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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 860 698 1,127
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.28% 12.26% 9.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.79% 51.86% 42.40%
Number of salaries quoted 563 511 823
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £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 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 1,920 1,346 2,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.02% 23.65% 22.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,316 1,032 2,046
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,138 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £69,250 £67,500 £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 26 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 26 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 -9 446 £55,000 +4.76% 107
East Midlands -7 414 £45,000 - 80
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 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.21%) IIS
3 18 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.86%) Confluence
5 11 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.58%) Apache
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
9 3 (0.35%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 229 (26.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) SAP Business One
2 6 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.47%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.47%) Lawson
4 4 (0.47%) Shopify
5 3 (0.35%) Magento
6 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.23%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 448 (52.09%) Azure
2 334 (38.84%) Power Platform
3 175 (20.35%) Azure AI
4 102 (11.86%) AWS
5 60 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (3.84%) Entra ID
8 32 (3.72%) Snowflake
9 27 (3.14%) SaaS
10 22 (2.56%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (2.44%) GCP
12 20 (2.33%) PaaS
13 19 (2.21%) GitHub
14 18 (2.09%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.74%) Serverless
16 14 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (1.51%) Amazon S3
17 13 (1.51%) Azure App Service
18 11 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.47%) Firewall
2 32 (3.72%) DNS
3 26 (3.02%) DHCP
4 21 (2.44%) Internet
5 18 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.51%) VLAN
7 11 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.16%) SAN
9 9 (1.05%) Network Security
10 6 (0.70%) 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 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.23%) SMS
13 2 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (38.14%) Power BI
2 205 (23.84%) Tableau
3 95 (11.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (8.02%) SQL Server
5 61 (7.09%) MongoDB
6 43 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 29 (3.37%) Power Query
9 25 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (2.56%) MySQL
11 20 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (2.09%) Relational Database
13 15 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.51%) Crystal Reports
15 11 (1.28%) NoSQL
16 9 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
17 8 (0.93%) Delta Lake
17 8 (0.93%) QlikView
18 7 (0.81%) GIS
18 7 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (3.49%) JIRA
2 29 (3.37%) Git
3 12 (1.40%) JUnit
3 12 (1.40%) Maven
4 11 (1.28%) Mockito
5 10 (1.16%) Selenium
6 8 (0.93%) GitLab
7 7 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.81%) JMeter
7 7 (0.81%) Postman
7 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.35%) Gatling
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 292 (33.95%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.79%) Finance
3 142 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (6.63%) Manufacturing
5 47 (5.47%) Retail
6 30 (3.49%) Law
7 28 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 26 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.44%) Legal
10 20 (2.33%) Marketing
11 16 (1.86%) Advertising
12 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.70%) Local Government
14 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.70%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.58%) Banking
15 5 (0.58%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 294 (34.19%) Analyst
2 224 (26.05%) Data Analyst
3 201 (23.37%) Developer
4 182 (21.16%) Junior
5 178 (20.70%) Junior Analyst
6 177 (20.58%) Junior Data Analyst
7 103 (11.98%) Senior
8 68 (7.91%) .NET Developer
9 63 (7.33%) Lead
10 62 (7.21%) Data Engineer
11 42 (4.88%) Data Scientist
12 36 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (4.19%) IT Support
12 36 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
12 36 (4.19%) Support Engineer
13 34 (3.95%) Administrator
14 33 (3.84%) Support Analyst
15 28 (3.26%) SQL Developer
16 27 (3.14%) IT Engineer
17 26 (3.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (11.74%) .NET
2 74 (8.60%) .NET Core
3 66 (7.67%) ASP.NET
4 65 (7.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 58 (6.74%) CSS
6 57 (6.63%) HTML
7 52 (6.05%) React
8 38 (4.42%) Node.js
9 31 (3.60%) Entity Framework
9 31 (3.60%) REST
10 29 (3.37%) ASP.NET Web API
11 27 (3.14%) Blazor
12 26 (3.02%) LINQ
12 26 (3.02%) RESTful
13 24 (2.79%) PyTorch
14 18 (2.09%) AngularJS
14 18 (2.09%) TensorFlow
14 18 (2.09%) Vue
15 16 (1.86%) PySpark
16 15 (1.74%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 34 (3.95%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.49%) Clustering
3 26 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 14 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.51%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.40%) NHS
7 12 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.40%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.81%) iSeries
11 6 (0.70%) AS400
11 6 (0.70%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.70%) IoT
11 6 (0.70%) PKI
11 6 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.56%) Windows
2 40 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 28 (3.26%) Linux
4 7 (0.81%) Solaris
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
6 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Unix
7 2 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (40.12%) Business Intelligence
2 238 (27.67%) AI
3 191 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (19.65%) Analytics
5 158 (18.37%) Agile
6 109 (12.67%) Decision-Making
7 91 (10.58%) Mentoring
8 88 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 85 (9.88%) Data Modelling
10 82 (9.53%) CI/CD
11 80 (9.30%) Data Analysis
11 80 (9.30%) ERP
12 75 (8.72%) ETL
13 72 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 71 (8.26%) DevOps
15 65 (7.56%) Data Analytics
16 62 (7.21%) Actionable Insight
16 62 (7.21%) Roadmaps
17 57 (6.63%) Computer Science
18 56 (6.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 340 (39.53%) Python
2 119 (13.84%) C#
3 78 (9.07%) JavaScript
4 48 (5.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.49%) PHP
6 29 (3.37%) Java
7 23 (2.67%) T-SQL
8 20 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 20 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.09%) C++
10 15 (1.74%) VBA
11 14 (1.63%) Bash
12 12 (1.40%) R
13 6 (0.70%) RPG
14 4 (0.47%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.47%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 171 (19.88%) Azure Certification
2 88 (10.23%) Degree
3 24 (2.79%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.98%) SC Cleared
5 15 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.35%) ISEB
10 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.35%) MCSA
10 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.23%) CITP
12 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.12%) CCAB
12 1 (0.12%) CIMA
12 1 (0.12%) HND
12 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.91%) GDPR
3 19 (2.21%) SLA
4 18 (2.09%) QA
5 11 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) NIST
8 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 43 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 36 (4.19%) Docker
4 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.56%) Terraform
3 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 369 (42.91%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.12%) Databricks
3 34 (3.95%) Oracle
4 20 (2.33%) Google
4 20 (2.33%) SAP
5 12 (1.40%) SYSPRO
6 10 (1.16%) Facebook
6 10 (1.16%) Veeam
7 9 (1.05%) Infor
8 8 (0.93%) IBM
8 8 (0.93%) SonicWALL
9 7 (0.81%) Epicor
9 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.70%) ESRI
10 6 (0.70%) Informatica
10 6 (0.70%) VMware
11 5 (0.58%) Cisco
11 5 (0.58%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.58%) YouTube
12 4 (0.47%) OpenAI