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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 71 62 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 20.29% 15.27% 16.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.36% 45.59% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 50 50 68
10th Percentile £34,800 £29,275 £37,125
25th Percentile £39,375 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,125 £53,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,525 £63,174 £78,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -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 107 136 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 30.57% 33.50% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 77 100 191
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -14.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £77,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,375 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% -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

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 7 November 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 (1.41%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.41%) Appian
1 1 (1.41%) Confluence
1 1 (1.41%) SAS
1 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.41%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.62%) Power Platform
2 15 (21.13%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.23%) AWS
4 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.23%) GCP
4 3 (4.23%) SaaS
4 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.41%) Boomi
6 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.41%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.41%) IaaS
6 1 (1.41%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) SSL
2 1 (1.41%) Intranet
2 1 (1.41%) PBX
2 1 (1.41%) RFID
2 1 (1.41%) RTP
2 1 (1.41%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.62%) Power BI
2 17 (23.94%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (21.13%) SQL Server
4 10 (14.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (12.68%) Tableau
6 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (8.45%) Metadata
7 6 (8.45%) Power Query
8 5 (7.04%) PowerPivot
8 5 (7.04%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (4.23%) BigQuery
10 3 (4.23%) MySQL
10 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) JIRA
3 2 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.41%) Postman
4 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 41 (57.75%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (23.94%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Law
5 4 (5.63%) Banking
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing
6 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Analyst
2 11 (15.49%) Developer
3 10 (14.08%) Data Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Senior
5 6 (8.45%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) SQL Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Data Integration Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.63%) DBA
7 4 (5.63%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Junior
7 4 (5.63%) Junior Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Junior QA Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) QA Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) SQL DBA
7 4 (5.63%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) REST
2 6 (8.45%) XML
3 5 (7.04%) JSON
4 4 (5.63%) .NET
5 3 (4.23%) Flash
5 3 (4.23%) RESTful
5 3 (4.23%) Spring
5 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.82%) CSS
6 2 (2.82%) HTML
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) React
7 1 (1.41%) CSS3
7 1 (1.41%) HTML5
7 1 (1.41%) Laravel
7 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.41%) SOAP
7 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Clustering
3 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (4.23%) IBM Storwize
4 2 (2.82%) AS400
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) Replication
5 1 (1.41%) SCORM
5 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Unix
2 2 (2.82%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (35.21%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (30.99%) Decision-Making
4 17 (23.94%) ETL
5 14 (19.72%) Analytics
6 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (14.08%) Data Analysis
6 10 (14.08%) Data Governance
6 10 (14.08%) Data Modelling
6 10 (14.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 9 (12.68%) Collaborative Culture
7 9 (12.68%) Data Engineering
7 9 (12.68%) Process Improvement
8 8 (11.27%) Agile
8 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.27%) Software Testing
8 8 (11.27%) Translating Business Requirements
9 7 (9.86%) Customer Service
9 7 (9.86%) DevOps
9 7 (9.86%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.39%) Python
2 17 (23.94%) T-SQL
3 8 (11.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (8.45%) C#
5 5 (7.04%) Java
5 5 (7.04%) VBA
6 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.82%) C
7 2 (2.82%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) R
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Degree
2 5 (7.04%) ACCA
2 5 (7.04%) CIMA
3 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.31%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.68%) QA
3 3 (4.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.82%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.41%) Control-M
2 1 (1.41%) Kibana
2 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.86%) SAP
3 5 (7.04%) IBM
4 4 (5.63%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) Cognos
5 2 (2.82%) Databricks
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) Talend
6 1 (1.41%) Dell
6 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.41%) Epicor
6 1 (1.41%) IFS
6 1 (1.41%) Informatica
6 1 (1.41%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.41%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.41%) Software AG
6 1 (1.41%) Workday