SQL Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 52 26
Rank change year-on-year +25 -26 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 452 380 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.25% 5.65% 7.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.10% 27.50% 36.46%
Number of salaries quoted 409 306 438
10th Percentile £33,150 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,156 1,382 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.00% 20.55% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 962 846 1,132
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,550 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +19 165 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Staffordshire +6 81 £50,000 +5.26% 22
Warwickshire +60 55 £42,500 -34.62% 13
Coventry +22 27 £53,500 +40.79% 8
Worcestershire -6 24 £47,500 +22.58% 8
Shropshire +17 23 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Wolverhampton +17 13 £42,500 +10.39% 1
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 1
Stourbridge - 4 £50,000 -
Walsall +11 3 £45,000 +5.88% 3
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 1
Solihull -5 2 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Herefordshire -8 2 £57,500 +15.00% 6
Wednesbury -5 1 £32,500 -27.78%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (11.95%) IIS
2 46 (10.18%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.11%) CMS
4 5 (1.11%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.66%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.44%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.44%) Liferay
6 2 (0.44%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 16 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.11%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.88%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.66%) Maximo
5 2 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.44%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.44%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.22%) Scribe Insight
6 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 261 (57.74%) Azure
2 110 (24.34%) Power Platform
3 69 (15.27%) AWS
4 40 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.31%) SaaS
7 22 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (4.65%) PowerApps
9 18 (3.98%) Serverless
9 18 (3.98%) Snowflake
10 16 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (3.32%) GCP
12 13 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.88%) Matillion
13 12 (2.65%) Power Automate
14 10 (2.21%) GitHub
15 9 (1.99%) Boomi
16 8 (1.77%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.08%) WAN
2 25 (5.53%) Firewall
3 18 (3.98%) DNS
4 15 (3.32%) BIG-IP
5 13 (2.88%) DHCP
6 10 (2.21%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.55%) HTTP
7 7 (1.55%) VPN
8 4 (0.88%) FTP
8 4 (0.88%) Internet
8 4 (0.88%) Wireless
9 3 (0.66%) LAN
9 3 (0.66%) SSL
10 2 (0.44%) Broadband
10 2 (0.44%) IPv6
10 2 (0.44%) Network Security
10 2 (0.44%) SAN
11 1 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (20.13%) Power BI
2 70 (15.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 63 (13.94%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (10.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 43 (9.51%) Relational Database
6 31 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (6.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 24 (5.31%) Data Lake
9 20 (4.42%) MongoDB
10 19 (4.20%) NoSQL
11 16 (3.54%) MySQL
12 14 (3.10%) Oracle Database
13 12 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (2.43%) SQLite
14 11 (2.43%) Star Schema
15 10 (2.21%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.99%) Metadata
17 8 (1.77%) DB2
18 7 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (6.42%) Git
2 21 (4.65%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.21%) MSTest
4 9 (1.99%) GitLab
5 7 (1.55%) Postman
5 7 (1.55%) SoapUI
6 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.11%) Jasmine
7 5 (1.11%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.88%) JIRA
8 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.44%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.44%) Bower
9 2 (0.44%) gulp
9 2 (0.44%) Maven
9 2 (0.44%) Moq
9 2 (0.44%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 142 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.04%) Finance
3 33 (7.30%) Law
3 33 (7.30%) Retail
4 31 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.64%) Manufacturing
6 25 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (4.42%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.32%) Marketing
9 14 (3.10%) Legal
10 12 (2.65%) Advertising
11 8 (1.77%) Police
12 7 (1.55%) Banking
