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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 806 1,172 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.11% 17.79% 16.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.96% 48.96% 39.62%
Number of salaries quoted 730 622 906
10th Percentile £30,450 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,357 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

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 1,876 2,394 2,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.85% 36.34% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 1,238 2,123
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,125 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,825 £79,000 £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 4 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 4 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 -3 309 £55,000 +4.76% 86
Staffordshire -3 129 £42,500 -5.56% 36
Warwickshire -3 71 £42,500 -12.82% 16
Worcestershire -4 53 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Coventry -2 46 £53,500 +22.29% 20
Shropshire +9 40 £45,750 -23.75% 5
Wolverhampton -8 21 £42,500 -9.57% 5
Solihull -4 20 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Halesowen -2 13 £60,000 - 3
Walsall +2 11 £26,000 -16.13% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 6 £45,000 -
Herefordshire -14 5 £27,500 -40.54% 4
Tipton -3 4 £24,000 -26.15%
Stourbridge - 4 £50,000 -
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 50 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 48 (5.96%) IIS
3 24 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.24%) Confluence
5 6 (0.74%) WordPress
6 5 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.50%) CMS
7 4 (0.50%) SAS
7 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.37%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Apache
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.25%) Liferay
9 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 61 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.87%) Trello
5 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.62%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.37%) Maximo
4 3 (0.37%) Sage 300 ERP
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 340 (42.18%) Azure
2 171 (21.22%) Power Platform
3 94 (11.66%) AWS
4 78 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (6.70%) SaaS
6 45 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 37 (4.59%) GCP
9 32 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (3.47%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.73%) Serverless
12 21 (2.61%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (2.11%) GitHub
14 15 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (1.61%) Matillion
16 12 (1.49%) PaaS
16 12 (1.49%) PowerApps
17 10 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.20%) WAN
2 39 (4.84%) Firewall
3 22 (2.73%) LAN
4 21 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.48%) DNS
6 17 (2.11%) DHCP
7 14 (1.74%) BIG-IP
8 11 (1.36%) HTTP
8 11 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.24%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.24%) VoIP
9 10 (1.24%) VPN
10 8 (0.99%) VLAN
11 6 (0.74%) MPLS
11 6 (0.74%) SAN
11 6 (0.74%) Wireless
12 4 (0.50%) FTP
12 4 (0.50%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.50%) Network Security
12 4 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (37.97%) SQL Server
2 165 (20.47%) Power BI
3 104 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (9.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 57 (7.07%) Tableau
6 49 (6.08%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (5.33%) NoSQL
9 33 (4.09%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 24 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (2.85%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.85%) MySQL
13 18 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.61%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.49%) Looker
17 11 (1.36%) DynamoDB
17 11 (1.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (7.44%) Git
2 32 (3.97%) JIRA
3 21 (2.61%) Visual Studio
4 18 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.61%) Postman
6 10 (1.24%) GitLab
6 10 (1.24%) MSTest
7 9 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.87%) Selenium
8 7 (0.87%) SoapUI
9 6 (0.74%) NUnit
10 5 (0.62%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (0.62%) Toad
11 4 (0.50%) JUnit
12 3 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.37%) Moq
13 2 (0.25%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.25%) Bower
13 2 (0.25%) MSBuild
General
1 230 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 138 (17.12%) Finance
3 96 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (9.18%) Law
5 63 (7.82%) Retail
6 56 (6.95%) Manufacturing
7 38 (4.71%) Marketing
8 33 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.85%) Games
