SQL Job Trends in Milton Keynes

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 79 73 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 17.29% 18.11% 17.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.24% 48.67% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 62 58 70
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,025
25th Percentile £41,563 £37,500 £42,574
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £67,750 £63,302 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Milton Keynes

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 129 150 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 28.23% 37.22% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 102 113 190
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,688 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £80,000 £87,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £49,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.91% +4.55% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

SQL job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL

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Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Milton Keynes

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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 (1.27%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.27%) Camunda
1 1 (1.27%) Confluence
1 1 (1.27%) SAS
1 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (25.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.84%) Power Platform
2 21 (26.58%) Azure
3 9 (11.39%) Power Automate
4 5 (6.33%) AWS
4 5 (6.33%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.06%) Azure AI
5 4 (5.06%) GCP
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub
7 2 (2.53%) SaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.27%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.27%) IaaS
8 1 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.27%) PaaS
8 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) SSL
2 1 (1.27%) Intranet
2 1 (1.27%) PBX
2 1 (1.27%) RFID
2 1 (1.27%) RTP
2 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (46.84%) Power BI
2 14 (17.72%) Tableau
3 13 (16.46%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (16.46%) SQL Server
4 10 (12.66%) Power Query
5 7 (8.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (8.86%) Metadata
5 7 (8.86%) PowerPivot
6 6 (7.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.33%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.06%) BigQuery
8 4 (5.06%) MySQL
9 2 (2.53%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Postman
3 1 (1.27%) Ant
3 1 (1.27%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.27%) Gradle
3 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) JUnit
3 1 (1.27%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) Mockito
3 1 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.27%) Selenium
3 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (55.70%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (26.58%) Finance
4 3 (3.80%) Banking
4 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Law
5 2 (2.53%) Marketing
5 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
6 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
6 1 (1.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (45.57%) Analyst
2 20 (25.32%) Data Analyst
3 19 (24.05%) Developer
4 11 (13.92%) Senior
5 10 (12.66%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) Junior
6 7 (8.86%) Junior Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.59%) SQL Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Data Integration Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Data Manager
9 4 (5.06%) Junior Data Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) REST
2 8 (10.13%) .NET
3 6 (7.59%) XML
4 5 (6.33%) JSON
5 4 (5.06%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.06%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.80%) Flash
6 3 (3.80%) React
6 3 (3.80%) RESTful
6 3 (3.80%) Spring
6 3 (3.80%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (2.53%) CSS
7 2 (2.53%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.53%) HTML
7 2 (2.53%) SOAP
8 1 (1.27%) HTML5
8 1 (1.27%) NumPy
8 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.80%) IBM Storwize
4 2 (2.53%) AS400
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.27%) Clustering
5 1 (1.27%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.27%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) SCORM
5 1 (1.27%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Unix
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.10%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (34.18%) Decision-Making
2 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (25.32%) ETL
4 16 (20.25%) Analytics
5 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
6 10 (12.66%) Agile
6 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (12.66%) Data Governance
6 10 (12.66%) Data Modelling
7 9 (11.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 8 (10.13%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (10.13%) Process Improvement
8 8 (10.13%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.86%) AI
9 7 (8.86%) Data Integration
9 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (8.86%) Planning and Forecasting
9 7 (8.86%) Strategic Roadmap
9 7 (8.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.91%) Python
2 13 (16.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (13.92%) T-SQL
4 10 (12.66%) C#
4 10 (12.66%) VBA
5 5 (6.33%) Java
6 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.80%) PHP
7 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) C
8 2 (2.53%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) R
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) ACCA
2 10 (12.66%) CIMA
3 5 (6.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMP
6 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.13%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
1 3 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) Control-M
3 1 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (17.72%) SAP
2 13 (16.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) IBM
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 2 (2.53%) Cognos
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Talend
6 1 (1.27%) Dell
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) Epicor
6 1 (1.27%) IFS
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.27%) Software AG
6 1 (1.27%) Workday