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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 51 77 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.62% 10.07% 9.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.16% 41.18% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 55
10th Percentile £380 £259 £304
25th Percentile £434 £260 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £650 £538 £588
90th Percentile £775 £600 £683
West Midlands median daily rate £464 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +9.12% -19.05% +16.67%
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 £30.37 £25.25
% change year-on-year +11.66% +20.28% +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 127 187 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.96% 24.44% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 144 157
10th Percentile £348 £259 £316
25th Percentile £425 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.63% -18.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £646 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

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

SQL
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 26 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 5 (9.80%) IIS
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) Power Platform
2 8 (15.69%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) Snowflake
4 5 (9.80%) Azure
5 4 (7.84%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.92%) Akamai
7 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.92%) Cloudflare
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub
7 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.92%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.96%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) Power BI
2 8 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
4 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.88%) Tableau
7 2 (3.92%) Big Data
7 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.92%) Metadata
7 2 (3.92%) Power Query
7 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.96%) MS Access
8 1 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.96%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JUnit
1 4 (7.84%) Maven
1 4 (7.84%) Mockito
2 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 3 (5.88%) ERwin
2 3 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Gradle
3 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) Ant
4 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.96%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) jMock
4 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 8 (15.69%) Legal
5 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Games
8 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.96%) Marketing
8 1 (1.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Data Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Applications Support
5 4 (7.84%) Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Power BI Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Applications Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Data Modeller
6 3 (5.88%) Lead
6 3 (5.88%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Development Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) HTML
1 5 (9.80%) Middleware
2 4 (7.84%) .NET
2 4 (7.84%) RESTful
2 4 (7.84%) Spring
3 3 (5.88%) REST
3 3 (5.88%) XML
4 2 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.92%) FpML
4 2 (3.92%) JSON
4 2 (3.92%) SOAP
4 2 (3.92%) Web Services
5 1 (1.96%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.96%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.96%) J2EE
5 1 (1.96%) NumPy
5 1 (1.96%) PowerMock
5 1 (1.96%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.96%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Data Modelling
1 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.49%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (17.65%) Analytics
3 9 (17.65%) ETL
4 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
5 7 (13.73%) Visualisation
6 6 (11.76%) Agile
6 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 6 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (11.76%) DevOps
6 6 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (9.80%) Data Integration
7 5 (9.80%) Incident Management
7 5 (9.80%) Migration
7 5 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (9.80%) TDD
8 4 (7.84%) Data Architecture
8 4 (7.84%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 15 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (15.69%) Java
2 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.88%) R
6 2 (3.92%) C#
6 2 (3.92%) Scala
6 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.92%) VB
6 2 (3.92%) VBA
7 1 (1.96%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Bash
7 1 (1.96%) C++
7 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) CEH
3 2 (3.92%) CISSP
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.92%) GIAC
3 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) CITP
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Grafana
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Databricks
3 4 (7.84%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) SAP
3 4 (7.84%) Virgin Media
4 2 (3.92%) F5
4 2 (3.92%) Imperva
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Sparx
4 2 (3.92%) Talend
4 2 (3.92%) UiPath
5 1 (1.96%) Adobe
5 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.96%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.96%) IFS
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica
5 1 (1.96%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.96%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Sybase