SQL Server Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 36 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 23 43 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.12% 4.88% 5.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.85% 25.29% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 59
10th Percentile £400 £296 £325
25th Percentile £613 £377 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £530
90th Percentile £825 £731 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £518 £516 £425
% change year-on-year +0.24% +21.47% -5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 122 170 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.53% 19.30% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 113 180
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £552
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.40% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 -
% change year-on-year +60.40% - -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
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 12 (52.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (21.74%) PaaS
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) AWS
6 2 (8.70%) Apigee
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) OneDrive
6 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) iSCSI
1 2 (8.70%) NAS
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
1 2 (8.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.35%) Big Data
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) DB2
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) OLAP
5 1 (4.35%) OLTP
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Administrator
2 10 (43.48%) SharePoint Administrator
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Administrator
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 5 (21.74%) DBA
5 4 (17.39%) SQL DBA
6 3 (13.04%) Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Applications Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Power Apps Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior SQL Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior SQL Server Developer
7 2 (8.70%) SQL Developer
7 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) LAMP
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.70%) VMS
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Proactive Management
1 10 (43.48%) Web SSO
2 6 (26.09%) Identity Management
3 5 (21.74%) High Availability
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) Statistics
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.70%) CRM
6 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.70%) E-Discovery
6 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Runbook
7 1 (4.35%) Database Migration
7 1 (4.35%) Roadmaps
7 1 (4.35%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (4.35%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) vSphere
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) SCCM
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Rancher
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Aruba
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.70%) ProCurve
3 2 (8.70%) Synology
3 2 (8.70%) Veeam
3 2 (8.70%) Zerto
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Sybase