SQL Contracts in Birmingham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 79 79 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.31% 8.89% 11.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.15% 36.07% 47.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 47 115
10th Percentile £259 £300 £325
25th Percentile £260 £406 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +7.95% -0.85%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £454
% change year-on-year -15.00% +10.19% +10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.15 £25.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year +27.33% +44.29% +4.04%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 219 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.07% 24.63% 24.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 143 244
10th Percentile £259 £307 £325
25th Percentile £313 £394 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £643
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £40.20 £21.70 -
25th Percentile £40.50 £24.31 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.39 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.74% - -
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.63 -
90th Percentile - £98.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £58.00
% change year-on-year +96.13% -49.45% +141.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.27%) CMS
1 1 (1.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) NetSuite
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (3.80%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.78%) Azure
2 16 (20.25%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.13%) AWS
4 7 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.33%) OCI
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (5.06%) PowerApps
6 4 (5.06%) Serverless
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.80%) GCP
7 3 (3.80%) PaaS
7 3 (3.80%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.53%) Apigee
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.53%) Boomi
8 2 (2.53%) IaaS
8 2 (2.53%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) IPsec
2 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) Power BI
2 12 (15.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (13.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.06%) Tableau
8 3 (3.80%) MySQL
8 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.53%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (1.27%) Power Query
10 1 (1.27%) Presto
Development Applications
1 14 (17.72%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.53%) Hudson
4 1 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.27%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.27%) webpack
General
1 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.06%) Legal
5 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) German Language
6 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (50.63%) Developer
2 18 (22.78%) Senior
3 14 (17.72%) Integration Developer
4 12 (15.19%) Software Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Analyst
6 9 (11.39%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.13%) Data Engineer
7 8 (10.13%) DBA
8 7 (8.86%) Senior Integration Developer
8 7 (8.86%) SQL DBA
9 6 (7.59%) Consultant
9 6 (7.59%) SQL Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Architect
10 5 (6.33%) Data Analyst
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (5.06%) Administrator
11 4 (5.06%) Senior Consultant
12 3 (3.80%) Applications Developer
12 3 (3.80%) Business Analyst
12 3 (3.80%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.46%) HTML
2 4 (5.06%) .NET
3 3 (3.80%) JSON
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) SOAP
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
4 2 (2.53%) Web Services
4 2 (2.53%) WSDL
4 2 (2.53%) XML
4 2 (2.53%) XSD
4 2 (2.53%) XSLT
5 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Sling
5 1 (1.27%) Blazor
5 1 (1.27%) CSS
5 1 (1.27%) Next.js
5 1 (1.27%) Node.js
5 1 (1.27%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.53%) Clustering
2 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.53%) Replication
3 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.27%) FMCG
3 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.99%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (17.72%) Migration
3 12 (15.19%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (15.19%) Code Quality
3 12 (15.19%) Conversational UI
3 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
4 11 (13.92%) Analytics
5 10 (12.66%) Data Modelling
6 9 (11.39%) Data Migration
7 8 (10.13%) Agile
7 8 (10.13%) ERP
7 8 (10.13%) ETL
8 7 (8.86%) CRM
8 7 (8.86%) Data Analysis
8 7 (8.86%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (8.86%) DevOps
9 6 (7.59%) Data Science
9 6 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.33%) High Availability
10 5 (6.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.85%) Python
2 15 (18.99%) C#
3 14 (17.72%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.53%) Java
4 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.27%) Bicep
5 1 (1.27%) PHP
5 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.27%) R
5 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Degree
2 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) HL7
2 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) SCCM
3 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) PayPal
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 3 (3.80%) Hyperion
5 3 (3.80%) JD Edwards
5 3 (3.80%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.53%) Informatica
7 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.27%) Kenna
7 1 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.27%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) Teradata
7 1 (1.27%) VMware