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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 47 31
Rank change year-on-year -45 -16 +9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 101 155 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.32% 5.13% 5.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.30% 33.48% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 89 104 420
10th Percentile £29,500 £37,000 £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 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,625 £68,750
England median annual salary £56,250 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.44% +2.73% -0.90%

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 552 463 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.22% 15.33% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 418 332 979
10th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 17 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 17 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 -13 47 £53,750 -6.52% 18
Warwickshire -1 21 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Shropshire -12 12 £52,500 -12.50% 6
Staffordshire -22 7 £55,000 +2.44% 6
Coventry -25 6 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Halesowen - 3 £44,000 -
Bilston - 2 £55,000 -
Solihull +11 1 £60,000 +6.67%
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 14 (13.86%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.96%) IIS
3 3 (2.97%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (57.43%) Azure
2 15 (14.85%) SaaS
3 13 (12.87%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.93%) AWS
4 7 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (6.93%) Azure Functions
4 7 (6.93%) Serverless
5 6 (5.94%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.95%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.96%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.96%) PaaS
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.97%) Siteimprove
9 2 (1.98%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.99%) dbt
10 1 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Firewall
1 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.98%) DHCP
2 2 (1.98%) DNS
2 2 (1.98%) RFID
3 1 (0.99%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (7.92%) Power BI
2 7 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.97%) MySQL
4 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.98%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.97%) JIRA
1 3 (2.97%) Selenium
1 3 (2.97%) TestRail
1 3 (2.97%) Toad
1 3 (2.97%) Zephyr
2 2 (1.98%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.84%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Legal
4 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Law
5 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.96%) Retail
7 3 (2.97%) Automotive
7 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.98%) Billing
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (34.65%) Developer
2 34 (33.66%) Senior
3 22 (21.78%) Software Developer
4 16 (15.84%) Senior Developer
5 14 (13.86%) DBA
5 14 (13.86%) Senior Software Developer
6 12 (11.88%) SQL DBA
7 9 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) Analyst
9 7 (6.93%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Senior DBA
9 7 (6.93%) SQL Server DBA
10 6 (5.94%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (5.94%) Head of Engineering
11 5 (4.95%) Database Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior SQL DBA
11 5 (4.95%) Senior SQL Server DBA
11 5 (4.95%) SharePoint Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Support Analyst
12 4 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.64%) .NET
2 21 (20.79%) .NET Core
3 20 (19.80%) Blazor
4 8 (7.92%) ASP.NET
5 7 (6.93%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (5.94%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.95%) PySpark
8 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (2.97%) COM
9 3 (2.97%) CSS
9 3 (2.97%) DCOM
9 3 (2.97%) jQuery
9 3 (2.97%) LDAP
9 3 (2.97%) Middleware
10 2 (1.98%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.98%) Semantic Kernel
11 1 (0.99%) Bootstrap
11 1 (0.99%) Razor View Engine
11 1 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.94%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.95%) Clustering
3 4 (3.96%) CMDB
3 4 (3.96%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.96%) Replication
4 3 (2.97%) iSeries
4 3 (2.97%) PKI
4 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.97%) Smartcard
5 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Windows
1 7 (6.93%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (13.86%) DevOps
2 14 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (12.87%) Data Engineering
4 12 (11.88%) Agile
4 12 (11.88%) ERP
5 11 (10.89%) Performance Tuning
5 11 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (9.90%) AI
6 10 (9.90%) Computer Science
6 10 (9.90%) CRM
6 10 (9.90%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (9.90%) Web SSO
7 9 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (8.91%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.91%) ETL
7 9 (8.91%) Logistics
8 8 (7.92%) MVC
8 8 (7.92%) Service Delivery
8 8 (7.92%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 44 (43.56%) SQL
2 30 (29.70%) C#
3 10 (9.90%) Python
4 9 (8.91%) T-SQL
5 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.98%) C++
7 2 (1.98%) Java
7 2 (1.98%) PHP
8 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (7.92%) Degree
2 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.98%) HNC
4 2 (1.98%) MCSA
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.97%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (1.98%) GDPR
3 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.99%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.93%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.97%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.99%) Ansible
3 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (38.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) Databricks
3 5 (4.95%) Oracle
3 5 (4.95%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.97%) HP
4 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.98%) RedGate
5 2 (1.98%) Veeam
5 2 (1.98%) VMware
6 1 (0.99%) Citrix
6 1 (0.99%) F5
6 1 (0.99%) SYSPRO