The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Canary Wharf 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 7 5 8
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 81 103 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 20.82% 26.96% 26.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.09% 56.91% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 67 103
Average daily rate £600 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165 181 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 42.42% 47.38% 46.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 128 190
Average daily rate £600 £538 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% -2.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
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 Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 94 (56.97%) Banking
2 68 (41.21%) Investment Banking
3 57 (34.55%) Oracle
4 51 (30.91%) Finance
5 48 (29.09%) C#
6 43 (26.06%) SQL Server
7 41 (24.85%) Java
8 33 (20.00%) Front Office
9 31 (18.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 30 (18.18%) Derivative
11 28 (16.97%) Market Risk
12 27 (16.36%) Risk Management
13 23 (13.94%) Credit Risk
13 23 (13.94%) VBA
13 23 (13.94%) Windows
14 22 (13.33%) C++
14 22 (13.33%) QlikView
15 20 (12.12%) XML
16 19 (11.52%) Linux
17 18 (10.91%) JMS
17 18 (10.91%) Data Modelling
17 18 (10.91%) Data Analysis
17 18 (10.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 16 (9.697%) Multithreading
18 16 (9.697%) Project Management
19 15 (9.091%) RAD
20 14 (8.485%) Data Warehouse
20 14 (8.485%) MS Excel
20 14 (8.485%) Java EE
21 13 (7.879%) Corporate Banking

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 20 (12.12%) XML
2 18 (10.91%) JMS
3 14 (8.485%) Java EE
4 12 (7.273%) Web Services
4 12 (7.273%) XSLT
4 12 (7.273%) STL
4 12 (7.273%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 11 (6.667%) Spring
6 10 (6.061%) HTML
7 8 (4.848%) Middleware
8 7 (4.242%) WPF
8 7 (4.242%) MDX
8 7 (4.242%) .NET
9 5 (3.030%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.030%) WCF
10 4 (2.424%) Swing
11 3 (1.818%) Murex Flex
11 3 (1.818%) Java SE
11 3 (1.818%) WebSphere
11 3 (1.818%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 12 (7.273%) Oracle Coherence
2 6 (3.636%) SAS
3 5 (3.030%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.424%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.818%) TIBCO EMS
5 3 (1.818%) Apache
5 3 (1.818%) IIS
6 2 (1.212%) Lync
7 1 (0.606%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.606%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.606%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 1 (0.606%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.606%) MS Exchange
7 1 (0.606%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (8.485%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.636%) PowerPivot
3 3 (1.818%) MS Project
3 3 (1.818%) MS Office
4 2 (1.212%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.606%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.242%) RMDS
2 3 (1.818%) Global One
2 3 (1.818%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (0.606%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.212%) FTP
1 2 (1.212%) HTTP
2 1 (0.606%) NAS
2 1 (0.606%) Intranet
2 1 (0.606%) Internet
2 1 (0.606%) SAN
2 1 (0.606%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.606%) LAN
2 1 (0.606%) WAN
2 1 (0.606%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.06%) SQL Server
2 22 (13.33%) QlikView
3 18 (10.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 14 (8.485%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.061%) OLAP
5 10 (6.061%) SQL Server 2005
6 9 (5.455%) TOAD
6 9 (5.455%) SQLPlus
7 8 (4.848%) Oracle OLAP
8 7 (4.242%) MS Access
8 7 (4.242%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.424%) SQL Server 2008
10 3 (1.818%) UniData
10 3 (1.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.818%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (1.212%) DTS
11 2 (1.212%) ReportNet
11 2 (1.212%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.030%) Hudson
2 4 (2.424%) JIRA
2 4 (2.424%) Maven
2 4 (2.424%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.212%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.212%) Xcode
4 1 (0.606%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (0.606%) Moq
4 1 (0.606%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.606%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.606%) CruiseControl
4 1 (0.606%) Subversion
4 1 (0.606%) NUnit
