SQL Server Contracts in Solihull

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 10.17% - 6.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.00% - 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £516 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £599 - £325
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +16.75% -6.19% +20.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Solihull

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 24 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 40.68% 3.45% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 4
10th Percentile £265 £403 -
25th Percentile £410 £408 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £415 £300
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% +38.33% -29.41%
75th Percentile £561 £423 £388
90th Percentile £600 £427 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +5.56% -13.46% +5.05%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Solihull

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Solihull

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Solihull over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Solihull

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Solihull

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Semantic Layer
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
2 2 (33.33%) SQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Architect
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Database Security
3 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Sequence Diagram
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce