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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 96 51 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 7.80% 20.48% 13.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 63.75% 49.71%
Number of salaries quoted 69 26 67
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £30,650
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,366
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -10.38%

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 224 80 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 18.20% 32.13% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 167 49 133
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,423 £52,500 £52,198
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +0.58% -13.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year +6.80% -3.29% -9.36%

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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 16 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 (1.04%) Apache
1 1 (1.04%) Confluence
1 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Magento
1 3 (3.13%) Sage X3
1 3 (3.13%) SAP SD
1 3 (3.13%) Shopify
2 1 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.04%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.04%) Finacle
2 1 (1.04%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.04%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.17%) Azure
2 25 (26.04%) Power Platform
3 17 (17.71%) AWS
4 12 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 12 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (11.46%) SaaS
6 8 (8.33%) GCP
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.25%) Google Analytics
8 4 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.17%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.08%) Serverless
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.04%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Firewall
1 1 (1.04%) VPN
1 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.04%) Power BI
2 16 (16.67%) Tableau
3 13 (13.54%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.29%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.17%) MySQL
7 3 (3.13%) GIS
7 3 (3.13%) Metadata
7 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.08%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.08%) Redis
8 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.08%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.04%) Power Query
9 1 (1.04%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 46 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (23.96%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.21%) Law
5 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.13%) Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Retail
8 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 31 (32.29%) Analyst
2 17 (17.71%) Senior
3 15 (15.63%) Data Analyst
4 13 (13.54%) Data Engineer
5 12 (12.50%) Junior
5 12 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
5 12 (12.50%) Junior Data Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Applications Support
7 8 (8.33%) Architect
8 7 (7.29%) Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Graduate
9 6 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Integration Architect
9 6 (6.25%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Applications Architect
10 5 (5.21%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Software Support Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) .NET
2 11 (11.46%) REST
3 9 (9.38%) JSON
4 8 (8.33%) Middleware
4 8 (8.33%) SOAP
4 8 (8.33%) XML
5 5 (5.21%) JWT
5 5 (5.21%) Kafka
5 5 (5.21%) OAuth
5 5 (5.21%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (5.21%) RESTful
6 4 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.17%) Vue
6 4 (4.17%) XML Messaging
7 3 (3.13%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.13%) React
7 3 (3.13%) WinForms
8 2 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.08%) AS400
5 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.54%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (31.25%) Agile
3 27 (28.13%) Analytics
4 26 (27.08%) AI
4 26 (27.08%) Data Modelling
5 25 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (20.83%) Decision-Making
7 19 (19.79%) DevOps
8 18 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (17.71%) CI/CD
10 15 (15.63%) Data Governance
11 14 (14.58%) ETL
12 13 (13.54%) ERP
12 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
14 9 (9.38%) API Design
14 9 (9.38%) CRM
15 8 (8.33%) Data Analysis
15 8 (8.33%) E-Commerce
15 8 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.17%) Python
2 19 (19.79%) C#
3 11 (11.46%) Java
4 7 (7.29%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.13%) VB.NET
5 3 (3.13%) VBA
6 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.04%) PHP
6 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Degree
2 14 (14.58%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) ICAEW
6 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.50%) Google
3 7 (7.29%) SAP
4 4 (4.17%) Databricks
4 4 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle
5 3 (3.13%) Sage
6 2 (2.08%) Yardi
7 1 (1.04%) FIS
7 1 (1.04%) Temenos