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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 48 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 -17 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 130 248 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.05% 4.58% 6.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.95% 41.13% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 89 147 226
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,300 £38,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £70,000 £70,625
England median annual salary £55,650 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.22% - +4.55%

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 449 603 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.99% 11.14% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 319 333 627
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,700 £33,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,254 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.68%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,796 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 -6 46 £57,500 +12.31% 14
Staffordshire -30 21 £57,500 +10.58% 9
Warwickshire +13 14 £55,000 +15.18% 6
Solihull +1 12 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Coventry +2 8 £70,000 +1.82% 2
Worcestershire +8 5 £47,500 +2.70% 9
Wolverhampton +5 4 £125,000 +108.33%
Herefordshire -3 4 - - 4
Shropshire -10 3 £65,000 - 4
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 20 (15.38%) IIS
2 14 (10.77%) Confluence
3 6 (4.62%) Apache
4 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.77%) Appian
5 1 (0.77%) SAS
5 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.08%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (2.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (1.54%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 79 (60.77%) Azure
2 34 (26.15%) AWS
3 30 (23.08%) SaaS
4 20 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 17 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.54%) GCP
7 14 (10.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (7.69%) Entra ID
9 9 (6.92%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (4.62%) Azure Functions
12 6 (4.62%) Power Automate
12 6 (4.62%) Serverless
13 5 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (3.08%) GitHub
15 3 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) Firewall
1 5 (3.85%) LAN
1 5 (3.85%) VPN
1 5 (3.85%) WAN
1 5 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.31%) DNS
3 2 (1.54%) FTP
3 2 (1.54%) HTTP
3 2 (1.54%) SAN
3 2 (1.54%) SMTP
3 2 (1.54%) SSH
4 1 (0.77%) DHCP
4 1 (0.77%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.77%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (10.00%) Power BI
2 13 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (9.23%) MySQL
4 10 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.08%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (3.08%) Tableau
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.31%) Parquet
8 2 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.54%) MS Access
8 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.54%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 27 (20.77%) JIRA
2 25 (19.23%) Selenium
3 24 (18.46%) Bitbucket
3 24 (18.46%) Cucumber
3 24 (18.46%) GitLab
3 24 (18.46%) Maven
3 24 (18.46%) SonarQube
3 24 (18.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (3.85%) NUnit
5 4 (3.08%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (3.08%) MSTest
6 2 (1.54%) Git
6 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.54%) Moq
6 2 (1.54%) NSubstitute
6 2 (1.54%) Subversion
6 2 (1.54%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.77%) JUnit
7 1 (0.77%) TestComplete
General
1 50 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 41 (31.54%) Finance
3 27 (20.77%) Banking
3 27 (20.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (13.85%) Retail
5 11 (8.46%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (8.46%) Investment Banking
6 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.92%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.62%) Law
9 5 (3.85%) Automotive
9 5 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Back Office
11 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.54%) Marketing
11 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Legal
12 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (26.92%) Developer
2 25 (19.23%) Software Engineer
3 24 (18.46%) Senior
4 12 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Senior Developer
5 11 (8.46%) Software Developer
6 10 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Support Specialist
6 10 (7.69%) Technical Support
7 9 (6.92%) Applications Support
8 8 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Applications Specialist
9 6 (4.62%) Applications Support Specialist
9 6 (4.62%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Technical Support Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (33.85%) .NET
2 32 (24.62%) HTML
3 29 (22.31%) CSS
4 26 (20.00%) React
5 25 (19.23%) Kafka
6 24 (18.46%) JPA
6 24 (18.46%) Redux
6 24 (18.46%) Spring
6 24 (18.46%) Spring Boot
7 20 (15.38%) REST
8 18 (13.85%) .NET Framework
9 16 (12.31%) Entity Framework
10 13 (10.00%) Blazor
10 13 (10.00%) Hibernate
10 13 (10.00%) RESTful
11 11 (8.46%) CSS3
11 11 (8.46%) HTML5
11 11 (8.46%) Jest
11 11 (8.46%) Sass
12 10 (7.69%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.46%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (18.46%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.85%) Clustering
4 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.54%) FMCG
7 2 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.77%) CMDB
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.00%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows
3 6 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.54%) Unix
4 2 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.00%) DevOps
2 44 (33.85%) Agile
3 39 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 36 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (23.85%) SDLC
7 30 (23.08%) Mentoring
8 29 (22.31%) Front End Development
9 28 (21.54%) CRM
9 28 (21.54%) Software Engineering
10 27 (20.77%) Microservices
11 26 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 26 (20.00%) Test Automation
12 25 (19.23%) Containerisation
13 23 (17.69%) Clean Code
14 21 (16.15%) ETL
15 20 (15.38%) Migration
16 18 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (13.85%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 96 (73.85%) SQL
2 55 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 48 (36.92%) C#
4 38 (29.23%) Java
5 19 (14.62%) Python
6 18 (13.85%) PHP
7 13 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.92%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.38%) Bicep
9 7 (5.38%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.08%) VB
10 4 (3.08%) VB.NET
11 3 (2.31%) C++
12 2 (1.54%) C
12 2 (1.54%) Delphi
12 2 (1.54%) Groovy
12 2 (1.54%) Perl
12 2 (1.54%) Ruby
12 2 (1.54%) XAML
13 1 (0.77%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (12.31%) Degree
2 12 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.62%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.54%) ACCA
8 2 (1.54%) CIMA
8 2 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.31%) QA
2 11 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.77%) COBIT
4 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (18.46%) Docker
2 9 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.77%) HDFS
3 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.23%) Terraform
3 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.54%) Nagios
5 1 (0.77%) Kibana
5 1 (0.77%) logstash
5 1 (0.77%) Oozie
5 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (48.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.46%) Solace
3 20 (15.38%) Oracle
4 13 (10.00%) Databricks
5 11 (8.46%) Salesforce
6 10 (7.69%) VMware
7 4 (3.08%) HubSpot
7 4 (3.08%) Infor
8 3 (2.31%) RedGate
8 3 (2.31%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.54%) SAP
10 1 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.77%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.77%) Cisco
10 1 (0.77%) Dell
10 1 (0.77%) EMC
10 1 (0.77%) Google
10 1 (0.77%) Informatica
10 1 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.77%) SonicWALL