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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 797 633 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.15% 12.24% 11.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.24% 48.92% 44.65%
Number of salaries quoted 479 446 1,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,875 £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 1,687 1,294 3,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.01% 25.03% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 972 2,596
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,500
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 £75,000 £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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -17 452 £50,871 -3.10% 170
East Midlands -6 343 £45,000 -8.63% 127
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 30 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.26%) Confluence
3 9 (1.13%) IIS
3 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.88%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.88%) SAS
5 6 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.38%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) FileNet
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 287 (36.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.63%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.50%) Shopify
4 3 (0.38%) Magento
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 452 (56.71%) Azure
2 369 (46.30%) Power Platform
3 233 (29.23%) Azure AI
4 89 (11.17%) AWS
5 37 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 31 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.89%) SaaS
7 30 (3.76%) Snowflake
8 28 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 27 (3.39%) Serverless
10 26 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (2.51%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.26%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (2.01%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.76%) GCP
16 12 (1.51%) PaaS
17 7 (0.88%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.01%) Firewall
2 10 (1.25%) DNS
3 9 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.00%) Internet
5 7 (0.88%) DHCP
6 6 (0.75%) Network Security
6 6 (0.75%) SAN
7 4 (0.50%) FTP
8 3 (0.38%) LAN
8 3 (0.38%) MQTT
8 3 (0.38%) VPN
8 3 (0.38%) WAN
9 2 (0.25%) Broadband
9 2 (0.25%) HTTP
9 2 (0.25%) Intranet
9 2 (0.25%) SMS
9 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.13%) DMZ
10 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (45.92%) Power BI
2 268 (33.63%) Tableau
3 74 (9.28%) SQL Server
4 44 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.38%) Data Mining
10 19 (2.38%) Power Query
11 15 (1.88%) MySQL
12 12 (1.51%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.51%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.38%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (1.13%) Relational Database
16 8 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
16 8 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (1.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 30 (3.76%) JIRA
2 22 (2.76%) Git
3 7 (0.88%) JUnit
3 7 (0.88%) Maven
3 7 (0.88%) Mockito
3 7 (0.88%) Selenium
4 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.50%) Postman
4 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.38%) Gatling
5 3 (0.38%) GitLab
5 3 (0.38%) HP UFT
5 3 (0.38%) JMeter
5 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
5 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 326 (40.90%) Social Skills
2 135 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (15.81%) Finance
4 45 (5.65%) Law
5 30 (3.76%) Retail
6 29 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.63%) Legal
9 13 (1.63%) Marketing
10 12 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.13%) Games
11 9 (1.13%) Local Government
12 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.63%) Banking
13 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Advertising
14 4 (0.50%) Social Housing
15 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 348 (43.66%) Analyst
2 284 (35.63%) Data Analyst
3 255 (31.99%) Junior
4 253 (31.74%) Junior Analyst
5 243 (30.49%) Junior Data Analyst
6 143 (17.94%) Developer
7 104 (13.05%) Senior
8 81 (10.16%) Data Engineer
9 40 (5.02%) Support Analyst
10 35 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.27%) Software Developer
12 33 (4.14%) Lead
13 32 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 31 (3.89%) Support Engineer
15 28 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
16 27 (3.39%) C# Developer
17 26 (3.26%) Azure Data Engineer
17 26 (3.26%) IT Support
18 25 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
19 24 (3.01%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.28%) HTML
2 52 (6.52%) .NET
3 49 (6.15%) CSS
4 43 (5.40%) React
5 36 (4.52%) Node.js
6 30 (3.76%) .NET Core
7 20 (2.51%) ASP.NET
7 20 (2.51%) REST
8 16 (2.01%) PySpark
9 14 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (1.63%) .NET Framework
11 11 (1.38%) jQuery
12 9 (1.13%) JSON
12 9 (1.13%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.00%) Pandas
13 8 (1.00%) RESTful
14 7 (0.88%) Entity Framework
14 7 (0.88%) Laravel
14 7 (0.88%) Playwright
14 7 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.76%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (2.01%) Clustering
4 15 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 6 (0.75%) 3D Graphics
10 5 (0.63%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.63%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.63%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.63%) Replication
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.50%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.50%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.50%) IoT
12 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.65%) Windows
2 27 (3.39%) Linux
3 22 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.75%) VMS
5 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.38%) Solaris
5 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.38%) zOS
6 2 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (46.42%) Business Intelligence
2 270 (33.88%) AI
3 141 (17.69%) Analytics
4 116 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (13.30%) Agile
6 84 (10.54%) Data Modelling
7 80 (10.04%) ETL
8 76 (9.54%) Decision-Making
9 69 (8.66%) Mentoring
10 60 (7.53%) CI/CD
10 60 (7.53%) Data Analysis
10 60 (7.53%) DevOps
11 59 (7.40%) Data Engineering
12 56 (7.03%) Computer Science
13 52 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (6.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (6.15%) ERP
16 48 (6.02%) Data Pipeline
17 47 (5.90%) Visualisation
18 46 (5.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 409 (51.32%) Python
2 68 (8.53%) JavaScript
3 67 (8.41%) C#
4 38 (4.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 36 (4.52%) T-SQL
6 31 (3.89%) PHP
7 18 (2.26%) Bash
7 18 (2.26%) Java
7 18 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.13%) R
9 9 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.00%) C++
10 8 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.88%) VBA
12 4 (0.50%) C
12 4 (0.50%) Scala
13 3 (0.38%) COBOL
13 3 (0.38%) JCL
13 3 (0.38%) Rust
14 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (29.99%) Azure Certification
2 66 (8.28%) Degree
3 25 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.13%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.01%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.51%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.38%) CITP
8 3 (0.38%) MCSA
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.25%) CEH
9 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.13%) CCAB
10 1 (0.13%) CIMA
10 1 (0.13%) HND
10 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.38%) GDPR
2 19 (2.38%) SLA
3 18 (2.26%) QA
4 14 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) WCAG
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 34 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.63%) Docker
3 16 (2.01%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 20 (2.51%) Terraform
2 18 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 372 (46.68%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.03%) Databricks
3 36 (4.52%) Oracle
4 16 (2.01%) Google
5 9 (1.13%) SAP
6 8 (1.00%) ESRI
7 7 (0.88%) Informatica
7 7 (0.88%) Talend
8 6 (0.75%) Cloudera
8 6 (0.75%) IBM
8 6 (0.75%) SonicWALL
8 6 (0.75%) Veeam
8 6 (0.75%) VMware
9 5 (0.63%) Sage
9 5 (0.63%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.50%) Adobe
10 4 (0.50%) Civica
10 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.38%) Citrix
11 3 (0.38%) Veracode