Berkshire Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-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 Transact-SQL over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	57
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	59	132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.131 %
As % of the category below	6.039 %	7.843 %
Daily rates quoted	12	46
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£362
Average daily rate	£279	£382
% change on same period last year	-27.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£334
% change on same period last year	-11.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.43	£36.79
Average hourly rate	£39.93	£38.05
% change on same period last year	+4.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.43	£39.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.42	£34.51
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	977	1683
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.289 %	1.676 %
Daily rates quoted	247	506
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£341
Average daily rate	£329	£360
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	167
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.41	£34.11
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£35.67
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.59	£37.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
Transact-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.

Transact-SQL
Demand Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Transact-SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Transact-SQL within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Slough	+13	31	£261	-
Reading	-24	20	£276	-31.14 %

Transact-SQL South East

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL.

1 123 (99.19 %) SQL 2 98 (79.03 %) SQL Server 3 81 (65.32 %) XML 4 71 (57.26 %) .NET 5 67 (54.03 %) SQL Server 2005 6 53 (42.74 %) ASP.NET 7 51 (41.13 %) C# 8 50 (40.32 %) JavaScript 9 46 (37.10 %) HTML 10 44 (35.48 %) VB.NET 11 42 (33.87 %) Security Cleared 12 40 (32.26 %) DHTML 12 40 (32.26 %) Visual Studio 12 40 (32.26 %) XSL 13 38 (30.65 %) DTS

13 38 (30.65 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 37 (29.84 %) InterDev 15 33 (26.61 %) ASP 16 32 (25.81 %) MIIS 16 32 (25.81 %) Microsoft 17 31 (25.00 %) N-Tier 17 31 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 18 29 (23.39 %) COM+ 19 28 (22.58 %) VB 20 27 (21.77 %) X.500 21 22 (17.74 %) Government 22 17 (13.71 %) SQL Server 2000 23 16 (12.90 %) Windows 24 13 (10.48 %) SharePoint 25 10 (8.065 %) User Acceptance Testing

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 81 (65.32 %) XML 2 71 (57.26 %) .NET 3 53 (42.74 %) ASP.NET 4 46 (37.10 %) HTML 5 40 (32.26 %) XSL 6 33 (26.61 %) ASP 7 29 (23.39 %) COM+ 8 8 (6.452 %) WebServices 9 6 (4.839 %) WinForms 10 5 (4.032 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 4 (3.226 %) CSS 12 3 (2.419 %) CAML 13 1 (0.806 %) .NET Framework 13 1 (0.806 %) AJAX 13 1 (0.806 %) WF 13 1 (0.806 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 13 (10.48 %) SharePoint 2 8 (6.452 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 5 (4.032 %) Content Management Server 4 3 (2.419 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (1.613 %) Commerce Server 5 2 (1.613 %) IIS 5 2 (1.613 %) Commerce Server 2007 5 2 (1.613 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 1 (0.806 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 1 (0.806 %) MS Visio 1 1 (0.806 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (2.419 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 27 (21.77 %) X.500 2 9 (7.258 %) HTTP 3 8 (6.452 %) HTTPS 4 1 (0.806 %) iSCSI 4 1 (0.806 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.806 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.806 %) Internet 4 1 (0.806 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 98 (79.03 %) SQL Server 2 67 (54.03 %) SQL Server 2005 3 38 (30.65 %) DTS 3 38 (30.65 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 17 (13.71 %) SQL Server 2000 5 6 (4.839 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (2.419 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (0.806 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 40 (32.26 %) Visual Studio 2 37 (29.84 %) InterDev 3 3 (2.419 %) FrontPage	General 1 22 (17.74 %) Government 2 5 (4.032 %) Telecoms 3 2 (1.613 %) Automotive 4 1 (0.806 %) Health 4 1 (0.806 %) Finance 4 1 (0.806 %) Banking 4 1 (0.806 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 80 (64.52 %) Developer 2 45 (36.29 %) .NET Developer 3 31 (25.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 26 (20.97 %) Applications Developer 5 24 (19.35 %) Architect 6 20 (16.13 %) VB.NET Developer 6 20 (16.13 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 17 (13.71 %) SQL Developer 8 15 (12.10 %) SQL Server Developer 8 15 (12.10 %) C# Developer 9 14 (11.29 %) .NET Applications Developer 10 11 (8.871 %) Enterprise Architect 11 10 (8.065 %) Consultant 12 7 (5.645 %) Microsoft Developer 13 5 (4.032 %) Solutions Architect 13 5 (4.032 %) Senior Developer 14 3 (2.419 %) Senior Solutions Architect 14 3 (2.419 %) Implementation Consultant 14 3 (2.419 %) SQL DBA 14 3 (2.419 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 31 (25.00 %) N-Tier 2 3 (2.419 %) Taxonomies 3 2 (1.613 %) NHS 4 1 (0.806 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 16 (12.90 %) Windows 2 5 (4.032 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (2.419 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (0.806 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.806 %) AIX 4 1 (0.806 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.806 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (33.87 %) Security Cleared 2 31 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 3 10 (8.065 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 10 (8.065 %) System Testing 4 7 (5.645 %) Configuration Management 5 6 (4.839 %) Content Management 5 6 (4.839 %) Security Management 6 5 (4.032 %) BC Cleared 6 5 (4.032 %) OO 7 2 (1.613 %) CRM 7 2 (1.613 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 2 (1.613 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (1.613 %) Migration 8 1 (0.806 %) Web Design 8 1 (0.806 %) Workflow 8 1 (0.806 %) EAI 8 1 (0.806 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 123 (99.19 %) SQL 2 51 (41.13 %) C# 3 50 (40.32 %) JavaScript 4 44 (35.48 %) VB.NET 5 40 (32.26 %) DHTML 6 28 (22.58 %) VB 7 10 (8.065 %) VBScript 8 9 (7.258 %) REXX 8 9 (7.258 %) Tcl 9 4 (3.226 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (0.806 %) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management 1 32 (25.81 %) MIIS 2 9 (7.258 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 32 (25.81 %) Microsoft