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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 840 973 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.25% 16.81% 15.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.52% 47.86% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 730 593 879
10th Percentile £29,975 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,438 £38,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,316
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.68% +9.17%

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 2,023 2,033 2,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.69% 35.13% 39.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 1,172 2,053
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,500
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,772 £77,500 £82,500
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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -1 348 £55,000 +2.33% 66
Staffordshire -7 136 £42,500 -5.56% 26
Warwickshire -19 66 £42,500 -15.00% 15
Worcestershire -12 54 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Coventry -1 38 £53,500 +25.88% 8
Shropshire +6 35 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Wolverhampton -6 19 £42,500 -7.61% 8
Solihull -8 19 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Halesowen -4 12 £60,000 - 1
Walsall +1 11 £26,000 -17.46%
Herefordshire -7 6 £27,500 -62.07% 1
Sutton Coldfield - 6 £45,000 -
Tipton -5 4 £24,000 -26.15%
Wednesbury -6 4 - - 5
Willenhall - 3 £24,000 -
Stourbridge - 2 £50,000 -
Brierley Hill - 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 40 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.52%) IIS
3 19 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.19%) Confluence
5 7 (0.83%) SAS
6 6 (0.71%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.60%) WordPress
8 4 (0.48%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.36%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) Apache
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) Liferay
10 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 62 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.95%) Trello
4 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.48%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.48%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.36%) Sage 300 ERP
4 3 (0.36%) Shopify
5 2 (0.24%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 330 (39.29%) Azure
2 182 (21.67%) Power Platform
3 89 (10.60%) AWS
4 76 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (6.43%) SaaS
6 51 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (3.81%) GCP
10 28 (3.33%) Snowflake
11 24 (2.86%) Serverless
12 23 (2.74%) Entra ID
13 13 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.55%) GitHub
13 13 (1.55%) Matillion
14 12 (1.43%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (1.19%) Google Analytics
17 9 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.76%) WAN
2 36 (4.29%) Firewall
3 22 (2.62%) LAN
4 21 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.38%) DNS
6 17 (2.02%) DHCP
7 11 (1.31%) VPN
7 11 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.19%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.07%) BIG-IP
9 9 (1.07%) VoIP
10 8 (0.95%) HTTP
10 8 (0.95%) VLAN
11 6 (0.71%) MPLS
11 6 (0.71%) Wireless
12 5 (0.60%) SAN
13 4 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.48%) Network Security
13 4 (0.48%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 177 (21.07%) Power BI
3 119 (14.17%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (9.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 57 (6.79%) Tableau
6 54 (6.43%) Relational Database
7 45 (5.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 38 (4.52%) NoSQL
9 36 (4.29%) Data Lake
10 34 (4.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 23 (2.74%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.62%) MySQL
13 20 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (2.02%) Metadata
16 14 (1.67%) DynamoDB
16 14 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.67%) Looker
17 13 (1.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (7.86%) Git
2 30 (3.57%) JIRA
3 20 (2.38%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.19%) MSTest
5 10 (1.19%) Postman
6 9 (1.07%) GitLab
7 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.71%) NUnit
8 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
8 5 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
8 5 (0.60%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.60%) Toad
9 4 (0.48%) JUnit
9 4 (0.48%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.36%) Moq
11 2 (0.24%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.24%) Bower
General
1 251 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 155 (18.45%) Finance
3 103 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.98%) Law
5 62 (7.38%) Retail
6 59 (7.02%) Manufacturing
7 39 (4.64%) Marketing
8 35 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.62%) Games
12 15 (1.79%) Local Government
13 14 (1.67%) Banking
13 14 (1.67%) Legal
14 11 (1.31%) Automotive
