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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 43 42
Rank change year-on-year -49 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 104 161 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.28% 4.74% 4.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.41% 32.26% 37.40%
Number of salaries quoted 92 109 309
10th Percentile £32,650 £41,000 £32,400
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +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 565 499 976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.97% 14.68% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 433 360 770
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,675 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +0.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -24 46 £52,500 -8.70% 6
Warwickshire -2 23 £65,000 +18.18%
Shropshire -8 12 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Staffordshire -16 8 £57,500 - 1
Coventry -20 6 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Worcestershire -16 4 £37,750 -20.53% 9
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Halesowen - 1 £44,000 -
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 15 (14.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.77%) IIS
3 3 (2.88%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.96%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 57 (54.81%) Azure
2 16 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 14 (13.46%) SaaS
4 10 (9.62%) AWS
5 8 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.73%) Azure Functions
6 7 (6.73%) PowerApps
6 7 (6.73%) Serverless
7 6 (5.77%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.81%) PaaS
8 5 (4.81%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.88%) Siteimprove
11 2 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.92%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.96%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (1.92%) DNS
3 2 (1.92%) VPN
4 1 (0.96%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.96%) HTTP
4 1 (0.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (9.62%) Power BI
2 8 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (4.81%) MySQL
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) JIRA
1 3 (2.88%) Selenium
1 3 (2.88%) TestRail
1 3 (2.88%) Toad
1 3 (2.88%) Zephyr
2 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.96%) Git
General
1 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Finance
3 14 (13.46%) Legal
4 13 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Law
6 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.77%) Retail
8 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Billing
9 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (34.62%) Developer
2 33 (31.73%) Senior
3 24 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 15 (14.42%) Senior Developer
4 15 (14.42%) Senior Software Developer
5 14 (13.46%) DBA
6 10 (9.62%) Senior DBA
7 9 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) SQL DBA
8 7 (6.73%) Head of Engineering
8 7 (6.73%) SQL Server DBA
9 6 (5.77%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (5.77%) Administrator
9 6 (5.77%) Analyst
9 6 (5.77%) Database Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior SQL DBA
10 5 (4.81%) Senior SQL Server DBA
10 5 (4.81%) SharePoint Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (38.46%) .NET
2 23 (22.12%) .NET Core
3 21 (20.19%) Blazor
4 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET
5 6 (5.77%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (4.81%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (3.85%) COM
7 4 (3.85%) DCOM
7 4 (3.85%) LDAP
7 4 (3.85%) Middleware
8 3 (2.88%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (2.88%) CSS
9 2 (1.92%) EDI
9 2 (1.92%) jQuery
9 2 (1.92%) REST
9 2 (1.92%) Semantic Kernel
10 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 1 (0.96%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.85%) Clustering
3 4 (3.85%) CMDB
3 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.85%) PKI
3 4 (3.85%) Replication
3 4 (3.85%) Smartcard
4 3 (2.88%) iSeries
5 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.62%) Windows
2 7 (6.73%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.88%) Linux
4 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (12.50%) DevOps
5 12 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (10.58%) Agile
6 11 (10.58%) AI
6 11 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (10.58%) CRM
6 11 (10.58%) Logistics
6 11 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (9.62%) Data Engineering
7 10 (9.62%) ERP
7 10 (9.62%) MVC
7 10 (9.62%) Web SSO
8 9 (8.65%) Computer Science
8 9 (8.65%) High Availability
8 9 (8.65%) Software Engineering
8 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (7.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 44 (42.31%) SQL
2 33 (31.73%) C#
3 9 (8.65%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.65%) T-SQL
4 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.77%) Python
5 3 (2.88%) Java
6 2 (1.92%) C++
6 2 (1.92%) PHP
7 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.96%) Delphi
7 1 (0.96%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 9 (8.65%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) GDPR
3 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.88%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.96%) PMO
5 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.73%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.88%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.96%) Ansible
3 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (41.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.65%) Databricks
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle
4 5 (4.81%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.88%) HP
7 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.92%) RedGate
8 1 (0.96%) Citrix
8 1 (0.96%) F5
8 1 (0.96%) OpenText
8 1 (0.96%) SYSPRO