SQL Contracts in Bedford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Bedford 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 1 5 7
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 33.33% 4.762% 28.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.64% 12.50% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
Average daily rate £375 - £175
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 - £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 - £201
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -21.87%
All Programming Languages
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 11 8 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 52.38% 38.10% 54.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 11
Average daily rate £400 £325 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +75.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £325 £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Bedfordshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) IIS
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
2 4 (33.33%) SAN
2 4 (33.33%) DMZ
2 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (25.00%) Back Office
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) HP
3 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (25.00%) QlikView
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
4 2 (16.67%) WhatsUp Gold
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Firewall
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 (8.333%) .NET
1 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 1 (8.333%) Web Services
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) XSLT
1 1 (8.333%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) IIS
1 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
1 4 (33.33%) DMZ
1 4 (33.33%) DHCP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) QlikView
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.333%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 3 (25.00%) Back Office
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Business Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) DBA
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Developer
3 1 (8.333%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.333%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Report Developer
3 1 (8.333%) SharePoint Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) SharePoint Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Client/Server
1 1 (8.333%) PACS
1 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
2 1 (8.333%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) DICOM
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (8.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
1 4 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) Symantec
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle
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