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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 806 578 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.34% 11.57% 11.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.55% 46.69% 44.89%
Number of salaries quoted 489 445 1,143
10th Percentile £29,900 £31,250 £29,150
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,750 £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 1,695 1,238 3,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.34% 24.77% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 972 2,597
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 £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 30 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 30 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 -18 459 £49,250 -6.19% 142
East Midlands -6 345 £45,000 -7.22% 97
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 29 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.23%) Confluence
3 9 (1.12%) IIS
4 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.87%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.87%) SAS
6 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 289 (35.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.50%) Shopify
4 3 (0.37%) Magento
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 453 (56.20%) Azure
2 368 (45.66%) Power Platform
3 232 (28.78%) Azure AI
4 87 (10.79%) AWS
5 39 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (4.47%) SaaS
7 29 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (3.47%) Amazon S3
8 28 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (3.47%) Snowflake
9 27 (3.35%) Serverless
10 25 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.48%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.23%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (1.99%) GCP
16 15 (1.86%) Entra ID
17 10 (1.24%) PaaS
18 6 (0.74%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.74%) Firewall
2 9 (1.12%) DNS
3 8 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (0.87%) DHCP
5 6 (0.74%) Internet
6 5 (0.62%) Network Security
6 5 (0.62%) SAN
7 4 (0.50%) FTP
7 4 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.37%) LAN
8 3 (0.37%) WAN
9 2 (0.25%) Broadband
9 2 (0.25%) HTTP
9 2 (0.25%) Intranet
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
9 2 (0.25%) SMS
9 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.25%) VPN
10 1 (0.12%) DMZ
10 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (45.29%) Power BI
2 267 (33.13%) Tableau
3 78 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 41 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (2.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (2.73%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.48%) Data Mining
10 17 (2.11%) Power Query
11 15 (1.86%) MySQL
12 13 (1.61%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.24%) Delta Lake
13 10 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (1.24%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
14 8 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (0.99%) GIS
15 7 (0.87%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 31 (3.85%) JIRA
2 21 (2.61%) Git
3 7 (0.87%) Selenium
4 6 (0.74%) JUnit
4 6 (0.74%) Maven
4 6 (0.74%) Mockito
5 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.50%) Postman
5 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.37%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.37%) Gatling
6 3 (0.37%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.37%) JMeter
6 3 (0.37%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 333 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (15.63%) Finance
4 47 (5.83%) Law
5 31 (3.85%) Retail
6 30 (3.72%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 14 (1.74%) Marketing
10 12 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.49%) Legal
11 9 (1.12%) Games
11 9 (1.12%) Local Government
12 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.62%) Banking
13 5 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Advertising
14 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 357 (44.29%) Analyst
2 283 (35.11%) Data Analyst
3 257 (31.89%) Junior
4 254 (31.51%) Junior Analyst
5 243 (30.15%) Junior Data Analyst
6 138 (17.12%) Developer
7 108 (13.40%) Senior
8 81 (10.05%) Data Engineer
9 46 (5.71%) Support Analyst
10 35 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.22%) Software Developer
12 33 (4.09%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.09%) Support Engineer
13 32 (3.97%) Lead
14 29 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
15 27 (3.35%) C# Developer
15 27 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
16 26 (3.23%) IT Support
17 25 (3.10%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.32%) HTML
2 50 (6.20%) CSS
3 48 (5.96%) .NET
4 40 (4.96%) React
5 34 (4.22%) Node.js
6 24 (2.98%) .NET Core
7 19 (2.36%) REST
8 15 (1.86%) PySpark
9 14 (1.74%) ASP.NET
10 13 (1.61%) .NET Framework
11 11 (1.36%) jQuery
12 9 (1.12%) JSON
12 9 (1.12%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.99%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (0.99%) Pandas
14 7 (0.87%) Laravel
14 7 (0.87%) Playwright
14 7 (0.87%) XML
15 6 (0.74%) DirectX
15 6 (0.74%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (2.61%) Management Information System
2 17 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (1.74%) Clustering
5 13 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 7 (0.87%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.74%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (0.74%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.62%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.62%) Replication
11 4 (0.50%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.50%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.50%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.58%) Windows
2 26 (3.23%) Linux
3 23 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.62%) VMS
5 3 (0.37%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.37%) zOS
6 2 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (45.91%) Business Intelligence
2 267 (33.13%) AI
3 138 (17.12%) Analytics
4 126 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (12.90%) Agile
6 81 (10.05%) ETL
7 80 (9.93%) Data Modelling
8 78 (9.68%) Mentoring
9 76 (9.43%) Decision-Making
10 64 (7.94%) Data Analysis
11 61 (7.57%) CI/CD
12 60 (7.44%) DevOps
13 59 (7.32%) Data Engineering
14 56 (6.95%) Computer Science
15 55 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (6.70%) ERP
17 50 (6.20%) Full-Stack Development
18 49 (6.08%) Data Pipeline
19 48 (5.96%) Visualisation
20 47 (5.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 411 (50.99%) Python
2 68 (8.44%) JavaScript
3 65 (8.06%) C#
4 40 (4.96%) T-SQL
5 35 (4.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (3.85%) PHP
7 19 (2.36%) Java
8 17 (2.11%) Bash
8 17 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.11%) R
9 8 (0.99%) C++
10 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.87%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.87%) VBA
11 5 (0.62%) C
12 4 (0.50%) Scala
13 3 (0.37%) COBOL
13 3 (0.37%) JCL
13 3 (0.37%) Rust
14 2 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 239 (29.65%) Azure Certification
2 65 (8.06%) Degree
3 25 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.11%) Security Cleared
5 15 (1.86%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.37%) MCSA
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.25%) CEH
10 2 (0.25%) CITP
10 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) CCAB
11 1 (0.12%) CIMA
11 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.61%) QA
3 19 (2.36%) SLA
4 17 (2.11%) GDPR
5 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 2 (0.25%) NIST
8 2 (0.25%) WCAG
9 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 32 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.36%) Docker
3 14 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 18 (2.23%) Terraform
2 16 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.37%) Grafana
4 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) MOM
Vendors
1 371 (46.03%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.18%) Databricks
3 32 (3.97%) Oracle
4 14 (1.74%) Google
5 9 (1.12%) SAP
6 8 (0.99%) ESRI
7 7 (0.87%) Informatica
7 7 (0.87%) Talend
8 6 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 6 (0.74%) IBM
8 6 (0.74%) VMware
9 5 (0.62%) Sage
9 5 (0.62%) SolarWinds
9 5 (0.62%) SonicWALL
9 5 (0.62%) Veeam
9 5 (0.62%) Zoho
10 4 (0.50%) Adobe
10 4 (0.50%) Civica
10 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.37%) Veracode