The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell 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 Bracknell 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 5 8 19
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL 57 19 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 23.65% 12.42% 3.659%
As % of the Programming Languages category 78.08% 51.35% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 3
Average daily rate £425 £350 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +18.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 £28.00 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.42% -40.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
73 37 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 30.29% 24.18% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 11
Average daily rate £425 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £360 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 11
Average hourly rate £17.33 £28.00 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.12% -40.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
SQL
Berkshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 39 (50.65%) Security Cleared
2 38 (49.35%) SC Cleared
3 37 (48.05%) Windows
4 32 (41.56%) Oracle
5 31 (40.26%) VMware
6 30 (38.96%) SQL Server
7 27 (35.06%) Active Directory
8 25 (32.47%) VMware Infrastructure
9 23 (29.87%) Microsoft
10 22 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
11 20 (25.97%) Migration
12 19 (24.68%) Windows XP
12 19 (24.68%) XML
13 18 (23.38%) HTML
13 18 (23.38%) Java
14 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
14 17 (22.08%) J2EE
14 17 (22.08%) E-Commerce
15 16 (20.78%) JSP
15 16 (20.78%) Windows Server 2003
16 15 (19.48%) VMware ESX
16 15 (19.48%) CSS
16 15 (19.48%) Test Scripting
16 15 (19.48%) Ajax
17 14 (18.18%) WebSphere
17 14 (18.18%) JSTL
17 14 (18.18%) Windows 7
17 14 (18.18%) JUnit
17 14 (18.18%) EJB
17 14 (18.18%) JMS

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 19 (24.68%) XML
2 18 (23.38%) HTML
3 17 (22.08%) J2EE
4 16 (20.78%) JSP
5 15 (19.48%) CSS
5 15 (19.48%) Ajax
6 14 (18.18%) WebSphere
6 14 (18.18%) JSTL
6 14 (18.18%) EJB
6 14 (18.18%) JMS
7 3 (3.896%) XSLT
8 2 (2.597%) .NET
8 2 (2.597%) Spring
9 1 (1.299%) jQuery
9 1 (1.299%) Spring MVC
9 1 (1.299%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.299%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.299%) JDBC
9 1 (1.299%) XSL
9 1 (1.299%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 12 (15.58%) Tomcat
2 11 (14.29%) IIS
3 2 (2.597%) Magento
4 1 (1.299%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.299%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.299%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.299%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.299%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.299%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (6.494%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.896%) MS Office
3 1 (1.299%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.597%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.299%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) LAN
2 11 (14.29%) WAN
2 11 (14.29%) SAN
3 4 (5.195%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (38.96%) SQL Server
2 13 (16.88%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (6.494%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (5.195%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.896%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (2.597%) TOAD
6 2 (2.597%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.597%) DB2
6 2 (2.597%) OLAP
6 2 (2.597%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (2.597%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.299%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.299%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.299%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (18.18%) JUnit
2 11 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 5 (6.494%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (5.195%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (5.195%) ProC
General
1 12 (15.58%) Retail
2 1 (1.299%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) Developer
2 12 (15.58%) WebSphere Developer
3 11 (14.29%) Analyst
3 11 (14.29%) Tester
4 6 (7.792%) Architect
4 6 (7.792%) Test Analyst
5 5 (6.494%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.195%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (3.896%) Consultant
7 3 (3.896%) Systems Developer
7 3 (3.896%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (3.896%) Server Engineer
7 3 (3.896%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (2.597%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.597%) Test Specialist
8 2 (2.597%) SQL Developer
8 2 (2.597%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (2.597%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.597%) Web Developer
8 2 (2.597%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Blackberry
2 4 (5.195%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.896%) PKI
4 1 (1.299%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.299%) NHS
4 1 (1.299%) Replication
4 1 (1.299%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 37 (48.05%) Windows
2 22 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (24.68%) Windows XP
4 16 (20.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (18.18%) Windows 7
6 7 (9.091%) UNIX
7 4 (5.195%) Solaris
7 4 (5.195%) Linux
8 2 (2.597%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.597%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.299%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (1.299%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.97%) Migration
2 17 (22.08%) E-Commerce
3 15 (19.48%) Test Scripting
4 13 (16.88%) Regression Testing
5 9 (11.69%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (9.091%) Validation
7 6 (7.792%) Configuration Management
7 6 (7.792%) Change Control
8 5 (6.494%) Integration Testing
8 5 (6.494%) Data Migration
8 5 (6.494%) Test Automation
8 5 (6.494%) Business Continuity
8 5 (6.494%) ETL
9 4 (5.195%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (3.896%) Software Testing
10 3 (3.896%) Automated Testing
10 3 (3.896%) Performance Testing
10 3 (3.896%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (2.597%) RAD
11 2 (2.597%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) Java
2 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
3 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.091%) VB
4 7 (9.091%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.195%) C
5 4 (5.195%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.896%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.597%) C#
7 2 (2.597%) PHP
8 1 (1.299%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (50.65%) Security Cleared
2 38 (49.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.195%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.896%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.896%) MCSE
4 3 (3.896%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.896%) CCNA
System Software
1 27 (35.06%) Active Directory
2 25 (32.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (19.48%) VMware ESX
4 7 (9.091%) Xen
5 6 (7.792%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (7.792%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.597%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.597%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.299%) vSphere
7 1 (1.299%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (16.88%) SCOM
2 11 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
3 10 (12.99%) SCCM
4 7 (9.091%) MIMEsweeper
5 3 (3.896%) Opalis
Vendors
1 32 (41.56%) Oracle
2 31 (40.26%) VMware
3 23 (29.87%) Microsoft
4 13 (16.88%) IBM
5 12 (15.58%) HP
6 10 (12.99%) Citrix
7 9 (11.69%) CA
8 3 (3.896%) NetApp
9 2 (2.597%) Adobe
9 2 (2.597%) Cisco
9 2 (2.597%) Business Objects
9 2 (2.597%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.597%) Symantec
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