Cambridge SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ryde Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	9
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	35	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	16.28 %	22.99 %
Daily rates quoted	10	19
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£307
Average daily rate	£353	£320
% change on same period last year	+10.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£31.27
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£33.45
% change on same period last year	-46.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£35.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.18	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Programming Languages Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	215	361
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.303 %	0.365 %
Daily rates quoted	53	74
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£301
Average daily rate	£301	£318
% change on same period last year	-5.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	53
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.18	£33.48
Average hourly rate	£39.64	£36.03
% change on same period last year	+10.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.10	£38.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
SQL Cambridgeshire

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.

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL across the Cambridge region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 40 (39.22 %) SQL Server 2 35 (34.31 %) .NET 3 33 (32.35 %) Finance 4 24 (23.53 %) SQL Server 2005 5 22 (21.57 %) Windows 6 21 (20.59 %) C# 6 21 (20.59 %) Microsoft 7 19 (18.63 %) Oracle 7 19 (18.63 %) ASP.NET 7 19 (18.63 %) XML 8 17 (16.67 %) PL/SQL 9 16 (15.69 %) Java 10 14 (13.73 %) WebServices 10 14 (13.73 %) Banking 11 11 (10.78 %) Windows Server 2003

11 11 (10.78 %) Oracle EBS 11 11 (10.78 %) Telecoms 11 11 (10.78 %) Migration 11 11 (10.78 %) WCF 11 11 (10.78 %) Data Migration 11 11 (10.78 %) Data Cleansing 12 10 (9.804 %) C++ 12 10 (9.804 %) OLAP 13 9 (8.824 %) COM+ 13 9 (8.824 %) Transact-SQL 13 9 (8.824 %) J2EE 14 8 (7.843 %) HTML 14 8 (7.843 %) JSP 14 8 (7.843 %) SharePoint 14 8 (7.843 %) MSI

