SQL Server Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 58 27
Rank change year-on-year +31 -31 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 721 504 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.97% 5.56% 8.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.65% 28.27% 38.11%
Number of salaries quoted 650 416 668
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,915 1,783 2,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.86% 19.66% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 1,078 1,663
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +0.41% +11.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,650 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
West Midlands +26 465 £52,500 +5.00% 122
East Midlands +39 256 £47,500 +5.56% 73
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 73 (10.12%) IIS
2 43 (5.96%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.39%) CMS
5 7 (0.97%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.42%) Apache
6 3 (0.42%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.28%) Liferay
7 2 (0.28%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 26 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.97%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.83%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.42%) Maximo
7 2 (0.28%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.14%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.14%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.14%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 408 (56.59%) Azure
2 153 (21.22%) Power Platform
3 123 (17.06%) AWS
4 63 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (5.13%) SaaS
8 31 (4.30%) PowerApps
9 27 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (3.19%) Snowflake
11 19 (2.64%) Serverless
12 18 (2.50%) GCP
12 18 (2.50%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.36%) Matillion
14 16 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (1.66%) Entra ID
18 11 (1.53%) WhatsApp
19 10 (1.39%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.41%) Firewall
2 34 (4.72%) DNS
3 32 (4.44%) WAN
4 18 (2.50%) VPN
5 17 (2.36%) DHCP
5 17 (2.36%) SAN
6 16 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 15 (2.08%) Internet
8 12 (1.66%) BIG-IP
9 10 (1.39%) LAN
10 9 (1.25%) SSL
11 6 (0.83%) Broadband
11 6 (0.83%) HTTP
11 6 (0.83%) Wireless
12 5 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
13 3 (0.42%) BGP
13 3 (0.42%) FTP
13 3 (0.42%) GPRS
13 3 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (19.14%) Power BI
2 91 (12.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 87 (12.07%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (8.60%) Relational Database
5 55 (7.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 47 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
7 42 (5.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 40 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (5.41%) Data Lake
9 39 (5.41%) MySQL
10 33 (4.58%) MongoDB
11 30 (4.16%) Oracle Database
12 26 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (2.91%) NoSQL
14 20 (2.77%) Metadata
15 17 (2.36%) SQLite
16 14 (1.94%) Star Schema
17 13 (1.80%) Crystal Reports
18 12 (1.66%) NonStop SQL
19 10 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (6.52%) Git
2 44 (6.10%) Visual Studio
3 20 (2.77%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (1.66%) GitLab
5 11 (1.53%) Jasmine
5 11 (1.53%) Karma Test Runner
6 10 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.39%) MSTest
6 10 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (1.39%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.97%) JIRA
7 7 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.69%) Postman
9 5 (0.69%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.28%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.28%) Bower
11 2 (0.28%) gulp
11 2 (0.28%) Moq
General
1 192 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.98%) Finance
3 65 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.04%) Manufacturing
5 51 (7.07%) Retail
6 40 (5.55%) Law
7 31 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 26 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (2.91%) Advertising
10 14 (1.94%) Legal
10 14 (1.94%) Marketing
11 11 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.53%) Police
12 10 (1.39%) Back Office
13 9 (1.25%) Local Government
14 7 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.83%) Automotive
15 6 (0.83%) Banking
15 6 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 306 (42.44%) Developer
2 134 (18.59%) .NET Developer
3 88 (12.21%) C# Developer
4 76 (10.54%) Senior
5 73 (10.12%) Software Developer
6 54 (7.49%) Data Engineer
7 51 (7.07%) Lead
8 50 (6.93%) Analyst
9 46 (6.38%) Administrator
9 46 (6.38%) Consultant
10 43 (5.96%) DBA
11 38 (5.27%) C# .NET Developer
12 31 (4.30%) Support Engineer
13 29 (4.02%) Full Stack Developer
14 27 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
