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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 828 676 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.30% 12.06% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.78% 54.43% 41.99%
Number of salaries quoted 577 498 582
10th Percentile £31,150 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,625 £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 1,982 1,242 2,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.68% 22.15% 23.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 952 1,419
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,187 £37,750 £39,625
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 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -10 438 £55,000 +8.91% 289
East Midlands -9 390 £45,000 +5.88% 189
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 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.66%) IIS
3 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.33%) Confluence
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.48%) Apache
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.36%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 135 (16.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.45%) Infor M3
1 12 (1.45%) SAP Business One
2 8 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.85%) Lawson
4 6 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.48%) Magento
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.36%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.36%) Shopify
8 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.12%) Odoo
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 374 (45.17%) Azure
2 250 (30.19%) Power Platform
3 104 (12.56%) AWS
4 86 (10.39%) Azure AI
5 61 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (4.23%) SaaS
8 34 (4.11%) Entra ID
9 30 (3.62%) GCP
10 25 (3.02%) Snowflake
11 23 (2.78%) GitHub
12 19 (2.29%) PaaS
12 19 (2.29%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.17%) Serverless
14 17 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (1.69%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.45%) Azure App Service
16 12 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (1.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.68%) Firewall
2 32 (3.86%) DNS
3 24 (2.90%) DHCP
4 19 (2.29%) Internet
5 18 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.57%) VLAN
7 8 (0.97%) Network Security
7 8 (0.97%) SAN
7 8 (0.97%) VPN
7 8 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.60%) HTTP
8 5 (0.60%) SSL
9 4 (0.48%) MQTT
9 4 (0.48%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.24%) LAN
10 2 (0.24%) SMS
10 2 (0.24%) Wireless
11 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (29.59%) Power BI
2 112 (13.53%) Tableau
3 96 (11.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 87 (10.51%) SQL Server
5 61 (7.37%) MongoDB
6 53 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 34 (4.11%) Power Query
9 24 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (2.78%) Relational Database
11 22 (2.66%) MySQL
12 19 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (2.05%) Crystal Reports
14 15 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.69%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.69%) Delta Lake
15 14 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (1.69%) QlikView
16 13 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 49 (5.92%) Git
2 24 (2.90%) JIRA
3 15 (1.81%) JUnit
3 15 (1.81%) Maven
4 14 (1.69%) GitLab
4 14 (1.69%) Mockito
5 13 (1.57%) Selenium
6 11 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.33%) Postman
7 10 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.21%) JMeter
8 8 (0.97%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.60%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.60%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.60%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.48%) Gatling
11 4 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 232 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 164 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
3 162 (19.57%) Finance
4 82 (9.90%) Manufacturing
5 46 (5.56%) Retail
6 39 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.66%) Legal
8 21 (2.54%) Marketing
9 17 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.69%) Advertising
11 13 (1.57%) Law
12 11 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.21%) Fire and Rescue
13 10 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.97%) Social Housing
15 7 (0.85%) Banking
16 6 (0.72%) Military
16 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 217 (26.21%) Developer
2 201 (24.28%) Analyst
3 126 (15.22%) Data Analyst
4 118 (14.25%) Senior
5 86 (10.39%) Junior
6 83 (10.02%) Junior Analyst
7 82 (9.90%) Junior Data Analyst
8 78 (9.42%) Lead
9 69 (8.33%) Data Engineer
10 68 (8.21%) .NET Developer
11 38 (4.59%) SQL Developer
12 35 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
12 35 (4.23%) Support Analyst
13 34 (4.11%) Data Scientist
13 34 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
14 31 (3.74%) IT Support
15 30 (3.62%) Administrator
15 30 (3.62%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.50%) Support Engineer
17 26 (3.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (12.92%) .NET
2 72 (8.70%) .NET Core
3 64 (7.73%) ASP.NET
4 62 (7.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 56 (6.76%) React
6 49 (5.92%) CSS
7 46 (5.56%) HTML
8 43 (5.19%) REST
9 33 (3.99%) Node.js
10 32 (3.86%) Entity Framework
11 29 (3.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 28 (3.38%) Terraform
13 27 (3.26%) RESTful
14 26 (3.14%) LINQ
15 25 (3.02%) Blazor
15 25 (3.02%) PySpark
16 23 (2.78%) PyTorch
17 21 (2.54%) XML
18 20 (2.42%) AngularJS
19 19 (2.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (3.14%) Clustering
4 23 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.45%) NHS
10 11 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.21%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.21%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.97%) IoT
12 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.85%) iSeries
13 7 (0.85%) Mashup
14 6 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.97%) Windows
2 40 (4.83%) Windows Server
3 36 (4.35%) Linux
4 8 (0.97%) Solaris
5 4 (0.48%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 3 (0.36%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (33.09%) Business Intelligence
2 219 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
3 177 (21.38%) Agile
4 175 (21.14%) Analytics
5 170 (20.53%) AI
6 126 (15.22%) ERP
7 117 (14.13%) Decision-Making
8 107 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 105 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 99 (11.96%) CI/CD
11 95 (11.47%) Data Modelling
12 91 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
13 81 (9.78%) DevOps
13 81 (9.78%) ETL
14 70 (8.45%) Roadmaps
15 68 (8.21%) Data Analysis
16 64 (7.73%) Actionable Insight
16 64 (7.73%) Data Management
17 63 (7.61%) Software Engineering
18 61 (7.37%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 252 (30.43%) Python
2 124 (14.98%) C#
3 98 (11.84%) JavaScript
4 53 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (5.56%) Java
6 30 (3.62%) PowerShell
7 27 (3.26%) PL/SQL
8 24 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.54%) PHP
10 18 (2.17%) C++
11 17 (2.05%) Bash
12 15 (1.81%) VBA
13 14 (1.69%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.72%) RPG
15 4 (0.48%) RPG IV
15 4 (0.48%) RPG/400
16 3 (0.36%) R
16 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.24%) COBOL
17 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (10.27%) Azure Certification
2 84 (10.14%) Degree
3 28 (3.38%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 7 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (0.60%) ISEB
9 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.60%) PMP
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.12%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.23%) GDPR
3 29 (3.50%) QA
4 11 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.09%) SLA
6 8 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 48 (5.80%) Docker
3 38 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.85%) Grafana
3 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.24%) Ansible
5 2 (0.24%) Nessus
6 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 290 (35.02%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.04%) Oracle
3 48 (5.80%) Databricks
4 30 (3.62%) SAP
5 25 (3.02%) Google
6 17 (2.05%) Infor
7 13 (1.57%) SYSPRO
8 9 (1.09%) Facebook
8 9 (1.09%) Sage
9 8 (0.97%) IBM
9 8 (0.97%) Veeam
9 8 (0.97%) VMware
10 7 (0.85%) Epicor
10 7 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.72%) Cisco
11 6 (0.72%) Informatica
11 6 (0.72%) SonicWALL
11 6 (0.72%) YouTube
12 5 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.60%) Pega