SQL Jobs in Staffordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 66 135 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 10.65% 12.30% 21.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.93% 53.78% 68.07%
Number of salaries quoted 40 111 103
10th Percentile - £30,500 £31,868
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £53,704 £57,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 112 251 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 18.06% 22.86% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 76 191 134
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,568 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +5.56% +8.43%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £59,625
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Staffordshire.

Salary trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stoke-on-Trent +7 29 £35,000 -6.67% 134
Stafford +3 5 £53,688 +62.69% 8
Tamworth -6 3 £51,250 +7.89% 1
Lichfield -9 3 £77,500 +93.75% 1
Rugeley -1 1 - -
Leek -9 1 - -
Burton-upon-Trent -11 1 - - 5
Cannock -11 1 - - 1
Burntwood - 1 - - 1
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 7 (10.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (59.09%) Azure
2 20 (30.30%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) Google Workspace
4 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.61%) GCP
6 4 (6.06%) Serverless
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.52%) Figma
8 1 (1.52%) GitHub
8 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 11 (16.67%) BGP
2 11 (16.67%) DHCP
2 11 (16.67%) DNS
2 11 (16.67%) Firewall
2 11 (16.67%) OSPF
2 11 (16.67%) VLAN
2 11 (16.67%) WLAN
3 9 (13.64%) LAN
3 9 (13.64%) WAN
4 1 (1.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (39.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.12%) Power BI
3 5 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.03%) MySQL
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.52%) Big Data
7 1 (1.52%) Power Query
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (27.27%) JIRA
2 17 (25.76%) Bitbucket
3 16 (24.24%) Cucumber
3 16 (24.24%) GitLab
3 16 (24.24%) Maven
3 16 (24.24%) Selenium
3 16 (24.24%) SonarQube
3 16 (24.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (4.55%) Git
5 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.52%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.52%) JUnit
5 1 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.52%) Mockito
5 1 (1.52%) Protractor
5 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.52%) Subversion
5 1 (1.52%) Vagrant
General
1 23 (34.85%) Retail
2 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 17 (25.76%) Finance
4 16 (24.24%) Banking
4 16 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (16.67%) Automotive
6 9 (13.64%) Corporate Banking
6 9 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.06%) Police
9 1 (1.52%) Games
9 1 (1.52%) Law
9 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (25.76%) Developer
2 16 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Support Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Database Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior
7 3 (4.55%) SQL Database Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.03%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Embedded Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Developer
9 1 (1.52%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) HTML
2 19 (28.79%) CSS
2 19 (28.79%) React
3 17 (25.76%) JPA
4 16 (24.24%) Kafka
4 16 (24.24%) Redux
4 16 (24.24%) Spring
4 16 (24.24%) Spring Boot
5 12 (18.18%) REST
6 10 (15.15%) CSS3
6 10 (15.15%) HTML5
6 10 (15.15%) RESTful
7 9 (13.64%) Jest
7 9 (13.64%) Sass
8 8 (12.12%) Hibernate
9 5 (7.58%) .NET
10 3 (4.55%) JSON
10 3 (4.55%) PySpark
10 3 (4.55%) XML
11 2 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Enterprise Software
1 16 (24.24%) Product Ownership
2 11 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 11 (16.67%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.82%) Windows
1 21 (31.82%) Windows Server
2 13 (19.70%) Linux
3 11 (16.67%) Mac OS X
3 11 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 11 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 11 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Agile
2 21 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 20 (30.30%) DevOps
4 19 (28.79%) Computer Science
5 18 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (27.27%) Microservices
6 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
6 17 (25.76%) Front End Development
6 17 (25.76%) Software Engineering
7 16 (24.24%) Performance Optimisation
7 16 (24.24%) SDLC
7 16 (24.24%) Test Automation
8 11 (16.67%) Business Case
8 11 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
9 10 (15.15%) Analytics
9 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
9 10 (15.15%) Responsive Web Design
9 10 (15.15%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (39.39%) JavaScript
2 24 (36.36%) Java
3 17 (25.76%) TypeScript
4 16 (24.24%) Python
5 14 (21.21%) PowerShell
6 13 (19.70%) C#
7 8 (12.12%) R
8 7 (10.61%) C++
8 7 (10.61%) PHP
9 6 (9.09%) C
9 6 (9.09%) Dart
9 6 (9.09%) MATLAB
9 6 (9.09%) Ruby
9 6 (9.09%) Rust
9 6 (9.09%) T-SQL
10 3 (4.55%) PL/SQL
11 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Degree
1 20 (30.30%) MCSE
1 20 (30.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (28.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (16.67%) HNC
3 11 (16.67%) HND
4 9 (13.64%) A+ Certification
4 9 (13.64%) MCP
4 9 (13.64%) MCSA
5 3 (4.55%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.27%) QA
2 9 (13.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 18 (27.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (24.24%) Solace
3 12 (18.18%) Dell
4 11 (16.67%) Apple
4 11 (16.67%) Cisco
4 11 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 11 (16.67%) Google
4 11 (16.67%) Ubiquiti
5 6 (9.09%) Oracle
6 3 (4.55%) Databricks
7 1 (1.52%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.52%) BMC
7 1 (1.52%) EMC
7 1 (1.52%) IBM
7 1 (1.52%) Remedy
7 1 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.52%) Tagetik