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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 94 51 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 7.75% 20.56% 13.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.12% 63.75% 49.71%
Number of salaries quoted 68 26 66
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +4.86% -15.91%
75th Percentile £57,813 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,430
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -10.38%

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 218 80 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 17.97% 32.26% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 162 49 130
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £36,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,423 £52,500 £51,349
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +2.24% -14.42%
75th Percentile £66,875 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £70,125
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -8.70%

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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 13 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 (1.06%) Apache
1 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Magento
1 3 (3.19%) Sage X3
1 3 (3.19%) SAP SD
1 3 (3.19%) Shopify
2 1 (1.06%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.06%) Finacle
2 1 (1.06%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.06%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.26%) Azure
2 24 (25.53%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.02%) AWS
4 12 (12.77%) Azure AI
4 12 (12.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (11.70%) SaaS
6 8 (8.51%) GCP
7 6 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.38%) Google Analytics
8 4 (4.26%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (4.26%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.19%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.13%) Serverless
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.06%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Firewall
1 1 (1.06%) VPN
1 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.53%) Power BI
2 15 (15.96%) Tableau
3 13 (13.83%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.45%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.26%) MySQL
6 3 (3.19%) GIS
6 3 (3.19%) Metadata
6 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (2.13%) Redis
7 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.13%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.06%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.06%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 45 (47.87%) Social Skills
2 31 (32.98%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (22.34%) Finance
4 8 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.32%) Law
5 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Retail
8 2 (2.13%) Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 31 (32.98%) Analyst
2 16 (17.02%) Senior
3 15 (15.96%) Data Analyst
4 13 (13.83%) Data Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Junior
5 12 (12.77%) Junior Analyst
5 12 (12.77%) Junior Data Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) Microsoft Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Applications Support
7 8 (8.51%) Architect
8 7 (7.45%) Graduate
9 6 (6.38%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Integration Architect
9 6 (6.38%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Applications Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.89%) .NET
2 11 (11.70%) REST
3 9 (9.57%) JSON
4 8 (8.51%) Middleware
4 8 (8.51%) SOAP
4 8 (8.51%) XML
5 5 (5.32%) JWT
5 5 (5.32%) Kafka
5 5 (5.32%) OAuth
5 5 (5.32%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (5.32%) RESTful
6 4 (4.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.26%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.26%) Vue
6 4 (4.26%) XML Messaging
7 3 (3.19%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.19%) React
7 3 (3.19%) WinForms
8 2 (2.13%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.19%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.13%) AS400
5 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (30.85%) Agile
3 27 (28.72%) Analytics
4 26 (27.66%) AI
5 25 (26.60%) Data Modelling
6 24 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (21.28%) Decision-Making
8 18 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (19.15%) DevOps
9 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
10 14 (14.89%) Data Governance
11 13 (13.83%) ERP
11 13 (13.83%) ETL
11 13 (13.83%) Software Engineering
12 10 (10.64%) Actionable Insight
13 9 (9.57%) API Design
13 9 (9.57%) CRM
14 8 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (8.51%) Data Engineering
14 8 (8.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) Python
2 19 (20.21%) C#
3 11 (11.70%) Java
4 7 (7.45%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.19%) VB.NET
5 3 (3.19%) VBA
6 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.06%) PHP
6 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Degree
2 14 (14.89%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.06%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) QA
2 8 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.19%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.45%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (41.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) Google
3 7 (7.45%) SAP
4 4 (4.26%) Databricks
4 4 (4.26%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle
5 3 (3.19%) Sage
6 2 (2.13%) Yardi
7 1 (1.06%) FIS
7 1 (1.06%) Temenos