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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 58 26
Rank change year-on-year +30 -32 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 452 396 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.40% 5.73% 8.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.13% 27.09% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 411 309 455
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £64,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

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 1,155 1,462 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.37% 21.17% 22.19%
Number of salaries quoted 967 856 1,181
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +18 164 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Staffordshire +10 77 £47,500 - 16
Warwickshire +62 57 £42,500 -34.62% 5
Coventry +24 27 £53,500 +40.79% 7
Shropshire +16 25 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Worcestershire -8 24 £47,500 +22.58% 5
Wolverhampton +25 13 £42,500 +10.39%
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 1
Walsall +14 4 £45,000 +5.88% 2
Stourbridge - 4 £50,000 -
Solihull -1 3 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 1
Wednesbury -7 1 £32,500 -27.78%
Herefordshire -7 1 £55,000 +10.00% 4
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 54 (11.95%) IIS
2 50 (11.06%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.11%) CMS
5 4 (0.88%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.66%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.44%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.44%) Liferay
7 2 (0.44%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Confluence
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 16 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 15 (3.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.33%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.66%) Maximo
4 2 (0.44%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.44%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Scribe Insight
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 265 (58.63%) Azure
2 110 (24.34%) Power Platform
3 68 (15.04%) AWS
4 41 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (5.53%) SaaS
7 23 (5.09%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (4.87%) PowerApps
9 21 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (4.20%) Serverless
11 18 (3.98%) Snowflake
12 15 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (3.32%) GCP
13 13 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (2.88%) Matillion
13 13 (2.88%) Power Automate
14 10 (2.21%) GitHub
14 10 (2.21%) PaaS
15 9 (1.99%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.30%) WAN
2 26 (5.75%) Firewall
3 17 (3.76%) DNS
4 16 (3.54%) BIG-IP
5 12 (2.65%) DHCP
6 10 (2.21%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.55%) HTTP
7 7 (1.55%) VPN
8 4 (0.88%) FTP
8 4 (0.88%) Internet
9 3 (0.66%) LAN
9 3 (0.66%) SSL
9 3 (0.66%) Wireless
10 2 (0.44%) Broadband
10 2 (0.44%) IPv6
10 2 (0.44%) Network Security
10 2 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (20.13%) Power BI
2 69 (15.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 64 (14.16%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (10.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 42 (9.29%) Relational Database
6 31 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (6.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (5.09%) Data Lake
9 20 (4.42%) MongoDB
10 19 (4.20%) NoSQL
11 16 (3.54%) MySQL
12 14 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.43%) SQLite
13 11 (2.43%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.21%) DynamoDB
14 10 (2.21%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.77%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (1.77%) DB2
15 8 (1.77%) Metadata
15 8 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (6.42%) Git
2 23 (5.09%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.21%) MSTest
4 9 (1.99%) GitLab
5 7 (1.55%) Postman
5 7 (1.55%) SoapUI
6 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.11%) Jasmine
7 5 (1.11%) JIRA
7 5 (1.11%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.44%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.44%) Bower
9 2 (0.44%) gulp
9 2 (0.44%) Maven
9 2 (0.44%) Moq
9 2 (0.44%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 135 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 75 (16.59%) Finance
3 37 (8.19%) Law
4 34 (7.52%) Retail
5 30 (6.64%) Manufacturing
6 29 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.54%) Legal
8 16 (3.54%) Marketing