14 11 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.19%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.71%) Advertising
17 5 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (34.88%) Developer
2 150 (17.86%) Senior
3 147 (17.50%) Analyst
4 83 (9.88%) Software Developer
5 67 (7.98%) Data Engineer
6 56 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 55 (6.55%) Senior Analyst
8 52 (6.19%) Consultant
9 44 (5.24%) Senior Developer
10 39 (4.64%) C# Developer
11 38 (4.52%) Data Analyst
11 38 (4.52%) Lead
11 38 (4.52%) Software Engineer
12 30 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
13 27 (3.21%) Administrator
14 26 (3.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 23 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (2.74%) DBA
16 22 (2.62%) C# Software Developer
17 21 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (29.52%) .NET
2 120 (14.29%) HTML
3 95 (11.31%) ASP.NET
4 80 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 80 (9.52%) CSS
5 66 (7.86%) REST
6 54 (6.43%) RESTful
7 53 (6.31%) AngularJS
8 52 (6.19%) ASP.NET MVC
9 51 (6.07%) Entity Framework
10 48 (5.71%) .NET Framework
11 43 (5.12%) React
11 43 (5.12%) XML
12 40 (4.76%) Vue
12 40 (4.76%) Web Services
13 37 (4.40%) JSON
14 32 (3.81%) jQuery
15 28 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
16 24 (2.86%) Blazor
17 20 (2.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.64%) Data Structures
1 39 (4.64%) Management Information System
2 36 (4.29%) Mobile App
2 36 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (3.21%) Clustering
4 19 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.14%) NHS
6 17 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 17 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.90%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.55%) AS400
9 13 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.43%) Replication
11 11 (1.31%) CCTV
11 11 (1.31%) iSeries
12 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.95%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 116 (13.81%) Windows
2 33 (3.93%) Linux
3 25 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.74%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.55%) Windows 7
6 10 (1.19%) VMS
7 8 (0.95%) Unix
8 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.36%) Android
9 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
2 193 (22.98%) Business Intelligence
3 190 (22.62%) Agile
4 142 (16.90%) Analytics
5 125 (14.88%) DevOps
6 112 (13.33%) ETL
7 90 (10.71%) MVC
8 85 (10.12%) Data Modelling
9 71 (8.45%) Data Science
9 71 (8.45%) Software Engineering
10 69 (8.21%) Computer Science
10 69 (8.21%) Customer Service
10 69 (8.21%) Machine Learning
11 66 (7.86%) Full Stack Development
12 64 (7.62%) Decision-Making
13 63 (7.50%) Visualisation
14 61 (7.26%) Mentoring
15 54 (6.43%) CI/CD
15 54 (6.43%) Data Analysis
16 52 (6.19%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 237 (28.21%) C#
2 148 (17.62%) JavaScript
3 125 (14.88%) Python
4 112 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 63 (7.50%) Java
6 34 (4.05%) VB.NET
7 31 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.74%) VB
9 22 (2.62%) TypeScript
10 21 (2.50%) PHP
11 16 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.90%) XAML
12 15 (1.79%) C++
12 15 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (1.55%) R
13 13 (1.55%) RPG
14 11 (1.31%) RPG IV
14 11 (1.31%) RPG/400
15 8 (0.95%) C
16 5 (0.60%) VB6
Qualifications
1 137 (16.31%) Degree
2 32 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 22 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (2.26%) DBS Check
6 17 (2.02%) SC Cleared
7 14 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.60%) CAPM
9 5 (0.60%) ISEB
9 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.60%) PMP
10 4 (0.48%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.48%) HND
10 4 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.36%) CCNA
11 3 (0.36%) MCSE
11 3 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.52%) QA
3 13 (1.55%) GDPR
4 11 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.12%) ITGC
7 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.93%) Docker
3 25 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.60%) RACF
8 4 (0.48%) pfSense
9 2 (0.24%) vSphere
9 2 (0.24%) XenApp
9 2 (0.24%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 20 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.02%) Terraform
3 5 (0.60%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.48%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.36%) Nessus
5 3 (0.36%) SCCM
6 2 (0.24%) MIIS
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.12%) SCOM
7 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 294 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.79%) Databricks
3 37 (4.40%) VMware
4 36 (4.29%) Oracle
5 22 (2.62%) Google
6 20 (2.38%) IBM
7 16 (1.90%) Cisco
7 16 (1.90%) Informatica
8 15 (1.79%) DevExpress
9 13 (1.55%) Xamarin
10 11 (1.31%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.19%) SAP
12 9 (1.07%) F5
12 9 (1.07%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.95%) Adobe
13 8 (0.95%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.95%) Dell
14 7 (0.83%) InterSystems
14 7 (0.83%) Sage
15 6 (0.71%) Remedy