The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 18 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 Cardiff 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 8 5 7
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 25 46 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 12.25% 22.12% 15.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.50% 70.77% 48.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 26
Average daily rate £313 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.87% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £211 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -25.00%
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
40 65 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 19.61% 31.25% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 46
Average daily rate £310 £340 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £36.25 £23.75 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
South Wales

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 27 (51.92%) SQL Server
2 20 (38.46%) Windows
3 18 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 14 (26.92%) Finance
6 12 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (19.23%) Banking
8 9 (17.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (17.31%) SQL Server 2008
8 9 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (17.31%) ETL
9 8 (15.38%) SharePoint
9 8 (15.38%) Visual Studio
9 8 (15.38%) T-SQL
9 8 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (15.38%) Degree
10 7 (13.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (13.46%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (13.46%) UNIX
10 7 (13.46%) NHS
11 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
11 6 (11.54%) Java
11 6 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (11.54%) Web Development
12 5 (9.615%) Software Testing
12 5 (9.615%) Kimball Methodology
12 5 (9.615%) IIS
12 5 (9.615%) PRINCE2
12 5 (9.615%) ISEB
12 5 (9.615%) RUP

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 4 (7.692%) .NET
1 4 (7.692%) XML
1 4 (7.692%) WebSphere
1 4 (7.692%) Spring
2 3 (5.769%) JSF
2 3 (5.769%) WCF
2 3 (5.769%) WF
2 3 (5.769%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.769%) SOAP
2 3 (5.769%) HTML
2 3 (5.769%) Hibernate
2 3 (5.769%) XSLT
2 3 (5.769%) J2SE
2 3 (5.769%) J2EE
2 3 (5.769%) CSS
3 2 (3.846%) jQuery
3 2 (3.846%) Ajax
3 2 (3.846%) MDX
4 1 (1.923%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.923%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.615%) IIS
3 3 (5.769%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.769%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (5.769%) FileNet
3 3 (5.769%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (3.846%) SAS
5 1 (1.923%) Kentico
5 1 (1.923%) CMS
5 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.923%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.923%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.923%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (7.692%) MS Project
2 3 (5.769%) MS Excel
3 2 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.692%) DNS
1 4 (7.692%) Intranet
2 2 (3.846%) LAN
2 2 (3.846%) WAN
3 1 (1.923%) SAN
3 1 (1.923%) Internet
3 1 (1.923%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (51.92%) SQL Server
2 18 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (17.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (17.31%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (5.769%) Data Mart
7 3 (5.769%) DTS
7 3 (5.769%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (3.846%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (3.846%) OLTP
8 2 (3.846%) QlikView
9 1 (1.923%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (1.923%) TOAD
9 1 (1.923%) OLAP
9 1 (1.923%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Visual Studio
1 8 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (5.769%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.769%) Subversion
3 1 (1.923%) Maven
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (26.92%) Finance
2 10 (19.23%) Banking
3 4 (7.692%) Back Office
4 2 (3.846%) Retail
4 2 (3.846%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.846%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Developer
2 19 (36.54%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Business Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (9.615%) MI Analyst
4 5 (9.615%) Software Developer
4 5 (9.615%) DBA
4 5 (9.615%) SQL Server DBA
4 5 (9.615%) SQL DBA
5 4 (7.692%) Administrator
5 4 (7.692%) Test Analyst
5 4 (7.692%) SharePoint Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Server Administrator
6 3 (5.769%) Business Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Junior
7 2 (3.846%) Tester
7 2 (3.846%) Development Manager
7 2 (3.846%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.846%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) NHS
2 5 (9.615%) Clustering
3 3 (5.769%) Replication
4 2 (3.846%) AS400
5 1 (1.923%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.923%) Web 2.0
5 1 (1.923%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.923%) iSeries
5 1 (1.923%) Social Media
5 1 (1.923%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (38.46%) Windows
2 7 (13.46%) UNIX
2 7 (13.46%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (9.615%) Linux
4 4 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (5.769%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.923%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.923%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.923%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.31%) ETL
1 9 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (13.46%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (11.54%) Web Development
4 5 (9.615%) Software Testing
4 5 (9.615%) Kimball Methodology
4 5 (9.615%) PRINCE2
4 5 (9.615%) RUP
5 4 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (7.692%) Project Management
5 4 (7.692%) Regression Testing
5 4 (7.692%) Integration Testing
5 4 (7.692%) System Testing
6 3 (5.769%) Test Strategy
6 3 (5.769%) MVC
6 3 (5.769%) Workflow
6 3 (5.769%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.846%) Scrum
7 2 (3.846%) Data Analysis
7 2 (3.846%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) T-SQL
2 6 (11.54%) Java
3 3 (5.769%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.769%) C
3 3 (5.769%) C#
3 3 (5.769%) FoxPro (VFP)
4 2 (3.846%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.846%) C++
4 2 (3.846%) VB
5 1 (1.923%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.923%) Perl
5 1 (1.923%) COBOL
5 1 (1.923%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (9.615%) ISEB
3 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.923%) HNC
3 1 (1.923%) HND
3 1 (1.923%) MCSE
3 1 (1.923%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.769%) HL7
2 1 (1.923%) SLA
2 1 (1.923%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.923%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.923%) NetBackup
1 1 (1.923%) Backup Exec
1 1 (1.923%) SCCM
1 1 (1.923%) SCOM
1 1 (1.923%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.692%) Oracle
2 4 (7.692%) Cognos
2 4 (7.692%) IBM
3 3 (5.769%) Adobe
3 3 (5.769%) ILOG
4 2 (3.846%) VMware
4 2 (3.846%) Citrix
5 1 (1.923%) Veritas
5 1 (1.923%) HP
5 1 (1.923%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.923%) SAP
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