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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 651 806 774
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.41% 11.76% 17.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.51% 45.69% 47.63%
Number of salaries quoted 515 447 691
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,107 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £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 1,152 1,764 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.88% 25.73% 35.82%
Number of salaries quoted 943 978 1,403
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £68,625 £65,001 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,800 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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
West Midlands -14 366 £50,000 - 121
East Midlands +4 281 £42,500 -5.56% 84
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 18 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.46%) IIS
3 10 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.08%) Apache
4 7 (1.08%) SAS
5 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.92%) Confluence
6 4 (0.61%) nginx
7 3 (0.46%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) FileNet
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 131 (20.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.92%) Sprinklr
3 5 (0.77%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.31%) Exchequer
5 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.31%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Pegasus Opera
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 237 (36.41%) Azure
2 190 (29.19%) Power Platform
3 107 (16.44%) SaaS
4 60 (9.22%) Azure AI
5 56 (8.60%) AWS
6 37 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (2.92%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (2.61%) GCP
11 16 (2.46%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.46%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.15%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.54%) Amazon ELB
14 8 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.08%) GitHub
15 7 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.14%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (2.15%) DNS
3 11 (1.69%) Firewall
4 9 (1.38%) DHCP
5 6 (0.92%) HTTP
5 6 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.92%) VPN
6 5 (0.77%) FTP
7 4 (0.61%) IMAP
7 4 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.61%) SMTP
7 4 (0.61%) SSH
8 3 (0.46%) LAN
8 3 (0.46%) NAS
8 3 (0.46%) SAN
8 3 (0.46%) WAN
9 2 (0.31%) Intranet
10 1 (0.15%) RFID
10 1 (0.15%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (27.96%) Power BI
2 109 (16.74%) SQL Server
3 107 (16.44%) Tableau
4 57 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (5.53%) Data Lake
6 31 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 30 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 29 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (3.99%) Data Mining
10 21 (3.23%) Relational Database
11 19 (2.92%) MySQL
12 16 (2.46%) Delta Lake
13 14 (2.15%) BigQuery
14 13 (2.00%) NoSQL
14 13 (2.00%) Power Query
15 11 (1.69%) Metadata
16 10 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
16 10 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
17 9 (1.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 7 (1.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (3.07%) Git
2 19 (2.92%) JIRA
3 7 (1.08%) MLflow
4 5 (0.77%) GitLab
4 5 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.61%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.61%) JUnit
5 4 (0.61%) Maven
5 4 (0.61%) Mockito
5 4 (0.61%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.46%) git-flow
6 3 (0.46%) Postman
6 3 (0.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) Moq
7 2 (0.31%) MSTest
7 2 (0.31%) NSubstitute
7 2 (0.31%) NUnit
7 2 (0.31%) TestRail
8 1 (0.15%) Gatling
8 1 (0.15%) JMeter
General
1 237 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 151 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
3 106 (16.28%) Finance
4 84 (12.90%) Retail
5 64 (9.83%) Law
6 56 (8.60%) Marketing
7 30 (4.61%) Manufacturing
7 30 (4.61%) Public Sector
8 25 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.69%) Legal
12 10 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Banking
13 9 (1.38%) Games
14 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.61%) Automotive
15 4 (0.61%) Local Government
15 4 (0.61%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 221 (33.95%) Analyst
2 118 (18.13%) Developer
3 107 (16.44%) Data Analyst
