SQL Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 52 29
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 460 375 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.24% 5.92% 7.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.08% 29.18% 36.60%
Number of salaries quoted 413 304 416
10th Percentile £32,850 £35,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence 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 database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,177 1,285 1,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.97% 20.29% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 973 804 1,098
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,122 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
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 Server within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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 +11 160 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Staffordshire +1 93 £50,000 +8.11% 17
Warwickshire +46 54 £42,500 -33.59% 18
Coventry +19 25 £53,500 +40.79% 6
Worcestershire -10 24 £47,500 +22.58% 7
Shropshire +9 22 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Wolverhampton +23 13 £42,500 +10.39% 1
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 1
Herefordshire -8 5 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Walsall +6 3 £45,000 +21.62% 1
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 4
Stourbridge - 3 £55,000 -
Solihull -11 2 £45,000 -12.20% 1
Wednesbury -3 1 £32,500 -27.78%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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 48 (10.43%) IIS
2 40 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.87%) CMS
4 4 (0.87%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.65%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.43%) Liferay
6 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 18 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.30%) NEC Housing
3 5 (1.09%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.65%) Maximo
5 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.43%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.22%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 263 (57.17%) Azure
2 117 (25.43%) Power Platform
3 70 (15.22%) AWS
4 41 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (5.65%) PowerApps
8 25 (5.43%) SaaS
9 20 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (3.91%) Serverless
10 18 (3.91%) Snowflake
11 17 (3.70%) Power Automate
12 13 (2.83%) Matillion
13 12 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (2.61%) GCP
14 11 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.17%) GitHub
16 9 (1.96%) Boomi
17 8 (1.74%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.09%) WAN
2 22 (4.78%) Firewall
3 19 (4.13%) DNS
4 14 (3.04%) DHCP
5 12 (2.61%) BIG-IP
6 10 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.52%) VPN
8 6 (1.30%) HTTP
9 4 (0.87%) Internet
9 4 (0.87%) LAN
9 4 (0.87%) Wireless
10 3 (0.65%) FTP
10 3 (0.65%) SSL
11 2 (0.43%) Broadband
11 2 (0.43%) Network Security
11 2 (0.43%) SAN
12 1 (0.22%) IPv6
12 1 (0.22%) VSAN
12 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (21.74%) Power BI
2 73 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (15.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 47 (10.22%) Relational Database
4 45 (9.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (6.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 31 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (6.09%) Data Lake
8 21 (4.57%) MySQL
9 19 (4.13%) MongoDB
10 17 (3.70%) NoSQL
11 16 (3.48%) Metadata
11 16 (3.48%) Oracle Database
12 12 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.39%) SQLite
13 11 (2.39%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.17%) DynamoDB
15 8 (1.74%) DB2
16 7 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 27 (5.87%) Git
2 25 (5.43%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.17%) MSTest
4 9 (1.96%) GitLab
5 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.09%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (1.09%) Postman
6 5 (1.09%) SoapUI
7 4 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.43%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.43%) Bower
8 2 (0.43%) gulp
8 2 (0.43%) JIRA
8 2 (0.43%) Moq
9 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 143 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.61%) Finance
3 34 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.39%) Retail
4 33 (7.17%) Manufacturing
5 31 (6.74%) Law
6 22 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
6 22 (4.78%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.83%) Legal
7 13 (2.83%) Marketing
8 11 (2.39%) Advertising
9 10 (2.17%) Police
10 8 (1.74%) Local Government
