SQL Server Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 24 30 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 392 914 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.74% 8.15% 10.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 38.17% 37.18% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 347 570 906
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,063 £37,745 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £55,188
90th Percentile £71,750 £67,500 £64,375
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +11.65% +3.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,027 2,458 2,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.27% 21.91% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 854 1,550 2,037
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,625 £41,250 £37,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +1.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £61,140
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% +9.09%

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 December 2023.

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 December 2023. 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 -1 222 £53,500 +10.88% 134
East Midlands +12 172 £47,500 -5.00% 72
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 41 (10.46%) SharePoint
2 24 (6.12%) IIS
3 14 (3.57%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) MS Exchange
4 4 (1.02%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.77%) CMS
5 3 (0.77%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.26%) Kentico
7 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.53%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.02%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.51%) Scribe Insight
4 2 (0.51%) Shopify
5 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 221 (56.38%) Azure
2 59 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (14.80%) Power Platform
4 42 (10.71%) AWS
5 35 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (6.12%) SaaS
7 20 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.57%) GCP
9 14 (3.57%) PaaS
10 13 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (3.06%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.81%) Serverless
13 10 (2.55%) Azure Functions
13 10 (2.55%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.30%) Azure Pipelines
14 9 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (2.30%) IaaS
14 9 (2.30%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (13.27%) WAN
2 30 (7.65%) LAN
3 21 (5.36%) Firewall
4 10 (2.55%) DHCP
5 9 (2.30%) DNS
6 7 (1.79%) BIG-IP
6 7 (1.79%) VPN
7 6 (1.53%) SAN
8 5 (1.28%) Network Security
8 5 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.02%) NAS
9 4 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.77%) FTP
10 3 (0.77%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.51%) HTTP
11 2 (0.51%) IPv6
11 2 (0.51%) Skype
12 1 (0.26%) Broadband
12 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (13.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 40 (10.20%) Power BI
3 39 (9.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (8.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (4.34%) MySQL
7 15 (3.83%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.32%) Oracle Database
9 11 (2.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (2.55%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.79%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.02%) Event Store
14 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 4 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (1.02%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 40 (10.20%) Visual Studio
2 37 (9.44%) Git
3 15 (3.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (2.81%) JIRA
5 4 (1.02%) Mercurial
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.02%) Subversion
6 3 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.77%) Moq
6 3 (0.77%) Postman
7 2 (0.51%) Maven
7 2 (0.51%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.51%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.26%) JMeter
8 1 (0.26%) JUnit
8 1 (0.26%) NUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 79 (20.15%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.03%) Finance
3 41 (10.46%) Law
4 23 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.10%) Marketing
6 11 (2.81%) Retail
7 10 (2.55%) Legal
8 9 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.77%) Advertising
13 3 (0.77%) Automotive
14 2 (0.51%) Banking
14 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.51%) Games
15 1 (0.26%) Electronics
15 1 (0.26%) Local Government
15 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 191 (48.72%) Developer
2 77 (19.64%) Senior
3 67 (17.09%) Software Developer
4 57 (14.54%) .NET Developer
5 53 (13.52%) C# Developer
6 31 (7.91%) Analyst
6 31 (7.91%) DBA
7 30 (7.65%) Lead
8 28 (7.14%) Administrator
9 27 (6.89%) SQL DBA
10 22 (5.61%) Full Stack Developer
11 21 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.85%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.59%) C# Software Developer
13 18 (4.59%) Lead Developer
14 16 (4.08%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 16 (4.08%) Lead Software Developer
14 16 (4.08%) SQL Developer
14 16 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (41.07%) .NET
2 98 (25.00%) HTML
3 78 (19.90%) CSS
4 72 (18.37%) ASP.NET
5 63 (16.07%) .NET Framework
6 50 (12.76%) AngularJS
7 49 (12.50%) .NET Core
8 43 (10.97%) Entity Framework
8 43 (10.97%) HTML5
9 41 (10.46%) Node.js
10 40 (10.20%) React
11 38 (9.69%) jQuery
11 38 (9.69%) XML
12 36 (9.18%) ASP.NET MVC
13 34 (8.67%) Web Services
14 32 (8.16%) REST
15 30 (7.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 24 (6.12%) Express.js
17 20 (5.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 14 (3.57%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.63%) Clustering
2 17 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.83%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.06%) Replication
6 11 (2.81%) Low-Code
6 11 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.81%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.02%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.77%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.77%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.48%) Windows
2 25 (6.38%) Windows Server
3 23 (5.87%) Linux
4 8 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (1.79%) Android
6 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.28%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.02%) CentOS
8 4 (1.02%) Unix
8 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.77%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.26%) Agile
2 94 (23.98%) DevOps
3 75 (19.13%) MVC
4 68 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
6 61 (15.56%) Full Stack Development
7 51 (13.01%) CI/CD
8 50 (12.76%) TDD
9 45 (11.48%) ETL
10 41 (10.46%) Design Patterns
10 41 (10.46%) Web Development
11 39 (9.95%) Software Engineering
11 39 (9.95%) Test Automation
12 37 (9.44%) Mentoring
13 35 (8.93%) High Availability
13 35 (8.93%) Scrum
14 33 (8.42%) Data Modelling
15 31 (7.91%) CRM
15 31 (7.91%) Unit Testing
16 29 (7.40%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 273 (69.64%) SQL
2 139 (35.46%) C#
3 117 (29.85%) JavaScript
4 105 (26.79%) T-SQL
5 39 (9.95%) Python
6 36 (9.18%) PowerShell
7 31 (7.91%) TypeScript
8 28 (7.14%) PHP
9 24 (6.12%) VB
10 23 (5.87%) JSX
11 17 (4.34%) VB.NET
12 13 (3.32%) Java
13 7 (1.79%) Delphi
14 5 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.28%) Ruby
15 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.02%) R
15 4 (1.02%) XAML
16 3 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 51 (13.01%) Degree
2 33 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.53%) MCP
5 6 (1.53%) MCSE
6 5 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.02%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.51%) CCNA
9 2 (0.51%) CCNP
9 2 (0.51%) MBCS
9 2 (0.51%) MCITP
9 2 (0.51%) MCSA
9 2 (0.51%) MCTS
9 2 (0.51%) NCSIE
9 2 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.40%) QA
2 7 (1.79%) PMO
3 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.51%) NCSC
5 2 (0.51%) NIST
5 2 (0.51%) SLA
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.81%) Docker
4 6 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.28%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.26%) XenApp
8 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (1.79%) Terraform
3 5 (1.28%) Ansible
3 5 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.26%) Avamar
6 1 (0.26%) Foglight
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 206 (52.55%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.44%) VMware
3 30 (7.65%) Oracle
4 16 (4.08%) CheckPoint
5 13 (3.32%) Xamarin
6 7 (1.79%) F5
6 7 (1.79%) IBM
6 7 (1.79%) Sage
6 7 (1.79%) SAP
7 5 (1.28%) Cisco
8 4 (1.02%) Dell
8 4 (1.02%) Google
8 4 (1.02%) HP
8 4 (1.02%) iManage
8 4 (1.02%) Meraki
8 4 (1.02%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.02%) Telerik
9 3 (0.77%) Databricks
9 3 (0.77%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.77%) Veeam