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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 628 897 896
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 10.84% 10.22% 17.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.80% 42.17% 48.64%
Number of salaries quoted 525 468 755
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,928 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -8.14% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,146 2,127 1,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.77% 24.22% 36.39%
Number of salaries quoted 964 1,157 1,517
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% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,001 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 18 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 18 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 -1 344 £48,250 -3.50% 310
East Midlands +10 280 £40,000 -5.88% 177
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 (2.71%) IIS
2 13 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.43%) Apache
4 9 (1.43%) Confluence
5 8 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.11%) nginx
6 7 (1.11%) SAS
7 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 90 (14.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.91%) Sprinklr
3 6 (0.96%) SAP Business One
4 5 (0.80%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.48%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
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%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 213 (33.92%) Azure
2 163 (25.96%) Power Platform
3 109 (17.36%) SaaS
4 66 (10.51%) AWS
5 35 (5.57%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (3.82%) Snowflake
10 23 (3.66%) GCP
11 18 (2.87%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (2.87%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.55%) Azure AI
13 15 (2.39%) PowerApps
14 13 (2.07%) Amazon ELB
15 12 (1.91%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.37%) Remote Desktop
2 17 (2.71%) DNS
3 15 (2.39%) Firewall
4 11 (1.75%) HTTP
5 9 (1.43%) DHCP
5 9 (1.43%) LAN
5 9 (1.43%) VPN
5 9 (1.43%) WAN
6 7 (1.11%) FTP
6 7 (1.11%) IMAP
6 7 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (1.11%) SMTP
6 7 (1.11%) SSH
7 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.64%) SAN
9 3 (0.48%) NAS
9 3 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) PuTTY
10 1 (0.16%) RFID
10 1 (0.16%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (24.36%) Power BI
2 117 (18.63%) SQL Server
3 59 (9.39%) Tableau
4 57 (9.08%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (5.25%) Data Lake
6 30 (4.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 28 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 25 (3.98%) MySQL
10 22 (3.50%) Relational Database
11 21 (3.34%) NoSQL
12 20 (3.18%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.55%) Data Mining
14 15 (2.39%) Delta Lake
15 14 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (2.23%) Power Query
16 11 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
16 11 (1.75%) Metadata
17 10 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 24 (3.82%) JIRA
2 23 (3.66%) Git
3 9 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.11%) MLflow
4 7 (1.11%) Vagrant
5 6 (0.96%) GitLab
5 6 (0.96%) Maven
6 5 (0.80%) JUnit
6 5 (0.80%) Mockito
7 4 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.64%) Postman
8 3 (0.48%) git-flow
9 2 (0.32%) Moq
9 2 (0.32%) MSTest
9 2 (0.32%) NSubstitute
9 2 (0.32%) NUnit
9 2 (0.32%) RStudio
9 2 (0.32%) Selenium
9 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.16%) jMock
General
1 209 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 147 (23.41%) Analytical Skills
3 106 (16.88%) Finance
4 101 (16.08%) Retail
5 77 (12.26%) Law
6 62 (9.87%) Marketing
7 39 (6.21%) Public Sector
8 33 (5.25%) Manufacturing
8 33 (5.25%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.75%) Legal
12 8 (1.27%) Banking
13 6 (0.96%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.80%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.80%) Local Government
15 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.48%) Automotive
16 3 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 185 (29.46%) Analyst
2 131 (20.86%) Developer
3 88 (14.01%) Senior
4 83 (13.22%) 2nd Line Support
5 75 (11.94%) Support Analyst
6 73 (11.62%) Data Engineer
7 65 (10.35%) Data Analyst
8 49 (7.80%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 35 (5.57%) Applications Support
10 33 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
