SQL Jobs in the West Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 807 1,196 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.17% 17.78% 16.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.34% 48.34% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 731 643 903
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,862 2,474 3,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.76% 36.78% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,621 1,270 2,138
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £78,775 £82,641
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -3 307 £55,000 +4.76% 68
Staffordshire -2 128 £41,000 -8.89% 31
Warwickshire -4 73 £42,500 -12.82% 12
Worcestershire -6 53 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Coventry -3 47 £51,750 -1.43% 19
Shropshire +13 40 £45,750 -23.75% 5
Wolverhampton -5 21 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Solihull -7 20 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Halesowen -2 13 £60,000 - 1
Walsall +3 11 £26,000 -16.13% 3
Sutton Coldfield - 6 £45,000 - 1
Herefordshire -10 5 £27,500 -38.89% 4
Tipton -3 4 £24,000 -26.15%
Stourbridge - 4 £50,000 -
Brierley Hill -5 2 £50,000 -
SQL
England

SQL
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 52 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 49 (6.07%) IIS
3 24 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.24%) Confluence
5 6 (0.74%) WordPress
6 5 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.50%) CMS
7 4 (0.50%) SAS
7 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.37%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Apache
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.25%) Liferay
9 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 61 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.87%) Trello
5 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.62%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.37%) Maximo
4 3 (0.37%) Sage 300 ERP
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 340 (42.13%) Azure
2 170 (21.07%) Power Platform
3 94 (11.65%) AWS
4 78 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (6.57%) SaaS
6 46 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (4.58%) GCP
8 31 (3.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.47%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.73%) Serverless
11 21 (2.60%) Entra ID
12 17 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (2.11%) GitHub
13 15 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (1.61%) Matillion
14 13 (1.61%) PaaS
15 12 (1.49%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.32%) WAN
2 40 (4.96%) Firewall
3 22 (2.73%) LAN
4 21 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.48%) DNS
6 17 (2.11%) DHCP
7 15 (1.86%) BIG-IP
8 11 (1.36%) HTTP
8 11 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.24%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.24%) VoIP
9 10 (1.24%) VPN
10 8 (0.99%) VLAN
11 6 (0.74%) MPLS
11 6 (0.74%) SAN
11 6 (0.74%) Wireless
12 4 (0.50%) FTP
12 4 (0.50%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.50%) Network Security
12 4 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (37.79%) SQL Server
2 164 (20.32%) Power BI
3 101 (12.52%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (8.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 57 (7.06%) Tableau
6 49 (6.07%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (5.33%) NoSQL
9 32 (3.97%) Data Lake
10 26 (3.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 24 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (2.85%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.85%) MySQL
13 18 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.61%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.49%) Looker
17 11 (1.36%) Crystal Reports
17 11 (1.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 63 (7.81%) Git
2 32 (3.97%) JIRA
3 21 (2.60%) Visual Studio
4 18 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.61%) Postman
6 10 (1.24%) GitLab
6 10 (1.24%) MSTest
7 9 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.87%) Selenium
8 7 (0.87%) SoapUI
9 6 (0.74%) NUnit
10 5 (0.62%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (0.62%) Toad
11 4 (0.50%) JUnit
12 3 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.37%) Moq
12 3 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.25%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 229 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 135 (16.73%) Finance
3 96 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (9.17%) Law
5 64 (7.93%) Retail
6 56 (6.94%) Manufacturing
7 38 (4.71%) Marketing
8 34 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.84%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.85%) Games
12 21 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.36%) Local Government
14 10 (1.24%) Banking
