SQL Contracts in the West Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 147 232 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.56% 10.32% 13.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 42.11% 51.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 152 342
10th Percentile £259 £310 £325
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £540
90th Percentile £625 £656 £593
England median daily rate £545 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -0.91% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £30.73 £24.13 -
25th Percentile £31.26 £24.31 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.15 £25.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.33% +44.29% +4.04%
75th Percentile £33.04 £30.48 £18.75
90th Percentile £33.57 £33.24 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +34.62%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 441 551 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.67% 24.50% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 373 665
10th Percentile £260 £325 £325
25th Percentile £345 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £556
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile £36.36 £21.73 £24.30
25th Percentile £47.75 £23.81 £36.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% -49.45% +135.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £59.71
90th Percentile £72.50 £98.25 £59.84
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the West Midlands

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the West Midlands

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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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham +2 77 £400 -15.79% 73
Warwickshire -8 18 £550 -6.38% 21
Shropshire -15 12 £536 -0.74% 3
Staffordshire +5 10 £425 +13.26% 25
Coventry -11 9 £420 -1.18% 15
Worcestershire +4 3 £475 - 8
Walsall +3 1 £325 -
Solihull -12 1 £345 +15.00% 2
Herefordshire -15 1 £400 -38.46% 2
Dudley - 1 £525 -
Wednesbury - 1 £250 - 3
West Bromwich - 1 £338 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 8
SQL
England

SQL
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 5 (3.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 5 (3.40%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.04%) Confluence
2 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Chatbot
2 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.36%) Trello
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Oracle HRMS
2 4 (2.72%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.57%) Azure
2 33 (22.45%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.52%) AWS
4 13 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 7 (4.76%) Serverless
7 6 (4.08%) Azure App Service
7 6 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (4.08%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.40%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.72%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.72%) GCP
10 3 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.04%) dbt
10 3 (2.04%) PaaS
10 3 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.36%) SAN
2 2 (1.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) IPsec
3 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.77%) Power BI
2 18 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 15 (10.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (6.12%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.40%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (3.40%) Tableau
8 4 (2.72%) MySQL
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.36%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.36%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (9.52%) Rational Rhapsody
2 8 (5.44%) Git
3 7 (4.76%) JIRA
3 7 (4.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (3.40%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.72%) Ant
6 3 (2.04%) GitLab
6 3 (2.04%) Hudson
6 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.36%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 36 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.16%) Finance
4 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.40%) Retail
7 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Automotive
9 2 (1.36%) German Language
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Back Office
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (42.86%) Developer
2 19 (12.93%) Analyst
2 19 (12.93%) Senior
3 18 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 15 (10.20%) SQL Developer
5 14 (9.52%) Integration Developer
6 12 (8.16%) Architect
6 12 (8.16%) Software Developer
7 10 (6.80%) DBA
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.12%) SQL DBA
9 7 (4.76%) Senior Integration Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.40%) Angular Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.72%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.52%) HTML
2 13 (8.84%) .NET
3 8 (5.44%) RESTful
4 6 (4.08%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.40%) REST
6 4 (2.72%) Pandas
7 3 (2.04%) ADO
7 3 (2.04%) Flask
7 3 (2.04%) JSON
7 3 (2.04%) SOAP
8 2 (1.36%) CSS
8 2 (1.36%) Kafka
8 2 (1.36%) LDAP
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.36%) Swagger
8 2 (1.36%) Web Services
8 2 (1.36%) WSDL
8 2 (1.36%) XML
8 2 (1.36%) XSD
8 2 (1.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.04%) Clustering
3 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.04%) Replication
4 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.68%) FMCG
5 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.12%) Unix
2 3 (2.04%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (20.41%) Agile
3 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (13.61%) DevOps
4 20 (13.61%) Migration
5 18 (12.24%) ETL
6 17 (11.56%) Analytics
7 16 (10.88%) Data Modelling
8 14 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (9.52%) Code Quality
9 13 (8.84%) Software Engineering
10 12 (8.16%) Conversational UI
10 12 (8.16%) Data Migration
10 12 (8.16%) Software Testing
11 11 (7.48%) Data Analysis
12 9 (6.12%) Computer Science
12 9 (6.12%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (6.12%) Visualisation
13 8 (5.44%) CI/CD
13 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.85%) Python
2 23 (15.65%) C#
3 20 (13.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.84%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.12%) Bash
5 9 (6.12%) Java
6 8 (5.44%) Bicep
7 7 (4.76%) Bourne shell
7 7 (4.76%) Korn
8 6 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.72%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.36%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.68%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.68%) R
12 1 (0.68%) VB
12 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (17.01%) Degree
2 11 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) ISEB
6 3 (2.04%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.52%) HL7
2 10 (6.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.44%) QA
4 7 (4.76%) SLA
5 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.36%) Docker
3 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.04%) Terraform
3 2 (1.36%) Ansible
3 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.68%) SCCM
4 1 (0.68%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.97%) Oracle
3 12 (8.16%) PayPal
4 6 (4.08%) Informatica
5 4 (2.72%) Databricks
5 4 (2.72%) VMware
6 3 (2.04%) IFS
6 3 (2.04%) JD Edwards
6 3 (2.04%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.36%) Confluent
7 2 (1.36%) SAP
7 2 (1.36%) Talend
7 2 (1.36%) Workday
8 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.68%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk