Cambridgeshire SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 7 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 Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking 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 Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man 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 Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks 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 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	13
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	85	129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.130 %
As % of the category below	24.85 %	22.36 %
Daily rates quoted	22	22
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£308
Average daily rate	£351	£323
% change on same period last year	+8.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£26.34
Average hourly rate	£15.50	£27.72
% change on same period last year	-44.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£29.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.13	£30.03
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Programming Languages Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	342	577
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.486 %	0.583 %
Daily rates quoted	75	93
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£292
Average daily rate	£310	£310
% change on same period last year	+0.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	110
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.17	£31.84
Average hourly rate	£38.64	£34.39
% change on same period last year	+12.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.10	£36.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.32	£32.74
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
SQL East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 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 Cambridgeshire region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Cambridge	-1	36	£353	+9.08 %
Peterborough	+14	16	£375	+3.44 %
Huntingdon	-1	5	-	-
Huntingdonshire	-	1	-	-

SQL East of England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 82 (39.42 %) SQL Server 2 73 (35.10 %) .NET 3 59 (28.37 %) Finance 4 48 (23.08 %) Oracle 5 45 (21.63 %) SQL Server 2005 6 43 (20.67 %) XML 7 41 (19.71 %) Transact-SQL 7 41 (19.71 %) C# 8 39 (18.75 %) ASP.NET 9 34 (16.35 %) Microsoft 10 31 (14.90 %) PL/SQL 10 31 (14.90 %) Windows 11 29 (13.94 %) WebServices 12 26 (12.50 %) Java 13 25 (12.02 %) OO

14 24 (11.54 %) OLAP 15 23 (11.06 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 16 22 (10.58 %) VB.NET 16 22 (10.58 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 20 (9.615 %) SharePoint 17 20 (9.615 %) ETL 18 19 (9.135 %) Banking 19 18 (8.654 %) J2EE 19 18 (8.654 %) HTML 20 17 (8.173 %) Datawarehouse 21 16 (7.692 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 22 15 (7.212 %) WCF 22 15 (7.212 %) DTS 22 15 (7.212 %) Windows Server 2003 22 15 (7.212 %) C++

