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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 797 611 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.00% 12.52% 11.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.57% 50.66% 43.67%
Number of salaries quoted 478 421 1,138
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £28,850
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £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 1,749 1,206 3,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.16% 24.71% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,184 881 2,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -18 440 £55,000 +4.76% 98
East Midlands -4 355 £45,000 -5.26% 85
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 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.26%) Confluence
3 10 (1.25%) IIS
3 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.88%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.38%) SAS
5 3 (0.38%) WordPress
6 2 (0.25%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 265 (33.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Sage 200
1 5 (0.63%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.50%) Shopify
3 3 (0.38%) Magento
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 444 (55.71%) Azure
2 347 (43.54%) Power Platform
3 213 (26.73%) Azure AI
4 96 (12.05%) AWS
5 36 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.14%) Snowflake
7 32 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.14%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.14%) Serverless
10 23 (2.89%) SaaS
11 22 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.38%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.26%) Power Automate
14 17 (2.13%) GCP
14 17 (2.13%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (1.51%) PaaS
17 9 (1.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.39%) Firewall
2 15 (1.88%) DNS
3 13 (1.63%) Internet
4 11 (1.38%) DHCP
4 11 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.00%) Network Security
5 8 (1.00%) SAN
6 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.63%) FTP
8 4 (0.50%) MQTT
8 4 (0.50%) VLAN
8 4 (0.50%) VPN
9 3 (0.38%) LAN
9 3 (0.38%) WAN
10 2 (0.25%) Broadband
10 2 (0.25%) HTTP
10 2 (0.25%) SMS
11 1 (0.13%) DMZ
11 1 (0.13%) RTP
11 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (43.16%) Power BI
2 245 (30.74%) Tableau
3 64 (8.03%) SQL Server
4 59 (7.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.76%) Power Query
10 21 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (2.26%) MySQL
12 15 (1.88%) Data Mining
13 14 (1.76%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.63%) NoSQL
15 11 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
16 10 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (1.13%) Delta Lake
18 8 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
18 8 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (3.76%) JIRA
2 21 (2.63%) Git
3 13 (1.63%) JUnit
3 13 (1.63%) Maven
3 13 (1.63%) Mockito
4 6 (0.75%) Selenium
5 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.38%) Gatling
7 3 (0.38%) GitLab
7 3 (0.38%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) JMeter
7 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.38%) Postman
7 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 307 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 142 (17.82%) Finance
3 140 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (5.90%) Law
5 36 (4.52%) Retail
6 32 (4.02%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 15 (1.88%) Legal
10 12 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.25%) Marketing
12 9 (1.13%) Local Government
13 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.63%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.50%) Advertising
16 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.38%) Games
16 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 328 (41.15%) Analyst
2 264 (33.12%) Data Analyst
3 235 (29.49%) Junior
4 232 (29.11%) Junior Analyst
5 221 (27.73%) Junior Data Analyst
6 157 (19.70%) Developer
7 102 (12.80%) Senior
8 70 (8.78%) Data Engineer
9 46 (5.77%) Lead
10 36 (4.52%) Support Analyst
11 34 (4.27%) Software Developer
12 32 (4.02%) .NET Developer
13 30 (3.76%) Data Scientist
13 30 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
14 29 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (3.51%) IT Support
16 27 (3.39%) Support Engineer
17 25 (3.14%) IT Engineer
17 25 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
17 25 (3.14%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.90%) .NET
2 58 (7.28%) HTML
3 51 (6.40%) React
4 50 (6.27%) CSS
5 40 (5.02%) Node.js
6 37 (4.64%) .NET Core
7 32 (4.02%) ASP.NET
8 28 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
9 25 (3.14%) REST
10 18 (2.26%) RESTful
11 17 (2.13%) PySpark
12 15 (1.88%) Entity Framework
12 15 (1.88%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.38%) .NET Framework
13 11 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (1.38%) Blazor
13 11 (1.38%) jQuery
14 10 (1.25%) LINQ
14 10 (1.25%) Spring
14 10 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.76%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (2.38%) Clustering
3 14 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (1.63%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.38%) Mobile App
5 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 7 (0.88%) iSeries
7 7 (0.88%) NHS
7 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.75%) AS400
8 6 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 6 (0.75%) IoT
8 6 (0.75%) Replication
9 4 (0.50%) CMDB
9 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.38%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.52%) Windows
2 30 (3.76%) Linux
3 22 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) VMS
5 4 (0.50%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (44.04%) Business Intelligence
2 259 (32.50%) AI
3 152 (19.07%) Analytics
4 134 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (15.68%) Agile
6 86 (10.79%) Decision-Making
7 84 (10.54%) Data Modelling
8 71 (8.91%) Mentoring
9 70 (8.78%) ETL
10 68 (8.53%) CI/CD
10 68 (8.53%) Data Analysis
11 67 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
12 58 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (7.28%) DevOps
13 56 (7.03%) Computer Science
14 50 (6.27%) Data Engineering
14 50 (6.27%) ERP
15 49 (6.15%) Roadmaps
16 47 (5.90%) Data Analytics
16 47 (5.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 391 (49.06%) Python
2 75 (9.41%) C#
3 74 (9.28%) JavaScript
4 43 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.76%) PHP
6 29 (3.64%) T-SQL
7 27 (3.39%) Java
8 19 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.26%) Bash
10 17 (2.13%) R
11 16 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.38%) C++
12 11 (1.38%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.38%) VBA
13 6 (0.75%) RPG
14 4 (0.50%) C
14 4 (0.50%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.50%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.38%) Scala
15 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 216 (27.10%) Azure Certification
2 67 (8.41%) Degree
3 24 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.51%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.38%) CITP
9 3 (0.38%) MCSA
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.25%) CEH
10 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CCAB
11 1 (0.13%) CIMA
11 1 (0.13%) HND
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.63%) SLA
3 18 (2.26%) GDPR
3 18 (2.26%) QA
4 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.25%) NCSC
6 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 38 (4.77%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.64%) Docker
3 22 (2.76%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.51%) Terraform
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.38%) Grafana
5 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 358 (44.92%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.65%) Databricks
3 37 (4.64%) Oracle
4 17 (2.13%) Google
5 10 (1.25%) SAP
6 8 (1.00%) ESRI
6 8 (1.00%) IBM
6 8 (1.00%) SonicWALL
6 8 (1.00%) Veeam
7 6 (0.75%) Sage
7 6 (0.75%) VMware
8 5 (0.63%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.50%) Informatica
10 3 (0.38%) Citrix
10 3 (0.38%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.38%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.38%) Talend
10 3 (0.38%) Veracode