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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 634 913 861
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 10.40% 10.69% 17.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.18% 43.13% 48.62%
Number of salaries quoted 526 496 730
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,149 2,117 1,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.85% 24.78% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,172 1,461
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 0 350 £49,500 -1.00% 218
East Midlands +7 280 £42,500 -5.56% 139
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 17 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.52%) IIS
3 11 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.26%) Apache
4 8 (1.26%) Confluence
4 8 (1.26%) SAS
5 7 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.95%) nginx
7 4 (0.63%) CMS
7 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) FileNet
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (14.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.89%) Sprinklr
3 6 (0.95%) SAP Business One
4 5 (0.79%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 219 (34.54%) Azure
2 167 (26.34%) Power Platform
3 110 (17.35%) SaaS
4 67 (10.57%) AWS
5 38 (5.99%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (4.26%) Azure AI
6 27 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (3.47%) Snowflake
9 21 (3.31%) GCP
10 18 (2.84%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.84%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (2.52%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.89%) Amazon ELB
14 10 (1.58%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.42%) GitHub
15 9 (1.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.31%) Remote Desktop
2 16 (2.52%) DNS
3 13 (2.05%) Firewall
4 10 (1.58%) HTTP
5 9 (1.42%) DHCP
6 7 (1.10%) VPN
7 6 (0.95%) FTP
7 6 (0.95%) IMAP
7 6 (0.95%) LAN
7 6 (0.95%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (0.95%) SMTP
7 6 (0.95%) SSH
7 6 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.95%) WAN
8 4 (0.63%) SAN
9 3 (0.47%) NAS
10 2 (0.32%) Intranet
11 1 (0.16%) RFID
11 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.16%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (24.92%) Power BI
2 118 (18.61%) SQL Server
3 68 (10.73%) Tableau
4 58 (9.15%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (5.05%) Data Lake
6 31 (4.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 26 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (3.47%) MySQL
10 21 (3.31%) Relational Database
11 18 (2.84%) BigQuery
11 18 (2.84%) Data Mining
11 18 (2.84%) NoSQL
12 16 (2.52%) Delta Lake
13 13 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (2.05%) Power Query
14 11 (1.74%) Crystal Reports
14 11 (1.74%) Metadata
15 9 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (1.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (3.79%) Git
2 21 (3.31%) JIRA
3 7 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.10%) MLflow
4 6 (0.95%) GitLab
4 6 (0.95%) Vagrant
5 5 (0.79%) Maven
6 4 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.63%) JUnit
6 4 (0.63%) Mockito
6 4 (0.63%) Postman
7 3 (0.47%) git-flow
7 3 (0.47%) Selenium
8 2 (0.32%) Moq
8 2 (0.32%) MSTest
8 2 (0.32%) NSubstitute
8 2 (0.32%) NUnit
8 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.32%) TestRail
9 1 (0.16%) Gatling
General
1 212 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 145 (22.87%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (16.40%) Finance
4 97 (15.30%) Retail
5 67 (10.57%) Law
6 60 (9.46%) Marketing
7 38 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 30 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (4.57%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.89%) Legal
11 12 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.42%) Banking
14 8 (1.26%) Games
15 5 (0.79%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.63%) Automotive
16 4 (0.63%) Local Government
16 4 (0.63%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 185 (29.18%) Analyst
2 134 (21.14%) Developer
3 98 (15.46%) Senior
4 80 (12.62%) 2nd Line Support
4 80 (12.62%) Data Engineer
5 74 (11.67%) Support Analyst
6 69 (10.88%) Data Analyst
7 46 (7.26%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 37 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 35 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
9 35 (5.52%) Junior
10 34 (5.36%) Applications Support
11 31 (4.89%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 31 (4.89%) Azure Data Engineer
12 29 (4.57%) Consultant
12 29 (4.57%) Senior Developer
