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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 815 645 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.51% 12.78% 10.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.35% 50.00% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 509 452 1,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,125 £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 1,797 1,290 3,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.35% 25.56% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 955 2,811
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -8 439 £55,000 +4.76% 100
East Midlands -2 374 £45,000 -1.10% 89
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 34 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.21%) Confluence
3 14 (1.72%) IIS
4 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.86%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.49%) Apache
8 3 (0.37%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 231 (28.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.49%) Shopify
3 3 (0.37%) Magento
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.37%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 436 (53.50%) Azure
2 324 (39.75%) Power Platform
3 183 (22.45%) Azure AI
4 103 (12.64%) AWS
5 48 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.93%) Snowflake
8 25 (3.07%) Amazon S3
8 25 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.07%) Serverless
9 24 (2.94%) Entra ID
10 23 (2.82%) SaaS
11 22 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.58%) Power Automate
13 20 (2.45%) PowerApps
14 19 (2.33%) PaaS
15 18 (2.21%) GCP
16 14 (1.72%) GitHub
17 13 (1.60%) Azure App Service
18 10 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.29%) Firewall
2 19 (2.33%) DNS
2 19 (2.33%) Internet
3 15 (1.84%) DHCP
4 13 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.98%) Network Security
6 8 (0.98%) SAN
6 8 (0.98%) VLAN
7 4 (0.49%) FTP
7 4 (0.49%) MQTT
7 4 (0.49%) VPN
8 3 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
8 3 (0.37%) LAN
8 3 (0.37%) WAN
9 2 (0.25%) Broadband
9 2 (0.25%) HTTP
9 2 (0.25%) SMS
10 1 (0.12%) SSL
10 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (38.90%) Power BI
2 206 (25.28%) Tableau
3 81 (9.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (8.47%) SQL Server
5 45 (5.52%) MongoDB
6 34 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (2.58%) Power Query
10 20 (2.45%) MySQL
11 19 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.72%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.60%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.10%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.98%) GIS
15 8 (0.98%) Star Schema
16 7 (0.86%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 33 (4.05%) JIRA
2 20 (2.45%) Git
3 13 (1.60%) JUnit
3 13 (1.60%) Maven
3 13 (1.60%) Mockito
4 7 (0.86%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.74%) Selenium
6 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.37%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.37%) Gatling
7 3 (0.37%) GitLab
7 3 (0.37%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.37%) JMeter
7 3 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.37%) Postman
7 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 283 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.91%) Finance
3 143 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (5.03%) Law
5 40 (4.91%) Retail
6 33 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.58%) Public Sector
9 20 (2.45%) Legal
10 13 (1.60%) Marketing
11 10 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.10%) Local Government
13 8 (0.98%) Advertising
14 7 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.61%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.49%) Banking
17 4 (0.49%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 299 (36.69%) Analyst
2 236 (28.96%) Data Analyst
3 196 (24.05%) Junior
4 193 (23.68%) Junior Analyst
5 188 (23.07%) Developer
5 188 (23.07%) Junior Data Analyst
6 105 (12.88%) Senior
7 67 (8.22%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.61%) Lead
9 52 (6.38%) .NET Developer
10 39 (4.79%) Data Scientist
11 34 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
11 34 (4.17%) Software Developer
12 33 (4.05%) IT Support
13 32 (3.93%) Support Engineer
14 30 (3.68%) Support Analyst
15 28 (3.44%) IT Engineer
16 25 (3.07%) Lead Developer
16 25 (3.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (10.31%) .NET
2 61 (7.48%) HTML
3 58 (7.12%) .NET Core
4 56 (6.87%) React
5 55 (6.75%) CSS
6 52 (6.38%) ASP.NET
7 49 (6.01%) ASP.NET Core
8 46 (5.64%) Node.js
9 26 (3.19%) REST
10 23 (2.82%) Entity Framework
10 23 (2.82%) PyTorch
11 22 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
11 22 (2.70%) RESTful
12 20 (2.45%) Blazor
13 18 (2.21%) LINQ
14 17 (2.09%) TensorFlow
15 16 (1.96%) PySpark
16 15 (1.84%) AngularJS
16 15 (1.84%) Hugging Face
16 15 (1.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 21 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (2.45%) Clustering
4 18 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.98%) Data Structures
10 8 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (0.98%) NHS
10 8 (0.98%) Replication
11 7 (0.86%) iSeries
12 6 (0.74%) AS400
12 6 (0.74%) IoT
13 5 (0.61%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.61%) PKI
14 4 (0.49%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.89%) Windows
2 30 (3.68%) Linux
3 28 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.74%) Solaris
5 4 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (39.75%) Business Intelligence
2 238 (29.20%) AI
3 164 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (19.39%) Analytics
5 142 (17.42%) Agile
6 101 (12.39%) Decision-Making
7 91 (11.17%) Mentoring
8 85 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 81 (9.94%) Data Modelling
10 75 (9.20%) Data Analysis
11 69 (8.47%) CI/CD
11 69 (8.47%) ETL
12 64 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (7.61%) Computer Science
13 62 (7.61%) DevOps
14 61 (7.48%) Roadmaps
15 56 (6.87%) Actionable Insight
16 55 (6.75%) Data Analytics
17 53 (6.50%) ERP
18 52 (6.38%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 364 (44.66%) Python
2 99 (12.15%) C#
3 78 (9.57%) JavaScript
4 40 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (3.44%) PHP
6 27 (3.31%) Java
7 26 (3.19%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.09%) Bash
9 17 (2.09%) PL/SQL
9 17 (2.09%) R
10 16 (1.96%) C++
10 16 (1.96%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.84%) VBA
12 6 (0.74%) RPG
13 4 (0.49%) C
13 4 (0.49%) RPG IV
13 4 (0.49%) RPG/400
14 3 (0.37%) Rust
14 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 184 (22.58%) Azure Certification
2 77 (9.45%) Degree
3 25 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.86%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.37%) CITP
8 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
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%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.58%) SLA
3 20 (2.45%) GDPR
4 18 (2.21%) QA
5 12 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 35 (4.29%) Docker
3 28 (3.44%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 31 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.82%) Terraform
3 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.37%) Grafana
4 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 344 (42.21%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.75%) Databricks
3 31 (3.80%) Oracle
4 18 (2.21%) Google
5 11 (1.35%) SAP
6 8 (0.98%) ESRI
6 8 (0.98%) IBM
6 8 (0.98%) SonicWALL
6 8 (0.98%) Veeam
7 7 (0.86%) VMware
8 6 (0.74%) Facebook
9 5 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.61%) Sage
9 5 (0.61%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.61%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.49%) Informatica
11 3 (0.37%) Adobe
11 3 (0.37%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.37%) Cisco
11 3 (0.37%) Citrix