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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 795 631 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.00% 12.67% 10.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.38% 50.44% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 470 439 1,147
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,688 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,625 £73,400 £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 1,752 1,251 3,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.23% 25.12% 25.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 918 2,707
10th Percentile £32,150 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
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 £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 3 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 3 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 -20 433 £55,000 +4.76% 132
East Midlands -5 360 £45,000 -5.26% 83
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 29 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.26%) Confluence
3 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.13%) IIS
5 8 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.88%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.38%) SAS
7 3 (0.38%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) Apache
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 253 (31.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.50%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.50%) Shopify
3 3 (0.38%) Magento
3 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 429 (53.96%) Azure
2 332 (41.76%) Power Platform
3 202 (25.41%) Azure AI
4 96 (12.08%) AWS
5 38 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.03%) Snowflake
8 31 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.02%) Serverless
11 23 (2.89%) SaaS
12 22 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.39%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.14%) Power Automate
15 16 (2.01%) GCP
15 16 (2.01%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (1.76%) PaaS
17 11 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
18 10 (1.26%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.65%) Firewall
2 17 (2.14%) DNS
3 13 (1.64%) DHCP
3 13 (1.64%) Internet
4 11 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.01%) Network Security
6 8 (1.01%) SAN
7 6 (0.75%) VLAN
8 5 (0.63%) FTP
9 4 (0.50%) MQTT
9 4 (0.50%) VPN
10 3 (0.38%) LAN
10 3 (0.38%) WAN
11 2 (0.25%) Broadband
11 2 (0.25%) SMS
12 1 (0.13%) DMZ
12 1 (0.13%) HTTP
12 1 (0.13%) RTP
12 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (41.38%) Power BI
2 231 (29.06%) Tableau
3 63 (7.92%) SQL Server
4 61 (7.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.77%) Power Query
10 20 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (2.26%) MySQL
12 14 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 13 (1.64%) Relational Database
14 12 (1.51%) Data Mining
14 12 (1.51%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (1.13%) Delta Lake
17 8 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (3.77%) JIRA
2 19 (2.39%) Git
3 13 (1.64%) JUnit
3 13 (1.64%) Maven
3 13 (1.64%) Mockito
4 6 (0.75%) Selenium
5 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.38%) Gatling
7 3 (0.38%) GitLab
7 3 (0.38%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) JMeter
7 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.38%) Postman
7 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 296 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 146 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
2 146 (18.36%) Finance
3 47 (5.91%) Law
4 37 (4.65%) Retail
5 32 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (4.03%) Manufacturing
6 19 (2.39%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.01%) Legal
8 12 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.26%) Marketing
10 9 (1.13%) Local Government
11 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.63%) Social Housing
13 4 (0.50%) Advertising
14 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.38%) Games
14 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 324 (40.75%) Analyst
2 260 (32.70%) Data Analyst
3 224 (28.18%) Junior
4 221 (27.80%) Junior Analyst
5 210 (26.42%) Junior Data Analyst
6 157 (19.75%) Developer
7 103 (12.96%) Senior
8 69 (8.68%) Data Engineer
9 56 (7.04%) Lead
10 36 (4.53%) Support Analyst
11 35 (4.40%) Data Scientist
12 34 (4.28%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (4.15%) Software Developer
14 31 (3.90%) .NET Developer
14 31 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
15 30 (3.77%) IT Support
16 27 (3.40%) Support Engineer
17 25 (3.14%) IT Engineer
17 25 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
18 24 (3.02%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.67%) .NET
2 55 (6.92%) HTML
3 48 (6.04%) React
4 47 (5.91%) CSS
5 37 (4.65%) Node.js
6 36 (4.53%) .NET Core
7 31 (3.90%) ASP.NET
8 28 (3.52%) ASP.NET Core
9 24 (3.02%) REST
10 20 (2.52%) PyTorch
11 18 (2.26%) RESTful
12 16 (2.01%) PySpark
13 14 (1.76%) Entity Framework
13 14 (1.76%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.64%) Hugging Face
15 11 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
15 11 (1.38%) Blazor
15 11 (1.38%) jQuery
16 10 (1.26%) .NET Framework
16 10 (1.26%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (2.39%) Clustering
3 14 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.38%) Mobile App
5 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 7 (0.88%) iSeries
8 7 (0.88%) NHS
8 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.75%) AS400
9 6 (0.75%) IoT
9 6 (0.75%) Replication
10 5 (0.63%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.50%) CMDB
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.66%) Windows
2 29 (3.65%) Linux
3 23 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) VMS
5 5 (0.63%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (42.39%) Business Intelligence
2 248 (31.19%) AI
3 159 (20.00%) Analytics
4 147 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (15.60%) Agile
6 97 (12.20%) Decision-Making
7 85 (10.69%) Mentoring
8 84 (10.57%) Data Modelling
9 75 (9.43%) Data Analysis
10 69 (8.68%) ETL
11 65 (8.18%) CI/CD
11 65 (8.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 59 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (7.42%) Roadmaps
13 58 (7.30%) DevOps
14 56 (7.04%) Computer Science
15 54 (6.79%) Data Analytics
16 52 (6.54%) Actionable Insight
16 52 (6.54%) Data Engineering
17 50 (6.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 391 (49.18%) Python
2 72 (9.06%) C#
3 71 (8.93%) JavaScript
4 42 (5.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (3.65%) T-SQL
6 28 (3.52%) PHP
7 27 (3.40%) Java
8 17 (2.14%) Bash
8 17 (2.14%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.14%) R
9 13 (1.64%) VBA
10 11 (1.38%) C++
11 10 (1.26%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.75%) RPG
13 4 (0.50%) C
13 4 (0.50%) RPG IV
13 4 (0.50%) RPG/400
14 3 (0.38%) Scala
14 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 205 (25.79%) Azure Certification
2 67 (8.43%) Degree
3 25 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.64%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.39%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.50%) 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
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.64%) SLA
3 19 (2.39%) GDPR
4 18 (2.26%) QA
5 13 (1.64%) 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
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.52%) Docker
3 24 (3.02%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.64%) Terraform
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 344 (43.27%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.42%) Databricks
3 39 (4.91%) Oracle
4 17 (2.14%) Google
5 10 (1.26%) SAP
6 8 (1.01%) ESRI
6 8 (1.01%) IBM
6 8 (1.01%) SonicWALL
6 8 (1.01%) Veeam
7 6 (0.75%) VMware
8 5 (0.63%) Sage
8 5 (0.63%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.50%) Informatica
10 3 (0.38%) Adobe
10 3 (0.38%) Citrix
10 3 (0.38%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.38%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.38%) Talend
10 3 (0.38%) Veracode