The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bournemouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 22 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 Bournemouth 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 26 28 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bournemouth 21.85% 18.42% 18.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.00% 60.87% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 17
Average daily rate £363 £395 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.22% +21.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £363 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £416 £417 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Bournemouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
50 46 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bournemouth 42.02% 30.26% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 38
Average daily rate £350 £380 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +15.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £363 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £415 £459
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £9.56 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+240.13% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
SQL
Dorset

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bournemouth 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 Bournemouth region.

Bournemouth SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Bournemouth region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bournemouth SQL Daily Rate Histogram

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bournemouth SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 22 (57.89%) PL/SQL
2 17 (44.74%) Oracle
3 15 (39.47%) UNIX
4 14 (36.84%) Finance
5 11 (28.95%) Linux
6 10 (26.32%) Java
7 6 (15.79%) Business Objects
7 6 (15.79%) XML
7 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (15.79%) Shell Script
7 6 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (15.79%) Northgate
7 6 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (13.16%) Test Management
8 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (13.16%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (13.16%) MVC
8 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.16%) TOAD
8 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.16%) .NET
8 5 (13.16%) C#
9 4 (10.53%) WebLogic
9 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
9 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
9 4 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (10.53%) WebSphere
9 4 (10.53%) QA
10 3 (7.895%) Release Management
10 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET MVC

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 6 (15.79%) XML
2 5 (13.16%) .NET
3 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
3 4 (10.53%) WebSphere
4 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (7.895%) Ajax
4 3 (7.895%) Hibernate
4 3 (7.895%) JSP
4 3 (7.895%) Web Services
5 2 (5.263%) JMS
5 2 (5.263%) J2EE
5 2 (5.263%) ODBC
5 2 (5.263%) Servlets
5 2 (5.263%) EJB
5 2 (5.263%) JDBC
5 2 (5.263%) Struts
5 2 (5.263%) Middleware
5 2 (5.263%) JTA
5 2 (5.263%) Spring
5 2 (5.263%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.263%) Apache
2 2 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (5.263%) GlassFish
3 1 (2.632%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (2.632%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.632%) Rendezvous
3 1 (2.632%) CMS
3 1 (2.632%) MQSeries
3 1 (2.632%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) Prophet
1 1 (2.632%) EMB Igloo
1 1 (2.632%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) HTTP
1 2 (5.263%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.632%) FTP
2 1 (2.632%) IIOP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (13.16%) TOAD
3 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.895%) Oracle Discoverer
4 3 (7.895%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (5.263%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (5.263%) OLAP
5 2 (5.263%) MySQL
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.632%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (7.895%) Subversion
1 3 (7.895%) LoadRunner
2 2 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (5.263%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.263%) Introscope
2 2 (5.263%) NUnit
3 1 (2.632%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.632%) JProfiler
3 1 (2.632%) MSBuild
3 1 (2.632%) JProbe
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.632%) Rational Rose
3 1 (2.632%) TestDirector
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
2 3 (7.895%) Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Advertising
4 1 (2.632%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.632%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (65.79%) Developer
2 4 (10.53%) Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Technical Leader
2 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (7.895%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (7.895%) .NET Developer
3 3 (7.895%) SQL Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Consultant
4 2 (5.263%) DBA
4 2 (5.263%) Architect
4 2 (5.263%) Test Analyst
4 2 (5.263%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Support Consultant
4 2 (5.263%) Business Architect
4 2 (5.263%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (5.263%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.263%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.263%) SWIFT
2 1 (2.632%) Semantic Web
2 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.632%) Clustering
2 1 (2.632%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (39.47%) UNIX
2 11 (28.95%) Linux
3 3 (7.895%) Solaris
4 2 (5.263%) Windows
4 2 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.16%) Test Management
1 5 (13.16%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (13.16%) MVC
1 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
1 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (7.895%) Release Management
3 3 (7.895%) Data Analysis
3 3 (7.895%) Business Analysis
3 3 (7.895%) Configuration Management
3 3 (7.895%) UML
4 2 (5.263%) ETL
4 2 (5.263%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (5.263%) OO
4 2 (5.263%) Scrum
4 2 (5.263%) Migration
4 2 (5.263%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.632%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (2.632%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.632%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) PL/SQL
2 10 (26.32%) Java
3 6 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 5 (13.16%) C#
5 3 (7.895%) C++
6 2 (5.263%) VB
7 1 (2.632%) SPARQL
7 1 (2.632%) C
7 1 (2.632%) VBA
7 1 (2.632%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.632%) VBScript
7 1 (2.632%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.632%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.263%) ISEB
1 2 (5.263%) Degree
1 2 (5.263%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (5.263%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (2.632%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.632%) Nagios
3 1 (2.632%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Oracle
2 6 (15.79%) Business Objects
2 6 (15.79%) Northgate
3 3 (7.895%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.263%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.263%) HP
4 2 (5.263%) JBoss
5 1 (2.632%) TIBCO
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