Senior SQL Developer Jobs in Birmingham

Senior SQL Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in Birmingham is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 148 137
Rank change year-on-year +39 -11 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 4 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.27% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £51,250 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,389 2,563 1,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 94.30% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 797 2,090 1,426
10th Percentile £33,550 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,991 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,435 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,886 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in Birmingham

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in Birmingham

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL Developer in Birmingham

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SQL CLR
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Hub
2 2 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Hub
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) SQL CLR
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Fintech
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Statistics
1 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware