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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 124 51 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 12.56% 19.39% 13.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.92% 52.58% 41.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 41 124
10th Percentile £41,000 £31,250 £31,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,375 - £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +26.32% -6.40%

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 194 97 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 19.66% 36.88% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 137 74 280
10th Percentile £42,000 £38,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68,000 £66,563 £58,750
90th Percentile £79,250 £82,625 £70,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +14.29% -

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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 15 April 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 6 (4.84%) SAS
2 1 (0.81%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.81%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.81%) Camunda
2 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 47 (37.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.26%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.42%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.61%) Power Platform
2 53 (42.74%) Azure
3 20 (16.13%) Azure AI
4 14 (11.29%) AWS
5 13 (10.48%) Power Automate
6 11 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (4.84%) iPaaS
8 5 (4.03%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (3.23%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.42%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.81%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.81%) Boomi
12 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.81%) GCP
12 1 (0.81%) GitHub
12 1 (0.81%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Firewall
1 1 (0.81%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (51.61%) Power BI
2 27 (21.77%) Tableau
3 9 (7.26%) Power Query
3 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.45%) Metadata
5 7 (5.65%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.65%) PowerPivot
5 7 (5.65%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.03%) MySQL
7 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.42%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.61%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.81%) Base SAS
11 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.61%) Postman
3 1 (0.81%) Ant
3 1 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.81%) Gradle
3 1 (0.81%) JUnit
3 1 (0.81%) Maven
3 1 (0.81%) Mockito
3 1 (0.81%) Selenium
3 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
General
1 80 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 47 (37.90%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (33.06%) Finance
4 12 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (9.68%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.03%) Banking
5 5 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.23%) Law
7 3 (2.42%) Marketing
7 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.42%) Retail
8 2 (1.61%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (42.74%) Analyst
2 42 (33.87%) Data Analyst
3 29 (23.39%) Developer
4 20 (16.13%) Junior
4 20 (16.13%) Junior Analyst
4 20 (16.13%) Junior Data Analyst
5 18 (14.52%) Financial Analyst
6 14 (11.29%) Senior
7 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 13 (10.48%) Power BI Developer
8 12 (9.68%) Data Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Business Developer
10 9 (7.26%) .NET Developer
10 9 (7.26%) Architect
11 8 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 8 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.45%) Power BI Specialist
12 7 (5.65%) Applications Architect
12 7 (5.65%) C# Developer
13 6 (4.84%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.90%) .NET
2 15 (12.10%) REST
3 9 (7.26%) ASP.NET
3 9 (7.26%) JSON
3 9 (7.26%) SAP CO-PA
3 9 (7.26%) SOAP
3 9 (7.26%) XML
4 7 (5.65%) Middleware
5 6 (4.84%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.03%) .NET Framework
6 5 (4.03%) React
6 5 (4.03%) Vue
7 3 (2.42%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.61%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.61%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.61%) RESTful
9 1 (0.81%) Nightwatchjs
9 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.81%) pytest
9 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native
1 6 (4.84%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.42%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.81%) AS400
6 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.81%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.42%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (37.90%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (30.65%) Decision-Making
4 34 (27.42%) Agile
5 33 (26.61%) ETL
6 32 (25.81%) Analytics
7 31 (25.00%) AI
8 24 (19.35%) Budgeting
9 22 (17.74%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 22 (17.74%) Computer Science
9 22 (17.74%) Data Modelling
10 20 (16.13%) ERP
11 17 (13.71%) Visualisation
12 15 (12.10%) Data Integration
13 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (11.29%) Data Visualisation
13 14 (11.29%) Performance Analysis
14 13 (10.48%) Data Analysis
14 13 (10.48%) DevOps
15 12 (9.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.55%) Python
2 23 (18.55%) VBA
3 19 (15.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (14.52%) C#
5 13 (10.48%) Java
6 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.42%) PHP
7 3 (2.42%) R
8 2 (1.61%) C
8 2 (1.61%) Go
9 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.81%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.81%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (26.61%) Degree
2 20 (16.13%) Azure Certification
3 18 (14.52%) ACCA
3 18 (14.52%) CIMA
4 10 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.26%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) NCSC
2 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.81%) Control-M
2 1 (0.81%) Kibana
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (29.84%) Microsoft
1 37 (29.84%) SAP
2 5 (4.03%) Google
3 4 (3.23%) Cloudera
3 4 (3.23%) Databricks
3 4 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.61%) IBM
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) Dell
5 1 (0.81%) Epicor
5 1 (0.81%) Infor
5 1 (0.81%) Informatica
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.81%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.81%) Software AG
5 1 (0.81%) Talend
5 1 (0.81%) Teradata
5 1 (0.81%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.81%) Workday
5 1 (0.81%) Yardi