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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 805 615 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.19% 12.22% 11.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.08% 48.77% 44.04%
Number of salaries quoted 484 440 1,119
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
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 £72,500 £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 1,710 1,261 3,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.15% 25.05% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 944 2,587
10th Percentile £31,250 £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 £62,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £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 15 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 15 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 - 121
East Midlands -5 350 £45,000 -7.22% 102
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 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.24%) Confluence
3 10 (1.24%) 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%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 285 (35.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) 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
1 459 (57.02%) Azure
2 370 (45.96%) Power Platform
3 235 (29.19%) Azure AI
4 91 (11.30%) AWS
5 33 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 33 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (3.73%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.35%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.23%) Serverless
9 24 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (2.98%) SaaS
10 21 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (2.36%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.24%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.11%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (1.74%) GCP
16 13 (1.61%) PaaS
17 8 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.48%) Firewall
2 12 (1.49%) DNS
3 11 (1.37%) Internet
4 10 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.99%) DHCP
6 7 (0.87%) Network Security
6 7 (0.87%) SAN
7 4 (0.50%) FTP
7 4 (0.50%) MQTT
7 4 (0.50%) VPN
8 3 (0.37%) LAN
8 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.37%) WAN
9 2 (0.25%) Broadband
9 2 (0.25%) HTTP
9 2 (0.25%) Intranet
9 2 (0.25%) SMS
10 1 (0.12%) DMZ
10 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (45.59%) Power BI
2 269 (33.42%) Tableau
3 67 (8.32%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.48%) Power Query
11 17 (2.11%) Data Mining
11 17 (2.11%) MySQL
12 15 (1.86%) Data Lake
13 13 (1.61%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.24%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (3.73%) JIRA
2 21 (2.61%) 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
1 324 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (15.90%) Finance
4 45 (5.59%) Law
5 32 (3.98%) Retail
6 29 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.61%) Public Sector
9 15 (1.86%) Legal
10 12 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.37%) Marketing
12 9 (1.12%) Local Government
13 8 (0.99%) Games
14 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.50%) Advertising
16 4 (0.50%) Banking
16 4 (0.50%) Social Housing
17 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 348 (43.23%) Analyst
2 284 (35.28%) Data Analyst
3 256 (31.80%) Junior
4 254 (31.55%) Junior Analyst
5 243 (30.19%) Junior Data Analyst
6 154 (19.13%) Developer
7 105 (13.04%) Senior
8 73 (9.07%) Data Engineer
9 38 (4.72%) Support Analyst
10 37 (4.60%) Lead
11 34 (4.22%) Software Developer
12 32 (3.98%) Senior Developer
13 31 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
14 28 (3.48%) Support Engineer
15 27 (3.35%) .NET Developer
15 27 (3.35%) IT Support
16 26 (3.23%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
17 25 (3.11%) IT Engineer
18 24 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.58%) .NET
1 61 (7.58%) HTML
2 52 (6.46%) CSS
3 47 (5.84%) React
4 41 (5.09%) Node.js
5 39 (4.84%) .NET Core
6 31 (3.85%) ASP.NET
7 25 (3.11%) ASP.NET Core
8 21 (2.61%) REST
9 16 (1.99%) PySpark
10 14 (1.74%) RESTful
11 13 (1.61%) .NET Framework
11 13 (1.61%) Entity Framework
12 11 (1.37%) jQuery
13 9 (1.12%) JSON
13 9 (1.12%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.12%) Vue
14 8 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (0.99%) Blazor
14 8 (0.99%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (2.24%) Clustering
3 14 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.24%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 8 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.75%) NHS
9 6 (0.75%) Replication
10 5 (0.62%) 3D Graphics
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
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.47%) Windows
2 28 (3.48%) Linux
3 21 (2.61%) 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
1 372 (46.21%) Business Intelligence
2 275 (34.16%) AI
3 141 (17.52%) Analytics
4 120 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (14.16%) Agile
6 81 (10.06%) Data Modelling
7 78 (9.69%) Decision-Making
8 72 (8.94%) ETL
9 66 (8.20%) Mentoring
10 65 (8.07%) CI/CD
11 62 (7.70%) Data Analysis
11 62 (7.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 60 (7.45%) DevOps
13 57 (7.08%) Computer Science
14 51 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (6.21%) Data Engineering
16 47 (5.84%) ERP
17 46 (5.71%) Validation
18 45 (5.59%) Visualisation
19 43 (5.34%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 403 (50.06%) Python
2 75 (9.32%) C#
3 72 (8.94%) JavaScript
4 40 (4.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 32 (3.98%) T-SQL
6 31 (3.85%) PHP
7 23 (2.86%) Java
8 19 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.11%) Bash
9 17 (2.11%) R
10 11 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.24%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.12%) C++
13 8 (0.99%) VBA
14 4 (0.50%) C
15 3 (0.37%) COBOL
15 3 (0.37%) JCL
15 3 (0.37%) RPG
15 3 (0.37%) Rust
15 3 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 239 (29.69%) Azure Certification
2 68 (8.45%) Degree
3 25 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 17 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.49%) 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 48 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.48%) SLA
3 18 (2.24%) GDPR
4 17 (2.11%) QA
5 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 2 (0.25%) NIST
8 2 (0.25%) WCAG
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 36 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.11%) Docker
3 18 (2.24%) 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 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.36%) Terraform
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.37%) Grafana
4 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) MOM
Vendors
1 378 (46.96%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.20%) Databricks
3 36 (4.47%) Oracle
4 17 (2.11%) Google
5 9 (1.12%) SAP
6 8 (0.99%) ESRI
6 8 (0.99%) 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