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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 80 54 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 6.52% 20.00% 13.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.46% 64.29% 46.81%
Number of salaries quoted 58 29 51
10th Percentile £30,700 £33,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% +11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £57,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%

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 208 84 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 16.95% 31.11% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 159 54 103
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,925 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £44,063 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -14.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,750 £77,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,750 £53,250
% change year-on-year +15.18% -10.33% -11.25%

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 22 September 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 1 (1.25%) Confluence
1 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Magento
1 3 (3.75%) NetSuite
1 3 (3.75%) Sage X3
1 3 (3.75%) Shopify
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.25%) Finacle
2 1 (1.25%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.25%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) Azure
2 19 (23.75%) Power Platform
3 15 (18.75%) AWS
3 15 (18.75%) SaaS
4 8 (10.00%) GCP
5 6 (7.50%) Azure AI
5 6 (7.50%) Google Analytics
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.50%) Serverless
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.25%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) VPN
1 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.75%) Power BI
2 12 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.75%) Tableau
4 7 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.75%) GIS
5 3 (3.75%) Metadata
5 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.75%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.50%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Redis
6 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.50%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.25%) Power Query
7 1 (1.25%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 35 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 30 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (25.00%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Law
5 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Analyst
2 16 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (11.25%) Data Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 8 (10.00%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Graduate
5 6 (7.50%) Integration Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Junior
5 6 (7.50%) Junior Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Junior Data Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Applications Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Software Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Performance Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) .NET
2 11 (13.75%) REST
3 9 (11.25%) JSON
4 8 (10.00%) Middleware
4 8 (10.00%) SOAP
4 8 (10.00%) XML
5 5 (6.25%) JWT
5 5 (6.25%) Kafka
5 5 (6.25%) OAuth
5 5 (6.25%) OAuth2
5 5 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (6.25%) RESTful
6 4 (5.00%) XML Messaging
7 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.75%) React
7 3 (3.75%) WinForms
8 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (2.50%) FastAPI
8 2 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.50%) AS400
5 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (35.00%) Agile
3 20 (25.00%) Analytics
3 20 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 19 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (23.75%) Decision-Making
5 17 (21.25%) AI
6 16 (20.00%) ERP
7 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
8 12 (15.00%) DevOps
9 11 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (11.25%) API Design
11 9 (11.25%) CRM
11 9 (11.25%) Data Governance
11 9 (11.25%) ETL
11 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) C#
2 12 (15.00%) Python
3 9 (11.25%) Java
4 7 (8.75%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.75%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) ICAEW
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 10 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.00%) Google
3 7 (8.75%) SAP
4 6 (7.50%) Sage
5 4 (5.00%) Oracle
6 3 (3.75%) Databricks
7 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.50%) Yardi
8 1 (1.25%) FIS
8 1 (1.25%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.25%) Temenos