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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 55 33
Rank change year-on-year -14 -22 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 116 231 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.34% 4.28% 6.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.49% 40.17% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 93 136 216
10th Percentile £33,800 £32,500 £39,788
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,250 £52,600
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.47% +9.01%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,406 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £70,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +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 455 575 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.10% 10.66% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 343 313 608
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,700 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,500 £76,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -10 47 £56,250 +12.50% 20
Warwickshire +9 13 £53,750 +19.44% 11
Solihull +2 13 £60,000 +17.07% 1
Coventry 0 9 £55,200 -18.22% 9
Staffordshire -33 6 £57,500 +17.95% 19
Worcestershire +14 5 £47,500 +2.70% 4
Herefordshire -3 4 £40,500 - 6
Wolverhampton 0 3 £125,000 +108.33% 2
Shropshire -10 3 £65,000 +36.84% 7
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 (17.24%) IIS
2 6 (5.17%) Apache
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.86%) Appian
5 1 (0.86%) Confluence
5 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.59%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (1.72%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.86%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 60 (51.72%) Azure
2 32 (27.59%) SaaS
3 22 (18.97%) Power Platform
4 17 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (12.93%) AWS
7 10 (8.62%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (6.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (6.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (5.17%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.17%) GitHub
10 6 (5.17%) Power Automate
10 6 (5.17%) Serverless
11 5 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) Firewall
2 5 (4.31%) LAN
2 5 (4.31%) VPN
2 5 (4.31%) WAN
2 5 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.59%) DNS
4 2 (1.72%) FTP
4 2 (1.72%) HTTP
4 2 (1.72%) SAN
4 2 (1.72%) SMTP
4 2 (1.72%) SSH
5 1 (0.86%) DHCP
5 1 (0.86%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.86%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.66%) Power BI
2 15 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (12.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (10.34%) MySQL
4 9 (7.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.17%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.31%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.45%) Tableau
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.59%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (2.59%) Parquet
8 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.72%) Data Hub
9 2 (1.72%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.72%) MS Access
9 2 (1.72%) SQL CLR
10 1 (0.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (5.17%) JIRA
1 6 (5.17%) Selenium
2 5 (4.31%) Cucumber
2 5 (4.31%) GitLab
2 5 (4.31%) NUnit
3 4 (3.45%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.45%) Git
3 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.45%) MSTest
4 3 (2.59%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.59%) JUnit
4 3 (2.59%) Maven
4 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.72%) Moq
5 2 (1.72%) NSubstitute
5 2 (1.72%) Subversion
5 2 (1.72%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.86%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (45.69%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Finance
3 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Retail
5 9 (7.76%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.17%) Banking
6 6 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.17%) Law
7 5 (4.31%) Automotive
7 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Back Office
8 3 (2.59%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Billing
10 1 (0.86%) Legal
10 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (31.03%) Developer
2 24 (20.69%) Senior
3 14 (12.07%) Support Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 11 (9.48%) Software Developer
6 10 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (8.62%) Support Specialist
6 10 (8.62%) Technical Support
7 9 (7.76%) Applications Support
7 9 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (5.17%) Applications Specialist
9 6 (5.17%) Applications Support Specialist
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Technical Support Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (37.07%) .NET
2 18 (15.52%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.93%) Entity Framework
4 12 (10.34%) Blazor
4 12 (10.34%) REST
5 11 (9.48%) HTML
6 10 (8.62%) LAMP
7 9 (7.76%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.76%) PySpark
8 8 (6.90%) .NET Core
8 8 (6.90%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.90%) CSS
9 6 (5.17%) SOAP
10 5 (4.31%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (4.31%) React
10 5 (4.31%) RESTful
10 5 (4.31%) Spring
10 5 (4.31%) Web Services
10 5 (4.31%) XML
10 5 (4.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (7.76%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.31%) Clustering
4 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.31%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.86%) FMCG
8 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.86%) NHS
8 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.21%) Linux
2 11 (9.48%) Windows
3 9 (7.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 2 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (30.17%) DevOps
3 27 (23.28%) CRM
4 25 (21.55%) Mentoring
5 24 (20.69%) Agile
6 23 (19.83%) CI/CD
7 22 (18.97%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (18.10%) ETL
9 18 (15.52%) Data Engineering
10 15 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (12.07%) Migration
12 13 (11.21%) Computer Science
12 13 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (9.48%) SDLC
14 10 (8.62%) Analytics
14 10 (8.62%) MVC
14 10 (8.62%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (8.62%) Process Improvement
14 10 (8.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 80 (68.97%) SQL
2 44 (37.93%) C#
3 32 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 21 (18.10%) Python
5 19 (16.38%) Java
6 18 (15.52%) PHP
7 10 (8.62%) T-SQL
8 9 (7.76%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.03%) Bicep
10 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.45%) Delphi
11 4 (3.45%) VB
11 4 (3.45%) VB.NET
12 3 (2.59%) C++
12 3 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.72%) C
13 2 (1.72%) Groovy
13 2 (1.72%) Perl
13 2 (1.72%) Ruby
13 2 (1.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Degree
2 12 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.62%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.17%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.17%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.72%) ACCA
8 2 (1.72%) CIMA
8 2 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.86%) COBIT
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.31%) Docker
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.86%) HDFS
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (10.34%) Terraform
2 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.72%) Grafana
4 2 (1.72%) Nagios
5 1 (0.86%) Kibana
5 1 (0.86%) logstash
5 1 (0.86%) Oozie
5 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.97%) Oracle
3 12 (10.34%) Databricks
4 11 (9.48%) Salesforce
5 9 (7.76%) VMware
6 4 (3.45%) HubSpot
7 3 (2.59%) Infor
7 3 (2.59%) RedGate
7 3 (2.59%) Solace
7 3 (2.59%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.72%) SAP
9 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.86%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.86%) Cisco
9 1 (0.86%) Dell
9 1 (0.86%) EMC
9 1 (0.86%) Google
9 1 (0.86%) Informatica
9 1 (0.86%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.86%) SonicWALL