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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 50 79 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.67% 10.26% 9.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.65% 41.15% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 55 62
10th Percentile £350 £259 £310
25th Percentile £425 £260 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £650 £528 £584
90th Percentile £700 £595 £695
West Midlands median daily rate £472 £438 £526
% change year-on-year +7.89% -16.75% +16.78%
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 £17.59 £30.37 £24.63
% change year-on-year -42.09% +23.33% -46.63%

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 123 192 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.79% 24.94% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 150 170
10th Percentile £312 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £313 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.47% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £455 £525
% change year-on-year +4.40% -13.33% +15.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.13
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +87.60% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £81.89
90th Percentile - - £98.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.24 £56.25 £25.25
% change year-on-year -64.02% +122.77% -45.28%

SQL
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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Birmingham

SQL
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 6 (12.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) Azure
4 6 (12.00%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 4 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 3 (6.00%) GitHub
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.00%) Akamai
7 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.00%) Cloudflare
7 2 (4.00%) IaaS
7 2 (4.00%) PaaS
7 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
7 2 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.00%) Power BI
2 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (8.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.00%) Tableau
7 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.00%) Big Data
7 2 (4.00%) Looker
7 2 (4.00%) Metadata
7 2 (4.00%) Power Query
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JUnit
1 4 (8.00%) Maven
1 4 (8.00%) Mockito
2 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (6.00%) ERwin
2 3 (6.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) Gradle
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) Ant
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.00%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.00%) Hudson
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) jMock
4 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (30.00%) Finance
4 8 (16.00%) Banking
5 7 (14.00%) Legal
6 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (8.00%) Investment Banking
8 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Electronics
10 1 (2.00%) Games
10 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Applications Support
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Power BI Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) HTML
1 6 (12.00%) Middleware
2 4 (8.00%) RESTful
2 4 (8.00%) Spring
3 3 (6.00%) JSON
3 3 (6.00%) REST
3 3 (6.00%) XML
4 2 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (4.00%) FpML
4 2 (4.00%) SOAP
5 1 (2.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.00%) J2EE
5 1 (2.00%) NumPy
5 1 (2.00%) PowerMock
5 1 (2.00%) Spring Batch
5 1 (2.00%) Spring Integration
5 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (2.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) SCADA
4 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 11 (22.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
5 8 (16.00%) Analytics
5 8 (16.00%) ETL
5 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
6 7 (14.00%) Agile
6 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (14.00%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (14.00%) DevOps
6 7 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (12.00%) Incident Management
8 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis
8 5 (10.00%) Migration
8 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (10.00%) TDD
8 5 (10.00%) Time Management
9 4 (8.00%) Data Integration
9 4 (8.00%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (6.00%) R
7 2 (4.00%) Scala
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.00%) VB
7 2 (4.00%) VBA
8 1 (2.00%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Bash
8 1 (2.00%) Bicep
8 1 (2.00%) C#
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) CEH
3 2 (4.00%) CISSP
3 2 (4.00%) GIAC
3 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) CITP
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Postfix
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Databricks
3 4 (8.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) SAP
3 4 (8.00%) Virgin Media
4 2 (4.00%) F5
4 2 (4.00%) Imperva
4 2 (4.00%) Sparx
4 2 (4.00%) Talend
4 2 (4.00%) UiPath
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) IFS
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica
5 1 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Rockwell
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) Sybase
5 1 (2.00%) SYSPRO