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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 16 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 19 39 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 5.43% 9.61% 4.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.68% 39.39% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 23
10th Percentile - £26,250 £43,350
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -14.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £95,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% -

All Database and 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 77 99 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 22.00% 24.38% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 54 79 96
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,700 £42,649
25th Percentile £42,813 £36,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -14.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,938 £59,375 £77,125
90th Percentile £71,375 £65,650 £87,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,750 £51,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.28% -10.43% +4.55%

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 7 November 2025.

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 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) dbt
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) Fivetran
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Power BI
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (26.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (21.05%) MySQL
5 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.26%) Looker
6 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
3 1 (5.26%) MSBuild
General
1 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) SQL Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Data Integration Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Data Integration Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) DBA
4 4 (21.05%) Integration Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) SQL DBA
5 3 (15.79%) Report Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Administrator
7 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Graduate
7 1 (5.26%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET
2 4 (21.05%) JSON
2 4 (21.05%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) XML
3 3 (15.79%) React
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) NumPy
4 1 (5.26%) Pandas
4 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) N-Tier
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) ETL
3 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (21.05%) High Availability
4 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) MVC
5 3 (15.79%) OO
5 3 (15.79%) OOP
5 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) SQL
2 12 (63.16%) T-SQL
3 5 (26.32%) C#
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.53%) C
6 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.26%) Bash
7 1 (5.26%) C++
7 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (5.26%) Java
7 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) OpenAI
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Talend
3 1 (5.26%) Zoho