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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 70 31
Rank change year-on-year -8 -39 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 125 179 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.41% 4.05% 6.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.41% 33.40% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 107 94 196
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,375 £41,455
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,348 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -6.21% +13.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,344 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,250 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,200 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.36% -4.35% -

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 492 536 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.49% 12.12% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 369 287 525
10th Percentile £33,300 £35,000 £33,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,700 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -3.20%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 +8 51 £57,500 +4.55% 8
Warwickshire 0 15 £56,250 +25.00% 2
Solihull +5 13 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Herefordshire -1 11 £40,000 +21.21%
Staffordshire -33 8 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Wolverhampton +1 5 £125,000 +108.33% 1
Coventry -4 4 £48,975 -30.04% 1
Worcestershire -7 3 £38,000 -33.91% 1
Shropshire -20 2 £65,000 +33.33% 1
Halesowen - 2 £44,000 - 1
Kingswinford - 1 £95,000 -
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 18 (14.40%) IIS
2 6 (4.80%) Apache
3 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.80%) Appian
5 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.80%) Azure
2 31 (24.80%) SaaS
3 30 (24.00%) Power Platform
4 19 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (7.20%) AWS
5 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (7.20%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 5 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.00%) Serverless
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.20%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.40%) GitHub
9 2 (1.60%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) DNS
2 4 (3.20%) DHCP
3 2 (1.60%) Firewall
3 2 (1.60%) FTP
3 2 (1.60%) HTTP
3 2 (1.60%) RFID
3 2 (1.60%) SMTP
3 2 (1.60%) SSH
4 1 (0.80%) LAN
4 1 (0.80%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) VPN
4 1 (0.80%) WAN
4 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.80%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.00%) Power BI
2 20 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 16 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (8.00%) MySQL
6 7 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (5.60%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.40%) Parquet
8 3 (2.40%) Tableau
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.60%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.60%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.60%) MS Access
9 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.00%) NUnit
2 4 (3.20%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (3.20%) Git
2 4 (3.20%) MSTest
3 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.60%) GitLab
3 2 (1.60%) JIRA
3 2 (1.60%) JUnit
3 2 (1.60%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.60%) Moq
3 2 (1.60%) NSubstitute
3 2 (1.60%) Selenium
3 2 (1.60%) Subversion
3 2 (1.60%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.80%) Maven
4 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.00%) Finance
3 10 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Automotive
5 7 (5.60%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.80%) Retail
7 5 (4.00%) Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.00%) Law
7 5 (4.00%) Legal
7 5 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Back Office
9 1 (0.80%) Billing
9 1 (0.80%) Marketing
9 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (32.80%) Developer
2 21 (16.80%) Senior
3 19 (15.20%) Support Engineer
4 16 (12.80%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Business Developer
5 12 (9.60%) Systems Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Support Specialist
6 10 (8.00%) Technical Support
7 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.60%) DBA
9 7 (5.60%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.40%) .NET
2 13 (10.40%) PySpark
3 12 (9.60%) .NET Framework
4 10 (8.00%) LAMP
5 9 (7.20%) Entity Framework
5 9 (7.20%) REST
6 8 (6.40%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.60%) .NET Core
7 7 (5.60%) Blazor
8 6 (4.80%) SOAP
9 5 (4.00%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.00%) XML
10 4 (3.20%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (3.20%) CSS
10 4 (3.20%) HTML
10 4 (3.20%) WPF
10 4 (3.20%) YAML
11 3 (2.40%) ARM Templates
11 3 (2.40%) jQuery
11 3 (2.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.20%) Clustering
3 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.60%) NHS
5 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.80%) CMDB
6 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.80%) Windows
2 13 (10.40%) Linux
3 12 (9.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.00%) VMS
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (23.20%) DevOps
4 27 (21.60%) ETL
5 26 (20.80%) CRM
6 24 (19.20%) CI/CD
6 24 (19.20%) Data Engineering
7 22 (17.60%) Mentoring
8 18 (14.40%) Migration
9 16 (12.80%) Agile
10 14 (11.20%) Computer Science
11 12 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (9.60%) Service Delivery
12 11 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (8.00%) Customer Experience
13 10 (8.00%) Process Improvement
14 9 (7.20%) Analytics
14 9 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (7.20%) Decision-Making
14 9 (7.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.60%) SQL
2 37 (29.60%) C#
3 29 (23.20%) JavaScript
4 25 (20.00%) Python
5 18 (14.40%) PHP
6 16 (12.80%) Java
7 13 (10.40%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.20%) Bicep
8 4 (3.20%) Delphi
8 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.40%) C++
9 3 (2.40%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.60%) C
10 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.60%) Go
10 2 (1.60%) Groovy
10 2 (1.60%) Perl
10 2 (1.60%) Ruby
10 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.60%) XAML
Qualifications
1 16 (12.80%) Degree
2 12 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.80%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.80%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.60%) HNC
6 2 (1.60%) MCP
6 2 (1.60%) MCSA
6 2 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.80%) ACCA
7 1 (0.80%) CIMA
7 1 (0.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) QA
2 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.80%) COBIT
2 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Terraform
2 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.60%) Grafana
3 2 (1.60%) Nagios
3 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (47.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.60%) Oracle
3 15 (12.00%) Databricks
4 10 (8.00%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.00%) VMware
6 4 (3.20%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.60%) Infor
7 2 (1.60%) Veeam
8 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.80%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.80%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.80%) RedGate
8 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds