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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 845 697 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.28% 12.31% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.71% 51.82% 42.61%
Number of salaries quoted 552 509 948
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 1,890 1,345 2,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.04% 23.75% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 1,026 2,316
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £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 July 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 July 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 -9 440 £55,000 +4.76% 87
East Midlands -6 405 £45,000 - 87
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 32 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.13%) Confluence
2 18 (2.13%) IIS
2 18 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (0.83%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.36%) SAS
6 3 (0.36%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 227 (26.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) SAP Business One
2 5 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.47%) Shopify
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.36%) Magento
4 3 (0.36%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.24%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.24%) Lawson
5 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 441 (52.19%) Azure
2 329 (38.93%) Power Platform
3 175 (20.71%) Azure AI
4 99 (11.72%) AWS
5 57 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (3.67%) Snowflake
8 30 (3.55%) Entra ID
9 24 (2.84%) SaaS
10 20 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (2.37%) GCP
10 20 (2.37%) PaaS
10 20 (2.37%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.01%) GitHub
11 17 (2.01%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.78%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.78%) Serverless
13 13 (1.54%) Azure App Service
13 13 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.44%) Firewall
2 32 (3.79%) DNS
3 26 (3.08%) DHCP
4 21 (2.49%) Internet
5 18 (2.13%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.54%) VLAN
7 11 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.18%) SAN
9 8 (0.95%) Network Security
10 6 (0.71%) VPN
11 4 (0.47%) FTP
11 4 (0.47%) HTTP
11 4 (0.47%) MQTT
12 3 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
12 3 (0.36%) LAN
12 3 (0.36%) SSL
12 3 (0.36%) WAN
13 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.24%) SMS
13 2 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (38.22%) Power BI
2 203 (24.02%) Tableau
3 95 (11.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 71 (8.40%) SQL Server
5 61 (7.22%) MongoDB
6 38 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (2.96%) Power Query
9 22 (2.60%) MySQL
10 17 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.66%) Crystal Reports
13 11 (1.30%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.95%) Delta Lake
14 8 (0.95%) GIS
15 7 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.83%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 33 (3.91%) JIRA
2 23 (2.72%) Git
3 10 (1.18%) JUnit
3 10 (1.18%) Maven
3 10 (1.18%) Mockito
4 8 (0.95%) Selenium
5 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.59%) GitLab
6 5 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.59%) JMeter
6 5 (0.59%) Postman
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.36%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.36%) Gatling
8 3 (0.36%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.36%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 290 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.40%) Finance
3 137 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.04%) Manufacturing
5 46 (5.44%) Retail
6 35 (4.14%) Law
7 28 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.25%) Legal
9 19 (2.25%) Marketing
10 16 (1.89%) Advertising
11 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.83%) Local Government
12 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.47%) Banking
16 3 (0.36%) Billing
16 3 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 293 (34.67%) Analyst
2 224 (26.51%) Data Analyst
3 195 (23.08%) Developer
4 182 (21.54%) Junior
5 178 (21.07%) Junior Analyst
6 177 (20.95%) Junior Data Analyst
7 102 (12.07%) Senior
8 67 (7.93%) .NET Developer
9 60 (7.10%) Data Engineer
10 59 (6.98%) Lead
11 42 (4.97%) Data Scientist
12 38 (4.50%) IT Support
13 37 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (4.38%) Support Engineer
14 35 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (4.02%) Administrator
16 33 (3.91%) Support Analyst
17 28 (3.31%) IT Engineer
17 28 (3.31%) SQL Developer
18 27 (3.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (11.83%) .NET
2 74 (8.76%) .NET Core
3 66 (7.81%) ASP.NET
4 65 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 59 (6.98%) HTML
6 57 (6.75%) CSS
7 51 (6.04%) React
8 40 (4.73%) Node.js
9 30 (3.55%) Entity Framework
10 29 (3.43%) ASP.NET Web API
11 27 (3.20%) Blazor
11 27 (3.20%) REST
12 26 (3.08%) LINQ
13 25 (2.96%) RESTful
14 24 (2.84%) PyTorch
15 18 (2.13%) AngularJS
15 18 (2.13%) TensorFlow
15 18 (2.13%) Vue
16 16 (1.89%) PySpark
17 15 (1.78%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.02%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.55%) Clustering
3 24 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (1.78%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.42%) NHS
8 12 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.83%) iSeries
13 6 (0.71%) AS400
13 6 (0.71%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.71%) IoT
13 6 (0.71%) PKI
13 6 (0.71%) Replication
14 4 (0.47%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.46%) Windows
2 39 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.20%) Linux
4 7 (0.83%) Solaris
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
6 3 (0.36%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (39.88%) Business Intelligence
2 232 (27.46%) AI
3 180 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (19.53%) Analytics
5 154 (18.22%) Agile
6 105 (12.43%) Decision-Making
7 88 (10.41%) Mentoring
8 87 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 81 (9.59%) Data Modelling
10 78 (9.23%) Data Analysis
11 77 (9.11%) CI/CD
12 75 (8.88%) ERP
13 72 (8.52%) ETL
14 68 (8.05%) DevOps
15 67 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (7.46%) Data Analytics
17 61 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
18 60 (7.10%) Roadmaps
19 57 (6.75%) Computer Science
20 56 (6.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 339 (40.12%) Python
2 118 (13.96%) C#
3 77 (9.11%) JavaScript
4 45 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.55%) PHP
6 26 (3.08%) Java
7 23 (2.72%) T-SQL
8 18 (2.13%) C++
8 18 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.78%) VBA
10 13 (1.54%) Bash
10 13 (1.54%) R
11 6 (0.71%) RPG
12 4 (0.47%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.47%) RPG/400
13 3 (0.36%) Rust
13 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 171 (20.24%) Azure Certification
2 85 (10.06%) Degree
3 22 (2.60%) Security Cleared
4 16 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.36%) CITP
9 3 (0.36%) MCSA
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.24%) ISEB
10 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.12%) CCAB
11 1 (0.12%) CIMA
11 1 (0.12%) HND
11 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 23 (2.72%) GDPR
2 23 (2.72%) SLA
3 17 (2.01%) QA
4 8 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.12%) NCSC
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 43 (5.09%) Hyper-V
3 32 (3.79%) Docker
4 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 30 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.49%) Terraform
3 7 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.36%) Grafana
5 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 366 (43.31%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.09%) Databricks
3 31 (3.67%) Oracle
4 20 (2.37%) Google
5 17 (2.01%) SAP
6 10 (1.18%) Facebook
6 10 (1.18%) SYSPRO
6 10 (1.18%) Veeam
7 8 (0.95%) IBM
7 8 (0.95%) SonicWALL
8 7 (0.83%) Epicor
8 7 (0.83%) ESRI
8 7 (0.83%) Infor
8 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.71%) Informatica
9 6 (0.71%) VMware
10 5 (0.59%) Sage
10 5 (0.59%) SolarWinds
10 5 (0.59%) YouTube
11 4 (0.47%) CheckPoint