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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 100 44 118
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 8.67% 18.41% 14.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.39% 60.27% 45.38%
Number of salaries quoted 73 18 97
10th Percentile £30,200 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £56,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £58,875 £68,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% +14.44% -15.09%

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 211 73 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 18.28% 30.54% 31.14%
Number of salaries quoted 159 41 190
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,599
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.75% -10.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £70,125
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -8.70%

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

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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 17 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 (5.00%) SAS
2 1 (1.00%) Apache
2 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (27.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) SAP SD
2 2 (2.00%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.00%) Magento
3 1 (1.00%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (54.00%) Azure
2 35 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 15 (15.00%) AWS
3 15 (15.00%) Azure AI
4 12 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (7.00%) SaaS
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (6.00%) GCP
6 6 (6.00%) Google Analytics
7 4 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.00%) iPaaS
9 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
1 1 (1.00%) VPN
1 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (35.00%) Power BI
2 18 (18.00%) Tableau
3 14 (14.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.00%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.00%) Metadata
7 4 (4.00%) MySQL
7 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.00%) GIS
8 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.00%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.00%) Base SAS
9 1 (1.00%) PowerPivot
9 1 (1.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 1 (1.00%) Star Schema
General
1 55 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (39.00%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (23.00%) Finance
4 7 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Law
6 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.00%) Marketing
8 2 (2.00%) Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Health Technology
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (36.00%) Analyst
2 21 (21.00%) Data Analyst
3 15 (15.00%) Junior
3 15 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
3 15 (15.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 13 (13.00%) Data Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Senior
6 9 (9.00%) Architect
6 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Graduate
8 7 (7.00%) Integration Architect
9 6 (6.00%) Applications Architect
9 6 (6.00%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (5.00%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) .NET
2 12 (12.00%) REST
3 10 (10.00%) JSON
4 9 (9.00%) Middleware
4 9 (9.00%) SOAP
4 9 (9.00%) XML
5 5 (5.00%) JWT
5 5 (5.00%) Kafka
5 5 (5.00%) OAuth
5 5 (5.00%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (5.00%) RESTful
6 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.00%) React
6 4 (4.00%) Vue
6 4 (4.00%) XML Messaging
7 3 (3.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.00%) WinForms
8 2 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.00%) AS400
5 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (34.00%) Agile
4 31 (31.00%) AI
5 30 (30.00%) Analytics
6 26 (26.00%) Decision-Making
7 24 (24.00%) Data Modelling
8 19 (19.00%) DevOps
9 18 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (18.00%) ETL
10 16 (16.00%) CI/CD
10 16 (16.00%) ERP
11 14 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.00%) Data Governance
13 11 (11.00%) Computer Science
13 11 (11.00%) CRM
14 10 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
14 10 (10.00%) Visualisation
15 9 (9.00%) Budgeting
15 9 (9.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.00%) Python
2 15 (15.00%) C#
3 12 (12.00%) Java
4 8 (8.00%) VBA
5 7 (7.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.00%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.00%) R
9 1 (1.00%) PHP
9 1 (1.00%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.00%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (25.00%) Degree
2 17 (17.00%) Azure Certification
3 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.00%) ACCA
4 5 (5.00%) CIMA
4 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 8 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) SAP
3 12 (12.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) Cloudera
4 4 (4.00%) Databricks
4 4 (4.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.00%) Yardi
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle
7 1 (1.00%) Sage
7 1 (1.00%) Teradata