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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 29 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 222 675 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.75% 8.24% 10.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.02% 38.14% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 210 432 609
10th Percentile £39,788 £32,000 £29,800
25th Percentile £45,144 £37,745 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £48,253 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% +7.23% +2.27%
75th Percentile £63,063 £60,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +11.65% +3.00%

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 634 1,770 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.28% 21.60% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 561 1,124 1,457
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,625 £40,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% +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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -4 100 £57,500 +15.00% 51
Warwickshire +97 42 £52,500 +5.00% 17
Staffordshire -21 19 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Coventry +21 15 £53,100 +23.13% 8
Shropshire +5 13 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Solihull +12 10 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Wolverhampton +17 4 £46,250 -4.15% 4
West Bromwich -2 3 £38,000 -27.62%
Herefordshire -8 3 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Walsall 0 2 £40,500 +24.62%
Worcestershire -14 2 £45,000 +9.09% 7
Bilston - 2 £45,000 -
Stourbridge - 2 £50,000 - 1
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 33 (14.86%) SharePoint
2 24 (10.81%) IIS
3 5 (2.25%) Confluence
4 4 (1.80%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.90%) CMS
5 2 (0.90%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (2.25%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.25%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.80%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.90%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.90%) Scribe Insight
4 2 (0.90%) Shopify
5 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 131 (59.01%) Azure
2 37 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 27 (12.16%) AWS
4 26 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (10.81%) SaaS
6 22 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (8.56%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (5.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (4.95%) PowerApps
10 10 (4.50%) Azure Functions
10 10 (4.50%) PaaS
10 10 (4.50%) Serverless
11 9 (4.05%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.60%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (1.80%) Azure App Service
16 4 (1.80%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.26%) WAN
2 18 (8.11%) Firewall
3 7 (3.15%) BIG-IP
4 6 (2.70%) DHCP
4 6 (2.70%) DNS
4 6 (2.70%) LAN
5 4 (1.80%) Network Security
5 4 (1.80%) SAN
5 4 (1.80%) VPN
6 3 (1.35%) FTP
7 2 (0.90%) HTTP
7 2 (0.90%) IPv6
7 2 (0.90%) NAS
7 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.45%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 21 (9.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (9.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 19 (8.56%) Power BI
4 14 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (5.86%) MySQL
6 10 (4.50%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.15%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (3.15%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.80%) Event Store
10 4 (1.80%) RavenDB
11 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.35%) OLTP
11 3 (1.35%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.35%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.90%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 32 (14.41%) Visual Studio
2 22 (9.91%) Git
3 8 (3.60%) JIRA
4 4 (1.80%) Mercurial
4 4 (1.80%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.35%) Moq
5 3 (1.35%) Postman
6 2 (0.90%) Maven
6 2 (0.90%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.90%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.90%) Subversion
7 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
7 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.45%) Snyk
7 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.06%) Finance
2 29 (13.06%) Law
3 19 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.76%) Marketing
5 9 (4.05%) Legal
6 8 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.80%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.80%) Retail
10 3 (1.35%) Advertising
10 3 (1.35%) Automotive
11 2 (0.90%) Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.90%) Games
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Electronics
12 1 (0.45%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (46.85%) Developer
2 50 (22.52%) Senior
3 47 (21.17%) .NET Developer
4 22 (9.91%) C# Developer
5 18 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.66%) Software Developer
7 16 (7.21%) Administrator
7 16 (7.21%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.31%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) SQL Developer
10 11 (4.95%) Analyst
10 11 (4.95%) DBA
10 11 (4.95%) SQL DBA
11 10 (4.50%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (4.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.05%) Lead
13 8 (3.60%) Architect
13 8 (3.60%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (46.85%) .NET
2 44 (19.82%) HTML
3 38 (17.12%) ASP.NET
4 36 (16.22%) .NET Framework
5 32 (14.41%) Entity Framework
6 31 (13.96%) CSS
7 25 (11.26%) REST
8 22 (9.91%) .NET Core
9 21 (9.46%) jQuery
10 20 (9.01%) ASP.NET Web API
10 20 (9.01%) HTML5
10 20 (9.01%) Web Services
11 18 (8.11%) ASP.NET MVC
12 16 (7.21%) AngularJS
13 14 (6.31%) WebRTC
14 12 (5.41%) React
15 11 (4.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 10 (4.50%) Node.js
17 9 (4.05%) SOAP
17 9 (4.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.26%) Clustering
2 13 (5.86%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.95%) Low-Code
5 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.15%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.25%) Replication
9 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.35%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.35%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.90%) CMDB
11 2 (0.90%) HP Storage
11 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.56%) Windows
2 12 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.70%) Linux
3 6 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (1.80%) Android
5 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.45%) Unix
7 1 (0.45%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (25.68%) Agile
2 49 (22.07%) DevOps
3 46 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (16.67%) MVC
5 33 (14.86%) High Availability
6 32 (14.41%) CI/CD
7 30 (13.51%) TDD
8 27 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (12.16%) CRM
9 23 (10.36%) Load Balancing
9 23 (10.36%) Microservices
10 21 (9.46%) Design Patterns
10 21 (9.46%) Software Engineering
11 17 (7.66%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (7.66%) ETL
11 17 (7.66%) Test Automation
12 16 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (7.21%) Scrum
13 15 (6.76%) Validation
14 14 (6.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 145 (65.32%) SQL
2 86 (38.74%) C#
3 56 (25.23%) JavaScript
4 47 (21.17%) T-SQL
5 23 (10.36%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.91%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.76%) VB.NET
8 11 (4.95%) Java
9 6 (2.70%) Python
10 5 (2.25%) PHP
11 4 (1.80%) XAML
12 3 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.90%) Go
14 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.45%) Perl
14 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.56%) Degree
3 17 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.80%) MCSE
7 2 (0.90%) CCNA
7 2 (0.90%) CCNP
7 2 (0.90%) MCITP
7 2 (0.90%) MCTS
7 2 (0.90%) NCSIE
7 2 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.31%) QA
2 7 (3.15%) PMO
3 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.25%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.90%) Docker
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.45%) XenApp
6 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.25%) Ansible
3 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.45%) Avamar
5 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.45%) Foglight
5 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 118 (53.15%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.51%) VMware
3 14 (6.31%) CheckPoint
4 11 (4.95%) Oracle
5 8 (3.60%) Xamarin
6 7 (3.15%) F5
6 7 (3.15%) SAP
7 6 (2.70%) Sage
8 5 (2.25%) Cisco
9 4 (1.80%) Dell
9 4 (1.80%) HP
9 4 (1.80%) IBM
9 4 (1.80%) iManage
9 4 (1.80%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.35%) Aruba
10 3 (1.35%) Databricks
10 3 (1.35%) Google
10 3 (1.35%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.35%) Remedy
11 2 (0.90%) EMC