15 26 (3.61%) C# Software Developer
16 25 (3.47%) Senior Developer
17 21 (2.91%) Software Engineer
17 21 (2.91%) SQL DBA
18 20 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (46.19%) .NET
2 208 (28.85%) ASP.NET
3 168 (23.30%) HTML
4 141 (19.56%) .NET Core
5 140 (19.42%) ASP.NET MVC
6 125 (17.34%) AngularJS
7 96 (13.31%) ASP.NET Web API
8 88 (12.21%) CSS
9 86 (11.93%) .NET Framework
10 82 (11.37%) React
11 80 (11.10%) Entity Framework
12 69 (9.57%) RESTful
13 63 (8.74%) HTML5
13 63 (8.74%) REST
14 59 (8.18%) Vue
15 49 (6.80%) LINQ
16 41 (5.69%) XML
17 39 (5.41%) Web Services
18 37 (5.13%) JSON
19 35 (4.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.04%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (5.69%) Clustering
3 40 (5.55%) Mobile App
4 35 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (4.02%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (2.77%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.36%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.08%) Low-Code
11 15 (2.08%) NHS
12 12 (1.66%) Replication
13 11 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.53%) Driving Licence
14 8 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.11%) TRADACOMS
15 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.83%) Cloud Native
16 6 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 112 (15.53%) Windows
2 49 (6.80%) Windows Server
3 48 (6.66%) Linux
4 13 (1.80%) Unix
5 12 (1.66%) VMS
6 10 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 9 (1.25%) Debian
7 9 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.97%) CentOS
8 7 (0.97%) SUSE
8 7 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.69%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.55%) Android
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.28%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (30.51%) Agile
2 190 (26.35%) MVC
3 161 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (19.14%) Business Intelligence
5 136 (18.86%) Full Stack Development
6 127 (17.61%) DevOps
7 98 (13.59%) Microservices
8 91 (12.62%) ETL
9 64 (8.88%) Scrum
10 58 (8.04%) CI/CD
10 58 (8.04%) Data Modelling
10 58 (8.04%) TDD
11 57 (7.91%) Customer Service
12 55 (7.63%) Machine Learning
13 54 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence
13 54 (7.49%) High Availability
14 47 (6.52%) BDD
15 45 (6.24%) Data Engineering
16 44 (6.10%) Analytics
16 44 (6.10%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 452 (62.69%) SQL
2 337 (46.74%) C#
3 194 (26.91%) JavaScript
4 114 (15.81%) T-SQL
5 73 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 72 (9.99%) Python
7 46 (6.38%) VB.NET
8 40 (5.55%) VB
9 36 (4.99%) PowerShell
10 32 (4.44%) Java
11 22 (3.05%) XAML
12 15 (2.08%) R
13 14 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (1.80%) C++
15 12 (1.66%) VB6
16 11 (1.53%) C
17 10 (1.39%) Delphi
18 9 (1.25%) Bash
19 8 (1.11%) ActionScript 2.0
19 8 (1.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (13.18%) Degree
2 47 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.11%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.97%) ISEB
8 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
8 7 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.28%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.28%) CCNA
11 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.28%) HND
11 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.28%) MCSE
11 2 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.63%) QA
2 38 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.80%) GDPR
4 12 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.42%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.28%) PMO
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (6.24%) Active Directory
2 35 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (4.16%) Docker
4 16 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 15 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.25%) vSphere
8 3 (0.42%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.28%) XenApp
9 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (2.36%) Terraform
2 16 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.55%) Backup Exec
6 4 (0.55%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.42%) SCOM
7 3 (0.42%) SCOrch
7 3 (0.42%) vMotion
8 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.28%) MIIS
9 1 (0.14%) Autotask
9 1 (0.14%) VxRail
9 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 385 (53.40%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.15%) VMware
3 64 (8.88%) Oracle
4 33 (4.58%) Databricks
5 18 (2.50%) Facebook
6 17 (2.36%) DevExpress
7 14 (1.94%) Google
8 13 (1.80%) CheckPoint
8 13 (1.80%) F5
8 13 (1.80%) SYSPRO
9 12 (1.66%) SAP
9 12 (1.66%) YouTube
10 11 (1.53%) NEC
10 11 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.39%) Xamarin
12 9 (1.25%) Apple
12 9 (1.25%) IBM
12 9 (1.25%) iManage
12 9 (1.25%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.25%) OpenAI