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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 848 688 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.39% 12.22% 10.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.20% 51.42% 42.87%
Number of salaries quoted 545 500 1,042
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,813
90th Percentile £72,400 £76,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 1,876 1,338 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.13% 23.76% 24.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,018 2,495
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -9 443 £55,000 +4.76% 88
East Midlands -6 405 £45,000 - 103
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 33 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.12%) Confluence
2 18 (2.12%) IIS
2 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.83%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.35%) SAS
6 3 (0.35%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 235 (27.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.47%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.35%) Magento
3 3 (0.35%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.24%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.24%) Lawson
4 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
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
1 453 (53.42%) Azure
2 337 (39.74%) Power Platform
3 186 (21.93%) Azure AI
4 99 (11.67%) AWS
5 57 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.77%) Snowflake
8 30 (3.54%) Entra ID
9 24 (2.83%) SaaS
10 22 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (2.36%) GCP
11 20 (2.36%) PaaS
11 20 (2.36%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.12%) GitHub
12 18 (2.12%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.77%) Serverless
15 13 (1.53%) Azure App Service
15 13 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.42%) Firewall
2 32 (3.77%) DNS
3 26 (3.07%) DHCP
4 21 (2.48%) Internet
5 18 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.53%) VLAN
7 11 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.18%) SAN
9 8 (0.94%) Network Security
10 6 (0.71%) VPN
11 4 (0.47%) FTP
11 4 (0.47%) HTTP
11 4 (0.47%) MQTT
12 3 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
12 3 (0.35%) LAN
12 3 (0.35%) SSL
12 3 (0.35%) WAN
13 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.24%) SMS
13 2 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (38.92%) Power BI
2 213 (25.12%) Tableau
3 96 (11.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (8.14%) SQL Server
5 61 (7.19%) MongoDB
6 39 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (2.83%) Power Query
10 22 (2.59%) MySQL
11 19 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.89%) Relational Database
14 13 (1.53%) Crystal Reports
15 12 (1.42%) NoSQL
16 8 (0.94%) Delta Lake
16 8 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (0.94%) GIS
17 7 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
17 7 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (3.89%) JIRA
2 23 (2.71%) Git
3 9 (1.06%) JUnit
3 9 (1.06%) Maven
3 9 (1.06%) Mockito
4 8 (0.94%) Selenium
4 8 (0.94%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.71%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.59%) GitLab
6 5 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.59%) JMeter
6 5 (0.59%) Postman
7 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.35%) Gatling
8 3 (0.35%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 295 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 144 (16.98%) Finance
3 133 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (5.66%) Manufacturing
5 46 (5.42%) Retail
6 35 (4.13%) Law
7 29 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.95%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.24%) Marketing
10 18 (2.12%) Legal
11 16 (1.89%) Advertising
12 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.94%) Local Government
14 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.71%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.47%) Banking
17 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.35%) Billing
18 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 298 (35.14%) Analyst
2 234 (27.59%) Data Analyst
3 193 (22.76%) Junior
4 192 (22.64%) Developer
5 189 (22.29%) Junior Analyst
6 188 (22.17%) Junior Data Analyst
7 102 (12.03%) Senior
8 68 (8.02%) .NET Developer
9 63 (7.43%) Data Engineer
10 59 (6.96%) Lead
11 42 (4.95%) Data Scientist
12 37 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 37 (4.36%) IT Support
12 37 (4.36%) Support Engineer
13 36 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
14 34 (4.01%) Administrator
15 31 (3.66%) Support Analyst
16 28 (3.30%) IT Engineer
17 27 (3.18%) SQL Developer
18 26 (3.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (11.79%) .NET
2 72 (8.49%) .NET Core
3 67 (7.90%) ASP.NET
4 65 (7.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 59 (6.96%) HTML
6 57 (6.72%) CSS
7 51 (6.01%) React
8 41 (4.83%) Node.js
9 30 (3.54%) Entity Framework
10 29 (3.42%) ASP.NET Web API
11 28 (3.30%) REST
12 27 (3.18%) Blazor
13 26 (3.07%) LINQ
14 25 (2.95%) RESTful
15 24 (2.83%) PyTorch
16 18 (2.12%) AngularJS
16 18 (2.12%) TensorFlow
16 18 (2.12%) Vue
17 16 (1.89%) PySpark
18 15 (1.77%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.13%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.54%) Clustering
3 23 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.77%) Mobile App
7 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.30%) NHS
10 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.83%) iSeries
14 6 (0.71%) AS400
14 6 (0.71%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.71%) IoT
14 6 (0.71%) PKI
14 6 (0.71%) Replication
15 4 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.19%) Windows
2 39 (4.60%) Windows Server
3 26 (3.07%) Linux
4 7 (0.83%) Solaris
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
6 3 (0.35%) Android
6 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (40.45%) Business Intelligence
2 240 (28.30%) AI
3 176 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (19.46%) Analytics
5 153 (18.04%) Agile
6 103 (12.15%) Decision-Making
7 89 (10.50%) Mentoring
8 86 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 84 (9.91%) Data Modelling
10 80 (9.43%) CI/CD
11 79 (9.32%) Data Analysis
12 73 (8.61%) ETL
13 71 (8.37%) ERP
14 70 (8.25%) DevOps
15 68 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (7.43%) Data Analytics
17 60 (7.08%) Roadmaps
18 58 (6.84%) Actionable Insight
19 57 (6.72%) Computer Science
20 56 (6.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 351 (41.39%) Python
2 117 (13.80%) C#
3 76 (8.96%) JavaScript
4 44 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.54%) PHP
6 26 (3.07%) Java
7 25 (2.95%) T-SQL
8 19 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.12%) C++
9 18 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.77%) VBA
12 13 (1.53%) R
13 12 (1.42%) Bash
14 6 (0.71%) RPG
15 4 (0.47%) RPG IV
15 4 (0.47%) RPG/400
16 3 (0.35%) Rust
16 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 182 (21.46%) Azure Certification
2 85 (10.02%) Degree
3 22 (2.59%) Security Cleared
4 16 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.35%) CITP
8 3 (0.35%) MCSA
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.24%) ISEB
9 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
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 57 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.83%) GDPR
3 23 (2.71%) SLA
4 17 (2.00%) QA
5 9 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.12%) NCSC
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 43 (5.07%) Hyper-V
3 34 (4.01%) Docker
4 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 30 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.71%) Terraform
3 7 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.35%) Grafana
5 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 377 (44.46%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.19%) Databricks
3 28 (3.30%) Oracle
4 20 (2.36%) Google
5 16 (1.89%) SAP
6 10 (1.18%) Facebook
6 10 (1.18%) Veeam
7 9 (1.06%) SYSPRO
8 8 (0.94%) ESRI
8 8 (0.94%) IBM
8 8 (0.94%) SonicWALL
9 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.71%) Epicor
10 6 (0.71%) Infor
10 6 (0.71%) Informatica
10 6 (0.71%) VMware
11 5 (0.59%) Sage
11 5 (0.59%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.59%) YouTube
12 4 (0.47%) OpenAI