SQL Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 52 29
Rank change year-on-year +25 -23 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 462 377 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.37% 5.74% 7.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.32% 28.52% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 416 308 427
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,000
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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,175 1,322 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.19% 20.12% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 977 828 1,131
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,112 £39,836
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,000 £65,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,500 £82,500
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Birmingham +19 165 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Staffordshire -1 89 £50,000 +5.26% 19
Warwickshire +53 55 £42,500 -34.11% 14
Coventry +18 27 £53,500 +40.79% 7
Worcestershire -5 24 £47,500 +22.58% 7
Shropshire +11 23 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Wolverhampton +15 13 £42,500 +10.39% 3
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 1
Herefordshire -11 4 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Stourbridge - 4 £50,000 -
Walsall +9 3 £45,000 +21.62% 1
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 4
Solihull -7 2 £45,000 -12.20% 3
Wednesbury -5 1 £32,500 -27.78%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 53 (11.47%) IIS
2 44 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.87%) CMS
4 4 (0.87%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.65%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.43%) Liferay
6 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 16 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.08%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.08%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.65%) Maximo
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.43%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Scribe Insight
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 264 (57.14%) Azure
2 116 (25.11%) Power Platform
3 73 (15.80%) AWS
4 40 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (5.41%) PowerApps
6 25 (5.41%) SaaS
7 23 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (3.90%) Serverless
9 18 (3.90%) Snowflake
10 17 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 16 (3.46%) Power Automate
12 15 (3.25%) GCP
13 13 (2.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (2.81%) Matillion
14 10 (2.16%) GitHub
15 9 (1.95%) Boomi
16 8 (1.73%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.71%) WAN
2 24 (5.19%) Firewall
3 20 (4.33%) DNS
4 15 (3.25%) DHCP
5 14 (3.03%) BIG-IP
6 10 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.52%) HTTP
7 7 (1.52%) VPN
8 4 (0.87%) FTP
8 4 (0.87%) Internet
8 4 (0.87%) Wireless
9 3 (0.65%) LAN
9 3 (0.65%) SSL
10 2 (0.43%) Broadband
10 2 (0.43%) IPv6
10 2 (0.43%) Network Security
10 2 (0.43%) SAN
11 1 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (21.00%) Power BI
2 72 (15.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 66 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (10.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 44 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 31 (6.71%) Elasticsearch
7 29 (6.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 25 (5.41%) Data Lake
9 20 (4.33%) MongoDB
9 20 (4.33%) MySQL
10 19 (4.11%) NoSQL
11 15 (3.25%) Oracle Database
12 13 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.38%) SQLite
13 11 (2.38%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.16%) DynamoDB
14 10 (2.16%) Metadata
15 8 (1.73%) DB2
16 7 (1.52%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (6.28%) Git
2 25 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.16%) MSTest
4 9 (1.95%) GitLab
5 7 (1.52%) Postman
5 7 (1.52%) SoapUI
6 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.08%) Jasmine
7 5 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.87%) JIRA
8 4 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.43%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.43%) Bower
9 2 (0.43%) gulp
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.43%) Moq
9 2 (0.43%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 144 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.53%) Finance
3 35 (7.58%) Retail
4 33 (7.14%) Law
5 32 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (6.49%) Manufacturing
7 24 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.25%) Marketing
10 14 (3.03%) Legal
11 11 (2.38%) Advertising
12 9 (1.95%) Police
13 7 (1.52%) Banking
