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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 76 74 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 14.90% 20.27% 17.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.30% 50.68% 41.90%
Number of salaries quoted 63 58 69
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,750 £65,250 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -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 135 146 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 26.47% 40.00% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 110 108 178
10th Percentile £38,400 £33,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,438 £42,188 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £67,688 £62,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,125 £82,525
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Milton Keynes

SQL
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 (1.32%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.32%) Camunda
1 1 (1.32%) Confluence
1 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 21 (27.63%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 5 (6.58%) AWS
4 5 (6.58%) Azure AI
5 4 (5.26%) GCP
5 4 (5.26%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.63%) GitHub
6 2 (2.63%) SaaS
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.32%) Boomi
7 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.32%) IaaS
7 1 (1.32%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) SSL
2 1 (1.32%) Intranet
2 1 (1.32%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (50.00%) Power BI
2 16 (21.05%) Tableau
3 11 (14.47%) SQL Server
4 10 (13.16%) Power Query
5 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (9.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (9.21%) Metadata
6 7 (9.21%) PowerPivot
7 6 (7.89%) NoSQL
8 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (6.58%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
9 4 (5.26%) BigQuery
9 4 (5.26%) MySQL
10 3 (3.95%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.32%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Postman
3 1 (1.32%) Ant
3 1 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.32%) Gradle
3 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) JUnit
3 1 (1.32%) Maven
3 1 (1.32%) Mockito
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
3 1 (1.32%) SoapUI
General
1 43 (56.58%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (28.95%) Finance
3 4 (5.26%) Banking
3 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Marketing
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
5 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.32%) Automotive
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Law
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (42.11%) Analyst
2 24 (31.58%) Developer
3 21 (27.63%) Data Analyst
4 12 (15.79%) Senior
5 10 (13.16%) Financial Analyst
6 8 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (9.21%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Junior
8 6 (7.89%) Junior Analyst
8 6 (7.89%) SQL Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Architect
9 5 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Junior Data Analyst
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) .NET
1 11 (14.47%) REST
2 6 (7.89%) XML
3 5 (6.58%) .NET Framework
3 5 (6.58%) ASP.NET
3 5 (6.58%) JSON
4 4 (5.26%) React
5 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (3.95%) Flash
5 3 (3.95%) RESTful
5 3 (3.95%) SAP CO-PA
5 3 (3.95%) Spring
5 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.63%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.63%) CSS
6 2 (2.63%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.63%) HTML
6 2 (2.63%) SOAP
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.32%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
1 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (3.95%) IBM Storwize
1 3 (3.95%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.63%) AS400
2 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.32%) FMCG
3 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.32%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.32%) Sports Betting
3 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Unix
2 1 (1.32%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (51.32%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (38.16%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (35.53%) Decision-Making
4 21 (27.63%) ETL
5 18 (23.68%) Analytics
6 12 (15.79%) Data Analysis
7 10 (13.16%) Agile
7 10 (13.16%) Data Integration
7 10 (13.16%) Data Modelling
7 10 (13.16%) Visualisation
8 9 (11.84%) Computer Science
8 9 (11.84%) Data Governance
8 9 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (10.53%) AI
9 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 8 (10.53%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.21%) Budgeting
10 7 (9.21%) Software Engineering
10 7 (9.21%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 15 (19.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (15.79%) C#
4 10 (13.16%) VBA
5 7 (9.21%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.58%) Java
7 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.95%) PHP
8 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.63%) C
9 2 (2.63%) Go
10 1 (1.32%) R
10 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (22.37%) Degree
2 10 (13.16%) ACCA
2 10 (13.16%) CIMA
3 6 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.89%) QA
3 3 (3.95%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Docker
1 3 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.32%) Control-M
3 1 (1.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) SAP
2 14 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.58%) IBM
4 4 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (2.63%) Cognos
5 2 (2.63%) Databricks
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle
5 2 (2.63%) Talend
6 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.32%) Dell
6 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.32%) Epicor
6 1 (1.32%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.32%) IFS
6 1 (1.32%) Informatica
6 1 (1.32%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.32%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.32%) Software AG
6 1 (1.32%) Workday