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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 82 69 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 13.49% 19.71% 14.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.99% 47.92% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 70 57 75
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,313 £37,500 £42,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £64,375
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,750 £76,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -9.09%

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 139 144 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 22.86% 41.14% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 114 109 198
10th Percentile £39,125 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,125 £45,000 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £67,750 £62,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £74,625 £80,750 £78,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -3.51%

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 11 January 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 (1.22%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.22%) Camunda
1 1 (1.22%) Confluence
1 1 (1.22%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (31.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (54.88%) Power Platform
2 23 (28.05%) Azure
3 10 (12.20%) Power Automate
4 6 (7.32%) AWS
5 5 (6.10%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.88%) GCP
6 4 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.66%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.44%) GitHub
8 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.44%) SaaS
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.22%) Boomi
9 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.22%) IaaS
9 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) SSL
2 1 (1.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (54.88%) Power BI
2 16 (19.51%) Tableau
3 11 (13.41%) SQL Server
4 10 (12.20%) Power Query
5 8 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (8.54%) Metadata
6 7 (8.54%) PowerPivot
7 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.10%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.88%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.88%) MySQL
8 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.66%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.44%) Postman
3 1 (1.22%) Ant
3 1 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.22%) Gradle
3 1 (1.22%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) JUnit
3 1 (1.22%) Maven
3 1 (1.22%) Mockito
3 1 (1.22%) Selenium
3 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (59.76%) Social Skills
2 30 (36.59%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (34.15%) Finance
4 7 (8.54%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Banking
7 2 (2.44%) Marketing
7 2 (2.44%) Retail
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.22%) Automotive
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Law
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (41.46%) Analyst
2 27 (32.93%) Developer
3 23 (28.05%) Data Analyst
4 13 (15.85%) Financial Analyst
5 12 (14.63%) Senior
6 11 (13.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (12.20%) Power BI Developer
8 9 (10.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (8.54%) Architect
10 7 (8.54%) Business Developer
11 6 (7.32%) SQL Developer
12 5 (6.10%) .NET Developer
12 5 (6.10%) Business Intelligence Specialist
12 5 (6.10%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (6.10%) Junior
12 5 (6.10%) Junior Analyst
12 5 (6.10%) Junior Data Analyst
12 5 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.85%) REST
2 12 (14.63%) .NET
3 7 (8.54%) JSON
3 7 (8.54%) XML
4 6 (7.32%) SAP CO-PA
5 5 (6.10%) .NET Framework
5 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.88%) React
6 4 (4.88%) SOAP
7 3 (3.66%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (3.66%) Flash
8 2 (2.44%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.44%) CSS
8 2 (2.44%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.44%) HTML
8 2 (2.44%) Middleware
8 2 (2.44%) RESTful
8 2 (2.44%) Spring
8 2 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (3.66%) IBM Storwize
1 3 (3.66%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.44%) AS400
2 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.22%) FMCG
3 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.22%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.22%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.22%) Sports Betting
3 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Unix
2 1 (1.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.10%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (37.80%) Decision-Making
4 26 (31.71%) ETL
5 23 (28.05%) Analytics
6 15 (18.29%) Visualisation
7 14 (17.07%) Computer Science
8 13 (15.85%) Agile
8 13 (15.85%) Budgeting
8 13 (15.85%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 13 (15.85%) Data Integration
9 12 (14.63%) Data Analysis
9 12 (14.63%) Data Modelling
10 10 (12.20%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.98%) Data Governance
11 9 (10.98%) ERP
11 9 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (10.98%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (9.76%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.37%) Python
2 18 (21.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 15 (18.29%) VBA
4 13 (15.85%) C#
5 6 (7.32%) Java
5 6 (7.32%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.66%) PHP
7 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.44%) C
8 2 (2.44%) Go
9 1 (1.22%) R
9 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) Degree
2 13 (15.85%) ACCA
2 13 (15.85%) CIMA
3 6 (7.32%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.32%) QA
3 3 (3.66%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Docker
2 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Control-M
3 1 (1.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (29.27%) SAP
2 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.10%) IBM
4 4 (4.88%) Google
5 2 (2.44%) Cognos
5 2 (2.44%) Talend
6 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Dell
6 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.22%) Epicor
6 1 (1.22%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.22%) IFS
6 1 (1.22%) Informatica
6 1 (1.22%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.22%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.22%) Software AG
6 1 (1.22%) Workday