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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 670 727 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 7.39% 12.50% 13.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.71% 46.13% 46.13%
Number of salaries quoted 482 404 1,062
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -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 1,271 1,576 2,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.01% 27.09% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 997 903 2,279
10th Percentile £28,900 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £39,894
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -18 393 £45,000 -14.29% 175
East Midlands +1 275 £40,000 -20.40% 98
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 22 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.09%) Confluence
3 13 (1.94%) IIS
4 8 (1.19%) ArcGIS
5 7 (1.04%) Apache
5 7 (1.04%) SAS
6 6 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 184 (27.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.60%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 282 (42.09%) Azure
2 233 (34.78%) Power Platform
3 112 (16.72%) Azure AI
4 91 (13.58%) SaaS
5 63 (9.40%) AWS
6 35 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (4.18%) Amazon S3
9 27 (4.03%) Serverless
10 25 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.69%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.69%) PowerApps
12 17 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (1.94%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.64%) GCP
15 7 (1.04%) PaaS
16 5 (0.75%) Entra ID
17 4 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.78%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (1.19%) DHCP
2 8 (1.19%) DNS
2 8 (1.19%) Firewall
3 6 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.90%) VPN
4 2 (0.30%) Broadband
4 2 (0.30%) FTP
4 2 (0.30%) HTTP
4 2 (0.30%) Intranet
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) SAN
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (34.33%) Power BI
2 158 (23.58%) Tableau
3 97 (14.48%) SQL Server
4 43 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (5.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 30 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (4.48%) Data Lake
8 27 (4.03%) Data Mining
9 18 (2.69%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (2.09%) Power Query
12 12 (1.79%) MySQL
13 11 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (1.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.34%) Delta Lake
16 8 (1.19%) Crystal Reports
16 8 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (1.19%) GIS
16 8 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (3.58%) JIRA
2 18 (2.69%) Git
3 8 (1.19%) JUnit
3 8 (1.19%) Maven
3 8 (1.19%) Mockito
4 4 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.30%) git-flow
5 2 (0.30%) GitLab
5 2 (0.30%) Postman
5 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.30%) TestRail
5 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.15%) MLflow
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 257 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 159 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (18.06%) Finance
4 61 (9.10%) Law
5 46 (6.87%) Retail
6 35 (5.22%) Marketing
7 23 (3.43%) Manufacturing
8 21 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 20 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.64%) Legal
12 10 (1.49%) Local Government
13 9 (1.34%) Games
14 8 (1.19%) Banking
15 7 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
18 3 (0.45%) Social Housing
18 3 (0.45%) Spanish Language
19 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 250 (37.31%) Analyst
2 158 (23.58%) Data Analyst
3 137 (20.45%) Developer
4 132 (19.70%) Junior
5 127 (18.96%) Junior Analyst
6 114 (17.01%) Junior Data Analyst
7 88 (13.13%) Senior
8 72 (10.75%) Data Engineer
9 59 (8.81%) Support Analyst
10 52 (7.76%) 2nd Line Support
11 34 (5.07%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 33 (4.93%) Senior Developer
13 29 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
14 28 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (3.73%) Applications Support
17 24 (3.58%) Azure Data Engineer
18 23 (3.43%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
18 23 (3.43%) Trainee
19 22 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.76%) .NET
2 45 (6.72%) React
3 40 (5.97%) HTML
4 39 (5.82%) REST
5 31 (4.63%) CSS
6 30 (4.48%) Node.js
7 20 (2.99%) .NET Core
8 16 (2.39%) JSON
9 14 (2.09%) AngularJS
9 14 (2.09%) PySpark
10 12 (1.79%) Razor View Engine
11 10 (1.49%) LAMP
11 10 (1.49%) SOAP
12 9 (1.34%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.19%) ASP.NET
14 7 (1.04%) XML
15 6 (0.90%) DirectX
15 6 (0.90%) jQuery
15 6 (0.90%) OpenGL
15 6 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.46%) Onboarding
2 20 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 12 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.34%) Operational Technology
8 8 (1.19%) Mobile App
9 6 (0.90%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.90%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.75%) FMCG
10 5 (0.75%) Pricing Data
11 4 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.60%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.60%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.60%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.48%) Windows
2 28 (4.18%) Linux
3 14 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.30%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (35.82%) Business Intelligence
2 171 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
3 144 (21.49%) AI
4 124 (18.51%) Analytics
5 111 (16.57%) Mentoring
6 108 (16.12%) Agile
7 94 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (12.69%) CRM
9 77 (11.49%) ETL
10 73 (10.90%) ERP
11 68 (10.15%) Decision-Making
12 65 (9.70%) Data Analysis
13 63 (9.40%) Root Cause Analysis
14 56 (8.36%) Data Engineering
15 55 (8.21%) Data Modelling
16 53 (7.91%) DevOps
17 51 (7.61%) Customer Service
17 51 (7.61%) Full-Stack Development
18 47 (7.01%) Migration
19 46 (6.87%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 264 (39.40%) Python
2 95 (14.18%) C#
3 76 (11.34%) JavaScript
4 46 (6.87%) T-SQL
5 23 (3.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (3.43%) PowerShell
6 21 (3.13%) PHP
7 19 (2.84%) Java
8 16 (2.39%) R
9 14 (2.09%) Bash
10 10 (1.49%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.04%) C
13 5 (0.75%) VBA
14 4 (0.60%) C++
14 4 (0.60%) Scala
15 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.30%) Bicep
16 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 118 (17.61%) Azure Certification
2 57 (8.51%) Degree
3 27 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 25 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.30%) CEH
10 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.30%) HND
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.30%) PMP
10 2 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.15%) MCSA
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.57%) QA
3 30 (4.48%) SLA
4 19 (2.84%) GDPR
5 9 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.30%) NCSC
8 2 (0.30%) NIST
8 2 (0.30%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 19 (2.84%) Docker
2 18 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Firmware
3 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (2.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.49%) Terraform
3 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.15%) MOM
4 1 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 251 (37.46%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.85%) Databricks
3 49 (7.31%) Oracle
4 21 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.19%) ESRI
5 8 (1.19%) HubSpot
6 6 (0.90%) SAP
7 5 (0.75%) Informatica
7 5 (0.75%) Talend
7 5 (0.75%) Zoho
8 4 (0.60%) Civica
8 4 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.60%) Google
8 4 (0.60%) Sage
9 3 (0.45%) Infor
9 3 (0.45%) VMware
10 2 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.30%) Northgate
10 2 (0.30%) Orchard
10 2 (0.30%) UiPath