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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 84 68 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 13.38% 19.54% 14.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.15% 47.55% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 73 58 77
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,925 £76,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -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 142 143 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 22.61% 41.09% 34.33%
Number of salaries quoted 118 110 200
10th Percentile £39,625 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £67,938 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £80,375 £77,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

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 15 January 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 (1.19%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.19%) Camunda
1 1 (1.19%) Confluence
1 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (32.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (55.95%) Power Platform
2 24 (28.57%) Azure
3 10 (11.90%) Power Automate
4 6 (7.14%) AWS
5 5 (5.95%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.76%) GCP
6 4 (4.76%) iPaaS
6 4 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.38%) GitHub
7 2 (2.38%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.38%) SaaS
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.19%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.19%) IaaS
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) SSL
2 1 (1.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (55.95%) Power BI
2 16 (19.05%) Tableau
3 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
4 10 (11.90%) Power Query
5 8 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (8.33%) Metadata
6 7 (8.33%) PowerPivot
7 5 (5.95%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.95%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.76%) MySQL
8 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
2 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.38%) Postman
3 1 (1.19%) Ant
3 1 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.19%) Gradle
3 1 (1.19%) JIRA
3 1 (1.19%) JUnit
3 1 (1.19%) Maven
3 1 (1.19%) Mockito
3 1 (1.19%) Selenium
3 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 51 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (35.71%) Finance
4 8 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 7 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 2 (2.38%) Retail
7 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.19%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (40.48%) Analyst
2 28 (33.33%) Developer
3 23 (27.38%) Data Analyst
4 14 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
5 12 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 12 (14.29%) Senior
6 11 (13.10%) Power BI Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (9.52%) Architect
8 8 (9.52%) Business Developer
8 8 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 6 (7.14%) Power BI Specialist
9 6 (7.14%) SQL Developer
10 5 (5.95%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Junior Analyst
10 5 (5.95%) Junior Data Analyst
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.67%) REST
2 12 (14.29%) .NET
3 8 (9.52%) JSON
3 8 (9.52%) XML
4 7 (8.33%) SAP CO-PA
5 5 (5.95%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.95%) ASP.NET
5 5 (5.95%) SOAP
6 4 (4.76%) React
7 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (3.57%) Flash
7 3 (3.57%) Middleware
8 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.38%) CSS
8 2 (2.38%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.38%) HTML
8 2 (2.38%) RESTful
8 2 (2.38%) Spring
8 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (3.57%) IBM Storwize
1 3 (3.57%) N-Tier
1 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.38%) AS400
2 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.19%) FMCG
3 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.19%) Sports Betting
3 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (1.19%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (38.10%) Decision-Making
4 28 (33.33%) ETL
5 24 (28.57%) Analytics
6 16 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 16 (19.05%) Visualisation
7 15 (17.86%) Agile
7 15 (17.86%) Budgeting
7 15 (17.86%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 14 (16.67%) Data Integration
9 13 (15.48%) Data Modelling
10 12 (14.29%) Data Analysis
11 11 (13.10%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (13.10%) ERP
12 10 (11.90%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (10.71%) Business Strategy
13 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (10.71%) Data Governance
13 9 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) Python
2 19 (22.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 16 (19.05%) VBA
4 13 (15.48%) C#
5 7 (8.33%) Java
6 6 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.57%) PHP
8 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.38%) C
9 2 (2.38%) Go
10 1 (1.19%) R
10 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (27.38%) Degree
2 14 (16.67%) ACCA
2 14 (16.67%) CIMA
3 7 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.57%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Control-M
3 1 (1.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (30.95%) SAP
2 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.95%) IBM
4 4 (4.76%) Google
5 2 (2.38%) Cognos
5 2 (2.38%) Talend
6 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.19%) Dell
6 1 (1.19%) Epicor
6 1 (1.19%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.19%) Infor
6 1 (1.19%) Informatica
6 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle
6 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.19%) Software AG
6 1 (1.19%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.19%) Zoho