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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 75 54 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 6.11% 19.42% 14.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.50% 64.29% 48.46%
Number of salaries quoted 54 29 48
10th Percentile £30,300 £33,250 £28,325
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £52,250
90th Percentile £66,750 £65,000 £58,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -17.07%

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 200 84 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 16.30% 30.22% 29.08%
Number of salaries quoted 156 54 95
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,625 £31,950
25th Percentile £48,063 £43,750 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,250 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -0.49% -14.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,750 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.80% -11.25%

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 1 October 2026.

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 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Magento
1 3 (4.00%) NetSuite
1 3 (4.00%) Sage X3
1 3 (4.00%) Shopify
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.33%) Finacle
2 1 (1.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (44.00%) Azure
2 16 (21.33%) SaaS
3 15 (20.00%) AWS
4 14 (18.67%) Power Platform
5 8 (10.67%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) Google Analytics
7 4 (5.33%) Azure AI
7 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.67%) Serverless
9 1 (1.33%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) VPN
1 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.67%) Power BI
2 12 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (12.00%) Tableau
4 7 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (4.00%) GIS
6 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.67%) Metadata
7 2 (2.67%) MySQL
7 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.67%) Redis
7 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.67%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.33%) Power Query
8 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (25.33%) Finance
4 7 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Law
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Retail
7 2 (2.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Analyst
2 15 (20.00%) Senior
3 8 (10.67%) Applications Support
3 8 (10.67%) Architect
4 6 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 6 (8.00%) Graduate
4 6 (8.00%) Integration Architect
4 6 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Applications Architect
5 5 (6.67%) Developer
5 5 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Software Support Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Support Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Junior
6 4 (5.33%) Lead
6 4 (5.33%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) .NET
2 11 (14.67%) REST
3 9 (12.00%) JSON
4 8 (10.67%) Middleware
4 8 (10.67%) SOAP
4 8 (10.67%) XML
5 5 (6.67%) JWT
5 5 (6.67%) Kafka
5 5 (6.67%) OAuth
5 5 (6.67%) OAuth2
5 5 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (6.67%) RESTful
6 4 (5.33%) XML Messaging
7 3 (4.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.00%) React
7 3 (4.00%) WinForms
8 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (2.67%) FastAPI
8 2 (2.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.67%) AS400
4 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.67%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (32.00%) Agile
3 19 (25.33%) Analytics
3 19 (25.33%) Data Modelling
4 18 (24.00%) Decision-Making
5 17 (22.67%) ERP
6 15 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (18.67%) AI
8 13 (17.33%) Software Engineering
9 11 (14.67%) DevOps
10 10 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (13.33%) CRM
10 10 (13.33%) ETL
11 9 (12.00%) API Design
11 9 (12.00%) CI/CD
11 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (10.67%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.33%) C#
2 8 (10.67%) Java
3 7 (9.33%) Python
3 7 (9.33%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) ICAEW
4 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 10 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) Google
3 6 (8.00%) Sage
3 6 (8.00%) SAP
4 4 (5.33%) Oracle
5 2 (2.67%) HubSpot
5 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.67%) Yardi
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) FIS
6 1 (1.33%) Temenos