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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 49 49
Rank change year-on-year -62 0 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 105 156 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.24% 4.57% 4.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.55% 31.58% 38.18%
Number of salaries quoted 96 104 222
10th Percentile £32,250 £41,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,813 £46,250 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +15.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,625 £65,000
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 566 494 715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.67% 14.47% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 429 356 538
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,125 £34,700
25th Percentile £43,500 £46,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £54,325
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +5.84% +3.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,150 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -3.85%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -40 44 £52,500 -8.70% 14
Warwickshire -1 21 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Shropshire -15 10 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Staffordshire -18 10 £57,500 - 6
Worcestershire -17 6 £33,000 -30.53% 9
Coventry -25 6 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Dudley -9 2 £47,500 -36.67%
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Wolverhampton -23 1 - -
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 11 (10.48%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.76%) IIS
3 3 (2.86%) Confluence
4 2 (1.90%) Documentum
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.33%) Azure
2 15 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 13 (12.38%) AWS
4 12 (11.43%) SaaS
5 10 (9.52%) Azure Functions
5 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.52%) Serverless
6 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.67%) PowerApps
8 6 (5.71%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.76%) PaaS
9 5 (4.76%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.86%) GCP
10 3 (2.86%) GitHub
10 3 (2.86%) Siteimprove
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.90%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.81%) DNS
2 4 (3.81%) Firewall
2 4 (3.81%) VPN
3 3 (2.86%) HTTP
4 1 (0.95%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (9.52%) Power BI
2 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.76%) MySQL
4 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.95%) Redis
7 1 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (2.86%) Selenium
2 3 (2.86%) TestRail
2 3 (2.86%) Toad
2 3 (2.86%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.95%) NUnit
General
1 31 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.19%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.43%) Legal
4 8 (7.62%) Law
5 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.71%) Retail
7 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.90%) Billing
9 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (37.14%) Developer
2 29 (27.62%) Senior
3 23 (21.90%) Software Developer
4 15 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 15 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
5 13 (12.38%) DBA
6 10 (9.52%) Senior DBA
7 8 (7.62%) SQL DBA
8 7 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
8 7 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
9 6 (5.71%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Administrator
9 6 (5.71%) Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) Database Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Senior SQL DBA
10 5 (4.76%) Senior SQL Server DBA
10 5 (4.76%) SharePoint Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (42.86%) .NET
2 24 (22.86%) .NET Core
3 22 (20.95%) Blazor
4 8 (7.62%) ASP.NET
5 7 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (5.71%) REST
7 5 (4.76%) EDI
7 5 (4.76%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (3.81%) COM
8 4 (3.81%) DCOM
8 4 (3.81%) LDAP
8 4 (3.81%) Middleware
9 3 (2.86%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.86%) CSS
9 3 (2.86%) SOAP
10 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 2 (1.90%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.81%) Clustering
4 4 (3.81%) PKI
4 4 (3.81%) Replication
4 4 (3.81%) Smartcard
5 3 (2.86%) CMDB
5 3 (2.86%) iSeries
5 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.90%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.43%) Windows
2 8 (7.62%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (15.24%) DevOps
4 14 (13.33%) Logistics
5 13 (12.38%) Computer Science
5 13 (12.38%) CRM
6 12 (11.43%) AI
6 12 (11.43%) Software Engineering
7 11 (10.48%) Agile
7 11 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (10.48%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.48%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (9.52%) Data Engineering
8 10 (9.52%) ERP
8 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (7.62%) Change Management
9 8 (7.62%) ETL
9 8 (7.62%) High Availability
9 8 (7.62%) MVC
9 8 (7.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.95%) SQL
2 39 (37.14%) C#
3 10 (9.52%) T-SQL
4 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.71%) Python
6 4 (3.81%) Java
7 3 (2.86%) PHP
8 2 (1.90%) C++
8 2 (1.90%) Go
8 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.90%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.95%) Delphi
9 1 (0.95%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Degree
2 6 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) GDPR
3 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.86%) SLA
3 3 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.86%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Ansible
3 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (39.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Databricks
3 8 (7.62%) Oracle
4 5 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.86%) HP
7 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.90%) OpenText
7 2 (1.90%) RedGate
8 1 (0.95%) Citrix
8 1 (0.95%) F5
8 1 (0.95%) SYSPRO