4 1 (0.606%) ERwin
4 1 (0.606%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.606%) Ant
4 1 (0.606%) JUnit
General
1 94 (56.97%) Banking
2 68 (41.21%) Investment Banking
3 51 (30.91%) Finance
4 33 (20.00%) Front Office
5 13 (7.879%) Corporate Banking
6 9 (5.455%) Retail
6 9 (5.455%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.818%) Back Office
7 3 (1.818%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.818%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.212%) Marketing
8 2 (1.212%) Legal
Job Titles
1 95 (57.58%) Developer
2 56 (33.94%) Analyst
3 31 (18.79%) Business Analyst
4 29 (17.58%) Senior Developer
5 26 (15.76%) Java Developer
6 14 (8.485%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (7.273%) C++ Developer
7 12 (7.273%) C# Developer
8 10 (6.061%) Market Risk Developer
9 8 (4.848%) Excel Developer
9 8 (4.848%) Senior C++ Developer
9 8 (4.848%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.848%) SQL Developer
9 8 (4.848%) Front Office Developer
10 7 (4.242%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.242%) SQL DBA
10 7 (4.242%) Senior Analyst Programmer
10 7 (4.242%) Java Analyst Programmer
10 7 (4.242%) Java Programmer
10 7 (4.242%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 30 (18.18%) Derivative
3 28 (16.97%) Market Risk
4 23 (13.94%) Credit Risk
5 9 (5.455%) Credit Derivative
6 6 (3.636%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.636%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.424%) Mathematics
7 4 (2.424%) Equities
7 4 (2.424%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.818%) Data Extraction
8 3 (1.818%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (1.212%) Computer Science
9 2 (1.212%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.212%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.606%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.606%) Open Source
10 1 (0.606%) Data Integration
10 1 (0.606%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.94%) Windows
2 19 (11.52%) Linux
3 13 (7.879%) UNIX
4 7 (4.242%) Solaris
5 6 (3.636%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (3.636%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.212%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.606%) CentOS
7 1 (0.606%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.36%) Risk Management
2 18 (10.91%) Data Modelling
2 18 (10.91%) Data Analysis
3 16 (9.697%) Multithreading
3 16 (9.697%) Project Management
4 15 (9.091%) RAD
5 13 (7.879%) Change Management
6 12 (7.273%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (6.667%) Analytics
7 11 (6.667%) OO
8 10 (6.061%) E-Commerce
8 10 (6.061%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (6.061%) Scrum
8 10 (6.061%) Waterfall
8 10 (6.061%) Unit Testing
9 9 (5.455%) Workflow
9 9 (5.455%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (4.848%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (4.848%) UML
10 8 (4.848%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 48 (29.09%) C#
2 41 (24.85%) Java
3 23 (13.94%) VBA
4 22 (13.33%) C++
5 8 (4.848%) Shell Script
5 8 (4.848%) VB
6 7 (4.242%) VBScript
7 6 (3.636%) VB6
8 5 (3.030%) Bash shell
8 5 (3.030%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.030%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.424%) Perl
9 4 (2.424%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.818%) XPath
11 2 (1.212%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.212%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 8 (4.848%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.424%) Basel III
2 1 (0.606%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.606%) QA
2 1 (0.606%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.606%) Basel II
System Software
1 1 (0.606%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.606%) Xen
1 1 (0.606%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.212%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.606%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (0.606%) SCOM
Vendors
1 57 (34.55%) Oracle
2 12 (7.273%) Business Objects
3 11 (6.667%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.061%) Sybase
5 8 (4.848%) DataSynapse
5 8 (4.848%) Pega
6 7 (4.242%) 29West
7 6 (3.636%) Teradata
8 4 (2.424%) Murex
9 3 (1.818%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.818%) Adobe
9 3 (1.818%) Cognos
9 3 (1.818%) SAP
10 2 (1.212%) Reuters
10 2 (1.212%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.212%) HP
10 2 (1.212%) Trayport
11 1 (0.606%) Aveksa
11 1 (0.606%) VMware
11 1 (0.606%) Perforce