Cheshire SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Cheshire 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	10	7
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	124	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.165 %	0.106 %
As % of the category below	35.43 %	40.71 %
Daily rates quoted	39	12
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£324
Average daily rate	£331	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£334
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.47	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£31.40	£28.44
% change on same period last year	+10.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.33	£29.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.08	£29.44
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Programming Languages Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	350	253
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.465 %	0.260 %
Daily rates quoted	111	47
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£325
Average daily rate	£369	£336
% change on same period last year	+9.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.10	£28.82
Average hourly rate	£32.55	£30.67
% change on same period last year	+6.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	£32.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.33	£33.12
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
SQL North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Cheshire region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SQL within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	+3	39	£335	+19.64 %
Warrington	+10	20	£300	-0.13 %
Knutsford	-24	5	£385	+2.53 %
Crewe	0	4	-	-
Macclesfield	+1	4	-	-
Nantwich	+1	3	-	-
Runcorn	-2	2	-	-
Wilmslow	-	2	-	-

SQL North West

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 66 (26.51 %) Oracle 2 64 (25.70 %) .NET 3 59 (23.69 %) SQL Server 4 50 (20.08 %) PL/SQL 5 43 (17.27 %) ASP.NET 6 40 (16.06 %) XML 7 38 (15.26 %) C# 8 37 (14.86 %) SQL Server 2005 9 36 (14.46 %) Finance 9 36 (14.46 %) Windows 10 30 (12.05 %) Microsoft 11 29 (11.65 %) HTML 12 26 (10.44 %) Java 12 26 (10.44 %) VB 12 26 (10.44 %) SQL Server 2000

13 24 (9.639 %) JavaScript 14 22 (8.835 %) IIS 14 22 (8.835 %) Oracle Reports 15 20 (8.032 %) Transact-SQL 15 20 (8.032 %) Citrix 16 17 (6.827 %) BusinessObjects 16 17 (6.827 %) SAN 16 17 (6.827 %) LAN 16 17 (6.827 %) WAN 16 17 (6.827 %) Business Objects 16 17 (6.827 %) CSS 17 16 (6.426 %) VB.NET 18 15 (6.024 %) PRINCE2 18 15 (6.024 %) Oracle Forms 19 14 (5.622 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 64 (25.70 %) .NET 2 43 (17.27 %) ASP.NET 3 40 (16.06 %) XML 4 29 (11.65 %) HTML 5 17 (6.827 %) CSS 6 14 (5.622 %) AJAX 7 13 (5.221 %) J2EE 7 13 (5.221 %) WebServices 8 9 (3.614 %) XSLT 8 9 (3.614 %) ASP 9 8 (3.213 %) Hibernate 10 7 (2.811 %) COM+ 10 7 (2.811 %) DCOM 11 6 (2.410 %) XSD 11 6 (2.410 %) Struts 11 6 (2.410 %) JSP 12 5 (2.008 %) ADO.NET 12 5 (2.008 %) ArcObjects 12 5 (2.008 %) Spring 13 4 (1.606 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 22 (8.835 %) IIS 2 13 (5.221 %) SharePoint 3 12 (4.819 %) ArcIMS 4 5 (2.008 %) Oracle Application Server 5 4 (1.606 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (1.606 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 4 (1.606 %) MS