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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -21 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 763 580 1,346
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.47% 12.06% 12.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.14% 46.74% 44.69%
Number of salaries quoted 473 447 1,168
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £71,106 £68,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.24%

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 1,585 1,241 3,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.44% 25.80% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 978 2,616
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £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 £67,500 £63,750 £63,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -19 443 £47,085 -10.32% 165
East Midlands -4 318 £45,000 -7.22% 128
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 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.36%) Confluence
3 8 (1.05%) SAS
4 7 (0.92%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.92%) IIS
5 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.26%) Apache
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.26%) CMS
7 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.26%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) FileNet
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 273 (35.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.52%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.39%) Shopify
4 2 (0.26%) Magento
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 419 (54.91%) Azure
2 348 (45.61%) Power Platform
3 210 (27.52%) Azure AI
4 79 (10.35%) AWS
5 47 (6.16%) SaaS
6 42 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 27 (3.54%) Serverless
10 25 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (3.15%) Snowflake
12 20 (2.62%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (2.36%) PowerApps
15 17 (2.23%) GCP
16 12 (1.57%) Entra ID
17 6 (0.79%) PaaS
18 4 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (1.05%) Firewall
3 6 (0.79%) DHCP
3 6 (0.79%) DNS
3 6 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.52%) FTP
4 4 (0.52%) Internet
5 3 (0.39%) LAN
5 3 (0.39%) Network Security
5 3 (0.39%) SAN
5 3 (0.39%) WAN
6 2 (0.26%) Broadband
6 2 (0.26%) HTTP
6 2 (0.26%) Intranet
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (45.22%) Power BI
2 251 (32.90%) Tableau
3 81 (10.62%) SQL Server
4 43 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (4.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (3.15%) Data Mining
9 23 (3.01%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (2.10%) Power Query
12 13 (1.70%) MySQL
13 11 (1.44%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (1.31%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.31%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.92%) Crystal Reports
16 7 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.92%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 30 (3.93%) JIRA
2 20 (2.62%) Git
3 6 (0.79%) JUnit
3 6 (0.79%) Maven
3 6 (0.79%) Mockito
4 5 (0.66%) Selenium
5 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.39%) GitLab
6 3 (0.39%) Postman
7 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.26%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 320 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 150 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (15.73%) Finance
4 49 (6.42%) Law
5 32 (4.19%) Retail
6 28 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.10%) Marketing
10 11 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.31%) Legal
12 9 (1.18%) Games
12 9 (1.18%) Local Government
13 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.52%) Banking
15 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.39%) Billing
16 3 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 340 (44.56%) Analyst
2 257 (33.68%) Data Analyst
3 236 (30.93%) Junior
4 231 (30.28%) Junior Analyst
5 220 (28.83%) Junior Data Analyst
6 137 (17.96%) Developer
7 92 (12.06%) Senior
8 77 (10.09%) Data Engineer
9 49 (6.42%) Support Analyst
10 33 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (4.06%) Senior Developer
12 30 (3.93%) Software Developer
12 30 (3.93%) Support Engineer
13 27 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 26 (3.41%) IT Support
15 25 (3.28%) Azure Data Engineer
15 25 (3.28%) Lead
16 24 (3.15%) C# Developer
16 24 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.34%) HTML
2 49 (6.42%) .NET
3 47 (6.16%) CSS
4 39 (5.11%) React
5 33 (4.33%) Node.js
6 24 (3.15%) .NET Core
7 19 (2.49%) REST
8 15 (1.97%) PySpark
9 13 (1.70%) ASP.NET
10 12 (1.57%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.31%) jQuery
11 10 (1.31%) JSON
11 10 (1.31%) XML
12 8 (1.05%) Pandas
13 7 (0.92%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (0.92%) PyTorch
14 6 (0.79%) DirectX
14 6 (0.79%) Laravel
14 6 (0.79%) OpenGL
14 6 (0.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.01%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.57%) Onboarding
5 11 (1.44%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.31%) Clustering
6 10 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 6 (0.79%) 3D Graphics
10 6 (0.79%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.66%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.52%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.52%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.52%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.52%) Replication
13 3 (0.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.98%) Windows
2 20 (2.62%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.23%) Linux
4 3 (0.39%) VMS
4 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.39%) zOS
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (45.61%) Business Intelligence
2 242 (31.72%) AI
3 137 (17.96%) Analytics
4 134 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (13.63%) Agile
6 82 (10.75%) ETL
7 81 (10.62%) Mentoring
8 76 (9.96%) Data Modelling
9 75 (9.83%) Decision-Making
10 65 (8.52%) Data Analysis
11 64 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (7.73%) CI/CD
13 58 (7.60%) Data Engineering
14 57 (7.47%) DevOps
15 53 (6.95%) Computer Science
15 53 (6.95%) ERP
16 51 (6.68%) Visualisation
17 50 (6.55%) Full-Stack Development
18 46 (6.03%) Validation
19 45 (5.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 374 (49.02%) Python
2 69 (9.04%) C#
3 67 (8.78%) JavaScript
4 49 (6.42%) T-SQL
5 35 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (3.54%) PHP
7 17 (2.23%) Java
7 17 (2.23%) R
8 16 (2.10%) Bash
9 11 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.05%) C++
11 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.92%) VBA
12 5 (0.66%) C
13 4 (0.52%) Scala
14 3 (0.39%) COBOL
14 3 (0.39%) JCL
14 3 (0.39%) Rust
15 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 216 (28.31%) Azure Certification
2 69 (9.04%) Degree
3 25 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (2.10%) Security Cleared
5 15 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.57%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.39%) MCSA
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.26%) CEH
8 2 (0.26%) CITP
8 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.13%) CIMA
9 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.41%) QA
3 19 (2.49%) SLA
4 18 (2.36%) GDPR
5 13 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.26%) NCSC
8 2 (0.26%) NIST
8 2 (0.26%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 26 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.23%) Docker
3 10 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 14 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.70%) Terraform
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
5 1 (0.13%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 348 (45.61%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.70%) Databricks
3 36 (4.72%) Oracle
4 14 (1.83%) Google
5 7 (0.92%) ESRI
5 7 (0.92%) Informatica
5 7 (0.92%) SAP
5 7 (0.92%) Talend
6 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
6 6 (0.79%) IBM
7 5 (0.66%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.66%) Zoho
8 4 (0.52%) Civica
8 4 (0.52%) Sage
9 3 (0.39%) Adobe
9 3 (0.39%) Citrix
9 3 (0.39%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.39%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.39%) Veeam
9 3 (0.39%) VMware