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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 79 72 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 13.62% 20.22% 15.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.09% 48.98% 41.71%
Number of salaries quoted 66 58 71
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,313 £37,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,250 £77,500
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 136 147 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 23.45% 41.29% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 110 110 184
10th Percentile £38,725 £34,625 £37,750
25th Percentile £47,125 £45,313 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £67,688 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,875 £80,375 £80,875
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -3.51%

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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 4 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 (1.27%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.27%) Camunda
1 1 (1.27%) Confluence
1 1 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (30.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (53.16%) Power Platform
2 23 (29.11%) Azure
3 9 (11.39%) Power Automate
4 5 (6.33%) AWS
4 5 (6.33%) Azure AI
5 4 (5.06%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.80%) iPaaS
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.53%) SaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.27%) GitHub
8 1 (1.27%) IaaS
8 1 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) SSL
2 1 (1.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (53.16%) Power BI
2 16 (20.25%) Tableau
3 10 (12.66%) Power Query
3 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
4 8 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (8.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (8.86%) Metadata
5 7 (8.86%) PowerPivot
6 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.33%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.06%) BigQuery
7 4 (5.06%) MySQL
7 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.80%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.27%) Ant
3 1 (1.27%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.27%) Gradle
3 1 (1.27%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) JUnit
3 1 (1.27%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) Mockito
3 1 (1.27%) Postman
3 1 (1.27%) Selenium
3 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
General
1 48 (60.76%) Social Skills
2 27 (34.18%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (32.91%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Banking
7 2 (2.53%) Marketing
7 2 (2.53%) Retail
7 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (41.77%) Analyst
2 25 (31.65%) Developer
3 23 (29.11%) Data Analyst
4 12 (15.19%) Financial Analyst
4 12 (15.19%) Senior
5 10 (12.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (11.39%) Power BI Developer
7 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (8.86%) Architect
9 6 (7.59%) Business Developer
9 6 (7.59%) SQL Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Junior
10 5 (6.33%) Junior Analyst
10 5 (6.33%) Junior Data Analyst
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.46%) REST
2 11 (13.92%) .NET
3 7 (8.86%) JSON
3 7 (8.86%) XML
4 5 (6.33%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.33%) SAP CO-PA
5 4 (5.06%) React
5 4 (5.06%) SOAP
6 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (3.80%) Flash
7 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.53%) CSS
7 2 (2.53%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.53%) HTML
7 2 (2.53%) Middleware
7 2 (2.53%) RESTful
7 2 (2.53%) Spring
7 2 (2.53%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.27%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (3.80%) IBM Storwize
1 3 (3.80%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.53%) AS400
2 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.27%) FMCG
3 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.27%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.27%) Sports Betting
3 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Unix
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (54.43%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (39.24%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (37.97%) Decision-Making
4 24 (30.38%) ETL
5 21 (26.58%) Analytics
6 13 (16.46%) Computer Science
6 13 (16.46%) Visualisation
7 12 (15.19%) Agile
7 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
7 12 (15.19%) Data Integration
7 12 (15.19%) Data Modelling
8 11 (13.92%) Budgeting
8 11 (13.92%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 9 (11.39%) Data Governance
9 9 (11.39%) Translating Business Requirements
10 8 (10.13%) AI
10 8 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.13%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (10.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (10.13%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.44%) Python
2 17 (21.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 13 (16.46%) VBA
4 12 (15.19%) C#
5 6 (7.59%) Java
5 6 (7.59%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.80%) PHP
7 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) C
8 2 (2.53%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) R
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Degree
2 12 (15.19%) ACCA
2 12 (15.19%) CIMA
3 6 (7.59%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.59%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
1 3 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) Control-M
3 1 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (27.85%) SAP
2 14 (17.72%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) IBM
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 2 (2.53%) Cognos
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Talend
6 1 (1.27%) Dell
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) Epicor
6 1 (1.27%) IFS
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.27%) Software AG
6 1 (1.27%) Workday