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 4 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 21 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 64 53 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.83% 7.12% 11.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.16% 33.76% 45.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 41 93
10th Percentile £331 £260 £298
25th Percentile £394 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £607 £648 £575
90th Percentile £669 £700 £692
West Midlands median daily rate £484 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +7.56% -14.33% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.50 - £12.00
% change year-on-year - - -34.53%

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 199 157 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.45% 21.10% 26.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 126 221
10th Percentile £340 £269 £313
25th Percentile £409 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £575
90th Percentile £712 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £455 £505
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.90% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £48.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +182.05% - -
75th Percentile £58.13 £19.75 -
90th Percentile £59.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.87 £18.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.03% -15.91% -8.41%

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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 4 December 2024.

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 5 (7.81%) IIS
2 1 (1.56%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (4.69%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.56%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Power Platform
3 11 (17.19%) PowerApps
4 8 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 5 (7.81%) AWS
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (7.81%) GitHub
7 3 (4.69%) GCP
7 3 (4.69%) IaaS
7 3 (4.69%) OCI
7 3 (4.69%) PaaS
7 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.69%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.31%) Power BI
3 12 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.25%) MySQL
6 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.69%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.69%) Tableau
7 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.13%) Looker
7 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.13%) Redis
7 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) ERwin
1 2 (3.13%) Hudson
1 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.31%) Finance
4 8 (12.50%) Legal
4 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.81%) Marketing
6 3 (4.69%) Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Developer
1 13 (20.31%) Senior
2 9 (14.06%) Analyst
2 9 (14.06%) Architect
3 7 (10.94%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Applications Support
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.81%) SQL Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Senior SQL Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) HTML
2 13 (20.31%) JSON
3 11 (17.19%) .NET
3 11 (17.19%) XML
4 10 (15.63%) CSS
5 8 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 8 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 8 (12.50%) WCF
6 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
6 5 (7.81%) Middleware
7 4 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 3 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (3.13%) FpML
9 2 (3.13%) REST
10 1 (1.56%) Node.js
10 1 (1.56%) Regular Expression
10 1 (1.56%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (1.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) NHS
2 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (1.56%) CMDB
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.56%) SCADA
4 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Unix
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.88%) Analytics
1 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (20.31%) Migration
3 12 (18.75%) Data Migration
4 11 (17.19%) Agile
4 11 (17.19%) Customer Service
5 9 (14.06%) Data Integration
5 9 (14.06%) Data Modelling
5 9 (14.06%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (12.50%) CRM
6 8 (12.50%) ERP
6 8 (12.50%) Web Development
7 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.94%) Presales
7 7 (10.94%) Project Delivery
8 5 (7.81%) Data Science
8 5 (7.81%) Decision-Making
8 5 (7.81%) ETL
8 5 (7.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) JavaScript
2 9 (14.06%) C#
2 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
2 9 (14.06%) Python
3 2 (3.13%) Bicep
3 2 (3.13%) PHP
3 2 (3.13%) R
3 2 (3.13%) VB
3 2 (3.13%) VBA
4 1 (1.56%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.56%) Java
4 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.56%) Ruby
4 1 (1.56%) Scala
4 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CEH
6 1 (1.56%) CISSP
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) Databricks
3 4 (6.25%) Talend
4 3 (4.69%) Google
4 3 (4.69%) Hyperion
4 3 (4.69%) JD Edwards
4 3 (4.69%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (4.69%) SYSPRO
5 2 (3.13%) Adobe
5 2 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (3.13%) Sparx
5 2 (3.13%) UiPath
6 1 (1.56%) BMC
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.56%) Kenna
6 1 (1.56%) Remedy
6 1 (1.56%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.56%) Siemens