SQL Server Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 69 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -34 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 45 79 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.34% 3.25% 5.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.63% 18.81% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 59 159
10th Percentile £316 £306 £313
25th Percentile £394 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +22.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £500
90th Percentile - £731 £625
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +12.90%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 288 420 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.96% 17.29% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 287 531
10th Percentile £306 £350 £325
25th Percentile £358 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.13% +8.24%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £540
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £24.13 -
25th Percentile - £24.31 £22.75
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.40% +7.45% +11.90%
75th Percentile - £30.48 £24.25
90th Percentile - £33.24 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +70.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
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 Server within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
Birmingham -10 27 £625 +19.05% 33
Coventry +10 5 £450 +20.00% 7
Warwickshire +2 2 £338 -40.00% 10
Worcestershire - 2 £425 - 8
Staffordshire +6 1 £325 -36.27% 18
Wednesbury - 1 £250 -
West Bromwich - 1 £338 -
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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 13 (28.89%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (6.67%) IIS
4 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.44%) WordPress
5 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.22%) Sage 200
1 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) PaaS
5 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 6 (13.33%) Serverless
6 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.67%) GCP
8 2 (4.44%) Apigee
8 2 (4.44%) Azure App Service
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.44%) Nutanix
8 2 (4.44%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.44%) SonarCloud
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) iSCSI
2 2 (4.44%) NAS
2 2 (4.44%) SAN
2 2 (4.44%) VPN
2 2 (4.44%) Wireless
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) FTP
3 1 (2.22%) LAN
3 1 (2.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 8 (17.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.89%) Power BI
5 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.44%) MS Access
7 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.22%) Metadata
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.22%) MySQL
7 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (15.56%) Git
3 4 (8.89%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.67%) NUnit
5 2 (4.44%) Moq
6 1 (2.22%) Hudson
6 1 (2.22%) JMeter
6 1 (2.22%) Postman
6 1 (2.22%) TestRail
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Advertising
4 1 (2.22%) Banking
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Electronics
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
4 1 (2.22%) Local Government
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Administrator
2 11 (24.44%) Developer
3 10 (22.22%) SharePoint Administrator
4 7 (15.56%) DBA
5 6 (13.33%) Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Azure Administrator
5 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
5 6 (13.33%) SQL DBA
6 4 (8.89%) Applications Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.67%) QA Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Applications Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior SQL Server Developer
8 2 (4.44%) SQL Developer
8 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (4.44%) LAMP
4 2 (4.44%) LDAP
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.44%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.22%) CSS
5 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.22%) Kafka
5 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.22%) SOAP
5 1 (2.22%) Swagger
5 1 (2.22%) Web Services
5 1 (2.22%) XML
5 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Replication
2 3 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (6.67%) Linux
5 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.44%) VMS
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) DevOps
1 10 (22.22%) Proactive Management
1 10 (22.22%) Web SSO
2 6 (13.33%) Agile
2 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (13.33%) Identity Management
3 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (11.11%) CRM
3 5 (11.11%) High Availability
4 4 (8.89%) Data Management
4 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (8.89%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (8.89%) Statistics
4 4 (8.89%) TDD
5 3 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.67%) ETL
5 3 (6.67%) Migration
5 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (6.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) SQL
2 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
5 2 (4.44%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) ISEB
2 3 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) vSphere
4 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (8.89%) SCCM
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.44%) SCOM
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Aruba
2 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
2 2 (4.44%) ProCurve
2 2 (4.44%) Synology
2 2 (4.44%) Veeam
2 2 (4.44%) VMware
2 2 (4.44%) Zerto
3 1 (2.22%) F5
3 1 (2.22%) iManage
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Qualys
3 1 (2.22%) Sage
3 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.22%) SAP
3 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk
3 1 (2.22%) Sybase
3 1 (2.22%) UiPath