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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 854 672 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.55% 12.37% 10.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.84% 50.99% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 553 474 1,098
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,925
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +3.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,304
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 1,863 1,318 3,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.30% 24.26% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 985 2,651
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £39,412
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
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 July 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 July 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 -8 447 £55,000 +4.76% 135
East Midlands -4 407 £45,000 -2.17% 160
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 34 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.11%) Confluence
3 17 (1.99%) IIS
4 16 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.82%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.47%) Apache
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
9 3 (0.35%) WordPress
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 236 (27.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.47%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.35%) Magento
3 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.35%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.23%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 454 (53.16%) Azure
2 342 (40.05%) Power Platform
3 186 (21.78%) Azure AI
4 101 (11.83%) AWS
5 57 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.75%) Snowflake
8 28 (3.28%) Entra ID
9 25 (2.93%) SaaS
10 23 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.58%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.46%) Serverless
13 20 (2.34%) PaaS
13 20 (2.34%) PowerApps
14 18 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (2.11%) GCP
14 18 (2.11%) GitHub
15 13 (1.52%) Azure App Service
15 13 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.15%) Firewall
2 28 (3.28%) DNS
3 23 (2.69%) DHCP
4 21 (2.46%) Internet
5 17 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.41%) VLAN
7 11 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.17%) SAN
9 8 (0.94%) Network Security
10 6 (0.70%) VPN
11 4 (0.47%) FTP
11 4 (0.47%) MQTT
12 3 (0.35%) HTTP
12 3 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
12 3 (0.35%) LAN
12 3 (0.35%) WAN
13 2 (0.23%) SMS
13 2 (0.23%) SSL
13 2 (0.23%) Wireless
14 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (39.23%) Power BI
2 211 (24.71%) Tableau
3 98 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 71 (8.31%) SQL Server
5 61 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 37 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (2.81%) Power Query
10 22 (2.58%) MySQL
11 20 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.87%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.52%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.41%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.94%) GIS
16 7 (0.82%) Delta Lake
16 7 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
17 6 (0.70%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 34 (3.98%) JIRA
2 20 (2.34%) Git
3 10 (1.17%) JUnit
3 10 (1.17%) Maven
3 10 (1.17%) Mockito
4 8 (0.94%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.70%) Selenium
6 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.35%) Gatling
7 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 3 (0.35%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.35%) JMeter
7 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.35%) Postman
7 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 294 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 145 (16.98%) Finance
3 143 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (5.39%) Retail
5 44 (5.15%) Manufacturing
6 37 (4.33%) Law
7 31 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.58%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.22%) Legal
10 18 (2.11%) Marketing
11 15 (1.76%) Advertising
12 10 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.05%) Local Government
14 7 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.70%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.47%) Banking
17 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 302 (35.36%) Analyst
2 236 (27.63%) Data Analyst
3 202 (23.65%) Developer
4 193 (22.60%) Junior
5 189 (22.13%) Junior Analyst
6 188 (22.01%) Junior Data Analyst
7 106 (12.41%) Senior
8 69 (8.08%) .NET Developer
9 63 (7.38%) Data Engineer
10 61 (7.14%) Lead
11 41 (4.80%) Data Scientist
12 37 (4.33%) IT Support
13 36 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
14 35 (4.10%) Support Engineer
15 32 (3.75%) Administrator
15 32 (3.75%) Support Analyst
16 29 (3.40%) Software Developer
17 28 (3.28%) IT Engineer
17 28 (3.28%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (12.06%) .NET
2 74 (8.67%) .NET Core
3 69 (8.08%) ASP.NET
4 66 (7.73%) ASP.NET Core
4 66 (7.73%) HTML
5 62 (7.26%) CSS
6 58 (6.79%) React
7 48 (5.62%) Node.js
8 31 (3.63%) Entity Framework
9 29 (3.40%) ASP.NET Web API
10 27 (3.16%) Blazor
10 27 (3.16%) REST
11 26 (3.04%) LINQ
12 25 (2.93%) RESTful
13 23 (2.69%) PyTorch
14 18 (2.11%) AngularJS
14 18 (2.11%) Vue
15 17 (1.99%) TensorFlow
16 15 (1.76%) Hugging Face
16 15 (1.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.10%) Management Information System
2 28 (3.28%) Clustering
3 24 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.76%) Mobile App
5 15 (1.76%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.17%) NHS
8 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.82%) iSeries
12 6 (0.70%) AS400
12 6 (0.70%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.70%) IoT
12 6 (0.70%) PKI
12 6 (0.70%) Replication
13 4 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.91%) Windows
2 37 (4.33%) Windows Server
3 28 (3.28%) Linux
4 7 (0.82%) Solaris
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
6 3 (0.35%) Android
6 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Unix
7 2 (0.23%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (40.05%) Business Intelligence
2 240 (28.10%) AI
3 173 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (19.32%) Analytics
5 151 (17.68%) Agile
6 104 (12.18%) Decision-Making
7 94 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (10.19%) Data Modelling
8 87 (10.19%) Mentoring
9 79 (9.25%) CI/CD
10 78 (9.13%) Data Analysis
11 74 (8.67%) ETL
12 69 (8.08%) DevOps
13 68 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (7.85%) ERP
15 62 (7.26%) Actionable Insight
15 62 (7.26%) Computer Science
15 62 (7.26%) Data Analytics
16 60 (7.03%) Roadmaps
17 56 (6.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 356 (41.69%) Python
2 120 (14.05%) C#
3 82 (9.60%) JavaScript
4 43 (5.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.51%) PHP
6 25 (2.93%) Java
6 25 (2.93%) T-SQL
7 19 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.11%) C++
9 16 (1.87%) VBA
10 14 (1.64%) Bash
10 14 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.64%) R
11 6 (0.70%) RPG
12 4 (0.47%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.47%) RPG/400
13 3 (0.35%) Rust
13 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 184 (21.55%) Azure Certification
2 84 (9.84%) Degree
3 22 (2.58%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.35%) CITP
8 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.35%) MCSA
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.12%) CCAB
9 1 (0.12%) CIMA
9 1 (0.12%) HND
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.81%) SLA
3 22 (2.58%) GDPR
4 15 (1.76%) QA
5 9 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.12%) NCSC
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.68%) Hyper-V
3 36 (4.22%) Docker
4 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 32 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.69%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 374 (43.79%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.50%) Databricks
3 26 (3.04%) Oracle
4 18 (2.11%) Google
5 13 (1.52%) SAP
6 10 (1.17%) Facebook
6 10 (1.17%) Veeam
7 8 (0.94%) ESRI
7 8 (0.94%) IBM
7 8 (0.94%) SonicWALL
7 8 (0.94%) SYSPRO
8 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.70%) VMware
10 5 (0.59%) Epicor
10 5 (0.59%) Informatica
10 5 (0.59%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.59%) Sage
10 5 (0.59%) SolarWinds
10 5 (0.59%) YouTube
11 4 (0.47%) CheckPoint