SQL Server Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 24 38 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 3.88% 10.98% 5.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.35% 46.34% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 36
10th Percentile - £48,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,750 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,875 £71,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £41,250 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.79% +11.90% -4.55%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Milton Keynes

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 124 82 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 20.06% 23.70% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 80 64 137
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,925 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Milton Keynes

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.17%) dbt
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) Fivetran
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
1 4 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.17%) Looker
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Senior
1 12 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 12 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Developer
3 6 (25.00%) SQL Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Data Integration Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Data Integration Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Integration Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) DBA
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (66.67%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
3 4 (16.67%) JSON
3 4 (16.67%) React
3 4 (16.67%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.17%) CSS
5 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.17%) jQuery
5 1 (4.17%) NumPy
5 1 (4.17%) Pandas
5 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
5 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 4 (16.67%) MVC
4 4 (16.67%) OO
5 3 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) ETL
5 3 (12.50%) Microservices
5 3 (12.50%) OOP
5 3 (12.50%) Scrum
5 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 3 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) C#
2 6 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) C
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Talend
3 1 (4.17%) Zoho