SQL Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

SQL Developer
England > West Midlands

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 115 149
Rank change year-on-year +18 +34 -42
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 15 25 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.77% 1.05% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.11% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 20
10th Percentile £473 £363 £313
25th Percentile £481 £413 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year - +29.03% -9.88%
75th Percentile £536 £644 £440
90th Percentile £545 £683 £475
England median daily rate £500 £525 £484
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.47% +10.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,781 2,260 3,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 94.84% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,550 2,501
10th Percentile £259 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £706 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 66 81
10th Percentile £12.04 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +12.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £42.13 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.75 £55.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the West Midlands

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the West Midlands

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the West Midlands

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the West Midlands

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Shropshire - 8 £536 -
Birmingham +13 6 £488 -9.30% 8
SQL Developer
England

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) Oracle
3 8 (53.33%) PL/SQL
3 8 (53.33%) Unix
3 8 (53.33%) Scrum
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) Software Testing
3 8 (53.33%) System Testing
4 7 (46.67%) Korn
4 7 (46.67%) Bourne shell
4 7 (46.67%) Bash
5 5 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Ant
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (20.00%) RBAC
7 3 (20.00%) Database Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Database Security
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
8 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
8 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
8 2 (13.33%) PowerApps

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Apigee
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
1 2 (13.33%) Serverless
2 1 (6.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Ant
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
1 8 (53.33%) Scrum
1 8 (53.33%) Software Testing
1 8 (53.33%) System Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 3 (20.00%) Data Science
3 3 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Database Security
3 3 (20.00%) RBAC
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) E-Discovery
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) Runbook
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) PL/SQL
3 7 (46.67%) Bash
3 7 (46.67%) Bourne shell
3 7 (46.67%) Korn
4 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) Workday