The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Brighton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 6 7
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 36 44 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 19.35% 15.17% 16.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.29% 42.31% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 19
Average daily rate £375 £443 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.25% +18.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £260 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £485 £415
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 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
102 104 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 54.84% 35.86% 45.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 46
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £210 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £465 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
East Sussex

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 24 (45.28%) SQL Server
2 22 (41.51%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (39.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (24.53%) Finance
4 13 (24.53%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (20.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (20.75%) ETL
5 11 (20.75%) Oracle
5 11 (20.75%) SQL Server 2008
6 10 (18.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (16.98%) .NET
8 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (13.21%) Scrum
9 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
9 7 (13.21%) C#
9 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
9 7 (13.21%) HP Quality Center
9 7 (13.21%) MSTest
10 6 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
10 6 (11.32%) TDD
10 6 (11.32%) Banking
11 5 (9.434%) Data Mart
11 5 (9.434%) Java
11 5 (9.434%) JavaScript
11 5 (9.434%) E-Commerce
12 4 (7.547%) OO
12 4 (7.547%) XML
12 4 (7.547%) Windows
12 4 (7.547%) HTML

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 9 (16.98%) .NET
2 4 (7.547%) XML
2 4 (7.547%) HTML
3 3 (5.660%) CSS
3 3 (5.660%) Web Services
3 3 (5.660%) XSLT
4 2 (3.774%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.774%) MDX
4 2 (3.774%) LAMP
4 2 (3.774%) Mason
5 1 (1.887%) soapUI
5 1 (1.887%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (1.887%) LINQ to SQL
5 1 (1.887%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.887%) ServiceStack
5 1 (1.887%) WF
5 1 (1.887%) LINQ
5 1 (1.887%) jQuery
5 1 (1.887%) Ajax
5 1 (1.887%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.547%) SAS
2 2 (3.774%) Apache
2 2 (3.774%) Drupal
3 1 (1.887%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.887%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.774%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.887%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.660%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.887%) DHCP
1 1 (1.887%) HTTP
1 1 (1.887%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.887%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (45.28%) SQL Server
2 22 (41.51%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (39.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (20.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (20.75%) SQL Server 2008
5 10 (18.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (9.434%) Data Mart
7 3 (5.660%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.774%) MS Access
8 2 (3.774%) DB2
8 2 (3.774%) MySQL
8 2 (3.774%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (3.774%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (3.774%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.774%) SQLite
8 2 (3.774%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.887%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (1.887%) QlikView
9 1 (1.887%) GIS
9 1 (1.887%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) MSTest
2 6 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (5.660%) Subversion
4 2 (3.774%) Selenium
5 1 (1.887%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.887%) StyleCop
5 1 (1.887%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.887%) RSpec
5 1 (1.887%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.887%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.887%) Fiddler
5 1 (1.887%) NUnit
5 1 (1.887%) JIRA
General
1 13 (24.53%) Finance
2 6 (11.32%) Banking
3 1 (1.887%) Publishing
3 1 (1.887%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.887%) Retail
3 1 (1.887%) Billing
3 1 (1.887%) Retail Banking
3 1 (1.887%) Back Office
3 1 (1.887%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (49.06%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Analyst
3 8 (15.09%) ETL Developer
3 8 (15.09%) SQL Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Test Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) DBA
5 6 (11.32%) SQL DBA
5 6 (11.32%) Tester
6 4 (7.547%) Administrator
6 4 (7.547%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.660%) Consultant
8 2 (3.774%) Architect
8 2 (3.774%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) QA Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.774%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 2 (3.774%) Data Warehouse Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Perl Developer
8 2 (3.774%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.774%) Open Source
2 1 (1.887%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.887%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (1.887%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.887%) Credit Risk
2 1 (1.887%) Fat Client
2 1 (1.887%) Replication
2 1 (1.887%) Clustering
2 1 (1.887%) Thin Client
2 1 (1.887%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.547%) Windows
2 3 (5.660%) UNIX
3 2 (3.774%) Linux
4 1 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.887%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (20.75%) ETL
3 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (13.21%) Scrum
4 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
4 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
5 6 (11.32%) TDD
6 5 (9.434%) E-Commerce
7 4 (7.547%) OO
7 4 (7.547%) Migration
7 4 (7.547%) Automation Testing
8 3 (5.660%) Dimensional Modelling
8 3 (5.660%) Data Migration
8 3 (5.660%) Unit Testing
8 3 (5.660%) Data Management
8 3 (5.660%) Data Analysis
9 2 (3.774%) Web Development
9 2 (3.774%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (3.774%) Test Management
9 2 (3.774%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) C#
2 5 (9.434%) Java
2 5 (9.434%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.547%) PL/SQL
3 4 (7.547%) VBA
4 2 (3.774%) Perl
4 2 (3.774%) XQuery
4 2 (3.774%) XPath
5 1 (1.887%) Ruby
5 1 (1.887%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.887%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.774%) QA
1 2 (3.774%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.774%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.660%) Teradata
3 3 (5.660%) Informatica
4 1 (1.887%) HP
4 1 (1.887%) Citrix
4 1 (1.887%) Business Objects
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Posted: 14 June 2013
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