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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 24 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 17 32 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 6.18% 6.53% 5.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.00% 27.59% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13 29 33
10th Percentile £38,550 £22,500 £45,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £54,000 £56,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £95,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £56,250 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.22% -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 50 116 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 18.18% 23.67% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 33 93 94
10th Percentile £38,550 £35,000 £45,135
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +5.26%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Milton Keynes

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Power Platform
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) Fivetran
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Power BI
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (35.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (29.41%) MySQL
4 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
6 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
7 1 (5.88%) Looker
7 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) Maven
3 2 (11.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) MSBuild
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) DBA
2 4 (23.53%) SQL DBA
3 3 (17.65%) Report Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Graduate
5 1 (5.88%) Production DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL BI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Production DBA
5 1 (5.88%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) React
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
4 1 (5.88%) JPA
4 1 (5.88%) jQuery
4 1 (5.88%) NumPy
4 1 (5.88%) Pandas
4 1 (5.88%) Redux
4 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (41.18%) ETL
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Data Collection
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) MVC
7 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) T-SQL
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.88%) Bash
7 1 (5.88%) C++
7 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) OpenAI
2 2 (11.76%) WSO2
3 1 (5.88%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Solace
3 1 (5.88%) Talend
3 1 (5.88%) Zoho