%) Senior
4 105 (13.16%) Data Analyst
5 82 (10.28%) Lead
6 67 (8.40%) .NET Developer
7 66 (8.27%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.89%) Junior
9 61 (7.64%) Junior Analyst
10 60 (7.52%) Junior Data Analyst
11 42 (5.26%) SQL Developer
12 34 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (4.26%) Support Analyst
13 33 (4.14%) Data Scientist
14 32 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
14 32 (4.01%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.76%) IT Support
16 29 (3.63%) Administrator
17 28 (3.51%) Support Engineer
18 24 (3.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (13.41%) .NET
2 72 (9.02%) .NET Core
3 64 (8.02%) ASP.NET
4 62 (7.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 56 (7.02%) React
6 45 (5.64%) REST
7 44 (5.51%) CSS
8 43 (5.39%) HTML
9 33 (4.14%) Node.js
10 32 (4.01%) Entity Framework
11 29 (3.63%) ASP.NET Web API
12 28 (3.51%) Terraform
13 26 (3.26%) LINQ
13 26 (3.26%) PySpark
13 26 (3.26%) RESTful
14 25 (3.13%) Blazor
15 21 (2.63%) XML
16 20 (2.51%) AngularJS
16 20 (2.51%) PyTorch
17 19 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
3 25 (3.13%) Clustering
3 25 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.50%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.38%) NHS
7 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.13%) IoT
9 9 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.00%) FMCG
10 8 (1.00%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.88%) iSeries
11 7 (0.88%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 68 (8.52%) Windows
2 42 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 36 (4.51%) Linux
4 8 (1.00%) Solaris
5 4 (0.50%) VMS
6 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (31.95%) Business Intelligence
2 225 (28.20%) Problem-Solving
3 175 (21.93%) Analytics
4 173 (21.68%) Agile
5 147 (18.42%) AI
6 126 (15.79%) ERP
7 118 (14.79%) Decision-Making
8 112 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 104 (13.03%) Mentoring
10 99 (12.41%) CI/CD
11 93 (11.65%) Data Modelling
12 91 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 84 (10.53%) ETL
14 80 (10.03%) DevOps
15 71 (8.90%) Data Analysis
16 70 (8.77%) Data Management
17 66 (8.27%) Actionable Insight
17 66 (8.27%) Roadmaps
18 62 (7.77%) Data Analytics
19 61 (7.64%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 229 (28.70%) Python
2 120 (15.04%) C#
3 95 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 53 (6.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (5.39%) Java
6 32 (4.01%) PowerShell
7 27 (3.38%) PL/SQL
8 24 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.13%) PHP
10 16 (2.01%) Bash
11 15 (1.88%) C++
11 15 (1.88%) VBA
12 14 (1.75%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.75%) RPG
14 4 (0.50%) R
14 4 (0.50%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.50%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 84 (10.53%) Degree
2 61 (7.64%) Azure Certification
3 28 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.13%) PMI Certification
7 7 (0.88%) PMP
8 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (0.63%) ISEB
9 5 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.25%) ACCA
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.25%) CIMA
13 1 (0.13%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.64%) GDPR
3 29 (3.63%) QA
4 10 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.13%) SLA
6 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) GAMP
9 1 (0.13%) GMP
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (6.77%) Active Directory
2 48 (6.02%) Docker
3 36 (4.51%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (0.75%) Grafana
6 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.25%) Ansible
7 2 (0.25%) Nessus
8 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 272 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.64%) Oracle
3 41 (5.14%) Databricks
4 33 (4.14%) SAP
5 19 (2.38%) Google
5 19 (2.38%) Infor
6 13 (1.63%) SYSPRO
7 10 (1.25%) VMware
8 9 (1.13%) Facebook
8 9 (1.13%) Sage
8 9 (1.13%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.88%) Epicor
9 7 (0.88%) Veeam
10 6 (0.75%) Cisco
10 6 (0.75%) YouTube
11 5 (0.63%) IBM
11 5 (0.63%) Informatica
11 5 (0.63%) Pega
11 5 (0.63%) SonicWALL
12 4 (0.50%) CheckPoint