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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 40 52
Rank change year-on-year -67 +12 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 110 166 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.24% 5.10% 4.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.50% 34.80% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 97 116 169
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £86,250 £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 564 477 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.37% 14.66% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 422 347 396
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,800 £32,550
25th Percentile £46,225 £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 £70,926 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,675 £80,000 £78,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%

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 16 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 16 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 46 £52,500 -8.70% 26
Warwickshire -11 17 £65,000 +18.18% 15
Staffordshire -15 14 £55,000 -4.35% 12
Coventry -18 12 £61,250 -12.50% 6
Shropshire -18 7 £100,000 +60.00% 4
Worcestershire -19 7 £33,000 -30.53% 2
Dudley -11 2 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Wolverhampton -12 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 17 (15.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) IIS
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) Documentum
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.36%) Azure
2 20 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 16 (14.55%) AWS
4 15 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (13.64%) Azure Functions
4 15 (13.64%) Serverless
5 10 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 9 (8.18%) SaaS
7 8 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.45%) PaaS
8 6 (5.45%) PowerApps
9 5 (4.55%) GitHub
10 3 (2.73%) GCP
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.82%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.82%) Siteimprove
11 2 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.45%) Firewall
2 6 (5.45%) VPN
3 4 (3.64%) DNS
4 3 (2.73%) HTTP
5 2 (1.82%) WAN
6 1 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.91%) Internet
6 1 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.18%) Power BI
3 7 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.55%) MySQL
5 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.91%) Redis
8 1 (0.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Git
2 5 (4.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) Selenium
3 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.82%) TestRail
3 2 (1.82%) Toad
3 2 (1.82%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.91%) NUnit
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.91%) Legal
5 9 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.27%) Law
6 8 (7.27%) Retail
7 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.82%) Billing
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (39.09%) Developer
2 30 (27.27%) Senior
3 16 (14.55%) Software Developer
4 13 (11.82%) DBA
4 13 (11.82%) Senior Developer
5 10 (9.09%) Senior DBA
5 10 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
6 8 (7.27%) SQL DBA
7 7 (6.36%) Head of Engineering
7 7 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) SQL Server DBA
8 6 (5.45%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Administrator
8 6 (5.45%) Database Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 6 (5.45%) SQL Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Senior SQL Server DBA
9 5 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.36%) .NET
2 19 (17.27%) .NET Core
3 17 (15.45%) Blazor
4 9 (8.18%) ASP.NET
5 8 (7.27%) REST
6 6 (5.45%) .NET Framework
6 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (5.45%) JSON
6 6 (5.45%) XML
6 6 (5.45%) XSLT
7 5 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (4.55%) EDI
7 5 (4.55%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.64%) COM
8 4 (3.64%) DCOM
8 4 (3.64%) LDAP
8 4 (3.64%) Middleware
8 4 (3.64%) Terraform
9 3 (2.73%) CSS
9 3 (2.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.36%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.45%) Taxonomies
5 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.64%) Clustering
6 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.64%) PKI
6 4 (3.64%) Replication
6 4 (3.64%) Smartcard
6 4 (3.64%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.73%) CMDB
7 3 (2.73%) iSeries
7 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.82%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.91%) Windows
2 8 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.36%) Linux
4 2 (1.82%) Android
4 2 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 28 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.00%) DevOps
4 19 (17.27%) Agile
4 19 (17.27%) CRM
5 18 (16.36%) AI
6 16 (14.55%) CI/CD
7 14 (12.73%) Logistics
7 14 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (12.73%) Roadmaps
8 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (10.91%) Data Modelling
9 12 (10.91%) Software Engineering
10 11 (10.00%) Computer Science
10 11 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (9.09%) Change Management
11 10 (9.09%) ERP
11 10 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.55%) SQL
2 38 (34.55%) C#
3 12 (10.91%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.18%) T-SQL
6 6 (5.45%) Python
7 3 (2.73%) Java
8 2 (1.82%) Go
8 2 (1.82%) PHP
8 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.82%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.91%) C++
9 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.91%) Delphi
9 1 (0.91%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) Degree
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) GDPR
2 8 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.45%) WCAG
4 5 (4.55%) QA
5 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.73%) SLA
6 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.91%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 7 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Bosun
3 2 (1.82%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.91%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 53 (48.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.27%) Databricks
2 8 (7.27%) Oracle
3 5 (4.55%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.82%) HP
5 2 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.82%) OpenText
5 2 (1.82%) RedGate
5 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.91%) Citrix
6 1 (0.91%) F5
6 1 (0.91%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.91%) YouTube