Birmingham Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the Birmingham 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow 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 Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	58
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	14	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	6.250 %	3.593 %
Daily rates quoted	8	5
Average minimum daily rate	£231	£238
Average daily rate	£260	£250
% change on same period last year	+3.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£262
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£322
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.88	£34.64
% change on same period last year	+3.57 %
Programming Languages Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	224	334
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.299 %	0.338 %
Daily rates quoted	58	69
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£318
Average daily rate	£292	£338
% change on same period last year	-13.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.77	£32.43
Average hourly rate	£24.13	£33.17
% change on same period last year	-27.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.48	£33.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Transact-SQL West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Birmingham region.

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 16 (100.00 %) SQL 2 12 (75.00 %) SQL Server 3 10 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 9 (56.25 %) Microsoft 5 8 (50.00 %) MS Excel 6 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server 2000 6 7 (43.75 %) .NET 6 7 (43.75 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (37.50 %) XML 7 6 (37.50 %) VB 7 6 (37.50 %) C# 7 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 7 8 5 (31.25 %) Retail 8 5 (31.25 %) Intranet 8 5 (31.25 %) Internet

8 5 (31.25 %) HTML 8 5 (31.25 %) JavaScript 8 5 (31.25 %) CSS 8 5 (31.25 %) ASP 9 4 (25.00 %) Degree 10 3 (18.75 %) Crystal Reports 11 2 (12.50 %) NHS 11 2 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 11 2 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 11 2 (12.50 %) DTS 11 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 2 (12.50 %) Health 11 2 (12.50 %) Migration 12 1 (6.250 %) Replication 12 1 (6.250 %) VB6

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 7 (43.75 %) .NET 1 7 (43.75 %) ASP.NET 2 6 (37.50 %) XML 3 5 (31.25 %) HTML 3 5 (31.25 %) ASP 3 5 (31.25 %) CSS 4 1 (6.250 %) ADO 4 1 (6.250 %) ActiveX 4 1 (6.250 %) DAO 4 1 (6.250 %) AJAX 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (50.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (31.25 %) Intranet 1 5 (31.25 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (75.00 %) SQL Server 2 10 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (18.75 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (12.50 %) DTS 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 1 (6.250 %) ETL 7 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS 7 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (6.250 %) OLAP	Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio
General 1 5 (31.25 %) Retail 2 2 (12.50 %) Health 3 1 (6.250 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Developer 1 6 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 2 4 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Information Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) SQL DBA 4 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) DBA 4 2 (12.50 %) C# Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) Data Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Server Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) VB6 Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) NHS 2 1 (6.250 %) Replication	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (6.250 %) Data Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (6.250 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 16 (100.00 %) SQL 2 6 (37.50 %) VB 2 6 (37.50 %) C# 3 5 (31.25 %) JavaScript 4 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET 4 1 (6.250 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 4 (25.00 %) Degree 2 1 (6.250 %) MCDBA 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management 1 2 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 9 (56.25 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects