SQL Developer Jobs in Birmingham

SQL Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median SQL Developer salary in Birmingham is £45,000 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 93 143 133
Rank change year-on-year +50 -10 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 20 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.36% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 0.31% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 6
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,500 £39,375
25th Percentile £43,625 £43,750 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,125 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,125 £68,750 £57,500
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%

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%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in Birmingham

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in Birmingham

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

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

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 SQL Developer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) SQL
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (75.00%) Power BI
2 15 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (65.00%) Critical Thinking
3 13 (65.00%) Analytics
4 12 (60.00%) Finance
5 11 (55.00%) SQL Server
5 11 (55.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (45.00%) ETL
6 9 (45.00%) Data Mapping
6 9 (45.00%) PaaS
6 9 (45.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (45.00%) CRM
6 9 (45.00%) SharePoint
6 9 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (45.00%) Star Schema
6 9 (45.00%) Management Information System
6 9 (45.00%) IaaS
6 9 (45.00%) Kimball Methodology
6 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
6 9 (45.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 9 (45.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (45.00%) Case Management
6 9 (45.00%) PowerApps
6 9 (45.00%) Power Automate
6 9 (45.00%) Customer Service
6 9 (45.00%) Decision-Making

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 9 (45.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (45.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (45.00%) IaaS
3 9 (45.00%) PaaS
3 9 (45.00%) Power Automate
3 9 (45.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) Power BI
2 11 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (55.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (45.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (45.00%) Star Schema
4 3 (15.00%) MySQL
5 2 (10.00%) Data Hub
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata
5 2 (10.00%) SQL CLR
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Back Office
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
1 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) jQuery
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (65.00%) Analytics
2 13 (65.00%) Critical Thinking
3 9 (45.00%) Case Management
3 9 (45.00%) CRM
3 9 (45.00%) Customer Service
3 9 (45.00%) Data Mapping
3 9 (45.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (45.00%) ETL
3 9 (45.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
4 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) MVC
5 3 (15.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (25.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) C++
4 3 (15.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) PHP
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) VMware