SQL Contracts in the Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 17 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 197 224 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.31% 8.14% 12.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.30% 36.25% 47.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 151 331
10th Percentile £235 £260 £281
25th Percentile £388 £322 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% -10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £540
90th Percentile £651 £625 £600
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.15 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.86 £25.09
Median hourly rate £19.00 £28.94 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year -34.34% -3.33% -14.48%
75th Percentile £33.91 £32.53 £46.27
90th Percentile - £42.58 £55.00
England median hourly rate £44.50 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.71% -15.00% +40.85%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.96% 22.46% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 449 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +8 156 £463 +8.82% 266
East Midlands -7 40 £423 +5.63% 155
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 14 (7.11%) Confluence
2 6 (3.05%) IIS
2 6 (3.05%) SAS
2 6 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.03%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 4 (2.03%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.52%) Apache
5 3 (1.52%) Moodle
5 3 (1.52%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (14.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.54%) InfoPath
2 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.52%) Maya
3 3 (1.52%) NUKE
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.03%) Oracle HRMS
3 2 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (28.93%) Power Platform
2 48 (24.37%) Azure
3 36 (18.27%) AWS
4 24 (12.18%) PowerApps
5 12 (6.09%) Serverless
6 11 (5.58%) GCP
7 9 (4.57%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.57%) Snowflake
8 8 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.55%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.55%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.54%) Asana
11 5 (2.54%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) DHCP
2 1 (0.51%) DNS
2 1 (0.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) LAN
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
2 1 (0.51%) WAN
2 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.83%) Power BI
2 20 (10.15%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (8.63%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.63%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.61%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.08%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.06%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.06%) Tableau
8 7 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.55%) Big Data
8 7 (3.55%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.03%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.03%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.03%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 24 (12.18%) JIRA
2 14 (7.11%) Git
3 13 (6.60%) Maven
4 11 (5.58%) JUnit
5 9 (4.57%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.57%) Mockito
6 8 (4.06%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (3.55%) GitLab
8 6 (3.05%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.54%) ERwin
9 5 (2.54%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.52%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.52%) Gradle
10 3 (1.52%) jMock
10 3 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.52%) PHPUnit
10 3 (1.52%) Postman
General
1 71 (36.04%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.24%) Finance
4 21 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.11%) Banking
6 8 (4.06%) Legal
6 8 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.54%) Automotive
7 5 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.03%) Games
8 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.03%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.03%) Law
8 4 (2.03%) Local Government
9 3 (1.52%) Retail
10 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (24.87%) Developer
2 27 (13.71%) Data Engineer
3 23 (11.68%) Lead
4 22 (11.17%) Analyst
5 21 (10.66%) Senior
6 16 (8.12%) Support Assistant
7 14 (7.11%) Architect
8 12 (6.09%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.08%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.57%) Technical Leader
11 8 (4.06%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.55%) Consultant
12 7 (3.55%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.54%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (2.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (2.54%) Power Platform Developer
13 5 (2.54%) SQL Developer
14 4 (2.03%) Automation Architect
14 4 (2.03%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.68%) HTML
2 18 (9.14%) .NET
3 15 (7.61%) CSS
4 13 (6.60%) RESTful
5 9 (4.57%) REST
5 9 (4.57%) Spring
5 9 (4.57%) Web Services
6 8 (4.06%) Hibernate
6 8 (4.06%) JPA
6 8 (4.06%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.06%) XML
7 7 (3.55%) .NET Framework
7 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.55%) JSON
7 7 (3.55%) Middleware
7 7 (3.55%) React
7 7 (3.55%) SOAP
8 6 (3.05%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (3.05%) ASP.NET
8 6 (3.05%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.55%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.03%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.52%) Animation
6 3 (1.52%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.52%) VLE
7 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.51%) iSeries
8 1 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.60%) Linux
2 10 (5.08%) Unix
3 8 (4.06%) Windows
4 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.51%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.49%) Agile
2 59 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (22.34%) Data Modelling
5 33 (16.75%) DevOps
6 29 (14.72%) Migration
7 26 (13.20%) ETL
8 25 (12.69%) Analytics
9 22 (11.17%) CI/CD
10 21 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (9.64%) Customer Service
12 18 (9.14%) Test Scripting
13 17 (8.63%) Data Governance
13 17 (8.63%) Decision-Making
13 17 (8.63%) Microservices
13 17 (8.63%) Test Strategy
14 16 (8.12%) ITIL
14 16 (8.12%) Process Improvement
15 15 (7.61%) Scrum
15 15 (7.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.37%) Python
2 35 (17.77%) JavaScript
3 34 (17.26%) Java
4 16 (8.12%) C#
5 12 (6.09%) PL/SQL
5 12 (6.09%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.06%) R
7 7 (3.55%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (3.05%) Scala
9 5 (2.54%) C++
10 4 (2.03%) PHP
11 3 (1.52%) Ruby
11 3 (1.52%) Tcl
11 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.52%) VBA
12 2 (1.02%) Bash
12 2 (1.02%) Go
12 2 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.09%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.58%) Degree
5 5 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.54%) CISSP
6 3 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.52%) ISEB
6 3 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.02%) CEH
7 2 (1.02%) GIAC
7 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.02%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CITP
8 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.66%) SLA
2 16 (8.12%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.57%) QA
4 5 (2.54%) GDPR
5 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) Basel III
7 1 (0.51%) IFRS
7 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 19 (9.64%) Docker
2 15 (7.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.03%) Postfix
4 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.06%) Terraform
3 7 (3.55%) Grafana
3 7 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) CA Wily
5 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 45 (22.84%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.17%) Oracle
3 14 (7.11%) Databricks
4 9 (4.57%) SAP
5 8 (4.06%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.05%) Google
7 5 (2.54%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.54%) IBM
7 5 (2.54%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.03%) Talend
8 4 (2.03%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.52%) Splunk
10 2 (1.02%) F5
10 2 (1.02%) Imperva
10 2 (1.02%) Sparx
10 2 (1.02%) UiPath
10 2 (1.02%) Veracode
10 2 (1.02%) VMware
11 1 (0.51%) IFS