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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 799 613 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.01% 12.52% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.55% 50.37% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 478 423 1,140
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,250 £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 1,754 1,217 3,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.20% 24.86% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 891 2,679
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
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 £63,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 29 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 29 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 -20 441 £55,000 +3.77% 83
East Midlands -4 356 £45,000 -5.26% 75
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 29 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.25%) Confluence
3 10 (1.25%) IIS
3 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.88%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) WordPress
7 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 265 (33.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Sage 200
1 5 (0.63%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.50%) Shopify
3 3 (0.38%) Magento
3 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 443 (55.44%) Azure
2 346 (43.30%) Power Platform
3 213 (26.66%) Azure AI
4 96 (12.02%) AWS
5 36 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.13%) Snowflake
7 32 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.13%) Serverless
10 24 (3.00%) SaaS
11 22 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.38%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.13%) GCP
13 17 (2.13%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.00%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (1.50%) PaaS
17 11 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
18 9 (1.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.38%) Firewall
2 15 (1.88%) DNS
3 13 (1.63%) Internet
4 11 (1.38%) DHCP
4 11 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.00%) Network Security
5 8 (1.00%) SAN
6 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.63%) FTP
8 4 (0.50%) MQTT
8 4 (0.50%) VLAN
8 4 (0.50%) VPN
9 3 (0.38%) LAN
9 3 (0.38%) WAN
10 2 (0.25%) Broadband
10 2 (0.25%) HTTP
10 2 (0.25%) SMS
11 1 (0.13%) DMZ
11 1 (0.13%) RTP
11 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (42.93%) Power BI
2 245 (30.66%) Tableau
3 65 (8.14%) SQL Server
4 59 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.75%) Power Query
10 21 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (2.25%) MySQL
12 15 (1.88%) Data Mining
13 14 (1.75%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.63%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
16 10 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (1.13%) Delta Lake
18 8 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
18 8 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (3.75%) JIRA
2 21 (2.63%) Git
3 13 (1.63%) JUnit
3 13 (1.63%) Maven
3 13 (1.63%) Mockito
4 6 (0.75%) Selenium
5 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.38%) Gatling
7 3 (0.38%) GitLab
7 3 (0.38%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) JMeter
7 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.38%) Postman
7 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 308 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.90%) Finance
3 139 (17.40%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (5.88%) Law
5 36 (4.51%) Retail
6 32 (4.01%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.00%) Legal
10 12 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.25%) Marketing
12 9 (1.13%) Local Government
13 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.63%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.50%) Advertising
15 4 (0.50%) Games
16 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 328 (41.05%) Analyst
2 264 (33.04%) Data Analyst
3 235 (29.41%) Junior
4 232 (29.04%) Junior Analyst
5 221 (27.66%) Junior Data Analyst
6 155 (19.40%) Developer
7 102 (12.77%) Senior
8 72 (9.01%) Data Engineer
9 46 (5.76%) Lead
10 36 (4.51%) Support Analyst
11 34 (4.26%) Software Developer
12 32 (4.01%) .NET Developer
13 30 (3.75%) Data Scientist
13 30 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
14 29 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (3.50%) IT Support
16 27 (3.38%) Support Engineer
17 26 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
18 25 (3.13%) IT Engineer
18 25 (3.13%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.88%) .NET
2 57 (7.13%) HTML
3 50 (6.26%) React
4 49 (6.13%) CSS
5 39 (4.88%) Node.js
6 37 (4.63%) .NET Core
7 32 (4.01%) ASP.NET
8 28 (3.50%) ASP.NET Core
9 25 (3.13%) REST
10 18 (2.25%) RESTful
11 17 (2.13%) PySpark
12 15 (1.88%) Entity Framework
12 15 (1.88%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.38%) .NET Framework
13 11 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (1.38%) Blazor
13 11 (1.38%) jQuery
14 10 (1.25%) LINQ
14 10 (1.25%) Spring
14 10 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.75%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (2.38%) Clustering
3 14 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (1.63%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.38%) Mobile App
5 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 7 (0.88%) iSeries
8 7 (0.88%) NHS
8 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.75%) AS400
9 6 (0.75%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.75%) IoT
9 6 (0.75%) Replication
10 4 (0.50%) CMDB
10 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.63%) Windows
2 31 (3.88%) Linux
3 22 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) VMS
5 5 (0.63%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (43.93%) Business Intelligence
2 260 (32.54%) AI
3 153 (19.15%) Analytics
4 135 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (15.77%) Agile
6 87 (10.89%) Decision-Making
7 84 (10.51%) Data Modelling
8 73 (9.14%) Mentoring
9 70 (8.76%) ETL
10 68 (8.51%) Data Analysis
11 67 (8.39%) CI/CD
12 66 (8.26%) Full-Stack Development
13 58 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (7.26%) DevOps
14 57 (7.13%) Computer Science
15 52 (6.51%) Data Engineering
16 50 (6.26%) ERP
17 49 (6.13%) Roadmaps
18 47 (5.88%) Data Analytics
18 47 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 393 (49.19%) Python
2 75 (9.39%) C#
3 73 (9.14%) JavaScript
4 42 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.75%) PHP
6 29 (3.63%) T-SQL
7 27 (3.38%) Java
8 19 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.25%) Bash
10 17 (2.13%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.13%) R
11 11 (1.38%) C++
11 11 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.38%) VBA
12 6 (0.75%) RPG
13 4 (0.50%) C
13 4 (0.50%) RPG IV
13 4 (0.50%) RPG/400
14 3 (0.38%) Scala
14 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 216 (27.03%) Azure Certification
2 68 (8.51%) Degree
3 25 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.50%) 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
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.63%) SLA
3 19 (2.38%) GDPR
4 18 (2.25%) QA
5 13 (1.63%) 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
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.63%) Docker
3 22 (2.75%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.50%) Terraform
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 357 (44.68%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.63%) Databricks
3 39 (4.88%) Oracle
4 17 (2.13%) Google
5 10 (1.25%) SAP
6 8 (1.00%) ESRI
6 8 (1.00%) IBM
6 8 (1.00%) SonicWALL
6 8 (1.00%) Veeam
7 6 (0.75%) Sage
7 6 (0.75%) VMware
8 5 (0.63%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.50%) Informatica
10 3 (0.38%) Citrix
10 3 (0.38%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.38%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.38%) Talend
10 3 (0.38%) Veracode