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 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 67 62 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 -25 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 45 74 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.37% 3.22% 5.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.85% 19.32% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 54 150
10th Percentile £320 £291 £298
25th Percentile £400 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £516 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +21.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £500
90th Percentile £654 £731 £594
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%

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 303 383 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.96% 16.64% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 257 529
10th Percentile £295 £350 £323
25th Percentile £358 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.40% - -
England median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.22% +27.78% +83.15%

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 14 May 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 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
Birmingham -6 23 £625 +13.64% 34
Coventry +11 5 £450 +20.00% 6
Warwickshire -3 5 £338 -37.21% 18
Staffordshire +4 2 £325 -36.27% 17
Shropshire +13 1 £510 +20.00% 3
Worcestershire - 1 £450 - 7
West Bromwich - 1 £338 -
Wednesbury - 1 £250 -
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 12 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) IIS
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.44%) WordPress
4 1 (2.22%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.56%) AWS
4 7 (15.56%) PaaS
5 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 5 (11.11%) Azure Functions
6 5 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 5 (11.11%) PowerApps
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) GCP
8 2 (4.44%) Apigee
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%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.44%) SonarCloud
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.22%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DNS
1 2 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) iSCSI
1 2 (4.44%) NAS
1 2 (4.44%) SAN
1 2 (4.44%) VPN
1 2 (4.44%) Wireless
2 1 (2.22%) DHCP
2 1 (2.22%) LAN
2 1 (2.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (13.33%) Power BI
2 6 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (11.11%) MySQL
3 5 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.22%) Big Data
7 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.22%) DB2
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.22%) MS Access
7 1 (2.22%) OLAP
7 1 (2.22%) OLTP
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (15.56%) Visual Studio
3 6 (13.33%) Git
4 3 (6.67%) NUnit
5 2 (4.44%) Moq
6 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.22%) Hudson
6 1 (2.22%) JIRA
6 1 (2.22%) JMeter
6 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.22%) Postman
6 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.22%) TestRail
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Advertising
4 1 (2.22%) Banking
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Local Government
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Administrator
2 12 (26.67%) Developer
3 10 (22.22%) SharePoint Administrator
4 8 (17.78%) 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
7 3 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (6.67%) QA Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Power Apps Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Applications Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Power Apps 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 10 (22.22%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET
3 4 (8.89%) Web Services
4 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 3 (6.67%) XML
4 3 (6.67%) XSLT
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.44%) LAMP
5 2 (4.44%) LDAP
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.22%) BREW
6 1 (2.22%) CSS
6 1 (2.22%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) Kafka
6 1 (2.22%) MDX
6 1 (2.22%) REST
6 1 (2.22%) RESTful
6 1 (2.22%) SOAP
6 1 (2.22%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Replication
2 3 (6.67%) Clustering
2 3 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.67%) Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.44%) VMS
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) DevOps
2 10 (22.22%) Proactive Management
2 10 (22.22%) Web SSO
3 9 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.33%) Identity Management
5 5 (11.11%) High Availability
6 4 (8.89%) CRM
6 4 (8.89%) Data Management
6 4 (8.89%) ETL
6 4 (8.89%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (8.89%) Software Testing
6 4 (8.89%) Statistics
6 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.67%) Data Engineering
7 3 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.67%) SDLC
7 3 (6.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 10 (22.22%) C#
2 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) R
5 1 (2.22%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) ISEB
3 3 (6.67%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) OCP
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
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 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) vSphere
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.22%) Puppet
4 1 (2.22%) Rancher
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) VMware
4 2 (4.44%) Aruba
4 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.44%) ProCurve
4 2 (4.44%) Synology
4 2 (4.44%) Veeam
4 2 (4.44%) Zerto
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) F5
5 1 (2.22%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.22%) Qualys
5 1 (2.22%) Sage
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Sybase