SQL Server Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 33 48
Rank change year-on-year -27 +15 -21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 289 684 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.15% 4.97% 6.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.90% 37.32% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 192 583 431
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,717 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% -1.79% +1.82%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 805 1,833 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.57% 13.32% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 546 1,319 1,115
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,398 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
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 Server within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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 -25 157 £57,500 +15.00% 72
East Midlands -10 131 £48,500 +2.11% 44
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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 48 (16.61%) Confluence
2 19 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.50%) IIS
4 8 (2.77%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.04%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.35%) Moqups
3 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.35%) Sketch
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.73%) Exchequer
3 4 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (1.38%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (1.38%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.69%) Odoo
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 201 (69.55%) Azure
2 84 (29.07%) AWS
3 61 (21.11%) Power Platform
4 56 (19.38%) GCP
5 25 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.57%) SaaS
8 16 (5.54%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.19%) IaaS
10 11 (3.81%) Snowflake
11 9 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (3.11%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.77%) PaaS
13 7 (2.42%) GitHub
13 7 (2.42%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.73%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.73%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 2 (0.69%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.54%) DHCP
1 16 (5.54%) DNS
1 16 (5.54%) Firewall
2 11 (3.81%) SAN
3 8 (2.77%) LAN
3 8 (2.77%) VPN
3 8 (2.77%) WAN
4 6 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.69%) HTTP
6 2 (0.69%) Skype
6 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.69%) Wireless
7 1 (0.35%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) PBX
7 1 (0.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.30%) Power BI
2 47 (16.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 34 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (8.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (7.61%) Data Lake
7 18 (6.23%) MySQL
8 12 (4.15%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (3.46%) BusinessObjects
9 10 (3.46%) Data Hub
9 10 (3.46%) Metadata
9 10 (3.46%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.11%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (2.42%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.42%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.42%) Tableau
12 6 (2.08%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 66 (22.84%) JIRA
2 64 (22.15%) Selenium
3 63 (21.80%) Bitbucket
3 63 (21.80%) Cucumber
3 63 (21.80%) GitLab
3 63 (21.80%) Maven
3 63 (21.80%) SonarQube
3 63 (21.80%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (4.84%) Visual Studio
5 13 (4.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (2.77%) Git
7 3 (1.04%) JUnit
7 3 (1.04%) NUnit
8 2 (0.69%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.69%) ERwin
8 2 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.35%) Postman
9 1 (0.35%) Subversion
9 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 111 (38.41%) Finance
2 79 (27.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 65 (22.49%) Banking
4 61 (21.11%) Social Skills
5 33 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (10.03%) Law
7 27 (9.34%) Retail
8 16 (5.54%) Corporate Banking
8 16 (5.54%) Investment Banking
9 15 (5.19%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.11%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.42%) Back Office
12 6 (2.08%) Legal
12 6 (2.08%) Marketing
13 4 (1.38%) Advertising
14 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.04%) Police
15 2 (0.69%) Billing
16 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 100 (34.60%) Developer
2 66 (22.84%) Software Engineer
3 32 (11.07%) C# Developer
4 31 (10.73%) Senior
5 26 (9.00%) Analyst
5 26 (9.00%) SQL Developer
6 22 (7.61%) Senior Developer
7 17 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (5.88%) Software Developer
8 15 (5.19%) Database Developer
8 15 (5.19%) Senior C# Developer
9 14 (4.84%) .NET Developer
9 14 (4.84%) Lead
9 14 (4.84%) SQL Database Developer
10 13 (4.50%) DBA
10 13 (4.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 13 (4.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (4.50%) SQL Analyst
11 12 (4.15%) Administrator
12 11 (3.81%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (31.14%) HTML
2 85 (29.41%) CSS
3 78 (26.99%) .NET
4 69 (23.88%) React
5 66 (22.84%) Kafka
6 63 (21.80%) JPA
6 63 (21.80%) Redux
6 63 (21.80%) Spring
6 63 (21.80%) Spring Boot
7 47 (16.26%) Hibernate
8 34 (11.76%) ASP.NET
9 25 (8.65%) Blazor
9 25 (8.65%) REST
10 19 (6.57%) Jest
10 19 (6.57%) RESTful
11 17 (5.88%) .NET Core
11 17 (5.88%) .NET Framework
11 17 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
11 17 (5.88%) HTML5
11 17 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.15%) Product Ownership
2 63 (21.80%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.46%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.08%) Clustering
4 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.73%) Private Cloud
5 5 (1.73%) Replication
6 4 (1.38%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.38%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.38%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.04%) FMCG
7 3 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.42%) Windows
2 31 (10.73%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.38%) Linux
3 4 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.69%) Android
4 2 (0.69%) Unix
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Debian
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (37.02%) DevOps
2 91 (31.49%) Agile
3 85 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 78 (26.99%) CI/CD
5 75 (25.95%) Software Engineering
6 74 (25.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (24.57%) SDLC
8 70 (24.22%) Front End Development
9 69 (23.88%) Microservices
9 69 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (22.84%) Test Automation
11 65 (22.49%) Containerisation
12 64 (22.15%) Business Intelligence
13 63 (21.80%) Performance Optimisation
14 61 (21.11%) Clean Code
15 52 (17.99%) TDD
16 36 (12.46%) Analytics
17 34 (11.76%) Mentoring
18 33 (11.42%) Migration
19 32 (11.07%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 207 (71.63%) SQL
2 95 (32.87%) JavaScript
3 86 (29.76%) C#
4 77 (26.64%) Java
5 39 (13.49%) T-SQL
6 18 (6.23%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.50%) PHP
9 11 (3.81%) Python
10 10 (3.46%) C++
11 7 (2.42%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.73%) C
12 5 (1.73%) Delphi
12 5 (1.73%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.38%) Bicep
13 4 (1.38%) X++
13 4 (1.38%) XAML
14 3 (1.04%) VB
15 2 (0.69%) Bash
15 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (9.34%) Degree
2 12 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.81%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.46%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.08%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.69%) MCP
10 2 (0.69%) MCSA
10 2 (0.69%) MCSE
11 1 (0.35%) ACCA
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) CIMA
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (23.53%) QA
2 17 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 17 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.77%) GDPR
4 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.69%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (22.84%) Docker
2 31 (10.73%) Active Directory
3 30 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (5.19%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.08%) Terminal Services
5 6 (2.08%) vSphere
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.35%) HDFS
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (23.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.19%) Terraform
3 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.08%) SCCM
5 5 (1.73%) SCOM
6 4 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.69%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.69%) SCSM
7 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.35%) Ansible
8 1 (0.35%) Autotask
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) logstash
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.35%) Oozie
8 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 121 (41.87%) Microsoft
2 63 (21.80%) Solace
3 34 (11.76%) VMware
4 24 (8.30%) Databricks
5 17 (5.88%) Oracle
6 14 (4.84%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.42%) Dell
8 6 (2.08%) HP
8 6 (2.08%) Informatica
8 6 (2.08%) NetApp
9 5 (1.73%) Capita
9 5 (1.73%) Civica
9 5 (1.73%) NEC
9 5 (1.73%) SAP
10 4 (1.38%) Infor
11 3 (1.04%) Adobe
11 3 (1.04%) RedGate
11 3 (1.04%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.69%) arcserve
12 2 (0.69%) Cisco