SQL Jobs in the West Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL 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 18 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 348 809 1,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.79% 11.17% 17.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.03% 43.29% 48.40%
Number of salaries quoted 260 732 632
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £37,500 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,688 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +7.79%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 915 1,869 2,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.49% 25.81% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 589 1,627 1,253
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,400 £77,050 £79,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 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 -2 170 £55,000 - 87
Staffordshire -10 48 £35,000 -14.63% 92
Warwickshire -44 38 £52,500 +23.53% 49
Solihull +3 14 £55,000 - 5
Coventry -22 14 £60,000 +15.94% 19
Shropshire -1 12 £50,000 +9.29% 6
Dudley - 10 £57,500 - 4
Worcestershire -7 9 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Herefordshire +6 3 £75,000 +172.73% 2
Wolverhampton -1 3 £52,500 +23.53% 5
Walsall -9 3 £59,000 +126.92% 4
Wednesbury - 2 £45,000 - 2
Brierley Hill +6 1 £82,500 +65.00%
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 12 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.59%) Confluence
3 5 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.15%) CMS
5 3 (0.86%) Apache
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.57%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.57%) SAS
6 2 (0.57%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) Mule
7 1 (0.29%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (14.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.57%) Trello
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (5.46%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (4.31%) NEC Housing
2 15 (4.31%) Oracle Applications
3 7 (2.01%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.86%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 152 (43.68%) Azure
2 95 (27.30%) Power Platform
3 44 (12.64%) AWS
4 36 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (7.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (7.47%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (7.18%) SaaS
8 20 (5.75%) Power Automate
9 17 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.89%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.60%) Google Workspace
11 15 (4.31%) GCP
11 15 (4.31%) Serverless
12 11 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (3.16%) GitHub
12 11 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (3.16%) PaaS
12 11 (3.16%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.87%) IaaS
14 7 (2.01%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.90%) DNS
2 22 (6.32%) DHCP
3 20 (5.75%) Firewall
4 19 (5.46%) TCP/IP
5 16 (4.60%) BGP
5 16 (4.60%) OSPF
5 16 (4.60%) VLAN
5 16 (4.60%) WLAN
6 7 (2.01%) LAN
6 7 (2.01%) WAN
7 3 (0.86%) SAN
8 2 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.57%) Skype
8 2 (0.57%) VPN
9 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.29%) MQTT
9 1 (0.29%) VSAN
9 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (25.29%) Power BI
2 76 (21.84%) SQL Server
3 50 (14.37%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 25 (7.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 23 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (6.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.46%) Data Lake
8 18 (5.17%) Relational Database
9 15 (4.31%) Oracle Database
9 15 (4.31%) Tableau
10 14 (4.02%) BusinessObjects
11 12 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (2.87%) Metadata
12 10 (2.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (2.87%) Star Schema
13 9 (2.59%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.59%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (2.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (8.05%) Git
2 18 (5.17%) JIRA
2 18 (5.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (2.59%) JUnit
3 9 (2.59%) Mockito
4 8 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.01%) Eclipse
5 7 (2.01%) IntelliJ
5 7 (2.01%) Jasmine
5 7 (2.01%) Karma Test Runner
5 7 (2.01%) Protractor
6 6 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.86%) ERwin
7 3 (0.86%) LSMW
7 3 (0.86%) Subversion
7 3 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.57%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.57%) Storybook
General
1 118 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.70%) Finance
3 62 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.05%) Law
6 27 (7.76%) Retail
7 24 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 24 (6.90%) Police
8 23 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (6.32%) Automotive
10 17 (4.89%) Local Government
11 15 (4.31%) Marketing
12 8 (2.30%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.44%) Advertising
13 5 (1.44%) Banking
13 5 (1.44%) Legal
13 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.15%) Back Office
