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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 788 643 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.98% 12.51% 11.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.97% 49.84% 44.14%
Number of salaries quoted 474 447 1,123
10th Percentile £30,150 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1,714 1,290 3,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.01% 25.10% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,166 954 2,595
10th Percentile £32,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,875 £63,356
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -19 440 £52,500 - 182
East Midlands -5 346 £45,000 -7.22% 150
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 30 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.28%) Confluence
3 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.14%) IIS
5 7 (0.89%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Apache
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 273 (34.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.63%) Sage 200
1 5 (0.63%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.51%) Shopify
3 3 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 446 (56.60%) Azure
2 359 (45.56%) Power Platform
3 224 (28.43%) Azure AI
4 91 (11.55%) AWS
5 33 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 33 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (4.06%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.17%) Amazon S3
8 25 (3.17%) SaaS
8 25 (3.17%) Serverless
9 23 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (2.28%) Entra ID
11 17 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (2.16%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.03%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (1.78%) GCP
14 13 (1.65%) PaaS
15 8 (1.02%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.79%) Firewall
2 12 (1.52%) DNS
2 12 (1.52%) Internet
3 11 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.02%) DHCP
4 8 (1.02%) Network Security
4 8 (1.02%) SAN
5 4 (0.51%) FTP
5 4 (0.51%) MQTT
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) LAN
6 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.38%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) Broadband
7 2 (0.25%) HTTP
7 2 (0.25%) SMS
8 1 (0.13%) DMZ
8 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (45.18%) Power BI
2 258 (32.74%) Tableau
3 66 (8.38%) SQL Server
4 55 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (2.66%) Power Query
10 16 (2.03%) Data Mining
10 16 (2.03%) MySQL
11 15 (1.90%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (1.02%) Crystal Reports
14 8 (1.02%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (1.02%) GIS
Development Applications
1 29 (3.68%) JIRA
2 20 (2.54%) Git
3 10 (1.27%) JUnit
3 10 (1.27%) Maven
3 10 (1.27%) Mockito
4 7 (0.89%) Selenium
5 4 (0.51%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.38%) Gatling
6 3 (0.38%) GitLab
6 3 (0.38%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.38%) JMeter
6 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.38%) Postman
6 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 310 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (15.99%) Finance
4 46 (5.84%) Law
5 34 (4.31%) Retail
6 30 (3.81%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 14 (1.78%) Legal
10 12 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.40%) Marketing
12 9 (1.14%) Local Government
13 7 (0.89%) Games
13 7 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.63%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.51%) Advertising
16 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.38%) Spanish Language
17 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 336 (42.64%) Analyst
2 273 (34.64%) Data Analyst
3 245 (31.09%) Junior
4 243 (30.84%) Junior Analyst
5 232 (29.44%) Junior Data Analyst
6 147 (18.65%) Developer
7 103 (13.07%) Senior
8 71 (9.01%) Data Engineer
9 38 (4.82%) Lead
10 37 (4.70%) Support Analyst
11 32 (4.06%) Software Developer
12 31 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
13 28 (3.55%) Senior Developer
13 28 (3.55%) Support Engineer
14 27 (3.43%) .NET Developer
14 27 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (3.30%) IT Engineer
15 26 (3.30%) IT Support
16 24 (3.05%) Data Scientist
16 24 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.49%) .NET
2 56 (7.11%) HTML
3 48 (6.09%) CSS
4 46 (5.84%) React
5 39 (4.95%) Node.js
6 37 (4.70%) .NET Core
7 28 (3.55%) ASP.NET
8 23 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 21 (2.66%) REST
10 17 (2.16%) PySpark
11 14 (1.78%) RESTful
12 12 (1.52%) Entity Framework
13 11 (1.40%) jQuery
14 10 (1.27%) .NET Framework
14 10 (1.27%) PyTorch
15 9 (1.14%) Vue
16 8 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
16 8 (1.02%) Blazor
16 8 (1.02%) LINQ
16 8 (1.02%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.55%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.41%) Clustering
3 18 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.27%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.76%) iSeries
10 6 (0.76%) NHS
10 6 (0.76%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.63%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.63%) IoT
11 5 (0.63%) Replication
12 4 (0.51%) 3D Graphics
12 4 (0.51%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.51%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.58%) Windows
2 28 (3.55%) Linux
3 21 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) VMS
5 3 (0.38%) Android
5 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.38%) Solaris
5 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.25%) zOS
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (45.81%) Business Intelligence
2 263 (33.38%) AI
3 143 (18.15%) Analytics
4 120 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (14.34%) Agile
6 83 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 80 (10.15%) Decision-Making
8 68 (8.63%) ETL
9 65 (8.25%) CI/CD
10 63 (7.99%) Data Analysis
10 63 (7.99%) Mentoring
11 60 (7.61%) Full-Stack Development
12 59 (7.49%) DevOps
13 55 (6.98%) Computer Science
14 50 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (5.96%) Data Engineering
15 47 (5.96%) ERP
16 46 (5.84%) Validation
17 45 (5.71%) Visualisation
18 43 (5.46%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 392 (49.75%) Python
2 71 (9.01%) C#
3 68 (8.63%) JavaScript
4 41 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 31 (3.93%) T-SQL
6 30 (3.81%) PHP
7 23 (2.92%) Java
8 18 (2.28%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.16%) Bash
9 17 (2.16%) R
10 12 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.14%) C++
13 8 (1.02%) VBA
14 4 (0.51%) C
14 4 (0.51%) RPG
15 3 (0.38%) RPG IV
15 3 (0.38%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.38%) Rust
15 3 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 228 (28.93%) Azure Certification
2 67 (8.50%) Degree
3 24 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.28%) Security Cleared
5 17 (2.16%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.38%) CITP
9 3 (0.38%) MCSA
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.25%) CEH
10 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CCAB
11 1 (0.13%) CIMA
11 1 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.41%) SLA
3 18 (2.28%) GDPR
4 17 (2.16%) QA
5 13 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 35 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.17%) Docker
3 19 (2.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 22 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.41%) Terraform
3 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.38%) Grafana
5 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 364 (46.19%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.12%) Databricks
3 35 (4.44%) Oracle
4 17 (2.16%) Google
5 9 (1.14%) SAP
6 8 (1.02%) ESRI
6 8 (1.02%) IBM
6 8 (1.02%) SonicWALL
6 8 (1.02%) Veeam
7 5 (0.63%) Informatica
7 5 (0.63%) Sage
7 5 (0.63%) SolarWinds
7 5 (0.63%) VMware
8 4 (0.51%) Adobe
8 4 (0.51%) Civica
8 4 (0.51%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.51%) Talend
9 3 (0.38%) Citrix
9 3 (0.38%) Veracode