SQL Developer Jobs in the Midlands

SQL Developer
England > Midlands

The median SQL Developer salary in the Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 288 253
Rank change year-on-year +80 -35 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 41 45 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.59% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 40 41 40
10th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £65,000 £57,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,368 12,574 7,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 94.28% 90.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,275 8,664 4,515
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,378 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the Midlands

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in the Midlands

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the Midlands

SQL Developer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. 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
West Midlands +57 25 £45,000 -10.00% 3
East Midlands +39 16 £45,000 -18.18% 5
SQL Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 Midlands region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) SQL
2 37 (90.24%) Azure
3 31 (75.61%) Power BI
3 31 (75.61%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (75.61%) Power Platform
4 27 (65.85%) SQL Server
5 26 (63.41%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (53.66%) Analytics
7 21 (51.22%) T-SQL
8 20 (48.78%) Critical Thinking
9 14 (34.15%) Finance
10 13 (31.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
11 12 (29.27%) ETL
11 12 (29.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (29.27%) Data Quality
12 11 (26.83%) Decision-Making
12 11 (26.83%) Retail
12 11 (26.83%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (26.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 10 (24.39%) PowerApps
13 10 (24.39%) Power Automate
13 10 (24.39%) Customer Service
13 10 (24.39%) CRM
13 10 (24.39%) SharePoint
13 10 (24.39%) Star Schema
13 10 (24.39%) Management Information System
13 10 (24.39%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (24.39%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (24.39%) Case Management

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 10 (24.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 37 (90.24%) Azure
2 31 (75.61%) Power Platform
3 10 (24.39%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (24.39%) IaaS
3 10 (24.39%) PaaS
3 10 (24.39%) Power Automate
3 10 (24.39%) PowerApps
4 7 (17.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (17.07%) GCP
4 7 (17.07%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (75.61%) Power BI
2 27 (65.85%) SQL Server
3 13 (31.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (29.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (26.83%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (24.39%) Star Schema
7 8 (19.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (19.51%) NoSQL
8 7 (17.07%) BigQuery
8 7 (17.07%) Data Lake
9 5 (12.20%) MySQL
10 2 (4.88%) Data Hub
10 2 (4.88%) Metadata
10 2 (4.88%) SQL CLR
10 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
11 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
11 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Retail
3 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Automotive
4 2 (4.88%) Back Office
4 2 (4.88%) Publishing
5 1 (2.44%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) .NET
2 6 (14.63%) ASP.NET
3 5 (12.20%) CSS
3 5 (12.20%) jQuery
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.88%) FMCG
3 2 (4.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (63.41%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (53.66%) Analytics
4 20 (48.78%) Critical Thinking
5 12 (29.27%) ETL
6 11 (26.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 11 (26.83%) Decision-Making
7 10 (24.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (24.39%) Case Management
7 10 (24.39%) CRM
7 10 (24.39%) Customer Service
7 10 (24.39%) Data Mapping
7 10 (24.39%) Database Optimisation
7 10 (24.39%) Kimball Methodology
8 8 (19.51%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (19.51%) DevOps
8 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
9 7 (17.07%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (17.07%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) SQL
2 21 (51.22%) T-SQL
3 9 (21.95%) C#
4 5 (12.20%) C++
4 5 (12.20%) Java
4 5 (12.20%) PHP
5 2 (4.88%) Python
5 2 (4.88%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) DBS Check
2 5 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) Databricks
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle