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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 94 66 124
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 13.76% 19.47% 14.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.25% 46.81% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 77 55 107
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,100 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -4.76%

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 151 141 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 22.11% 41.59% 37.49%
Number of salaries quoted 122 106 266
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,563 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,875 £79,375
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,501
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.28% -4.54%

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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

SQL
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 30 January 2026.

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 6 (6.38%) SAS
2 1 (1.06%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) Camunda
Applications
1 30 (31.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (8.51%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.26%) Power Platform
2 25 (26.60%) Azure
3 10 (10.64%) Power Automate
4 9 (9.57%) AWS
5 6 (6.38%) Azure AI
6 5 (5.32%) iPaaS
7 3 (3.19%) GCP
7 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.13%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.06%) Boomi
9 1 (1.06%) GitHub
9 1 (1.06%) IBM Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.06%) SaaS
9 1 (1.06%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) SSL
2 1 (1.06%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (54.26%) Power BI
2 16 (17.02%) Tableau
3 11 (11.70%) Metadata
3 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
4 10 (10.64%) Power Query
5 8 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.45%) PowerPivot
7 6 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.32%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (4.26%) MySQL
9 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.19%) BigQuery
10 3 (3.19%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (1.06%) Base SAS
12 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 1 (1.06%) SAP BW
12 1 (1.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Git
2 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.13%) Postman
3 1 (1.06%) Ant
3 1 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.06%) Gradle
3 1 (1.06%) JUnit
3 1 (1.06%) Maven
3 1 (1.06%) Mockito
3 1 (1.06%) Selenium
3 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
General
1 56 (59.57%) Social Skills
2 38 (40.43%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (35.11%) Finance
4 10 (10.64%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.57%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.06%) Publishing
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (39.36%) Analyst
2 29 (30.85%) Developer
3 26 (27.66%) Data Analyst
4 16 (17.02%) Financial Analyst
5 13 (13.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 12 (12.77%) Power BI Developer
6 12 (12.77%) Senior
7 9 (9.57%) Business Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Architect
8 8 (8.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (7.45%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 7 (7.45%) Power BI Specialist
10 6 (6.38%) Junior
10 6 (6.38%) Junior Analyst
10 6 (6.38%) Junior Data Analyst
10 6 (6.38%) SQL Developer
11 5 (5.32%) .NET Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) REST
2 12 (12.77%) .NET
3 9 (9.57%) JSON
3 9 (9.57%) XML
4 8 (8.51%) SAP CO-PA
5 6 (6.38%) SOAP
6 5 (5.32%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.32%) ASP.NET
6 5 (5.32%) React
7 4 (4.26%) Middleware
8 3 (3.19%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (3.19%) Flash
9 2 (2.13%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.13%) CSS
9 2 (2.13%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.13%) HTML
10 1 (1.06%) Nightwatchjs
10 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (3.19%) IBM Storwize
2 3 (3.19%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.13%) AS400
3 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) FMCG
4 1 (1.06%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.06%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Unix
2 1 (1.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (54.26%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (38.30%) Decision-Making
3 35 (37.23%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (32.98%) ETL
5 24 (25.53%) Analytics
6 19 (20.21%) Computer Science
7 18 (19.15%) Agile
7 18 (19.15%) Budgeting
7 18 (19.15%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 17 (18.09%) Visualisation
9 16 (17.02%) Data Integration
10 14 (14.89%) Data Modelling
10 14 (14.89%) ERP
11 13 (13.83%) Data Analysis
12 12 (12.77%) Data Visualisation
13 11 (11.70%) Translating Business Requirements
14 10 (10.64%) Business Strategy
15 9 (9.57%) Cost Optimisation
15 9 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (9.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.11%) Python
2 19 (20.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 18 (19.15%) VBA
4 13 (13.83%) C#
5 7 (7.45%) Java
6 6 (6.38%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.19%) PHP
8 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.13%) C
9 2 (2.13%) Go
10 1 (1.06%) PROC SQL
10 1 (1.06%) R
10 1 (1.06%) SAS Macro
10 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) Degree
2 16 (17.02%) ACCA
2 16 (17.02%) CIMA
3 9 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.51%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
1 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.06%) Control-M
3 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (31.91%) SAP
2 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) IBM
4 4 (4.26%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.19%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) Cognos
6 2 (2.13%) Oracle
7 1 (1.06%) Dell
7 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.06%) Epicor
7 1 (1.06%) Infor
7 1 (1.06%) Informatica
7 1 (1.06%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.06%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.06%) Software AG
7 1 (1.06%) Talend
7 1 (1.06%) Teradata
7 1 (1.06%) TIBCO