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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 43 26
Rank change year-on-year -67 -17 +26
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 99 142 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.16% 4.82% 6.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.55% 33.57% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 85 93 422
10th Percentile £28,600 £36,750 £32,525
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £84,750 £69,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,021 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.51% +0.04% -3.51%

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 564 423 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.59% 14.34% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 414 297 986
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 26 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 26 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 -19 43 £52,500 -8.70% 12
Warwickshire -11 18 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Shropshire -19 12 £52,500 -12.50% 1
Staffordshire -32 8 £35,500 -33.88%
Coventry -24 5 £60,000 - 2
Herefordshire -24 5 £40,000 +21.21% 2
Halesowen - 4 £44,000 -
Solihull +10 2 £60,000 +9.09%
Worcestershire -34 1 £38,000 -20.00% 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Confluence
3 2 (2.02%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (52.53%) Azure
2 15 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 14 (14.14%) SaaS
4 8 (8.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (6.06%) Azure Functions
5 6 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.06%) Power Automate
5 6 (6.06%) PowerApps
5 6 (6.06%) Serverless
6 5 (5.05%) AWS
7 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.03%) Siteimprove
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.02%) PaaS
10 1 (1.01%) dbt
10 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.01%) MailChimp
10 1 (1.01%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) DHCP
1 4 (4.04%) DNS
1 4 (4.04%) RFID
2 1 (1.01%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) Power BI
2 8 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.03%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.02%) MySQL
7 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.04%) LabVIEW
2 3 (3.03%) JIRA
2 3 (3.03%) Selenium
2 3 (3.03%) TestRail
2 3 (3.03%) Toad
2 3 (3.03%) Zephyr
3 1 (1.01%) Git
General
1 20 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.13%) Finance
3 11 (11.11%) Legal
4 10 (10.10%) Law
5 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.04%) Retail
8 3 (3.03%) Automotive
8 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.02%) Billing
10 1 (1.01%) Marketing
10 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (38.38%) Developer
2 29 (29.29%) Senior
3 18 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 15 (15.15%) DBA
4 15 (15.15%) SQL DBA
5 14 (14.14%) Senior Developer
6 12 (12.12%) Senior Software Developer
7 10 (10.10%) Analyst
8 7 (7.07%) SQL Server DBA
8 7 (7.07%) Support Analyst
9 6 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (6.06%) Business Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Senior DBA
10 5 (5.05%) Senior SQL DBA
10 5 (5.05%) Senior SQL Server DBA
10 5 (5.05%) Systems Developer
11 4 (4.04%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.34%) .NET
2 17 (17.17%) .NET Core
2 17 (17.17%) Blazor
3 7 (7.07%) ASP.NET
4 6 (6.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (6.06%) PySpark
5 5 (5.05%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.05%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.04%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (3.03%) jQuery
8 2 (2.02%) CSS
9 1 (1.01%) Bootstrap
9 1 (1.01%) COM
9 1 (1.01%) DCOM
9 1 (1.01%) Entity Framework
9 1 (1.01%) LDAP
9 1 (1.01%) Middleware
9 1 (1.01%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (1.01%) REST
9 1 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.05%) Clustering
3 4 (4.04%) CMDB
4 3 (3.03%) iSeries
5 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.02%) Replication
5 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.01%) PKI
6 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Windows
1 8 (8.08%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.15%) DevOps
2 13 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (13.13%) ERP
3 12 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 11 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (10.10%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.10%) Computer Science
6 9 (9.09%) AI
6 9 (9.09%) CRM
6 9 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (8.08%) Agile
7 8 (8.08%) Customer Service
7 8 (8.08%) ETL
7 8 (8.08%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (8.08%) Web SSO
8 7 (7.07%) Logistics
8 7 (7.07%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.39%) SQL
2 27 (27.27%) C#
3 10 (10.10%) Python
4 9 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.02%) C++
7 2 (2.02%) Java
7 2 (2.02%) PHP
8 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (6.06%) Degree
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.04%) HNC
3 4 (4.04%) MCSA
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.07%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.03%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.11%) Databricks
3 5 (5.05%) Oracle
3 5 (5.05%) SolarWinds
4 4 (4.04%) Veeam
4 4 (4.04%) VMware
5 3 (3.03%) HP
6 2 (2.02%) RedGate
7 1 (1.01%) Citrix
7 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce