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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 54 47
Rank change year-on-year -47 -7 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 124 143 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.39% 4.43% 4.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.60% 31.36% 41.73%
Number of salaries quoted 108 95 161
10th Percentile £35,875 £38,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £43,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% -0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,750 £85,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 574 456 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.42% 14.14% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 421 323 353
10th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,217 £45,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,375 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -37 41 £53,750 -6.52% 24
Staffordshire +6 23 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Warwickshire -11 23 £65,000 +18.18% 12
Coventry -14 13 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Worcestershire -23 7 £33,000 -30.53% 2
Shropshire -17 5 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Brierley Hill - 3 £45,000 - 3
Dudley -14 2 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Solihull -3 1 - - 7
Wolverhampton -10 1 - - 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 19 (15.32%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.03%) IIS
3 2 (1.61%) Documentum
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 65 (52.42%) Azure
2 21 (16.94%) Power Platform
3 17 (13.71%) AWS
3 17 (13.71%) Azure Functions
3 17 (13.71%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (13.71%) Serverless
4 15 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.48%) Entra ID
6 10 (8.06%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.26%) SaaS
8 8 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.84%) GitHub
9 6 (4.84%) PaaS
10 4 (3.23%) GCP
10 4 (3.23%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.42%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) DNS
1 9 (7.26%) VPN
2 8 (6.45%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.84%) Firewall
4 3 (2.42%) HTTP
5 2 (1.61%) DHCP
5 2 (1.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.81%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.81%) Internet
6 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.45%) Power BI
3 7 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.03%) MySQL
6 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.61%) Power Query
8 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.61%) Tableau
9 1 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.81%) Looker
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.81%) Redis
9 1 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (13.71%) Git
2 5 (4.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (2.42%) JIRA
4 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) NUnit
General
1 44 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.32%) Finance
3 16 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.68%) Legal
5 12 (9.68%) Retail
6 9 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (6.45%) Law
8 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Games
11 1 (0.81%) Publishing
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (42.74%) Developer
2 33 (26.61%) Senior
3 17 (13.71%) Senior Developer
4 15 (12.10%) Software Developer
5 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) SQL Developer
6 11 (8.87%) Support Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) IT Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Senior Software Developer
8 9 (7.26%) DBA
9 8 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Senior DBA
10 7 (5.65%) Head of Engineering
10 7 (5.65%) IT Support
10 7 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Analyst
11 6 (4.84%) Database Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.26%) .NET
2 19 (15.32%) .NET Core
3 17 (13.71%) Blazor
4 9 (7.26%) ASP.NET
4 9 (7.26%) JSON
4 9 (7.26%) REST
5 8 (6.45%) XML
5 8 (6.45%) XSLT
6 6 (4.84%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (4.03%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (4.03%) EDI
7 5 (4.03%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.23%) COM
8 4 (3.23%) DCOM
8 4 (3.23%) LDAP
8 4 (3.23%) Middleware
8 4 (3.23%) Terraform
9 3 (2.42%) SOAP
10 2 (1.61%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.45%) Taxonomies
3 7 (5.65%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.03%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.23%) Clustering
5 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.23%) PKI
5 4 (3.23%) Replication
5 4 (3.23%) Smartcard
5 4 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.42%) CMDB
6 3 (2.42%) iSeries
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.74%) Windows
2 18 (14.52%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.26%) Linux
4 3 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.61%) Android
5 2 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (17.74%) DevOps
4 20 (16.13%) AI
5 19 (15.32%) CRM
6 18 (14.52%) Agile
7 17 (13.71%) CI/CD
8 16 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (12.90%) Roadmaps
9 15 (12.10%) Service Management
9 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (10.48%) Analytics
10 13 (10.48%) Data Modelling
11 12 (9.68%) Logistics
11 12 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (9.68%) Software Engineering
11 12 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.87%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.58%) SQL
2 39 (31.45%) C#
3 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.84%) Python
7 2 (1.61%) Go
7 2 (1.61%) Java
7 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.61%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.81%) Delphi
8 1 (0.81%) Pascal
8 1 (0.81%) PHP
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) Degree
2 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) GDPR
2 9 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.45%) WCAG
4 5 (4.03%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.42%) QA
5 3 (2.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.42%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.42%) Backup Exec
3 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.61%) Ansible
4 2 (1.61%) Bosun
5 1 (0.81%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 68 (54.84%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.45%) Databricks
3 6 (4.84%) Oracle
3 6 (4.84%) VMware
4 4 (3.23%) Citrix
4 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.42%) Datto
5 3 (2.42%) Google
5 3 (2.42%) Veeam
6 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.61%) OpenText
6 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) F5
7 1 (0.81%) Meraki
7 1 (0.81%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.81%) YouTube