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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 54 72 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 19.93% 14.52% 12.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.29% 50.00% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 28 56 61
10th Percentile £32,375 £30,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -6.82%

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 84 144 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 31.00% 29.03% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 53 107 201
10th Percentile £36,700 £32,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £51,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £68,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,500 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £49,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% -10.00% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for SQL 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 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (18.52%) IBM Domino
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Appian
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.85%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 10 (18.52%) Azure
3 5 (9.26%) GCP
4 3 (5.56%) AWS
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.56%) SaaS
4 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.85%) dbt
6 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.85%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.85%) IaaS
6 1 (1.85%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) SSL
2 1 (1.85%) PBX
2 1 (1.85%) RFID
2 1 (1.85%) RTP
2 1 (1.85%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (27.78%) Power BI
3 14 (25.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 8 (14.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (7.41%) MySQL
8 3 (5.56%) BigQuery
8 3 (5.56%) Tableau
9 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.85%) Looker
10 1 (1.85%) Metadata
10 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.85%) JUnit
4 1 (1.85%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) Mockito
4 1 (1.85%) Postman
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (57.41%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Finance
4 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Law
6 3 (5.56%) Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (9.26%) Architect
4 4 (7.41%) DBA
4 4 (7.41%) Junior
4 4 (7.41%) Junior Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Junior QA Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) QA Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) SQL DBA
4 4 (7.41%) Transformation Director
5 3 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Lead
5 3 (5.56%) Report Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (3.70%) AS400 Operator
6 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) Spring
1 5 (9.26%) Spring Boot
2 4 (7.41%) Kafka
3 3 (5.56%) CSS
3 3 (5.56%) Flash
3 3 (5.56%) HTML
3 3 (5.56%) RESTful
4 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.70%) React
5 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.85%) CSS3
5 1 (1.85%) HTML5
5 1 (1.85%) JPA
5 1 (1.85%) Laravel
5 1 (1.85%) NumPy
5 1 (1.85%) Pandas
5 1 (1.85%) Redux
5 1 (1.85%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.56%) Clustering
2 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) IBM Storwize
3 2 (3.70%) AS400
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Replication
4 1 (1.85%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 12 (22.22%) ETL
4 10 (18.52%) Data Engineering
5 8 (14.81%) Analytics
6 7 (12.96%) Agile
6 7 (12.96%) Customer Service
6 7 (12.96%) DevOps
6 7 (12.96%) Process Improvement
7 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 6 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 6 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (11.11%) Risk Management
7 6 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (11.11%) Software Testing
8 5 (9.26%) Data Transformation
8 5 (9.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Python
2 16 (29.63%) T-SQL
3 5 (9.26%) Java
4 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.85%) PMP
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
1 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) ZABBIX
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Google
2 3 (5.56%) IBM
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Zoho
3 2 (3.70%) Cognos
3 2 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.85%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Solace
4 1 (1.85%) Talend