SQL Jobs in the Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,360 1,655 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.26% 18.25% 15.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.65% 49.91% 38.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 907 1,323
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +12.94%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,116 3,316 4,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.81% 36.56% 41.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,597 1,760 3,096
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,325 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,125 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
West Midlands -4 801 £50,000 - 234
East Midlands +1 549 £45,000 -10.00% 128
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 61 (4.49%) IIS
2 58 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.88%) CMS
5 10 (0.74%) Confluence
5 10 (0.74%) SAS
6 9 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.51%) WordPress
8 5 (0.37%) Apache
8 5 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.22%) Drupal
10 3 (0.22%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) Magnolia
Applications
1 77 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.51%) Trello
5 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.37%) SPSS
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 15 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.59%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.29%) Sage 300 ERP
6 3 (0.22%) Maximo
6 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.22%) Shopify
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.074%) Magento
8 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.074%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.074%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.074%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.074%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 552 (40.59%) Azure
2 262 (19.26%) Power Platform
3 151 (11.10%) AWS
4 112 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
5 76 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (5.22%) IBM Cloud
7 57 (4.19%) SaaS
8 55 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (2.87%) GCP
11 31 (2.28%) Entra ID
11 31 (2.28%) Snowflake
12 24 (1.76%) Serverless
13 18 (1.32%) GitHub
14 17 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (1.18%) Google Analytics
15 16 (1.18%) Matillion
15 16 (1.18%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 15 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.49%) Firewall
2 46 (3.38%) WAN
3 27 (1.99%) DNS
3 27 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.76%) LAN
4 24 (1.76%) SAN
5 22 (1.62%) VPN
6 16 (1.18%) DHCP
7 12 (0.88%) BIG-IP
7 12 (0.88%) Internet
8 11 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.66%) HTTP
10 9 (0.66%) SSL
10 9 (0.66%) VoIP
11 8 (0.59%) VLAN
12 6 (0.44%) Broadband
12 6 (0.44%) MPLS
12 6 (0.44%) MQTT
12 6 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (33.24%) SQL Server
2 253 (18.60%) Power BI
3 142 (10.44%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
5 121 (8.90%) NoSQL
6 102 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 91 (6.69%) Tableau
8 88 (6.47%) MongoDB
9 80 (5.88%) DB2
10 68 (5.00%) Relational Database
11 64 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 49 (3.60%) Data Lake
13 48 (3.53%) MySQL
14 43 (3.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 38 (2.79%) Oracle Database
16 35 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (1.76%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.47%) Metadata
19 19 (1.40%) Big Data
20 18 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 104 (7.65%) Git
2 58 (4.26%) Visual Studio
3 33 (2.43%) JIRA
4 25 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
6 13 (0.96%) GitLab
7 11 (0.81%) Jasmine
7 11 (0.81%) Karma Test Runner
7 11 (0.81%) Postman
8 10 (0.74%) MSTest
9 9 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.44%) JUnit
12 6 (0.44%) NUnit
12 6 (0.44%) Selenium
13 5 (0.37%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.37%) Toad
14 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 359 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 214 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
3 172 (12.65%) Finance
4 122 (8.97%) Retail
5 116 (8.53%) Public Sector
6 109 (8.01%) Law
7 98 (7.21%) Manufacturing
8 95 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (4.04%) Marketing
10 40 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.91%) Games
13 23 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.69%) Legal
14 18 (1.32%) Automotive
15 15 (1.10%) Local Government
16 14 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.96%) Advertising
18 12 (0.88%) Banking
18 12 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 427 (31.40%) Developer
2 217 (15.96%) Analyst
3 199 (14.63%) Senior
4 122 (8.97%) Software Developer
5 93 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
6 86 (6.32%) .NET Developer
7 84 (6.18%) Data Analyst
7 84 (6.18%) Data Engineer
8 82 (6.03%) C# Developer
9 78 (5.74%) Lead
10 76 (5.59%) Full Stack Engineer
