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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 646 810 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.23% 11.89% 16.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.13% 46.05% 47.81%
Number of salaries quoted 511 455 699
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £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 1,151 1,759 1,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.66% 25.82% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 942 975 1,422
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -15 367 £48,750 -2.50% 342
East Midlands +3 274 £41,750 -12.11% 257
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 19 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.48%) IIS
3 8 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.08%) Apache
4 7 (1.08%) SAS
5 6 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.77%) Confluence
7 4 (0.62%) nginx
8 3 (0.46%) CMS
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.15%) Appian
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 131 (20.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.31%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.15%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Pegasus Opera
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 234 (36.22%) Azure
2 186 (28.79%) Power Platform
3 107 (16.56%) SaaS
4 60 (9.29%) AWS
4 60 (9.29%) Azure AI
5 37 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (3.10%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.79%) Snowflake
9 17 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (2.48%) Power Automate
11 15 (2.32%) GCP
12 14 (2.17%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.70%) Serverless
14 10 (1.55%) Amazon ELB
15 8 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.19%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (2.17%) DNS
3 11 (1.70%) Firewall
4 9 (1.39%) DHCP
5 6 (0.93%) HTTP
5 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.93%) VPN
6 5 (0.77%) FTP
7 4 (0.62%) IMAP
7 4 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.62%) SMTP
7 4 (0.62%) SSH
8 3 (0.46%) NAS
8 3 (0.46%) SAN
9 2 (0.31%) Intranet
9 2 (0.31%) LAN
9 2 (0.31%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) RFID
10 1 (0.15%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (27.55%) Power BI
2 105 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 105 (16.25%) Tableau
3 57 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.73%) Data Lake
5 31 (4.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (4.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 26 (4.02%) Data Mining
9 20 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 19 (2.94%) MySQL
11 16 (2.48%) Delta Lake
12 14 (2.17%) Power Query
13 13 (2.01%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.86%) NoSQL
15 11 (1.70%) Metadata
16 10 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
17 9 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.39%) Crystal Reports
17 9 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (3.25%) Git
2 18 (2.79%) JIRA
3 7 (1.08%) MLflow
4 5 (0.77%) GitLab
4 5 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.77%) JUnit
4 5 (0.77%) Maven
4 5 (0.77%) Mockito
5 4 (0.62%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.62%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.46%) git-flow
6 3 (0.46%) Postman
6 3 (0.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) Moq
7 2 (0.31%) MSTest
7 2 (0.31%) NSubstitute
7 2 (0.31%) NUnit
7 2 (0.31%) TestRail
8 1 (0.15%) Gatling
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 234 (36.22%) Social Skills
2 149 (23.07%) Analytical Skills
3 106 (16.41%) Finance
4 77 (11.92%) Retail
5 63 (9.75%) Law
6 56 (8.67%) Marketing
7 30 (4.64%) Manufacturing
8 28 (4.33%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.70%) Legal
13 10 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.39%) Banking
14 9 (1.39%) Games
15 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.62%) Automotive
16 4 (0.62%) Local Government
16 4 (0.62%) Social Housing
17 3 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 219 (33.90%) Analyst
2 121 (18.73%) Developer
3 106 (16.41%) Data Analyst
4 97 (15.02%) Senior
5 83 (12.85%) Data Engineer
6 75 (11.61%) 2nd Line Support
7 74 (11.46%) Junior
7 74 (11.46%) Support Analyst
8 66 (10.22%) Junior Analyst
9 55 (8.51%) Junior Data Analyst
10 41 (6.35%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 41 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 38 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
13 31 (4.80%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 28 (4.33%) Applications Support
15 24 (3.72%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.41%) Support Engineer
17 21 (3.25%) Lead
18 20 (3.10%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.44%) .NET
2 37 (5.73%) REST
3 35 (5.42%) HTML
4 29 (4.49%) React
5 26 (4.02%) CSS
6 20 (3.10%) .NET Core
7 19 (2.94%) PySpark
8 18 (2.79%) AngularJS
8 18 (2.79%) JSON
9 13 (2.01%) Node.js
9 13 (2.01%) Razor View Engine
10 12 (1.86%) ASP.NET
11 11 (1.70%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.55%) LAMP
12 10 (1.55%) XML
13 9 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (1.39%) SOAP
13 9 (1.39%) YAML
14 8 (1.24%) Entity Framework
14 8 (1.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.22%) Onboarding
2 20 (3.10%) Data Structures
3 19 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.70%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.55%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.55%) Operational Technology
8 9 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.08%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.93%) 3D Graphics
11 6 (0.93%) FMCG
11 6 (0.93%) iSeries
11 6 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.93%) Pricing Data
11 6 (0.93%) Replication
12 5 (0.77%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.42%) Windows
2 30 (4.64%) Linux
3 15 (2.32%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.08%) VMS
5 6 (0.93%) Unix
6 4 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (29.26%) Business Intelligence
1 189 (29.26%) Problem-Solving
2 121 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 108 (16.72%) Analytics
4 103 (15.94%) CRM
5 98 (15.17%) Agile
5 98 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 97 (15.02%) AI
7 96 (14.86%) ERP
8 75 (11.61%) ETL
9 70 (10.84%) CI/CD
10 66 (10.22%) Data Modelling
11 65 (10.06%) Customer Service
11 65 (10.06%) Data Engineering
12 64 (9.91%) Decision-Making
13 63 (9.75%) Logistics
14 62 (9.60%) DevOps
15 58 (8.98%) Root Cause Analysis
16 57 (8.82%) Data Analysis
17 54 (8.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 215 (33.28%) Python
2 114 (17.65%) C#
3 66 (10.22%) JavaScript
4 47 (7.28%) T-SQL
5 32 (4.95%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (3.56%) PHP
8 21 (3.25%) Java
9 14 (2.17%) PL/SQL
9 14 (2.17%) R
10 13 (2.01%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.08%) Bash
12 5 (0.77%) Bicep
13 4 (0.62%) C
13 4 (0.62%) Groovy
13 4 (0.62%) Scala
14 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.31%) C++
15 2 (0.31%) Perl
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (10.22%) Azure Certification
2 61 (9.44%) Degree
3 47 (7.28%) Security Cleared
4 45 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.31%) MCSA
12 2 (0.31%) MCSE
12 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.31%) PMP
12 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.97%) QA
3 30 (4.64%) SLA
4 20 (3.10%) GDPR
5 9 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.15%) COBIT
8 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (3.72%) Docker
2 21 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.93%) Firmware
4 4 (0.62%) DFS Replication
4 4 (0.62%) Dovecot
4 4 (0.62%) Postfix
4 4 (0.62%) Squid
5 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (3.25%) Terraform
2 20 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.93%) Kubeflow
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.77%) Grafana
5 4 (0.62%) Nessus
5 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.62%) Proxmox
5 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.31%) Ansible
7 1 (0.15%) MOM
7 1 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 198 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 78 (12.07%) Databricks
3 48 (7.43%) Oracle
4 25 (3.87%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.24%) Cisco
6 8 (1.24%) HubSpot
6 8 (1.24%) SAP
6 8 (1.24%) Zoho
7 6 (0.93%) Civica
8 5 (0.77%) Informatica
8 5 (0.77%) VMware
9 4 (0.62%) Adobe
9 4 (0.62%) Google
9 4 (0.62%) IFS
9 4 (0.62%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.62%) Talend
9 4 (0.62%) UiPath
10 3 (0.46%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.46%) Ubiquiti