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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 631 902 882
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 10.82% 10.14% 17.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.16% 42.47% 48.25%
Number of salaries quoted 520 473 740
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,063 £60,186 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,144 2,124 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.61% 23.87% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,155 1,498
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -1 336 £47,500 -5.00% 313
East Midlands +8 291 £40,000 -5.88% 191
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 17 (2.69%) IIS
2 12 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.58%) Apache
3 10 (1.58%) Confluence
3 10 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.27%) nginx
5 5 (0.79%) SAS
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
Applications
1 81 (12.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.90%) Sprinklr
3 6 (0.95%) SAP Business One
4 5 (0.79%) Exchequer
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.48%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.48%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
8 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (31.54%) Azure
2 155 (24.56%) Power Platform
3 109 (17.27%) SaaS
4 66 (10.46%) AWS
5 32 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (3.80%) Snowflake
9 23 (3.65%) GCP
10 18 (2.85%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (2.85%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.54%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.22%) Amazon ELB
12 14 (2.22%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (1.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.34%) Remote Desktop
2 18 (2.85%) DNS
3 17 (2.69%) Firewall
4 12 (1.90%) HTTP
5 11 (1.74%) LAN
5 11 (1.74%) WAN
6 10 (1.58%) VPN
7 9 (1.43%) DHCP
8 8 (1.27%) FTP
8 8 (1.27%) IMAP
8 8 (1.27%) OpenLDAP
8 8 (1.27%) SMTP
8 8 (1.27%) SSH
9 6 (0.95%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.63%) SAN
10 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.48%) NAS
12 1 (0.16%) ADSL2
12 1 (0.16%) RFID
12 1 (0.16%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (22.82%) Power BI
2 113 (17.91%) SQL Server
3 54 (8.56%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (7.77%) Tableau
5 30 (4.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 29 (4.60%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 25 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (3.80%) MySQL
9 22 (3.49%) Relational Database
10 21 (3.33%) NoSQL
11 20 (3.17%) BigQuery
12 16 (2.54%) Data Mining
13 14 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (2.22%) Power Query
14 12 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.90%) Crystal Reports
14 12 (1.90%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.74%) Metadata
16 10 (1.58%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 25 (3.96%) JIRA
2 22 (3.49%) Git
3 9 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.27%) Vagrant
5 7 (1.11%) GitLab
5 7 (1.11%) MLflow
6 6 (0.95%) Maven
7 5 (0.79%) JUnit
7 5 (0.79%) Mockito
8 4 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.63%) Postman
9 3 (0.48%) git-flow
10 2 (0.32%) Moq
10 2 (0.32%) MSTest
10 2 (0.32%) NSubstitute
10 2 (0.32%) NUnit
10 2 (0.32%) RStudio
10 2 (0.32%) Selenium
10 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 198 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 148 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (16.64%) Finance
4 102 (16.16%) Retail
5 80 (12.68%) Law
6 65 (10.30%) Marketing
7 40 (6.34%) Public Sector
8 36 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (5.55%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.74%) Legal
12 10 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.95%) Banking
13 6 (0.95%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.79%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.79%) Local Government
15 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.48%) Advertising
16 3 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 179 (28.37%) Analyst
2 129 (20.44%) Developer
3 86 (13.63%) 2nd Line Support
4 84 (13.31%) Senior
5 79 (12.52%) Support Analyst
6 68 (10.78%) Data Engineer
7 57 (9.03%) Data Analyst
8 52 (8.24%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 36 (5.71%) Applications Support
10 31 (4.91%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 31 (4.91%) Senior Data Engineer
11 30 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (4.75%) Support Engineer
12 26 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
13 25 (3.96%) Lead
14 23 (3.65%) Consultant
14 23 (3.65%) Senior Developer
15 20 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 20 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (3.01%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.25%) .NET
2 58 (9.19%) HTML
3 41 (6.50%) REST
4 32 (5.07%) CSS
5 29 (4.60%) React
6 22 (3.49%) AngularJS
7 18 (2.85%) .NET Framework
8 17 (2.69%) JSON
8 17 (2.69%) PySpark
9 16 (2.54%) ASP.NET
10 13 (2.06%) Entity Framework
10 13 (2.06%) Razor View Engine
10 13 (2.06%) SOAP
10 13 (2.06%) Spring
11 11 (1.74%) XML
12 10 (1.58%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (1.58%) Blazor
12 10 (1.58%) LAMP
12 10 (1.58%) YAML
13 9 (1.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.09%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (3.65%) Data Structures
4 18 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.22%) Operational Technology
7 13 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.58%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.58%) Pricing Data
8 10 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.43%) iSeries
9 9 (1.43%) Replication
10 8 (1.27%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.95%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.95%) FMCG
13 5 (0.79%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.55%) Windows
2 34 (5.39%) Linux
3 19 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.27%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.27%) Unix
4 8 (1.27%) VMS
5 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
3 127 (20.13%) CRM
4 117 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 114 (18.07%) Mentoring
6 112 (17.75%) Agile
7 111 (17.59%) Analytics
8 98 (15.53%) ERP
9 91 (14.42%) Customer Service
10 79 (12.52%) Decision-Making
11 78 (12.36%) DevOps
12 73 (11.57%) Data Analysis
13 72 (11.41%) Visualisation
14 71 (11.25%) AI
15 69 (10.94%) ETL
16 68 (10.78%) Data Modelling
17 67 (10.62%) CI/CD
18 62 (9.83%) Root Cause Analysis
19 61 (9.67%) Data Privacy
20 59 (9.35%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 170 (26.94%) Python
2 142 (22.50%) C#
3 96 (15.21%) JavaScript
4 48 (7.61%) Java
5 45 (7.13%) T-SQL
6 38 (6.02%) PHP
7 36 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 36 (5.71%) R
8 30 (4.75%) TypeScript
9 22 (3.49%) C
9 22 (3.49%) C++
10 21 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (3.33%) Ruby
11 19 (3.01%) Dart
11 19 (3.01%) MATLAB
11 19 (3.01%) Rust
12 17 (2.69%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.27%) Groovy
14 6 (0.95%) Bicep
15 4 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 93 (14.74%) Degree
2 65 (10.30%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 40 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.85%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (1.43%) A+ Certification
10 8 (1.27%) MCP
10 8 (1.27%) MCSA
10 8 (1.27%) MCSE
11 6 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.79%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.48%) HND
13 3 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.61%) QA
2 46 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 38 (6.02%) SLA
4 21 (3.33%) GDPR
5 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) COBIT
8 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (4.44%) Active Directory
1 28 (4.44%) Docker
2 9 (1.43%) Postfix
3 8 (1.27%) DFS Replication
3 8 (1.27%) Dovecot
3 8 (1.27%) Squid
3 8 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.95%) Firmware
5 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.48%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) HDFS
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (4.44%) Terraform
2 22 (3.49%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.58%) Grafana
4 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.27%) Nessus
5 8 (1.27%) Proxmox
6 6 (0.95%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.16%) Ansible
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) logstash
8 1 (0.16%) Oozie
8 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 133 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.41%) Databricks
3 41 (6.50%) Oracle
4 36 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.54%) SAP
6 13 (2.06%) Adobe
7 12 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.27%) Cisco
9 8 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 8 (1.27%) VMware
9 8 (1.27%) Zoho
10 7 (1.11%) Civica
10 7 (1.11%) Google
11 6 (0.95%) IFS
11 6 (0.95%) NEC
12 5 (0.79%) Capita
13 4 (0.63%) Cognos
13 4 (0.63%) Infor
13 4 (0.63%) Informatica