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 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 503 575 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.70% 13.67% 18.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.05% 45.56% 47.99%
Number of salaries quoted 246 525 717
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,154 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,781
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +9.09%

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 1,142 1,262 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.30% 30.00% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 545 1,128 1,456
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +2 283 £52,500 -4.55% 80
Staffordshire -3 74 £40,000 -15.79% 29
Warwickshire -51 42 £52,500 +10.53% 16
Worcestershire +7 27 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Solihull -6 13 £52,500 -12.50% 1
Herefordshire +11 12 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Coventry -23 12 £62,500 +27.55% 6
Shropshire -6 11 £50,000 - 10
Wolverhampton -6 9 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Dudley - 4 £35,000 -
Walsall -5 1 £62,500 +37.36%
Wednesbury - 1 £45,000 -
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 17 (3.38%) Confluence
2 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.99%) SAS
4 4 (0.80%) Apache
4 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) Mule
5 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) Appian
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 65 (12.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 73 (14.51%) NEC Housing
2 11 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.59%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.99%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.80%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.40%) Magento
6 2 (0.40%) Maximo
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.40%) TIBCO iProcess
6 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 164 (32.60%) Azure
2 102 (20.28%) Power Platform
3 49 (9.74%) AWS
4 44 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (5.96%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (5.96%) SaaS
6 26 (5.17%) Google Workspace
7 24 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (3.78%) GitHub
10 16 (3.18%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.58%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.39%) GCP
13 11 (2.19%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.99%) Serverless
15 8 (1.59%) Azure Functions
16 7 (1.39%) Azure Stack
17 6 (1.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.55%) DNS
2 39 (7.75%) DHCP
3 36 (7.16%) Firewall
4 34 (6.76%) TCP/IP
5 27 (5.37%) VLAN
6 26 (5.17%) BGP
6 26 (5.17%) OSPF
6 26 (5.17%) WLAN
7 14 (2.78%) SAN
8 6 (1.19%) DSL
8 6 (1.19%) VPN
9 5 (0.99%) LAN
9 5 (0.99%) WAN
10 4 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.80%) VSAN
11 3 (0.60%) SSL
12 2 (0.40%) FTP
12 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.40%) MQTT
12 2 (0.40%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (19.68%) SQL Server
2 85 (16.90%) Power BI
3 41 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (5.17%) BusinessObjects
4 26 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 21 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 21 (4.17%) Oracle Database
8 18 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 16 (3.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (3.18%) Tableau
10 15 (2.98%) MySQL
11 13 (2.58%) Redis
12 9 (1.79%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.39%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.39%) DB2
13 7 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 44 (8.75%) Git
2 25 (4.97%) JIRA
3 13 (2.58%) SonarQube
4 11 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.99%) Visual Studio
6 8 (1.59%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.80%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.80%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.80%) JUnit
8 4 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.80%) LSMW
8 4 (0.80%) Mockito
8 4 (0.80%) MSTest
8 4 (0.80%) NUnit
8 4 (0.80%) Protractor
8 4 (0.80%) Selenium
9 3 (0.60%) GitLab
General
1 140 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 131 (26.04%) Finance
3 110 (21.87%) Public Sector
4 75 (14.91%) Police
5 74 (14.71%) Local Government
6 65 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (9.74%) Retail
8 40 (7.95%) Social Housing
9 33 (6.56%) Automotive
10 32 (6.36%) Manufacturing
11 27 (5.37%) Law
11 27 (5.37%) Marketing
12 16 (3.18%) Legal
13 15 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.59%) Back Office
15 7 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.19%) Advertising
16 6 (1.19%) Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (24.85%) Developer
2 98 (19.48%) Senior
3 94 (18.69%) Consultant
4 55 (10.93%) Analyst
5 54 (10.74%) Implementation Consultant
6 42 (8.35%) Senior Developer
