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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 98 64 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 13.94% 19.10% 14.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.05% 47.76% 39.16%
Number of salaries quoted 79 53 112
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,375
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 £74,550 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 153 134 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 21.76% 40.00% 37.60%
Number of salaries quoted 122 101 274
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,325
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 6 February 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 (6.12%) SAS
2 1 (1.02%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.02%) Camunda
Applications
1 32 (32.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (10.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (9.18%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.02%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (54.08%) Power Platform
2 28 (28.57%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) Power Automate
4 9 (9.18%) AWS
5 8 (8.16%) Azure AI
6 5 (5.10%) iPaaS
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.06%) GCP
7 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.02%) Boomi
9 1 (1.02%) GitHub
9 1 (1.02%) IBM Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.02%) SaaS
9 1 (1.02%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) SSL
2 1 (1.02%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (54.08%) Power BI
2 17 (17.35%) Tableau
3 12 (12.24%) SQL Server
4 10 (10.20%) Metadata
4 10 (10.20%) Power Query
5 8 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.14%) PowerPivot
6 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.08%) MySQL
9 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (4.08%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (3.06%) BigQuery
10 3 (3.06%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (1.02%) Base SAS
12 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
12 1 (1.02%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.04%) Postman
3 1 (1.02%) Ant
3 1 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.02%) Gradle
3 1 (1.02%) JUnit
3 1 (1.02%) Maven
3 1 (1.02%) Mockito
3 1 (1.02%) Selenium
3 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.02%) SpecFlow
General
1 60 (61.22%) Social Skills
2 39 (39.80%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (36.73%) Finance
4 11 (11.22%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.20%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Marketing
7 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.02%) Automotive
8 1 (1.02%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Publishing
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Analyst
2 30 (30.61%) Developer
3 29 (29.59%) Data Analyst
4 17 (17.35%) Financial Analyst
5 14 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 13 (13.27%) Power BI Developer
7 12 (12.24%) Senior
8 10 (10.20%) Business Developer
9 8 (8.16%) Architect
9 8 (8.16%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 8 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (8.16%) Junior
9 8 (8.16%) Junior Analyst
9 8 (8.16%) Junior Data Analyst
9 8 (8.16%) Power BI Specialist
10 7 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (6.12%) Data Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) SQL Developer
12 5 (5.10%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) REST
2 12 (12.24%) .NET
3 9 (9.18%) JSON
3 9 (9.18%) SAP CO-PA
3 9 (9.18%) XML
4 6 (6.12%) SOAP
5 5 (5.10%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.10%) ASP.NET
5 5 (5.10%) React
6 4 (4.08%) Middleware
7 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (3.06%) Flash
8 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.04%) CSS
8 2 (2.04%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.04%) HTML
9 1 (1.02%) pytest
9 1 (1.02%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (3.06%) IBM Storwize
2 3 (3.06%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.04%) AS400
3 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.02%) FMCG
4 1 (1.02%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.02%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Unix
2 1 (1.02%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.10%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (37.76%) Decision-Making
3 36 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (32.65%) ETL
5 24 (24.49%) Analytics
6 20 (20.41%) Agile
6 20 (20.41%) Budgeting
6 20 (20.41%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 20 (20.41%) Computer Science
7 18 (18.37%) Data Integration
8 17 (17.35%) Visualisation
9 15 (15.31%) ERP
10 14 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 13 (13.27%) Data Visualisation
12 12 (12.24%) AI
12 12 (12.24%) Data Analysis
13 11 (11.22%) Business Strategy
13 11 (11.22%) Data Analytics
14 10 (10.20%) Cost Optimisation
14 10 (10.20%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.71%) Python
2 20 (20.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 19 (19.39%) VBA
4 13 (13.27%) C#
5 7 (7.14%) Java
6 6 (6.12%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.06%) PHP
8 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.04%) C
9 2 (2.04%) Go
9 2 (2.04%) R
10 1 (1.02%) PROC SQL
10 1 (1.02%) SAS Macro
10 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (29.59%) Degree
2 17 (17.35%) ACCA
2 17 (17.35%) CIMA
3 9 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) QA
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
1 3 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.06%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.02%) Control-M
3 1 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (32.65%) SAP
2 16 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) IBM
4 4 (4.08%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.06%) Google
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle
7 1 (1.02%) Cognos
7 1 (1.02%) Dell
7 1 (1.02%) Epicor
7 1 (1.02%) Infor
7 1 (1.02%) Informatica
7 1 (1.02%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.02%) Software AG
7 1 (1.02%) Talend
7 1 (1.02%) Teradata
7 1 (1.02%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.02%) Yardi