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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 57 56 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 19.66% 13.79% 14.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.28% 47.46% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 33 44 65
10th Percentile £35,250 £26,425 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £62,177 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -19.05% -4.55%

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 86 118 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 29.66% 29.06% 43.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57 89 191
10th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £51,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -14.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £67,750 £60,000 £76,625
90th Percentile £76,000 £77,750 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% -

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

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Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

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 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Appian
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) Power Platform
2 10 (17.54%) Azure
3 4 (7.02%) GCP
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (3.51%) AWS
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub
5 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.75%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.75%) IaaS
6 1 (1.75%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) PaaS
6 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) PBX
2 1 (1.75%) RFID
2 1 (1.75%) RTP
2 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (31.58%) Power BI
3 13 (22.81%) SQL Server
3 13 (22.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (12.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (10.53%) Tableau
6 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (7.02%) Metadata
6 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.02%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.26%) MySQL
8 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.75%) Looker
9 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.75%) Power Query
9 1 (1.75%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.51%) Selenium
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.75%) Maven
4 1 (1.75%) Postman
4 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Finance
4 4 (7.02%) Law
4 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Analyst
2 7 (12.28%) Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) SQL Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) DBA
5 4 (7.02%) Junior
5 4 (7.02%) Junior Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Junior QA Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) QA Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) SQL DBA
5 4 (7.02%) Transformation Director
6 3 (5.26%) Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Data Integration Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Data Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Integration Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Report Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) Spring
1 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
1 4 (7.02%) XML
2 3 (5.26%) CSS
2 3 (5.26%) Flash
2 3 (5.26%) HTML
2 3 (5.26%) JSON
2 3 (5.26%) Kafka
2 3 (5.26%) REST
3 2 (3.51%) RESTful
4 1 (1.75%) CSS3
4 1 (1.75%) HTML5
4 1 (1.75%) JPA
4 1 (1.75%) jQuery
4 1 (1.75%) Laravel
4 1 (1.75%) NumPy
4 1 (1.75%) Pandas
4 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.26%) Clustering
2 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.26%) IBM Storwize
3 2 (3.51%) AS400
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) SCORM
4 1 (1.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (28.07%) Decision-Making
3 15 (26.32%) ETL
4 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (19.30%) Analytics
5 11 (19.30%) Data Engineering
6 9 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 8 (14.04%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 7 (12.28%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (12.28%) Customer Service
8 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.28%) Process Improvement
8 7 (12.28%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (10.53%) Agile
9 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (10.53%) DevOps
9 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 6 (10.53%) Software Testing
9 6 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) Python
2 19 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 4 (7.02%) Java
4 3 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.75%) PHP
6 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) ACCA
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) CIMA
3 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (14.04%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.51%) Docker
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Google
3 3 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (3.51%) Cognos
4 2 (3.51%) Databricks
5 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.75%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Solace
5 1 (1.75%) Talend
5 1 (1.75%) Zoho