SQL Jobs in the West Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 823 1,068 1,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.53% 17.58% 15.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.99% 48.92% 39.51%
Number of salaries quoted 730 591 893
10th Percentile £29,975 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,125 £38,125 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £76,510
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,960 2,183 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.08% 35.94% 39.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,674 1,176 2,065
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,772 £77,500 £82,500
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham -2 329 £55,000 +4.76% 76
Staffordshire -5 135 £42,500 -5.56% 28
Warwickshire -16 68 £42,500 -15.00% 18
Worcestershire -7 56 £50,000 +25.00% 9
Coventry -3 38 £53,500 +25.88% 16
Shropshire +8 36 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Wolverhampton -9 20 £42,500 -9.57% 7
Solihull -11 19 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Halesowen -3 12 £60,000 - 3
Walsall -1 11 £26,000 -17.46% 1
Sutton Coldfield - 6 £45,000 - 1
Herefordshire -9 5 £27,500 -62.07% 5
Tipton -3 4 £24,000 -26.15%
Willenhall - 3 £24,000 -
Wednesbury -7 2 - - 3
Stourbridge - 2 £50,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £50,000 -
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 43 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.98%) IIS
3 20 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.22%) Confluence
5 6 (0.73%) SAS
6 5 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (0.61%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.61%) WordPress
7 4 (0.49%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.36%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) Apache
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.24%) Liferay
9 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 62 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.85%) Trello
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.36%) Sage 300 ERP
5 2 (0.24%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 337 (40.95%) Azure
2 183 (22.24%) Power Platform
3 85 (10.33%) AWS
4 76 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (6.20%) SaaS
6 50 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 47 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (3.77%) GCP
10 28 (3.40%) Snowflake
11 24 (2.92%) Entra ID
12 23 (2.79%) Serverless
13 15 (1.82%) GitHub
14 13 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.58%) Matillion
15 12 (1.46%) PowerApps
16 11 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
17 10 (1.22%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.22%) WAN
2 37 (4.50%) Firewall
3 21 (2.55%) LAN
3 21 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.31%) DNS
5 16 (1.94%) DHCP
6 11 (1.34%) BIG-IP
6 11 (1.34%) VPN
6 11 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.22%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.09%) VoIP
9 8 (0.97%) HTTP
9 8 (0.97%) VLAN
10 6 (0.73%) MPLS
10 6 (0.73%) Wireless
11 5 (0.61%) SAN
12 4 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.49%) Network Security
12 4 (0.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (36.94%) SQL Server
2 178 (21.63%) Power BI
3 120 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (9.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 57 (6.93%) Tableau
6 51 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 45 (5.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 38 (4.62%) NoSQL
9 37 (4.50%) Data Lake
10 34 (4.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 23 (2.79%) BigQuery
12 21 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.55%) MySQL
13 19 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (2.07%) Metadata
15 14 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.58%) Looker
16 13 (1.58%) Star Schema
17 12 (1.46%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (7.29%) Git
2 30 (3.65%) JIRA
3 20 (2.43%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.34%) Postman
6 10 (1.22%) MSTest
7 9 (1.09%) GitLab
8 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.73%) NUnit
9 5 (0.61%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
9 5 (0.61%) Selenium
9 5 (0.61%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.61%) Toad
10 4 (0.49%) JUnit
11 3 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.36%) Moq
11 3 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.24%) gulp
12 2 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 243 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.74%) Finance
3 102 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (8.51%) Law
5 61 (7.41%) Retail
6 59 (7.17%) Manufacturing
7 39 (4.74%) Marketing
8 34 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.67%) Games
12 13 (1.58%) Legal
12 13 (1.58%) Local Government
13 12 (1.46%) Banking
14 11 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.22%) Automotive
