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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 642 875 861
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 9.01% 11.09% 17.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.83% 44.06% 48.92%
Number of salaries quoted 515 488 729
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,303 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £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 1,150 1,986 1,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.13% 25.17% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 945 1,121 1,456
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -1.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 8 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 8 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 -13 352 £48,750 -2.50% 247
East Midlands +5 286 £42,500 -5.56% 182
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 17 (2.65%) IIS
2 16 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.25%) Apache
4 8 (1.25%) SAS
5 7 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.09%) Confluence
6 5 (0.78%) nginx
7 3 (0.47%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) FileNet
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 117 (18.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.56%) Sprinklr
3 6 (0.93%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.62%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 226 (35.20%) Azure
2 180 (28.04%) Power Platform
3 109 (16.98%) SaaS
4 61 (9.50%) AWS
5 49 (7.63%) Azure AI
6 35 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (3.27%) Snowflake
10 20 (3.12%) GCP
11 17 (2.65%) Amazon S3
12 16 (2.49%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.18%) PowerApps
14 13 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (1.71%) Amazon ELB
16 9 (1.40%) Entra ID
16 9 (1.40%) GitHub
17 8 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.23%) Remote Desktop
2 15 (2.34%) DNS
3 13 (2.02%) Firewall
4 9 (1.40%) DHCP
4 9 (1.40%) HTTP
5 7 (1.09%) VPN
6 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.78%) FTP
7 5 (0.78%) IMAP
7 5 (0.78%) LAN
7 5 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.78%) SMTP
7 5 (0.78%) SSH
7 5 (0.78%) WAN
8 3 (0.47%) NAS
8 3 (0.47%) SAN
9 2 (0.31%) Intranet
10 1 (0.16%) RFID
10 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (26.79%) Power BI
2 112 (17.45%) SQL Server
3 93 (14.49%) Tableau
4 56 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (4.83%) Data Lake
6 29 (4.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (3.43%) Data Mining
10 21 (3.27%) Relational Database
11 20 (3.12%) MySQL
12 17 (2.65%) NoSQL
13 16 (2.49%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.49%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (1.71%) Crystal Reports
15 11 (1.71%) Metadata
16 10 (1.56%) Power Query
17 8 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 7 (1.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (3.43%) Git
2 19 (2.96%) JIRA
3 7 (1.09%) MLflow
4 6 (0.93%) GitLab
4 6 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.78%) Vagrant
6 4 (0.62%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.62%) JUnit
6 4 (0.62%) Maven
6 4 (0.62%) Mockito
6 4 (0.62%) Postman
7 3 (0.47%) git-flow
7 3 (0.47%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) Moq
8 2 (0.31%) MSTest
8 2 (0.31%) NSubstitute
8 2 (0.31%) NUnit
8 2 (0.31%) TestRail
9 1 (0.16%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 229 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 147 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (16.36%) Finance
4 91 (14.17%) Retail
5 66 (10.28%) Law
6 57 (8.88%) Marketing
7 35 (5.45%) Public Sector
8 31 (4.83%) Manufacturing
9 27 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.56%) Legal
13 9 (1.40%) Banking
13 9 (1.40%) Games
14 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.62%) Automotive
15 4 (0.62%) Local Government
15 4 (0.62%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 210 (32.71%) Analyst
2 121 (18.85%) Developer
3 95 (14.80%) Senior
4 93 (14.49%) Data Analyst
5 81 (12.62%) Data Engineer
6 77 (11.99%) 2nd Line Support
7 75 (11.68%) Support Analyst
8 59 (9.19%) Junior
9 50 (7.79%) Junior Analyst
10 44 (6.85%) Junior Data Analyst
