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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 802 618 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.22% 12.38% 11.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.20% 48.17% 44.05%
Number of salaries quoted 481 440 1,117
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,825 £28,800
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £75,000 £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 1,699 1,283 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.18% 25.71% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 960 2,582
10th Percentile £31,475 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £63,250
90th Percentile £78,925 £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 13 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 13 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 -19 453 £52,500 - 131
East Midlands -5 347 £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 31 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.24%) Confluence
3 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.12%) IIS
5 7 (0.87%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.62%) SAS
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 283 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.50%) Shopify
4 3 (0.37%) Magento
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 458 (57.11%) Azure
2 369 (46.01%) Power Platform
3 235 (29.30%) Azure AI
4 89 (11.10%) AWS
5 35 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 32 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.74%) Snowflake
9 27 (3.37%) Amazon S3
10 26 (3.24%) SaaS
10 26 (3.24%) Serverless
11 24 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (2.49%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.24%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.12%) Entra ID
15 16 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (1.75%) GCP
17 12 (1.50%) PaaS
18 8 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.24%) Firewall
2 11 (1.37%) DNS
2 11 (1.37%) Internet
3 10 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (0.87%) DHCP
4 7 (0.87%) Network Security
4 7 (0.87%) SAN
5 4 (0.50%) FTP
5 4 (0.50%) MQTT
5 4 (0.50%) VPN
6 3 (0.37%) LAN
6 3 (0.37%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) Broadband
7 2 (0.25%) HTTP
7 2 (0.25%) Intranet
7 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.12%) DMZ
8 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (45.64%) Power BI
2 268 (33.42%) Tableau
3 70 (8.73%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (2.62%) MongoDB
9 19 (2.37%) Power Query
10 18 (2.24%) Data Lake
11 17 (2.12%) Data Mining
12 15 (1.87%) MySQL
13 11 (1.37%) Delta Lake
13 11 (1.37%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (1.00%) GIS
15 8 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (3.62%) JIRA
2 20 (2.49%) Git
3 9 (1.12%) JUnit
3 9 (1.12%) Maven
3 9 (1.12%) Mockito
4 7 (0.87%) Selenium
5 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.37%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.37%) Gatling
6 3 (0.37%) GitLab
6 3 (0.37%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.37%) JMeter
6 3 (0.37%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.37%) Postman
6 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 325 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (15.96%) Finance
4 45 (5.61%) Law
5 32 (3.99%) Retail
6 30 (3.74%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.24%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.62%) Legal
10 12 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.37%) Marketing
12 9 (1.12%) Games
12 9 (1.12%) Local Government
13 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.50%) Advertising
15 4 (0.50%) Banking
15 4 (0.50%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 345 (43.02%) Analyst
2 283 (35.29%) Data Analyst
3 256 (31.92%) Junior
4 254 (31.67%) Junior Analyst
5 243 (30.30%) Junior Data Analyst
6 156 (19.45%) Developer
7 105 (13.09%) Senior
8 76 (9.48%) Data Engineer
9 37 (4.61%) Support Analyst
10 35 (4.36%) Lead
11 34 (4.24%) Software Developer
12 32 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
12 32 (3.99%) Senior Developer
13 29 (3.62%) Support Engineer
14 27 (3.37%) .NET Developer
14 27 (3.37%) C# Developer
15 26 (3.24%) IT Support
15 26 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.98%) .NET
2 61 (7.61%) HTML
3 52 (6.48%) CSS
4 47 (5.86%) React
5 40 (4.99%) .NET Core
6 39 (4.86%) Node.js
7 31 (3.87%) ASP.NET
8 25 (3.12%) ASP.NET Core
9 21 (2.62%) REST
10 17 (2.12%) PySpark
11 13 (1.62%) .NET Framework
11 13 (1.62%) Entity Framework
12 12 (1.50%) RESTful
13 11 (1.37%) jQuery
14 9 (1.12%) JSON
14 9 (1.12%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.12%) Vue
15 8 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (1.00%) Blazor
15 8 (1.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.12%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (2.12%) Clustering
4 14 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.25%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.75%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (0.75%) NHS
10 5 (0.62%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.62%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.62%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.62%) IoT
10 5 (0.62%) iSeries
10 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.62%) Replication
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.49%) Windows
2 28 (3.49%) Linux
3 21 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.87%) VMS
5 3 (0.37%) Android
5 3 (0.37%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.37%) Solaris
5 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.37%) zOS
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (46.26%) Business Intelligence
2 275 (34.29%) AI
3 143 (17.83%) Analytics
4 120 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (14.21%) Agile
6 82 (10.22%) Data Modelling
7 79 (9.85%) Decision-Making
8 76 (9.48%) ETL
9 66 (8.23%) CI/CD
10 65 (8.10%) Mentoring
11 63 (7.86%) Data Analysis
12 62 (7.73%) DevOps
13 61 (7.61%) Full-Stack Development
14 57 (7.11%) Computer Science
15 53 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (6.61%) Data Engineering
16 47 (5.86%) ERP
16 47 (5.86%) Validation
17 45 (5.61%) Visualisation
18 44 (5.49%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 405 (50.50%) Python
2 78 (9.73%) C#
3 71 (8.85%) JavaScript
4 38 (4.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 35 (4.36%) T-SQL
6 31 (3.87%) PHP
7 20 (2.49%) Java
8 19 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.12%) Bash
9 17 (2.12%) R
10 11 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.25%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.00%) C++
13 7 (0.87%) VBA
14 4 (0.50%) C
14 4 (0.50%) Scala
15 3 (0.37%) COBOL
15 3 (0.37%) JCL
15 3 (0.37%) RPG
15 3 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 239 (29.80%) Azure Certification
2 68 (8.48%) Degree
3 25 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 17 (2.12%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.50%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.37%) CITP
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.37%) GDPR
2 19 (2.37%) SLA
3 17 (2.12%) QA
4 14 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) WCAG
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 35 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.12%) Docker
3 17 (2.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 22 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.49%) Terraform
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.37%) Grafana
4 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) MOM
Vendors
1 379 (47.26%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.60%) Databricks
3 36 (4.49%) Oracle
4 17 (2.12%) Google
5 9 (1.12%) SAP
6 8 (1.00%) ESRI
6 8 (1.00%) IBM
7 7 (0.87%) SonicWALL
7 7 (0.87%) Veeam
8 6 (0.75%) VMware
9 5 (0.62%) Informatica
9 5 (0.62%) Sage
9 5 (0.62%) SolarWinds
9 5 (0.62%) Talend
10 4 (0.50%) Adobe
10 4 (0.50%) Civica
10 4 (0.50%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.37%) Citrix
11 3 (0.37%) Veracode