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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 680 981 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.14% 9.77% 16.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.66% 41.85% 47.64%
Number of salaries quoted 500 575 769
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,781 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 1,244 2,344 1,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.21% 23.35% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 953 1,413 1,567
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +4 359 £51,250 +2.50% 207
East Midlands +3 316 £42,500 - 155
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 61 (8.97%) Confluence
2 18 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.91%) IIS
5 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.18%) nginx
7 7 (1.03%) Apache
8 5 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.59%) CMS
10 3 (0.44%) SAS
11 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.15%) Appian
12 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 62 (9.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.76%) Sprinklr
3 7 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.88%) SAP Business One
5 5 (0.74%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.74%) Infor CloudSuite
5 5 (0.74%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 5 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.15%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 293 (43.09%) Azure
2 167 (24.56%) Power Platform
3 144 (21.18%) AWS
4 72 (10.59%) GCP
5 63 (9.26%) SaaS
6 39 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (3.82%) Power Automate
11 25 (3.68%) Snowflake
12 21 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (2.94%) PowerApps
14 19 (2.79%) Entra ID
15 18 (2.65%) PaaS
16 17 (2.50%) Amazon S3
16 17 (2.50%) IaaS
17 15 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (2.06%) Amazon ELB
18 14 (2.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.38%) DNS
2 21 (3.09%) Firewall
3 18 (2.65%) WAN
4 15 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
5 14 (2.06%) LAN
6 12 (1.76%) HTTP
6 12 (1.76%) VPN
7 10 (1.47%) DHCP
8 8 (1.18%) FTP
8 8 (1.18%) IMAP
8 8 (1.18%) OpenLDAP
8 8 (1.18%) SMTP
8 8 (1.18%) SSH
9 6 (0.88%) SAN
10 5 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.44%) NAS
13 2 (0.29%) Skype
14 1 (0.15%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (30.29%) SQL Server
2 154 (22.65%) Power BI
3 73 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (6.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 44 (6.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 40 (5.88%) Tableau
7 36 (5.29%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.71%) NoSQL
9 29 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (3.68%) BigQuery
11 24 (3.53%) MySQL
12 21 (3.09%) Relational Database
13 20 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (2.65%) Metadata
15 14 (2.06%) Power Query
16 12 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 11 (1.62%) BusinessObjects
17 11 (1.62%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 90 (13.24%) JIRA
2 69 (10.15%) GitLab
3 66 (9.71%) Maven
3 66 (9.71%) Selenium
4 65 (9.56%) SonarQube
5 63 (9.26%) Bitbucket
5 63 (9.26%) Cucumber
5 63 (9.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 25 (3.68%) Git
7 18 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (1.47%) Jenkins
9 8 (1.18%) Vagrant
10 7 (1.03%) MLflow
11 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.59%) Browser DevTools
13 3 (0.44%) NUnit
14 2 (0.29%) DbUnit
14 2 (0.29%) MSTest
14 2 (0.29%) Subversion
14 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 171 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 170 (25.00%) Finance
3 135 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (13.68%) Retail
5 91 (13.38%) Law
6 76 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (10.59%) Banking
8 56 (8.24%) Marketing
9 39 (5.74%) Public Sector
10 36 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (5.15%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.35%) Corporate Banking
12 16 (2.35%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.62%) Legal
15 9 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.03%) Back Office
16 7 (1.03%) Police
17 6 (0.88%) Social Housing
18 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 147 (21.62%) Analyst
1 147 (21.62%) Developer
2 78 (11.47%) Software Engineer
3 75 (11.03%) Senior
4 61 (8.97%) Support Analyst
5 57 (8.38%) Data Engineer
6 53 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support
7 51 (7.50%) Data Analyst
8 38 (5.59%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 36 (5.29%) SQL Developer
10 34 (5.00%) Lead
11 27 (3.97%) Senior Developer
12 26 (3.82%) Applications Support
