SQL Server Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 71 54
Rank change year-on-year -8 -17 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 28 44 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.81% 2.13% 3.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.65% 14.57% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 60
10th Percentile £346 £325 £275
25th Percentile £418 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £493 £510
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -3.43% +20.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £688
90th Percentile £651 £684 £731
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 263 302 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.00% 14.61% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 221 241
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £408 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £638 £706 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £16.67 £34.59 £24.13
25th Percentile £18.74 £35.57 £24.31
Median hourly rate £29.33 £37.22 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +47.39% -
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.86 £30.48
90th Percentile £34.54 £39.84 £33.24
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the West Midlands

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Warwickshire 0 7 £600 +14.29% 19
Solihull - 6 £594 - 3
Shropshire +3 5 £440 -13.73% 2
Birmingham -4 4 £475 -24.00% 28
Coventry -4 3 £460 +2.22% 3
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 3 (10.71%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure API Management
2 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DHCP
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) VLAN
1 1 (3.57%) VSAN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.29%) Power BI
4 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) MySQL
5 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.14%) DB2
5 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (7.14%) Tableau
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.57%) Metadata
6 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Law
6 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (3.57%) Military
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) DBA
3 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Cognos Support
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) SQL DBA
5 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) Web Services
3 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) Middleware
3 3 (10.71%) React
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) ADO
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) SUSE
2 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (28.57%) ETL
4 7 (25.00%) Analytics
4 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) ITIL
4 7 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) API Management
6 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 4 (14.29%) Database Security
6 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.29%) Service Management
6 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 3 (10.71%) API Design
7 3 (10.71%) Coaching
7 3 (10.71%) Log Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.14%) OCP
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) CITP
5 1 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) Cognos
3 2 (7.14%) CyberArk
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Veeam
4 1 (3.57%) VMware