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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 714 590 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.73% 12.27% 12.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.62% 48.01% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 461 432 1,147
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 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1,439 1,229 2,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.56% 25.57% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 956 2,550
10th Percentile £29,675 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,290 £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 28 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 28 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 -17 417 £45,000 -14.29% 157
East Midlands -3 295 £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 25 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.24%) Confluence
3 8 (1.12%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.98%) SAS
5 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.70%) Apache
6 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.70%) IIS
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 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.12%) 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
1 372 (52.10%) Azure
2 300 (42.02%) Power Platform
3 177 (24.79%) Azure AI
4 77 (10.78%) AWS
5 68 (9.52%) SaaS
6 37 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 26 (3.64%) Serverless
10 25 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.66%) PowerApps
13 18 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (2.52%) Power Automate
14 17 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (1.96%) GCP
16 8 (1.12%) Entra ID
17 6 (0.84%) PaaS
18 5 (0.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (1.12%) Firewall
3 5 (0.70%) DHCP
3 5 (0.70%) DNS
3 5 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.56%) FTP
4 4 (0.56%) Internet
5 3 (0.42%) Network Security
5 3 (0.42%) SAN
6 2 (0.28%) Broadband
6 2 (0.28%) HTTP
6 2 (0.28%) Intranet
6 2 (0.28%) LAN
6 2 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.28%) WAN
7 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (41.46%) Power BI
2 216 (30.25%) Tableau
3 79 (11.06%) SQL Server
4 42 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (3.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (3.50%) Data Lake
8 25 (3.50%) Data Mining
9 18 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.68%) Power Query
11 11 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (1.40%) Delta Lake
12 10 (1.40%) MySQL
12 10 (1.40%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.40%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (1.12%) GIS
14 6 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (3.92%) JIRA
2 22 (3.08%) Git
3 8 (1.12%) JUnit
3 8 (1.12%) Maven
3 8 (1.12%) Mockito
4 4 (0.56%) Selenium
4 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.42%) GitLab
5 3 (0.42%) Postman
6 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.28%) TestRail
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) Gatling
7 1 (0.14%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 294 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 145 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (16.11%) Finance
4 51 (7.14%) Law
5 37 (5.18%) Retail
6 25 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.22%) Manufacturing
8 22 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.66%) Marketing
10 10 (1.40%) Legal
10 10 (1.40%) Local Government
11 9 (1.26%) Games
12 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.84%) 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 (42.44%) Analyst
2 219 (30.67%) Data Analyst
3 200 (28.01%) Junior
4 195 (27.31%) Junior Analyst
5 183 (25.63%) Junior Data Analyst
6 136 (19.05%) Developer
7 91 (12.75%) Senior
8 77 (10.78%) Data Engineer
9 51 (7.14%) Support Analyst
10 32 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
10 32 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 31 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
12 29 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (3.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
13 27 (3.78%) Software Developer
14 26 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (3.50%) Azure Data Engineer
16 24 (3.36%) Support Engineer
17 22 (3.08%) IT Support
18 21 (2.94%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.14%) .NET
2 49 (6.86%) HTML
3 42 (5.88%) React
4 40 (5.60%) CSS
5 32 (4.48%) Node.js
6 25 (3.50%) REST
7 24 (3.36%) .NET Core
8 14 (1.96%) PySpark
9 12 (1.68%) ASP.NET
10 10 (1.40%) .NET Framework
10 10 (1.40%) JSON
10 10 (1.40%) XML
11 8 (1.12%) jQuery
12 6 (0.84%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (0.84%) DirectX
12 6 (0.84%) OpenGL
12 6 (0.84%) Spring
13 5 (0.70%) Entity Framework
13 5 (0.70%) Pandas
13 5 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.22%) Onboarding
2 22 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.12%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.12%) Clustering
6 8 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 7 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.84%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (0.84%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
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 (4.34%) Windows
2 20 (2.80%) Linux
3 16 (2.24%) 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
6 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (42.16%) Business Intelligence
2 211 (29.55%) AI
3 140 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (17.93%) Analytics
5 112 (15.69%) Agile
6 99 (13.87%) Mentoring
7 76 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (10.22%) ETL
9 70 (9.80%) Decision-Making
10 65 (9.10%) Data Modelling
11 60 (8.40%) CI/CD
11 60 (8.40%) Data Analysis
12 59 (8.26%) DevOps
13 56 (7.84%) CRM
13 56 (7.84%) ERP
14 55 (7.70%) Data Engineering
15 53 (7.42%) Full-Stack Development
16 45 (6.30%) Validation
17 44 (6.16%) Software Engineering
17 44 (6.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 332 (46.50%) Python
2 82 (11.48%) C#
3 72 (10.08%) JavaScript
4 47 (6.58%) T-SQL
5 28 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (3.22%) PHP
7 18 (2.52%) Java
8 16 (2.24%) R
9 15 (2.10%) Bash
10 12 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.40%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.98%) C++
13 5 (0.70%) C
13 5 (0.70%) VBA
14 4 (0.56%) Scala
15 3 (0.42%) COBOL
15 3 (0.42%) JCL
16 2 (0.28%) Assembly Language
16 2 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 183 (25.63%) Azure Certification
2 64 (8.96%) Degree
3 24 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.52%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.26%) 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
10 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.62%) QA
3 21 (2.94%) SLA
4 15 (2.10%) GDPR
5 11 (1.54%) 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 (2.80%) Active Directory
1 20 (2.80%) Docker
2 7 (0.98%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 16 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.40%) Terraform
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Grafana
4 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.14%) MOM
4 1 (0.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 315 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.22%) Databricks
3 41 (5.74%) Oracle
4 9 (1.26%) Google
5 8 (1.12%) ESRI
5 8 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 6 (0.84%) Informatica
6 6 (0.84%) SAP
6 6 (0.84%) 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%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.42%) Veeam
9 3 (0.42%) VMware
10 2 (0.28%) ServiceNow