12 26 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 26 (3.82%) Support Engineer
13 25 (3.68%) Architect
13 25 (3.68%) Consultant
14 21 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 19 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.79%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (18.53%) HTML
2 100 (14.71%) CSS
3 92 (13.53%) React
4 78 (11.47%) .NET
5 74 (10.88%) Spring
6 71 (10.44%) Spring Boot
7 70 (10.29%) JPA
8 68 (10.00%) Kafka
9 64 (9.41%) Redux
10 55 (8.09%) REST
11 52 (7.65%) Hibernate
12 24 (3.53%) RESTful
13 23 (3.38%) ASP.NET
13 23 (3.38%) Web Services
14 22 (3.24%) AngularJS
14 22 (3.24%) HTML5
15 21 (3.09%) .NET Framework
15 21 (3.09%) CSS3
16 18 (2.65%) PySpark
17 17 (2.50%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 71 (10.44%) Product Ownership
2 64 (9.41%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 30 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.06%) iSeries
9 13 (1.91%) Replication
10 12 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.76%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.62%) Pricing Data
12 10 (1.47%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.32%) AS400
13 9 (1.32%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.18%) FMCG
15 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.88%) Windows
2 30 (4.41%) Linux
3 26 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.32%) Unix
5 8 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (1.18%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.18%) VMS
6 4 (0.59%) Rocky
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (24.85%) Agile
2 164 (24.12%) Business Intelligence
3 163 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
4 147 (21.62%) DevOps
5 131 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 128 (18.82%) Analytics
7 127 (18.68%) CI/CD
8 98 (14.41%) Software Engineering
9 94 (13.82%) CRM
10 88 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 87 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence
12 84 (12.35%) SDLC
13 83 (12.21%) ETL
13 83 (12.21%) Mentoring
14 81 (11.91%) Microservices
15 79 (11.62%) Containerisation
16 78 (11.47%) Decision-Making
16 78 (11.47%) Test Automation
17 76 (11.18%) Visualisation
18 75 (11.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 156 (22.94%) JavaScript
2 152 (22.35%) Python
3 129 (18.97%) C#
4 123 (18.09%) Java
5 53 (7.79%) T-SQL
6 46 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 40 (5.88%) R
8 37 (5.44%) PowerShell
9 34 (5.00%) PHP
10 24 (3.53%) C++
11 21 (3.09%) C
12 19 (2.79%) Dart
12 19 (2.79%) MATLAB
12 19 (2.79%) Ruby
12 19 (2.79%) Rust
13 18 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (2.06%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.47%) Bicep
16 9 (1.32%) RPG
17 8 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 106 (15.59%) Degree
2 69 (10.15%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 46 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.65%) DBS Check
7 17 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.62%) A+ Certification
10 10 (1.47%) MCP
10 10 (1.47%) MCSA
10 10 (1.47%) MCSE
11 6 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.44%) HND
14 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (13.24%) QA
2 52 (7.65%) Data Quality
3 43 (6.32%) SLA
4 22 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.21%) GDPR
6 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (13.09%) Docker
2 35 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.47%) Postfix
5 8 (1.18%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.18%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.18%) Squid
6 6 (0.88%) Firmware
7 4 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.44%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 84 (12.35%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.41%) Terraform
3 11 (1.62%) Grafana
4 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.18%) Nessus
5 8 (1.18%) Proxmox
6 7 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.88%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.29%) SCCM
8 2 (0.29%) SCOM
8 2 (0.29%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.29%) SCSM
9 1 (0.15%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.15%) Ansible
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) Marathon
9 1 (0.15%) Oozie
Vendors
1 152 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.56%) Databricks
3 63 (9.26%) Solace
4 32 (4.71%) Oracle
4 32 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.50%) Google
5 17 (2.50%) SAP
6 16 (2.35%) VMware
7 13 (1.91%) Adobe
8 11 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.18%) Cisco
10 8 (1.18%) Informatica
11 7 (1.03%) Civica
12 6 (0.88%) Zoho
13 5 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.74%) Capita
13 5 (0.74%) IFS
13 5 (0.74%) Infor
13 5 (0.74%) Red Hat