7 36 (7.16%) Lead
8 32 (6.36%) Data Engineer
9 30 (5.96%) IT Engineer
10 29 (5.77%) C# Developer
10 29 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
11 22 (4.37%) Data Scientist
12 21 (4.17%) Software Engineer
13 20 (3.98%) Senior Consultant
13 20 (3.98%) Senior Support Consultant
13 20 (3.98%) Support Consultant
14 19 (3.78%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.38%) Backend Developer
15 17 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.38%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (19.68%) .NET
2 61 (12.13%) HTML
3 34 (6.76%) CSS
4 29 (5.77%) .NET Core
5 26 (5.17%) RESTful
6 25 (4.97%) .NET Framework
6 25 (4.97%) Node.js
7 23 (4.57%) React
8 22 (4.37%) AngularJS
8 22 (4.37%) ASP.NET
9 21 (4.17%) JSON
10 18 (3.58%) Entity Framework
10 18 (3.58%) GraphQL
11 15 (2.98%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (2.98%) Blazor
11 15 (2.98%) Django
12 13 (2.58%) FastAPI
12 13 (2.58%) Flask
12 13 (2.58%) Keycloak
12 13 (2.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.15%) Housing Association
2 33 (6.56%) Management Information System
3 26 (5.17%) Smartphone
4 17 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.19%) iSeries
6 10 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.59%) Clustering
8 8 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.59%) Pricing Data
9 7 (1.39%) IoT
9 7 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.99%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.99%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 92 (18.29%) Windows
2 66 (13.12%) Linux
3 49 (9.74%) Unix
4 47 (9.34%) Windows Server
5 32 (6.36%) Windows 10
6 31 (6.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (5.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (5.17%) Mac OS X
8 26 (5.17%) Ubuntu
9 20 (3.98%) Solaris
10 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.40%) Android
12 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (18.69%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (16.10%) Agile
3 78 (15.51%) DevOps
4 76 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (14.31%) Computer Science
6 71 (14.12%) Analytics
7 62 (12.33%) Housing Management
8 49 (9.74%) CI/CD
9 46 (9.15%) Software Engineering
10 45 (8.95%) ETL
11 41 (8.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (7.95%) Performance Tuning
13 39 (7.75%) Data Analysis
14 38 (7.55%) Visualisation
15 35 (6.96%) Machine Learning
16 34 (6.76%) Data Science
16 34 (6.76%) Mentoring
17 33 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (6.56%) Data Migration
17 33 (6.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 103 (20.48%) C#
2 81 (16.10%) Python
3 66 (13.12%) JavaScript
4 45 (8.95%) PowerShell
5 41 (8.15%) Java
6 35 (6.96%) T-SQL
7 29 (5.77%) PL/SQL
8 24 (4.77%) R
8 24 (4.77%) TypeScript
9 21 (4.17%) C++
10 17 (3.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (2.39%) RPG
11 12 (2.39%) RPG IV
12 10 (1.99%) X++
13 8 (1.59%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.19%) VB
15 5 (0.99%) C
16 4 (0.80%) RPG/400
16 4 (0.80%) Ruby
16 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (20.08%) Degree
2 80 (15.90%) DBS Check
3 38 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 36 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (6.56%) Security Cleared
6 31 (6.16%) HND
7 29 (5.77%) MCSE
8 27 (5.37%) HNC
9 14 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (2.39%) SC Cleared
11 10 (1.99%) MCSA
12 8 (1.59%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.60%) CISA
15 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.60%) OCA
15 3 (0.60%) OCP
15 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (16.30%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.98%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.80%) QA
5 3 (0.60%) GDPR
5 3 (0.60%) NIST
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.40%) NCSC
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) COSO
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.20%) GPG13
7 1 (0.20%) ITGC
7 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.97%) Docker
3 19 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.99%) vSphere
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.58%) Grafana
2 13 (2.58%) Prometheus
3 12 (2.39%) SCCM
3 12 (2.39%) SCOM
4 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (0.99%) Terraform
5 4 (0.80%) Ansible
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.80%) VxRail
6 3 (0.60%) Nessus
7 2 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.20%) MOM
8 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 181 (35.98%) Microsoft
2 73 (14.51%) NEC
3 36 (7.16%) Oracle
4 35 (6.96%) Dell
5 31 (6.16%) Google
6 30 (5.96%) Databricks
7 27 (5.37%) Apple
8 26 (5.17%) Cisco
8 26 (5.17%) Fortinet
8 26 (5.17%) Ubiquiti
9 22 (4.37%) Citrix
10 21 (4.17%) SAP
11 20 (3.98%) IBM
12 19 (3.78%) VMware
13 11 (2.19%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.19%) HP
14 6 (1.19%) Telerik
15 5 (0.99%) Veeam
16 4 (0.80%) OpenAI
16 4 (0.80%) Zoho