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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 +17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 41 18 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 3.34% 6.95% 6.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.42% 39.13% 23.27%
Number of salaries quoted 29 14 31
10th Percentile £39,650 £38,575 £22,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.89% -24.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £54,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -13.64%

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 104 46 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 8.46% 17.76% 27.56%
Number of salaries quoted 70 29 128
10th Percentile £42,300 £38,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £44,309
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +16.23% -31.83%
75th Percentile £70,969 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,750 £67,875
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -25.00%

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 31 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 4 (9.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Finacle
1 1 (2.44%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (2.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) SaaS
3 5 (12.20%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.32%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 3 (7.32%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) Postman
3 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Software Engineer
2 11 (26.83%) Data Engineer
3 10 (24.39%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 8 (19.51%) Senior
6 6 (14.63%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) Lead
7 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) Software Support Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
10 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support
10 2 (4.88%) Analyst
10 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (53.66%) .NET
2 11 (26.83%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) WinForms
4 3 (7.32%) React
5 2 (4.88%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.88%) Blazor
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Software Engineering
2 15 (36.59%) Agile
3 13 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (31.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (19.51%) Lakehouse
6 8 (19.51%) Problem Management
7 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.07%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.63%) Analytics
8 6 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (14.63%) OO
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.20%) Data Architecture
9 5 (12.20%) Observability
9 5 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (9.76%) Business Strategy
10 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (9.76%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) C#
1 12 (29.27%) SQL
2 7 (17.07%) T-SQL
3 3 (7.32%) VB.NET
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) SLA
2 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Vendors
1 21 (51.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.44%) Databricks
2 1 (2.44%) FIS
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) Temenos