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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 61 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 -30 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 120 219 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.33% 4.03% 6.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.05% 38.97% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 99 121 217
10th Percentile £32,125 £32,500 £39,788
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +11.75%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.07%

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 479 562 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.28% 10.35% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 360 293 598
10th Percentile £33,725 £33,550 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,842 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 0 49 £52,500 +5.00% 27
Warwickshire +11 15 £53,750 +19.44% 12
Solihull +2 14 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Coventry +4 9 £55,200 -18.22% 4
Staffordshire -28 6 £56,250 +18.42% 13
Herefordshire -2 5 £40,000 - 6
Wolverhampton +6 4 £125,000 +108.33% 3
Worcestershire +9 3 £47,500 +2.70% 3
Shropshire -10 3 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Kingswinford - 1 £95,000 -
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
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 20 (16.67%) IIS
2 6 (5.00%) Apache
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Appian
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.67%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.00%) Azure
2 32 (26.67%) SaaS
3 25 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 17 (14.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (10.83%) AWS
7 9 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.83%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.83%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (5.00%) GitHub
9 6 (5.00%) Serverless
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Firewall
2 3 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) LAN
2 3 (2.50%) VPN
2 3 (2.50%) WAN
2 3 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.67%) FTP
3 2 (1.67%) HTTP
3 2 (1.67%) SAN
3 2 (1.67%) SMTP
3 2 (1.67%) SSH
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.67%) Power BI
2 16 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 13 (10.83%) MySQL
4 10 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.00%) Delta Lake
5 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.33%) Tableau
7 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.50%) Parquet
7 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.67%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.67%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.67%) MS Access
8 2 (1.67%) SQL CLR
9 1 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) NUnit
2 4 (3.33%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (3.33%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.33%) MSTest
3 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 3 (2.50%) JUnit
3 3 (2.50%) Selenium
4 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.67%) GitLab
4 2 (1.67%) Moq
4 2 (1.67%) NSubstitute
4 2 (1.67%) Subversion
4 2 (1.67%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.83%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.83%) Finance
3 12 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Manufacturing
4 7 (5.83%) Retail
5 6 (5.00%) Law
5 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.17%) Automotive
7 4 (3.33%) Banking
8 3 (2.50%) Back Office
8 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (32.50%) Developer
2 24 (20.00%) Senior
3 16 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 13 (10.83%) Data Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 12 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Support Specialist
7 10 (8.33%) Technical Support
8 9 (7.50%) Applications Support
8 9 (7.50%) C# Developer
8 9 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Applications Support Specialist
11 6 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.50%) .NET
2 17 (14.17%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.67%) Entity Framework
4 11 (9.17%) Blazor
5 10 (8.33%) LAMP
5 10 (8.33%) PySpark
6 9 (7.50%) ASP.NET
6 9 (7.50%) REST
7 8 (6.67%) .NET Core
7 8 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.67%) HTML
8 6 (5.00%) CSS
8 6 (5.00%) SOAP
9 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (4.17%) jQuery
9 5 (4.17%) WPF
9 5 (4.17%) XML
9 5 (4.17%) YAML
10 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.50%) Clustering
5 3 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.50%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.83%) NHS
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.50%) Windows
2 13 (10.83%) Linux
3 11 (9.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (1.67%) VMS
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (27.50%) DevOps
3 28 (23.33%) CRM
4 25 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 23 (19.17%) ETL
7 22 (18.33%) Agile
8 21 (17.50%) CI/CD
9 20 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 14 (11.67%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.67%) Migration
11 12 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (9.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (9.17%) MVC
13 10 (8.33%) Customer Experience
13 10 (8.33%) Data Modelling
13 10 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (66.67%) SQL
2 45 (37.50%) C#
3 29 (24.17%) JavaScript
4 22 (18.33%) Python
5 19 (15.83%) PHP
6 17 (14.17%) Java
7 11 (9.17%) T-SQL
8 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.00%) Bicep
10 4 (3.33%) C++
10 4 (3.33%) Delphi
11 3 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.50%) VB
11 3 (2.50%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.67%) C
12 2 (1.67%) Go
12 2 (1.67%) Groovy
12 2 (1.67%) Perl
12 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 18 (15.00%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.67%) ACCA
8 2 (1.67%) CIMA
8 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.83%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) QA
2 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.83%) COBIT
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.67%) Docker
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.83%) HDFS
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (9.17%) Terraform
2 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.67%) Grafana
4 2 (1.67%) Nagios
5 1 (0.83%) Kibana
5 1 (0.83%) logstash
5 1 (0.83%) Oozie
5 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.33%) Oracle
3 13 (10.83%) Databricks
4 11 (9.17%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.83%) VMware
6 4 (3.33%) HubSpot
7 3 (2.50%) RedGate
7 3 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.67%) Infor
8 2 (1.67%) SAP
9 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.83%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.83%) Cisco
9 1 (0.83%) Dell
9 1 (0.83%) EMC
9 1 (0.83%) Google
9 1 (0.83%) Informatica
9 1 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.83%) SonicWALL