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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 59 27
Rank change year-on-year +32 -32 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 735 518 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.31% 5.38% 8.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 38.87% 26.61% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 649 422 696
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,438 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.28% +8.20%

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 1,891 1,947 2,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.23% 20.23% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 1,172 1,721
10th Percentile £32,400 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +14.44%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +26 451 £52,500 +5.00% 97
East Midlands +38 284 £47,500 +5.56% 60
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 79 (10.75%) IIS
2 50 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.63%) CMS
5 9 (1.22%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.41%) Apache
6 3 (0.41%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.27%) Liferay
7 2 (0.27%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 25 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.82%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.41%) Maximo
4 3 (0.41%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.27%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.14%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) Scribe Insight
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 407 (55.37%) Azure
2 147 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 126 (17.14%) AWS
4 61 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (4.90%) SaaS
6 32 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (3.40%) PowerApps
8 23 (3.13%) GCP
8 23 (3.13%) Snowflake
9 22 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (2.72%) Serverless
12 17 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (2.31%) Matillion
13 16 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (1.63%) PaaS
14 12 (1.63%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.50%) WhatsApp
16 10 (1.36%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 59 (8.03%) WAN
2 40 (5.44%) Firewall
3 34 (4.63%) DNS
4 30 (4.08%) LAN
5 17 (2.31%) DHCP
6 16 (2.18%) TCP/IP
7 15 (2.04%) BIG-IP
8 14 (1.90%) Internet
8 14 (1.90%) SAN
8 14 (1.90%) VPN
9 9 (1.22%) SSL
10 8 (1.09%) HTTP
11 6 (0.82%) Broadband
12 5 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
12 5 (0.68%) Wireless
13 4 (0.54%) FTP
14 3 (0.41%) BGP
14 3 (0.41%) GPRS
14 3 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (17.41%) Power BI
2 91 (12.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 76 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (8.03%) Relational Database
5 57 (7.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 47 (6.39%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (5.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 35 (4.76%) Data Lake
9 35 (4.76%) MongoDB
10 32 (4.35%) MySQL
11 29 (3.95%) Oracle Database
12 28 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (3.27%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.31%) SQLite
15 14 (1.90%) Metadata
15 14 (1.90%) Star Schema
16 13 (1.77%) Crystal Reports
17 12 (1.63%) NonStop SQL
18 10 (1.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 48 (6.53%) Git
2 39 (5.31%) Visual Studio
3 22 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (1.63%) GitLab
4 12 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.50%) Jasmine
5 11 (1.50%) Karma Test Runner
6 10 (1.36%) MSTest
6 10 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.09%) JIRA
8 7 (0.95%) Postman
8 7 (0.95%) SoapUI
8 7 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.27%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.27%) Bower
11 2 (0.27%) gulp
11 2 (0.27%) MSBuild
General
1 187 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 100 (13.61%) Finance
3 56 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.48%) Manufacturing
5 53 (7.21%) Retail
6 39 (5.31%) Law
7 29 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (3.67%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.99%) Advertising
10 17 (2.31%) Marketing
11 15 (2.04%) Legal
12 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.95%) Banking
13 7 (0.95%) Police
13 7 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.82%) Back Office
14 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.68%) Local Government
16 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 328 (44.63%) Developer
2 136 (18.50%) .NET Developer
3 100 (13.61%) Software Developer
4 95 (12.93%) C# Developer
5 78 (10.61%) Senior
6 52 (7.07%) Lead
7 49 (6.67%) Analyst
7 49 (6.67%) Consultant
8 48 (6.53%) Data Engineer
9 45 (6.12%) Administrator
10 41 (5.58%) DBA
11 38 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
12 33 (4.49%) Full Stack Developer
13 32 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
14 30 (4.08%) C# Software Developer
15 28 (3.81%) Support Engineer
16 24 (3.27%) Senior Developer
17 22 (2.99%) Software Engineer
17 22 (2.99%) SQL DBA
18 20 (2.72%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (45.58%) .NET
2 210 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 193 (26.26%) HTML
4 143 (19.46%) .NET Core
4 143 (19.46%) AngularJS
4 143 (19.46%) ASP.NET MVC
5 110 (14.97%) CSS
6 103 (14.01%) React
7 92 (12.52%) ASP.NET Web API
8 85 (11.56%) HTML5
9 83 (11.29%) .NET Framework
10 74 (10.07%) Entity Framework
11 69 (9.39%) REST
12 68 (9.25%) RESTful
13 61 (8.30%) Node.js
14 58 (7.89%) XML
15 54 (7.35%) Vue
16 51 (6.94%) LINQ
17 38 (5.17%) Web Services
18 37 (5.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.48%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (6.12%) Clustering
3 42 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 35 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.18%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.77%) NHS
14 9 (1.22%) Replication
15 8 (1.09%) TRADACOMS
16 7 (0.95%) Driving Licence
17 6 (0.82%) Algorithms
17 6 (0.82%) Cloud Native
17 6 (0.82%) IoT
18 5 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 105 (14.29%) Windows
2 47 (6.39%) Linux
3 41 (5.58%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.63%) VMS
5 10 (1.36%) Unix
5 10 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.22%) Debian
7 7 (0.95%) CentOS
7 7 (0.95%) SUSE
7 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.68%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.54%) Android
9 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.27%) AIX
11 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (28.44%) Agile
2 194 (26.39%) MVC
3 161 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
4 157 (21.36%) Full Stack Development
5 127 (17.28%) DevOps
6 126 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
7 94 (12.79%) Microservices
8 82 (11.16%) ETL
9 63 (8.57%) TDD
9 63 (8.57%) Web Development
10 61 (8.30%) CI/CD
11 59 (8.03%) Scrum
12 58 (7.89%) High Availability
13 52 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence
13 52 (7.07%) Data Modelling
14 51 (6.94%) Machine Learning
15 49 (6.67%) Customer Service
16 46 (6.26%) BDD
17 45 (6.12%) Data Science
18 44 (5.99%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 487 (66.26%) SQL
2 336 (45.71%) C#
3 221 (30.07%) JavaScript
4 115 (15.65%) T-SQL
5 95 (12.93%) Python
6 70 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 60 (8.16%) VB
8 45 (6.12%) VB.NET
9 41 (5.58%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.49%) Java
11 29 (3.95%) PHP
12 23 (3.13%) JSX
13 22 (2.99%) XAML
14 13 (1.77%) R
15 12 (1.63%) Delphi
15 12 (1.63%) VB6
16 11 (1.50%) C
16 11 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (1.22%) Bash
18 8 (1.09%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 109 (14.83%) Degree
2 48 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 27 (3.67%) SC Cleared
4 22 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.09%) ISEB
6 8 (1.09%) ISTQB
7 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.54%) MCSE
9 3 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.27%) CCNA
10 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.27%) HND
10 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.62%) QA
2 31 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.36%) GDPR
4 8 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.41%) PMO
7 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.22%) Docker
4 18 (2.45%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.41%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.27%) XenApp
9 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.90%) Terraform
3 7 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.54%) Data Guard
6 3 (0.41%) SCOM
6 3 (0.41%) SCOrch
6 3 (0.41%) vMotion
7 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.27%) Backup Exec
7 2 (0.27%) MIIS
8 1 (0.14%) Autotask
8 1 (0.14%) VxRail
8 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 399 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.39%) VMware
3 54 (7.35%) Oracle
4 27 (3.67%) Databricks
5 18 (2.45%) Facebook
6 17 (2.31%) CheckPoint
6 17 (2.31%) DevExpress
7 16 (2.18%) F5
8 14 (1.90%) Google
9 13 (1.77%) SYSPRO
10 12 (1.63%) SAP
10 12 (1.63%) YouTube
11 10 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.36%) Xamarin
12 9 (1.22%) Apple
12 9 (1.22%) IBM
12 9 (1.22%) iManage
12 9 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.09%) Adobe