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

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 53 29
Rank change year-on-year +26 -24 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 452 384 575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.29% 5.69% 7.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.17% 27.39% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 412 304 443
10th Percentile £33,375 £35,150 £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 £54,100
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.28% +8.20%

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 1,154 1,402 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.05% 20.76% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 968 842 1,146
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,951 £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 24 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 24 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 +17 163 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Staffordshire +7 81 £50,000 +5.26% 18
Warwickshire +62 56 £42,500 -34.62% 10
Coventry +20 27 £53,500 +40.79% 6
Worcestershire -8 24 £47,500 +21.19% 7
Shropshire +14 23 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Wolverhampton +20 13 £42,500 +10.39%
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 1
Stourbridge - 4 £50,000 -
Walsall +13 3 £45,000 +5.88% 2
Solihull -7 3 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 1
Herefordshire -9 2 £57,500 +15.00% 5
Wednesbury -6 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 55 (12.17%) IIS
2 49 (10.84%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.11%) CMS
4 5 (1.11%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.66%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.44%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.44%) Liferay
6 2 (0.44%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Confluence
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 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%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (3.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.11%) 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
1 266 (58.85%) Azure
2 110 (24.34%) Power Platform
3 69 (15.27%) AWS
4 40 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.31%) SaaS
7 23 (5.09%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (4.65%) PowerApps
10 18 (3.98%) Serverless
10 18 (3.98%) Snowflake
11 16 (3.54%) 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
14 12 (2.65%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.21%) GitHub
15 10 (2.21%) PaaS
16 9 (1.99%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.30%) WAN
2 26 (5.75%) Firewall
3 18 (3.98%) DNS
4 16 (3.54%) BIG-IP
5 13 (2.88%) 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
8 4 (0.88%) Wireless
9 3 (0.66%) LAN
9 3 (0.66%) SSL
10 2 (0.44%) Broadband
10 2 (0.44%) IPv6
10 2 (0.44%) Network Security
10 2 (0.44%) SAN
11 1 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (20.13%) Power BI
2 69 (15.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 63 (13.94%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (10.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 43 (9.51%) Relational Database
6 31 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (6.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 24 (5.31%) 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 9 (1.99%) Metadata
16 8 (1.77%) DB2
16 8 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
17 7 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (6.64%) Git
2 22 (4.87%) 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
1 137 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 74 (16.37%) Finance
3 36 (7.96%) Law
4 33 (7.30%) Retail
5 30 (6.64%) Manufacturing
6 27 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.54%) Marketing
8 16 (3.54%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.32%) Legal
10 12 (2.65%) Advertising
11 7 (1.55%) Banking
11 7 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.88%) Police
14 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.44%) Local Government
15 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (39.38%) Developer
2 77 (17.04%) .NET Developer
3 59 (13.05%) Software Developer
4 55 (12.17%) Senior
5 41 (9.07%) Analyst
6 40 (8.85%) C# Developer
6 40 (8.85%) Consultant
6 40 (8.85%) Data Engineer
7 32 (7.08%) Lead
8 31 (6.86%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (5.31%) Administrator
10 22 (4.87%) C# Software Developer
11 17 (3.76%) SharePoint Administrator
12 16 (3.54%) DBA
13 15 (3.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 14 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 13 (2.88%) C# .NET Developer
15 13 (2.88%) Software Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (40.93%) .NET
2 120 (26.55%) ASP.NET
3 90 (19.91%) ASP.NET MVC
4 87 (19.25%) HTML
5 78 (17.26%) .NET Core
6 55 (12.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 54 (11.95%) AngularJS
7 54 (11.95%) Entity Framework
8 48 (10.62%) .NET Framework
9 47 (10.40%) REST
10 43 (9.51%) RESTful
11 40 (8.85%) CSS
12 39 (8.63%) React
13 31 (6.86%) HTML5
14 30 (6.64%) JSON
14 30 (6.64%) Vue
15 28 (6.19%) Node.js
15 28 (6.19%) XML
16 25 (5.53%) WPF
17 22 (4.87%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.85%) Clustering
2 29 (6.42%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.09%) Data Structures
4 22 (4.87%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.42%) Public Cloud
5 20 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.54%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.65%) NHS
10 11 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.99%) Replication
12 8 (1.77%) TRADACOMS
13 7 (1.55%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
15 4 (0.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 69 (15.27%) Windows
2 24 (5.31%) Windows Server
3 21 (4.65%) Linux
4 8 (1.77%) VMS
4 8 (1.77%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.88%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Unix
8 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (25.66%) Agile
2 112 (24.78%) MVC
3 94 (20.80%) Business Intelligence
3 94 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (19.03%) DevOps
5 64 (14.16%) Full Stack Development
6 62 (13.72%) ETL
7 50 (11.06%) High Availability
8 49 (10.84%) Microservices
9 45 (9.96%) CI/CD
10 44 (9.73%) TDD
11 38 (8.41%) Load Balancing
11 38 (8.41%) Scrum
12 34 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence
12 34 (7.52%) Data Modelling
13 33 (7.30%) Machine Learning
14 31 (6.86%) BDD
14 31 (6.86%) Software Testing
15 30 (6.64%) Analytics
15 30 (6.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 309 (68.36%) SQL
2 190 (42.04%) C#
3 94 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 91 (20.13%) T-SQL
5 43 (9.51%) Python
6 35 (7.74%) TypeScript
7 34 (7.52%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.97%) Java
8 27 (5.97%) VB.NET
9 20 (4.42%) VB
10 16 (3.54%) XAML
11 8 (1.77%) ActionScript
11 8 (1.77%) ActionScript 2.0
11 8 (1.77%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.77%) R
12 7 (1.55%) C
12 7 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.11%) PHP
13 5 (1.11%) VB6
14 4 (0.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 61 (13.50%) Degree
2 41 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
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%) HND
9 2 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.52%) QA
2 27 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.99%) GDPR
4 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.66%) PMO
6 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (5.97%) Active Directory
1 27 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (3.98%) VMware NSX
3 13 (2.88%) Docker
4 10 (2.21%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.88%) vSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.44%) XenApp
6 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.99%) Terraform
3 8 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.88%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.44%) MIIS
6 1 (0.22%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 250 (55.31%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.50%) VMware
3 28 (6.19%) Oracle
4 24 (5.31%) Databricks
5 18 (3.98%) CheckPoint
6 16 (3.54%) F5
7 11 (2.43%) Facebook
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
8 9 (1.99%) SAP
9 7 (1.55%) SYSPRO
9 7 (1.55%) Xamarin
10 6 (1.33%) Citrix
10 6 (1.33%) Dell
11 5 (1.11%) Adobe
11 5 (1.11%) YouTube
12 4 (0.88%) Cisco