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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 678 675 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.85% 12.89% 12.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.56% 47.64% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 462 429 1,124
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +5.10% -2.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 1,341 1,417 2,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.55% 27.06% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 957 2,471
10th Percentile £28,925 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,750
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 £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 12 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 12 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 -19 395 £45,000 -14.29% 163
East Midlands -1 281 £45,000 -10.00% 107
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 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.06%) Confluence
3 9 (1.33%) IIS
4 8 (1.18%) ArcGIS
5 7 (1.03%) SAS
6 6 (0.88%) Apache
6 6 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) 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
1 209 (30.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 319 (47.05%) Azure
2 259 (38.20%) Power Platform
3 144 (21.24%) Azure AI
4 81 (11.95%) SaaS
5 66 (9.73%) AWS
6 35 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (4.13%) Amazon S3
9 26 (3.83%) Serverless
10 25 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (2.80%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.80%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (2.51%) Snowflake
14 15 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.47%) GCP
16 7 (1.03%) PaaS
17 5 (0.74%) Entra ID
18 4 (0.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.13%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (1.03%) DHCP
2 7 (1.03%) DNS
2 7 (1.03%) Firewall
3 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.59%) VPN
4 3 (0.44%) FTP
4 3 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.29%) Broadband
5 2 (0.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.29%) Intranet
5 2 (0.29%) Network Security
5 2 (0.29%) SAN
5 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (37.76%) Power BI
2 185 (27.29%) Tableau
3 85 (12.54%) SQL Server
4 38 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (5.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (4.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 30 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (4.13%) Data Lake
9 26 (3.83%) Data Mining
10 18 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.92%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.62%) MySQL
12 11 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (1.47%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.47%) Power Query
14 9 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 8 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (1.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.83%) JIRA
2 20 (2.95%) Git
3 8 (1.18%) JUnit
3 8 (1.18%) Maven
3 8 (1.18%) Mockito
4 2 (0.29%) git-flow
4 2 (0.29%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) Postman
4 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.29%) TestRail
4 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.15%) MLflow
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 275 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 149 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
3 117 (17.26%) Finance
4 54 (7.96%) Law
5 38 (5.60%) Retail
6 26 (3.83%) Marketing
7 24 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.24%) Public Sector
9 21 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.62%) Local Government
11 10 (1.47%) Legal
12 9 (1.33%) Games
13 8 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.74%) Banking
15 5 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.44%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.44%) Spanish Language
17 2 (0.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 279 (41.15%) Analyst
2 190 (28.02%) Data Analyst
3 166 (24.48%) Junior
4 161 (23.75%) Junior Analyst
5 148 (21.83%) Junior Data Analyst
6 134 (19.76%) Developer
7 87 (12.83%) Senior
8 72 (10.62%) Data Engineer
9 54 (7.96%) Support Analyst
10 43 (6.34%) 2nd Line Support
11 34 (5.01%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 30 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (4.42%) Senior Developer
13 29 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (3.69%) Azure Data Engineer
16 23 (3.39%) Software Developer
17 22 (3.24%) Trainee
18 21 (3.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 21 (3.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.82%) .NET
2 46 (6.78%) HTML
3 44 (6.49%) React
4 35 (5.16%) CSS
5 32 (4.72%) Node.js
6 29 (4.28%) REST
7 24 (3.54%) .NET Core
8 13 (1.92%) PySpark
9 12 (1.77%) JSON
10 11 (1.62%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.47%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.47%) XML
12 7 (1.03%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.88%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (0.88%) DirectX
13 6 (0.88%) LAMP
13 6 (0.88%) OpenGL
13 6 (0.88%) Razor View Engine
13 6 (0.88%) SOAP
13 6 (0.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.16%) Onboarding
2 22 (3.24%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.03%) Clustering
10 6 (0.88%) 3D Graphics
10 6 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.74%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.59%) Blog
12 4 (0.59%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.59%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.59%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.28%) Windows
2 22 (3.24%) Linux
3 14 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.44%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (39.23%) Business Intelligence
2 175 (25.81%) AI
3 159 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (18.44%) Analytics
5 107 (15.78%) Agile
6 105 (15.49%) Mentoring
7 86 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (10.62%) CRM
8 72 (10.62%) ETL
9 69 (10.18%) Decision-Making
10 66 (9.73%) Data Analysis
11 64 (9.44%) ERP
12 57 (8.41%) DevOps
13 55 (8.11%) CI/CD
14 54 (7.96%) Data Modelling
14 54 (7.96%) Full-Stack Development
15 53 (7.82%) Root Cause Analysis
16 49 (7.23%) Data Engineering
17 46 (6.78%) Validation
18 45 (6.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 292 (43.07%) Python
2 88 (12.98%) C#
3 74 (10.91%) JavaScript
4 45 (6.64%) T-SQL
5 23 (3.39%) PHP
6 22 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.21%) Java
8 15 (2.21%) R
9 14 (2.06%) Bash
10 10 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.47%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.74%) C
11 5 (0.74%) VBA
12 4 (0.59%) C++
12 4 (0.59%) Scala
13 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.29%) Ruby
14 2 (0.29%) Rust
14 2 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 148 (21.83%) Azure Certification
2 59 (8.70%) Degree
3 21 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.29%) CEH
7 2 (0.29%) CITP
7 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.29%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) MCSA
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.29%) PMP
7 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.90%) QA
3 25 (3.69%) SLA
4 17 (2.51%) GDPR
5 8 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.29%) NCSC
8 2 (0.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.80%) Active Directory
1 19 (2.80%) Docker
2 4 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.47%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) MOM
4 1 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 285 (42.04%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.59%) Databricks
3 45 (6.64%) Oracle
4 13 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.18%) ESRI
6 6 (0.88%) SAP
7 5 (0.74%) Talend
7 5 (0.74%) Zoho
8 4 (0.59%) Civica
8 4 (0.59%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.59%) Google
8 4 (0.59%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.59%) Informatica
8 4 (0.59%) Sage
9 3 (0.44%) Infor
9 3 (0.44%) VMware
10 2 (0.29%) Orchard
10 2 (0.29%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.29%) SonicWALL
10 2 (0.29%) Veeam