Exchange 6 3 (1.205 %) Lotus Notes 6 3 (1.205 %) Apache 6 3 (1.205 %) ArcGIS 7 2 (0.803 %) CMS 7 2 (0.803 %) LiveLink 7 2 (0.803 %) Documentum 7 2 (0.803 %) SAS 8 1 (0.402 %) CICS 8 1 (0.402 %) NetWeaver 8 1 (0.402 %) Tomcat 8 1 (0.402 %) WebLogic 8 1 (0.402 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (0.402 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 14 (5.622 %) MS Excel 2 7 (2.811 %) MS Office 3 3 (1.205 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.803 %) MS Visio 4 2 (0.803 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 7 (2.811 %) Oracle Applications 2 4 (1.606 %) Hyperion Enterprise 2 4 (1.606 %) Hyperion Planning 3 3 (1.205 %) Dynamics CRM 4 2 (0.803 %) SalesLogix 5 1 (0.402 %) Oracle Financials 5 1 (0.402 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 17 (6.827 %) LAN 1 17 (6.827 %) WAN 1 17 (6.827 %) SAN 2 10 (4.016 %) HTTP 3 7 (2.811 %) Internet 3 7 (2.811 %) POP3 3 7 (2.811 %) SMTP 4 6 (2.410 %) Intranet 5 2 (0.803 %) Ethernet 5 2 (0.803 %) iSCSI 6 1 (0.402 %) FTP 6 1 (0.402 %) SMS 6 1 (0.402 %) ATM 6 1 (0.402 %) Broadband 6 1 (0.402 %) Firewall 6 1 (0.402 %) IPsec 6 1 (0.402 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (0.402 %) VPN 6 1 (0.402 %) DNS 6 1 (0.402 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 59 (23.69 %) SQL Server 2 37 (14.86 %) SQL Server 2005 3 26 (10.44 %) SQL Server 2000 4 22 (8.835 %) Oracle Reports 5 17 (6.827 %) BusinessObjects 6 14 (5.622 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 14 (5.622 %) Datawarehouse 7 12 (4.819 %) Oracle 10g 7 12 (4.819 %) Oracle 9i 7 12 (4.819 %) MS Access 8 11 (4.418 %) Crystal Reports 9 10 (4.016 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 9 (3.614 %) ETL 11 8 (3.213 %) OLAP 11 8 (3.213 %) GIS 12 6 (2.410 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 6 (2.410 %) DTS 13 5 (2.008 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 14 4 (1.606 %) SQL Server 7 14 4 (1.606 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 15 (6.024 %) Oracle Forms 2 10 (4.016 %) Paros 2 10 (4.016 %) Fiddler 3 9 (3.614 %) Visual Studio 4 4 (1.606 %) Eclipse 4 4 (1.606 %) Ant 5 2 (0.803 %) TestDirector 6 1 (0.402 %) JUnit 6 1 (0.402 %) Flash	General 1 36 (14.46 %) Finance 2 13 (5.221 %) Auditing 3 7 (2.811 %) Pharmaceutical 3 7 (2.811 %) Banking 4 6 (2.410 %) Marketing 5 5 (2.008 %) Government 6 4 (1.606 %) Health 6 4 (1.606 %) Publishing 6 4 (1.606 %) Insurance 6 4 (1.606 %) Local Government 7 2 (0.803 %) Advertising 7 2 (0.803 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.402 %) Retail 8 1 (0.402 %) Billing 8 1 (0.402 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 122 (49.00 %) Developer 2 38 (15.26 %) Analyst 3 31 (12.45 %) DBA 4 26 (10.44 %) Oracle Developer 4 26 (10.44 %) SQL Developer 5 19 (7.631 %) SQL DBA 6 17 (6.827 %) .NET Developer 7 16 (6.426 %) Web Developer 8 13 (5.221 %) Administrator 9 10 (4.016 %) Test Analyst 9 10 (4.016 %) Database Developer 10 8 (3.213 %) PL/SQL Developer 10 8 (3.213 %) Tester 10 8 (3.213 %) Oracle DBA 11 7 (2.811 %) Applications Packager 11 7 (2.811 %) Analyst Developer 11 7 (2.811 %) SQL Database Developer 12 6 (2.410 %) Oracle Database Developer 12 6 (2.410 %) Oracle Analyst 12 6 (2.410 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (3.614 %) Replication 2 4 (1.606 %) N-Tier 2 4 (1.606 %) NHS 2 4 (1.606 %) Statistics 3 3 (1.205 %) Mainframe 4 2 (0.803 %) Client/Server 4 2 (0.803 %) Chemistry 4 2 (0.803 %) Biology 5 1 (0.402 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (0.402 %) CMDB 5 1 (0.402 %) IBM Mainframe 5 1 (0.402 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.402 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.402 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.402 %) IVR 5 1 (0.402 %) VSAM 5 1 (0.402 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 36 (14.46 %) Windows 2 13 (5.221 %) UNIX 3 10 (4.016 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (2.410 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (1.606 %) AIX 6 3 (1.205 %) Windows XP 7 2 (0.803 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (6.024 %) PRINCE2 2 14 (5.622 %) E-Commerce 3 12 (4.819 %) UML 3 12 (4.819 %) Migration 4 11 (4.418 %) Information Security 5 10 (4.016 %) ITIL 6 9 (3.614 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 8 (3.213 %) Business Intelligence 7 8 (3.213 %) Content Management 8 7 (2.811 %) CRM 8 7 (2.811 %) OO 8 7 (2.811 %) Data Protection 9 6 (2.410 %) Software Testing 10 5 (2.008 %) Business Analysis 10 5 (2.008 %) Data Management 10 5 (2.008 %) Workflow 10 5 (2.008 %) Project Management 10 5 (2.008 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (1.606 %) Service Management 11 4 (1.606 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 50 (20.08 %) PL/SQL 2 38 (15.26 %) C# 3 26 (10.44 %) Java 3 26 (10.44 %) VB 4 24 (9.639 %) JavaScript 5 20 (8.032 %) Transact-SQL 6 16 (6.426 %) VB.NET 7 7 (2.811 %) DHTML 8 6 (2.410 %) PHP 9 5 (2.008 %) C 9 5 (2.008 %) VB6 9 5 (2.008 %) VBA 10 4 (1.606 %) VBScript 11 2 (0.803 %) Perl 12 1 (0.402 %) C++ 12 1 (0.402 %) COBOL 12 1 (0.402 %) FoxPro (VFP) 12 1 (0.402 %) Shell Script 12 1 (0.402 %) JCL 12 1 (0.402 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 12 (4.819 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (4.016 %) MCSE 3 7 (2.811 %) ISEB 4 6 (2.410 %) ISTQB 5 4 (1.606 %) Degree 6 2 (0.803 %) MCP 6 2 (0.803 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (0.803 %) MCDBA 6 2 (0.803 %) Citrix Certification 7 1 (0.402 %) Cisco Certification 7 1 (0.402 %) Oracle Certification 7 1 (0.402 %) CCNA 7 1 (0.402 %) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (2.811 %) QA 2 5 (2.008 %) SLA	System Software 1 13 (5.221 %) Active Directory 2 11 (4.418 %) Oracle RMAN 3 2 (0.803 %) MSMQ 3 2 (0.803 %) NetBackup 3 2 (0.803 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (0.402 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 1 (0.402 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 1 1 (0.402 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.402 %) MOM 1 1 (0.402 %) ServiceCenter 1 1 (0.402 %) AssetCenter 1 1 (0.402 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 66 (26.51 %) Oracle 2 30 (12.05 %) Microsoft 3 20 (8.032 %) Citrix 4 17 (6.827 %) Business Objects 5 14 (5.622 %) VMware 6 12 (4.819 %) ESRI 7 11 (4.418 %) BMC 8 9 (3.614 %) Altiris 9 4 (1.606 %) Remedy 9 4 (1.606 %) Hyperion 10 3 (1.205 %) Cisco 10 3 (1.205 %) IBM 10 3 (1.205 %) Lotus 10 3 (1.205 %) HP 10 3 (1.205 %) Dell 11 2 (0.803 %) Intel 11 2 (0.803 %) NetApp 11 2 (0.803 %) ProClarity 12 1 (0.402 %) Teradata 12 1 (0.402 %) Tridion