The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brentford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 21 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 Brentford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 14 6 2
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brentford 3.614% 4.545% 29.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 25.00% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
Average daily rate £415 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.90% -21.42%
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 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
Brentford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18 4 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brentford 21.69% 18.18% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 15
Average daily rate £415 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.77% +28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
London

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brentford 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 Brentford region.

Brentford 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 Brentford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Brentford 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 Brentford region.

Brentford SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brentford 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ to SQL
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brentford 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ to SQL
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) WF
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) WinForms
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) HR Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat