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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 749 580 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.47% 12.02% 12.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.17% 46.85% 44.69%
Number of salaries quoted 469 444 1,161
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £51,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% +7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £68,375 £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 1,555 1,238 2,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.44% 25.65% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 975 2,601
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,987 £73,750
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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -18 438 £47,085 -10.32% 157
East Midlands -4 309 £47,500 -2.06% 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 26 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.40%) Confluence
3 8 (1.07%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.93%) SAS
5 6 (0.80%) IIS
5 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Apache
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) FileNet
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 262 (34.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.40%) Shopify
4 2 (0.27%) Magento
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 409 (54.61%) Azure
2 338 (45.13%) Power Platform
3 199 (26.57%) Azure AI
4 80 (10.68%) AWS
5 49 (6.54%) SaaS
6 42 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 27 (3.60%) Serverless
10 25 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (3.20%) Snowflake
12 23 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (2.67%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.54%) GCP
15 18 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (2.40%) PowerApps
16 11 (1.47%) Entra ID
17 6 (0.80%) PaaS
18 4 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (1.07%) Firewall
3 6 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.67%) DHCP
4 5 (0.67%) DNS
5 4 (0.53%) FTP
5 4 (0.53%) Internet
6 3 (0.40%) LAN
6 3 (0.40%) Network Security
6 3 (0.40%) SAN
6 3 (0.40%) WAN
7 2 (0.27%) Broadband
7 2 (0.27%) HTTP
7 2 (0.27%) Intranet
7 2 (0.27%) SMS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (44.73%) Power BI
2 240 (32.04%) Tableau
3 82 (10.95%) SQL Server
4 43 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (3.20%) Data Mining
9 23 (3.07%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (2.14%) Power Query
12 13 (1.74%) MySQL
13 12 (1.60%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (1.34%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.34%) Relational Database
16 8 (1.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 8 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (1.07%) GIS
17 6 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (4.01%) JIRA
2 20 (2.67%) Git
3 6 (0.80%) JUnit
3 6 (0.80%) Maven
3 6 (0.80%) Mockito
4 5 (0.67%) Selenium
5 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.40%) GitLab
6 3 (0.40%) Postman
7 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.27%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 310 (41.39%) Social Skills
2 148 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
3 118 (15.75%) Finance
4 50 (6.68%) Law
5 31 (4.14%) Retail
6 28 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.80%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.27%) Marketing
10 11 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.34%) Legal
12 9 (1.20%) Games
12 9 (1.20%) Local Government
13 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Banking
15 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.40%) Billing
16 3 (0.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 327 (43.66%) Analyst
2 246 (32.84%) Data Analyst
3 224 (29.91%) Junior
4 219 (29.24%) Junior Analyst
5 208 (27.77%) Junior Data Analyst
6 136 (18.16%) Developer
7 91 (12.15%) Senior
8 77 (10.28%) Data Engineer
9 46 (6.14%) Support Analyst
10 33 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (4.14%) Senior Developer
12 28 (3.74%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 27 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (3.60%) Support Engineer
14 25 (3.34%) Azure Data Engineer
15 24 (3.20%) IT Support
15 24 (3.20%) Lead
15 24 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
16 23 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.34%) HTML
2 50 (6.68%) .NET
3 46 (6.14%) CSS
4 39 (5.21%) React
5 33 (4.41%) Node.js
6 24 (3.20%) .NET Core
7 19 (2.54%) REST
8 15 (2.00%) PySpark
9 13 (1.74%) ASP.NET
10 12 (1.60%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.34%) jQuery
11 10 (1.34%) XML
12 9 (1.20%) JSON
13 8 (1.07%) Pandas
14 7 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (0.93%) PyTorch
15 6 (0.80%) DirectX
15 6 (0.80%) Laravel
15 6 (0.80%) OpenGL
15 6 (0.80%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.20%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.34%) Clustering
5 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.07%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.07%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.07%) Virtual Team
7 7 (0.93%) Cloud Native
8 6 (0.80%) 3D Graphics
9 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.53%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.53%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.53%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.67%) Windows
2 19 (2.54%) Linux
3 18 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.40%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (45.13%) Business Intelligence
2 232 (30.97%) AI
3 142 (18.96%) Analytics
4 135 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (14.02%) Agile
6 83 (11.08%) Mentoring
7 81 (10.81%) ETL
8 77 (10.28%) Decision-Making
9 76 (10.15%) Data Modelling
10 66 (8.81%) Data Analysis
11 63 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (8.14%) CI/CD
13 58 (7.74%) Data Engineering
13 58 (7.74%) DevOps
14 52 (6.94%) Visualisation
15 51 (6.81%) Computer Science
15 51 (6.81%) ERP
15 51 (6.81%) Full-Stack Development
16 46 (6.14%) Validation
17 45 (6.01%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 364 (48.60%) Python
2 69 (9.21%) C#
2 69 (9.21%) JavaScript
3 49 (6.54%) T-SQL
4 35 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (3.34%) PHP
6 17 (2.27%) Java
6 17 (2.27%) R
7 15 (2.00%) Bash
8 10 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.07%) C++
9 8 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.80%) VBA
12 5 (0.67%) C
13 4 (0.53%) Scala
14 3 (0.40%) COBOL
14 3 (0.40%) JCL
14 3 (0.40%) Rust
15 2 (0.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 205 (27.37%) Azure Certification
2 70 (9.35%) Degree
3 25 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (2.14%) Security Cleared
5 14 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.60%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.40%) MCSA
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.27%) CEH
9 2 (0.27%) CITP
9 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.47%) QA
3 19 (2.54%) SLA
4 18 (2.40%) GDPR
5 12 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.27%) NCSC
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 23 (3.07%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.40%) Docker
3 10 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 15 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.74%) Terraform
3 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
5 1 (0.13%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 338 (45.13%) Microsoft
2 76 (10.15%) Databricks
3 36 (4.81%) Oracle
4 14 (1.87%) Google
5 8 (1.07%) ESRI
6 7 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 6 (0.80%) IBM
7 6 (0.80%) Informatica
7 6 (0.80%) SAP
7 6 (0.80%) Talend
8 5 (0.67%) Cloudera
8 5 (0.67%) Zoho
9 4 (0.53%) Civica
9 4 (0.53%) Sage
10 3 (0.40%) Citrix
10 3 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.40%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.40%) Veeam
10 3 (0.40%) VMware
11 2 (0.27%) OpenAI