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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 240 333 647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.14% 10.34% 12.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.78% 39.88% 49.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 236 458
10th Percentile £259 £275 £313
25th Percentile £350 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £538
90th Percentile £625 £638 £595
England median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.95% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £14.15 £24.38 £16.35
25th Percentile £22.86 £25.55 £18.58
Median hourly rate £28.94 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.61% +84.21%
75th Percentile £33.04 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £42.92 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +29.63%

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 690 835 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.41% 25.94% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 605 957
10th Percentile £260 £313 £324
25th Percentile £350 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £634 £700 £625
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.61 £16.55
25th Percentile £30.37 £26.02 £20.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 £44.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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 13 June 2024.

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 13 June 2024.

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 13 June 2024. 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 -4 152 £425 -15.00% 137
East Midlands +1 87 £400 - 110
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 9 (3.75%) SAS
2 6 (2.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 6 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.08%) Confluence
4 3 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Appian
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (10.00%) Chatbot
2 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.50%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Oracle HRMS
2 5 (2.08%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.83%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 59 (24.58%) Azure
2 48 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 25 (10.42%) AWS
4 17 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.75%) dbt
5 9 (3.75%) Serverless
6 7 (2.92%) Azure AKS
6 7 (2.92%) Azure App Service
6 7 (2.92%) PowerApps
6 7 (2.92%) Snowflake
7 6 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.08%) GCP
8 5 (2.08%) GitHub
8 5 (2.08%) OCI
8 5 (2.08%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.92%) SAN
2 6 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (1.67%) DNS
3 4 (1.67%) Firewall
4 3 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.83%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.83%) DHCP
5 2 (0.83%) LAN
5 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.83%) SSL
5 2 (0.83%) VoIP
5 2 (0.83%) VPN
6 1 (0.42%) IPsec
6 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.42%) Network Security
6 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.42%) VLAN
6 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (19.17%) Power BI
2 33 (13.75%) SQL Server
3 23 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (7.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (5.42%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.42%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (5.00%) Tableau
7 11 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (4.17%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.33%) MySQL
10 7 (2.92%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (2.50%) Impala
11 6 (2.50%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.08%) Big Data
12 5 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 14 (5.83%) Rational Rhapsody
2 9 (3.75%) JIRA
3 7 (2.92%) Git
3 7 (2.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.67%) Ant
5 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.25%) GitLab
6 3 (1.25%) Hudson
6 3 (1.25%) Selenium
6 3 (1.25%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.83%) TestRail
7 2 (0.83%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 58 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.25%) Finance
4 12 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.92%) Retail
7 6 (2.50%) Banking
7 6 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Legal
8 4 (1.67%) Marketing
9 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Advertising
10 2 (0.83%) Automotive
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) German Language
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 86 (35.83%) Developer
2 48 (20.00%) Analyst
3 31 (12.92%) Data Engineer
4 26 (10.83%) Senior
5 24 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 18 (7.50%) Data Analyst
6 18 (7.50%) SQL Developer
7 15 (6.25%) Architect
8 14 (5.83%) DBA
8 14 (5.83%) Integration Developer
9 12 (5.00%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.75%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.75%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
12 7 (2.92%) Administrator
12 7 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 7 (2.92%) Consultant
12 7 (2.92%) Lead
12 7 (2.92%) Senior Integration Developer
13 6 (2.50%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.50%) HTML
2 19 (7.92%) .NET
3 10 (4.17%) RESTful
4 7 (2.92%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.08%) CSS
5 5 (2.08%) REST
6 4 (1.67%) JSON
7 3 (1.25%) Kafka
7 3 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.25%) Pandas
7 3 (1.25%) SOAP
7 3 (1.25%) XML
8 2 (0.83%) ADO
8 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.83%) LDAP
8 2 (0.83%) React
8 2 (0.83%) Swagger
8 2 (0.83%) WSDL
8 2 (0.83%) XSD
8 2 (0.83%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.08%) Clustering
4 5 (2.08%) HP Storage
4 5 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.67%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.25%) Replication
7 2 (0.83%) Chip and PIN
7 2 (0.83%) FMCG
7 2 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.83%) Wiki
8 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.50%) Windows
2 9 (3.75%) Linux
2 9 (3.75%) Unix
3 6 (2.50%) Solaris
4 5 (2.08%) AIX
4 5 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.83%) Android
6 2 (0.83%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (21.67%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (19.17%) Agile
3 35 (14.58%) Analytics
4 33 (13.75%) Data Modelling
5 32 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (11.67%) ETL
7 27 (11.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 27 (11.25%) Code Quality
7 27 (11.25%) DevOps
7 27 (11.25%) Migration
8 25 (10.42%) Software Engineering
9 24 (10.00%) Conversational UI
10 17 (7.08%) Data Analysis
11 15 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
12 14 (5.83%) Computer Science
12 14 (5.83%) Visualisation
13 13 (5.42%) Data Management
13 13 (5.42%) ITIL
13 13 (5.42%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.33%) Python
2 43 (17.92%) JavaScript
3 39 (16.25%) C#
4 18 (7.50%) PL/SQL
5 11 (4.58%) Bash
5 11 (4.58%) Java
6 9 (3.75%) R
7 8 (3.33%) Bicep
7 8 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.92%) Bourne shell
8 7 (2.92%) Korn
8 7 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.92%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.25%) PHP
10 2 (0.83%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.83%) Scala
10 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.83%) VB
10 2 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (19.58%) Degree
2 24 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.08%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.67%) ISEB
7 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.83%) MCSE
10 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.42%) MCITP
10 1 (0.42%) MCTS
10 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.42%) PhD
10 1 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.83%) HL7
3 10 (4.17%) QA
3 10 (4.17%) SLA
4 3 (1.25%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 11 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.83%) Docker
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.83%) vSphere
5 1 (0.42%) HDFS
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (3.33%) Terraform
2 5 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (2.08%) HP Data Protector
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (2.08%) NetBackup
3 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.25%) Ansible
5 2 (0.83%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.42%) Nagios
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Puppet
6 1 (0.42%) SCCM
6 1 (0.42%) SCOM
6 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.42%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 40 (16.67%) Oracle
3 24 (10.00%) PayPal
4 11 (4.58%) Databricks
5 8 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.92%) EMC
6 7 (2.92%) Informatica
7 6 (2.50%) VMware
8 5 (2.08%) Brocade
8 5 (2.08%) Cisco
8 5 (2.08%) HP
8 5 (2.08%) SAP
8 5 (2.08%) Symantec
9 4 (1.67%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.25%) Hyperion
10 3 (1.25%) IFS
10 3 (1.25%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.83%) Splunk