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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 44 48
Rank change year-on-year -61 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 105 165 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.22% 4.84% 4.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.02% 33.54% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 95 114 199
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £38,438
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 £68,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £80,500 £85,000 £66,250
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 552 492 648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.41% 14.42% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 417 355 468
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,800 £33,230
25th Percentile £44,720 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,494
% change year-on-year - -6.97% -0.78%

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 3 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 3 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 -47 44 £52,500 -8.70% 17
Warwickshire -9 16 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Staffordshire -10 13 £55,000 -4.35% 7
Coventry -20 10 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Shropshire -21 8 £100,000 +66.67% 4
Worcestershire -21 7 £33,000 -30.53% 4
Dudley -12 2 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Wolverhampton -17 1 - - 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 15 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.76%) IIS
3 3 (2.86%) Confluence
4 2 (1.90%) Documentum
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.24%) Azure
2 19 (18.10%) Power Platform
3 14 (13.33%) Azure Functions
3 14 (13.33%) Serverless
4 13 (12.38%) AWS
4 13 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.52%) SaaS
6 9 (8.57%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 7 (6.67%) PowerApps
8 5 (4.76%) PaaS
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.86%) GCP
9 3 (2.86%) GitHub
9 3 (2.86%) Siteimprove
10 2 (1.90%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.76%) Firewall
2 5 (4.76%) VPN
3 4 (3.81%) DNS
4 3 (2.86%) HTTP
5 1 (0.95%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.95%) Internet
5 1 (0.95%) SSL
5 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (9.52%) Power BI
3 7 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.76%) MySQL
5 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.95%) Redis
8 1 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (10.48%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (2.86%) Selenium
2 3 (2.86%) TestRail
2 3 (2.86%) Toad
2 3 (2.86%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.95%) NUnit
General
1 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.43%) Legal
4 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.62%) Law
6 7 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.71%) Retail
8 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.90%) Billing
10 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Publishing
11 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (38.10%) Developer
2 28 (26.67%) Senior
3 17 (16.19%) Software Developer
4 13 (12.38%) DBA
4 13 (12.38%) Senior Developer
5 11 (10.48%) Senior Software Developer
6 10 (9.52%) Senior DBA
7 8 (7.62%) SQL DBA
8 7 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
8 7 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
9 6 (5.71%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Administrator
9 6 (5.71%) Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) Database Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Lead
10 5 (4.76%) Senior SQL DBA
10 5 (4.76%) Senior SQL Server DBA
10 5 (4.76%) SharePoint Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (38.10%) .NET
2 20 (19.05%) .NET Core
3 18 (17.14%) Blazor
4 9 (8.57%) ASP.NET
5 6 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (5.71%) REST
6 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (4.76%) EDI
6 5 (4.76%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.81%) COM
7 4 (3.81%) DCOM
7 4 (3.81%) JSON
7 4 (3.81%) LDAP
7 4 (3.81%) Middleware
7 4 (3.81%) XML
7 4 (3.81%) XSLT
8 3 (2.86%) CSS
8 3 (2.86%) SOAP
9 2 (1.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.81%) Clustering
4 4 (3.81%) PKI
4 4 (3.81%) Replication
4 4 (3.81%) Smartcard
4 4 (3.81%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.86%) CMDB
5 3 (2.86%) iSeries
5 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.90%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.95%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.43%) Windows
2 8 (7.62%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (18.10%) DevOps
4 17 (16.19%) CRM
5 15 (14.29%) Agile
6 14 (13.33%) Logistics
7 13 (12.38%) AI
7 13 (12.38%) CI/CD
8 12 (11.43%) Computer Science
8 12 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (10.48%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (9.52%) Data Modelling
10 10 (9.52%) ERP
10 10 (9.52%) Roadmaps
11 9 (8.57%) Analytics
11 9 (8.57%) Data Engineering
11 9 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.86%) SQL
2 36 (34.29%) C#
3 11 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.57%) T-SQL
6 6 (5.71%) Python
7 3 (2.86%) Java
8 2 (1.90%) Go
8 2 (1.90%) PHP
8 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.90%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.95%) C++
9 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.95%) Delphi
9 1 (0.95%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 13 (12.38%) Degree
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) GDPR
2 7 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.71%) QA
4 4 (3.81%) WCAG
5 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.86%) SLA
5 3 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.86%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Ansible
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Databricks
2 8 (7.62%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.86%) HP
6 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.90%) OpenText
6 2 (1.90%) RedGate
7 1 (0.95%) Citrix
7 1 (0.95%) F5
7 1 (0.95%) SYSPRO