SQL Server Jobs in Staffordshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 33 102 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.31% 9.29% 10.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 57.89% 72.86% 44.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17 86 54
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,688 £53,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £58,750
West Midlands median annual salary £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 57 140 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 9.16% 12.75% 23.78%
Number of salaries quoted 33 121 103
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £37,500 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £58,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -4.76%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Staffordshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Staffordshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Staffordshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent -6 8 £57,500 +9.52% 7
Stafford - 6 £53,688 -
Tamworth -5 2 £41,250 -13.16% 1
SQL Server
West Midlands

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 7 (21.21%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
2 1 (3.03%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (15.15%) Power BI
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.06%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.06%) MySQL
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (48.48%) Bitbucket
1 16 (48.48%) Cucumber
1 16 (48.48%) GitLab
1 16 (48.48%) JIRA
1 16 (48.48%) Maven
1 16 (48.48%) Selenium
1 16 (48.48%) SonarQube
1 16 (48.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (60.61%) Finance
2 16 (48.48%) Banking
2 16 (48.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (27.27%) Corporate Banking
3 9 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 9 (27.27%) Retail
4 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Police
5 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Software Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Developer
3 6 (18.18%) SQL Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Database Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Database Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Architect
7 1 (3.03%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.03%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Graduate
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Junior
7 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Principal Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) CSS
2 16 (48.48%) HTML
2 16 (48.48%) JPA
2 16 (48.48%) Kafka
2 16 (48.48%) React
2 16 (48.48%) Redux
2 16 (48.48%) Spring
2 16 (48.48%) Spring Boot
3 10 (30.30%) REST
4 9 (27.27%) CSS3
4 9 (27.27%) HTML5
4 9 (27.27%) Jest
4 9 (27.27%) RESTful
4 9 (27.27%) Sass
5 7 (21.21%) Hibernate
6 4 (12.12%) .NET
7 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET
7 2 (6.06%) JSON
7 2 (6.06%) Web Services
7 2 (6.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (48.48%) Enterprise Software
1 16 (48.48%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Clustering
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) DevOps
2 19 (57.58%) Agile
3 17 (51.52%) Software Engineering
4 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
4 16 (48.48%) Containerisation
4 16 (48.48%) Front End Development
4 16 (48.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (48.48%) Microservices
4 16 (48.48%) Performance Optimisation
4 16 (48.48%) SDLC
4 16 (48.48%) Test Automation
5 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 9 (27.27%) Migration
5 9 (27.27%) Responsive Web Design
5 9 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
5 9 (27.27%) User Experience
6 7 (21.21%) Clean Code
6 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) SQL
2 17 (51.52%) Java
3 16 (48.48%) JavaScript
4 10 (30.30%) C#
5 9 (27.27%) TypeScript
6 6 (18.18%) T-SQL
7 4 (12.12%) C
7 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 4 (12.12%) X++
8 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
9 2 (6.06%) Python
9 2 (6.06%) R
10 1 (3.03%) C++
10 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 2 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (54.55%) QA
2 9 (27.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Solace
2 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Dell
4 1 (3.03%) EMC
4 1 (3.03%) SonicWALL
4 1 (3.03%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (3.03%) VMware