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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 644 807 805
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.16% 11.88% 16.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.95% 45.98% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 507 452 718
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -4.50% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £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 1,151 1,755 1,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.58% 25.84% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 940 970 1,470
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,682
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
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 26 December 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 26 December 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 -15 366 £48,500 -3.00% 424
East Midlands +2 273 £40,000 -15.79% 332
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 19 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.33%) IIS
3 8 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.09%) Apache
4 7 (1.09%) SAS
5 6 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.78%) Confluence
7 4 (0.62%) nginx
8 3 (0.47%) CMS
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.16%) Appian
10 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) FileNet
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 130 (20.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.47%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.16%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
5 1 (0.16%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 234 (36.34%) Azure
2 185 (28.73%) Power Platform
3 106 (16.46%) SaaS
4 60 (9.32%) AWS
4 60 (9.32%) Azure AI
5 37 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (3.11%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (2.64%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.48%) Power Automate
11 15 (2.33%) GCP
12 14 (2.17%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.71%) Serverless
14 10 (1.55%) Amazon ELB
15 8 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.21%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (2.17%) DNS
3 11 (1.71%) Firewall
4 9 (1.40%) DHCP
5 6 (0.93%) HTTP
5 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.93%) VPN
6 5 (0.78%) FTP
7 4 (0.62%) IMAP
7 4 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.62%) SMTP
7 4 (0.62%) SSH
8 3 (0.47%) NAS
8 3 (0.47%) SAN
9 2 (0.31%) Intranet
9 2 (0.31%) LAN
9 2 (0.31%) WAN
10 1 (0.16%) Broadband
10 1 (0.16%) RFID
10 1 (0.16%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (27.48%) Power BI
2 105 (16.30%) Tableau
3 104 (16.15%) SQL Server
4 57 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (5.75%) Data Lake
6 31 (4.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 29 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 25 (3.88%) Data Mining
10 20 (3.11%) Relational Database
11 19 (2.95%) MySQL
12 16 (2.48%) Delta Lake
13 14 (2.17%) Power Query
14 13 (2.02%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.86%) NoSQL
16 11 (1.71%) Metadata
17 10 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
18 9 (1.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 9 (1.40%) Crystal Reports
18 9 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (3.26%) Git
2 18 (2.80%) JIRA
3 7 (1.09%) MLflow
4 5 (0.78%) GitLab
4 5 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.78%) JUnit
4 5 (0.78%) Maven
4 5 (0.78%) Mockito
5 4 (0.62%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.62%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.47%) git-flow
6 3 (0.47%) Postman
6 3 (0.47%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) Moq
7 2 (0.31%) MSTest
7 2 (0.31%) NSubstitute
7 2 (0.31%) NUnit
7 2 (0.31%) TestRail
8 1 (0.16%) Gatling
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 234 (36.34%) Social Skills
2 147 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
3 106 (16.46%) Finance
4 76 (11.80%) Retail
5 63 (9.78%) Law
6 56 (8.70%) Marketing
7 30 (4.66%) Manufacturing
8 28 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.71%) Legal
13 10 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.40%) Banking
14 9 (1.40%) Games
15 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.62%) Automotive
16 4 (0.62%) Local Government
16 4 (0.62%) Social Housing
17 3 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 218 (33.85%) Analyst
2 122 (18.94%) Developer
3 106 (16.46%) Data Analyst