12 21 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.36%) Local Government
14 10 (1.24%) Banking
14 10 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.99%) Automotive
17 7 (0.87%) Legal
18 6 (0.74%) Advertising
19 5 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 266 (33.00%) Developer
2 139 (17.25%) Analyst
3 137 (17.00%) Senior
4 79 (9.80%) Software Developer
5 62 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 50 (6.20%) .NET Developer
7 49 (6.08%) Senior Analyst
8 48 (5.96%) Consultant
9 44 (5.46%) C# Developer
10 43 (5.33%) Lead
11 39 (4.84%) Data Analyst
12 38 (4.71%) Senior Developer
13 37 (4.59%) Software Engineer
14 31 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
15 29 (3.60%) Full Stack Developer
16 26 (3.23%) Administrator
17 25 (3.10%) C# Software Developer
18 22 (2.73%) Senior Data Analyst
19 21 (2.61%) DBA
20 20 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (30.52%) .NET
2 116 (14.39%) HTML
3 96 (11.91%) ASP.NET
4 79 (9.80%) .NET Core
5 74 (9.18%) CSS
6 69 (8.56%) REST
7 53 (6.58%) ASP.NET MVC
8 52 (6.45%) RESTful
9 50 (6.20%) Entity Framework
10 48 (5.96%) AngularJS
11 46 (5.71%) .NET Framework
12 42 (5.21%) XML
13 41 (5.09%) Web Services
14 40 (4.96%) React
15 35 (4.34%) Vue
16 34 (4.22%) JSON
17 30 (3.72%) jQuery
18 27 (3.35%) ASP.NET Web API
19 26 (3.23%) Blazor
20 18 (2.23%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.96%) Clustering
2 39 (4.84%) Data Structures
2 39 (4.84%) Mobile App
3 35 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.73%) Public Cloud
6 19 (2.36%) Driving Licence
6 19 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.99%) NHS
9 14 (1.74%) AS400
10 13 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.49%) iSeries
12 11 (1.36%) CCTV
13 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.12%) Replication
15 8 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.87%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.02%) Windows
2 34 (4.22%) Linux
3 27 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.85%) Windows 10
5 14 (1.74%) Windows 7
6 9 (1.12%) Unix
7 8 (0.99%) VMS
8 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.37%) Android
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (22.33%) Agile
3 178 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
4 128 (15.88%) Analytics
5 120 (14.89%) DevOps
6 104 (12.90%) ETL
7 91 (11.29%) MVC
8 72 (8.93%) Data Science
9 71 (8.81%) Software Engineering
10 68 (8.44%) Machine Learning
11 67 (8.31%) Data Modelling
12 61 (7.57%) Customer Service
13 60 (7.44%) CI/CD
14 59 (7.32%) Full Stack Development
15 58 (7.20%) Decision-Making
16 57 (7.07%) Mentoring
17 53 (6.58%) Visualisation
18 52 (6.45%) Actionable Insight
18 52 (6.45%) Computer Science
18 52 (6.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 238 (29.53%) C#
2 132 (16.38%) JavaScript
3 121 (15.01%) Python
4 107 (13.28%) T-SQL
5 64 (7.94%) Java
6 29 (3.60%) PowerShell
6 29 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.35%) VB.NET
8 25 (3.10%) VB
9 20 (2.48%) PHP
9 20 (2.48%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.99%) XAML
11 13 (1.61%) RPG
12 11 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (1.36%) RPG IV
12 11 (1.36%) RPG/400
13 10 (1.24%) C++
13 10 (1.24%) R
14 8 (0.99%) C
15 5 (0.62%) VB6
Qualifications
1 122 (15.14%) Degree
2 37 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 23 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.61%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.36%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.99%) MCSE
8 5 (0.62%) CAPM
8 5 (0.62%) ISEB
8 5 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.62%) PMP
9 4 (0.50%) A+ Certification
9 4 (0.50%) HND
9 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.37%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.21%) QA
2 38 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.24%) GDPR
4 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.62%) SLA
7 1 (0.12%) ITGC
7 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (4.71%) Docker
2 33 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.23%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.50%) pfSense
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 23 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.36%) Terraform
3 5 (0.62%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.62%) SCCM
4 4 (0.50%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.37%) SCOM
5 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.25%) MIIS
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 284 (35.24%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.20%) Databricks
3 48 (5.96%) VMware
4 32 (3.97%) Oracle
5 23 (2.85%) Google
6 21 (2.61%) IBM
7 16 (1.99%) Cisco
8 15 (1.86%) DevExpress
9 14 (1.74%) Alteryx
9 14 (1.74%) F5
9 14 (1.74%) Informatica
9 14 (1.74%) Xamarin
10 13 (1.61%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.12%) SAP
12 8 (0.99%) Remedy
13 7 (0.87%) Adobe
13 7 (0.87%) Dell
13 7 (0.87%) InterSystems
13 7 (0.87%) Sage