11 7 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.30%) Back Office
12 6 (1.30%) Banking
12 6 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 179 (38.91%) Developer
2 74 (16.09%) .NET Developer
3 60 (13.04%) Software Developer
4 53 (11.52%) Senior
5 44 (9.57%) Data Engineer
6 42 (9.13%) Analyst
7 38 (8.26%) C# Developer
7 38 (8.26%) Consultant
8 33 (7.17%) Lead
9 28 (6.09%) Administrator
10 27 (5.87%) Systems Engineer
11 22 (4.78%) DBA
12 20 (4.35%) C# Software Developer
13 17 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.26%) SharePoint Administrator
15 14 (3.04%) C# .NET Developer
16 13 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 13 (2.83%) Software Engineer
16 13 (2.83%) Support Engineer
17 12 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (40.43%) .NET
2 119 (25.87%) ASP.NET
3 87 (18.91%) ASP.NET MVC
4 86 (18.70%) HTML
5 75 (16.30%) .NET Core
6 58 (12.61%) AngularJS
7 56 (12.17%) Entity Framework
8 55 (11.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 50 (10.87%) .NET Framework
10 44 (9.57%) RESTful
11 41 (8.91%) REST
12 40 (8.70%) CSS
13 39 (8.48%) React
14 33 (7.17%) Vue
14 33 (7.17%) XML
15 30 (6.52%) JSON
16 29 (6.30%) HTML5
17 24 (5.22%) Node.js
17 24 (5.22%) WPF
18 21 (4.57%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.74%) Clustering
2 27 (5.87%) Mobile App
3 26 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (5.43%) Data Structures
5 22 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.91%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.48%) Low-Code
8 15 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (3.04%) NHS
10 11 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.17%) Driving Licence
11 10 (2.17%) Replication
12 8 (1.74%) TRADACOMS
13 7 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.30%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 4 (0.87%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.65%) Windows
2 27 (5.87%) Windows Server
3 23 (5.00%) Linux
4 8 (1.74%) Unix
4 8 (1.74%) VMS
4 8 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.87%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.43%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (27.39%) Agile
2 108 (23.48%) MVC
3 105 (22.83%) Business Intelligence
4 93 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (19.78%) DevOps
6 70 (15.22%) ETL
7 64 (13.91%) Full Stack Development
8 51 (11.09%) Microservices
9 46 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 41 (8.91%) High Availability
10 41 (8.91%) Scrum
10 41 (8.91%) TDD
11 40 (8.70%) Data Modelling
12 37 (8.04%) Machine Learning
13 36 (7.83%) Artificial Intelligence
14 33 (7.17%) Analytics
14 33 (7.17%) Customer Service
14 33 (7.17%) Performance Tuning
15 32 (6.96%) Data Engineering
16 30 (6.52%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 299 (65.00%) SQL
2 195 (42.39%) C#
3 94 (20.43%) JavaScript
4 93 (20.22%) T-SQL
5 43 (9.35%) Python
6 36 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 28 (6.09%) PowerShell
7 28 (6.09%) VB.NET
8 27 (5.87%) Java
9 23 (5.00%) VB
10 16 (3.48%) XAML
11 10 (2.17%) C++
11 10 (2.17%) R
12 8 (1.74%) ActionScript
12 8 (1.74%) ActionScript 2.0
12 8 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.52%) C
14 5 (1.09%) PHP
14 5 (1.09%) VB6
Qualifications
1 69 (15.00%) Degree
2 44 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.65%) MCSE
8 3 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.43%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.43%) CCNA
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.43%) HND
9 2 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.39%) Data Quality
1 34 (7.39%) QA
2 12 (2.61%) GDPR
3 8 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.65%) JSP 440
5 3 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.48%) VMware NSX
4 13 (2.83%) Docker
5 12 (2.61%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.87%) vSphere
7 2 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.43%) XenApp
7 2 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.61%) Terraform
2 8 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.87%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.65%) Backup Exec
4 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.43%) MIIS
6 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 257 (55.87%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.43%) VMware
3 42 (9.13%) Oracle
4 29 (6.30%) Databricks
5 14 (3.04%) CheckPoint
6 12 (2.61%) F5
7 11 (2.39%) Facebook
8 9 (1.96%) DevExpress
8 9 (1.96%) IBM
8 9 (1.96%) iManage
8 9 (1.96%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.96%) NEC
8 9 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.96%) SAP
9 8 (1.74%) Citrix
10 7 (1.52%) SYSPRO
10 7 (1.52%) Xamarin
11 6 (1.30%) Dell
12 5 (1.09%) Adobe
12 5 (1.09%) YouTube