SQL Jobs in the Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 689 1,361 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.96% 10.20% 14.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.45% 42.53% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 501 1,042 909
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £32,252
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +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 1,550 3,200 2,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.41% 23.97% 33.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 2,495 1,759
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +9.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,023 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Midlands.

Salary trend for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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 0 382 £52,500 +5.00% 268
East Midlands -4 302 £45,000 - 192
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 68 (9.87%) Confluence
2 19 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.02%) CMS
6 5 (0.73%) IIS
7 4 (0.58%) Apache
7 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.58%) nginx
8 3 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.29%) SAS
9 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.15%) Mendix
10 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 60 (8.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
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 18 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (2.18%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (1.74%) Sprinklr
4 9 (1.31%) Oracle Applications
5 8 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (1.02%) Infor CloudSuite
6 7 (1.02%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 5 (0.73%) Exchequer
7 5 (0.73%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle SCM
9 2 (0.29%) Odoo
10 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 322 (46.73%) Azure
2 168 (24.38%) Power Platform
3 156 (22.64%) AWS
4 74 (10.74%) GCP
5 45 (6.53%) SaaS
6 40 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (5.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (3.77%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.77%) Snowflake
10 23 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (3.05%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.90%) PaaS
13 19 (2.76%) IaaS
13 19 (2.76%) Serverless
14 15 (2.18%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.89%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.89%) GitHub
16 11 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.34%) WAN
2 20 (2.90%) Firewall
3 19 (2.76%) DNS
3 19 (2.76%) LAN
4 11 (1.60%) DHCP
5 10 (1.45%) VPN
6 8 (1.16%) HTTP
6 8 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.73%) BGP
8 5 (0.73%) OSPF
8 5 (0.73%) SAN
8 5 (0.73%) VLAN
8 5 (0.73%) WLAN
9 4 (0.58%) FTP
9 4 (0.58%) IMAP
9 4 (0.58%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.58%) SMTP
9 4 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (30.19%) SQL Server
2 157 (22.79%) Power BI
3 73 (10.60%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 47 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 45 (6.53%) Data Lake
6 45 (6.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (5.66%) Tableau
8 34 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 25 (3.63%) MySQL
9 25 (3.63%) Relational Database
10 23 (3.34%) BigQuery
11 20 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.61%) Metadata
13 14 (2.03%) BusinessObjects
14 12 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (1.60%) Big Data
15 11 (1.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (14.22%) JIRA
2 68 (9.87%) GitLab
3 67 (9.72%) SonarQube
4 66 (9.58%) Maven
5 65 (9.43%) Selenium
6 63 (9.14%) Bitbucket
6 63 (9.14%) Cucumber
6 63 (9.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 43 (6.24%) Git
8 19 (2.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (1.45%) JUnit
9 10 (1.45%) Mockito
10 7 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.87%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.87%) IntelliJ
11 6 (0.87%) Jasmine
11 6 (0.87%) Jenkins
11 6 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
11 6 (0.87%) Protractor
11 6 (0.87%) Subversion
General
1 182 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 170 (24.67%) Finance
3 130 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (12.77%) Retail
5 84 (12.19%) Law
6 69 (10.01%) Banking
7 42 (6.10%) Marketing
8 38 (5.52%) Public Sector
9 36 (5.22%) Manufacturing
10 25 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.32%) Corporate Banking
12 16 (2.32%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.74%) Automotive
14 10 (1.45%) Legal
15 8 (1.16%) Police
16 6 (0.87%) Back Office
17 5 (0.73%) Advertising
17 5 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 161 (23.37%) Developer
2 151 (21.92%) Analyst
3 84 (12.19%) Software Engineer
4 77 (11.18%) Senior
5 56 (8.13%) Support Analyst
