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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 47 35
Rank change year-on-year -41 -12 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 106 153 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.36% 4.96% 5.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.56% 32.55% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 93 103 390
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +10.05% +4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -0.36%

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 571 470 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.32% 15.24% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 436 333 926
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% +4.48%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -10.77%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -21 50 £55,000 -4.35% 10
Warwickshire -1 22 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Shropshire -11 12 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Staffordshire -23 9 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Coventry -23 6 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Halesowen - 2 £44,000 -
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Solihull +8 1 £60,000 +6.67% 3
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 (14.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.66%) IIS
3 3 (2.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.94%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 62 (58.49%) Azure
2 17 (16.04%) Power Platform
3 15 (14.15%) SaaS
4 10 (9.43%) AWS
5 7 (6.60%) Azure Functions
5 7 (6.60%) PowerApps
5 7 (6.60%) Serverless
6 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.66%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.72%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.77%) PaaS
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.83%) Siteimprove
10 2 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.89%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Firewall
1 4 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.94%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.94%) DHCP
2 1 (0.94%) DNS
2 1 (0.94%) HTTP
2 1 (0.94%) RFID
2 1 (0.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) Power BI
2 10 (9.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (4.72%) MySQL
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.94%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) JIRA
1 3 (2.83%) Selenium
1 3 (2.83%) TestRail
1 3 (2.83%) Toad
1 3 (2.83%) Zephyr
2 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.94%) Git
3 1 (0.94%) LabVIEW
General
1 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Finance
3 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.21%) Legal
4 11 (10.38%) Law
5 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.77%) Retail
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Automotive
8 2 (1.89%) Billing
8 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (34.91%) Developer
2 36 (33.96%) Senior
3 22 (20.75%) Software Developer
4 16 (15.09%) Senior Developer
5 15 (14.15%) DBA
6 14 (13.21%) Senior Software Developer
7 10 (9.43%) Senior DBA
7 10 (9.43%) SQL DBA
8 9 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Analyst
9 7 (6.60%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Head of Engineering
9 7 (6.60%) SQL Server DBA
10 6 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (5.66%) Administrator
11 5 (4.72%) Database Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Senior SQL DBA
11 5 (4.72%) Senior SQL Server DBA
11 5 (4.72%) SharePoint Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (35.85%) .NET
2 22 (20.75%) .NET Core
3 20 (18.87%) Blazor
4 8 (7.55%) ASP.NET
5 7 (6.60%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (5.66%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (3.77%) COM
7 4 (3.77%) DCOM
7 4 (3.77%) LDAP
7 4 (3.77%) Middleware
7 4 (3.77%) PySpark
8 3 (2.83%) CSS
8 3 (2.83%) jQuery
8 3 (2.83%) REST
9 2 (1.89%) EDI
9 2 (1.89%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.89%) Semantic Kernel
10 1 (0.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.72%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.77%) Clustering
3 4 (3.77%) CMDB
3 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.77%) PKI
3 4 (3.77%) Replication
3 4 (3.77%) Smartcard
4 3 (2.83%) iSeries
5 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Windows
2 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (13.21%) DevOps
3 14 (13.21%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (12.26%) Agile
4 13 (12.26%) Data Engineering
4 13 (12.26%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (11.32%) AI
5 12 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (10.38%) CRM
6 11 (10.38%) ERP
6 11 (10.38%) ETL
6 11 (10.38%) Logistics
6 11 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (9.43%) Computer Science
7 10 (9.43%) Web SSO
8 9 (8.49%) Analytics
8 9 (8.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (8.49%) High Availability
8 9 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (44.34%) SQL
2 31 (29.25%) C#
3 9 (8.49%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.49%) Python
3 9 (8.49%) T-SQL
4 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.83%) Java
6 2 (1.89%) C++
6 2 (1.89%) PHP
7 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.94%) Delphi
7 1 (0.94%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 9 (8.49%) Degree
2 6 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.94%) HNC
5 1 (0.94%) MCSA
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.60%) QA
2 4 (3.77%) GDPR
3 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.83%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.60%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.83%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.94%) Ansible
3 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (40.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.32%) Databricks
3 6 (5.66%) Oracle
4 5 (4.72%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.83%) HP
7 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.89%) RedGate
8 1 (0.94%) Citrix
8 1 (0.94%) F5
8 1 (0.94%) OpenText
8 1 (0.94%) SYSPRO
8 1 (0.94%) Veeam
8 1 (0.94%) VMware