SQL Contracts in the West Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 147 277 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.66% 11.89% 13.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.51% 46.24% 50.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 193 335
10th Percentile £259 £361 £318
25th Percentile £311 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +12.15%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £538
90th Percentile £625 £650 £587
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £24.13 £16.35
25th Percentile - £24.31 £16.51
Median hourly rate £30.37 £25.25 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +20.28% +45.20% +2.29%
75th Percentile - £30.48 £18.38
90th Percentile - £33.24 £18.60
England median hourly rate £43.50 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.73% +40.81% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 426 599 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.21% 25.71% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 410 669
10th Percentile £260 £362 £325
25th Percentile £336 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £632
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
Birmingham +2 76 £400 -17.95% 83
Warwickshire +1 19 £607 +6.73% 16
Shropshire -18 12 £536 -0.74% 5
Coventry -8 10 £500 +17.65% 22
Worcestershire +5 4 £450 -5.26% 13
Staffordshire 0 4 £350 -6.73% 36
Dudley - 3 £525 - 3
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 6
Walsall +2 1 £325 - 3
Herefordshire -11 1 £400 -38.46% 5
Wednesbury - 1 £250 -
West Bromwich - 1 £338 -
SQL
England

SQL
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 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
3 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.04%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (2.04%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (32.65%) Azure
2 32 (21.77%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.52%) AWS
3 14 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (5.44%) GCP
6 8 (5.44%) Serverless
7 7 (4.76%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.08%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.08%) Azure App Service
8 6 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (4.08%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.40%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.72%) Apigee
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.72%) SaaS
10 4 (2.72%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.36%) SAN
2 2 (1.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) IPsec
3 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.09%) Power BI
2 19 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (12.24%) SQL Server
4 15 (10.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (6.12%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.44%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.08%) Big Data
8 6 (4.08%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.72%) Tableau
11 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.04%) MySQL
12 2 (1.36%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.36%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (9.52%) Rational Rhapsody
2 8 (5.44%) Git
2 8 (5.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.72%) Ant
3 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.72%) JIRA
4 3 (2.04%) GitLab
4 3 (2.04%) Hudson
4 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.36%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 29 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.48%) Finance
4 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.40%) Retail
6 4 (2.72%) Automotive
6 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.36%) German Language
8 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Legal
8 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (46.26%) Developer
2 19 (12.93%) Data Engineer
3 17 (11.56%) Senior
4 15 (10.20%) SQL Developer
5 14 (9.52%) Integration Developer
6 13 (8.84%) Analyst
6 13 (8.84%) Architect
7 12 (8.16%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.80%) DBA
9 9 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.12%) SQL DBA
10 8 (5.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Senior Integration Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Lead
13 5 (3.40%) Administrator
13 5 (3.40%) Angular Developer
13 5 (3.40%) Data Architect
13 5 (3.40%) Power BI Developer
14 4 (2.72%) Applications Developer
14 4 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.20%) .NET
2 13 (8.84%) HTML
3 7 (4.76%) RESTful
4 6 (4.08%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (2.72%) Pandas
6 3 (2.04%) ADO
6 3 (2.04%) Flask
6 3 (2.04%) JSON
6 3 (2.04%) PySpark
7 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.36%) Kafka
7 2 (1.36%) LDAP
7 2 (1.36%) Node.js
7 2 (1.36%) REST
7 2 (1.36%) SOAP
7 2 (1.36%) WSDL
7 2 (1.36%) XML
7 2 (1.36%) XSD
7 2 (1.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.04%) Clustering
4 3 (2.04%) Replication
5 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.68%) FMCG
6 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.68%) SCADA
6 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.12%) Unix
2 4 (2.72%) Windows
3 2 (1.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (19.05%) Agile
3 22 (14.97%) ETL
3 22 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 21 (14.29%) DevOps
4 21 (14.29%) Migration
5 20 (13.61%) Analytics
6 14 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 14 (9.52%) Code Quality
7 13 (8.84%) Data Migration
7 13 (8.84%) Software Engineering
8 12 (8.16%) Conversational UI
8 12 (8.16%) Software Testing
9 11 (7.48%) Data Analytics
10 10 (6.80%) CRM
10 10 (6.80%) Data Analysis
11 9 (6.12%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (6.12%) Scrum
11 9 (6.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.53%) Python
2 25 (17.01%) C#
3 17 (11.56%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.20%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.12%) Java
6 8 (5.44%) Bash
7 7 (4.76%) Bicep
7 7 (4.76%) Bourne shell
7 7 (4.76%) Korn
7 7 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 7 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.36%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.36%) PHP
8 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.36%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.68%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) VB
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (15.65%) Degree
2 11 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.04%) ISEB
4 3 (2.04%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) HND
6 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.52%) HL7
2 9 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.44%) QA
4 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.36%) Docker
3 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.36%) Ansible
3 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.68%) SCCM
4 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.24%) Oracle
3 12 (8.16%) PayPal
4 8 (5.44%) Informatica
5 6 (4.08%) Databricks
6 4 (2.72%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.72%) PeopleSoft
6 4 (2.72%) Workday
7 3 (2.04%) QAD
7 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.04%) VMware
8 2 (1.36%) Confluent
8 2 (1.36%) SAP
8 2 (1.36%) Talend
9 1 (0.68%) Cognos
9 1 (0.68%) Denodo
9 1 (0.68%) IFS
9 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.68%) Sage
9 1 (0.68%) Teradata