SQL Contracts in the Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 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 17 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 220 442 635
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.06% 12.85% 12.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.89% 47.17% 47.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 333 450
10th Percentile £259 £276 £306
25th Percentile £323 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £439
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +8.26% +9.69%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £519
90th Percentile £629 £600 £586
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 14
10th Percentile £14.15 £24.31 £16.56
25th Percentile £22.86 £25.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.94 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -14.48% +66.67%
75th Percentile £32.53 £46.27 -
90th Percentile £42.58 £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.79 £35.25
% change year-on-year -14.63% +41.23% +35.58%

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 613 937 1,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.47% 27.24% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 701 995
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +15.98%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £616
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.34
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Midlands

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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 -9 148 £425 -19.05% 172
East Midlands -2 70 £405 +1.25% 127
SQL
England

SQL
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 7 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.82%) Confluence
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.36%) SAS
4 2 (0.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Appian
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (11.82%) Chatbot
2 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (1.36%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.45%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.45%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (30.00%) Azure
2 43 (19.55%) Power Platform
3 23 (10.45%) AWS
4 19 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (5.00%) GCP
8 9 (4.09%) Serverless
8 9 (4.09%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.18%) Azure App Service
9 7 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.18%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.18%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.73%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.73%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.73%) SaaS
11 4 (1.82%) Apigee
11 4 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.64%) SAN
2 6 (2.73%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (2.27%) Firewall
4 4 (1.82%) DNS
5 3 (1.36%) LAN
5 3 (1.36%) VPN
6 2 (0.91%) DHCP
6 2 (0.91%) SSL
6 2 (0.91%) VoIP
6 2 (0.91%) WAN
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.45%) IPsec
7 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) Network Security
7 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.45%) VLAN
7 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.45%) Wireless
7 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.64%) Power BI
2 32 (14.55%) SQL Server
3 30 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (7.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (5.91%) Relational Database
7 12 (5.45%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.55%) Big Data
9 8 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (3.18%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (3.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (2.73%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.73%) MySQL
11 6 (2.73%) Tableau
12 5 (2.27%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.82%) Pentaho
14 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 15 (6.82%) Rational Rhapsody
2 8 (3.64%) Git
2 8 (3.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.82%) Ant
3 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.82%) JIRA
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.36%) Hudson
4 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.36%) Selenium
4 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.91%) GitLab
5 2 (0.91%) TestRail
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.45%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 40 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.64%) Finance
4 8 (3.64%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.64%) Retail
5 7 (3.18%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.73%) Banking
7 4 (1.82%) Automotive
7 4 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Legal
8 3 (1.36%) Marketing
8 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Advertising
9 2 (0.91%) Front Office
9 2 (0.91%) German Language
9 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Police
10 1 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (41.36%) Developer
2 30 (13.64%) Analyst
2 30 (13.64%) Data Engineer
3 25 (11.36%) Software Developer
4 22 (10.00%) Senior
5 20 (9.09%) Architect
5 20 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 15 (6.82%) Integration Developer
7 9 (4.09%) Data Analyst
7 9 (4.09%) DBA
7 9 (4.09%) Lead
7 9 (4.09%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.64%) Administrator
8 8 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (3.64%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (3.18%) Senior Integration Developer
9 7 (3.18%) SQL DBA
10 6 (2.73%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.27%) HTML
2 21 (9.55%) .NET
3 7 (3.18%) AngularJS
3 7 (3.18%) RESTful
4 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.82%) Pandas
4 4 (1.82%) XML
5 3 (1.36%) ADO
5 3 (1.36%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.36%) Flask
5 3 (1.36%) JSON
5 3 (1.36%) Kafka
5 3 (1.36%) PySpark
5 3 (1.36%) React
5 3 (1.36%) REST
5 3 (1.36%) SOAP
6 2 (0.91%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.91%) Node.js
6 2 (0.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (3.64%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.27%) Clustering
2 5 (2.27%) HP Storage
2 5 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.36%) Replication
5 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.91%) Wiki
6 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.45%) Insider Threat
6 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.64%) Windows
2 9 (4.09%) Linux
2 9 (4.09%) Unix
3 5 (2.27%) AIX
3 5 (2.27%) Solaris
3 5 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.36%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.45%) Android
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (18.18%) Agile
3 34 (15.45%) Data Modelling
3 34 (15.45%) ETL
4 29 (13.18%) Migration
4 29 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (12.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 26 (11.82%) Analytics
6 26 (11.82%) Conversational UI
7 25 (11.36%) Code Quality
7 25 (11.36%) Software Engineering
8 23 (10.45%) DevOps
9 17 (7.73%) Data Analysis
10 14 (6.36%) Data Analytics
10 14 (6.36%) Data Migration
10 14 (6.36%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (5.91%) Data Architecture
11 13 (5.91%) Data Governance
11 13 (5.91%) Data Science
11 13 (5.91%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.18%) Python
2 42 (19.09%) C#
3 35 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 19 (8.64%) PL/SQL
5 14 (6.36%) Java
6 12 (5.45%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.55%) Bash
8 8 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.18%) Bicep
9 7 (3.18%) Bourne shell
9 7 (3.18%) Korn
9 7 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.18%) Scala
10 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.36%) PHP
10 3 (1.36%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.91%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.91%) R
11 2 (0.91%) VBA
12 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (18.18%) Degree
2 21 (9.55%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.82%) ISEB
8 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.91%) MCSE
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.45%) HND
10 1 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PhD
10 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.82%) Data Quality
1 15 (6.82%) HL7
2 10 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.45%) Docker
4 1 (0.45%) HDFS
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (2.27%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (2.27%) NetBackup
1 5 (2.27%) Terraform
2 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.91%) Ansible
4 2 (0.91%) SCCM
5 1 (0.45%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.45%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (20.91%) Microsoft
2 31 (14.09%) Oracle
3 24 (10.91%) PayPal
4 13 (5.91%) Informatica
5 11 (5.00%) Databricks
6 7 (3.18%) EMC
7 6 (2.73%) Cisco
7 6 (2.73%) HP
8 5 (2.27%) Brocade
8 5 (2.27%) Symantec
8 5 (2.27%) VMware
9 4 (1.82%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.82%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.82%) Talend
9 4 (1.82%) Workday
10 3 (1.36%) QAD
10 3 (1.36%) Sage
10 3 (1.36%) SAP
11 2 (0.91%) Splunk