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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 710 592 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.73% 12.41% 12.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.58% 48.41% 45.20%
Number of salaries quoted 457 433 1,155
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £58,593 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.35% +9.09% -7.60%

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 1,432 1,223 2,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.58% 25.64% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 951 2,560
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -18 415 £45,000 -14.29% 157
East Midlands -3 293 £45,000 -7.22% 123
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 24 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.25%) Confluence
3 8 (1.13%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.99%) SAS
5 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.70%) Apache
6 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.70%) IIS
6 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.14%) CICS
8 1 (0.14%) FileNet
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 238 (33.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 370 (52.11%) Azure
2 299 (42.11%) Power Platform
3 177 (24.93%) Azure AI
4 76 (10.70%) AWS
5 68 (9.58%) SaaS
6 37 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 26 (3.66%) Serverless
10 25 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.82%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.68%) PowerApps
13 18 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (2.54%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (1.97%) GCP
16 7 (0.99%) Entra ID
17 6 (0.85%) PaaS
18 5 (0.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.96%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (0.99%) Firewall
3 5 (0.70%) DHCP
3 5 (0.70%) DNS
4 4 (0.56%) FTP
4 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.42%) Internet
6 2 (0.28%) Broadband
6 2 (0.28%) HTTP
6 2 (0.28%) Intranet
6 2 (0.28%) LAN
6 2 (0.28%) Network Security
6 2 (0.28%) SAN
6 2 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.28%) WAN
7 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (41.55%) Power BI
2 216 (30.42%) Tableau
3 78 (10.99%) SQL Server
4 41 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (3.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (3.52%) Data Lake
8 25 (3.52%) Data Mining
9 18 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (1.55%) Power Query
11 10 (1.41%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.41%) MySQL
11 10 (1.41%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.41%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.13%) GIS
13 6 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (3.94%) JIRA
2 22 (3.10%) Git
3 8 (1.13%) JUnit
3 8 (1.13%) Maven
3 8 (1.13%) Mockito
4 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.42%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Postman
6 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.28%) TestRail
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) git-flow
7 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.14%) MLflow
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 293 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 145 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (15.92%) Finance
4 51 (7.18%) Law
5 37 (5.21%) Retail
6 25 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.24%) Manufacturing
8 22 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.68%) Marketing
10 10 (1.41%) Legal
10 10 (1.41%) Local Government
11 9 (1.27%) Games
12 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.56%) Banking
15 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.42%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 303 (42.68%) Analyst
2 219 (30.85%) Data Analyst
3 200 (28.17%) Junior
4 195 (27.46%) Junior Analyst
5 183 (25.77%) Junior Data Analyst
6 134 (18.87%) Developer
7 89 (12.54%) Senior
8 77 (10.85%) Data Engineer
9 51 (7.18%) Support Analyst
10 32 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support
11 31 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (4.37%) Senior Developer
12 29 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (3.80%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 26 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 26 (3.66%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.52%) Azure Data Engineer
16 24 (3.38%) Support Engineer
17 22 (3.10%) IT Support
18 21 (2.96%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.18%) .NET
2 49 (6.90%) HTML
3 42 (5.92%) React
4 39 (5.49%) CSS
5 32 (4.51%) Node.js
6 25 (3.52%) REST
7 24 (3.38%) .NET Core
8 14 (1.97%) PySpark
9 12 (1.69%) ASP.NET
10 10 (1.41%) .NET Framework
10 10 (1.41%) JSON
10 10 (1.41%) XML
11 7 (0.99%) jQuery
12 6 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (0.85%) DirectX
12 6 (0.85%) OpenGL
12 6 (0.85%) Spring
13 5 (0.70%) Pandas
13 5 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.24%) Onboarding
2 22 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.13%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 7 (0.99%) Clustering
7 7 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.85%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.70%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.56%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.56%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.37%) Windows
2 19 (2.68%) Linux
3 16 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.42%) VMS
4 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.42%) zOS
5 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (42.25%) Business Intelligence
2 211 (29.72%) AI
3 140 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (17.89%) Analytics
5 110 (15.49%) Agile
6 97 (13.66%) Mentoring
7 75 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (10.28%) ETL
9 69 (9.72%) Decision-Making
10 64 (9.01%) Data Modelling
11 60 (8.45%) Data Analysis
12 59 (8.31%) CI/CD
13 58 (8.17%) DevOps
14 56 (7.89%) CRM
14 56 (7.89%) ERP
15 55 (7.75%) Data Engineering
16 53 (7.46%) Full-Stack Development
17 44 (6.20%) Data Pipeline
17 44 (6.20%) Validation
17 44 (6.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 330 (46.48%) Python
2 81 (11.41%) C#
3 72 (10.14%) JavaScript
4 47 (6.62%) T-SQL
5 28 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (3.10%) PHP
7 16 (2.25%) Java
7 16 (2.25%) R
8 15 (2.11%) Bash
9 12 (1.69%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.85%) C++
12 5 (0.70%) C
12 5 (0.70%) VBA
13 4 (0.56%) Scala
14 3 (0.42%) COBOL
14 3 (0.42%) JCL
15 2 (0.28%) Ruby
15 2 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 183 (25.77%) Azure Certification
2 62 (8.73%) Degree
3 22 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.25%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.42%) MCSA
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.28%) CEH
10 2 (0.28%) CITP
10 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.14%) PMP
11 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.51%) QA
3 21 (2.96%) SLA
4 15 (2.11%) GDPR
5 11 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.82%) Docker
2 19 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 16 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.41%) Terraform
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) MOM
4 1 (0.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 313 (44.08%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.28%) Databricks
3 41 (5.77%) Oracle
4 9 (1.27%) Google
5 8 (1.13%) ESRI
5 8 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 6 (0.85%) Informatica
6 6 (0.85%) SAP
6 6 (0.85%) Talend
7 5 (0.70%) Cloudera
7 5 (0.70%) IBM
7 5 (0.70%) Zoho
8 4 (0.56%) Civica
8 4 (0.56%) Sage
9 3 (0.42%) Citrix
9 3 (0.42%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.42%) VMware
10 2 (0.28%) Epicor
10 2 (0.28%) Northgate
10 2 (0.28%) ServiceNow