6 50 (7.26%) Data Analyst
7 46 (6.68%) Data Engineer
8 41 (5.95%) Lead
8 41 (5.95%) SQL Developer
9 37 (5.37%) Senior Developer
10 29 (4.21%) Architect
11 27 (3.92%) Support Engineer
12 26 (3.77%) Consultant
13 25 (3.63%) C# Developer
13 25 (3.63%) SQL Analyst
14 24 (3.48%) Applications Support
15 23 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
16 21 (3.05%) 2nd Line Support
16 21 (3.05%) Java Developer
17 20 (2.90%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (19.16%) HTML
2 102 (14.80%) CSS
2 102 (14.80%) React
3 100 (14.51%) .NET
4 77 (11.18%) JPA
5 76 (11.03%) Spring
6 71 (10.30%) Spring Boot
7 66 (9.58%) Kafka
8 63 (9.14%) Redux
9 58 (8.42%) Hibernate
10 45 (6.53%) REST
11 31 (4.50%) ASP.NET
11 31 (4.50%) RESTful
12 24 (3.48%) .NET Framework
12 24 (3.48%) Web Services
13 23 (3.34%) Blazor
14 22 (3.19%) AngularJS
15 21 (3.05%) HTML5
16 20 (2.90%) Entity Framework
17 19 (2.76%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 65 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 16 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.60%) iSeries
10 10 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.31%) AS400
11 9 (1.31%) Replication
12 7 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.87%) IoT
13 6 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.11%) Windows
2 35 (5.08%) Linux
3 34 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.47%) Unix
5 9 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.73%) AIX
7 5 (0.73%) Mac OS X
7 5 (0.73%) Rocky
7 5 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.58%) VMS
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (27.14%) Agile
2 174 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
3 160 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
4 155 (22.50%) DevOps
5 147 (21.34%) Analytics
6 118 (17.13%) CI/CD
7 109 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 108 (15.67%) Software Engineering
9 101 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
10 98 (14.22%) Data Analysis
11 92 (13.35%) Microservices
12 90 (13.06%) Containerisation
13 89 (12.92%) Artificial Intelligence
14 85 (12.34%) SDLC
15 82 (11.90%) ETL
16 80 (11.61%) Visualisation
17 78 (11.32%) CRM
17 78 (11.32%) Test Automation
18 72 (10.45%) Data Modelling
18 72 (10.45%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 158 (22.93%) JavaScript
2 142 (20.61%) Python
3 140 (20.32%) Java
4 136 (19.74%) C#
5 59 (8.56%) T-SQL
6 47 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 37 (5.37%) R
8 32 (4.64%) PHP
9 30 (4.35%) C++
10 26 (3.77%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.34%) PL/SQL
12 21 (3.05%) C
13 19 (2.76%) Dart
13 19 (2.76%) MATLAB
13 19 (2.76%) Ruby
13 19 (2.76%) Rust
14 15 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (1.31%) Bicep
15 9 (1.31%) RPG
16 4 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 116 (16.84%) Degree
2 55 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (7.55%) Security Cleared
4 38 (5.52%) SC Cleared
5 25 (3.63%) DBS Check
6 23 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.76%) MCSE
8 15 (2.18%) A+ Certification
8 15 (2.18%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.03%) MCP
9 14 (2.03%) MCSA
10 8 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.87%) HND
12 5 (0.73%) ACCA
12 5 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.73%) CIMA
12 5 (0.73%) HNC
12 5 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.90%) QA
2 50 (7.26%) Data Quality
3 39 (5.66%) SLA
4 27 (3.92%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.31%) GDPR
6 7 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 98 (14.22%) Docker
2 36 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.87%) Postfix
5 5 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.58%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.58%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.58%) Squid
7 3 (0.44%) Firmware
8 2 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.29%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.77%) Terraform
3 8 (1.16%) Grafana
3 8 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.87%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.58%) Nessus
6 4 (0.58%) Proxmox
6 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
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%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) Marathon
9 1 (0.15%) Oozie
9 1 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 151 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.30%) Databricks
3 63 (9.14%) Solace
4 49 (7.11%) Oracle
5 26 (3.77%) SAP
6 25 (3.63%) Google
7 22 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.18%) VMware
9 13 (1.89%) Adobe
10 11 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.45%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.31%) IBM
13 8 (1.16%) Cisco
13 8 (1.16%) Zoho
14 7 (1.02%) Infor
14 7 (1.02%) Informatica
14 7 (1.02%) Ubiquiti
15 6 (0.87%) Dell
15 6 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
15 6 (0.87%) Red Hat