SQL Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 39 39
Rank change year-on-year -21 0 -11
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 160 377 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.85% 4.82% 6.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.43% 37.59% 30.47%
Number of salaries quoted 108 318 303
10th Percentile £40,875 £32,350 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £69,063 £62,500 £60,938
90th Percentile £84,125 £67,875 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 509 1,003 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.26% 12.82% 22.04%
Number of salaries quoted 359 791 802
10th Percentile £40,600 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £39,951
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -14 60 £57,500 -4.17% 28
Staffordshire -17 32 £57,500 +10.05% 16
Warwickshire -18 16 £55,000 +29.41% 11
Coventry -1 14 £70,000 +30.84% 5
Worcestershire +11 5 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Herefordshire +8 5 - - 2
Dudley +6 4 £75,000 +206.12% 1
Shropshire +2 4 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Solihull - 3 £57,500 - 4
Wolverhampton +14 2 £71,250 +67.65% 3
Walsall +6 2 £59,500 +32.22% 1
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
Kingswinford - 1 £95,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 1 £82,500 -
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 14 (8.75%) Confluence
2 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.50%) IIS
4 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.25%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (2.50%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.50%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 105 (65.63%) Azure
2 43 (26.88%) AWS
3 33 (20.63%) Power Platform
4 19 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.25%) SaaS
6 16 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (10.00%) GCP
7 14 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (5.63%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.38%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.38%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.75%) GitHub
11 5 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.50%) IaaS
12 4 (2.50%) PaaS
13 3 (1.88%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (1.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.00%) Firewall
2 6 (3.75%) LAN
2 6 (3.75%) VPN
2 6 (3.75%) WAN
2 6 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (3.13%) DHCP
3 5 (3.13%) DNS
3 5 (3.13%) SAN
4 2 (1.25%) HTTP
4 2 (1.25%) Skype
4 2 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.63%) PBX
5 1 (0.63%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 21 (13.13%) Power BI
3 18 (11.25%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (10.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (7.50%) MySQL
6 11 (6.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (6.25%) Data Hub
7 10 (6.25%) Metadata
8 7 (4.38%) Tableau
9 6 (3.75%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (3.75%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 5 (3.13%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.13%) SQL CLR
11 4 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.50%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (2.50%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 26 (16.25%) JIRA
2 25 (15.63%) Selenium
3 24 (15.00%) Bitbucket
3 24 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 24 (15.00%) GitLab
3 24 (15.00%) Maven
3 24 (15.00%) SonarQube
3 24 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (7.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (4.38%) Git
6 6 (3.75%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.50%) NUnit
8 3 (1.88%) JUnit
9 2 (1.25%) ER Studio
9 2 (1.25%) ERwin
9 2 (1.25%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.63%) NSubstitute
10 1 (0.63%) Subversion
10 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.63%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (28.75%) Finance
2 40 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (20.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (16.25%) Banking
5 15 (9.38%) Manufacturing
6 14 (8.75%) Retail
7 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.88%) Corporate Banking
7 11 (6.88%) Investment Banking
8 9 (5.63%) Law
9 7 (4.38%) Back Office
10 4 (2.50%) Advertising
11 3 (1.88%) Marketing
11 3 (1.88%) Police
12 2 (1.25%) Billing
12 2 (1.25%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.63%) iGaming
13 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (46.88%) Developer
2 28 (17.50%) Senior
3 27 (16.88%) Software Engineer
4 24 (15.00%) C# Developer
5 21 (13.13%) Senior Developer
6 17 (10.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 14 (8.75%) Senior C# Developer
8 14 (8.75%) SQL Developer
9 13 (8.13%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 13 (8.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (6.88%) Senior Systems Developer
11 9 (5.63%) Analyst
12 8 (5.00%) .NET Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Database Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Lead
12 8 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
13 7 (4.38%) Graduate Developer
13 7 (4.38%) IT Graduate
13 7 (4.38%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (39.38%) .NET
2 46 (28.75%) HTML
3 40 (25.00%) CSS
4 27 (16.88%) Kafka
4 27 (16.88%) React
5 25 (15.63%) ASP.NET
6 24 (15.00%) Blazor
6 24 (15.00%) JPA
6 24 (15.00%) Redux
6 24 (15.00%) Spring
6 24 (15.00%) Spring Boot
7 17 (10.63%) .NET Framework
8 16 (10.00%) Web Services
9 15 (9.38%) Entity Framework
10 14 (8.75%) RESTful
11 13 (8.13%) ASP.NET MVC
11 13 (8.13%) Hibernate
11 13 (8.13%) Jest
11 13 (8.13%) REST
12 12 (7.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.75%) Clustering
3 5 (3.13%) Operational Technology
3 5 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.50%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.88%) FMCG
5 3 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.63%) EPoS
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.50%) Windows
2 11 (6.88%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.50%) Linux
4 2 (1.25%) Unix
4 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.63%) CentOS
5 1 (0.63%) Debian
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.00%) DevOps
2 46 (28.75%) Agile
3 45 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (23.13%) CI/CD
6 32 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (19.38%) Software Engineering
8 30 (18.75%) Front End Development
9 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (17.50%) Migration
11 27 (16.88%) Containerisation
11 27 (16.88%) Microservices
11 27 (16.88%) SDLC
12 26 (16.25%) Clean Code
12 26 (16.25%) Test Automation
13 25 (15.63%) MVC
14 24 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (13.13%) Analytics
15 21 (13.13%) Mentoring
16 20 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 114 (71.25%) SQL
2 72 (45.00%) C#
3 45 (28.13%) JavaScript
4 35 (21.88%) Java
5 14 (8.75%) PowerShell
6 13 (8.13%) T-SQL
7 12 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.00%) C++
8 8 (5.00%) PHP
9 6 (3.75%) VB.NET
10 5 (3.13%) C
10 5 (3.13%) Delphi
10 5 (3.13%) Python
11 4 (2.50%) Bicep
11 4 (2.50%) VB
11 4 (2.50%) X++
11 4 (2.50%) XAML
12 3 (1.88%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.25%) Bash
13 2 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (13.75%) Degree
2 9 (5.63%) Azure Certification
2 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.38%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.63%) ACCA
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.63%) CIMA
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.50%) QA
2 12 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.25%) GDPR
5 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) COBIT
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (16.25%) Docker
2 15 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.88%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.63%) HDFS
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.88%) Terraform
3 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.88%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.25%) SCCM
5 2 (1.25%) SCOM
5 2 (1.25%) SCOrch
5 2 (1.25%) SCSM
6 1 (0.63%) Ansible
6 1 (0.63%) Kibana
6 1 (0.63%) logstash
6 1 (0.63%) Oozie
6 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.00%) Solace
3 18 (11.25%) VMware
4 17 (10.63%) Oracle
5 8 (5.00%) Databricks
6 6 (3.75%) Informatica
7 5 (3.13%) SAP
8 4 (2.50%) Infor
9 3 (1.88%) RedGate
9 3 (1.88%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.25%) Cisco
10 2 (1.25%) Google
10 2 (1.25%) Okta
11 1 (0.63%) Adobe
11 1 (0.63%) Borland
11 1 (0.63%) Dell
11 1 (0.63%) IBM
11 1 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.63%) Salesforce