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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 800 615 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.25% 12.20% 11.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.39% 48.27% 44.70%
Number of salaries quoted 486 452 1,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,375 £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 1,688 1,274 3,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.20% 25.28% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 976 2,591
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -16 452 £50,000 -4.76% 163
East Midlands -5 346 £45,000 -7.22% 110
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 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.25%) Confluence
3 9 (1.13%) IIS
3 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.88%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.88%) SAS
5 5 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.38%) WordPress
7 2 (0.25%) Apache
7 2 (0.25%) CMS
7 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) FileNet
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 287 (35.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.63%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.50%) Shopify
4 3 (0.38%) Magento
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 448 (56.00%) Azure
2 367 (45.88%) Power Platform
3 232 (29.00%) Azure AI
4 86 (10.75%) AWS
5 39 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 35 (4.38%) SaaS
7 30 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (3.63%) Snowflake
9 27 (3.38%) Amazon S3
9 27 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (3.25%) Serverless
11 24 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.50%) Power Automate
14 18 (2.25%) PowerApps
15 17 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (2.00%) Entra ID
16 16 (2.00%) GCP
17 10 (1.25%) PaaS
18 6 (0.75%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.00%) Firewall
2 10 (1.25%) DNS
3 9 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (0.88%) DHCP
4 7 (0.88%) Internet
5 6 (0.75%) Network Security
5 6 (0.75%) SAN
6 4 (0.50%) FTP
6 4 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
7 3 (0.38%) MQTT
7 3 (0.38%) VPN
7 3 (0.38%) WAN
8 2 (0.25%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) HTTP
8 2 (0.25%) Intranet
8 2 (0.25%) SMS
8 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.13%) DMZ
9 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (45.50%) Power BI
2 267 (33.38%) Tableau
3 76 (9.50%) SQL Server
4 42 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (2.38%) Data Mining
11 16 (2.00%) Power Query
12 15 (1.88%) MySQL
13 12 (1.50%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.25%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (1.25%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (1.00%) GIS
16 7 (0.88%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 30 (3.75%) JIRA
2 21 (2.63%) Git
3 7 (0.88%) Selenium
4 5 (0.63%) JUnit
4 5 (0.63%) Maven
4 5 (0.63%) Mockito
5 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.50%) Postman
5 4 (0.50%) 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%) JMeter
6 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 333 (41.63%) Social Skills
2 142 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (15.38%) Finance
4 45 (5.63%) Law
5 31 (3.88%) Retail
6 30 (3.75%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.63%) Public Sector
9 14 (1.75%) Marketing
10 12 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.50%) Legal
11 9 (1.13%) Games
11 9 (1.13%) Local Government
12 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.63%) Banking
13 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.38%) Advertising
14 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.38%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 355 (44.38%) Analyst
2 282 (35.25%) Data Analyst
3 256 (32.00%) Junior
4 254 (31.75%) Junior Analyst
5 243 (30.38%) Junior Data Analyst
6 137 (17.13%) Developer
7 108 (13.50%) Senior
8 81 (10.13%) Data Engineer
9 46 (5.75%) Support Analyst
10 35 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.25%) Software Developer
12 33 (4.13%) Support Engineer
13 32 (4.00%) Lead
13 32 (4.00%) Senior Developer
14 29 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
15 27 (3.38%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.25%) Azure Data Engineer
16 26 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (3.25%) IT Support
17 25 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.38%) HTML
2 50 (6.25%) CSS
3 47 (5.88%) .NET
4 38 (4.75%) React
5 34 (4.25%) Node.js
6 24 (3.00%) .NET Core
7 18 (2.25%) REST
8 14 (1.75%) ASP.NET
8 14 (1.75%) PySpark
9 13 (1.63%) .NET Framework
10 11 (1.38%) jQuery
11 9 (1.13%) JSON
11 9 (1.13%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (1.00%) Pandas
13 7 (0.88%) Laravel
13 7 (0.88%) Playwright
13 7 (0.88%) XML
14 6 (0.75%) DirectX
14 6 (0.75%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.75%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (1.88%) Clustering
5 13 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 7 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (0.88%) Mobile App
9 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.75%) 3D Graphics
11 5 (0.63%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.63%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.63%) Replication
12 4 (0.50%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.50%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.50%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.63%) Windows
2 27 (3.38%) Linux
3 23 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.75%) VMS
5 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.38%) zOS
6 2 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (46.00%) Business Intelligence
2 266 (33.25%) AI
3 136 (17.00%) Analytics
4 123 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (12.50%) Agile
6 80 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 79 (9.88%) ETL
8 75 (9.38%) Mentoring
9 74 (9.25%) Decision-Making
10 62 (7.75%) Data Analysis
11 59 (7.38%) Data Engineering
12 57 (7.13%) CI/CD
12 57 (7.13%) DevOps
13 55 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (6.88%) ERP
14 54 (6.75%) Computer Science
15 49 (6.13%) Data Pipeline
16 48 (6.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 48 (6.00%) Validation
17 47 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 409 (51.13%) Python
2 65 (8.13%) JavaScript
3 64 (8.00%) C#
4 38 (4.75%) T-SQL
5 34 (4.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (3.88%) PHP
7 18 (2.25%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.13%) Bash
8 17 (2.13%) Java
8 17 (2.13%) R
9 8 (1.00%) C++
10 7 (0.88%) VBA
11 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.75%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.63%) C
13 4 (0.50%) Scala
14 3 (0.38%) COBOL
14 3 (0.38%) JCL
14 3 (0.38%) Rust
15 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (29.88%) Azure Certification
2 64 (8.00%) Degree
3 24 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (1.88%) Security Cleared
5 14 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.50%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.38%) MCSA
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.25%) CEH
10 2 (0.25%) CITP
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%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.63%) QA
3 19 (2.38%) SLA
4 17 (2.13%) GDPR
5 14 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 2 (0.25%) NIST
8 2 (0.25%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 33 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.25%) Docker
3 15 (1.88%) 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 18 (2.25%) Terraform
2 15 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) MOM
Vendors
1 368 (46.00%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.25%) Databricks
3 31 (3.88%) Oracle
4 14 (1.75%) Google
5 9 (1.13%) SAP
6 8 (1.00%) ESRI
7 7 (0.88%) Informatica
7 7 (0.88%) Talend
8 6 (0.75%) Cloudera
8 6 (0.75%) IBM
8 6 (0.75%) SonicWALL
8 6 (0.75%) Veeam
8 6 (0.75%) VMware
9 5 (0.63%) Sage
9 5 (0.63%) SolarWinds
9 5 (0.63%) Zoho
10 4 (0.50%) Adobe
10 4 (0.50%) Civica
10 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.38%) Veracode