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 73 (35.10 %) .NET 2 43 (20.67 %) XML 3 39 (18.75 %) ASP.NET 4 29 (13.94 %) WebServices 5 18 (8.654 %) J2EE 5 18 (8.654 %) HTML 6 15 (7.212 %) WCF 7 14 (6.731 %) JSP 7 14 (6.731 %) CSS 8 10 (4.808 %) EJB 8 10 (4.808 %) Struts 8 10 (4.808 %) WinForms 9 9 (4.327 %) COM+ 10 8 (3.846 %) WebSphere 11 6 (2.885 %) WF 12 5 (2.404 %) XSD 13 4 (1.923 %) J2ME 13 4 (1.923 %) XSLT 13 4 (1.923 %) STL 13 4 (1.923 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 20 (9.615 %) SharePoint 2 8 (3.846 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (2.885 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 5 (2.404 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 5 (2.404 %) IIS 4 5 (2.404 %) Tomcat 5 4 (1.923 %) Lotus Notes 6 3 (1.442 %) Oracle Application Server 6 3 (1.442 %) Apache 7 2 (0.962 %) CMS 7 2 (0.962 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (0.962 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 1 (0.481 %) JBoss 8 1 (0.481 %) Commerce Server 8 1 (0.481 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 13 (6.250 %) MS Excel 2 12 (5.769 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.481 %) Pro/ENGINEER 3 1 (0.481 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 11 (5.288 %) Oracle EBS 2 5 (2.404 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (0.962 %) Academy Housing 3 2 (0.962 %) arcHouse 4 1 (0.481 %) Teamcenter 4 1 (0.481 %) MFGPRO 4 1 (0.481 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 4 (1.923 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (1.923 %) 3GPP 1 4 (1.923 %) Internet 2 3 (1.442 %) TELNET 2 3 (1.442 %) GSM 2 3 (1.442 %) LAN 3 2 (0.962 %) HTTP 3 2 (0.962 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.481 %) Wireless 4 1 (0.481 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (0.481 %) FTP 4 1 (0.481 %) SMS 4 1 (0.481 %) UMTS 4 1 (0.481 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.481 %) WAN 4 1 (0.481 %) WCDMA 4 1 (0.481 %) CDMA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 82 (39.42 %) SQL Server 2 45 (21.63 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (11.54 %) OLAP 4 23 (11.06 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 22 (10.58 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 20 (9.615 %) ETL 7 17 (8.173 %) Datawarehouse 8 16 (7.692 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 15 (7.212 %) DTS 10 13 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 11 11 (5.288 %) Data Cleansing 11 11 (5.288 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 9 (4.327 %) Crystal Reports 13 8 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 13 8 (3.846 %) MySQL 14 7 (3.365 %) Oracle 9i 14 7 (3.365 %) MS Access 15 6 (2.885 %) Oracle Discoverer 15 6 (2.885 %) Oracle Reports 15 6 (2.885 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 12 (5.769 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (3.846 %) MSI 2 8 (3.846 %) InstallShield 3 6 (2.885 %) Oracle Forms 4 4 (1.923 %) NUnit 5 3 (1.442 %) Ant 5 3 (1.442 %) Eclipse 6 2 (0.962 %) IntelliJ 6 2 (0.962 %) JUnit 6 2 (0.962 %) PVCS 6 2 (0.962 %) CruiseControl 6 2 (0.962 %) Atlassian Bamboo 7 1 (0.481 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.481 %) WinRunner	General 1 59 (28.37 %) Finance 2 19 (9.135 %) Banking 3 12 (5.769 %) Telecoms 4 11 (5.288 %) Insurance 5 7 (3.365 %) Government 6 6 (2.885 %) Manufacturing 7 5 (2.404 %) Pensions 8 3 (1.442 %) Construction 9 2 (0.962 %) Retail 9 2 (0.962 %) Back Office 9 2 (0.962 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.481 %) Electronics 10 1 (0.481 %) Health 10 1 (0.481 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 119 (57.21 %) Developer 2 24 (11.54 %) DBA 3 21 (10.10 %) SQL Developer 3 21 (10.10 %) Analyst 4 20 (9.615 %) .NET Developer 5 18 (8.654 %) Java Developer 6 16 (7.692 %) Oracle Developer 6 16 (7.692 %) SQL DBA 7 14 (6.731 %) Consultant 8 12 (5.769 %) Oracle Consultant 8 12 (5.769 %) ETL Developer 9 11 (5.288 %) C# Developer 9 11 (5.288 %) Technical Consultant 9 11 (5.288 %) Oracle Technical Consultant 10 9 (4.327 %) Administrator 10 9 (4.327 %) VB.NET Developer 11 8 (3.846 %) PHP Developer 11 8 (3.846 %) Support Analyst 12 7 (3.365 %) SQL Server DBA 12 7 (3.365 %) Installations Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (1.923 %) Cryptography 1 4 (1.923 %) Computer Science 1 4 (1.923 %) Java Card 2 3 (1.442 %) Biology 2 3 (1.442 %) Multithreading 2 3 (1.442 %) Replication 2 3 (1.442 %) Device Driver 2 3 (1.442 %) N-Tier 3 2 (0.962 %) Client/Server 3 2 (0.962 %) Mainframe 3 2 (0.962 %) NHS 3 2 (0.962 %) Mathematics 3 2 (0.962 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.481 %) Data Integration 4 1 (0.481 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 31 (14.90 %) Windows 2 15 (7.212 %) Windows Server 2003 2 15 (7.212 %) UNIX 3 13 (6.250 %) Linux 4 7 (3.365 %) Solaris 5 3 (1.442 %) Windows XP 6 2 (0.962 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (0.962 %) HPUX 6 2 (0.962 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.481 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (12.02 %) OO 2 14 (6.731 %) Business Intelligence 3 13 (6.250 %) Migration 3 13 (6.250 %) Agile Software Development 3 13 (6.250 %) CRM 4 11 (5.288 %) E-Commerce 4 11 (5.288 %) Data Migration 5 9 (4.327 %) UML 5 9 (4.327 %) RUP 6 8 (3.846 %) RAD 6 8 (3.846 %) Unit Testing 7 7 (3.365 %) Web Development 8 6 (2.885 %) Project Management 8 6 (2.885 %) Dimensional Modelling 9 5 (2.404 %) ITIL 9 5 (2.404 %) OOD 10 4 (1.923 %) OOP 10 4 (1.923 %) Data Management 10 4 (1.923 %) Workflow 10 4 (1.923 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 41 (19.71 %) Transact-SQL 1 41 (19.71 %) C# 2 31 (14.90 %) PL/SQL 3 26 (12.50 %) Java 4 22 (10.58 %) VB.NET 5 15 (7.212 %) C++ 5 15 (7.212 %) JavaScript 6 13 (6.250 %) VB 7 12 (5.769 %) VBA 8 9 (4.327 %) PHP 9 8 (3.846 %) C 10 7 (3.365 %) VB6 11 6 (2.885 %) Perl 12 5 (2.404 %) PowerShell 13 3 (1.442 %) Shell Script 14 2 (0.962 %) Python 15 1 (0.481 %) PHP5 15 1 (0.481 %) PHP4 15 1 (0.481 %) Korn 15 1 (0.481 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 9 (4.327 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (3.365 %) MCSE 3 6 (2.885 %) Degree 4 4 (1.923 %) MCP 5 2 (0.962 %) MCDBA 6 1 (0.481 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.962 %) SLA 2 1 (0.481 %) QA	System Software 1 12 (5.769 %) Active Directory 2 4 (1.923 %) MSMQ 3 2 (0.962 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (0.962 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (0.962 %) Oracle RMAN 4 1 (0.481 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.481 %) Oracle RAC 4 1 (0.481 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 4 (1.923 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (0.962 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.481 %) ARCserve 3 1 (0.481 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 48 (23.08 %) Oracle 2 34 (16.35 %) Microsoft 3 10 (4.808 %) IBM 4 8 (3.846 %) ProClarity 5 4 (1.923 %) Citrix 5 4 (1.923 %) Lotus 5 4 (1.923 %) Sybase 6 3 (1.442 %) VMware 6 3 (1.442 %) HP 7 2 (0.962 %) Remedy 7 2 (0.962 %) Anite 7 2 (0.962 %) MKS 7 2 (0.962 %) Northgate 7 2 (0.962 %) Civica 7 2 (0.962 %) Capita 7 2 (0.962 %) Orchard 8 1 (0.481 %) SurfControl 8 1 (0.481 %) ION Trading 8 1 (0.481 %) Agresso 8 1 (0.481 %) CommVault