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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 809 634 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.24% 12.49% 11.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.34% 48.66% 44.23%
Number of salaries quoted 490 453 1,127
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,050 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,600 £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 1,709 1,303 3,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.18% 25.66% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 983 2,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,500
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 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
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 11 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 11 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 -18 460 £52,500 - 141
East Midlands -5 347 £45,000 -7.22% 109
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 31 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.22%) Confluence
3 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.11%) IIS
5 7 (0.87%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.87%) SAS
6 6 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Apache
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 284 (35.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.49%) Shopify
4 3 (0.37%) Magento
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 461 (56.98%) Azure
2 371 (45.86%) Power Platform
3 235 (29.05%) Azure AI
4 93 (11.50%) AWS
5 37 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 32 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.71%) Snowflake
9 28 (3.46%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.34%) Serverless
11 26 (3.21%) SaaS
12 25 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (2.47%) Power Automate
15 18 (2.22%) PowerApps
16 17 (2.10%) Entra ID
17 16 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (1.73%) GCP
19 12 (1.48%) PaaS
20 8 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.22%) Firewall
2 11 (1.36%) DNS
2 11 (1.36%) Internet
3 10 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (0.87%) DHCP
4 7 (0.87%) Network Security
4 7 (0.87%) SAN
5 4 (0.49%) FTP
5 4 (0.49%) MQTT
5 4 (0.49%) VPN
6 3 (0.37%) LAN
6 3 (0.37%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) Broadband
7 2 (0.25%) HTTP
7 2 (0.25%) Intranet
7 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.12%) DMZ
8 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (45.49%) Power BI
2 269 (33.25%) Tableau
3 72 (8.90%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (2.60%) MongoDB
10 20 (2.47%) Data Lake
11 19 (2.35%) Power Query
12 18 (2.22%) Data Mining
13 15 (1.85%) MySQL
14 12 (1.48%) NoSQL
15 11 (1.36%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
17 8 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
17 8 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.99%) GIS
17 8 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (3.71%) JIRA
2 22 (2.72%) Git
3 8 (0.99%) JUnit
3 8 (0.99%) Maven
3 8 (0.99%) Mockito
4 7 (0.87%) Selenium
5 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.49%) Postman
5 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.37%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.37%) Gatling
6 3 (0.37%) GitLab
6 3 (0.37%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.37%) JMeter
6 3 (0.37%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 327 (40.42%) Social Skills
2 133 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (15.70%) Finance
4 45 (5.56%) Law
5 32 (3.96%) Retail
6 30 (3.71%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.61%) Legal
10 12 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.48%) Marketing
11 9 (1.11%) Games
11 9 (1.11%) Local Government
12 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.62%) Banking
13 5 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Advertising
14 4 (0.49%) Social Housing
15 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 344 (42.52%) Analyst
2 282 (34.86%) Data Analyst
3 256 (31.64%) Junior
4 254 (31.40%) Junior Analyst
5 243 (30.04%) Junior Data Analyst
6 156 (19.28%) Developer
7 105 (12.98%) Senior
8 79 (9.77%) Data Engineer
9 38 (4.70%) Support Analyst
10 35 (4.33%) Lead
11 34 (4.20%) Software Developer
12 33 (4.08%) Senior Developer
13 32 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (3.58%) Support Engineer
15 27 (3.34%) .NET Developer
15 27 (3.34%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.21%) IT Support
16 26 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
17 25 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
18 24 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (8.03%) .NET
2 63 (7.79%) HTML
3 54 (6.67%) CSS
4 47 (5.81%) React
5 41 (5.07%) .NET Core
6 40 (4.94%) Node.js
7 31 (3.83%) ASP.NET
8 25 (3.09%) ASP.NET Core
9 21 (2.60%) REST
10 17 (2.10%) PySpark
11 13 (1.61%) .NET Framework
11 13 (1.61%) Entity Framework
12 11 (1.36%) jQuery
12 11 (1.36%) RESTful
13 9 (1.11%) JSON
13 9 (1.11%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.11%) Vue
14 8 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (0.99%) Blazor
14 8 (0.99%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (2.10%) Clustering
4 15 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.74%) 3D Graphics
10 6 (0.74%) NHS
11 5 (0.62%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.62%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.62%) IoT
11 5 (0.62%) iSeries
11 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.62%) Replication
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.49%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.44%) Windows
2 28 (3.46%) Linux
3 21 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.87%) VMS
5 3 (0.37%) Android
5 3 (0.37%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.37%) Solaris
5 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.37%) zOS
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (46.11%) Business Intelligence
2 274 (33.87%) AI
3 142 (17.55%) Analytics
4 120 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (14.59%) Agile
6 85 (10.51%) Data Modelling
7 80 (9.89%) ETL
8 77 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 67 (8.28%) Mentoring
10 66 (8.16%) CI/CD
11 63 (7.79%) DevOps
12 62 (7.66%) Data Analysis
12 62 (7.66%) Full-Stack Development
13 59 (7.29%) Data Engineering
14 56 (6.92%) Computer Science
15 52 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (5.93%) Data Pipeline
16 48 (5.93%) Validation
17 47 (5.81%) ERP
18 45 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 407 (50.31%) Python
2 79 (9.77%) C#
3 72 (8.90%) JavaScript
4 38 (4.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 35 (4.33%) T-SQL
6 31 (3.83%) PHP
7 19 (2.35%) Java
7 19 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.22%) Bash
9 17 (2.10%) R
10 10 (1.24%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.99%) C++
12 7 (0.87%) VBA
13 4 (0.49%) C
13 4 (0.49%) Scala
14 3 (0.37%) COBOL
14 3 (0.37%) JCL
14 3 (0.37%) RPG
14 3 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 239 (29.54%) Azure Certification
2 68 (8.41%) Degree
3 25 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.10%) Security Cleared
5 16 (1.98%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.48%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.37%) CITP
8 3 (0.37%) MCSA
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.25%) CEH
9 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.12%) CCAB
10 1 (0.12%) CIMA
10 1 (0.12%) HND
10 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.35%) GDPR
2 19 (2.35%) SLA
3 18 (2.22%) QA
4 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) WCAG
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 35 (4.33%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.97%) Docker
3 17 (2.10%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 21 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.47%) Terraform
3 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.37%) Grafana
4 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) MOM
Vendors
1 382 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.78%) Databricks
3 37 (4.57%) Oracle
4 17 (2.10%) Google
5 9 (1.11%) SAP
6 8 (0.99%) ESRI
6 8 (0.99%) IBM
7 7 (0.87%) Informatica
7 7 (0.87%) SonicWALL
7 7 (0.87%) Talend
7 7 (0.87%) Veeam
8 6 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 6 (0.74%) VMware
9 5 (0.62%) Sage
9 5 (0.62%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.49%) Adobe
10 4 (0.49%) Civica
10 4 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.37%) Citrix
11 3 (0.37%) Veracode