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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 630 800 800
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.07% 11.98% 15.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.70% 45.90% 47.39%
Number of salaries quoted 498 444 710
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
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 1,131 1,743 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.49% 26.09% 33.53%
Number of salaries quoted 926 953 1,469
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
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 29 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 29 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 -16 361 £48,500 -3.00% 555
East Midlands +2 264 £40,000 -15.79% 446
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 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.38%) IIS
3 7 (1.11%) Apache
3 7 (1.11%) SAS
4 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.79%) Confluence
5 4 (0.63%) nginx
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.48%) CMS
6 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) FileNet
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 130 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.63%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.48%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
5 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (36.83%) Azure
2 182 (28.89%) Power Platform
3 104 (16.51%) SaaS
4 60 (9.52%) Azure AI
5 54 (8.57%) AWS
6 37 (5.87%) Dynamics 365
7 28 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (2.54%) Power Automate
9 16 (2.54%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.38%) GCP
11 14 (2.22%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.22%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.75%) Serverless
13 8 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.35%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (2.22%) DNS
3 11 (1.75%) Firewall
4 9 (1.43%) DHCP
5 6 (0.95%) HTTP
5 6 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.95%) VPN
6 5 (0.79%) FTP
7 4 (0.63%) IMAP
7 4 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.63%) SMTP
7 4 (0.63%) SSH
8 3 (0.48%) NAS
8 3 (0.48%) SAN
9 2 (0.32%) Intranet
9 2 (0.32%) LAN
9 2 (0.32%) WAN
10 1 (0.16%) Broadband
10 1 (0.16%) RFID
10 1 (0.16%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (27.62%) Power BI
2 105 (16.67%) Tableau
3 102 (16.19%) SQL Server
4 55 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (5.87%) Data Lake
6 31 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 29 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 26 (4.13%) Data Mining
10 20 (3.17%) Relational Database
11 19 (3.02%) MySQL
12 14 (2.22%) Power Query
13 12 (1.90%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.90%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.59%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
17 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (3.33%) Git
2 18 (2.86%) JIRA
3 6 (0.95%) JUnit
3 6 (0.95%) Maven
3 6 (0.95%) Mockito
4 5 (0.79%) GitLab
4 5 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.63%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.48%) git-flow
6 3 (0.48%) Postman
6 3 (0.48%) Selenium
7 2 (0.32%) Moq
7 2 (0.32%) MSTest
7 2 (0.32%) NSubstitute
7 2 (0.32%) NUnit
7 2 (0.32%) TestRail
8 1 (0.16%) Gatling
8 1 (0.16%) MLflow
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 228 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 145 (23.02%) Analytical Skills
3 106 (16.83%) Finance
4 74 (11.75%) Retail
5 62 (9.84%) Law
6 54 (8.57%) Marketing
7 30 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 27 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.59%) Legal
12 10 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.43%) Banking
13 9 (1.43%) Games
14 5 (0.79%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.63%) Automotive
15 4 (0.63%) Local Government
15 4 (0.63%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 215 (34.13%) Analyst
2 123 (19.52%) Developer
3 106 (16.83%) Data Analyst
4 99 (15.71%) Senior
5 82 (13.02%) Data Engineer
6 75 (11.90%) 2nd Line Support
7 74 (11.75%) Junior
8 73 (11.59%) Support Analyst
9 66 (10.48%) Junior Analyst
10 55 (8.73%) Junior Data Analyst
11 41 (6.51%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
11 41 (6.51%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
13 33 (5.24%) Azure Data Engineer
14 31 (4.92%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 27 (4.29%) Applications Support
16 26 (4.13%) Senior Developer
17 22 (3.49%) Support Engineer
18 20 (3.17%) Lead
19 19 (3.02%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.52%) .NET
2 39 (6.19%) REST
3 32 (5.08%) HTML
4 29 (4.60%) React
5 23 (3.65%) CSS
6 21 (3.33%) .NET Core
7 18 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 18 (2.86%) JSON
8 13 (2.06%) Node.js
8 13 (2.06%) Razor View Engine
9 12 (1.90%) ASP.NET
10 11 (1.75%) PySpark
11 10 (1.59%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.59%) LAMP
11 10 (1.59%) SOAP
12 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (1.43%) XML
13 8 (1.27%) Spring
14 7 (1.11%) Entity Framework
14 7 (1.11%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.32%) Onboarding
2 21 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.43%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.11%) Credit Risk
10 6 (0.95%) 3D Graphics
10 6 (0.95%) FMCG
10 6 (0.95%) iSeries
10 6 (0.95%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.95%) Pricing Data
10 6 (0.95%) Replication
11 5 (0.79%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.56%) Windows
2 30 (4.76%) Linux
3 15 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.11%) VMS
5 4 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
2 185 (29.37%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (18.89%) Mentoring
4 104 (16.51%) Analytics
5 98 (15.56%) CRM
6 96 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (15.08%) Agile
8 92 (14.60%) ERP
9 90 (14.29%) AI
10 73 (11.59%) ETL
11 64 (10.16%) Decision-Making
12 63 (10.00%) Data Modelling
12 63 (10.00%) Logistics
13 62 (9.84%) CI/CD
13 62 (9.84%) Customer Service
14 61 (9.68%) Data Engineering
14 61 (9.68%) DevOps
15 58 (9.21%) Root Cause Analysis
16 54 (8.57%) Data Analysis
17 51 (8.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 207 (32.86%) Python
2 111 (17.62%) C#
3 63 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 47 (7.46%) T-SQL
5 32 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 23 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (3.65%) PHP
7 22 (3.49%) Java
8 14 (2.22%) R
9 13 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 13 (2.06%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.43%) Bash
11 5 (0.79%) C
12 4 (0.63%) Bicep
12 4 (0.63%) Groovy
12 4 (0.63%) Scala
13 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.32%) C++
14 2 (0.32%) Perl
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (10.48%) Azure Certification
2 59 (9.37%) Degree
3 47 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 45 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.27%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.32%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.32%) MCSA
11 2 (0.32%) MCSE
11 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.32%) PMP
11 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 46 (7.30%) QA
3 30 (4.76%) SLA
4 20 (3.17%) GDPR
5 10 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) COBIT
8 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
8 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.02%) Docker
3 6 (0.95%) Firmware
4 4 (0.63%) DFS Replication
4 4 (0.63%) Dovecot
4 4 (0.63%) Postfix
4 4 (0.63%) Squid
5 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.22%) Terraform
3 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.79%) Grafana
5 4 (0.63%) Nessus
5 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.63%) Proxmox
5 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.32%) Ansible
7 1 (0.16%) MOM
7 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 197 (31.27%) Microsoft
2 71 (11.27%) Databricks
3 47 (7.46%) Oracle
4 24 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.27%) Cisco
6 8 (1.27%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.11%) SAP
7 7 (1.11%) Zoho
8 5 (0.79%) Civica
8 5 (0.79%) Informatica
8 5 (0.79%) VMware
9 4 (0.63%) Google
9 4 (0.63%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.63%) Talend
9 4 (0.63%) UiPath
10 3 (0.48%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.48%) IFS
10 3 (0.48%) Northgate
10 3 (0.48%) Ubiquiti