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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 74 62 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 19.63% 15.12% 17.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.49% 45.26% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 54 50 73
10th Percentile £35,375 £30,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,625 £53,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £63,174 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 113 137 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 29.97% 33.41% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 85 101 198
10th Percentile £36,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £53,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.63% -6.52% -

SQL
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

SQL
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Milton Keynes

SQL
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 (1.35%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.35%) Appian
1 1 (1.35%) Confluence
1 1 (1.35%) SAS
1 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.35%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.19%) Power Platform
2 15 (20.27%) Azure
3 8 (10.81%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.41%) AWS
4 4 (5.41%) GCP
4 4 (5.41%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.05%) SaaS
6 2 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.35%) dbt
7 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.35%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.35%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.35%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) SSL
2 1 (1.35%) Intranet
2 1 (1.35%) PBX
2 1 (1.35%) RFID
2 1 (1.35%) RTP
2 1 (1.35%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (39.19%) Power BI
2 15 (20.27%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (20.27%) SQL Server
3 10 (13.51%) Tableau
4 8 (10.81%) Power Query
4 8 (10.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (9.46%) Metadata
5 7 (9.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (8.11%) PowerPivot
7 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.76%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (5.41%) BigQuery
8 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.05%) MySQL
9 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) JIRA
3 2 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.70%) Postman
3 2 (2.70%) Selenium
4 1 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
General
1 41 (55.41%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.38%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (25.68%) Finance
4 5 (6.76%) Law
5 4 (5.41%) Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Marketing
6 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Analyst
2 12 (16.22%) Data Analyst
2 12 (16.22%) Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Financial Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) SQL Developer
6 5 (6.76%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Data Integration Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.41%) DBA
7 4 (5.41%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Junior
7 4 (5.41%) Junior Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Junior QA Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) QA Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) SQL DBA
7 4 (5.41%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) REST
2 6 (8.11%) XML
3 5 (6.76%) JSON
4 4 (5.41%) .NET
5 3 (4.05%) Flash
5 3 (4.05%) RESTful
5 3 (4.05%) Spring
5 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.70%) CSS
6 2 (2.70%) HTML
6 2 (2.70%) Kafka
6 2 (2.70%) React
6 2 (2.70%) SOAP
7 1 (1.35%) HTML5
7 1 (1.35%) NumPy
7 1 (1.35%) Pandas
7 1 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (6.76%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) Clustering
2 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (4.05%) IBM Storwize
3 2 (2.70%) AS400
3 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.70%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.35%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.35%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Unix
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (32.43%) Decision-Making
4 18 (24.32%) ETL
5 15 (20.27%) Analytics
6 11 (14.86%) Data Analysis
6 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
7 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (13.51%) Data Governance
7 10 (13.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (12.16%) Process Improvement
9 8 (10.81%) Agile
9 8 (10.81%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.81%) Software Testing
9 8 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (9.46%) Customer Service
10 7 (9.46%) Data Engineering
10 7 (9.46%) Strategic Roadmap
10 7 (9.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (29.73%) Python
2 15 (20.27%) T-SQL
3 10 (13.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (8.11%) C#
4 6 (8.11%) Java
4 6 (8.11%) VBA
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.05%) PHP
5 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.70%) C
7 1 (1.35%) Go
7 1 (1.35%) R
7 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) ACCA
2 6 (8.11%) CIMA
3 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.57%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.16%) QA
3 3 (4.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.35%) Control-M
2 1 (1.35%) Kibana
2 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.16%) SAP
3 5 (6.76%) Google
3 5 (6.76%) IBM
4 2 (2.70%) Cognos
4 2 (2.70%) Databricks
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) Talend
5 1 (1.35%) Dell
5 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.35%) Epicor
5 1 (1.35%) IFS
5 1 (1.35%) Informatica
5 1 (1.35%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.35%) Software AG
5 1 (1.35%) Workday