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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 48 31
Rank change year-on-year -48 -17 +14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 97 154 484
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.28% 5.11% 5.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.57% 33.48% 39.61%
Number of salaries quoted 84 103 422
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £56,125 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.22% +1.82% -2.65%

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 552 460 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.29% 15.27% 14.39%
Number of salaries quoted 412 329 986
10th Percentile £35,075 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -17 46 £53,750 -6.52% 10
Warwickshire -1 18 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Shropshire -14 11 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Staffordshire -23 8 £48,750 -9.20% 1
Coventry -25 6 £60,000 -14.29% 4
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 (14.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) IIS
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 57 (58.76%) Azure
2 15 (15.46%) SaaS
3 13 (13.40%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.22%) AWS
4 7 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (7.22%) Azure Functions
4 7 (7.22%) Serverless
5 6 (6.19%) Power Automate
5 6 (6.19%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.09%) PaaS
7 3 (3.09%) Siteimprove
8 2 (2.06%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.03%) dbt
9 1 (1.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) DHCP
1 3 (3.09%) DNS
1 3 (3.09%) RFID
2 2 (2.06%) Firewall
2 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.03%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.25%) Power BI
3 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.09%) MySQL
5 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.06%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
1 3 (3.09%) LabVIEW
1 3 (3.09%) Selenium
1 3 (3.09%) TestRail
1 3 (3.09%) Toad
1 3 (3.09%) Zephyr
2 1 (1.03%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Legal
4 11 (11.34%) Law
5 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.12%) Retail
8 3 (3.09%) Automotive
8 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.06%) Billing
9 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Marketing
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (34.02%) Developer
2 31 (31.96%) Senior
3 19 (19.59%) Software Developer
4 14 (14.43%) DBA
4 14 (14.43%) Senior Developer
5 13 (13.40%) SQL DBA
6 12 (12.37%) Senior Software Developer
7 9 (9.28%) Analyst
8 8 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) SQL Server DBA
10 6 (6.19%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior DBA
10 6 (6.19%) Support Analyst
11 5 (5.15%) Database Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Head of Engineering
11 5 (5.15%) Senior SQL DBA
11 5 (5.15%) Senior SQL Server DBA
12 4 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (4.12%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (34.02%) .NET
2 19 (19.59%) .NET Core
3 18 (18.56%) Blazor
4 8 (8.25%) ASP.NET
5 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (6.19%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.15%) PySpark
8 4 (4.12%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (3.09%) CSS
9 3 (3.09%) jQuery
10 2 (2.06%) COM
10 2 (2.06%) DCOM
10 2 (2.06%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.06%) LDAP
10 2 (2.06%) Middleware
10 2 (2.06%) Semantic Kernel
11 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (1.03%) Razor View Engine
11 1 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.15%) Clustering
3 4 (4.12%) CMDB
4 3 (3.09%) iSeries
4 3 (3.09%) Replication
5 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.06%) PKI
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.06%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
1 7 (7.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
1 14 (14.43%) DevOps
2 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (12.37%) Agile
3 12 (12.37%) Data Engineering
3 12 (12.37%) ERP
3 12 (12.37%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (11.34%) CRM
4 11 (11.34%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (10.31%) AI
5 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
5 10 (10.31%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
6 9 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (9.28%) Logistics
6 9 (9.28%) Web SSO
7 8 (8.25%) ETL
7 8 (8.25%) MVC
7 8 (8.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) SQL
2 28 (28.87%) C#
3 10 (10.31%) Python
3 10 (10.31%) T-SQL
4 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.06%) C++
5 2 (2.06%) Java
5 2 (2.06%) PHP
6 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (7.22%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) HNC
4 3 (3.09%) MCSA
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.09%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (39.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Databricks
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) SolarWinds
4 3 (3.09%) HP
4 3 (3.09%) Veeam
4 3 (3.09%) VMware
5 2 (2.06%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.06%) RedGate
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) Citrix
6 1 (1.03%) F5