SQL Server Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 29 49 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.85% 5.30% 5.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.77% 26.92% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 63
10th Percentile £394 £313 £330
25th Percentile £522 £376 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +23.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £500
90th Percentile £716 £731 £599
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -2.44% +20.59% +6.25%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 122 182 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.20% 19.70% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 121 199
10th Percentile £304 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £700 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £455
% change year-on-year -14.29% +15.51% +7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.40% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 £23.50
% change year-on-year +60.40% +7.45% +11.90%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Birmingham

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (44.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.90%) IIS
3 2 (6.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (17.24%) PaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Functions
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.34%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Apigee
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
5 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.45%) AWS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) iSCSI
2 2 (6.90%) NAS
2 2 (6.90%) SAN
2 2 (6.90%) VPN
2 2 (6.90%) Wireless
3 1 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Legal
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Electronics
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Administrator
2 10 (34.48%) SharePoint Administrator
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Administrator
3 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) DBA
4 5 (17.24%) Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) SQL DBA
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Applications Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior SQL Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior SQL Server Developer
7 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) LAMP
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Swagger
3 1 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Client/Server
1 3 (10.34%) Replication
2 2 (6.90%) Clustering
2 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (10.34%) Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.90%) VMS
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Proactive Management
1 10 (34.48%) Web SSO
2 6 (20.69%) Identity Management
3 5 (17.24%) High Availability
4 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
5 3 (10.34%) Document Management
5 3 (10.34%) ETL
5 3 (10.34%) Statistics
6 2 (6.90%) Agile
6 2 (6.90%) CRM
6 2 (6.90%) DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.90%) E-Discovery
6 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning
6 2 (6.90%) Migration
6 2 (6.90%) Scrum
6 2 (6.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.90%) vSphere
3 1 (3.45%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (13.79%) SCCM
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) SCOM
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) iManage
3 2 (6.90%) Aruba
3 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.90%) ProCurve
3 2 (6.90%) Synology
3 2 (6.90%) Veeam
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 2 (6.90%) Zerto
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Qualys
4 1 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Sybase
4 1 (3.45%) UiPath