SQL Contracts in Birmingham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 77 89 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.05% 9.91% 11.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.40% 38.86% 47.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 56 106
10th Percentile £259 £300 £325
25th Percentile £260 £388 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +1.15%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £534
90th Percentile £618 £672 £631
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.37 £25.25 £17.39
% change year-on-year +20.28% +45.20% +2.29%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 229 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.28% 25.50% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 158 236
10th Percentile £259 £313 £325
25th Percentile £310 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £561
90th Percentile £650 £700 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £456 £525 £459
% change year-on-year -13.10% +14.38% +14.75%
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 £17.39
% change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%

SQL
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 27 April 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 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (16.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) Azure
1 17 (22.08%) Power Platform
2 8 (10.39%) AWS
3 7 (9.09%) Serverless
4 6 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Functions
5 5 (6.49%) Power Automate
6 4 (5.19%) Apigee
6 4 (5.19%) GCP
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.90%) PaaS
7 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.60%) Boomi
8 2 (2.60%) GitHub
8 2 (2.60%) IaaS
8 2 (2.60%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.60%) OCI
8 2 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) IPsec
2 1 (1.30%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.08%) Power BI
2 13 (16.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 13 (16.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (11.69%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.90%) Big Data
6 3 (3.90%) Tableau
7 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.60%) MySQL
7 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.30%) Jackrabbit
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (19.48%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.60%) Hudson
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.60%) German Language
5 2 (2.60%) Legal
5 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (58.44%) Developer
2 15 (19.48%) Integration Developer
2 15 (19.48%) Senior
3 12 (15.58%) Software Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Integration Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Architect
6 6 (7.79%) DBA
6 6 (7.79%) SQL Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) SQL DBA
8 4 (5.19%) Administrator
9 3 (3.90%) Applications Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Power BI Developer
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) HTML
2 7 (9.09%) .NET
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (3.90%) JSON
4 3 (3.90%) REST
4 3 (3.90%) SOAP
4 3 (3.90%) XML
5 2 (2.60%) Blazor
5 2 (2.60%) Node.js
5 2 (2.60%) React
5 2 (2.60%) RESTful
5 2 (2.60%) WSDL
5 2 (2.60%) XSD
5 2 (2.60%) XSLT
6 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (1.30%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.30%) Next.js
6 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
1 2 (2.60%) Clustering
1 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
1 2 (2.60%) Replication
2 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.30%) FMCG
2 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (16.88%) Conversational UI
3 12 (15.58%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (15.58%) Code Quality
3 12 (15.58%) ETL
3 12 (15.58%) Migration
3 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
4 9 (11.69%) Agile
4 9 (11.69%) CRM
4 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
5 7 (9.09%) Analytics
5 7 (9.09%) Data Analysis
5 7 (9.09%) Data Migration
6 6 (7.79%) Data Science
6 6 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.49%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (6.49%) DevOps
7 5 (6.49%) ERP
7 5 (6.49%) High Availability
8 4 (5.19%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) Python
2 18 (23.38%) C#
3 14 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.90%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.60%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.30%) Bicep
6 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.30%) PHP
6 1 (1.30%) Scala
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) HL7
2 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.30%) SCCM
2 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) PayPal
3 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.60%) Informatica
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Cognos
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) iManage
5 1 (1.30%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.30%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.30%) Sage
5 1 (1.30%) Splunk
5 1 (1.30%) Teradata
5 1 (1.30%) UiPath
5 1 (1.30%) VMware