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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 65 28
Rank change year-on-year -36 -37 +29
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 108 127 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.31% 3.83% 6.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.78% 29.33% 39.37%
Number of salaries quoted 93 94 416
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £83,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -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 575 433 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.97% 13.07% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 404 311 975
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,396 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,675 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -12 44 £50,000 -13.04% 8
Warwickshire -4 18 £62,500 +8.70% 4
Herefordshire -14 10 £40,000 +21.21%
Staffordshire -28 9 £42,500 -20.84%
Shropshire -25 8 £52,500 -4.55% 3
Coventry -23 7 £60,000 - 2
Halesowen - 4 £44,000 - 1
Solihull +13 3 £60,000 +20.00%
Wolverhampton -20 2 £125,000 +75.44%
Worcestershire - 2 £37,750 - 2
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 8 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.15%) Azure
2 20 (18.52%) Power Platform
3 19 (17.59%) SaaS
4 11 (10.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (7.41%) AWS
7 6 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.63%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.78%) Siteimprove
11 2 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.85%) GitHub
11 2 (1.85%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.93%) dbt
12 1 (0.93%) MailChimp
12 1 (0.93%) PaaS
12 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) DHCP
1 5 (4.63%) DNS
2 4 (3.70%) RFID
3 1 (0.93%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.59%) Power BI
2 13 (12.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.70%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.78%) MySQL
6 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Selenium
2 4 (3.70%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) LabVIEW
3 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 3 (2.78%) TestRail
3 3 (2.78%) Toad
3 3 (2.78%) Zephyr
4 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.85%) GitLab
4 2 (1.85%) JUnit
5 1 (0.93%) Maven
5 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Finance
3 7 (6.48%) Legal
4 6 (5.56%) Law
4 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Automotive
5 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.78%) Retail
7 2 (1.85%) Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Billing
7 2 (1.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (37.96%) Developer
2 30 (27.78%) Senior
3 19 (17.59%) Software Developer
4 16 (14.81%) DBA
4 16 (14.81%) SQL DBA
5 13 (12.04%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.19%) Business Developer
6 11 (10.19%) Systems Developer
7 10 (9.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (9.26%) Analyst
7 10 (9.26%) Senior Software Developer
8 9 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) SQL Server DBA
9 8 (7.41%) Support Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) Support Analyst
11 6 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (5.56%) Senior DBA
11 6 (5.56%) Senior SQL DBA
11 6 (5.56%) Senior SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.70%) .NET
2 9 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 9 (8.33%) Blazor
2 9 (8.33%) PySpark
3 5 (4.63%) .NET Framework
3 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.70%) jQuery
5 3 (2.78%) CSS
6 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.85%) Django
6 2 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.85%) Flask
6 2 (1.85%) pytest
6 2 (1.85%) REST
6 2 (1.85%) Spring
6 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.85%) WinForms
6 2 (1.85%) WPF
7 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.70%) Clustering
2 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.78%) iSeries
4 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) CMDB
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.93%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.89%) Windows
2 13 (12.04%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.30%) DevOps
2 20 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (15.74%) CI/CD
4 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (13.89%) Migration
6 13 (12.04%) ERP
6 13 (12.04%) ETL
7 12 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
8 11 (10.19%) CRM
8 11 (10.19%) Data Engineering
8 11 (10.19%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (10.19%) Service Delivery
9 9 (8.33%) Agile
9 9 (8.33%) Customer Service
10 8 (7.41%) AI
10 8 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.41%) MVC
10 8 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (7.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.59%) SQL
2 24 (22.22%) C#
3 15 (13.89%) Python
4 10 (9.26%) T-SQL
5 7 (6.48%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.56%) Java
7 3 (2.78%) C++
7 3 (2.78%) PHP
7 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.85%) Delphi
8 2 (1.85%) Go
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (6.48%) Degree
2 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.70%) HNC
3 4 (3.70%) MCSA
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) QA
2 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.85%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.78%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.85%) Grafana
3 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.26%) Databricks
3 7 (6.48%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) SolarWinds
4 5 (4.63%) VMware
5 4 (3.70%) Veeam
6 3 (2.78%) HP
7 2 (1.85%) RedGate
8 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft