SQL Contracts in the West Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL 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 17 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 157 252 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.30% 11.11% 13.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.01% 44.60% 50.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 171 329
10th Percentile £259 £360 £323
25th Percentile £313 £403 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £625 £650 £588
England median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £24.13 £16.35
25th Percentile - £24.31 £16.51
Median hourly rate £30.37 £25.25 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +20.28% +45.20% +3.39%
75th Percentile - £30.48 £18.38
90th Percentile - £33.24 £18.60
England median hourly rate £43.50 £49.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.62% +42.24% +33.33%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 436 565 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.06% 24.90% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 384 654
10th Percentile £260 £357 £325
25th Percentile £335 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £467
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.48% +16.69%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 3
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.46
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.77
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +67.53% -37.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £39.13
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £51.35
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the West 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
Birmingham +2 77 £400 -15.79% 115
Warwickshire +3 24 £550 -6.38% 22
Shropshire -18 12 £536 -0.74% 2
Coventry -9 10 £450 +5.88% 25
Staffordshire +2 8 £388 +3.26% 29
Worcestershire +7 4 £450 -5.26% 9
Dudley - 3 £525 - 3
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 6
Walsall +3 1 £325 - 3
Herefordshire -12 1 £400 -38.46% 3
Wednesbury - 1 £250 - 4
West Bromwich - 1 £338 -
Solihull - 1 £345 - 3
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 5 (3.18%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 5 (3.18%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.64%) SAS
4 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (7.64%) Chatbot
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.91%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.27%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (1.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.21%) Azure
2 34 (21.66%) Power Platform
3 15 (9.55%) AWS
3 15 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (5.73%) Serverless
7 7 (4.46%) Azure AKS
7 7 (4.46%) GCP
7 7 (4.46%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.82%) Azure App Service
8 6 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.82%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.18%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.55%) Apigee
10 4 (2.55%) SaaS
11 3 (1.91%) dbt
11 3 (1.91%) PaaS
11 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) SAN
2 2 (1.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.64%) DHCP
3 1 (0.64%) DNS
3 1 (0.64%) IPsec
3 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.64%) LAN
3 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.02%) Power BI
2 19 (12.10%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (12.10%) SQL Server
3 16 (10.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (9.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (5.73%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (3.82%) Big Data
8 6 (3.82%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (3.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.55%) MySQL
10 4 (2.55%) Tableau
11 3 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.27%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Rational Rhapsody
2 9 (5.73%) Git
3 8 (5.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (3.82%) JIRA
5 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.55%) Ant
7 3 (1.91%) GitLab
7 3 (1.91%) Hudson
7 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.27%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.64%) Selenium
9 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 36 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.64%) Finance
4 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.82%) Retail
6 5 (3.18%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.91%) Automotive
8 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) German Language
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Legal
9 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Back Office
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Local Government
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 68 (43.31%) Developer
2 21 (13.38%) Data Engineer
3 17 (10.83%) Analyst
3 17 (10.83%) Senior
4 15 (9.55%) SQL Developer
5 14 (8.92%) Integration Developer
6 13 (8.28%) Architect
7 12 (7.64%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.37%) DBA
9 9 (5.73%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.73%) SQL DBA
10 8 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.46%) Senior Integration Developer
12 5 (3.18%) Administrator
12 5 (3.18%) Angular Developer
12 5 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.18%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.18%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.18%) Lead
12 5 (3.18%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.92%) .NET
2 13 (8.28%) HTML
3 8 (5.10%) RESTful
4 6 (3.82%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (2.55%) Pandas
6 3 (1.91%) ADO
6 3 (1.91%) Flask
6 3 (1.91%) JSON
6 3 (1.91%) PySpark
6 3 (1.91%) REST
7 2 (1.27%) Blazor
7 2 (1.27%) Kafka
7 2 (1.27%) LDAP
7 2 (1.27%) Node.js
7 2 (1.27%) SOAP
7 2 (1.27%) WSDL
7 2 (1.27%) XML
7 2 (1.27%) XSD
7 2 (1.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.46%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
3 3 (1.91%) Clustering
3 3 (1.91%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.91%) Replication
4 1 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.64%) FMCG
4 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.64%) SCADA
4 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.73%) Unix
2 4 (2.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.57%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (20.38%) Agile
3 27 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (14.65%) ETL
5 22 (14.01%) Analytics
5 22 (14.01%) DevOps
6 20 (12.74%) Data Modelling
6 20 (12.74%) Migration
7 14 (8.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (8.92%) Code Quality
8 13 (8.28%) Software Engineering
9 12 (7.64%) Conversational UI
9 12 (7.64%) Data Migration
9 12 (7.64%) Software Testing
10 11 (7.01%) Data Analytics
11 10 (6.37%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.37%) CRM
11 10 (6.37%) Data Analysis
12 9 (5.73%) Scrum
12 9 (5.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.75%) Python
2 24 (15.29%) C#
3 18 (11.46%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.92%) PL/SQL
5 10 (6.37%) Java
6 9 (5.73%) Bash
7 8 (5.10%) Bicep
8 7 (4.46%) Bourne shell
8 7 (4.46%) Korn
8 7 (4.46%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.82%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.27%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.27%) PHP
12 1 (0.64%) R
12 1 (0.64%) Scala
12 1 (0.64%) VB
12 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (15.29%) Degree
2 12 (7.64%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.18%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.18%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.91%) ISEB
5 3 (1.91%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) HND
7 1 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.92%) HL7
2 10 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.10%) QA
4 7 (4.46%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Docker
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.27%) vSphere
4 1 (0.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.27%) Ansible
3 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.27%) Terraform
4 1 (0.64%) SCCM
4 1 (0.64%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.65%) Oracle
3 12 (7.64%) PayPal
4 7 (4.46%) Informatica
5 6 (3.82%) Databricks
6 4 (2.55%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.55%) VMware
7 3 (1.91%) PeopleSoft
7 3 (1.91%) QAD
7 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.91%) Workday
8 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.27%) Confluent
8 2 (1.27%) IFS
8 2 (1.27%) Sage
8 2 (1.27%) SAP
8 2 (1.27%) Talend
9 1 (0.64%) Citrix
9 1 (0.64%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.64%) NetApp