13 28 (4.42%) Support Engineer
14 25 (3.94%) Junior Analyst
15 23 (3.63%) Lead
16 22 (3.47%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (10.88%) .NET
2 44 (6.94%) HTML
3 41 (6.47%) REST
4 36 (5.68%) CSS
5 31 (4.89%) React
6 20 (3.15%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.00%) PySpark
8 18 (2.84%) JSON
9 17 (2.68%) .NET Core
9 17 (2.68%) .NET Framework
10 16 (2.52%) ASP.NET
11 15 (2.37%) Razor View Engine
12 12 (1.89%) Entity Framework
13 11 (1.74%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (1.74%) SOAP
13 11 (1.74%) Spring
13 11 (1.74%) XML
14 10 (1.58%) LAMP
15 9 (1.42%) jQuery
15 9 (1.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.73%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (3.63%) Data Structures
4 18 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 12 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.58%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.58%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.42%) iSeries
8 9 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.10%) Replication
10 6 (0.95%) 3D Graphics
10 6 (0.95%) Credit Risk
10 6 (0.95%) FMCG
10 6 (0.95%) Pricing Data
10 6 (0.95%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.79%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.52%) Windows
2 32 (5.05%) Linux
3 18 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.10%) Unix
5 6 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.95%) VMS
6 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (30.60%) Problem-Solving
2 165 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
3 131 (20.66%) Mentoring
4 122 (19.24%) CRM
5 113 (17.82%) Analytics
6 106 (16.72%) Agile
6 106 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (15.93%) ERP
8 84 (13.25%) Customer Service
9 77 (12.15%) ETL
10 73 (11.51%) CI/CD
10 73 (11.51%) DevOps
11 72 (11.36%) Data Modelling
12 71 (11.20%) AI
13 69 (10.88%) Decision-Making
14 66 (10.41%) Data Engineering
15 63 (9.94%) Visualisation
16 62 (9.78%) Data Analysis
17 60 (9.46%) Root Cause Analysis
18 59 (9.31%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 179 (28.23%) Python
2 124 (19.56%) C#
3 80 (12.62%) JavaScript
4 48 (7.57%) T-SQL
5 34 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 27 (4.26%) Java
7 22 (3.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 21 (3.31%) PHP
9 17 (2.68%) R
10 16 (2.52%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.89%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.95%) Bash
12 6 (0.95%) Bicep
12 6 (0.95%) Groovy
13 4 (0.63%) Scala
14 3 (0.47%) C
14 3 (0.47%) C++
14 3 (0.47%) RPG
14 3 (0.47%) VB
14 3 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (11.04%) Degree
2 57 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 55 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.15%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (1.10%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.79%) A+ Certification
11 5 (0.79%) MCP
11 5 (0.79%) MCSA
11 5 (0.79%) MCSE
12 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.47%) HND
13 3 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 46 (7.26%) QA
3 33 (5.21%) SLA
4 22 (3.47%) GDPR
5 7 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.32%) WCAG
9 1 (0.16%) COBIT
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (4.10%) Docker
2 25 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.95%) DFS Replication
3 6 (0.95%) Dovecot
3 6 (0.95%) Firmware
3 6 (0.95%) Postfix
3 6 (0.95%) Squid
4 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.47%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) HDFS
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (3.94%) Terraform
2 22 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.10%) Grafana
3 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.95%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.95%) Nessus
4 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.95%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Ansible
6 1 (0.16%) Kibana
6 1 (0.16%) logstash
6 1 (0.16%) Oozie
6 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 158 (24.92%) Microsoft
2 80 (12.62%) Databricks
3 39 (6.15%) Oracle
4 33 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.21%) Adobe
6 11 (1.74%) SAP
7 10 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.42%) Civica
9 8 (1.26%) Cisco
9 8 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 8 (1.26%) Zoho
10 6 (0.95%) Google
10 6 (0.95%) Informatica
10 6 (0.95%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (0.95%) NEC
10 6 (0.95%) VMware
11 5 (0.79%) Capita
11 5 (0.79%) IFS
12 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.63%) UiPath