13 7 (1.52%) Local Government
13 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.08%) Back Office
16 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 182 (39.39%) Developer
2 73 (15.80%) .NET Developer
3 62 (13.42%) Software Developer
4 55 (11.90%) Senior
5 41 (8.87%) Analyst
5 41 (8.87%) Data Engineer
6 40 (8.66%) C# Developer
6 40 (8.66%) Consultant
7 33 (7.14%) Lead
8 31 (6.71%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (6.06%) Administrator
10 22 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
11 21 (4.55%) DBA
12 16 (3.46%) SharePoint Administrator
13 15 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 13 (2.81%) C# .NET Developer
14 13 (2.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Software Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (40.48%) .NET
2 120 (25.97%) ASP.NET
3 90 (19.48%) ASP.NET MVC
4 88 (19.05%) HTML
5 76 (16.45%) .NET Core
6 56 (12.12%) Entity Framework
7 55 (11.90%) AngularJS
8 53 (11.47%) ASP.NET Web API
9 50 (10.82%) .NET Framework
10 44 (9.52%) REST
10 44 (9.52%) RESTful
11 41 (8.87%) CSS
12 37 (8.01%) React
13 32 (6.93%) XML
14 30 (6.49%) HTML5
14 30 (6.49%) JSON
14 30 (6.49%) Vue
15 27 (5.84%) Node.js
16 25 (5.41%) WPF
17 22 (4.76%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.58%) Clustering
2 29 (6.28%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (5.19%) Data Structures
5 22 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.33%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.46%) Low-Code
8 15 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.81%) NHS
10 11 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.95%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.95%) Replication
12 8 (1.73%) TRADACOMS
13 7 (1.52%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 4 (0.87%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.58%) Windows
2 26 (5.63%) Windows Server
3 23 (4.98%) Linux
4 8 (1.73%) VMS
4 8 (1.73%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.52%) Unix
6 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.87%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.43%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (26.62%) Agile
2 111 (24.03%) MVC
3 100 (21.65%) Business Intelligence
4 95 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (19.05%) DevOps
6 64 (13.85%) ETL
7 62 (13.42%) Full Stack Development
8 48 (10.39%) Microservices
9 45 (9.74%) High Availability
10 44 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 43 (9.31%) TDD
12 40 (8.66%) Scrum
13 36 (7.79%) Artificial Intelligence
13 36 (7.79%) Machine Learning
14 35 (7.58%) Data Modelling
15 34 (7.36%) Load Balancing
16 32 (6.93%) Performance Tuning
17 31 (6.71%) Analytics
17 31 (6.71%) Customer Service
18 30 (6.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 306 (66.23%) SQL
2 195 (42.21%) C#
3 94 (20.35%) JavaScript
4 93 (20.13%) T-SQL
5 43 (9.31%) Python
6 34 (7.36%) TypeScript
7 31 (6.71%) PowerShell
8 29 (6.28%) Java
9 28 (6.06%) VB.NET
10 23 (4.98%) VB
11 16 (3.46%) XAML
12 10 (2.16%) R
13 9 (1.95%) C++
14 8 (1.73%) ActionScript
14 8 (1.73%) ActionScript 2.0
14 8 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.73%) PL/SQL
15 7 (1.52%) C
16 5 (1.08%) PHP
16 5 (1.08%) VB6
Qualifications
1 68 (14.72%) Degree
2 46 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (0.87%) MCSE
9 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.43%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CCNA
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.43%) HND
10 2 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.36%) QA
2 28 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.16%) GDPR
4 7 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.65%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.90%) VMware NSX
4 13 (2.81%) Docker
5 12 (2.60%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.87%) vSphere
7 2 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.43%) XenApp
7 2 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.16%) Terraform
2 8 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.87%) Data Guard
3 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.65%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.43%) MIIS
6 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 256 (55.41%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.26%) VMware
3 37 (8.01%) Oracle
4 26 (5.63%) Databricks
5 16 (3.46%) CheckPoint
6 14 (3.03%) F5
7 11 (2.38%) Facebook
8 9 (1.95%) DevExpress
8 9 (1.95%) IBM
8 9 (1.95%) iManage
8 9 (1.95%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.95%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.95%) SAP
9 8 (1.73%) Citrix
10 7 (1.52%) NEC
10 7 (1.52%) SYSPRO
10 7 (1.52%) Xamarin
11 6 (1.30%) Dell
12 5 (1.08%) Adobe
12 5 (1.08%) YouTube