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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 33
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 20 32 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 6.45% 8.02% 4.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.77% 36.36% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 17 29 25
10th Percentile - £22,500 £44,200
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £54,000 £53,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £95,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.04% -10.00% -

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 65 88 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 20.97% 22.06% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 46 74 88
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,925 £42,798
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -21.49% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +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 22 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
1 9 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) Fivetran
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Power BI
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (20.00%) MySQL
4 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 1 (5.00%) Looker
7 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 2 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) MSBuild
4 1 (5.00%) Selenium
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) SQL Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Data Integration Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Data Integration Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) DBA
4 4 (20.00%) Integration Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) SQL DBA
5 3 (15.00%) Report Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Power Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior
7 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) JSON
2 4 (20.00%) React
2 4 (20.00%) XML
3 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
5 1 (5.00%) JPA
5 1 (5.00%) jQuery
5 1 (5.00%) NumPy
5 1 (5.00%) Pandas
5 1 (5.00%) Redux
5 1 (5.00%) Spring
5 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (15.00%) Clustering
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (30.00%) ETL
3 5 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) AI
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Data Collection
6 2 (10.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (15.00%) C#
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) C++
7 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.00%) WSO2
3 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Solace
3 1 (5.00%) Talend
3 1 (5.00%) Zoho