12 7 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.33%) Local Government
14 5 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.88%) Back Office
15 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 177 (39.16%) Developer
2 75 (16.59%) .NET Developer
3 60 (13.27%) Software Developer
4 54 (11.95%) Senior
5 41 (9.07%) Analyst
6 40 (8.85%) C# Developer
6 40 (8.85%) Consultant
7 39 (8.63%) Data Engineer
8 32 (7.08%) Lead
9 30 (6.64%) Systems Engineer
10 28 (6.19%) Administrator
11 22 (4.87%) C# Software Developer
12 20 (4.42%) DBA
13 17 (3.76%) SharePoint Administrator
14 14 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 13 (2.88%) C# .NET Developer
15 13 (2.88%) Software Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (40.49%) .NET
2 119 (26.33%) ASP.NET
3 89 (19.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 86 (19.03%) HTML
5 76 (16.81%) .NET Core
6 54 (11.95%) AngularJS
7 53 (11.73%) ASP.NET Web API
8 52 (11.50%) Entity Framework
9 46 (10.18%) .NET Framework
10 45 (9.96%) REST
11 43 (9.51%) RESTful
12 39 (8.63%) CSS
13 38 (8.41%) React
14 30 (6.64%) HTML5
14 30 (6.64%) JSON
14 30 (6.64%) Vue
15 28 (6.19%) XML
16 27 (5.97%) Node.js
17 25 (5.53%) WPF
18 22 (4.87%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.96%) Clustering
2 29 (6.42%) Mobile App
3 24 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (5.09%) Data Structures
5 20 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.42%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.54%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.65%) NHS
10 11 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.77%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.77%) Replication
11 8 (1.77%) TRADACOMS
12 7 (1.55%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.11%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 69 (15.27%) Windows
2 24 (5.31%) Windows Server
3 21 (4.65%) Linux
4 8 (1.77%) VMS
4 8 (1.77%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.33%) Unix
6 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.88%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.44%) Android
9 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (25.66%) Agile
2 110 (24.34%) MVC
3 94 (20.80%) Business Intelligence
4 93 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (18.36%) DevOps
6 62 (13.72%) ETL
6 62 (13.72%) Full Stack Development
7 48 (10.62%) Microservices
8 46 (10.18%) High Availability
9 44 (9.73%) CI/CD
9 44 (9.73%) TDD
10 39 (8.63%) Scrum
11 36 (7.96%) Load Balancing
12 34 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence
12 34 (7.52%) Data Modelling
13 33 (7.30%) Machine Learning
14 31 (6.86%) BDD
14 31 (6.86%) Performance Tuning
15 30 (6.64%) Analytics
15 30 (6.64%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 305 (67.48%) SQL
2 190 (42.04%) C#
3 93 (20.58%) JavaScript
4 91 (20.13%) T-SQL
5 43 (9.51%) Python
6 34 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 32 (7.08%) PowerShell
8 28 (6.19%) Java
9 27 (5.97%) VB.NET
10 20 (4.42%) VB
11 16 (3.54%) XAML
12 8 (1.77%) ActionScript
12 8 (1.77%) ActionScript 2.0
12 8 (1.77%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.77%) R
13 7 (1.55%) C
13 7 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.11%) C++
14 5 (1.11%) PHP
14 5 (1.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 63 (13.94%) Degree
2 44 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.88%) MCSE
7 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.44%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.44%) CCNA
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.44%) HND
9 2 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.52%) QA
2 27 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.99%) GDPR
4 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.66%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.98%) VMware NSX
4 13 (2.88%) Docker
5 10 (2.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.88%) vSphere
7 2 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.44%) XenApp
7 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.99%) Terraform
2 8 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.88%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.44%) MIIS
6 1 (0.22%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 248 (54.87%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.28%) VMware
3 32 (7.08%) Oracle
4 24 (5.31%) Databricks
5 17 (3.76%) CheckPoint
6 15 (3.32%) F5
7 11 (2.43%) Facebook
8 9 (1.99%) DevExpress
8 9 (1.99%) IBM
8 9 (1.99%) iManage
8 9 (1.99%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.99%) SAP
9 7 (1.55%) SYSPRO
9 7 (1.55%) Xamarin
10 6 (1.33%) Citrix
10 6 (1.33%) Dell
11 5 (1.11%) Adobe
11 5 (1.11%) NEC
11 5 (1.11%) YouTube