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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 55 28
Rank change year-on-year +28 -27 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 465 377 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.30% 5.88% 7.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.54% 28.89% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 418 306 415
10th Percentile £32,675 £35,250 £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 £62,001 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,500
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 1,176 1,305 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.94% 20.35% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 973 817 1,095
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £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 12 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 12 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 +16 163 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Staffordshire 0 92 £50,000 +8.11% 17
Warwickshire +53 56 £42,500 -34.11% 18
Coventry +16 26 £53,500 +40.79% 7
Worcestershire -8 24 £47,500 +22.58% 7
Shropshire +9 22 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Wolverhampton +23 13 £42,500 +10.39% 3
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 1
Herefordshire -9 5 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Walsall +5 3 £45,000 +21.62% 1
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 4
Stourbridge - 3 £55,000 -
Solihull -9 2 £45,000 -12.20% 2
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 51 (10.97%) IIS
2 42 (9.03%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.86%) CMS
4 4 (0.86%) 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 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.29%) NEC Housing
3 5 (1.08%) 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
1 267 (57.42%) Azure
2 118 (25.38%) Power Platform
3 72 (15.48%) AWS
4 41 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (5.81%) PowerApps
8 25 (5.38%) SaaS
9 20 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.87%) Power Automate
11 18 (3.87%) Serverless
11 18 (3.87%) Snowflake
12 13 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.80%) Matillion
13 12 (2.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (2.58%) GCP
14 10 (2.15%) GitHub
15 9 (1.94%) Boomi
16 8 (1.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.45%) WAN
2 23 (4.95%) Firewall
3 19 (4.09%) DNS
4 14 (3.01%) DHCP
5 13 (2.80%) BIG-IP
6 10 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.51%) VPN
8 6 (1.29%) HTTP
9 4 (0.86%) Internet
9 4 (0.86%) Wireless
10 3 (0.65%) FTP
10 3 (0.65%) LAN
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (21.72%) Power BI
2 73 (15.70%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (15.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 47 (10.11%) Relational Database
4 46 (9.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (6.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 31 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (6.02%) Data Lake
8 20 (4.30%) MySQL
9 19 (4.09%) MongoDB
9 19 (4.09%) NoSQL
10 16 (3.44%) Metadata
10 16 (3.44%) Oracle Database
11 12 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.37%) SQLite
12 11 (2.37%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.15%) DynamoDB
14 8 (1.72%) DB2
15 7 (1.51%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (5.81%) Git
2 25 (5.38%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.15%) MSTest
4 9 (1.94%) GitLab
5 6 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.08%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (1.08%) Postman
6 5 (1.08%) SoapUI
7 4 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.86%) 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
1 145 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 82 (17.63%) Finance
3 34 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.31%) Retail
4 33 (7.10%) Manufacturing
5 32 (6.88%) Law
6 23 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
7 22 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.01%) Marketing
9 13 (2.80%) Legal
10 11 (2.37%) Advertising
11 10 (2.15%) Police
12 8 (1.72%) Local Government
13 7 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.29%) Back Office
14 6 (1.29%) Banking
14 6 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 180 (38.71%) Developer
2 73 (15.70%) .NET Developer
3 61 (13.12%) Software Developer
4 55 (11.83%) Senior
5 44 (9.46%) Data Engineer
6 41 (8.82%) Analyst
7 40 (8.60%) Consultant
8 39 (8.39%) C# Developer
9 33 (7.10%) Lead
10 30 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
11 28 (6.02%) Administrator
12 22 (4.73%) DBA
13 21 (4.52%) C# Software Developer
14 17 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (3.23%) SharePoint Administrator
16 14 (3.01%) C# .NET Developer
17 13 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Consultant
17 13 (2.80%) Software Engineer
17 13 (2.80%) Support Engineer
18 12 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (40.00%) .NET
2 119 (25.59%) ASP.NET
3 88 (18.92%) ASP.NET MVC
4 86 (18.49%) HTML
5 75 (16.13%) .NET Core
6 57 (12.26%) AngularJS
7 56 (12.04%) Entity Framework
8 54 (11.61%) ASP.NET Web API
9 50 (10.75%) .NET Framework
10 44 (9.46%) RESTful
11 42 (9.03%) REST
12 40 (8.60%) CSS
13 38 (8.17%) React
14 33 (7.10%) XML
15 32 (6.88%) Vue
16 30 (6.45%) JSON
17 29 (6.24%) HTML5
18 24 (5.16%) Node.js
18 24 (5.16%) WPF
19 21 (4.52%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.31%) Clustering
2 28 (6.02%) Mobile App
3 26 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (5.38%) Data Structures
5 22 (4.73%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.30%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.44%) Low-Code
8 15 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (3.01%) NHS
10 13 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (2.15%) Driving Licence
12 10 (2.15%) Replication
13 8 (1.72%) TRADACOMS
14 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.29%) Product Ownership
16 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 4 (0.86%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.27%) Windows
2 26 (5.59%) Windows Server
3 22 (4.73%) Linux
4 8 (1.72%) Unix
4 8 (1.72%) VMS
4 8 (1.72%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.86%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.43%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (26.88%) Agile
2 109 (23.44%) MVC
3 106 (22.80%) Business Intelligence
4 96 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (20.00%) DevOps
6 70 (15.05%) ETL
7 63 (13.55%) Full Stack Development
8 50 (10.75%) Microservices
9 48 (10.32%) CI/CD
10 44 (9.46%) High Availability
11 43 (9.25%) TDD
12 41 (8.82%) Scrum
13 40 (8.60%) Data Modelling
14 37 (7.96%) Machine Learning
15 36 (7.74%) Artificial Intelligence
16 33 (7.10%) Analytics
16 33 (7.10%) Customer Service
16 33 (7.10%) Performance Tuning
17 32 (6.88%) Data Engineering
18 31 (6.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 305 (65.59%) SQL
2 195 (41.94%) C#
3 94 (20.22%) JavaScript
3 94 (20.22%) T-SQL
4 43 (9.25%) Python
5 35 (7.53%) TypeScript
6 29 (6.24%) Java
6 29 (6.24%) PowerShell
7 28 (6.02%) VB.NET
8 23 (4.95%) VB
9 16 (3.44%) XAML
10 10 (2.15%) C++
10 10 (2.15%) R
11 8 (1.72%) ActionScript
11 8 (1.72%) ActionScript 2.0
11 8 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.51%) C
13 5 (1.08%) VB6
14 4 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (14.84%) Degree
2 47 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.29%) 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 (7.31%) Data Quality
1 34 (7.31%) QA
2 12 (2.58%) GDPR
3 8 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.65%) JSP 440
5 3 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.87%) VMware NSX
4 13 (2.80%) Docker
5 12 (2.58%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.86%) vSphere
7 2 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.43%) XenApp
7 2 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.58%) Terraform
2 8 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.65%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.43%) MIIS
6 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 262 (56.34%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.75%) VMware
3 42 (9.03%) Oracle
4 29 (6.24%) Databricks
5 15 (3.23%) CheckPoint
6 13 (2.80%) F5
7 11 (2.37%) Facebook
8 9 (1.94%) DevExpress
8 9 (1.94%) IBM
8 9 (1.94%) iManage
8 9 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.94%) NEC
8 9 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.94%) SAP
9 8 (1.72%) Citrix
10 7 (1.51%) SYSPRO
10 7 (1.51%) Xamarin
11 6 (1.29%) Dell
12 5 (1.08%) Adobe
12 5 (1.08%) YouTube