15 10 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.73%) Advertising
17 5 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 277 (33.66%) Developer
2 147 (17.86%) Analyst
3 144 (17.50%) Senior
4 80 (9.72%) Software Developer
5 66 (8.02%) Data Engineer
6 54 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (6.08%) .NET Developer
7 50 (6.08%) Consultant
8 40 (4.86%) C# Developer
8 40 (4.86%) Data Analyst
8 40 (4.86%) Senior Developer
9 39 (4.74%) Lead
10 37 (4.50%) Software Engineer
11 29 (3.52%) Full Stack Developer
12 26 (3.16%) Administrator
13 25 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 25 (3.04%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (2.67%) C# Software Developer
14 22 (2.67%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (29.28%) .NET
2 117 (14.22%) HTML
3 92 (11.18%) ASP.NET
4 79 (9.60%) .NET Core
5 78 (9.48%) CSS
6 66 (8.02%) REST
7 52 (6.32%) RESTful
8 51 (6.20%) ASP.NET MVC
8 51 (6.20%) Entity Framework
9 49 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.71%) .NET Framework
11 43 (5.22%) XML
12 42 (5.10%) React
13 40 (4.86%) Web Services
14 38 (4.62%) Vue
15 37 (4.50%) JSON
16 31 (3.77%) jQuery
17 27 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web API
18 24 (2.92%) Blazor
19 19 (2.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.74%) Data Structures
1 39 (4.74%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.25%) Mobile App
2 35 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (3.89%) Clustering
4 20 (2.43%) Public Cloud
5 19 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (2.19%) NHS
7 17 (2.07%) Driving Licence
8 15 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.58%) AS400
11 12 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.34%) CCTV
12 11 (1.34%) iSeries
12 11 (1.34%) Replication
13 10 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.85%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 113 (13.73%) Windows
2 32 (3.89%) Linux
3 25 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.67%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.58%) Windows 7
6 9 (1.09%) VMS
7 8 (0.97%) Unix
8 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.36%) Android
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
2 192 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
3 185 (22.48%) Agile
4 139 (16.89%) Analytics
5 121 (14.70%) DevOps
6 114 (13.85%) ETL
7 88 (10.69%) MVC
8 82 (9.96%) Data Modelling
9 73 (8.87%) Data Science
10 70 (8.51%) Machine Learning
11 68 (8.26%) Software Engineering
12 66 (8.02%) Customer Service
13 65 (7.90%) Computer Science
14 64 (7.78%) Decision-Making
15 62 (7.53%) Full Stack Development
16 58 (7.05%) Mentoring
16 58 (7.05%) Visualisation
17 57 (6.93%) CI/CD
18 53 (6.44%) Actionable Insight
18 53 (6.44%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 231 (28.07%) C#
2 140 (17.01%) JavaScript
3 118 (14.34%) Python
4 110 (13.37%) T-SQL
5 60 (7.29%) Java
6 33 (4.01%) VB.NET
7 30 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 24 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.92%) VB
9 20 (2.43%) PHP
10 16 (1.94%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.94%) XAML
11 14 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (1.58%) C++
12 13 (1.58%) RPG
13 12 (1.46%) R
14 11 (1.34%) RPG IV
14 11 (1.34%) RPG/400
15 8 (0.97%) C
16 5 (0.61%) VB6
Qualifications
1 133 (16.16%) Degree
2 32 (3.89%) Security Cleared
3 29 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 18 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 14 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.61%) CAPM
9 5 (0.61%) ISEB
9 5 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.61%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.61%) PMP
10 4 (0.49%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.49%) HND
10 4 (0.49%) MCSE
10 4 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.36%) CCNA
11 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.74%) QA
3 13 (1.58%) GDPR
4 10 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.49%) SLA
8 1 (0.12%) ITGC
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.01%) Docker
3 26 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) RACF
7 4 (0.49%) pfSense
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) XenApp
8 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.82%) Terraform
3 5 (0.61%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.49%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.36%) SCCM
6 2 (0.24%) MIIS
6 2 (0.24%) Nessus
6 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 294 (35.72%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.41%) Databricks
3 40 (4.86%) VMware
4 33 (4.01%) Oracle
5 21 (2.55%) Google
6 20 (2.43%) IBM
7 16 (1.94%) Cisco
7 16 (1.94%) Informatica
8 15 (1.82%) DevExpress
9 13 (1.58%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.58%) Xamarin
10 11 (1.34%) F5
11 10 (1.22%) CheckPoint
11 10 (1.22%) SAP
12 9 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.97%) Adobe
14 7 (0.85%) Dell
14 7 (0.85%) InterSystems
14 7 (0.85%) Sage
15 6 (0.73%) Remedy