SQL Contracts in Birmingham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 46 77 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.26% 10.38% 9.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.02% 41.40% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 54 53
10th Percentile £388 £259 £302
25th Percentile £463 £260 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -15.79% +7.95%
75th Percentile £620 £538 £638
90th Percentile £775 £625 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.24% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £24.13
25th Percentile - - £24.31
Median hourly rate - - £25.25
75th Percentile - - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £32.15 £25.25
% change year-on-year +5.47% +27.33% +45.20%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 121 186 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.35% 25.07% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 143 145
10th Percentile £363 £237 £313
25th Percentile £425 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.95% +7.89%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £688
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile - £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +64.74% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -41.03% +96.13% +67.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Birmingham

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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 4 (8.70%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
1 12 (26.09%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (10.87%) AWS KMS
2 5 (10.87%) Route 53
2 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
3 4 (8.70%) Azure
3 4 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.35%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.17%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.17%) Akamai
6 1 (2.17%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.17%) Datadog
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) Power BI
2 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
3 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.70%) Tableau
5 3 (6.52%) Big Data
5 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.35%) Metadata
6 2 (4.35%) Power Query
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) JUnit
1 8 (17.39%) Maven
2 7 (15.22%) Git
3 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.04%) Mockito
4 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.52%) DbUnit
5 3 (6.52%) Gradle
5 3 (6.52%) jMock
6 1 (2.17%) Ant
6 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.17%) ERwin
6 1 (2.17%) JIRA
6 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
3 6 (13.04%) Legal
3 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Games
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Analyst
2 8 (17.39%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Lead
5 4 (8.70%) Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Power BI Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Applications Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Applications Development Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Development Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) RESTful
1 8 (17.39%) Spring
2 7 (15.22%) Web Services
3 5 (10.87%) .NET
3 5 (10.87%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
3 5 (10.87%) JPA
3 5 (10.87%) REST
3 5 (10.87%) SOAP
3 5 (10.87%) Spring Batch
3 5 (10.87%) Spring Boot
3 5 (10.87%) Spring Integration
4 4 (8.70%) HTML
4 4 (8.70%) Middleware
5 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.52%) Bootstrap
5 3 (6.52%) PowerMock
5 3 (6.52%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) Kafka
7 1 (2.17%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.17%) CCTV
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (23.91%) Agile
3 11 (23.91%) Data Modelling
4 8 (17.39%) Decision-Making
4 8 (17.39%) Scrum
4 8 (17.39%) TDD
5 7 (15.22%) Analytics
5 7 (15.22%) DevOps
5 7 (15.22%) ETL
5 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
6 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (10.87%) Data Analysis
7 5 (10.87%) Data Integration
7 5 (10.87%) ITIL
7 5 (10.87%) Kanban
7 5 (10.87%) Microservices
7 5 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Java
2 11 (23.91%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.52%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) R
7 1 (2.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CEH
5 1 (2.17%) CISSP
5 1 (2.17%) CITP
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) GIAC
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.52%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Grafana
2 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
3 4 (8.70%) SAP
3 4 (8.70%) Virgin Media
4 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.52%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (4.35%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) Adobe
6 1 (2.17%) Blue Prism
6 1 (2.17%) F5
6 1 (2.17%) IFS
6 1 (2.17%) Imperva
6 1 (2.17%) Informatica
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Sybase