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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +23
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 46 18 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 3.72% 7.20% 5.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.66% 40.00% 21.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33 14 31
10th Percentile £40,900 £39,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,938 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +21.18% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +11.70% -18.26%

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 116 45 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.38% 18.00% 27.53%
Number of salaries quoted 78 28 142
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,000 £45,905
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +13.28% -27.71%
75th Percentile £70,969 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,475 £69,875
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,000 £51,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% +9.68% -19.13%

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 17 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Finacle
1 1 (2.17%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (2.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) SaaS
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub
4 3 (6.52%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) PaaS
4 3 (6.52%) Serverless
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Postman
3 2 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Software Engineer
2 13 (28.26%) Data Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior
5 7 (15.22%) Lead
6 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Software Support Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) .NET Developer
10 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
10 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (10.87%) WinForms
3 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.52%) React
4 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (4.35%) Blazor
4 2 (4.35%) REST
5 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Software Engineering
2 17 (36.96%) Agile
3 16 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (30.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (23.91%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 10 (21.74%) Problem Management
7 8 (17.39%) Analytics
7 8 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (13.04%) AI
9 6 (13.04%) Data Architecture
9 6 (13.04%) OO
9 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (10.87%) DevOps
10 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (10.87%) Scrum
10 5 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) C#
1 13 (28.26%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) T-SQL
3 3 (6.52%) VB.NET
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.35%) Python
4 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (2.17%) FIS
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Temenos