8 16 (3.54%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.65%) Advertising
10 8 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.55%) Banking
12 6 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.88%) Police
14 2 (0.44%) Games
14 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 182 (40.27%) Developer
2 79 (17.48%) .NET Developer
3 59 (13.05%) Software Developer
4 56 (12.39%) Senior
5 41 (9.07%) Analyst
6 40 (8.85%) C# Developer
6 40 (8.85%) Consultant
7 39 (8.63%) Data Engineer
8 32 (7.08%) Lead
9 30 (6.64%) Systems Engineer
10 24 (5.31%) Administrator
11 22 (4.87%) C# Software Developer
12 17 (3.76%) SharePoint Administrator
13 16 (3.54%) DBA
14 15 (3.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 13 (2.88%) C# .NET Developer
15 13 (2.88%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.88%) Software Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (41.37%) .NET
2 121 (26.77%) ASP.NET
3 91 (20.13%) ASP.NET MVC
4 88 (19.47%) HTML
5 76 (16.81%) .NET Core
6 56 (12.39%) Entity Framework
7 53 (11.73%) AngularJS
7 53 (11.73%) ASP.NET Web API
8 50 (11.06%) .NET Framework
9 46 (10.18%) REST
10 43 (9.51%) RESTful
11 41 (9.07%) CSS
12 38 (8.41%) React
13 31 (6.86%) HTML5
14 29 (6.42%) JSON
15 28 (6.19%) Node.js
15 28 (6.19%) Vue
15 28 (6.19%) XML
16 24 (5.31%) WPF
17 22 (4.87%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.85%) Clustering
2 30 (6.64%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.09%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.42%) Public Cloud
6 19 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.76%) Low-Code
8 16 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.43%) NHS
11 9 (1.99%) Replication
12 8 (1.77%) TRADACOMS
13 7 (1.55%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
16 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
16 4 (0.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 64 (14.16%) Windows
2 21 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.20%) Linux
4 8 (1.77%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.55%) VMS
6 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.88%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.44%) Android
9 2 (0.44%) Unix
9 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (25.88%) Agile
2 113 (25.00%) MVC
3 95 (21.02%) Business Intelligence
4 94 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (19.25%) DevOps
6 63 (13.94%) ETL
6 63 (13.94%) Full Stack Development
7 50 (11.06%) High Availability
8 48 (10.62%) Microservices
9 44 (9.73%) CI/CD
9 44 (9.73%) TDD
10 39 (8.63%) Scrum
11 38 (8.41%) Load Balancing
12 34 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence
12 34 (7.52%) Data Modelling
13 31 (6.86%) BDD
13 31 (6.86%) Machine Learning
13 31 (6.86%) Software Testing
14 30 (6.64%) Decision-Making
15 29 (6.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 312 (69.03%) SQL
2 193 (42.70%) C#
3 94 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 93 (20.58%) T-SQL
5 42 (9.29%) Python
6 35 (7.74%) TypeScript
7 34 (7.52%) PowerShell
8 29 (6.42%) VB.NET
9 26 (5.75%) Java
10 20 (4.42%) VB
11 16 (3.54%) XAML
12 8 (1.77%) ActionScript
12 8 (1.77%) ActionScript 2.0
12 8 (1.77%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.55%) C
13 7 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.55%) R
14 5 (1.11%) PHP
14 5 (1.11%) VB6
15 4 (0.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 60 (13.27%) Degree
2 39 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.88%) MCSE
8 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.44%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.44%) CCNA
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.44%) HND
9 2 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.74%) QA
2 26 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.66%) PMO
5 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.98%) VMware NSX
4 13 (2.88%) Docker
5 9 (1.99%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.66%) vSphere
8 2 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.44%) XenApp
8 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (1.77%) Terraform
3 4 (0.88%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.44%) MIIS
Vendors
1 251 (55.53%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.84%) VMware
3 28 (6.19%) Oracle
4 23 (5.09%) Databricks
5 18 (3.98%) CheckPoint
6 16 (3.54%) F5
7 11 (2.43%) Facebook
7 11 (2.43%) SAP
8 9 (1.99%) DevExpress
8 9 (1.99%) IBM
8 9 (1.99%) iManage
8 9 (1.99%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.77%) SYSPRO
9 8 (1.77%) Xamarin
10 6 (1.33%) Citrix
11 5 (1.11%) Dell
11 5 (1.11%) YouTube
12 4 (0.88%) Adobe
12 4 (0.88%) Cisco