The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke 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 4 9 3
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 49 20 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 22.90% 10.87% 20.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.12% 25.97% 46.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 13 22
Average daily rate £350 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 £285 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £460 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
Average hourly rate £23.13 - £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
104 77 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 48.60% 41.85% 44.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 29 44
Average daily rate £350 £366 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.43% +4.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £483 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 14
Average hourly rate £23.13 £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.64% +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Hampshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Basingstoke SQL Daily Rate Histogram

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 60 (63.83%) SQL Server
2 53 (56.38%) BDD
3 51 (54.26%) Git (software)
4 50 (53.19%) Web Services
4 50 (53.19%) MVC
5 49 (52.13%) jQuery
6 48 (51.06%) Java
7 44 (46.81%) JavaScript
8 43 (45.74%) CSS
9 42 (44.68%) HTML
10 40 (42.55%) Hibernate
10 40 (42.55%) Spring
11 38 (40.43%) SOAP
11 38 (40.43%) Java EE
12 37 (39.36%) Software Architecture
13 36 (38.30%) Maven
13 36 (38.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 36 (38.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (37.23%) Web Development
14 35 (37.23%) JSON
14 35 (37.23%) Spring MVC
14 35 (37.23%) Spring Security
14 35 (37.23%) Spring Web Flow
14 35 (37.23%) JPA
14 35 (37.23%) REST
14 35 (37.23%) JMS
14 35 (37.23%) JAXB
14 35 (37.23%) EJB
14 35 (37.23%) JTA
14 35 (37.23%) Pair Programming

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 50 (53.19%) Web Services
2 49 (52.13%) jQuery
3 43 (45.74%) CSS
4 42 (44.68%) HTML
5 40 (42.55%) Hibernate
5 40 (42.55%) Spring
6 38 (40.43%) SOAP
6 38 (40.43%) Java EE
7 35 (37.23%) JSON
7 35 (37.23%) Spring MVC
7 35 (37.23%) Spring Security
7 35 (37.23%) Spring Web Flow
7 35 (37.23%) JPA
7 35 (37.23%) REST
7 35 (37.23%) JMS
7 35 (37.23%) JAXB
7 35 (37.23%) EJB
7 35 (37.23%) JTA
8 28 (29.79%) .NET
9 23 (24.47%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 25 (26.60%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (3.191%) IIS
3 2 (2.128%) ESB
3 2 (2.128%) SAS
4 1 (1.064%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.064%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.064%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.255%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.128%) MS Project
3 1 (1.064%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.064%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.128%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.064%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.064%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.064%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (63.83%) SQL Server
2 36 (38.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 36 (38.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (15.96%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (14.89%) NoSQL
5 12 (12.77%) MySQL
6 10 (10.64%) SQL Server 2000
6 10 (10.64%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (4.255%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.191%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (3.191%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (2.128%) Base SAS
9 2 (2.128%) DB2
9 2 (2.128%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.128%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (1.064%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.064%) MS Access
10 1 (1.064%) OLAP
10 1 (1.064%) SSDT
10 1 (1.064%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 51 (54.26%) Git (software)
2 36 (38.30%) Maven
3 34 (36.17%) JUnit
3 34 (36.17%) Mockito
4 33 (35.11%) Selenium
5 17 (18.09%) SpecFlow
6 12 (12.77%) JBehave
6 12 (12.77%) ReSharper
6 12 (12.77%) Subversion
7 5 (5.319%) WebDriver
7 5 (5.319%) FitNesse
7 5 (5.319%) WATIR
8 3 (3.191%) ProC
9 2 (2.128%) MSBuild
9 2 (2.128%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.128%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.128%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.128%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (2.128%) NUnit
10 1 (1.064%) JMeter
General
1 8 (8.511%) Finance
2 6 (6.383%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.255%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.064%) Retail
4 1 (1.064%) Electronics
4 1 (1.064%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (75.53%) Developer
2 39 (41.49%) Java Developer
3 17 (18.09%) C# Developer
4 13 (13.83%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (12.77%) Agile C# Developer
6 11 (11.70%) .NET Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Analyst
7 10 (10.64%) Technical Leader
7 10 (10.64%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 9 (9.574%) ASP.NET Developer
9 8 (8.511%) Agile .NET Developer
10 7 (7.447%) SQL Developer
11 6 (6.383%) Team Leader
11 6 (6.383%) Business Analyst
12 5 (5.319%) Test Analyst
12 5 (5.319%) Test Team Leader
13 4 (4.255%) Business Systems Analyst
13 4 (4.255%) Systems Analyst
13 4 (4.255%) Lead Developer
14 3 (3.191%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.511%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (7.447%) SaaS
3 3 (3.191%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.064%) DTV
4 1 (1.064%) NHS
4 1 (1.064%) Data Conversion
4 1 (1.064%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.064%) SecurID
4 1 (1.064%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.574%) Windows
2 4 (4.255%) UNIX
2 4 (4.255%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (3.191%) AIX
3 3 (3.191%) Solaris
4 2 (2.128%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.064%) SUSE
5 1 (1.064%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.064%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (56.38%) BDD
2 50 (53.19%) MVC
3 37 (39.36%) Software Architecture
4 35 (37.23%) Web Development
4 35 (37.23%) Pair Programming
5 32 (34.04%) UML
5 32 (34.04%) Agile Software Development
6 31 (32.98%) OOD
7 27 (28.72%) TDD
8 22 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (22.34%) Scrum
10 19 (20.21%) Dependency Injection
11 15 (15.96%) OO
12 14 (14.89%) SOA
13 12 (12.77%) Kanban
14 7 (7.447%) ERP
15 5 (5.319%) Unit Testing
16 4 (4.255%) Technical Architecture
16 4 (4.255%) Integration Testing
16 4 (4.255%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.06%) Java
2 44 (46.81%) JavaScript
3 31 (32.98%) C#
4 14 (14.89%) T-SQL
5 9 (9.574%) C++
5 9 (9.574%) Python
6 6 (6.383%) C
7 5 (5.319%) Perl
7 5 (5.319%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.128%) SAS Macro
8 2 (2.128%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.064%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (8.511%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.255%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.128%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.319%) HL7
2 3 (3.191%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.064%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.128%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 29 (30.85%) JBoss
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.77%) Twitter
4 7 (7.447%) Oracle
5 5 (5.319%) Google
6 1 (1.064%) Citrix
6 1 (1.064%) SAP
6 1 (1.064%) Business Objects
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