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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 115 51 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 12.99% 18.48% 14.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.71% 50.50% 42.06%
Number of salaries quoted 88 42 127
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,275 £72,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -9.52%

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 175 101 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 19.77% 36.59% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 130 80 282
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year - +14.28% +0.00%
75th Percentile £67,750 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,375 £70,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -

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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 30 March 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 (5.22%) SAS
2 1 (0.87%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.87%) Camunda
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 45 (39.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (10.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.83%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.74%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.91%) Power Platform
2 46 (40.00%) Azure
3 16 (13.91%) Azure AI
4 13 (11.30%) Power Automate
5 11 (9.57%) AWS
5 11 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.35%) iPaaS
8 4 (3.48%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.61%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.87%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.87%) Boomi
11 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.87%) GCP
11 1 (0.87%) GitHub
11 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.87%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) Firewall
1 1 (0.87%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (53.91%) Power BI
2 25 (21.74%) Tableau
3 11 (9.57%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.70%) Metadata
4 10 (8.70%) Power Query
5 8 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.96%) PowerPivot
6 7 (6.09%) Data Lake
6 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.61%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.61%) MySQL
9 3 (2.61%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.74%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.87%) Base SAS
11 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Git
2 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.74%) Postman
3 1 (0.87%) Ant
3 1 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.87%) Gradle
3 1 (0.87%) JUnit
3 1 (0.87%) Maven
3 1 (0.87%) Mockito
3 1 (0.87%) Selenium
3 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (66.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (38.26%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (35.65%) Finance
4 12 (10.43%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (10.43%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.35%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Marketing
7 2 (1.74%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.74%) Law
8 1 (0.87%) Automotive
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.87%) Publishing
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (43.48%) Analyst
2 40 (34.78%) Data Analyst
3 29 (25.22%) Developer
4 19 (16.52%) Financial Analyst
5 16 (13.91%) Junior
5 16 (13.91%) Junior Analyst
5 16 (13.91%) Junior Data Analyst
6 15 (13.04%) Senior
7 14 (12.17%) Data Engineer
8 13 (11.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 13 (11.30%) Power BI Developer
9 10 (8.70%) Business Developer
10 8 (6.96%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 8 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (6.96%) Power BI Specialist
11 7 (6.09%) .NET Developer
12 6 (5.22%) Architect
12 6 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) .NET
1 14 (12.17%) REST
2 9 (7.83%) SAP CO-PA
3 8 (6.96%) JSON
3 8 (6.96%) XML
4 7 (6.09%) ASP.NET
5 6 (5.22%) SOAP
6 5 (4.35%) .NET Framework
6 5 (4.35%) React
7 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.48%) Middleware
8 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (2.61%) Vue
9 2 (1.74%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.74%) Entity Framework
10 1 (0.87%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.87%) CSS
10 1 (0.87%) HTML
10 1 (0.87%) RESTful
10 1 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 5 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.61%) N-Tier
4 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.74%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.87%) FMCG
5 1 (0.87%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (54.78%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (38.26%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (34.78%) Decision-Making
4 36 (31.30%) ETL
5 30 (26.09%) Analytics
6 27 (23.48%) Agile
7 26 (22.61%) AI
8 22 (19.13%) Budgeting
8 22 (19.13%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 21 (18.26%) Computer Science
9 21 (18.26%) Data Modelling
10 18 (15.65%) Visualisation
11 17 (14.78%) Data Integration
11 17 (14.78%) ERP
12 14 (12.17%) Data Governance
12 14 (12.17%) Data Visualisation
13 13 (11.30%) Data Analysis
14 12 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (10.43%) Data Analytics
14 12 (10.43%) Financial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.35%) Python
2 23 (20.00%) VBA
3 20 (17.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (13.91%) C#
5 9 (7.83%) Java
6 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.61%) PHP
7 3 (2.61%) R
7 3 (2.61%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.74%) C
8 2 (1.74%) Go
9 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.87%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.87%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (26.96%) Degree
2 19 (16.52%) ACCA
2 19 (16.52%) CIMA
3 16 (13.91%) Azure Certification
4 9 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.22%) QA
3 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (2.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.87%) Control-M
2 1 (0.87%) Kibana
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (32.17%) SAP
2 32 (27.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.48%) Cloudera
3 4 (3.48%) Databricks
4 2 (1.74%) IBM
4 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.87%) Dell
5 1 (0.87%) Epicor
5 1 (0.87%) Google
5 1 (0.87%) IFS
5 1 (0.87%) Infor
5 1 (0.87%) Informatica
5 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.87%) Software AG
5 1 (0.87%) Talend
5 1 (0.87%) Teradata
5 1 (0.87%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.87%) Workday
5 1 (0.87%) Yardi