The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aylesbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Aylesbury region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 8 - 4
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aylesbury 25.93% - 11.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.18% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £175 - £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
Aylesbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aylesbury 62.96% 20.00% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Buckinghamshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Aylesbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Aylesbury SQL Jobs Demand Trend

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL across the Aylesbury region.

Aylesbury SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Aylesbury region.

Aylesbury SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aylesbury region citing SQL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL.

1 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) Perl
1 8 (88.89%) T-SQL
1 8 (88.89%) MySQL
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 7 (77.78%) VMware ESX
2 7 (77.78%) Retail
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 7 (77.78%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (22.22%) UNIX
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) DB2
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) Cognos
5 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (11.11%) DTS
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Subversion
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (11.11%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) QA
5 1 (11.11%) WATIR

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aylesbury region citing SQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Movex
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) DTS
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) WATIR
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) NUnit
1 1 (11.11%) WatiN
1 1 (11.11%) MSTest
General
1 7 (77.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) ERP
1 1 (11.11%) ETL
1 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
1 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
1 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (11.11%) TDD
1 1 (11.11%) Automation Testing
1 1 (11.11%) Scrum
1 1 (11.11%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Perl
1 8 (88.89%) T-SQL
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) VMware ESX
1 7 (77.78%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Cognos