SQL Server Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 68 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 -34 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 124 221 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.37% 3.97% 6.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.67% 37.78% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 105 120 213
10th Percentile £32,675 £32,500 £39,788
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,063 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +10.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,031 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +4.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 483 585 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.14% 10.50% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 367 308 591
10th Percentile £33,900 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,082 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,750 £79,650 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 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
Birmingham +3 49 £53,750 +6.23% 29
Warwickshire +12 16 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Solihull +10 14 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Coventry +6 8 £55,200 -19.71% 6
Herefordshire +1 6 £40,000 - 4
Staffordshire -26 6 £56,250 +18.42% 10
Wolverhampton +9 5 £125,000 +108.33% 2
Worcestershire +8 4 £47,500 +2.70% 3
Shropshire -6 3 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Kingswinford - 1 £95,000 -
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (15.32%) IIS
2 6 (4.84%) Apache
3 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Appian
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.61%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.61%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.61%) Azure
2 31 (25.00%) SaaS
3 27 (21.77%) Power Platform
4 19 (15.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (10.48%) AWS
7 10 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (5.65%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.65%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.84%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (4.84%) Serverless
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.03%) GitHub
12 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) DNS
1 4 (3.23%) Firewall
2 3 (2.42%) LAN
2 3 (2.42%) VPN
2 3 (2.42%) WAN
2 3 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.61%) DHCP
3 2 (1.61%) FTP
3 2 (1.61%) HTTP
3 2 (1.61%) SAN
3 2 (1.61%) SMTP
3 2 (1.61%) SSH
4 1 (0.81%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.74%) Power BI
2 17 (13.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 16 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (10.48%) MySQL
5 11 (8.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.84%) Delta Lake
6 6 (4.84%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.23%) Tableau
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.42%) Parquet
8 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.61%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.61%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.61%) MS Access
10 1 (0.81%) QlikView
10 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.81%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) NUnit
2 4 (3.23%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (3.23%) Git
2 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.23%) MSTest
3 3 (2.42%) JIRA
3 3 (2.42%) JUnit
3 3 (2.42%) Selenium
4 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.61%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) Moq
4 2 (1.61%) NSubstitute
4 2 (1.61%) Subversion
4 2 (1.61%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.81%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.32%) Finance
3 12 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.65%) Automotive
5 7 (5.65%) Retail
6 6 (4.84%) Law
6 6 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.03%) Banking
8 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Back Office
11 1 (0.81%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (32.26%) Developer
2 25 (20.16%) Senior
3 17 (13.71%) Support Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 11 (8.87%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.06%) Support Specialist
7 10 (8.06%) Technical Support
8 9 (7.26%) Applications Support
9 8 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (6.45%) C# Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 6 (4.84%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (36.29%) .NET
2 16 (12.90%) .NET Framework
3 13 (10.48%) Entity Framework
4 12 (9.68%) PySpark
5 10 (8.06%) Blazor
5 10 (8.06%) LAMP
6 9 (7.26%) REST
7 8 (6.45%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.45%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.65%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.65%) HTML
9 6 (4.84%) CSS
9 6 (4.84%) SOAP
10 5 (4.03%) jQuery
10 5 (4.03%) WPF
10 5 (4.03%) XML
10 5 (4.03%) YAML
11 4 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (8.06%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.42%) Clustering
5 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.42%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) NHS
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Windows
2 13 (10.48%) Linux
3 10 (8.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (26.61%) DevOps
3 29 (23.39%) CRM
4 27 (21.77%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (20.97%) ETL
6 24 (19.35%) Mentoring
7 23 (18.55%) CI/CD
7 23 (18.55%) Data Engineering
8 21 (16.94%) Agile
9 15 (12.10%) Migration
10 14 (11.29%) Computer Science
11 13 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.06%) Analytics
14 10 (8.06%) Data Modelling
14 10 (8.06%) Decision-Making
14 10 (8.06%) MVC
14 10 (8.06%) Process Improvement
14 10 (8.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (64.52%) SQL
2 44 (35.48%) C#
3 30 (24.19%) JavaScript
4 24 (19.35%) Python
5 19 (15.32%) PHP
6 17 (13.71%) Java
7 11 (8.87%) T-SQL
8 8 (6.45%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.84%) Bicep
10 4 (3.23%) C++
10 4 (3.23%) Delphi
11 3 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.42%) VB
11 3 (2.42%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.61%) C
12 2 (1.61%) Go
12 2 (1.61%) Groovy
12 2 (1.61%) Perl
12 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.61%) XAML
Qualifications
1 18 (14.52%) Degree
2 13 (10.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.06%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.84%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.84%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.61%) ACCA
8 2 (1.61%) CIMA
8 2 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.81%) COBIT
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.61%) Docker
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.81%) HDFS
4 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (8.87%) Terraform
2 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.61%) Grafana
4 2 (1.61%) Nagios
5 1 (0.81%) Kibana
5 1 (0.81%) logstash
5 1 (0.81%) Oozie
5 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (52.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.74%) Oracle
3 16 (12.90%) Databricks
4 11 (8.87%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.65%) VMware
6 4 (3.23%) HubSpot
7 3 (2.42%) RedGate
7 3 (2.42%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.61%) Infor
8 2 (1.61%) SAP
9 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.81%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco
9 1 (0.81%) Dell
9 1 (0.81%) EMC
9 1 (0.81%) Google
9 1 (0.81%) Informatica
9 1 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.81%) SonicWALL