4 98 (15.22%) Senior
5 83 (12.89%) Data Engineer
6 75 (11.65%) 2nd Line Support
7 74 (11.49%) Junior
7 74 (11.49%) Support Analyst
8 66 (10.25%) Junior Analyst
9 55 (8.54%) Junior Data Analyst
10 41 (6.37%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 41 (6.37%) Senior Data Engineer
11 38 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (5.28%) Azure Data Engineer
13 31 (4.81%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 28 (4.35%) Applications Support
15 25 (3.88%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.42%) Support Engineer
17 21 (3.26%) Lead
18 20 (3.11%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.47%) .NET
2 38 (5.90%) REST
3 33 (5.12%) HTML
4 29 (4.50%) React
5 24 (3.73%) CSS
6 21 (3.26%) .NET Core
7 19 (2.95%) PySpark
8 18 (2.80%) AngularJS
8 18 (2.80%) JSON
9 13 (2.02%) Node.js
9 13 (2.02%) Razor View Engine
10 12 (1.86%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.55%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.55%) LAMP
11 10 (1.55%) SOAP
12 9 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (1.40%) XML
12 9 (1.40%) YAML
13 8 (1.24%) Spring
14 7 (1.09%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.09%) Onboarding
2 21 (3.26%) Data Structures
3 18 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 10 (1.55%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.09%) Credit Risk
10 6 (0.93%) 3D Graphics
10 6 (0.93%) FMCG
10 6 (0.93%) iSeries
10 6 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.93%) Pricing Data
10 6 (0.93%) Replication
11 5 (0.78%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.43%) Windows
2 30 (4.66%) Linux
3 15 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.09%) VMS
5 6 (0.93%) Unix
6 4 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (29.19%) Business Intelligence
2 187 (29.04%) Problem-Solving
3 122 (18.94%) Mentoring
4 106 (16.46%) Analytics
5 101 (15.68%) CRM
6 98 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (15.06%) Agile
8 96 (14.91%) AI
8 96 (14.91%) ERP
9 75 (11.65%) ETL
10 68 (10.56%) CI/CD
11 64 (9.94%) Customer Service
11 64 (9.94%) Data Engineering
11 64 (9.94%) Data Modelling
11 64 (9.94%) Decision-Making
12 63 (9.78%) Logistics
13 61 (9.47%) DevOps
14 58 (9.01%) Root Cause Analysis
15 57 (8.85%) Data Analysis
16 53 (8.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 215 (33.39%) Python
2 113 (17.55%) C#
3 65 (10.09%) JavaScript
4 47 (7.30%) T-SQL
5 32 (4.97%) PowerShell
6 23 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (3.57%) PHP
7 21 (3.26%) Java
8 14 (2.17%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.17%) R
9 13 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.24%) Bash
11 4 (0.62%) Bicep
11 4 (0.62%) C
11 4 (0.62%) Groovy
11 4 (0.62%) Scala
12 3 (0.47%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.31%) C++
13 2 (0.31%) Perl
13 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (10.25%) Azure Certification
2 61 (9.47%) Degree
3 47 (7.30%) Security Cleared
4 45 (6.99%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.31%) MCSA
12 2 (0.31%) MCSE
12 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.31%) PMP
12 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.99%) QA
3 30 (4.66%) SLA
4 21 (3.26%) GDPR
5 10 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) COBIT
8 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
8 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (3.73%) Docker
2 22 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.93%) Firmware
4 4 (0.62%) DFS Replication
4 4 (0.62%) Dovecot
4 4 (0.62%) Postfix
4 4 (0.62%) Squid
5 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (3.11%) Kubernetes
1 20 (3.11%) Terraform
2 6 (0.93%) Kubeflow
2 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.78%) Grafana
4 4 (0.62%) Nessus
4 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.62%) Proxmox
4 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
6 1 (0.16%) MOM
6 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 197 (30.59%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.96%) Databricks
3 48 (7.45%) Oracle
4 25 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.40%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.24%) Cisco
6 8 (1.24%) HubSpot
6 8 (1.24%) SAP
6 8 (1.24%) Zoho
7 6 (0.93%) Civica
8 5 (0.78%) Informatica
8 5 (0.78%) VMware
9 4 (0.62%) Google
9 4 (0.62%) IFS
9 4 (0.62%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.62%) Talend
9 4 (0.62%) UiPath
10 3 (0.47%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.47%) Northgate
10 3 (0.47%) Ubiquiti