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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 851 687 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.42% 12.24% 10.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.46% 51.62% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 548 499 1,048
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,438
90th Percentile £72,325 £76,500 £68,750
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 1,872 1,331 3,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.12% 23.71% 24.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,012 2,509
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £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 £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 15 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 15 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 -8 444 £55,000 +4.76% 155
East Midlands -6 407 £45,000 - 178
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 33 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.23%) IIS
3 18 (2.12%) Confluence
3 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.82%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.59%) Apache
7 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.35%) SAS
7 3 (0.35%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 235 (27.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.47%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.35%) Magento
3 3 (0.35%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.12%) Lawson
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
1 455 (53.47%) Azure
2 339 (39.84%) Power Platform
3 186 (21.86%) Azure AI
4 98 (11.52%) AWS
5 57 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.76%) Snowflake
8 30 (3.53%) Entra ID
9 25 (2.94%) SaaS
10 22 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (2.35%) GCP
11 20 (2.35%) PaaS
11 20 (2.35%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.12%) GitHub
12 18 (2.12%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.88%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.76%) Serverless
15 13 (1.53%) Azure App Service
15 13 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.41%) Firewall
2 32 (3.76%) DNS
3 26 (3.06%) DHCP
4 21 (2.47%) Internet
5 18 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.53%) VLAN
7 11 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.18%) SAN
9 8 (0.94%) Network Security
10 6 (0.71%) VPN
11 4 (0.47%) FTP
11 4 (0.47%) HTTP
11 4 (0.47%) MQTT
12 3 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
12 3 (0.35%) LAN
12 3 (0.35%) SSL
12 3 (0.35%) WAN
13 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.24%) SMS
13 2 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (39.01%) Power BI
2 213 (25.03%) Tableau
3 96 (11.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 70 (8.23%) SQL Server
5 61 (7.17%) MongoDB
6 38 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (2.82%) Power Query
10 22 (2.59%) MySQL
11 19 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.88%) Relational Database
14 13 (1.53%) Crystal Reports
14 13 (1.53%) NoSQL
15 8 (0.94%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.94%) GIS
16 7 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (3.88%) JIRA
2 23 (2.70%) Git
3 9 (1.06%) JUnit
3 9 (1.06%) Maven
3 9 (1.06%) Mockito
4 8 (0.94%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.82%) Selenium
6 5 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.47%) GitLab
7 4 (0.47%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.47%) JMeter
7 4 (0.47%) Postman
7 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.35%) Gatling
8 3 (0.35%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 295 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.16%) Finance
3 135 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (5.52%) Manufacturing
4 47 (5.52%) Retail
5 36 (4.23%) Law
6 30 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 19 (2.23%) Marketing
9 18 (2.12%) Legal
10 16 (1.88%) Advertising
11 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Local Government
13 7 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.71%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.47%) Banking
16 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.35%) Billing
17 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 299 (35.14%) Analyst
2 234 (27.50%) Data Analyst
3 193 (22.68%) Junior
4 192 (22.56%) Developer
5 189 (22.21%) Junior Analyst
6 188 (22.09%) Junior Data Analyst
7 103 (12.10%) Senior
8 68 (7.99%) .NET Developer
9 63 (7.40%) Data Engineer
10 59 (6.93%) Lead
11 42 (4.94%) Data Scientist
12 38 (4.47%) IT Support
13 37 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
13 37 (4.35%) Support Engineer
14 36 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
15 34 (4.00%) Administrator
16 32 (3.76%) Support Analyst
17 28 (3.29%) IT Engineer
18 27 (3.17%) SQL Developer
19 26 (3.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (11.87%) .NET
2 72 (8.46%) .NET Core
3 68 (7.99%) ASP.NET
4 66 (7.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 59 (6.93%) HTML
6 57 (6.70%) CSS
7 52 (6.11%) React
8 42 (4.94%) Node.js
9 30 (3.53%) Entity Framework
10 29 (3.41%) ASP.NET Web API
11 28 (3.29%) REST
12 27 (3.17%) Blazor
13 26 (3.06%) LINQ
14 25 (2.94%) RESTful
15 24 (2.82%) PyTorch
16 18 (2.12%) AngularJS
16 18 (2.12%) TensorFlow
16 18 (2.12%) Vue
17 17 (2.00%) PySpark
18 15 (1.76%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.11%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.53%) Clustering
3 23 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (1.88%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.76%) Mobile App
7 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.29%) NHS
10 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.82%) iSeries
14 6 (0.71%) AS400
14 6 (0.71%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.71%) IoT
14 6 (0.71%) PKI
14 6 (0.71%) Replication
15 4 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.40%) Windows
2 40 (4.70%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.17%) 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 (0.24%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (40.42%) Business Intelligence
2 240 (28.20%) AI
3 175 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
4 167 (19.62%) Analytics
5 153 (17.98%) Agile
6 104 (12.22%) Decision-Making
7 88 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 86 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 85 (9.99%) Data Modelling
10 81 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 79 (9.28%) Data Analysis
12 73 (8.58%) ETL
13 71 (8.34%) DevOps
13 71 (8.34%) ERP
14 69 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (7.40%) Data Analytics
16 60 (7.05%) Roadmaps
17 59 (6.93%) Actionable Insight
18 57 (6.70%) Computer Science
19 56 (6.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 352 (41.36%) Python
2 118 (13.87%) C#
3 75 (8.81%) JavaScript
4 44 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.53%) PHP
6 25 (2.94%) Java
6 25 (2.94%) T-SQL
7 19 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.23%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.12%) C++
9 16 (1.88%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.76%) VBA
11 13 (1.53%) Bash
11 13 (1.53%) R
12 6 (0.71%) RPG
13 4 (0.47%) RPG IV
13 4 (0.47%) RPG/400
14 3 (0.35%) Rust
14 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 182 (21.39%) Azure Certification
2 84 (9.87%) Degree
3 22 (2.59%) Security Cleared
4 16 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.35%) CITP
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%) ISEB
9 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.82%) GDPR
2 24 (2.82%) SLA
3 16 (1.88%) QA
4 9 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.12%) NCSC
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 43 (5.05%) Hyper-V
3 35 (4.11%) Docker
4 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 31 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.82%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.35%) Grafana
5 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 377 (44.30%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.29%) Databricks
3 28 (3.29%) Oracle
4 20 (2.35%) Google
5 15 (1.76%) SAP
6 10 (1.18%) Facebook
6 10 (1.18%) Veeam
7 9 (1.06%) SYSPRO
8 8 (0.94%) ESRI
8 8 (0.94%) IBM
8 8 (0.94%) SonicWALL
9 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.71%) Epicor
10 6 (0.71%) Informatica
10 6 (0.71%) VMware
11 5 (0.59%) Infor
11 5 (0.59%) Sage
11 5 (0.59%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.59%) YouTube
12 4 (0.47%) OpenAI