11 75 (5.51%) Senior Analyst
12 63 (4.63%) Senior Developer
13 62 (4.56%) Consultant
14 61 (4.49%) Software Engineer
15 57 (4.19%) Administrator
16 53 (3.90%) Applications Support
16 53 (3.90%) DBA
16 53 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
17 48 (3.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (33.90%) .NET
2 263 (19.34%) HTML
3 235 (17.28%) ASP.NET
4 208 (15.29%) CSS
5 165 (12.13%) React
6 161 (11.84%) AngularJS
7 156 (11.47%) REST
8 133 (9.78%) Web Services
9 121 (8.90%) jQuery
10 118 (8.68%) Vue
11 112 (8.24%) .NET Core
12 96 (7.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 93 (6.84%) ASP.NET Core
14 74 (5.44%) ASP.NET MVC
14 74 (5.44%) Ember.js
15 73 (5.37%) .NET Framework
16 71 (5.22%) Backbone.js
17 66 (4.85%) Entity Framework
18 56 (4.12%) XML
19 55 (4.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.90%) Data Structures
2 84 (6.18%) Algorithms
3 71 (5.22%) Blockchain
3 71 (5.22%) e-Learning
3 71 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (4.12%) Mobile App
6 42 (3.09%) Clustering
7 41 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 19 (1.40%) Driving Licence
11 19 (1.40%) NHS
12 16 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.18%) FMCG
13 15 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.10%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 228 (16.76%) Windows
2 164 (12.06%) Linux
3 77 (5.66%) Android
4 73 (5.37%) Apple iOS
5 53 (3.90%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 19 (1.40%) Unix
8 13 (0.96%) Windows 7
9 12 (0.88%) CentOS
9 12 (0.88%) VMS
10 11 (0.81%) Debian
10 11 (0.81%) SUSE
11 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.074%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (24.41%) Agile
2 328 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
3 270 (19.85%) Business Intelligence
4 217 (15.96%) MVC
5 186 (13.68%) Full Stack Development
6 184 (13.53%) Analytics
7 165 (12.13%) DevOps
8 157 (11.54%) Mentoring
9 145 (10.66%) Web Development
10 139 (10.22%) ETL
11 138 (10.15%) Software Engineering
12 133 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 131 (9.63%) User Experience
14 125 (9.19%) Coaching
15 108 (7.94%) Data Modelling
16 106 (7.79%) OO
17 103 (7.57%) Visualisation
18 97 (7.13%) Design Patterns
19 93 (6.84%) Data Science
19 93 (6.84%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 472 (34.71%) C#
2 322 (23.68%) JavaScript
3 196 (14.41%) Python
4 143 (10.51%) T-SQL
5 77 (5.66%) Java
6 56 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 50 (3.68%) VB
8 45 (3.31%) VB.NET
9 36 (2.65%) PL/SQL
10 32 (2.35%) PowerShell
11 31 (2.28%) C++
12 30 (2.21%) C
13 28 (2.06%) PHP
14 22 (1.62%) R
14 22 (1.62%) XAML
15 21 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (1.10%) Assembly Language
16 15 (1.10%) Bash
17 13 (0.96%) RPG
18 12 (0.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 229 (16.84%) Degree
2 63 (4.63%) DBS Check
3 47 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 33 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.35%) Security Cleared
6 24 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.40%) SC Cleared
8 9 (0.66%) HNC
9 7 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.51%) OCP
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (0.37%) CAPM
10 5 (0.37%) HND
10 5 (0.37%) ISEB
10 5 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.37%) MCSE
10 5 (0.37%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.37%) PMP
11 4 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 51 (3.75%) QA
3 25 (1.84%) SLA
4 20 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 13 (0.96%) GDPR
6 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.074%) ITGC
9 1 (0.074%) NCSC
9 1 (0.074%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (4.41%) Docker
2 52 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.37%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) pfSense
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.15%) RACF
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.074%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.18%) Terraform
3 11 (0.81%) SCCM
4 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.37%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.29%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.15%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.15%) MIIS
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.15%) SCOM
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.074%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.074%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.074%) Nessus
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Statspack
9 1 (0.074%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 413 (30.37%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.99%) Databricks
3 91 (6.69%) IBM
4 73 (5.37%) Oracle
5 71 (5.22%) Red Hat
6 63 (4.63%) VMware
7 40 (2.94%) Google
8 17 (1.25%) Cisco
8 17 (1.25%) SAP
9 16 (1.18%) DevExpress
9 16 (1.18%) Informatica
9 16 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.10%) F5
10 15 (1.10%) Xamarin
11 14 (1.03%) Alteryx
11 14 (1.03%) Veeam
12 13 (0.96%) Apple
12 13 (0.96%) SYSPRO
13 12 (0.88%) HP
14 10 (0.74%) Sage