Cardiff SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Cardiff region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	6
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	51	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	48.57 %	61.54 %
Daily rates quoted	17	7
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£267
Average daily rate	£322	£292
% change on same period last year	+10.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£334
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£12.50
Average hourly rate	£27.38	£14.25
% change on same period last year	+92.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.25	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.08	£29.44
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Programming Languages Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	105	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.139 %	0.067 %
Daily rates quoted	38	14
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£273
Average daily rate	£322	£303
% change on same period last year	+6.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.62	£11.67
Average hourly rate	£30.15	£13.17
% change on same period last year	+129.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.69	£14.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.33	£33.12
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
SQL South Wales

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 41 (40.59 %) SQL Server 2 36 (35.64 %) Oracle 3 26 (25.74 %) .NET 4 21 (20.79 %) Crystal Reports 5 20 (19.80 %) Transact-SQL 6 19 (18.81 %) XML 6 19 (18.81 %) Microsoft 7 17 (16.83 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 17 (16.83 %) C# 8 16 (15.84 %) Windows 8 16 (15.84 %) Finance 9 15 (14.85 %) DTS 10 13 (12.87 %) Oracle 10g 10 13 (12.87 %) MS Access 10 13 (12.87 %) VBA

11 12 (11.88 %) VB.NET 11 12 (11.88 %) PL/SQL 11 12 (11.88 %) HTML 11 12 (11.88 %) Oracle Reports 12 11 (10.89 %) Java 13 10 (9.901 %) JavaScript 13 10 (9.901 %) CSS 13 10 (9.901 %) Internet 14 9 (8.911 %) UNIX 14 9 (8.911 %) MS Excel 14 9 (8.911 %) ASP.NET 14 9 (8.911 %) SQL Server 2005 15 8 (7.921 %) VB 15 8 (7.921 %) Oracle 9i 15 8 (7.921 %) UML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 26 (25.74 %) .NET 2 19 (18.81 %) XML 3 12 (11.88 %) HTML 4 10 (9.901 %) CSS 5 9 (8.911 %) ASP.NET 6 7 (6.931 %) WebServices 7 5 (4.950 %) SOAP 7 5 (4.950 %) XSD 7 5 (4.950 %) WSDL 7 5 (4.950 %) SAML 7 5 (4.950 %) JMS 7 5 (4.950 %) AJAX 8 4 (3.960 %) XSLT 9 3 (2.970 %) ASP 9 3 (2.970 %) NetBeans 10 2 (1.980 %) ADSI 10 2 (1.980 %) WebSphere 10 2 (1.980 %) J2EE 10 2 (1.980 %) ODBC 10 2 (1.980 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.941 %) IIS 1 6 (5.941 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (5.941 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (4.950 %) Oracle Application Server 2 5 (4.950 %) SharePoint 3 4 (3.960 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.990 %) ESB 4 1 (0.990 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (0.990 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (0.990 %) Apache
Applications 1 9 (8.911 %) MS Excel 2 6 (5.941 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.990 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (2.970 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.990 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.990 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 10 (9.901 %) Internet 2 2 (1.980 %) Network Security 2 2 (1.980 %) LAN 3 1 (0.990 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (40.59 %) SQL Server 2 21 (20.79 %) Crystal Reports 3 17 (16.83 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 15 (14.85 %) DTS 5 13 (12.87 %) MS Access 5 13 (12.87 %) Oracle 10g 6 12 (11.88 %) Oracle Reports 7 9 (8.911 %) SQL Server 2005 8 8 (7.921 %) Oracle 9i 8 8 (7.921 %) SQL Server 2000 9 7 (6.931 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 7 (6.931 %) Datawarehouse 10 6 (5.941 %) ETL 10 6 (5.941 %) BusinessObjects 11 4 (3.960 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 3 (2.970 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 3 (2.970 %) PowerCenter 13 2 (1.980 %) RDBMS 13 2 (1.980 %) Data Mart 13 2 (1.980 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications 1 6 (5.941 %) Visual Studio 1 6 (5.941 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 5 (4.950 %) Oracle Forms 3 4 (3.960 %) TestDirector 4 2 (1.980 %) Flash 5 1 (0.990 %) JBuilder 5 1 (0.990 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.990 %) JDeveloper 5 1 (0.990 %) PVCS 5 1 (0.990 %) Ant 5 1 (0.990 %) JUnit 5 1 (0.990 %) Subversion 5 1 (0.990 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 16 (15.84 %) Finance 2 6 (5.941 %) Health 3 5 (4.950 %) Government 4 4 (3.960 %) Publishing 5 3 (2.970 %) Retail 6 2 (1.980 %) Insurance 6 2 (1.980 %) Banking 6 2 (1.980 %) Law 6 2 (1.980 %) Legal 7 1 (0.990 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.990 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.990 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (0.990 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 50 (49.50 %) Developer 2 19 (18.81 %) Analyst 3 11 (10.89 %) DBA 3 11 (10.89 %) SQL Developer 4 10 (9.901 %) Crystal Reports Developer 4 10 (9.901 %) Report Developer 5 9 (8.911 %) SQL DBA 6 8 (7.921 %) Analyst Programmer 6 8 (7.921 %) Programmer 7 7 (6.931 %) Web Developer 7 7 (6.931 %) .NET Developer 8 6 (5.941 %) Consultant 9 5 (4.950 %) C# Developer 9 5 (4.950 %) Test Analyst 9 5 (4.950 %) Architect 10 4 (3.960 %) Oracle Developer 10 4 (3.960 %) SQL Server Developer 10 4 (3.960 %) Oracle Consultant 11 3 (2.970 %) Support Manager 11 3 (2.970 %) IT Support Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.960 %) Streaming Video 2 3 (2.970 %) N-Tier 3 2 (1.980 %) NHS 3 2 (1.980 %) Clustering 3 2 (1.980 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.990 %) Data Integration 4 1 (0.990 %) Wiki
Operating Systems 1 16 (15.84 %) Windows 2 9 (8.911 %) UNIX 3 6 (5.941 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (3.960 %) AIX 4 4 (3.960 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (2.970 %) Solaris 6 2 (1.980 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (7.921 %) UML 2 6 (5.941 %) BPEL 3 5 (4.950 %) Data Modelling 3 5 (4.950 %) SOA 3 5 (4.950 %) Test Scripting 4 4 (3.960 %) Business Intelligence 4 4 (3.960 %) RUP 5 3 (2.970 %) DSDM 5 3 (2.970 %) OO 5 3 (2.970 %) Web Development 5 3 (2.970 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (1.980 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (1.980 %) ITIL 6 2 (1.980 %) CRM 6 2 (1.980 %) Migration 7 1 (0.990 %) Unified Process 7 1 (0.990 %) Content Management 7 1 (0.990 %) Workflow Management 7 1 (0.990 %) Project Management 7 1 (0.990 %) SEO
Programming Languages 1 20 (19.80 %) Transact-SQL 2 17 (16.83 %) C# 3 13 (12.87 %) VBA 4 12 (11.88 %) VB.NET 4 12 (11.88 %) PL/SQL 5 11 (10.89 %) Java 6 10 (9.901 %) JavaScript 7 8 (7.921 %) VB 8 7 (6.931 %) C 9 6 (5.941 %) C++ 9 6 (5.941 %) Perl 10 4 (3.960 %) VB6 11 3 (2.970 %) Shell Script 11 3 (2.970 %) VBScript 12 2 (1.980 %) ActionScript 12 2 (1.980 %) PHP 13 1 (0.990 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 3 (2.970 %) Degree 2 2 (1.980 %) OCA 2 2 (1.980 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (0.990 %) CCNA 3 1 (0.990 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 3 (2.970 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.990 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 36 (35.64 %) Oracle 2 19 (18.81 %) Microsoft 3 7 (6.931 %) Sybase 4 6 (5.941 %) Business Objects 4 6 (5.941 %) Cognos 5 5 (4.950 %) VERITAS 6 3 (2.970 %) SurfControl 6 3 (2.970 %) Informatica 7 2 (1.980 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (0.990 %) Hummingbird 8 1 (0.990 %) Dell 8 1 (0.990 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.990 %) VMware