11 43 (6.70%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 37 (5.76%) Senior Data Engineer
13 36 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (4.98%) Azure Data Engineer
15 31 (4.83%) 1st/2nd Line Support
16 30 (4.67%) Applications Support
17 27 (4.21%) Consultant
18 24 (3.74%) Senior Developer
18 24 (3.74%) Support Engineer
19 23 (3.58%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.35%) .NET
2 40 (6.23%) HTML
3 39 (6.07%) REST
4 32 (4.98%) CSS
5 28 (4.36%) React
6 20 (3.12%) PySpark
7 19 (2.96%) AngularJS
8 18 (2.80%) .NET Core
9 17 (2.65%) JSON
10 15 (2.34%) ASP.NET
11 13 (2.02%) .NET Framework
11 13 (2.02%) Razor View Engine
12 11 (1.71%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (1.56%) Entity Framework
13 10 (1.56%) LAMP
13 10 (1.56%) SOAP
13 10 (1.56%) Spring
13 10 (1.56%) XML
14 9 (1.40%) Node.js
14 9 (1.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.44%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (3.43%) Data Structures
4 18 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 10 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.40%) iSeries
8 9 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.09%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.93%) 3D Graphics
11 6 (0.93%) FMCG
11 6 (0.93%) Pricing Data
11 6 (0.93%) Replication
12 5 (0.78%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.45%) Windows
2 31 (4.83%) Linux
3 17 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.09%) Unix
5 6 (0.93%) VMS
6 5 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (29.44%) Problem-Solving
2 179 (27.88%) Business Intelligence
3 129 (20.09%) Mentoring
4 113 (17.60%) CRM
5 112 (17.45%) Analytics
6 104 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 102 (15.89%) ERP
8 101 (15.73%) Agile
9 89 (13.86%) AI
10 77 (11.99%) Customer Service
11 74 (11.53%) ETL
12 69 (10.75%) CI/CD
13 68 (10.59%) Data Modelling
14 66 (10.28%) DevOps
15 64 (9.97%) Data Engineering
16 63 (9.81%) Data Analysis
16 63 (9.81%) Decision-Making
17 60 (9.35%) Visualisation
18 58 (9.03%) Logistics
19 57 (8.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 200 (31.15%) Python
2 118 (18.38%) C#
3 70 (10.90%) JavaScript
4 45 (7.01%) T-SQL
5 33 (5.14%) PowerShell
6 23 (3.58%) Java
6 23 (3.58%) PHP
7 20 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.65%) R
9 15 (2.34%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.09%) Bash
12 5 (0.78%) Bicep
12 5 (0.78%) Groovy
13 4 (0.62%) Scala
14 3 (0.47%) C
14 3 (0.47%) RPG
14 3 (0.47%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.31%) C++
15 2 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (10.44%) Degree
2 57 (8.88%) Azure Certification
3 50 (7.79%) Security Cleared
4 48 (7.48%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.62%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.62%) MCP
10 4 (0.62%) MCSA
10 4 (0.62%) MCSE
11 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 45 (7.01%) QA
3 31 (4.83%) SLA
4 20 (3.12%) GDPR
5 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.16%) COBIT
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (3.89%) Docker
2 23 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.93%) Firmware
4 5 (0.78%) DFS Replication
4 5 (0.78%) Dovecot
4 5 (0.78%) Postfix
4 5 (0.78%) Squid
4 5 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.47%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (3.43%) Terraform
2 21 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.93%) Grafana
4 6 (0.93%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.78%) Nessus
5 5 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.78%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.31%) Ansible
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) logstash
8 1 (0.16%) Oozie
8 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 177 (27.57%) Microsoft
2 78 (12.15%) Databricks
3 43 (6.70%) Oracle
4 30 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.87%) Adobe
6 11 (1.71%) SAP
7 9 (1.40%) Civica
7 9 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.25%) Cisco
8 8 (1.25%) HubSpot
8 8 (1.25%) Zoho
9 6 (0.93%) Informatica
9 6 (0.93%) VMware
10 5 (0.78%) Google
10 5 (0.78%) IFS
10 5 (0.78%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (0.78%) NEC
11 4 (0.62%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.62%) Talend
11 4 (0.62%) UiPath