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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 787 637 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.98% 12.45% 11.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.92% 49.80% 44.16%
Number of salaries quoted 471 442 1,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,188 £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 £75,000 £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 1,714 1,279 3,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.03% 25.00% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 945 2,598
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,894
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 £62,500 £63,491
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £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 21 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 21 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 -19 441 £53,750 +2.38% 189
East Midlands -5 344 £45,000 -7.22% 153
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 30 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.29%) Confluence
3 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.14%) IIS
5 7 (0.89%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 3 (0.38%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) Apache
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 274 (34.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.64%) Sage 200
1 5 (0.64%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.51%) Shopify
3 3 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 448 (56.93%) Azure
2 358 (45.49%) Power Platform
3 224 (28.46%) Azure AI
4 92 (11.69%) AWS
5 34 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (4.07%) Snowflake
8 30 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.18%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.18%) Serverless
10 24 (3.05%) SaaS
11 23 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.29%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (2.16%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.03%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (1.78%) GCP
16 13 (1.65%) PaaS
17 8 (1.02%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.92%) Firewall
2 13 (1.65%) DNS
3 12 (1.52%) Internet
4 11 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.14%) DHCP
6 8 (1.02%) Network Security
6 8 (1.02%) SAN
7 4 (0.51%) FTP
7 4 (0.51%) MQTT
7 4 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.51%) VPN
8 3 (0.38%) LAN
8 3 (0.38%) WAN
9 2 (0.25%) Broadband
9 2 (0.25%) HTTP
9 2 (0.25%) SMS
9 2 (0.25%) VLAN
10 1 (0.13%) DMZ
10 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (45.11%) Power BI
2 257 (32.66%) Tableau
3 64 (8.13%) SQL Server
4 55 (6.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (3.05%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (2.67%) Power Query
10 17 (2.16%) MySQL
11 16 (2.03%) Data Mining
12 14 (1.78%) Data Lake
13 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (1.14%) Delta Lake
16 8 (1.02%) Crystal Reports
16 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (1.02%) GIS
Development Applications
1 29 (3.68%) JIRA
2 19 (2.41%) Git
3 12 (1.52%) JUnit
3 12 (1.52%) Maven
3 12 (1.52%) Mockito
4 7 (0.89%) Selenium
5 4 (0.51%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.38%) Gatling
6 3 (0.38%) GitLab
6 3 (0.38%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.38%) JMeter
6 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.38%) Postman
6 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 311 (39.52%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (16.14%) Finance
4 46 (5.84%) Law
5 34 (4.32%) Retail
6 30 (3.81%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.54%) Public Sector
9 14 (1.78%) Legal
10 12 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.27%) Marketing
12 9 (1.14%) Local Government
13 7 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.64%) Games
14 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.64%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.51%) Advertising
16 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.25%) Back Office
17 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 334 (42.44%) Analyst
2 272 (34.56%) Data Analyst
3 245 (31.13%) Junior
4 243 (30.88%) Junior Analyst
5 232 (29.48%) Junior Data Analyst
6 147 (18.68%) Developer
7 100 (12.71%) Senior
8 71 (9.02%) Data Engineer
9 39 (4.96%) Lead
10 36 (4.57%) Support Analyst
11 33 (4.19%) Software Developer
12 31 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
13 28 (3.56%) Support Engineer
14 27 (3.43%) IT Support
14 27 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (3.30%) .NET Developer
15 26 (3.30%) IT Engineer
15 26 (3.30%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (3.05%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.12%) HTML
2 55 (6.99%) .NET
3 48 (6.10%) CSS
3 48 (6.10%) React
4 40 (5.08%) Node.js
5 33 (4.19%) .NET Core
6 27 (3.43%) ASP.NET
7 23 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 22 (2.80%) REST
9 18 (2.29%) PySpark
10 16 (2.03%) RESTful
11 12 (1.52%) Entity Framework
12 11 (1.40%) jQuery
13 10 (1.27%) .NET Framework
13 10 (1.27%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.14%) Spring
14 9 (1.14%) Vue
15 8 (1.02%) JSON
15 8 (1.02%) LINQ
15 8 (1.02%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.56%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.41%) Clustering
3 18 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.27%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.76%) iSeries
9 6 (0.76%) NHS
9 6 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.64%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.64%) IoT
10 5 (0.64%) Replication
11 4 (0.51%) AS400
11 4 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.51%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.72%) Windows
2 29 (3.68%) Linux
3 22 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) VMS
5 3 (0.38%) Android
5 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.38%) Solaris
5 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.25%) zOS
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (45.74%) Business Intelligence
2 265 (33.67%) AI
3 143 (18.17%) Analytics
4 121 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (14.61%) Agile
6 81 (10.29%) Data Modelling
7 79 (10.04%) Decision-Making
8 67 (8.51%) CI/CD
8 67 (8.51%) ETL
9 65 (8.26%) Mentoring
10 62 (7.88%) Data Analysis
10 62 (7.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 58 (7.37%) DevOps
12 56 (7.12%) Computer Science
13 52 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (5.97%) Data Engineering
15 46 (5.84%) ERP
15 46 (5.84%) Validation
16 45 (5.72%) Visualisation
17 44 (5.59%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 392 (49.81%) Python
2 71 (9.02%) JavaScript
3 68 (8.64%) C#
4 41 (5.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 31 (3.94%) PHP
6 29 (3.68%) T-SQL
7 26 (3.30%) Java
8 19 (2.41%) Bash
9 18 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.16%) R
11 14 (1.78%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.27%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.14%) C++
13 9 (1.14%) VBA
14 4 (0.51%) C
14 4 (0.51%) RPG
15 3 (0.38%) RPG IV
15 3 (0.38%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.38%) Rust
15 3 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 228 (28.97%) Azure Certification
2 68 (8.64%) Degree
3 25 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.41%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.38%) CITP
9 3 (0.38%) MCSA
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.25%) CEH
10 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CCAB
11 1 (0.13%) CIMA
11 1 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.41%) SLA
3 18 (2.29%) GDPR
4 17 (2.16%) QA
5 13 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 36 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.43%) Docker
3 20 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 24 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.41%) Terraform
3 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.38%) Grafana
5 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 364 (46.25%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.13%) Databricks
3 37 (4.70%) Oracle
4 17 (2.16%) Google
5 9 (1.14%) SAP
6 8 (1.02%) ESRI
6 8 (1.02%) IBM
6 8 (1.02%) SonicWALL
6 8 (1.02%) Veeam
7 5 (0.64%) Informatica
7 5 (0.64%) Sage
7 5 (0.64%) SolarWinds
7 5 (0.64%) VMware
8 4 (0.51%) Adobe
8 4 (0.51%) Civica
8 4 (0.51%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.51%) Talend
9 3 (0.38%) Citrix
9 3 (0.38%) Veracode