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 35 (34.31 %) .NET 2 19 (18.63 %) ASP.NET 2 19 (18.63 %) XML 3 14 (13.73 %) WebServices 4 11 (10.78 %) WCF 5 9 (8.824 %) COM+ 5 9 (8.824 %) J2EE 6 8 (7.843 %) JSP 6 8 (7.843 %) HTML 7 6 (5.882 %) EJB 7 6 (5.882 %) WF 8 5 (4.902 %) XSD 8 5 (4.902 %) Struts 9 4 (3.922 %) J2ME 9 4 (3.922 %) WebSphere 9 4 (3.922 %) .NET Remoting 10 3 (2.941 %) XML Schema 10 3 (2.941 %) STL 10 3 (2.941 %) CSS 11 2 (1.961 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 8 (7.843 %) SharePoint 2 4 (3.922 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (3.922 %) IIS 3 3 (2.941 %) Apache 3 3 (2.941 %) Tomcat 4 2 (1.961 %) JBoss 4 2 (1.961 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (0.980 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (0.980 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (0.980 %) CMS 5 1 (0.980 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 6 (5.882 %) MS Excel 2 4 (3.922 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.980 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 11 (10.78 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.922 %) 3GPP 1 4 (3.922 %) Internet 2 3 (2.941 %) TELNET 2 3 (2.941 %) GSM 3 2 (1.961 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (1.961 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.980 %) LAN 4 1 (0.980 %) SMS 4 1 (0.980 %) UMTS 4 1 (0.980 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.980 %) WAN 4 1 (0.980 %) WCDMA 4 1 (0.980 %) FTP 4 1 (0.980 %) HTTP 4 1 (0.980 %) Wireless 4 1 (0.980 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (0.980 %) CDMA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 40 (39.22 %) SQL Server 2 24 (23.53 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (10.78 %) Data Cleansing 4 10 (9.804 %) OLAP 5 8 (7.843 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 6 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (3.922 %) DB2 8 3 (2.941 %) Crystal Reports 8 3 (2.941 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 2 (1.961 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 2 (1.961 %) MS Access 9 2 (1.961 %) Datawarehouse 9 2 (1.961 %) MySQL 10 1 (0.980 %) RDBMS 10 1 (0.980 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 8 (7.843 %) MSI 1 8 (7.843 %) InstallShield 2 5 (4.902 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (2.941 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.961 %) PVCS 5 1 (0.980 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.980 %) Ant	General 1 33 (32.35 %) Finance 2 14 (13.73 %) Banking 3 11 (10.78 %) Telecoms 4 4 (3.922 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (1.961 %) Back Office 5 2 (1.961 %) Construction 5 2 (1.961 %) Pensions 5 2 (1.961 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.980 %) Retail 6 1 (0.980 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.980 %) Government
Job Titles 1 47 (46.08 %) Developer 2 16 (15.69 %) DBA 3 14 (13.73 %) SQL Developer 4 13 (12.75 %) SQL DBA 5 12 (11.76 %) Consultant 5 12 (11.76 %) Oracle Consultant 6 11 (10.78 %) Oracle Technical Consultant 6 11 (10.78 %) Technical Consultant 7 10 (9.804 %) Java Developer 8 7 (6.863 %) Analyst 8 7 (6.863 %) Installations Engineer 9 6 (5.882 %) Systems Administrator 9 6 (5.882 %) Administrator 9 6 (5.882 %) .NET Developer 9 6 (5.882 %) SQL Server DBA 10 5 (4.902 %) SQL Server Developer 11 3 (2.941 %) Server Administrator 11 3 (2.941 %) C# Developer 11 3 (2.941 %) Applications Packager 11 3 (2.941 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.922 %) Cryptography 1 4 (3.922 %) Java Card 2 3 (2.941 %) Computer Science 2 3 (2.941 %) Device Driver 2 3 (2.941 %) Replication 3 2 (1.961 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.980 %) Biology 4 1 (0.980 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 22 (21.57 %) Windows 2 11 (10.78 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (6.863 %) Linux 3 7 (6.863 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.980 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.980 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (10.78 %) Migration 1 11 (10.78 %) Data Migration 2 7 (6.863 %) OO 3 6 (5.882 %) Web Development 4 5 (4.902 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (4.902 %) RAD 4 5 (4.902 %) RUP 5 4 (3.922 %) Workflow 6 3 (2.941 %) OOD 7 2 (1.961 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (1.961 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (1.961 %) Risk Management 7 2 (1.961 %) Technical Architecture 7 2 (1.961 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (1.961 %) Continuous Integration 7 2 (1.961 %) OOP 7 2 (1.961 %) Web Design 7 2 (1.961 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (0.980 %) Data Management 8 1 (0.980 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 21 (20.59 %) C# 2 17 (16.67 %) PL/SQL 3 16 (15.69 %) Java 4 10 (9.804 %) C++ 5 9 (8.824 %) Transact-SQL 6 7 (6.863 %) VB.NET 7 5 (4.902 %) C 7 5 (4.902 %) PowerShell 8 4 (3.922 %) Perl 9 3 (2.941 %) JavaScript 10 2 (1.961 %) PHP 10 2 (1.961 %) VB 10 2 (1.961 %) VBA 10 2 (1.961 %) Python 10 2 (1.961 %) VB6 11 1 (0.980 %) Korn 11 1 (0.980 %) PHP5 11 1 (0.980 %) PHP4	Qualifications 1 5 (4.902 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (2.941 %) Degree 2 3 (2.941 %) MCSE 3 2 (1.961 %) MCDBA 4 1 (0.980 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.980 %) QA	System Software 1 4 (3.922 %) MSMQ 2 2 (1.961 %) Active Directory 3 1 (0.980 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 4 (3.922 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 21 (20.59 %) Microsoft 2 19 (18.63 %) Oracle 3 5 (4.902 %) IBM 4 4 (3.922 %) Sybase 5 3 (2.941 %) Citrix 6 2 (1.961 %) MKS 7 1 (0.980 %) VMware 7 1 (0.980 %) ION Trading