4 97 (14.90%) Senior
5 82 (12.60%) Data Engineer
6 75 (11.52%) 2nd Line Support
7 74 (11.37%) Support Analyst
8 72 (11.06%) Junior
9 64 (9.83%) Junior Analyst
10 55 (8.45%) Junior Data Analyst
11 41 (6.30%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
11 41 (6.30%) Senior Data Engineer
12 38 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
13 34 (5.22%) Azure Data Engineer
14 31 (4.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 29 (4.45%) Applications Support
16 24 (3.69%) Consultant
17 23 (3.53%) Support Engineer
18 22 (3.38%) Senior Developer
19 20 (3.07%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.22%) .NET
2 37 (5.68%) REST
3 35 (5.38%) HTML
4 28 (4.30%) CSS
5 25 (3.84%) React
6 19 (2.92%) .NET Core
6 19 (2.92%) PySpark
7 18 (2.76%) AngularJS
7 18 (2.76%) JSON
8 13 (2.00%) Razor View Engine
9 12 (1.84%) ASP.NET
10 11 (1.69%) .NET Framework
10 11 (1.69%) XML
11 10 (1.54%) LAMP
11 10 (1.54%) SOAP
12 9 (1.38%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (1.38%) Node.js
12 9 (1.38%) YAML
13 8 (1.23%) Entity Framework
13 8 (1.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.14%) Onboarding
2 23 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 18 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.54%) Operational Technology
8 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.08%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.08%) iSeries
10 7 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.92%) 3D Graphics
11 6 (0.92%) FMCG
11 6 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.92%) Pricing Data
12 5 (0.77%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.77%) Replication
13 4 (0.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.53%) Windows
2 29 (4.45%) Linux
3 16 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.08%) VMS
5 6 (0.92%) Unix
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (29.49%) Business Intelligence
2 188 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (18.43%) Mentoring
4 115 (17.67%) Analytics
5 107 (16.44%) CRM
6 101 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (15.05%) Agile
7 98 (15.05%) ERP
8 96 (14.75%) AI
9 77 (11.83%) ETL
10 70 (10.75%) CI/CD
10 70 (10.75%) Customer Service
10 70 (10.75%) Data Modelling
11 66 (10.14%) Decision-Making
12 63 (9.68%) DevOps
12 63 (9.68%) Logistics
13 62 (9.52%) Data Analysis
13 62 (9.52%) Data Engineering
14 59 (9.06%) Visualisation
15 58 (8.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 213 (32.72%) Python
2 115 (17.67%) C#
3 67 (10.29%) JavaScript
4 48 (7.37%) T-SQL
5 31 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (3.53%) PHP
8 20 (3.07%) Java
9 15 (2.30%) R
10 13 (2.00%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.92%) Bash
12 5 (0.77%) Bicep
13 4 (0.61%) Groovy
13 4 (0.61%) Scala
14 3 (0.46%) C
14 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.31%) C++
15 2 (0.31%) Perl
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (10.14%) Azure Certification
2 61 (9.37%) Degree
3 46 (7.07%) Security Cleared
4 44 (6.76%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.46%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.46%) MCP
11 3 (0.46%) MCSA
11 3 (0.46%) MCSE
12 2 (0.31%) PhD
12 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.76%) QA
3 30 (4.61%) SLA
4 21 (3.23%) GDPR
5 8 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.15%) COBIT
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (3.53%) Docker
2 21 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.92%) Firmware
4 4 (0.61%) DFS Replication
4 4 (0.61%) Dovecot
4 4 (0.61%) Postfix
4 4 (0.61%) Squid
5 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (3.23%) Terraform
2 19 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.92%) Kubeflow
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.77%) Grafana
5 4 (0.61%) Nessus
5 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.61%) Proxmox
5 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.31%) Ansible
7 1 (0.15%) MOM
7 1 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 197 (30.26%) Microsoft
2 80 (12.29%) Databricks
3 45 (6.91%) Oracle
4 27 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.38%) SAP
5 9 (1.38%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.23%) Adobe
6 8 (1.23%) Cisco
6 8 (1.23%) HubSpot
6 8 (1.23%) Zoho
7 7 (1.08%) Civica
8 5 (0.77%) Google
8 5 (0.77%) Informatica
9 4 (0.61%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.61%) IFS
9 4 (0.61%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.61%) Talend
9 4 (0.61%) UiPath
9 4 (0.61%) VMware
10 3 (0.46%) Ubiquiti