SQL Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 28 55
Rank change year-on-year -58 +27 -29
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 125 457 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.80% 6.31% 5.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.03% 39.33% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 92 413 302
10th Percentile £36,500 £33,250 £35,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £64,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +5.09%

All Database and 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 446 1,162 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.99% 16.05% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 307 968 829
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £39,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -38 51 £57,500 -4.17% 28
Warwickshire -51 20 £57,500 +35.29% 12
Staffordshire -27 18 £53,688 +7.38% 21
Coventry -22 7 - - 5
Shropshire +3 5 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Solihull +11 4 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Dudley +1 4 £75,000 +206.12% 3
Herefordshire +8 3 £33,000 -45.00% 7
Walsall -1 3 £60,000 +33.33%
Wolverhampton +5 1 £60,000 +41.18% 4
Brierley Hill - 1 £82,500 -
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.40%) Confluence
4 2 (1.60%) IIS
4 2 (1.60%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.80%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.80%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.60%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.60%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 70 (56.00%) Azure
2 36 (28.80%) Power Platform
3 18 (14.40%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (12.80%) AWS
5 11 (8.80%) PowerApps
5 11 (8.80%) SaaS
6 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.80%) Azure API Management
9 5 (4.00%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.20%) GitHub
10 4 (3.20%) IaaS
10 4 (3.20%) PaaS
10 4 (3.20%) Serverless
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.40%) GCP
12 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) DNS
2 6 (4.80%) DHCP
3 5 (4.00%) Firewall
4 4 (3.20%) SAN
5 2 (1.60%) HTTP
5 2 (1.60%) LAN
5 2 (1.60%) Skype
5 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.60%) WAN
6 1 (0.80%) PBX
6 1 (0.80%) VPN
6 1 (0.80%) VSAN
6 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 20 (16.00%) Power BI
3 17 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (13.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (10.40%) MySQL
5 10 (8.00%) Metadata
5 10 (8.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (6.40%) Data Hub
7 7 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.80%) Metadata Repository
8 6 (4.80%) Tableau
9 5 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (4.00%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
10 4 (3.20%) MS Access
10 4 (3.20%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.40%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Visual Studio
2 12 (9.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (5.60%) Git
4 6 (4.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (3.20%) JIRA
6 3 (2.40%) ERwin
6 3 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.60%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.60%) JUnit
7 2 (1.60%) NUnit
7 2 (1.60%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.80%) GitLab
8 1 (0.80%) kappa
8 1 (0.80%) Subversion
General
1 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.40%) Finance
3 12 (9.60%) Manufacturing
4 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.20%) Law
6 4 (3.20%) Advertising
6 4 (3.20%) Back Office
6 4 (3.20%) Police
7 3 (2.40%) Retail
8 2 (1.60%) Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Billing
8 2 (1.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.80%) iGaming
9 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 71 (56.80%) Developer
2 27 (21.60%) C# Developer
3 24 (19.20%) Senior
4 21 (16.80%) Senior Developer
5 18 (14.40%) Senior C# Developer
6 17 (13.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (13.60%) SQL Developer
7 15 (12.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 15 (12.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.40%) .NET Developer
8 8 (6.40%) Analyst
8 8 (6.40%) Database Developer
8 8 (6.40%) Software Developer
8 8 (6.40%) SQL Analyst
9 7 (5.60%) Senior Systems Developer
9 7 (5.60%) SQL Database Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Applications Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Delphi Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Graduate Developer
10 6 (4.80%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (45.60%) .NET
2 31 (24.80%) ASP.NET
3 26 (20.80%) HTML
4 23 (18.40%) CSS
5 20 (16.00%) Blazor
6 16 (12.80%) .NET Core
7 15 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 13 (10.40%) Web Services
9 10 (8.00%) ADO
9 10 (8.00%) React
10 9 (7.20%) .NET Framework
10 9 (7.20%) JSON
11 8 (6.40%) WPF
12 7 (5.60%) AngularJS
12 7 (5.60%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (5.60%) jQuery
13 6 (4.80%) Entity Framework
13 6 (4.80%) WCF
14 5 (4.00%) XML
15 4 (3.20%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.80%) Distributed Architecture
2 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.20%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.40%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.40%) EPoS
4 3 (2.40%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.60%) Clustering
5 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.60%) FMCG
5 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.80%) PKI
6 1 (0.80%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.60%) Windows
2 9 (7.20%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.40%) Linux
4 2 (1.60%) Android
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.80%) CentOS
5 1 (0.80%) Debian
5 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (23.20%) MVC
4 28 (22.40%) Agile
5 27 (21.60%) DevOps
6 22 (17.60%) Analytics
6 22 (17.60%) Migration
7 21 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (12.80%) Software Architecture
9 14 (11.20%) CI/CD
10 13 (10.40%) CRM
10 13 (10.40%) ETL
11 12 (9.60%) Data Migration
11 12 (9.60%) ERP
12 11 (8.80%) Data Integration
12 11 (8.80%) Data Modelling
12 11 (8.80%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (8.80%) User Experience
12 11 (8.80%) Visualisation
13 10 (8.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (60.80%) SQL
2 70 (56.00%) C#
3 26 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.40%) T-SQL
5 10 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.40%) Java
6 8 (6.40%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.60%) Delphi
7 7 (5.60%) PHP
8 6 (4.80%) C++
9 5 (4.00%) Python
10 4 (3.20%) VB.NET
10 4 (3.20%) XAML
11 3 (2.40%) C
11 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.40%) X++
12 2 (1.60%) R
13 1 (0.80%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Degree
2 7 (5.60%) DBS Check
3 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.40%) GDPR
2 3 (2.40%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) SLA
3 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.80%) NCSC
4 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.20%) Docker
3 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.20%) SCCM
3 3 (2.40%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (2.40%) SCOM
3 3 (2.40%) Terraform
4 2 (1.60%) SCOrch
4 2 (1.60%) SCSM
5 1 (0.80%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.80%) VxRail
5 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (55.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.80%) Oracle
3 11 (8.80%) VMware
4 5 (4.00%) Informatica
5 4 (3.20%) Databricks
5 4 (3.20%) SAP
6 3 (2.40%) Borland
7 2 (1.60%) Google
7 2 (1.60%) Infor
7 2 (1.60%) Okta
8 1 (0.80%) Adobe
8 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.80%) Cognos
8 1 (0.80%) Dell
8 1 (0.80%) EMC
8 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.80%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (0.80%) Veeam