Berkshire SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Ballymena Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grampian Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Ross-on-Wye Royston Rugby Ryde Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Wycombe Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	5
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	267	508
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.421 %	0.544 %
As % of the category below	40.27 %	43.12 %
Daily rates quoted	63	131
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£308
Average daily rate	£342	£333
% change on same period last year	+2.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£329
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.63	£32.63
Average hourly rate	£35.06	£34.01
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	£35.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.48	£30.03
% change on same period last year	-8.47 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	663	1178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.044 %	1.262 %
Daily rates quoted	171	286
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£331
Average daily rate	£326	£351
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	158
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.85	£36.05
Average hourly rate	£31.89	£37.89
% change on same period last year	-15.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.92	£39.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
SQL South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	-2	103	£337	-0.82 %
Maidenhead	-3	15	£293	-28.78 %
Slough	-10	12	£363	+6.22 %
Newbury	-3	10	£313	-1.05 %
Bracknell	-17	7	£375	+4.16 %
Windsor	0	4	£325	-
Wokingham	-6	2	-	-

SQL South East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 225 (32.33 %) Oracle 2 169 (24.28 %) SQL Server 3 134 (19.25 %) XML 4 132 (18.97 %) .NET 5 131 (18.82 %) Windows 6 119 (17.10 %) UNIX 7 117 (16.81 %) PL/SQL 8 109 (15.66 %) HTML 9 107 (15.37 %) Java 10 103 (14.80 %) Security Cleared 11 94 (13.51 %) Microsoft 12 91 (13.07 %) Telecoms 13 88 (12.64 %) ASP.NET 14 84 (12.07 %) SQL Server 2005 15 76 (10.92 %) Transact-SQL

16 75 (10.78 %) JavaScript 16 75 (10.78 %) SC Cleared 17 73 (10.49 %) C# 18 70 (10.06 %) Finance 19 68 (9.770 %) XSL 20 61 (8.764 %) Windows Server 2003 21 59 (8.477 %) VB 22 57 (8.190 %) Shell Script 23 53 (7.615 %) VB.NET 24 49 (7.040 %) J2EE 25 45 (6.466 %) Oracle 9i 25 45 (6.466 %) Datawarehouse 25 45 (6.466 %) TCP/IP 26 43 (6.178 %) WebLogic 26 43 (6.178 %) Oracle 10g

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 1 134 (19.25 %) XML 2 132 (18.97 %) .NET 3 109 (15.66 %) HTML 4 88 (12.64 %) ASP.NET 5 68 (9.770 %) XSL 6 49 (7.040 %) J2EE 7 39 (5.603 %) ASP 8 34 (4.885 %) WebSphere 9 26 (3.736 %) JSP 9 26 (3.736 %) Hibernate 10 25 (3.592 %) Spring 11 24 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 11 24 (3.448 %) AJAX 12 23 (3.305 %) Struts 13 22 (3.161 %) COM+ 14 16 (2.299 %) WebServices 15 14 (2.011 %) CSS 16 11 (1.580 %) Servlets 17 9 (1.293 %) SOAP 18 8 (1.149 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 43 (6.178 %) WebLogic 2 42 (6.034 %) IIS 3 24 (3.448 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 20 (2.874 %) SharePoint 4 20 (2.874 %) BizTalk Server 5 13 (1.868 %) MS Exchange 5 13 (1.868 %) SAS 6 12 (1.724 %) Oracle Workflow 7 11 (1.580 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 9 (1.293 %) Tomcat 8 9 (1.293 %) ESB 9 7 (1.006 %) Apache 10 6 (0.862 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 5 (0.718 %) TIBCO EMS 11 5 (0.718 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 4 (0.575 %) Oracle Application Server 12 4 (0.575 %) Resin 12 4 (0.575 %) WebLogic Portal 13 3 (0.431 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 13 3 (0.431 %) CMS
