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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 43 44
Rank change year-on-year -56 +1 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 124 159 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.37% 4.89% 4.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.31% 34.27% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 109 109 160
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £32,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +13.86% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £75,500 £86,250 £68,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

All Database & 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 582 464 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.45% 14.28% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 429 338 364
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,530
25th Percentile £46,217 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,938 £66,650
90th Percentile £87,630 £79,125 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%

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 28 September 2026.

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 28 September 2026. 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 -42 45 £52,500 -8.70% 25
Warwickshire -11 21 £65,000 +18.18% 16
Staffordshire -2 19 £55,000 -4.35% 11
Coventry -18 14 £62,500 -10.71%
Shropshire -16 7 £100,000 +53.85%
Worcestershire -21 7 £33,000 -30.53% 3
Brierley Hill -6 2 £45,000 -45.45% 2
Dudley -11 2 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Solihull -5 1 - - 6
Wolverhampton -14 1 - - 3
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%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.03%) IIS
3 2 (1.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.61%) Documentum
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (54.03%) Azure
2 21 (16.94%) Power Platform
3 17 (13.71%) AWS
3 17 (13.71%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (13.71%) Azure Functions
3 17 (13.71%) Serverless
4 15 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (8.87%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.87%) Power Automate
6 9 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (7.26%) SaaS
7 6 (4.84%) PaaS
8 5 (4.03%) GitHub
8 5 (4.03%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.23%) GCP
10 2 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.61%) Siteimprove
10 2 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) TCP/IP
1 8 (6.45%) VPN
2 7 (5.65%) DNS
3 6 (4.84%) Firewall
4 3 (2.42%) HTTP
5 2 (1.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.81%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.81%) DHCP
6 1 (0.81%) Internet
6 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.45%) Power BI
4 7 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.03%) MySQL
6 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.61%) Power Query
9 2 (1.61%) Tableau
10 1 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.81%) Redis
10 1 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (12.90%) Git
2 5 (4.03%) JIRA
3 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.61%) Selenium
4 2 (1.61%) TestRail
4 2 (1.61%) Toad
4 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.61%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) NUnit
General
1 43 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.94%) Finance
3 16 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.68%) Legal
6 11 (8.87%) Retail
7 10 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (6.45%) Law
9 5 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Billing
12 1 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (40.32%) Developer
2 34 (27.42%) Senior
3 15 (12.10%) Senior Developer
3 15 (12.10%) Software Developer
4 13 (10.48%) DBA
5 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Senior DBA
6 10 (8.06%) Senior Software Developer
6 10 (8.06%) SQL Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Support Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 8 (6.45%) IT Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Administrator
9 7 (5.65%) Analyst
9 7 (5.65%) Head of Engineering
9 7 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) SQL DBA
10 6 (4.84%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Database Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.26%) .NET
2 19 (15.32%) .NET Core
3 17 (13.71%) Blazor
4 9 (7.26%) ASP.NET
5 8 (6.45%) JSON
5 8 (6.45%) REST
5 8 (6.45%) XML
5 8 (6.45%) XSLT
6 6 (4.84%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (4.03%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (4.03%) EDI
7 5 (4.03%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.23%) COM
8 4 (3.23%) DCOM
8 4 (3.23%) LDAP
8 4 (3.23%) Middleware
8 4 (3.23%) Terraform
9 3 (2.42%) SOAP
10 2 (1.61%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.71%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.45%) Taxonomies
3 7 (5.65%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.23%) Clustering
5 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.23%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.23%) PKI
5 4 (3.23%) Replication
5 4 (3.23%) Smartcard
5 4 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.42%) CMDB
6 3 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.42%) iSeries
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.32%) Windows
2 15 (12.10%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.26%) Linux
4 2 (1.61%) Android
4 2 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (19.35%) DevOps
4 20 (16.13%) Agile
4 20 (16.13%) AI
4 20 (16.13%) CRM
5 17 (13.71%) CI/CD
6 16 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (12.90%) Roadmaps
7 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (11.29%) Data Modelling
8 14 (11.29%) Service Management
9 13 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (10.48%) Logistics
9 13 (10.48%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (9.68%) Analytics
10 12 (9.68%) Software Engineering
10 12 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (8.87%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.16%) SQL
2 39 (31.45%) C#
3 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 9 (7.26%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.03%) Python
7 2 (1.61%) Go
7 2 (1.61%) Java
7 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.61%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.81%) Delphi
8 1 (0.81%) Pascal
8 1 (0.81%) PHP
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) Degree
2 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) GDPR
2 10 (8.06%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.45%) WCAG
4 6 (4.84%) Data Quality
5 5 (4.03%) QA
6 3 (2.42%) SLA
7 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.61%) Ansible
4 2 (1.61%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.61%) Bosun
4 2 (1.61%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.81%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 64 (51.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) Oracle
3 8 (6.45%) Databricks
4 5 (4.03%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.23%) VMware
6 3 (2.42%) Citrix
7 2 (1.61%) Datto
7 2 (1.61%) Google
7 2 (1.61%) HP
7 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.61%) OpenText
7 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.61%) Veeam
8 1 (0.81%) F5
8 1 (0.81%) Meraki
8 1 (0.81%) RedGate
8 1 (0.81%) SYSPRO
8 1 (0.81%) YouTube