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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 787 677 987
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.99% 12.04% 10.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.84% 55.00% 42.38%
Number of salaries quoted 567 495 538
10th Percentile £31,150 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £47,500 £45,428
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% +4.56% -9.14%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 1,927 1,231 2,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.22% 21.89% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 941 1,305
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £37,500 £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 £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -14 421 £55,000 +10.00% 342
East Midlands -13 366 £46,500 +16.25% 206
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 24 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.67%) IIS
3 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.02%) Confluence
7 4 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 106 (13.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.51%) Notion
4 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (1.78%) Infor M3
2 13 (1.65%) SAP Business One
3 8 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.89%) Lawson
5 6 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.64%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.51%) Magento
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.38%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.38%) Shopify
9 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.13%) Maximo
10 1 (0.13%) Odoo
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 325 (41.30%) Azure
2 211 (26.81%) Power Platform
3 94 (11.94%) AWS
4 61 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (6.73%) Azure AI
6 52 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (4.57%) SaaS
8 34 (4.32%) Entra ID
9 24 (3.05%) GCP
9 24 (3.05%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.92%) GitHub
11 19 (2.41%) PaaS
12 18 (2.29%) Serverless
13 16 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (2.03%) Power Automate
14 14 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (1.65%) dbt
15 13 (1.65%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.59%) Firewall
2 33 (4.19%) DNS
3 25 (3.18%) DHCP
4 18 (2.29%) Internet
4 18 (2.29%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.65%) VLAN
6 8 (1.02%) VPN
7 7 (0.89%) Network Security
7 7 (0.89%) SAN
8 5 (0.64%) HTTP
8 5 (0.64%) SSL
8 5 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.51%) MQTT
10 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.25%) SMS
10 2 (0.25%) WAN
10 2 (0.25%) Wireless
11 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (26.18%) Power BI
2 95 (12.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (11.82%) SQL Server
4 77 (9.78%) Tableau
5 61 (7.75%) MongoDB
6 58 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (5.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 34 (4.32%) Power Query
9 27 (3.43%) Relational Database
10 24 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (2.41%) MySQL
11 19 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (2.16%) Crystal Reports
13 16 (2.03%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (1.78%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.78%) Delta Lake
14 14 (1.78%) QlikView
15 13 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 50 (6.35%) Git
2 20 (2.54%) JIRA
3 15 (1.91%) JUnit
3 15 (1.91%) Maven
4 14 (1.78%) GitLab
4 14 (1.78%) Mockito
5 10 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.27%) Postman
5 10 (1.27%) Selenium
6 9 (1.14%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.14%) JMeter
7 8 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.64%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.64%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.51%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.51%) Storybook
9 4 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 203 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 168 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
3 166 (21.09%) Finance
4 85 (10.80%) Manufacturing
5 40 (5.08%) Retail
6 39 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 23 (2.92%) Legal
7 23 (2.92%) Marketing
8 17 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.78%) Advertising
10 13 (1.65%) Law
11 11 (1.40%) Fire and Rescue
11 11 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.02%) Social Housing
13 7 (0.89%) Banking
14 6 (0.76%) Military
14 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 218 (27.70%) Developer
2 167 (21.22%) Analyst
3 120 (15.25%) Senior
4 98 (12.45%) Data Analyst
5 82 (10.42%) Lead
6 68 (8.64%) Data Engineer
7 67 (8.51%) .NET Developer
8 51 (6.48%) Junior
9 49 (6.23%) Junior Analyst
10 48 (6.10%) Junior Data Analyst
11 42 (5.34%) SQL Developer
12 34 (4.32%) Support Analyst
13 33 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (4.07%) Data Scientist
14 32 (4.07%) Senior Developer
15 31 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
16 30 (3.81%) Administrator
16 30 (3.81%) IT Support
17 27 (3.43%) Support Engineer
18 25 (3.18%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (13.72%) .NET
2 72 (9.15%) .NET Core
3 64 (8.13%) ASP.NET
4 62 (7.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 56 (7.12%) React
6 46 (5.84%) REST
7 42 (5.34%) CSS
8 41 (5.21%) HTML
9 33 (4.19%) Node.js
10 32 (4.07%) Entity Framework
11 29 (3.68%) ASP.NET Web API
12 28 (3.56%) Terraform
13 26 (3.30%) LINQ
13 26 (3.30%) PySpark
13 26 (3.30%) RESTful
14 25 (3.18%) Blazor
15 21 (2.67%) XML
16 20 (2.54%) AngularJS
17 19 (2.41%) PyTorch
17 19 (2.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.05%) Clustering
5 18 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.40%) NHS
8 11 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.14%) IoT
11 8 (1.02%) FMCG
11 8 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.89%) iSeries
12 7 (0.89%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.51%) Windows
2 41 (5.21%) Windows Server
3 36 (4.57%) Linux
4 8 (1.02%) Solaris
5 4 (0.51%) VMS
6 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (31.13%) Business Intelligence
2 224 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
3 175 (22.24%) Analytics
4 172 (21.86%) Agile
5 139 (17.66%) AI
6 127 (16.14%) ERP
7 120 (15.25%) Decision-Making
8 113 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 106 (13.47%) Mentoring
10 102 (12.96%) CI/CD
11 93 (11.82%) Data Modelling
12 92 (11.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 87 (11.05%) ETL
14 81 (10.29%) DevOps
15 72 (9.15%) Data Analysis
16 69 (8.77%) Data Management
17 67 (8.51%) Actionable Insight
18 64 (8.13%) Data Governance
18 64 (8.13%) Roadmaps
19 62 (7.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 220 (27.95%) Python
2 121 (15.37%) C#
3 93 (11.82%) JavaScript
4 53 (6.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (5.46%) Java
6 32 (4.07%) PowerShell
7 28 (3.56%) PL/SQL
8 24 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.03%) Bash
10 15 (1.91%) C++
10 15 (1.91%) PHP
10 15 (1.91%) VBA
11 12 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.76%) RPG
13 5 (0.64%) R
14 4 (0.51%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.51%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.13%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 82 (10.42%) Degree
2 50 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 28 (3.56%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 7 (0.89%) PMP
8 6 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.64%) ISEB
9 5 (0.64%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.25%) ACCA
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.25%) CIMA
13 1 (0.13%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (11.31%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.83%) GDPR
3 29 (3.68%) QA
4 12 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.14%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) GAMP
10 1 (0.13%) GMP
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 50 (6.35%) Docker
3 34 (4.32%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (0.76%) Grafana
6 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.25%) Ansible
7 2 (0.25%) Nessus
8 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 262 (33.29%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.99%) Oracle
3 40 (5.08%) Databricks
4 33 (4.19%) SAP
5 19 (2.41%) Infor
6 18 (2.29%) Google
7 13 (1.65%) SYSPRO
8 11 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.27%) VMware
10 9 (1.14%) Facebook
10 9 (1.14%) Sage
11 7 (0.89%) Epicor
11 7 (0.89%) Veeam
12 6 (0.76%) Cisco
12 6 (0.76%) YouTube
13 5 (0.64%) IBM
13 5 (0.64%) Informatica
13 5 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.64%) Pega
13 5 (0.64%) SonicWALL