14 10 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.87%) Automotive
16 7 (0.87%) Legal
17 6 (0.74%) Advertising
18 5 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 266 (32.96%) Developer
2 140 (17.35%) Analyst
3 135 (16.73%) Senior
4 80 (9.91%) Software Developer
5 59 (7.31%) Data Engineer
6 51 (6.32%) .NET Developer
7 49 (6.07%) Senior Analyst
8 48 (5.95%) Consultant
9 44 (5.45%) C# Developer
10 43 (5.33%) Lead
11 40 (4.96%) Data Analyst
12 37 (4.58%) Software Engineer
13 35 (4.34%) Senior Developer
14 32 (3.97%) Systems Engineer
15 30 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
16 27 (3.35%) Administrator
17 25 (3.10%) C# Software Developer
18 22 (2.73%) DBA
18 22 (2.73%) Senior Data Analyst
19 20 (2.48%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (30.86%) .NET
2 114 (14.13%) HTML
3 95 (11.77%) ASP.NET
4 80 (9.91%) .NET Core
5 72 (8.92%) CSS
6 70 (8.67%) REST
7 53 (6.57%) RESTful
8 52 (6.44%) ASP.NET MVC
9 51 (6.32%) Entity Framework
10 50 (6.20%) AngularJS
11 46 (5.70%) .NET Framework
12 42 (5.20%) XML
13 41 (5.08%) React
13 41 (5.08%) Web Services
14 35 (4.34%) Vue
15 34 (4.21%) JSON
16 31 (3.84%) jQuery
17 29 (3.59%) ASP.NET Web API
18 26 (3.22%) Blazor
19 19 (2.35%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.08%) Clustering
2 40 (4.96%) Mobile App
3 39 (4.83%) Data Structures
4 35 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.35%) Driving Licence
9 18 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.86%) NHS
12 14 (1.73%) AS400
13 13 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.49%) iSeries
15 11 (1.36%) CCTV
16 9 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.99%) Replication
18 7 (0.87%) Cloud Native
18 7 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 112 (13.88%) Windows
2 34 (4.21%) Linux
3 27 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.85%) Windows 10
5 14 (1.73%) Windows 7
6 9 (1.12%) Unix
7 8 (0.99%) VMS
8 4 (0.50%) Android
8 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (22.30%) Agile
3 177 (21.93%) Business Intelligence
4 126 (15.61%) Analytics
5 119 (14.75%) DevOps
6 101 (12.52%) ETL
7 91 (11.28%) MVC
8 71 (8.80%) Data Science
8 71 (8.80%) Software Engineering
9 67 (8.30%) Machine Learning
10 65 (8.05%) Data Modelling
11 60 (7.43%) CI/CD
11 60 (7.43%) Customer Service
11 60 (7.43%) Full Stack Development
12 57 (7.06%) Decision-Making
13 56 (6.94%) Mentoring
14 53 (6.57%) Test Automation
15 52 (6.44%) Actionable Insight
15 52 (6.44%) Visualisation
16 51 (6.32%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 239 (29.62%) C#
2 131 (16.23%) JavaScript
3 121 (14.99%) Python
4 104 (12.89%) T-SQL
5 62 (7.68%) Java
6 32 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 26 (3.22%) VB.NET
9 25 (3.10%) VB
10 20 (2.48%) PHP
10 20 (2.48%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.98%) XAML
12 13 (1.61%) RPG
13 11 (1.36%) RPG IV
13 11 (1.36%) RPG/400
14 10 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (1.24%) R
15 9 (1.12%) C++
16 8 (0.99%) C
17 5 (0.62%) VB6
Qualifications
1 119 (14.75%) Degree
2 38 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 23 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.35%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.99%) MCSE
9 5 (0.62%) CAPM
9 5 (0.62%) ISEB
9 5 (0.62%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.62%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.62%) PMP
10 4 (0.50%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.50%) HND
10 4 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.37%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.33%) QA
2 37 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.12%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.62%) SLA
6 1 (0.12%) ITGC
6 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (4.71%) Docker
2 33 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 30 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.23%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.73%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.50%) pfSense
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 23 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.24%) Terraform
3 5 (0.62%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.62%) SCCM
4 4 (0.50%) AirWatch
4 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.37%) SCOM
6 2 (0.25%) MIIS
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 282 (34.94%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.94%) Databricks
3 49 (6.07%) VMware
4 32 (3.97%) Oracle
5 23 (2.85%) Google
6 21 (2.60%) IBM
7 16 (1.98%) Cisco
8 15 (1.86%) DevExpress
8 15 (1.86%) F5
9 14 (1.73%) Alteryx
9 14 (1.73%) CheckPoint
9 14 (1.73%) Informatica
9 14 (1.73%) Xamarin
10 10 (1.24%) SAP
11 9 (1.12%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.99%) Remedy
13 7 (0.87%) Adobe
13 7 (0.87%) Dell
13 7 (0.87%) InterSystems
13 7 (0.87%) Sage