10 33 (5.25%) Senior Data Engineer
11 31 (4.94%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 29 (4.62%) Azure Data Engineer
12 29 (4.62%) Support Engineer
13 27 (4.30%) Consultant
14 25 (3.98%) Junior
14 25 (3.98%) Lead
14 25 (3.98%) Senior Developer
15 21 (3.34%) SQL Developer
16 19 (3.03%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.15%) .NET
2 40 (6.37%) REST
3 39 (6.21%) HTML
4 32 (5.10%) CSS
5 28 (4.46%) React
6 21 (3.34%) AngularJS
7 18 (2.87%) JSON
8 17 (2.71%) PySpark
9 16 (2.55%) .NET Framework
9 16 (2.55%) ASP.NET
10 13 (2.07%) Razor View Engine
10 13 (2.07%) SOAP
11 12 (1.91%) Entity Framework
11 12 (1.91%) Spring
11 12 (1.91%) XML
12 10 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (1.59%) jQuery
12 10 (1.59%) LAMP
12 10 (1.59%) YAML
13 9 (1.43%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.99%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (3.82%) Data Structures
4 18 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.07%) Operational Technology
7 13 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.43%) iSeries
10 8 (1.27%) Pricing Data
10 8 (1.27%) Replication
11 7 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.11%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.96%) FMCG
13 5 (0.80%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.80%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.41%) Windows
2 33 (5.25%) Linux
3 19 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.27%) Unix
5 7 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.11%) VMS
6 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (31.85%) Problem-Solving
2 160 (25.48%) Business Intelligence
3 128 (20.38%) CRM
4 121 (19.27%) Mentoring
5 114 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 113 (17.99%) Agile
6 113 (17.99%) Analytics
7 99 (15.76%) ERP
8 90 (14.33%) Customer Service
9 78 (12.42%) DevOps
10 77 (12.26%) Decision-Making
10 77 (12.26%) ETL
11 71 (11.31%) Data Modelling
12 70 (11.15%) Data Analysis
12 70 (11.15%) Visualisation
13 68 (10.83%) CI/CD
14 64 (10.19%) Data Engineering
15 62 (9.87%) Root Cause Analysis
16 61 (9.71%) AI
17 59 (9.39%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 166 (26.43%) Python
2 123 (19.59%) C#
3 78 (12.42%) JavaScript
4 47 (7.48%) T-SQL
5 36 (5.73%) PowerShell
6 28 (4.46%) Java
7 21 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 20 (3.18%) PHP
9 17 (2.71%) R
10 16 (2.55%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.75%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.11%) Groovy
13 6 (0.96%) Bicep
14 5 (0.80%) Bash
15 4 (0.64%) C++
15 4 (0.64%) Scala
15 4 (0.64%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.48%) C
16 3 (0.48%) RPG
16 3 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (11.78%) Degree
2 61 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 59 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.27%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.11%) MCP
9 7 (1.11%) MCSA
9 7 (1.11%) MCSE
10 6 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.80%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.48%) HND
12 3 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.64%) Data Quality
1 48 (7.64%) QA
2 36 (5.73%) SLA
3 22 (3.50%) GDPR
4 7 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) COBIT
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (4.46%) Docker
2 27 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.27%) Postfix
4 7 (1.11%) DFS Replication
4 7 (1.11%) Dovecot
4 7 (1.11%) Squid
4 7 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.96%) Firmware
6 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.16%) HDFS
7 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (4.30%) Terraform
2 22 (3.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.43%) Grafana
4 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.11%) Nessus
5 7 (1.11%) Proxmox
6 6 (0.96%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.16%) Ansible
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) logstash
8 1 (0.16%) Oozie
8 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 144 (22.93%) Microsoft
2 76 (12.10%) Databricks
3 42 (6.69%) Oracle
4 36 (5.73%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.23%) SAP
6 13 (2.07%) Adobe
7 11 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.27%) Cisco
8 8 (1.27%) HubSpot
8 8 (1.27%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.27%) VMware
8 8 (1.27%) Zoho
9 7 (1.11%) Civica
10 6 (0.96%) Google
10 6 (0.96%) IFS
10 6 (0.96%) NEC
11 5 (0.80%) Capita
11 5 (0.80%) Informatica
12 4 (0.64%) Cognos
12 4 (0.64%) UiPath