15 3 (0.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 119 (34.20%) Developer
2 54 (15.52%) Senior
3 45 (12.93%) Analyst
4 33 (9.48%) Senior Developer
5 30 (8.62%) Lead
6 27 (7.76%) Consultant
7 26 (7.47%) SQL Developer
8 25 (7.18%) C# Developer
9 21 (6.03%) IT Engineer
10 20 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (5.17%) Senior C# Developer
12 17 (4.89%) Architect
12 17 (4.89%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (4.31%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 15 (4.31%) Support Engineer
15 14 (4.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 14 (4.02%) Data Scientist
15 14 (4.02%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.52%) .NET
2 30 (8.62%) HTML
3 27 (7.76%) React
4 24 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 22 (6.32%) ASP.NET
5 22 (6.32%) Middleware
6 20 (5.75%) Blazor
7 17 (4.89%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (4.60%) CSS
9 15 (4.31%) .NET Core
9 15 (4.31%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (4.31%) Web Services
10 13 (3.74%) Entity Framework
10 13 (3.74%) RESTful
11 12 (3.45%) .NET Framework
11 12 (3.45%) JPA
11 12 (3.45%) Node.js
12 10 (2.87%) REST
13 8 (2.30%) GraphQL
13 8 (2.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.60%) Smartphone
3 13 (3.74%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.59%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.01%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.01%) Housing Association
6 7 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.15%) IoT
9 4 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.86%) EPoS
10 3 (0.86%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.08%) Windows
2 43 (12.36%) Linux
3 32 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 19 (5.46%) Unix
5 18 (5.17%) Windows 10
5 18 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (4.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (4.60%) Mac OS X
7 16 (4.60%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.44%) Rocky
9 4 (1.15%) AIX
9 4 (1.15%) Solaris
10 3 (0.86%) Android
11 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.29%) CentOS
12 1 (0.29%) Debian
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (32.18%) Business Intelligence
2 97 (27.87%) Analytics
3 94 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (17.24%) ETL
5 55 (15.80%) Agile
5 55 (15.80%) Computer Science
6 51 (14.66%) DevOps
7 48 (13.79%) Data Modelling
8 43 (12.36%) Artificial Intelligence
9 40 (11.49%) Data Analysis
10 39 (11.21%) Decision-Making
11 36 (10.34%) ERP
11 36 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (10.06%) Collaborative Working
12 35 (10.06%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (10.06%) Software Engineering
13 33 (9.48%) Machine Learning
14 32 (9.20%) Performance Tuning
14 32 (9.20%) Visualisation
15 30 (8.62%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 74 (21.26%) C#
2 57 (16.38%) Python
3 44 (12.64%) Java
4 31 (8.91%) JavaScript
5 26 (7.47%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.46%) R
7 18 (5.17%) C++
7 18 (5.17%) PL/SQL
7 18 (5.17%) T-SQL
8 11 (3.16%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.16%) X++
9 7 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (2.01%) PHP
10 6 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.15%) ABAP
11 4 (1.15%) Delphi
12 2 (0.57%) Bash
12 2 (0.57%) VB
13 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (23.56%) Degree
2 33 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.18%) DBS Check
5 21 (6.03%) MCSE
5 21 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (5.75%) HND
7 16 (4.60%) HNC
8 8 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.30%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.44%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.44%) ACCA
10 5 (1.44%) CIMA
10 5 (1.44%) MCP
10 5 (1.44%) MCSA
10 5 (1.44%) OCA
10 5 (1.44%) OCP
10 5 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.86%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.87%) SLA
4 8 (2.30%) QA
5 4 (1.15%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.86%) NIST
7 2 (0.57%) GDPR
7 2 (0.57%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) COSO
8 1 (0.29%) ITGC
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.32%) Docker
3 9 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.72%) Grafana
2 6 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (1.72%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.86%) SCCM
3 3 (0.86%) SCOM
4 2 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.57%) SCOrch
4 2 (0.57%) SCSM
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.29%) Terraform
5 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.29%) VxRail
5 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 129 (37.07%) Microsoft
2 52 (14.94%) Oracle
3 30 (8.62%) Google
4 25 (7.18%) Databricks
5 17 (4.89%) Apple
5 17 (4.89%) Cisco
5 17 (4.89%) Dell
6 16 (4.60%) Fortinet
6 16 (4.60%) Ubiquiti
7 15 (4.31%) NEC
8 14 (4.02%) SAP
9 11 (3.16%) ServiceNow
10 9 (2.59%) VMware
11 8 (2.30%) Telerik
12 7 (2.01%) IBM
13 6 (1.72%) Alteryx
13 6 (1.72%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.44%) Informatica
14 5 (1.44%) OpenAI
15 4 (1.15%) Citrix