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 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 16 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 224 384 639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.32% 11.52% 12.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.78% 43.69% 48.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 287 453
10th Percentile £259 £279 £300
25th Percentile £323 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.27% +9.66%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £517
90th Percentile £625 £601 £586
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 12
10th Percentile £14.15 £24.25 £16.35
25th Percentile £22.86 £24.63 £27.76
Median hourly rate £28.94 £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% -24.34% +66.67%
75th Percentile £32.53 £35.08 -
90th Percentile £42.58 £44.03 -
England median hourly rate £44.25 £49.57 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.73% +41.63% +33.33%

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 626 879 1,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.26% 26.37% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 647 972
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £539
90th Percentile £638 £666 £613
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 17
10th Percentile £22.42 £19.74 £16.87
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.16 £20.25
Median hourly rate £51.78 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.99% -14.48% -6.67%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.69 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £88.88 £45.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 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
West Midlands -6 151 £425 -15.00% 228
East Midlands 0 72 £394 -1.56% 138
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 6 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.23%) Confluence
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.34%) SAS
5 2 (0.89%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) Appian
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (10.71%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.34%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (1.34%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.57%) Azure
2 44 (19.64%) Power Platform
3 21 (9.38%) AWS
4 19 (8.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (4.91%) Serverless
8 8 (3.57%) GCP
9 7 (3.13%) Azure App Service
9 7 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.13%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.13%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.68%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.68%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.23%) dbt
11 5 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.79%) Apigee
12 4 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.79%) SaaS
12 4 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.13%) SAN
2 6 (2.68%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (1.79%) DNS
3 4 (1.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.89%) DHCP
4 2 (0.89%) LAN
4 2 (0.89%) SSL
4 2 (0.89%) VoIP
4 2 (0.89%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) IPsec
5 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) VLAN
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (18.75%) Power BI
2 30 (13.39%) SQL Server
3 26 (11.61%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (5.80%) NoSQL
7 12 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 11 (4.91%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.46%) Big Data
10 8 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (3.57%) Hadoop
10 8 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (3.13%) Tableau
12 6 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.68%) Impala
12 6 (2.68%) MySQL
13 5 (2.23%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 14 (6.25%) Rational Rhapsody
2 9 (4.02%) Git
3 8 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.68%) JIRA
5 5 (2.23%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.23%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (1.79%) Ant
6 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.34%) GitLab
7 3 (1.34%) Hudson
7 3 (1.34%) Selenium
7 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.89%) TestRail
8 2 (0.89%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 47 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.27%) Finance
4 10 (4.46%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.57%) Retail
6 7 (3.13%) Banking
7 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.34%) Automotive
9 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.34%) Marketing
9 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Advertising
10 2 (0.89%) Back Office
10 2 (0.89%) Front Office
10 2 (0.89%) German Language
10 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Legal
10 2 (0.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 92 (41.07%) Developer
2 37 (16.52%) Analyst
3 28 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 25 (11.16%) Software Developer
5 22 (9.82%) Senior
6 19 (8.48%) SQL Developer
7 18 (8.04%) Architect
8 15 (6.70%) Data Analyst
9 14 (6.25%) Integration Developer
10 12 (5.36%) DBA
11 10 (4.46%) SQL DBA
12 9 (4.02%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.57%) Data Architect
14 7 (3.13%) Administrator
14 7 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (3.13%) Lead
14 7 (3.13%) Oracle Developer
14 7 (3.13%) Senior Integration Developer
15 6 (2.68%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.05%) HTML
2 20 (8.93%) .NET
3 8 (3.57%) RESTful
4 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.79%) Pandas
6 3 (1.34%) ADO
6 3 (1.34%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.34%) Flask
6 3 (1.34%) JSON
6 3 (1.34%) Kafka
6 3 (1.34%) PySpark
6 3 (1.34%) React
6 3 (1.34%) REST
6 3 (1.34%) XML
7 2 (0.89%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.89%) CSS
7 2 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.89%) SOAP
7 2 (0.89%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.23%) Clustering
3 5 (2.23%) HP Storage
4 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.34%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.34%) Replication
6 2 (0.89%) FMCG
6 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.89%) Wiki
7 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.45%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.48%) Windows
2 9 (4.02%) Unix
3 8 (3.57%) Linux
4 6 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.23%) AIX
5 5 (2.23%) Solaris
6 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.89%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.45%) VMS
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (20.54%) Agile
3 33 (14.73%) ETL
4 32 (14.29%) Analytics
4 32 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 29 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (12.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 27 (12.05%) Code Quality
6 27 (12.05%) Migration
7 25 (11.16%) DevOps
7 25 (11.16%) Software Engineering
8 24 (10.71%) Conversational UI
9 19 (8.48%) Data Analytics
10 15 (6.70%) Data Analysis
10 15 (6.70%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (6.25%) Data Migration
11 14 (6.25%) Software Testing
11 14 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (6.25%) Visualisation
12 13 (5.80%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 70 (31.25%) Python
2 41 (18.30%) C#
3 39 (17.41%) JavaScript
4 19 (8.48%) PL/SQL
5 13 (5.80%) Java
6 12 (5.36%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.46%) Bash
8 8 (3.57%) R
8 8 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.13%) Bicep
9 7 (3.13%) Bourne shell
9 7 (3.13%) Korn
10 6 (2.68%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.79%) Scala
12 3 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.34%) PHP
13 2 (0.89%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.89%) VB
13 2 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (19.20%) Degree
2 22 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.23%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.79%) ISEB
7 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.89%) MCSE
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.45%) HND
9 1 (0.45%) MCITP
9 1 (0.45%) MCTS
9 1 (0.45%) PhD
9 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.25%) HL7
3 10 (4.46%) QA
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
4 2 (0.89%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 11 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.89%) Docker
4 2 (0.89%) vSphere
5 1 (0.45%) HDFS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.23%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (2.23%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (2.23%) NetBackup
2 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.79%) Terraform
3 2 (0.89%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.45%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.45%) SCCM
4 1 (0.45%) SCOM
4 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.73%) Oracle
3 24 (10.71%) PayPal
4 12 (5.36%) Databricks
5 8 (3.57%) Informatica
6 7 (3.13%) EMC
7 5 (2.23%) Brocade
7 5 (2.23%) Cisco
7 5 (2.23%) HP
7 5 (2.23%) Symantec
7 5 (2.23%) VMware
8 4 (1.79%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.79%) PeopleSoft
8 4 (1.79%) SAP
8 4 (1.79%) Workday
9 3 (1.34%) QAD
9 3 (1.34%) Sage
9 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.34%) Talend
10 2 (0.89%) Atlassian