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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 95 47 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 7.96% 20.26% 13.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.78% 61.84% 48.59%
Number of salaries quoted 70 22 67
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,650
25th Percentile £38,438 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £64,125 £63,366
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -12.04%

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 217 76 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 18.17% 32.76% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 162 45 134
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,461 £52,500 £51,349
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% +2.24% -14.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.41% -7.39%

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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 7 August 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 (1.05%) Apache
1 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (25.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Magento
1 3 (3.16%) Sage X3
1 3 (3.16%) SAP SD
1 3 (3.16%) Shopify
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.74%) Azure
2 27 (28.42%) Power Platform
3 14 (14.74%) AWS
4 13 (13.68%) Azure AI
5 12 (12.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (11.58%) SaaS
7 8 (8.42%) GCP
8 6 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (6.32%) Google Analytics
9 4 (4.21%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (4.21%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.16%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.05%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.05%) iPaaS
12 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Firewall
1 1 (1.05%) VPN
1 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.42%) Power BI
2 16 (16.84%) Tableau
3 12 (12.63%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.37%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.21%) MySQL
7 3 (3.16%) GIS
8 2 (2.11%) Metadata
8 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.11%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.11%) Redis
8 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.11%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.05%) PowerPivot
9 1 (1.05%) SAP BW
9 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 46 (48.42%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.68%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (23.16%) Finance
4 8 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Law
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 32 (33.68%) Analyst
2 16 (16.84%) Data Analyst
3 15 (15.79%) Senior
4 13 (13.68%) Data Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) Junior
4 13 (13.68%) Junior Analyst
4 13 (13.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Applications Support
6 8 (8.42%) Architect
7 7 (7.37%) Graduate
8 6 (6.32%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Integration Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Applications Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) C# Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) .NET
2 11 (11.58%) REST
3 9 (9.47%) JSON
4 8 (8.42%) Middleware
4 8 (8.42%) SOAP
4 8 (8.42%) XML
5 5 (5.26%) JWT
5 5 (5.26%) Kafka
5 5 (5.26%) OAuth
5 5 (5.26%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (5.26%) RESTful
6 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.21%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.21%) Vue
6 4 (4.21%) XML Messaging
7 3 (3.16%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.16%) React
7 3 (3.16%) WinForms
8 2 (2.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.21%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.16%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.11%) AS400
5 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (30.53%) Agile
3 27 (28.42%) AI
3 27 (28.42%) Analytics
3 27 (28.42%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (24.21%) Data Modelling
5 22 (23.16%) Decision-Making
6 18 (18.95%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (18.95%) DevOps
7 17 (17.89%) CI/CD
8 15 (15.79%) ERP
9 13 (13.68%) ETL
9 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.63%) Data Governance
11 9 (9.47%) Actionable Insight
11 9 (9.47%) API Design
11 9 (9.47%) CRM
12 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.42%) E-Commerce
12 8 (8.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Python
2 19 (20.00%) C#
3 11 (11.58%) Java
4 7 (7.37%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.26%) VBA
6 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.16%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.05%) PHP
7 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (20.00%) Degree
2 15 (15.79%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) ACCA
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.11%) CIMA
6 1 (1.05%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) QA
2 6 (6.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.16%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.63%) Google
3 9 (9.47%) SAP
4 4 (4.21%) Databricks
4 4 (4.21%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.16%) Oracle
5 3 (3.16%) Sage
6 2 (2.11%) Yardi