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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 103 43 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 8.94% 18.14% 14.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.58% 60.56% 44.25%
Number of salaries quoted 75 18 108
10th Percentile £30,400 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +4.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £56,063
90th Percentile £71,250 £63,375 £67,875
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% +10.75% -11.43%

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 212 71 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 18.40% 29.96% 31.85%
Number of salaries quoted 159 40 216
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,875 £36,375
25th Percentile £46,875 £48,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £85,250 £73,125
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -8.70%

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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

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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 11 July 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 5 (4.85%) SAS
2 1 (0.97%) Apache
2 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (28.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) SAP CO
1 3 (2.91%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.97%) Magento
2 1 (0.97%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.97%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (53.40%) Azure
2 38 (36.89%) Power Platform
3 16 (15.53%) Azure AI
4 15 (14.56%) AWS
5 12 (11.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (5.83%) GCP
6 6 (5.83%) Google Analytics
6 6 (5.83%) SaaS
7 4 (3.88%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.88%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.91%) iPaaS
8 3 (2.91%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.97%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Firewall
1 1 (0.97%) VPN
1 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.89%) Power BI
2 19 (18.45%) Tableau
3 13 (12.62%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.80%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.85%) Metadata
7 4 (3.88%) MySQL
7 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.94%) GIS
8 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.94%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (1.94%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.97%) Base SAS
9 1 (0.97%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.97%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 1 (0.97%) Star Schema
General
1 59 (57.28%) Social Skills
2 42 (40.78%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (24.27%) Finance
4 8 (7.77%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.80%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Law
6 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Marketing
8 2 (1.94%) Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (36.89%) Analyst
2 23 (22.33%) Data Analyst
3 16 (15.53%) Junior
3 16 (15.53%) Junior Analyst
3 16 (15.53%) Junior Data Analyst
4 13 (12.62%) Data Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Senior
6 10 (9.71%) Architect
7 9 (8.74%) Developer
7 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Integration Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Applications Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Graduate
10 6 (5.83%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Financial Analyst
10 6 (5.83%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Software Support Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.59%) .NET
2 13 (12.62%) REST
3 11 (10.68%) JSON
4 10 (9.71%) Middleware
4 10 (9.71%) SOAP
4 10 (9.71%) XML
5 5 (4.85%) JWT
5 5 (4.85%) Kafka
5 5 (4.85%) OAuth
5 5 (4.85%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (4.85%) RESTful
6 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.88%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.88%) React
6 4 (3.88%) Vue
6 4 (3.88%) XML Messaging
7 3 (2.91%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.91%) SAP CO-PA
7 3 (2.91%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.88%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.94%) AS400
6 2 (1.94%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.97%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.86%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (36.89%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (34.95%) Agile
4 32 (31.07%) AI
5 31 (30.10%) Analytics
6 28 (27.18%) Decision-Making
7 25 (24.27%) Data Modelling
8 20 (19.42%) ETL
9 19 (18.45%) DevOps
10 18 (17.48%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (17.48%) ERP
11 16 (15.53%) CI/CD
12 14 (13.59%) Software Engineering
13 13 (12.62%) Computer Science
13 13 (12.62%) Data Governance
14 12 (11.65%) CRM
15 11 (10.68%) Budgeting
15 11 (10.68%) Visualisation
16 10 (9.71%) Actionable Insight
16 10 (9.71%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.92%) Python
2 15 (14.56%) C#
3 13 (12.62%) Java
4 9 (8.74%) VBA
5 7 (6.80%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.91%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.94%) R
9 1 (0.97%) PHP
9 1 (0.97%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.97%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 27 (26.21%) Degree
2 18 (17.48%) Azure Certification
3 9 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.83%) ACCA
4 6 (5.83%) CIMA
5 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.71%) QA
2 8 (7.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.94%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (39.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.56%) SAP
3 12 (11.65%) Google
4 4 (3.88%) Cloudera
4 4 (3.88%) Databricks
4 4 (3.88%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.91%) Yardi
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.97%) Sage
7 1 (0.97%) Teradata