The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham 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 6 6 8
Rank change year-on-year
0 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 28 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 12.20% 21.05% 13.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.67% 29.17% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 9
Average daily rate £306 £380 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.53% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £298 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £439 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -25.00%
All Programming Languages
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
24 96 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 29.27% 72.18% 49.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 63 26
Average daily rate £318 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.43% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £700 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £34.59
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% +6.96%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Gloucestershire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 10 (50.00%) XML
2 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 8 (40.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) .NET
3 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
4 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (30.00%) CSS
4 6 (30.00%) Web Development
4 6 (30.00%) System Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Kanban
5 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 5 (25.00%) XSL
5 5 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 5 (25.00%) Java
5 5 (25.00%) Spring
5 5 (25.00%) Aerospace
6 4 (20.00%) Degree
6 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (20.00%) OO
6 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (15.00%) LINQ
7 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (15.00%) UML
7 3 (15.00%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (10.00%) Migration
8 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
8 2 (10.00%) HP
8 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 10 (50.00%) XML
2 7 (35.00%) .NET
3 6 (30.00%) CSS
4 5 (25.00%) XSL
4 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (25.00%) Spring
5 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (15.00%) LINQ
7 2 (10.00%) WPF
8 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
8 1 (5.000%) WinForms
8 1 (5.000%) HTML
8 1 (5.000%) XSLT
8 1 (5.000%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.000%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.000%) TOAD
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.000%) PVCS
2 1 (5.000%) NUnit
2 1 (5.000%) JIRA
2 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.000%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.000%) Avionics
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Test Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst Programmer
6 2 (10.00%) Programmer
6 2 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (5.000%) SQL Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Problem Manager
7 1 (5.000%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.000%) MI Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) Software Test Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) Software Manager
7 1 (5.000%) ScrumMaster
7 1 (5.000%) Agile Test Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) Development Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) Test Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (30.00%) Scrum
2 6 (30.00%) Web Development
2 6 (30.00%) System Testing
3 5 (25.00%) Kanban
4 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (20.00%) OO
5 3 (15.00%) UML
5 3 (15.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Time Management
7 1 (5.000%) Release Management
7 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.000%) V-Model
7 1 (5.000%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.000%) TDD
7 1 (5.000%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) VBA
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.000%) VB
5 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.000%) XAML
5 1 (5.000%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) DO-178B
2 1 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (5.000%) Serena