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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 821 650 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.49% 12.84% 10.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.38% 50.27% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 516 455 1,146
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,625 £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 £76,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 1,809 1,293 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.29% 25.54% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,234 959 2,785
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,375 £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 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £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 24 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 24 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 -8 441 £55,000 +4.76% 99
East Midlands -4 379 £45,000 - 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 35 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.19%) Confluence
3 15 (1.83%) IIS
4 14 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.49%) Apache
8 3 (0.37%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 233 (28.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.83%) 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 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.24%) 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
1 437 (53.23%) Azure
2 328 (39.95%) Power Platform
3 184 (22.41%) Azure AI
4 100 (12.18%) AWS
5 52 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.90%) Snowflake
8 26 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 25 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (2.80%) Amazon S3
10 23 (2.80%) Power Automate
10 23 (2.80%) SaaS
11 22 (2.68%) Serverless
12 21 (2.56%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.31%) PaaS
14 18 (2.19%) GCP
15 15 (1.83%) GitHub
16 13 (1.58%) Azure App Service
17 11 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.87%) Firewall
2 21 (2.56%) DNS
3 19 (2.31%) Internet
4 17 (2.07%) DHCP
5 15 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.22%) VLAN
8 9 (1.10%) SAN
9 8 (0.97%) Network Security
10 5 (0.61%) VPN
11 4 (0.49%) FTP
11 4 (0.49%) MQTT
12 3 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
12 3 (0.37%) LAN
12 3 (0.37%) WAN
13 2 (0.24%) Broadband
13 2 (0.24%) HTTP
13 2 (0.24%) SMS
14 1 (0.12%) DMZ
14 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (39.10%) Power BI
2 206 (25.09%) Tableau
3 81 (9.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 70 (8.53%) SQL Server
5 45 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 36 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (2.56%) MySQL
10 20 (2.44%) Power Query
11 19 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.83%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.58%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
14 9 (1.10%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.97%) GIS
16 7 (0.85%) Data Mining
16 7 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (4.02%) JIRA
2 19 (2.31%) Git
3 12 (1.46%) JUnit
3 12 (1.46%) Maven
3 12 (1.46%) Mockito
4 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.73%) 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
1 286 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 145 (17.66%) Finance
3 143 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (4.99%) Retail
5 39 (4.75%) Law
6 36 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.31%) Legal
10 14 (1.71%) Marketing
11 10 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.10%) Advertising
12 9 (1.10%) Local Government
13 7 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.73%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.49%) Banking
15 4 (0.49%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 300 (36.54%) Analyst
2 236 (28.75%) Data Analyst
3 194 (23.63%) Junior
4 191 (23.26%) Junior Analyst
5 188 (22.90%) Junior Data Analyst
6 185 (22.53%) Developer
7 107 (13.03%) Senior
8 67 (8.16%) Data Engineer
9 60 (7.31%) Lead
10 53 (6.46%) .NET Developer
11 40 (4.87%) Data Scientist
12 34 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (4.14%) IT Support
12 34 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (4.02%) Support Engineer
14 31 (3.78%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.53%) Support Analyst
16 28 (3.41%) IT Engineer
17 26 (3.17%) Administrator
18 25 (3.05%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (10.48%) .NET
2 59 (7.19%) HTML
3 58 (7.06%) .NET Core
4 54 (6.58%) CSS
5 53 (6.46%) ASP.NET
5 53 (6.46%) React
6 50 (6.09%) ASP.NET Core
7 43 (5.24%) Node.js
8 27 (3.29%) REST
9 23 (2.80%) Entity Framework
9 23 (2.80%) PyTorch
9 23 (2.80%) RESTful
10 22 (2.68%) ASP.NET Web API
11 20 (2.44%) Blazor
12 18 (2.19%) LINQ
13 17 (2.07%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.95%) PySpark
15 15 (1.83%) AngularJS
15 15 (1.83%) Hugging Face
15 15 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.14%) Management Information System
2 22 (2.68%) Clustering
3 20 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.97%) NHS
10 8 (0.97%) Replication
11 7 (0.85%) iSeries
12 6 (0.73%) AS400
12 6 (0.73%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.73%) IoT
12 6 (0.73%) PKI
13 4 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.58%) Windows
2 32 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.65%) Linux
4 7 (0.85%) 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 (0.24%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (39.95%) Business Intelligence
2 239 (29.11%) AI
3 166 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
4 159 (19.37%) Analytics
5 144 (17.54%) Agile
6 100 (12.18%) Decision-Making
7 91 (11.08%) Mentoring
8 82 (9.99%) Data Modelling
9 81 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 77 (9.38%) Data Analysis
11 70 (8.53%) CI/CD
11 70 (8.53%) ETL
12 64 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 61 (7.43%) Computer Science
13 61 (7.43%) DevOps
14 60 (7.31%) Roadmaps
15 57 (6.94%) Actionable Insight
15 57 (6.94%) ERP
16 55 (6.70%) Data Analytics
17 51 (6.21%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 362 (44.09%) Python
2 100 (12.18%) C#
3 75 (9.14%) JavaScript
4 40 (4.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (3.41%) PHP
6 27 (3.29%) Java
7 26 (3.17%) T-SQL
8 22 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.07%) C++
10 16 (1.95%) Bash
10 16 (1.95%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.95%) R
10 16 (1.95%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.95%) VBA
11 6 (0.73%) RPG
12 4 (0.49%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.49%) RPG/400
13 3 (0.37%) C
13 3 (0.37%) Rust
13 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 184 (22.41%) Azure Certification
2 78 (9.50%) Degree
3 24 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.19%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.85%) 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 (0.24%) CEH
9 2 (0.24%) 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 51 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 22 (2.68%) SLA
3 20 (2.44%) GDPR
4 17 (2.07%) QA
5 12 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.24%) NCSC
7 2 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 35 (4.26%) Docker
3 32 (3.90%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 31 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.80%) Terraform
3 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.37%) Grafana
5 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 351 (42.75%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.70%) Databricks
3 29 (3.53%) Oracle
4 18 (2.19%) Google
5 11 (1.34%) SAP
6 9 (1.10%) Veeam
7 8 (0.97%) ESRI
7 8 (0.97%) IBM
7 8 (0.97%) SonicWALL
7 8 (0.97%) VMware
8 6 (0.73%) Facebook
8 6 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.61%) Sage
9 5 (0.61%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.49%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.49%) Cisco
10 4 (0.49%) Informatica
11 3 (0.37%) Adobe
11 3 (0.37%) Citrix