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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 53 33
Rank change year-on-year -17 -20 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 69 134 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.52% 3.87% 5.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.08% 22.67% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 104 218
10th Percentile £301 £291 £313
25th Percentile £386 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £500
90th Percentile - £688 £579
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +12.90%
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 £40.13 £41.75 £48.50
% change year-on-year -3.89% -13.92% +73.21%

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 404 591 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.73% 17.09% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 409 703
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £540
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 17
10th Percentile - £21.53 £17.90
25th Percentile - £24.16 £22.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.87 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.87% -26.10% +45.83%
75th Percentile £27.49 £32.93 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £47.54 £45.67
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -2 43 £463 -9.76% 96
East Midlands -9 23 £490 +22.38% 60
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 15 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.35%) IIS
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.90%) WordPress
5 1 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (1.45%) nginx
5 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.45%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.45%) Sage X3
1 1 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (43.48%) Azure
2 14 (20.29%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.59%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.14%) PaaS
6 6 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 6 (8.70%) Serverless
7 5 (7.25%) AWS
8 4 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.35%) GCP
10 2 (2.90%) Apigee
10 2 (2.90%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.90%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.90%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.90%) SonarCloud
11 1 (1.45%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) Firewall
2 6 (8.70%) DNS
3 3 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (4.35%) LAN
3 3 (4.35%) SAN
3 3 (4.35%) VPN
3 3 (4.35%) Wireless
4 2 (2.90%) DHCP
4 2 (2.90%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.90%) NAS
4 2 (2.90%) WAN
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.45%) FTP
5 1 (1.45%) Network Security
5 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.45%) VLAN
5 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (10.14%) Power BI
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.35%) MySQL
6 2 (2.90%) Big Data
6 2 (2.90%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.90%) MS Access
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.45%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.45%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (10.14%) Git
3 4 (5.80%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.35%) NUnit
5 2 (2.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Moq
6 1 (1.45%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.45%) Hudson
6 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.45%) JMeter
6 1 (1.45%) Postman
6 1 (1.45%) TestRail
General
1 20 (28.99%) Finance
2 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Advertising
5 2 (2.90%) Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Local Government
5 2 (2.90%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Electronics
6 1 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
6 1 (1.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.45%) Police
6 1 (1.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (27.54%) Developer
2 16 (23.19%) Administrator
3 10 (14.49%) SharePoint Administrator
4 8 (11.59%) .NET Developer
4 8 (11.59%) Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) DBA
5 7 (10.14%) Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Azure Administrator
6 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 6 (8.70%) SQL DBA
7 4 (5.80%) Applications Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (4.35%) QA Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) .NET
2 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET
2 5 (7.25%) Swagger
3 4 (5.80%) OpenAPI
3 4 (5.80%) RAML
3 4 (5.80%) RESTful
4 3 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.90%) LAMP
5 2 (2.90%) LDAP
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.90%) React
5 2 (2.90%) REST
6 1 (1.45%) CSS
6 1 (1.45%) EDI
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) Web Services
6 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Clustering
2 4 (5.80%) Replication
3 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.45%) CCTV
4 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) NHS
4 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.19%) Windows
2 7 (10.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (7.25%) Linux
5 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.35%) VMS
5 3 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.45%) Android
7 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.45%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.94%) DevOps
2 10 (14.49%) Proactive Management
2 10 (14.49%) Web SSO
3 9 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (10.14%) Agile
4 7 (10.14%) CI/CD
5 6 (8.70%) ETL
5 6 (8.70%) High Availability
5 6 (8.70%) Identity Management
5 6 (8.70%) MVC
5 6 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 5 (7.25%) CRM
6 5 (7.25%) Data Integration
6 5 (7.25%) Mentoring
6 5 (7.25%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (7.25%) Service Delivery
7 4 (5.80%) Data Modelling
7 4 (5.80%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (5.80%) Statistics
7 4 (5.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (46.38%) SQL
2 18 (26.09%) C#
3 12 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.25%) Python
5 4 (5.80%) Java
5 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.90%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.90%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.45%) Perl
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) R
8 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.45%) VB
8 1 (1.45%) VBA
8 1 (1.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) ISEB
4 3 (4.35%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.90%) MCSE
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.45%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.35%) vSphere
4 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.45%) IAG
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (5.80%) SCCM
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.90%) Terraform
6 1 (1.45%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.45%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.45%) SCOM
6 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (46.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) VMware
4 3 (4.35%) Aruba
4 3 (4.35%) Veeam
5 2 (2.90%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.90%) EMC
5 2 (2.90%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.90%) ProCurve
5 2 (2.90%) Sage
5 2 (2.90%) SAP
5 2 (2.90%) Synology
5 2 (2.90%) Teradata
5 2 (2.90%) Zerto
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco
6 1 (1.45%) Dell
6 1 (1.45%) HP
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Sybase