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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 79 69 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 18.29% 16.75% 17.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.20% 47.59% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 61 54 73
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,750 £63,750 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £43,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -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 127 145 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 29.40% 35.19% 47.45%
Number of salaries quoted 100 105 195
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,563 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,650 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -2.17%

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

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Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 28 November 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%) Appian
1 1 (1.27%) Camunda
1 1 (1.27%) Confluence
1 1 (1.27%) SAS
1 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) Power Platform
2 20 (25.32%) Azure
3 9 (11.39%) Power Automate
4 5 (6.33%) AWS
5 4 (5.06%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.53%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub
7 2 (2.53%) SaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.27%) dbt
8 1 (1.27%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.27%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.27%) IaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.27%) PaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Workato
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 32 (40.51%) Power BI
2 15 (18.99%) SQL Server
3 13 (16.46%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (13.92%) Tableau
5 9 (11.39%) Power Query
6 8 (10.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (8.86%) Metadata
7 7 (8.86%) PowerPivot
7 7 (8.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (6.33%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
10 4 (5.06%) BigQuery
10 4 (5.06%) MySQL
10 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
11 2 (2.53%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
12 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.53%) Postman
2 2 (2.53%) Selenium
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%) SoapUI
General
1 41 (51.90%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (25.32%) Finance
4 4 (5.06%) Banking
4 4 (5.06%) Law
5 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Marketing
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (43.04%) Analyst
2 17 (21.52%) Data Analyst
3 16 (20.25%) Developer
4 10 (12.66%) Senior
5 9 (11.39%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Junior
7 6 (7.59%) Junior Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) SQL Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Data Integration Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Data Manager
9 4 (5.06%) DBA
9 4 (5.06%) QA Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) REST
2 7 (8.86%) .NET
3 6 (7.59%) XML
4 5 (6.33%) JSON
5 4 (5.06%) ASP.NET
5 4 (5.06%) Spring
5 4 (5.06%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.80%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.80%) Flash
6 3 (3.80%) React
6 3 (3.80%) RESTful
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%) Kafka
7 2 (2.53%) SOAP
8 1 (1.27%) GraalVM
8 1 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (6.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.80%) Clustering
2 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (3.80%) IBM Storwize
3 2 (2.53%) AS400
3 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.53%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.27%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.27%) SCORM
4 1 (1.27%) Sports Betting
4 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 33 (41.77%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (31.65%) Decision-Making
4 19 (24.05%) ETL
5 15 (18.99%) Analytics
6 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
7 11 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
8 10 (12.66%) Agile
8 10 (12.66%) Data Governance
9 9 (11.39%) Collaborative Culture
9 9 (11.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 9 (11.39%) Process Improvement
10 8 (10.13%) DevOps
10 8 (10.13%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.86%) Business Forecasting
11 7 (8.86%) Planning and Forecasting
11 7 (8.86%) Software Testing
11 7 (8.86%) Strategic Roadmap
11 7 (8.86%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.38%) Python
2 13 (16.46%) T-SQL
3 11 (13.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (11.39%) C#
4 9 (11.39%) VBA
5 6 (7.59%) 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 15 (18.99%) Degree
2 9 (11.39%) ACCA
2 9 (11.39%) CIMA
3 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.27%) PMP
5 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.39%) 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 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
1 12 (15.19%) SAP
2 5 (6.33%) Google
2 5 (6.33%) IBM
3 2 (2.53%) Cognos
3 2 (2.53%) Databricks
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) Talend
4 1 (1.27%) Dell
4 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.27%) Epicor
4 1 (1.27%) IFS
4 1 (1.27%) Informatica
4 1 (1.27%) Jitterbit
4 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.27%) SnapLogic
4 1 (1.27%) Software AG
4 1 (1.27%) Workday