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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 91 51 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 7.39% 19.77% 13.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.55% 62.20% 49.13%
Number of salaries quoted 66 26 66
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,625 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,438 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +12.35% -22.73%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,305
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.52%

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 219 82 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 17.78% 31.78% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 165 51 132
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,375 £40,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +4.48% -16.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,125
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -10.00%

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 22 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 (1.10%) Confluence
1 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Magento
1 3 (3.30%) Sage X3
1 3 (3.30%) SAP SD
1 3 (3.30%) Shopify
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.10%) Finacle
2 1 (1.10%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.85%) Azure
2 23 (25.27%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.58%) AWS
4 12 (13.19%) SaaS
5 11 (12.09%) Azure AI
5 11 (12.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (8.79%) GCP
7 6 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.59%) Google Analytics
8 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.40%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.30%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.20%) Serverless
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.10%) iPaaS
11 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) VPN
1 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.27%) Power BI
2 15 (16.48%) Tableau
3 12 (13.19%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.30%) GIS
6 3 (3.30%) Metadata
6 3 (3.30%) MySQL
6 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.20%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (2.20%) Redis
7 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.10%) Power Query
8 1 (1.10%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) JIRA
General
1 43 (47.25%) Social Skills
2 29 (31.87%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (25.27%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.49%) Law
5 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (30.77%) Analyst
2 17 (18.68%) Senior
3 14 (15.38%) Data Analyst
4 12 (13.19%) Data Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Junior
5 11 (12.09%) Junior Analyst
5 11 (12.09%) Junior Data Analyst
6 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Applications Support
7 8 (8.79%) Architect
8 7 (7.69%) Graduate
9 6 (6.59%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Developer
9 6 (6.59%) Integration Architect
9 6 (6.59%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Applications Architect
10 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Software Support Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) .NET
2 11 (12.09%) REST
3 9 (9.89%) JSON
4 8 (8.79%) Middleware
4 8 (8.79%) SOAP
4 8 (8.79%) XML
5 5 (5.49%) JWT
5 5 (5.49%) Kafka
5 5 (5.49%) OAuth
5 5 (5.49%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (5.49%) RESTful
6 4 (4.40%) XML Messaging
7 3 (3.30%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.30%) React
7 3 (3.30%) Vue
7 3 (3.30%) WinForms
8 2 (2.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.30%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.20%) AS400
5 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.56%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (31.87%) Agile
3 25 (27.47%) Analytics
3 25 (27.47%) Data Modelling
4 23 (25.27%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (24.18%) AI
6 18 (19.78%) Decision-Making
6 18 (19.78%) DevOps
7 17 (18.68%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
9 14 (15.38%) Data Governance
9 14 (15.38%) ERP
9 14 (15.38%) ETL
10 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.89%) Actionable Insight
11 9 (9.89%) API Design
12 8 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.79%) CRM
12 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) Python
2 18 (19.78%) C#
3 11 (12.09%) Java
4 7 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.30%) VB.NET
5 3 (3.30%) VBA
6 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) PHP
7 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Degree
2 13 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) ICAEW
6 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) QA
2 8 (8.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Google
3 7 (7.69%) SAP
4 4 (4.40%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) Sage
5 3 (3.30%) Databricks
5 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.20%) Yardi
7 1 (1.10%) FIS
7 1 (1.10%) Temenos