SQL Server Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 45 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 21 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.74% 2.70% 4.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.30% 19.63% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 25
10th Percentile £313 £400 £328
25th Percentile £369 £533 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £642 £725
90th Percentile £618 £875 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £493 £510
% change year-on-year +11.68% -3.43% +20.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 93 107 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.29% 13.75% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 85 111
10th Percentile £107 £311 £300
25th Percentile £409 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £563 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.13
25th Percentile - - £24.31
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year - +60.40% -
75th Percentile - - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.33 £37.22 £25.25
% change year-on-year -21.19% +47.39% -

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 6 July 2025.

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 3 (75.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Software Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CITP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft