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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 793 678 986
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.05% 12.08% 9.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.71% 54.55% 41.92%
Number of salaries quoted 569 497 553
10th Percentile £31,200 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,319 £70,000
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 1,948 1,243 2,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.41% 22.14% 23.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 951 1,355
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £37,500 £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 £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 25 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 25 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 -12 420 £55,000 +10.00% 327
East Midlands -10 373 £45,250 +6.47% 199
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 26 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.77%) IIS
3 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.13%) Confluence
7 5 (0.63%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.50%) Apache
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.38%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) SAS
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 113 (14.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.64%) Infor M3
2 12 (1.51%) SAP Business One
3 8 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.88%) Lawson
5 6 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.63%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.50%) Magento
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.38%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.38%) Shopify
9 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.13%) Odoo
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 343 (43.25%) Azure
2 223 (28.12%) Power Platform
3 99 (12.48%) AWS
4 64 (8.07%) Azure AI
5 61 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (4.54%) SaaS
8 34 (4.29%) Entra ID
9 27 (3.40%) GCP
10 25 (3.15%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.77%) GitHub
12 19 (2.40%) PaaS
12 19 (2.40%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.27%) Serverless
14 16 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.77%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (1.77%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (1.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.80%) Firewall
2 32 (4.04%) DNS
3 24 (3.03%) DHCP
4 19 (2.40%) Internet
5 18 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.64%) VLAN
7 8 (1.01%) Network Security
7 8 (1.01%) SAN
7 8 (1.01%) VPN
8 7 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.63%) HTTP
9 5 (0.63%) SSL
10 4 (0.50%) MQTT
11 3 (0.38%) WAN
12 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
12 2 (0.25%) SMS
12 2 (0.25%) Wireless
13 1 (0.13%) BIG-IP
13 1 (0.13%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (27.49%) Power BI
2 94 (11.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 89 (11.22%) SQL Server
3 89 (11.22%) Tableau
4 61 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 55 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (5.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 34 (4.29%) Power Query
8 24 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (2.90%) Relational Database
10 21 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (2.52%) MySQL
12 17 (2.14%) Crystal Reports
13 16 (2.02%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.77%) Delta Lake
15 14 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (1.77%) QlikView
16 13 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.64%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 47 (5.93%) Git
2 21 (2.65%) JIRA
3 15 (1.89%) JUnit
3 15 (1.89%) Maven
4 14 (1.77%) GitLab
4 14 (1.77%) Mockito
5 12 (1.51%) Selenium
6 11 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.39%) Postman
7 10 (1.26%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.26%) JMeter
8 7 (0.88%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.63%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.63%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.63%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.50%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.50%) Gatling
11 4 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 209 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 162 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
2 162 (20.43%) Finance
3 83 (10.47%) Manufacturing
4 41 (5.17%) Retail
5 38 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.90%) Legal
7 21 (2.65%) Marketing
8 15 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.77%) Advertising
9 14 (1.77%) Law
10 11 (1.39%) Fire and Rescue
10 11 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.01%) Social Housing
12 7 (0.88%) Banking
13 6 (0.76%) Military
13 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 215 (27.11%) Developer
2 175 (22.07%) Analyst
3 119 (15.01%) Senior
4 104 (13.11%) Data Analyst
5 80 (10.09%) Lead
6 69 (8.70%) Data Engineer
7 67 (8.45%) .NET Developer
8 63 (7.94%) Junior
9 61 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
10 60 (7.57%) Junior Data Analyst
11 40 (5.04%) SQL Developer
12 34 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (4.29%) Support Analyst
13 33 (4.16%) Data Scientist
14 32 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
15 31 (3.91%) IT Support
15 31 (3.91%) Senior Developer
16 30 (3.78%) Administrator
17 29 (3.66%) Support Engineer
18 24 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (13.24%) .NET
2 72 (9.08%) .NET Core
3 64 (8.07%) ASP.NET
4 62 (7.82%) ASP.NET Core
5 56 (7.06%) React
6 45 (5.67%) CSS
7 43 (5.42%) HTML
7 43 (5.42%) REST
8 33 (4.16%) Node.js
9 32 (4.04%) Entity Framework
10 29 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
11 28 (3.53%) Terraform
12 26 (3.28%) LINQ
12 26 (3.28%) PySpark
12 26 (3.28%) RESTful
13 25 (3.15%) Blazor
14 21 (2.65%) PyTorch
14 21 (2.65%) XML
15 20 (2.52%) AngularJS
16 19 (2.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (3.28%) Clustering
4 24 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.51%) NHS
8 12 (1.51%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.26%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.26%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.01%) IoT
12 8 (1.01%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.88%) iSeries
13 7 (0.88%) Mashup
14 6 (0.76%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.45%) Windows
2 41 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 37 (4.67%) Linux
4 8 (1.01%) Solaris
5 4 (0.50%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.50%) VMS
6 3 (0.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (31.78%) Business Intelligence
2 218 (27.49%) Problem-Solving
3 173 (21.82%) Analytics
4 171 (21.56%) Agile
5 147 (18.54%) AI
6 126 (15.89%) ERP
7 116 (14.63%) Decision-Making
8 110 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 103 (12.99%) Mentoring
10 97 (12.23%) CI/CD
11 91 (11.48%) Data Modelling
11 91 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 80 (10.09%) DevOps
12 80 (10.09%) ETL
13 69 (8.70%) Data Analysis
14 67 (8.45%) Data Management
15 65 (8.20%) Roadmaps
16 63 (7.94%) Actionable Insight
17 61 (7.69%) Data Analytics
18 60 (7.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 232 (29.26%) Python
2 120 (15.13%) C#
3 95 (11.98%) JavaScript
4 50 (6.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (5.67%) Java
6 31 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 27 (3.40%) PL/SQL
8 24 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.27%) PHP
10 16 (2.02%) Bash
10 16 (2.02%) C++
11 15 (1.89%) VBA
12 14 (1.77%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.76%) RPG
14 4 (0.50%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.50%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.38%) R
15 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 84 (10.59%) Degree
2 61 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 27 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.01%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.76%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.76%) PMP
8 5 (0.63%) ISEB
8 5 (0.63%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) ACCA
11 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.13%) CIMA
11 1 (0.13%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.41%) GDPR
3 28 (3.53%) QA
4 11 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.13%) SLA
6 8 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 47 (5.93%) Docker
3 37 (4.67%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.88%) Grafana
4 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.25%) Ansible
6 2 (0.25%) Nessus
7 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 269 (33.92%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.43%) Oracle
3 43 (5.42%) Databricks
4 31 (3.91%) SAP
5 21 (2.65%) Google
6 18 (2.27%) Infor
7 13 (1.64%) SYSPRO
8 9 (1.13%) Facebook
8 9 (1.13%) Sage
8 9 (1.13%) VMware
9 8 (1.01%) Veeam
10 7 (0.88%) Epicor
10 7 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.76%) Cisco
11 6 (0.76%) IBM
11 6 (0.76%) SonicWALL
11 6 (0.76%) YouTube
12 5 (0.63%) Informatica
12 5 (0.63%) Pega
13 4 (0.50%) SolarWinds