The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Developer
Rank 41 44 38
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -6
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 6 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.345% 1.771% 1.224%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.435% 1.861% 1.339%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 2
Average daily rate £320 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £259 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £380 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £311
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £30.50 £38.25
% change year-on-year
+13.11% -20.26%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
418 591 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.72% 95.17% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 322 250
Average daily rate £340 £325 £341
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 30
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.16 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL Developer
West Midlands

SQL Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Developer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham SQL Developer Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham SQL Developer Daily Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Developer across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Birmingham SQL Developer Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham SQL Developer Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited SQL Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Developer in their job title.

1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (50.00%) MDX
5 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
6 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
7 4 (33.33%) OLAP
7 4 (33.33%) Retail
7 4 (33.33%) PowerPivot
8 3 (25.00%) Finance
8 3 (25.00%) Hyperion
9 2 (16.67%) .NET
9 2 (16.67%) Oracle
9 2 (16.67%) CSS
9 2 (16.67%) C#
9 2 (16.67%) HTML
9 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
9 2 (16.67%) Ajax
9 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
10 1 (8.333%) VB6
10 1 (8.333%) Validation
10 1 (8.333%) Migration
10 1 (8.333%) Pharmacovigilance

SQL Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited SQL Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (50.00%) MDX
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.333%) Web Services
3 1 (8.333%) ASP
3 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.333%) COM
3 1 (8.333%) jQuery
3 1 (8.333%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
1 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) PowerPivot
2 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 4 (33.33%) OLAP
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (33.33%) Retail
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.333%) German Language
3 1 (8.333%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Pharmacovigilance
1 1 (8.333%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.333%) Validation
2 1 (8.333%) Migration
2 1 (8.333%) Web Development
2 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
2 1 (8.333%) Change Control
2 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
2 1 (8.333%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 8 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.333%) PHP
4 1 (8.333%) C++
4 1 (8.333%) VBScript
4 1 (8.333%) VB
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
4 1 (8.333%) VB6
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Hyperion
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.333%) CODA
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
SQL Developer with extensive BI stack development experience required by my Birmingham based financial services client. The ideal candidate must have an excellent understanding of the Kimball methodology...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013