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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 7 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 539 1,370 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.55% 16.86% 18.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.56% 43.23% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 467 808 1,078
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

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 1,110 3,169 3,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.08% 38.99% 44.82%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,768 2,568
10th Percentile £33,565 £33,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,797 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +9.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,970 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 0 194 £56,000 +1.82% 79
Warwickshire +34 110 £50,000 - 25
Staffordshire -2 72 £47,500 -5.00% 29
Coventry -1 37 £46,750 -10.95% 17
Shropshire +5 25 £49,000 +3.16% 7
Solihull -3 25 £56,000 +21.08% 6
Worcestershire -14 15 £57,500 +35.29% 15
Wolverhampton +4 14 £65,000 +34.71% 5
West Bromwich +11 9 £46,000 -3.16%
Bilston +1 2 £45,000 -5.26%
Herefordshire -9 2 £50,000 +17.65%
Stourbridge - 2 £50,000 - 1
Dudley 0 1 £53,000 - 4
Halesowen -5 1 £42,500 +26.87% 1
Walsall -9 1 £46,000 +26.88% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 1 - - 1
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 33 (6.12%) IIS
2 29 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.86%) MS Exchange
4 6 (1.11%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.74%) NServiceBus
5 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.37%) Mendix
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 47 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.67%) ProductWriter
3 8 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (1.30%) Shopify
5 3 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.37%) FastStats
6 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 279 (51.76%) Azure
2 145 (26.90%) Power Platform
3 85 (15.77%) AWS
4 45 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (7.24%) GCP
5 39 (7.24%) SaaS
6 37 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (6.12%) Power Automate
8 32 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (4.64%) Serverless
10 24 (4.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (4.45%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (4.45%) PowerApps
11 23 (4.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (3.71%) Azure Functions
12 20 (3.71%) ChatGPT
12 20 (3.71%) Entra ID
13 18 (3.34%) PaaS
14 16 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.48%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.75%) WAN
2 21 (3.90%) Firewall
3 11 (2.04%) SAN
4 7 (1.30%) BIG-IP
4 7 (1.30%) DHCP
4 7 (1.30%) DNS
5 6 (1.11%) HTTP
5 6 (1.11%) LAN
6 3 (0.56%) FTP
6 3 (0.56%) Network Security
6 3 (0.56%) VPN
7 2 (0.37%) IPv6
7 2 (0.37%) MQTT
7 2 (0.37%) NAS
7 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.19%) 5G
8 1 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) VoIP
8 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (26.35%) SQL Server
2 131 (24.30%) Power BI
3 47 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (7.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 38 (7.05%) Tableau
6 36 (6.68%) NoSQL
7 33 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 31 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.90%) Relational Database
10 18 (3.34%) Data Lake
11 15 (2.78%) Delta Lake
11 15 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.04%) MySQL
12 11 (2.04%) Parquet
13 9 (1.67%) Data Hub
13 9 (1.67%) Neo4j
14 8 (1.48%) Power Query
14 8 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.30%) Data Mining
15 7 (1.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (7.61%) Git
2 25 (4.64%) Visual Studio
3 11 (2.04%) JIRA
4 8 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.93%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.74%) Mercurial
8 4 (0.74%) Postman
8 4 (0.74%) Selenium
9 2 (0.37%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.37%) Maven
9 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.37%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.19%) Appium
10 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.19%) GitLab
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 134 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.15%) Finance
3 81 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.20%) Law
5 19 (3.53%) Manufacturing
5 19 (3.53%) Retail
6 18 (3.34%) Legal
7 17 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.78%) Banking
8 15 (2.78%) Marketing
9 11 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Back Office
12 6 (1.11%) Automotive