Applications 1 38 (5.460 %) MS Excel 2 23 (3.305 %) MS Office 3 10 (1.437 %) Shockwave 4 7 (1.006 %) MS Project 5 4 (0.575 %) MS Visio 6 3 (0.431 %) Spreadsheet 7 2 (0.287 %) CA Clarity 7 2 (0.287 %) Acrobat 8 1 (0.144 %) AutoCAD 8 1 (0.144 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (0.144 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 25 (3.592 %) Endur 2 22 (3.161 %) Oracle EBS 3 13 (1.868 %) Singl.eView 4 11 (1.580 %) Oracle Applications 5 5 (0.718 %) Oracle Financials 5 5 (0.718 %) BusinessWorks 5 5 (0.718 %) Oracle EBS R12 6 4 (0.575 %) Oracle HRMS 7 3 (0.431 %) Oracle ERP 7 3 (0.431 %) Pivotal CRM 8 2 (0.287 %) Dynamics CRM 8 2 (0.287 %) SoftGrid 8 2 (0.287 %) Oracle 11i 8 2 (0.287 %) Great Plains 8 2 (0.287 %) Google Analytics 8 2 (0.287 %) Dynamics GP 9 1 (0.144 %) Remedy AR System 9 1 (0.144 %) BPCS 9 1 (0.144 %) BASE24 9 1 (0.144 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 45 (6.466 %) TCP/IP 2 21 (3.017 %) Internet 2 21 (3.017 %) HTTP 3 19 (2.730 %) BSS 4 16 (2.299 %) X.500 5 14 (2.011 %) SAN 6 11 (1.580 %) HTTPS 7 10 (1.437 %) RNC 8 9 (1.293 %) NGN 9 8 (1.149 %) Extranet 10 7 (1.006 %) 3G 10 7 (1.006 %) LDAP 11 5 (0.718 %) SSH 11 5 (0.718 %) Firewall 12 4 (0.575 %) TETRA 12 4 (0.575 %) iSCSI 12 4 (0.575 %) DHCP 12 4 (0.575 %) DNS 13 3 (0.431 %) VPN 13 3 (0.431 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 169 (24.28 %) SQL Server 2 84 (12.07 %) SQL Server 2005 3 45 (6.466 %) Oracle 9i 3 45 (6.466 %) Datawarehouse 4 43 (6.178 %) Oracle 10g 5 37 (5.316 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 32 (4.598 %) SQLPlus 7 30 (4.310 %) SQL Server 2000 8 29 (4.167 %) BusinessObjects 8 29 (4.167 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 29 (4.167 %) MS Access 9 23 (3.305 %) DTS 10 21 (3.017 %) Oracle Reports 11 18 (2.586 %) TOAD 11 18 (2.586 %) DB2 12 15 (2.155 %) ETL 13 14 (2.011 %) DB2 UDB 14 9 (1.293 %) GIS 14 9 (1.293 %) Crystal Reports 15 8 (1.149 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 29 (4.167 %) InterDev 2 23 (3.305 %) Visual Studio 3 17 (2.443 %) TestDirector 4 13 (1.868 %) Flash 5 11 (1.580 %) Oracle Forms 6 8 (1.149 %) Eclipse 7 6 (0.862 %) Oracle APEX 8 5 (0.718 %) QuickTest Pro 9 3 (0.431 %) Visual Studio Team System 10 2 (0.287 %) Subversion 10 2 (0.287 %) StarTeam 11 1 (0.144 %) QADirector 11 1 (0.144 %) PowerBuilder 11 1 (0.144 %) ERwin 11 1 (0.144 %) ProC 11 1 (0.144 %) JMeter 11 1 (0.144 %) Bugzilla 11 1 (0.144 %) JDeveloper 11 1 (0.144 %) WinRunner 11 1 (0.144 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 91 (13.07 %) Telecoms 2 70 (10.06 %) Finance 3 43 (6.178 %) Government 4 22 (3.161 %) Back Office 5 19 (2.730 %) Marketing 6 14 (2.011 %) Billing 7 12 (1.724 %) Retail 8 8 (1.149 %) Front Office 8 8 (1.149 %) Insurance 9 6 (0.862 %) Financial Institution 9 6 (0.862 %) Automotive 10 5 (0.718 %) Education 10 5 (0.718 %) Pensions 11 4 (0.575 %) Health 11 4 (0.575 %) Manufacturing 11 4 (0.575 %) Pharmaceutical 12 3 (0.431 %) Banking 13 2 (0.287 %) Legal 13 2 (0.287 %) Electronics 14 1 (0.144 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 220 (31.61 %) Developer 2 125 (17.96 %) Analyst 3 57 (8.190 %) Consultant 4 46 (6.609 %) .NET Developer 5 35 (5.029 %) Applications Developer 6 32 (4.598 %) DBA 6 32 (4.598 %) SQL Developer 7 31 (4.454 %) Architect 7 31 (4.454 %) Support Analyst 8 29 (4.167 %) Support Engineer 8 29 (4.167 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 27 (3.879 %) Tester 10 26 (3.736 %) Administrator 10 26 (3.736 %) Oracle Developer 11 24 (3.448 %) Oracle DBA 12 23 (3.305 %) Support Specialist 13 22 (3.161 %) VB.NET Developer 14 21 (3.017 %) Applications Support 15 20 (2.874 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 16 19 (2.730 %) Technical Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 22 (3.161 %) N-Tier 2 21 (3.017 %) Clustering 3 12 (1.724 %) Replication 4 9 (1.293 %) Statistics 4 9 (1.293 %) NHS 5 6 (0.862 %) Client/Server 6 5 (0.718 %) CMDB 7 4 (0.575 %) Data Conversion 7 4 (0.575 %) EPoS 8 3 (0.431 %) Blackberry 8 3 (0.431 %) Cryptography 8 3 (0.431 %) Mathematics 8 3 (0.431 %) Web 2.0 9 2 (0.287 %) German Language 9 2 (0.287 %) Data Extraction 9 2 (0.287 %) PKI 9 2 (0.287 %) W3C 10 1 (0.144 %) Thin Client 10 1 (0.144 %) HACMP 10 1 (0.144 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 131 (18.82 %) Windows 2 119 (17.10 %) UNIX 3 61 (8.764 %) Windows Server 2003 4 34 (4.885 %) Solaris 5 21 (3.017 %) Windows XP 6 18 (2.586 %) Windows 2000 7 16 (2.299 %) Linux 8 14 (2.011 %) HPUX 9 10 (1.437 %) AIX 9 10 (1.437 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 9 (1.293 %) OpenVMS 11 7 (1.006 %) VMS 12 4 (0.575 %) Windows NT 13 3 (0.431 %) Windows Vista 14 1 (0.144 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 103 (14.80 %) Security Cleared 2 75 (10.78 %) SC Cleared 3 41 (5.891 %) Migration 4 35 (5.029 %) Business Intelligence 5 33 (4.741 %) CRM 6 31 (4.454 %) Web Development 7 30 (4.310 %) Service Delivery 8 27 (3.879 %) Workflow 8 27 (3.879 %) ITIL 9 22 (3.161 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 20 (2.874 %) Business Continuity 11 19 (2.730 %) Change Management 11 19 (2.730 %) Data Modelling 11 19 (2.730 %) Configuration Management 12 18 (2.586 %) Load Balancing 12 18 (2.586 %) Data Migration 12 18 (2.586 %) Revenue Management 13 17 (2.443 %) System Testing 14 15 (2.155 %) Project Management 14 15 (2.155 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 117 (16.81 %) PL/SQL 2 107 (15.37 %) Java 3 76 (10.92 %) Transact-SQL 4 75 (10.78 %) JavaScript 5 73 (10.49 %) C# 6 59 (8.477 %) VB 7 57 (8.190 %) Shell Script 8 53 (7.615 %) VB.NET 9 36 (5.172 %) VBA 10 33 (4.741 %) DHTML 11 31 (4.454 %) XPath 12 23 (3.305 %) VBScript 13 19 (2.730 %) VB6 14 12 (1.724 %) C 15 11 (1.580 %) Perl 16 9 (1.293 %) REXX 16 9 (1.293 %) Tcl 17 6 (0.862 %) Delphi 18 4 (0.575 %) C++ 19 3 (0.431 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 14 (2.011 %) Degree 2 10 (1.437 %) ISEB 3 8 (1.149 %) MCTS 4 5 (0.718 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (0.287 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 2 (0.287 %) CCA 5 2 (0.287 %) Citrix Certification 5 2 (0.287 %) CCEA 5 2 (0.287 %) HNC 5 2 (0.287 %) HND 6 1 (0.144 %) MCSE 6 1 (0.144 %) MCSA 6 1 (0.144 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (0.144 %) ISTQB 6 1 (0.144 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (2.443 %) SLA 2 7 (1.006 %) QA 3 6 (0.862 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 2 (0.287 %) ISO8583 4 2 (0.287 %) HL7	System Software 1 25 (3.592 %) Active Directory 2 12 (1.724 %) ISA Server 2 12 (1.724 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 7 (1.006 %) NetBackup 4 6 (0.862 %) Oracle RAC 5 5 (0.718 %) MSMQ 5 5 (0.718 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 4 (0.575 %) VMware ESX 7 3 (0.431 %) Oracle RMAN 8 2 (0.287 %) Backup Exec 9 1 (0.144 %) MailMarshal 9 1 (0.144 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 21 (3.017 %) MIIS 2 13 (1.868 %) ServiceCenter 3 11 (1.580 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 7 (1.006 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 4 (0.575 %) CONTROL-M 6 3 (0.431 %) MOM 7 2 (0.287 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 2 (0.287 %) Netcool 7 2 (0.287 %) ARCserve 7 2 (0.287 %) SCCM 7 2 (0.287 %) Netcool/Proviso 8 1 (0.144 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 1 (0.144 %) Tivoli 8 1 (0.144 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 225 (32.33 %) Oracle 2 94 (13.51 %) Microsoft 3 29 (4.167 %) HP 3 29 (4.167 %) Business Objects 4 28 (4.023 %) Proxima 5 25 (3.592 %) OpenLink 6 20 (2.874 %) PeopleSoft 6 20 (2.874 %) IBM 7 19 (2.730 %) Citrix 7 19 (2.730 %) CA 8 18 (2.586 %) Sun 9 16 (2.299 %) Adobe 10 13 (1.868 %) VMware 11 10 (1.437 %) ICL 11 10 (1.437 %) Remedy 11 10 (1.437 %) Unisys 11 10 (1.437 %) Peregrine 12 9 (1.293 %) Nokia 12 9 (1.293 %) Cramer 12 9 (1.293 %) Epiphany