Chelmsford SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Chelmsford 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barking Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes 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 Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	4
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	5	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	38.46 %	42.86 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£327
Average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£12.50
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£13.81
% change on same period last year	+15.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£15.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.72	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Programming Languages Chelmsford
Matching contract IT job ads	13	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.035 %
Daily rates quoted	4	16
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£326
Average daily rate	£348	£362
% change on same period last year	-3.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£12.50
Average hourly rate	£28.00	£13.81
% change on same period last year	+102.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£15.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
SQL Essex

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 Chelmsford 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 Chelmsford region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Chelmsford region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Chelmsford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chelmsford 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 6 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 5 (41.67 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (33.33 %) C# 3 4 (33.33 %) .NET 3 4 (33.33 %) Finance 4 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (25.00 %) XML 4 3 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (16.67 %) Client/Server 5 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft 5 2 (16.67 %) Oracle 5 2 (16.67 %) JavaScript 5 2 (16.67 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (16.67 %) VB

5 2 (16.67 %) ADO.NET 5 2 (16.67 %) Oracle Application Server 5 2 (16.67 %) Degree 6 1 (8.333 %) Computer Science 6 1 (8.333 %) Computer Security 6 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System 6 1 (8.333 %) Front Office 6 1 (8.333 %) Education 6 1 (8.333 %) Government 6 1 (8.333 %) TETRA 6 1 (8.333 %) AJAX 6 1 (8.333 %) Local Government 6 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (8.333 %) Marketing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chelmsford 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 (33.33 %) .NET 2 3 (25.00 %) XML 2 3 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (16.67 %) ADO.NET 4 1 (8.333 %) AJAX 4 1 (8.333 %) ATL 4 1 (8.333 %) CSS 4 1 (8.333 %) JSP 4 1 (8.333 %) Servlets 4 1 (8.333 %) WebServices 4 1 (8.333 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (16.67 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (8.333 %) IIS 2 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (8.333 %) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (8.333 %) MS Access 4 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (8.333 %) Education 2 1 (8.333 %) Government 2 1 (8.333 %) Banking 2 1 (8.333 %) Insurance 2 1 (8.333 %) Local Government 2 1 (8.333 %) Marketing 2 1 (8.333 %) Front Office	Job Titles 1 7 (58.33 %) Developer 2 3 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (25.00 %) SQL Developer 3 2 (16.67 %) Oracle Developer 3 2 (16.67 %) C# Developer 3 2 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 2 (16.67 %) DBA 4 1 (8.333 %) Applications Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Database Specialist 4 1 (8.333 %) Administrator 4 1 (8.333 %) Report Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server DBA 4 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) SQL DBA 4 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Server Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) Management Information Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (16.67 %) Client/Server 2 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System 2 1 (8.333 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) Windows 1 1 (8.333 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (8.333 %) UML 1 1 (8.333 %) RUP 1 1 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (8.333 %) Computer Security 1 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 5 (41.67 %) Transact-SQL 2 4 (33.33 %) C# 3 2 (16.67 %) JavaScript 3 2 (16.67 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (16.67 %) VB 4 1 (8.333 %) VB.NET 4 1 (8.333 %) VBA 4 1 (8.333 %) VB6 4 1 (8.333 %) DHTML 4 1 (8.333 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (16.67 %) Degree 2 1 (8.333 %) MCP 2 1 (8.333 %) MCAD 2 1 (8.333 %) MCSD 2 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 2 (16.67 %) Oracle 1 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (8.333 %) Sun