Buckinghamshire Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester 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 St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	58
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	30	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	8.772 %	5.272 %
Daily rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£230
Average daily rate	£319	£236
% change on same period last year	+35.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£243
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£334
% change on same period last year	-11.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.71	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£40.46	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+15.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.21	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.24	£34.51
% change on same period last year	+7.92 %
Programming Languages Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	342	626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.451 %	0.623 %
Daily rates quoted	111	152
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£268
Average daily rate	£362	£283
% change on same period last year	+27.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.27	£32.30
Average hourly rate	£37.24	£33.49
% change on same period last year	+11.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.21	£34.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Transact-SQL South East

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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Transact-SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Transact-SQL within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+15	25	£323	+35.08 %

Transact-SQL South East

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 59 (100.00 %) SQL 2 55 (93.22 %) SQL Server 3 24 (40.68 %) Business Intelligence 3 24 (40.68 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 23 (38.98 %) DTS 5 20 (33.90 %) SAN 5 20 (33.90 %) Clustering 6 19 (32.20 %) .NET 7 17 (28.81 %) OLAP 7 17 (28.81 %) Security Cleared 8 16 (27.12 %) C# 9 15 (25.42 %) ASP.NET 10 13 (22.03 %) HTML 10 13 (22.03 %) SQL Server 2000 11 12 (20.34 %) Microsoft Certification

11 12 (20.34 %) JavaScript 12 11 (18.64 %) MCDBA 12 11 (18.64 %) ITIL 13 10 (16.95 %) Windows 13 10 (16.95 %) OOD 13 10 (16.95 %) ITSM 13 10 (16.95 %) Workflow 13 10 (16.95 %) AJAX 14 8 (13.56 %) Datawarehouse 14 8 (13.56 %) Cognos 15 7 (11.86 %) SC Cleared 16 6 (10.17 %) Business Analysis 16 6 (10.17 %) Cognos Powerplay 16 6 (10.17 %) Cognos Impromptu 16 6 (10.17 %) VBScript

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 19 (32.20 %) .NET 2 15 (25.42 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (22.03 %) HTML 4 10 (16.95 %) AJAX 5 5 (8.475 %) CSS 6 4 (6.780 %) Fusebox 6 4 (6.780 %) WebServices 7 3 (5.085 %) XML 7 3 (5.085 %) SOAP 7 3 (5.085 %) ASP 8 2 (3.390 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (1.695 %) WinForms 9 1 (1.695 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (1.695 %) WCF 9 1 (1.695 %) WPF 9 1 (1.695 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.475 %) ColdFusion 2 3 (5.085 %) ColdFusion MX 3 1 (1.695 %) IIS
Business Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Communications & Networking 1 20 (33.90 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (93.22 %) SQL Server 2 24 (40.68 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 23 (38.98 %) DTS 4 17 (28.81 %) OLAP 5 13 (22.03 %) SQL Server 2000 6 8 (13.56 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (10.17 %) Cognos Powerplay 7 6 (10.17 %) Cognos Impromptu 7 6 (10.17 %) DecisionStream 7 6 (10.17 %) SQL Server 7 8 4 (6.780 %) SQL Server 2005 9 3 (5.085 %) Crystal Reports 10 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 1 (1.695 %) Data Mining	General 1 4 (6.780 %) Government 2 1 (1.695 %) Back Office 2 1 (1.695 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.695 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 32 (54.24 %) Developer 2 16 (27.12 %) .NET Developer 2 16 (27.12 %) C# Developer 3 15 (25.42 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 15 (25.42 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 12 (20.34 %) Database Specialist 5 10 (16.95 %) CSharp Software Developer 5 10 (16.95 %) Software Developer 6 6 (10.17 %) SQL Database Developer 6 6 (10.17 %) Database Developer 6 6 (10.17 %) SQL Developer 7 5 (8.475 %) DBA 7 5 (8.475 %) SQL DBA 7 5 (8.475 %) ColdFusion Developer 8 3 (5.085 %) Business Consultant 8 3 (5.085 %) ASP Developer 8 3 (5.085 %) Consultant 8 3 (5.085 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 8 3 (5.085 %) Report Writer 8 3 (5.085 %) Report Developer	Miscellaneous 1 20 (33.90 %) Clustering 2 2 (3.390 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 10 (16.95 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (40.68 %) Business Intelligence 2 17 (28.81 %) Security Cleared 3 11 (18.64 %) ITIL 4 10 (16.95 %) OOD 4 10 (16.95 %) ITSM 4 10 (16.95 %) Workflow 5 7 (11.86 %) SC Cleared 6 6 (10.17 %) Business Analysis 7 3 (5.085 %) Migration 8 2 (3.390 %) Web Development 9 1 (1.695 %) Project Management 9 1 (1.695 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 59 (100.00 %) SQL 2 16 (27.12 %) C# 3 12 (20.34 %) JavaScript 4 6 (10.17 %) VBScript 4 6 (10.17 %) VB 5 2 (3.390 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 12 (20.34 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (18.64 %) MCDBA 3 2 (3.390 %) MCSE 3 2 (3.390 %) CNE 3 2 (3.390 %) Novell Certification
Vendors 1 8 (13.56 %) Cognos 2 3 (5.085 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.390 %) Cisco 4 1 (1.695 %) Ericsson 4 1 (1.695 %) Nokia 4 1 (1.695 %) Sony 4 1 (1.695 %) Oracle