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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 678 631 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.67% 12.57% 12.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.63% 47.95% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 453 429 1,128
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.95% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
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 1,366 1,316 2,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.44% 26.22% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 950 2,485
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -18 398 £45,000 -14.29% 156
East Midlands -3 278 £45,000 -5.26% 91
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 23 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.06%) Confluence
3 8 (1.18%) ArcGIS
4 7 (1.03%) IIS
5 6 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.88%) SAS
6 5 (0.74%) Apache
6 5 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.15%) CICS
8 1 (0.15%) FileNet
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 219 (32.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 331 (48.82%) Azure
2 272 (40.12%) Power Platform
3 155 (22.86%) Azure AI
4 74 (10.91%) SaaS
5 69 (10.18%) AWS
6 34 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (4.13%) Amazon S3
9 26 (3.83%) Serverless
10 25 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.95%) PowerApps
11 20 (2.95%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.80%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.47%) GCP
17 6 (0.88%) Entra ID
17 6 (0.88%) PaaS
18 4 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.69%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (1.03%) DHCP
2 7 (1.03%) DNS
2 7 (1.03%) Firewall
3 4 (0.59%) FTP
4 3 (0.44%) Internet
4 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
4 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.29%) Broadband
5 2 (0.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.29%) Intranet
5 2 (0.29%) Network Security
5 2 (0.29%) SAN
6 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (39.53%) Power BI
2 194 (28.61%) Tableau
3 81 (11.95%) SQL Server
4 41 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (4.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 29 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (3.83%) Data Lake
9 25 (3.69%) Data Mining
10 18 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.77%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (1.47%) Delta Lake
13 10 (1.47%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.47%) Power Query
14 9 (1.33%) MySQL
15 8 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (1.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.83%) JIRA
2 21 (3.10%) Git
3 8 (1.18%) JUnit
3 8 (1.18%) Maven
3 8 (1.18%) Mockito
4 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.29%) git-flow
5 2 (0.29%) GitLab
5 2 (0.29%) Postman
5 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.29%) TestRail
6 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.15%) MLflow
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 281 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 143 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (16.08%) Finance
4 52 (7.67%) Law
5 36 (5.31%) Retail
6 24 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.54%) Manufacturing
7 22 (3.24%) Marketing
7 22 (3.24%) Public Sector
8 11 (1.62%) Local Government
9 10 (1.47%) Legal
10 9 (1.33%) Games
11 7 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Banking
14 3 (0.44%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.44%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 283 (41.74%) Analyst
2 199 (29.35%) Data Analyst
3 180 (26.55%) Junior
4 174 (25.66%) Junior Analyst
5 161 (23.75%) Junior Data Analyst
6 133 (19.62%) Developer
7 86 (12.68%) Senior
8 74 (10.91%) Data Engineer
9 51 (7.52%) Support Analyst
10 37 (5.46%) 2nd Line Support
11 31 (4.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 30 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (4.42%) Senior Developer
13 29 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (3.69%) Azure Data Engineer
14 25 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (3.69%) Software Developer
15 23 (3.39%) Support Engineer
16 21 (3.10%) IT Support
16 21 (3.10%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.67%) .NET
2 46 (6.78%) HTML
3 43 (6.34%) React
4 36 (5.31%) CSS
5 32 (4.72%) Node.js
6 27 (3.98%) REST
7 24 (3.54%) .NET Core
8 14 (2.06%) PySpark
9 12 (1.77%) ASP.NET
10 11 (1.62%) JSON
11 10 (1.47%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.47%) XML
12 6 (0.88%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (0.88%) DirectX
12 6 (0.88%) jQuery
12 6 (0.88%) OpenGL
12 6 (0.88%) Spring
13 5 (0.74%) Entity Framework
13 5 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (0.74%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.28%) Onboarding
2 22 (3.24%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.03%) Clustering
8 6 (0.88%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.59%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.59%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.59%) Replication
10 4 (0.59%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.59%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.42%) Windows
2 20 (2.95%) Linux
3 15 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.44%) VMS
4 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.29%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (40.71%) Business Intelligence
2 186 (27.43%) AI
3 148 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (17.85%) Analytics
5 106 (15.63%) Agile
6 102 (15.04%) Mentoring
7 79 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (10.18%) ETL
9 67 (9.88%) Decision-Making
10 66 (9.73%) CRM
11 65 (9.59%) Data Analysis
12 61 (9.00%) ERP
13 57 (8.41%) DevOps
14 56 (8.26%) CI/CD
14 56 (8.26%) Data Modelling
15 53 (7.82%) Full-Stack Development
16 48 (7.08%) Root Cause Analysis
17 47 (6.93%) Data Engineering
18 45 (6.64%) Validation
19 43 (6.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 305 (44.99%) Python
2 85 (12.54%) C#
3 72 (10.62%) JavaScript
4 47 (6.93%) T-SQL
5 24 (3.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (3.24%) PHP
7 16 (2.36%) Java
7 16 (2.36%) R
8 14 (2.06%) Bash
8 14 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.74%) C
11 5 (0.74%) C++
11 5 (0.74%) VBA
12 4 (0.59%) Scala
13 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.29%) Ruby
14 2 (0.29%) Rust
14 2 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (23.45%) Azure Certification
2 61 (9.00%) Degree
3 22 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.65%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.36%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.44%) MCSA
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.29%) CEH
10 2 (0.29%) CITP
10 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.29%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.29%) PMP
10 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.31%) QA
3 22 (3.24%) SLA
4 15 (2.21%) GDPR
5 10 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.29%) NCSC
8 2 (0.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.80%) Docker
3 5 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.47%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.15%) MOM
4 1 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 295 (43.51%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.59%) Databricks
3 41 (6.05%) Oracle
4 10 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.18%) ESRI
6 6 (0.88%) SAP
7 5 (0.74%) Informatica
7 5 (0.74%) Talend
7 5 (0.74%) Zoho
8 4 (0.59%) Civica
8 4 (0.59%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.59%) Google
8 4 (0.59%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.59%) Sage
9 3 (0.44%) Citrix
9 3 (0.44%) Infor
9 3 (0.44%) VMware
10 2 (0.29%) Northgate
10 2 (0.29%) Orchard
10 2 (0.29%) Veeam