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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 829 683 964
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.46% 11.98% 9.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.93% 54.60% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 577 495 590
10th Percentile £31,150 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,813 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,069 £71,324
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 1,977 1,251 2,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.03% 21.95% 23.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,352 953 1,459
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -10 430 £55,000 +5.77% 201
East Midlands -8 399 £45,000 - 152
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 28 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.53%) IIS
3 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.33%) Confluence
6 5 (0.60%) Apache
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.36%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 156 (18.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Infor M3
1 11 (1.33%) SAP Business One
2 7 (0.84%) Lawson
3 6 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.36%) Magento
6 3 (0.36%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.36%) Shopify
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.12%) Odoo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 393 (47.41%) Azure
2 274 (33.05%) Power Platform
3 109 (13.15%) Azure AI
4 105 (12.67%) AWS
5 60 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (4.10%) SaaS
8 33 (3.98%) Entra ID
9 27 (3.26%) Snowflake
10 26 (3.14%) GCP
11 22 (2.65%) GitHub
12 19 (2.29%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (2.17%) PaaS
13 18 (2.17%) Serverless
14 15 (1.81%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (1.81%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.45%) Azure App Service
15 12 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.67%) Firewall
2 32 (3.86%) DNS
3 24 (2.90%) DHCP
4 20 (2.41%) Internet
5 18 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.57%) VLAN
7 9 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.97%) Network Security
8 8 (0.97%) SAN
9 7 (0.84%) VPN
10 5 (0.60%) HTTP
10 5 (0.60%) SSL
11 4 (0.48%) MQTT
11 4 (0.48%) WAN
12 3 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
12 3 (0.36%) LAN
13 2 (0.24%) FTP
13 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.24%) SMS
13 2 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (32.33%) Power BI
2 132 (15.92%) Tableau
3 95 (11.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 79 (9.53%) SQL Server
5 63 (7.60%) MongoDB
6 52 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (3.62%) Power Query
9 26 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (2.77%) Relational Database
11 22 (2.65%) MySQL
12 20 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (2.05%) Crystal Reports
14 14 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.69%) QlikView
15 12 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
16 11 (1.33%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.33%) Delta Lake
17 9 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (5.55%) Git
2 24 (2.90%) JIRA
3 15 (1.81%) JUnit
3 15 (1.81%) Maven
4 14 (1.69%) Mockito
5 13 (1.57%) GitLab
5 13 (1.57%) Selenium
6 11 (1.33%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.21%) JMeter
7 10 (1.21%) Postman
8 7 (0.84%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.60%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.60%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.60%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.48%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.48%) Gatling
11 4 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 243 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 154 (18.58%) Finance
3 151 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.65%) Manufacturing
5 48 (5.79%) Retail
6 34 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.65%) Legal
7 22 (2.65%) Marketing
8 18 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.05%) Law
10 15 (1.81%) Advertising
11 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
12 9 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.97%) Social Housing
14 7 (0.84%) Banking
14 7 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.48%) Military
17 3 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 221 (26.66%) Analyst
2 216 (26.06%) Developer
3 148 (17.85%) Data Analyst
4 112 (13.51%) Senior
5 111 (13.39%) Junior
6 107 (12.91%) Junior Analyst
7 106 (12.79%) Junior Data Analyst
8 74 (8.93%) Lead
9 70 (8.44%) .NET Developer
10 65 (7.84%) Data Engineer
11 36 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (4.22%) Data Scientist
12 35 (4.22%) Support Analyst
13 34 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
14 33 (3.98%) SQL Developer
15 32 (3.86%) Administrator
16 31 (3.74%) IT Support
17 30 (3.62%) Support Engineer
18 27 (3.26%) Senior Developer
19 24 (2.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (13.15%) .NET
2 74 (8.93%) .NET Core
3 67 (8.08%) ASP.NET
4 65 (7.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 56 (6.76%) React
6 53 (6.39%) CSS
7 50 (6.03%) HTML
8 41 (4.95%) REST
9 35 (4.22%) Node.js
10 33 (3.98%) Entity Framework
11 30 (3.62%) ASP.NET Web API
12 27 (3.26%) Blazor
12 27 (3.26%) RESTful
13 26 (3.14%) LINQ
14 25 (3.02%) Terraform
15 23 (2.77%) PyTorch
16 20 (2.41%) AngularJS
16 20 (2.41%) PySpark
16 20 (2.41%) XML
17 19 (2.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.22%) Management Information System
2 28 (3.38%) Clustering
3 27 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.45%) NHS
9 11 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.09%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.84%) iSeries
13 7 (0.84%) Mashup
14 6 (0.72%) AS400
14 6 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.96%) Windows
2 40 (4.83%) Windows Server
3 34 (4.10%) Linux
4 8 (0.97%) Solaris
5 4 (0.48%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 3 (0.36%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (35.22%) Business Intelligence
2 206 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
3 183 (22.07%) AI
4 171 (20.63%) Agile
5 165 (19.90%) Analytics
6 119 (14.35%) ERP
7 112 (13.51%) Decision-Making
8 98 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (11.82%) Mentoring
9 94 (11.34%) CI/CD
10 93 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 86 (10.37%) Data Modelling
12 80 (9.65%) ETL
13 79 (9.53%) DevOps
14 68 (8.20%) Data Analysis
15 67 (8.08%) Roadmaps
16 62 (7.48%) Actionable Insight
17 61 (7.36%) Data Management
17 61 (7.36%) Software Engineering
18 59 (7.12%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 266 (32.09%) Python
2 124 (14.96%) C#
3 98 (11.82%) JavaScript
4 54 (6.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (5.43%) Java
6 28 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 25 (3.02%) PL/SQL
8 24 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.77%) PHP
10 18 (2.17%) C++
11 17 (2.05%) Bash
12 16 (1.93%) T-SQL
13 15 (1.81%) VBA
14 6 (0.72%) RPG
15 5 (0.60%) R
16 4 (0.48%) RPG IV
16 4 (0.48%) RPG/400
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) COBOL
18 2 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (12.67%) Azure Certification
2 87 (10.49%) Degree
3 27 (3.26%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.60%) ISEB
7 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.48%) PMP
9 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.12%) CCAB
11 1 (0.12%) CIMA
11 1 (0.12%) HND
11 1 (0.12%) MCSA
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.86%) GDPR
3 27 (3.26%) QA
4 13 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.09%) SLA
6 7 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 45 (5.43%) Docker
3 41 (4.95%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.72%) Grafana
4 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.24%) Nessus
7 1 (0.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 306 (36.91%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.67%) Databricks
3 45 (5.43%) Oracle
4 27 (3.26%) SAP
5 22 (2.65%) Google
6 16 (1.93%) Infor
7 13 (1.57%) SYSPRO
8 10 (1.21%) Facebook
9 9 (1.09%) Sage
10 8 (0.97%) IBM
10 8 (0.97%) Veeam
11 7 (0.84%) Epicor
11 7 (0.84%) Informatica
11 7 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.84%) VMware
12 6 (0.72%) Cisco
12 6 (0.72%) SonicWALL
13 5 (0.60%) Pega
13 5 (0.60%) SolarWinds
13 5 (0.60%) YouTube