SQL Server Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 52 36
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 84 128 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.13% 3.88% 5.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.72% 22.98% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 100 217
10th Percentile £304 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £430
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +3.20% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £500
90th Percentile - £688 £575
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £10.43 - £28.25
25th Percentile £16.23 - £36.88
Median hourly rate £28.21 £26.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -41.16% +60.72%
75th Percentile £41.21 - £46.67
90th Percentile £47.63 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -2.44% -17.17% +90.38%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 426 557 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.85% 16.90% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 381 715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £356 £388 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile - £21.04 £17.90
25th Percentile - £24.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -27.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £27.49 £26.48 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £31.64 £45.67
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +85.57%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the Midlands

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -6 45 £518 -0.48% 125
East Midlands +5 36 £445 +11.25% 71
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 14 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) IIS
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.38%) WordPress
4 1 (1.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (44.05%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) AWS
3 12 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.10%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.33%) PaaS
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Functions
6 5 (5.95%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.95%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.95%) Serverless
7 4 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.76%) GCP
7 4 (4.76%) SaaS
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.38%) Apigee
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.38%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.38%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Firewall
2 5 (5.95%) DNS
3 3 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.38%) DHCP
4 2 (2.38%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.38%) LAN
4 2 (2.38%) NAS
4 2 (2.38%) SAN
4 2 (2.38%) VPN
4 2 (2.38%) Wireless
5 1 (1.19%) Network Security
5 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.19%) VLAN
5 1 (1.19%) WAN
5 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) Power BI
2 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (7.14%) MySQL
3 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 6 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.95%) DB2
5 4 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (3.57%) Big Data
6 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.38%) OLAP
7 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.19%) MS Access
8 1 (1.19%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (8.33%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.14%) Git
4 3 (3.57%) GitLab
4 3 (3.57%) JIRA
4 3 (3.57%) NUnit
5 2 (2.38%) Moq
5 2 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.19%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.19%) Hudson
6 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.19%) JMeter
6 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.19%) Postman
6 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.19%) TestRail
General
1 23 (27.38%) Finance
2 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Banking
4 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Advertising
6 2 (2.38%) Local Government
6 2 (2.38%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Police
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (25.00%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) Administrator
3 14 (16.67%) DBA
4 12 (14.29%) Architect
5 10 (11.90%) SharePoint Administrator
5 10 (11.90%) SQL DBA
6 8 (9.52%) Analyst
7 7 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.14%) .NET Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Azure Administrator
8 6 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
9 4 (4.76%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Designer
9 4 (4.76%) Full Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) SQL Server DBA
10 3 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.81%) .NET
2 9 (10.71%) React
3 7 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 7 (8.33%) RESTful
4 5 (5.95%) ASP.NET
4 5 (5.95%) Entity Framework
5 4 (4.76%) OpenAPI
5 4 (4.76%) RAML
5 4 (4.76%) Swagger
5 4 (4.76%) Web Services
6 3 (3.57%) CSS
6 3 (3.57%) HTML
6 3 (3.57%) XML
6 3 (3.57%) XSLT
7 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (2.38%) jQuery
7 2 (2.38%) LAMP
7 2 (2.38%) LDAP
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.95%) Clustering
2 5 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.76%) Replication
4 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.19%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Windows
2 14 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.33%) Linux
4 4 (4.76%) Android
4 4 (4.76%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.57%) VMS
5 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.24%) DevOps
2 15 (17.86%) Agile
3 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 11 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (13.10%) High Availability
5 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
5 10 (11.90%) Proactive Management
5 10 (11.90%) Web SSO
6 9 (10.71%) SDLC
7 8 (9.52%) Architectural Design
7 8 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.33%) ETL
8 7 (8.33%) MVC
9 6 (7.14%) Identity Management
9 6 (7.14%) Microservices
9 6 (7.14%) Project Delivery
10 5 (5.95%) Service Delivery
10 5 (5.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) SQL
2 20 (23.81%) C#
3 14 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.52%) Java
5 7 (8.33%) Python
6 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.76%) C
7 4 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.38%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.38%) R
8 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.19%) Perl
9 1 (1.19%) VB
9 1 (1.19%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.19%) VBA
9 1 (1.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.71%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) MCITP
4 5 (5.95%) MCTS
5 3 (3.57%) ISEB
5 3 (3.57%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.38%) MCSE
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.19%) OCP
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.19%) GDPR
2 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.19%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.38%) vSphere
4 1 (1.19%) Docker
4 1 (1.19%) IAG
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (5.95%) SCCM
3 3 (3.57%) Ansible
3 3 (3.57%) SCOM
3 3 (3.57%) SCSM
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.38%) Terraform
5 1 (1.19%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.19%) Kibana
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.19%) Puppet
5 1 (1.19%) Rancher
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (51.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) Oracle
3 5 (5.95%) VMware
4 2 (2.38%) Ab Initio
4 2 (2.38%) Aruba
4 2 (2.38%) EMC
4 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.38%) ProCurve
4 2 (2.38%) Synology
4 2 (2.38%) Teradata
4 2 (2.38%) Veeam
4 2 (2.38%) Zerto
5 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.19%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) F5
5 1 (1.19%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.19%) Splunk