12 6 (1.11%) Games
13 5 (0.93%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.74%) Front Office
14 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 177 (32.84%) Developer
2 96 (17.81%) Analyst
3 73 (13.54%) Senior
4 45 (8.35%) Lead
5 39 (7.24%) .NET Developer
6 38 (7.05%) Data Engineer
7 37 (6.86%) Software Developer
8 33 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (5.19%) SQL Developer
10 26 (4.82%) Data Analyst
11 25 (4.64%) Consultant
12 22 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (3.90%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.53%) C# Developer
14 19 (3.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 18 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 17 (3.15%) Administrator
16 17 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (3.15%) Software Engineer
17 15 (2.78%) Pricing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (26.53%) .NET
2 44 (8.16%) HTML
3 42 (7.79%) .NET Framework
4 41 (7.61%) CSS
5 39 (7.24%) Entity Framework
6 34 (6.31%) ASP.NET
7 33 (6.12%) .NET Core
8 30 (5.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 30 (5.57%) REST
9 28 (5.19%) AngularJS
9 28 (5.19%) React
10 26 (4.82%) jQuery
11 21 (3.90%) XML
12 20 (3.71%) Web Services
13 18 (3.34%) RESTful
14 17 (3.15%) ASP.NET MVC
15 16 (2.97%) Node.js
16 14 (2.60%) HTML5
16 14 (2.60%) WebRTC
17 13 (2.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.42%) Clustering
2 30 (5.57%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.27%) Algorithms
3 23 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.71%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.86%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.48%) Replication
10 8 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.30%) IoT
11 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
13 4 (0.74%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.31%) Windows
2 21 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.04%) Linux
4 10 (1.86%) Android
5 6 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.74%) Unix
7 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (24.86%) Business Intelligence
2 133 (24.68%) Agile
3 108 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (17.63%) DevOps
5 73 (13.54%) Analytics
6 56 (10.39%) CI/CD
7 53 (9.83%) ETL
8 50 (9.28%) Visualisation
9 48 (8.91%) Data Analysis
10 47 (8.72%) Data Modelling
11 45 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (8.35%) MVC
12 43 (7.98%) Data Engineering
13 42 (7.79%) Business Analysis
14 41 (7.61%) Data Visualisation
14 41 (7.61%) ERP
15 39 (7.24%) CRM
16 38 (7.05%) High Availability
17 37 (6.86%) Scrum
18 36 (6.68%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 140 (25.97%) C#
2 76 (14.10%) Python
3 74 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 63 (11.69%) T-SQL
5 45 (8.35%) PowerShell
6 39 (7.24%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.19%) Java
8 20 (3.71%) PL/SQL
9 18 (3.34%) VB.NET
10 10 (1.86%) Go
10 10 (1.86%) VB
11 9 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.67%) R
12 5 (0.93%) VBScript
13 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.74%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.74%) PHP
13 4 (0.74%) Rust
13 4 (0.74%) XAML
14 2 (0.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 88 (16.33%) Degree
2 37 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (1.30%) MCSE
8 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.56%) MCSA
12 2 (0.37%) CCNA
12 2 (0.37%) CCNP
12 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.37%) NCSIE
12 2 (0.37%) PhD
12 2 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.97%) QA
2 13 (2.41%) SLA
3 7 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.56%) GDPR
4 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.56%) PMO
5 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) COBIT
6 1 (0.19%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.71%) Docker
4 13 (2.41%) VMware NSX
5 10 (1.86%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 19 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.86%) Terraform
3 9 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.56%) SCCM
5 3 (0.56%) SCOM
6 2 (0.37%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Avamar
7 1 (0.19%) Foglight
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 227 (42.12%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.91%) VMware
3 41 (7.61%) Databricks
4 21 (3.90%) Oracle
5 14 (2.60%) CheckPoint
5 14 (2.60%) SAP
6 12 (2.23%) Google
7 10 (1.86%) Alteryx
7 10 (1.86%) IBM
7 10 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.67%) NEC
8 9 (1.67%) Xamarin
9 7 (1.30%) F5
9 7 (1.30%) JD Edwards
10 6 (1.11%) Citrix
11 5 (0.93%) Cisco
11 5 (0.93%) Remedy
11 5 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.93%) Unisys
11 5 (0.93%) Xero