City of London SQL Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the SQL Developer role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isleworth Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Lyndhurst Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	93	82
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	128	127
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.179 %	0.130 %
As % of the category below	1.766 %	1.971 %
Daily rates quoted	65	56
Average minimum daily rate	£407	£420
Average daily rate	£437	£449
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£478
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£336
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£38.33
% change on same period last year	+17.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	£41.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.54	£34.65
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7250	6442
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.15 %	6.608 %
Daily rates quoted	3938	2638
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£444
Average daily rate	£444	£472
% change on same period last year	-5.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	315	231
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.89	£23.10
Average hourly rate	£24.72	£24.42
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.55	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.16
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
SQL Developer London

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 Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Developer across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 8 October 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 Developer across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited SQL Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Developer in their job title.

1 220 (76.92 %) SQL Server 2 208 (72.73 %) SQL 3 123 (43.01 %) SQL Server 2005 4 117 (40.91 %) Banking 5 116 (40.56 %) C# 5 116 (40.56 %) Finance 6 113 (39.51 %) .NET 7 98 (34.27 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 88 (30.77 %) Investment Banking 9 72 (25.17 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 66 (23.08 %) ASP.NET 11 59 (20.63 %) Transact-SQL 12 54 (18.88 %) SQL Server 2000 13 48 (16.78 %) Front Office 14 45 (15.73 %) SQL Server Analysis Services

15 39 (13.64 %) Datawarehouse 16 36 (12.59 %) Oracle 17 35 (12.24 %) Microsoft 18 34 (11.89 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 19 33 (11.54 %) DTS 20 32 (11.19 %) Insurance 21 28 (9.790 %) XML 22 26 (9.091 %) MS Excel 22 26 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 22 26 (9.091 %) OLAP 23 24 (8.392 %) Sybase 23 24 (8.392 %) Migration 24 22 (7.692 %) UNIX 25 20 (6.993 %) Java 25 20 (6.993 %) Data Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited SQL Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 113 (39.51 %) .NET 2 66 (23.08 %) ASP.NET 3 28 (9.790 %) XML 4 12 (4.196 %) WinForms 5 9 (3.147 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 8 (2.797 %) MDX 6 8 (2.797 %) WebServices 6 8 (2.797 %) HTML 6 8 (2.797 %) CSS 7 7 (2.448 %) XML Schema 8 6 (2.098 %) .NET Framework 9 4 (1.399 %) WCF 9 4 (1.399 %) AJAX 10 3 (1.049 %) ASP 11 2 (0.699 %) Struts 11 2 (0.699 %) XSL 11 2 (0.699 %) JSP 11 2 (0.699 %) ADO.NET 11 2 (0.699 %) MVC 11 2 (0.699 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (2.098 %) SharePoint 2 2 (0.699 %) CMS 2 2 (0.699 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (0.699 %) Apache 3 1 (0.350 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (0.350 %) TeamSite 3 1 (0.350 %) WebLogic 3 1 (0.350 %) IIS 3 1 (0.350 %) JBoss
Applications 1 26 (9.091 %) MS Excel 2 2 (0.699 %) MATLAB 2 2 (0.699 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (0.350 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 5 (1.748 %) Intranet 2 1 (0.350 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 220 (76.92 %) SQL Server 2 123 (43.01 %) SQL Server 2005 3 98 (34.27 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 72 (25.17 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 54 (18.88 %) SQL Server 2000 6 45 (15.73 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 39 (13.64 %) Datawarehouse 8 34 (11.89 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 33 (11.54 %) DTS 10 26 (9.091 %) OLAP 11 16 (5.594 %) ETL 12 15 (5.245 %) Oracle 10g 13 13 (4.545 %) BusinessObjects 14 12 (4.196 %) Data Mining 15 7 (2.448 %) Oracle 9i 16 6 (2.098 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 4 (1.399 %) Star Schema 17 4 (1.399 %) PowerCenter 18 3 (1.049 %) TOAD 18 3 (1.049 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 5 (1.748 %) ClearCase 1 5 (1.748 %) Oracle APEX 2 4 (1.399 %) NUnit 3 3 (1.049 %) Subversion 3 3 (1.049 %) Ant 4 2 (0.699 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (0.350 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.350 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.350 %) Flash 5 1 (0.350 %) Selenium
General 1 117 (40.91 %) Banking 2 116 (40.56 %) Finance 3 88 (30.77 %) Investment Banking 4 48 (16.78 %) Front Office 5 32 (11.19 %) Insurance 6 9 (3.147 %) Billing 7 4 (1.399 %) Back Office 8 3 (1.049 %) Law 8 3 (1.049 %) Legal 8 3 (1.049 %) Retail 8 3 (1.049 %) Corporate Banking 8 3 (1.049 %) Marketing 9 2 (0.699 %) Financial Institution 9 2 (0.699 %) Government 9 2 (0.699 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.350 %) Construction 10 1 (0.350 %) Education 10 1 (0.350 %) Health 10 1 (0.350 %) Advertising 10 1 (0.350 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 11 (3.846 %) Replication 2 9 (3.147 %) Credit Risk 3 8 (2.797 %) Data Conversion 4 7 (2.448 %) Derivative 5 6 (2.098 %) Equities 6 4 (1.399 %) Fixed Income 6 4 (1.399 %) Data Extraction 7 3 (1.049 %) Market Risk 8 2 (0.699 %) Credit Derivative 8 2 (0.699 %) Computer Science 8 2 (0.699 %) Mathematics 9 1 (0.350 %) Physics 9 1 (0.350 %) Tandem 9 1 (0.350 %) Clustering 9 1 (0.350 %) N-Tier 9 1 (0.350 %) NHS 9 1 (0.350 %) Management Information System 9 1 (0.350 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 22 (7.692 %) UNIX 2 10 (3.497 %) Windows 3 3 (1.049 %) Solaris 4 2 (0.699 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.350 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (8.392 %) Migration 2 20 (6.993 %) Data Migration 3 16 (5.594 %) RAD 4 15 (5.245 %) OO 5 13 (4.545 %) Data Modelling 6 10 (3.497 %) Logistics 7 8 (2.797 %) Validation 8 7 (2.448 %) Business Intelligence 8 7 (2.448 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 6 (2.098 %) Asset Management 10 5 (1.748 %) Requirements Analysis 10 5 (1.748 %) Risk Management 11 4 (1.399 %) SOA 11 4 (1.399 %) Agile Software Development 11 4 (1.399 %) CRM 11 4 (1.399 %) E-Commerce 11 4 (1.399 %) Dimensional Modelling 12 3 (1.049 %) Security Cleared 12 3 (1.049 %) Quality Management 12 3 (1.049 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 208 (72.73 %) SQL 2 116 (40.56 %) C# 3 59 (20.63 %) Transact-SQL 4 26 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 5 20 (6.993 %) Java 6 15 (5.245 %) VB 6 15 (5.245 %) VB.NET 7 11 (3.846 %) VBA 8 9 (3.147 %) Perl 8 9 (3.147 %) VB6 9 7 (2.448 %) C 9 7 (2.448 %) JavaScript 9 7 (2.448 %) C++ 10 4 (1.399 %) Shell Script 11 2 (0.699 %) VC++ 12 1 (0.350 %) Lingo 12 1 (0.350 %) ActionScript 12 1 (0.350 %) COBOL 12 1 (0.350 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 9 (3.147 %) Degree 2 1 (0.350 %) MCP 2 1 (0.350 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.699 %) Basel II	System Software 1 2 (0.699 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 9 (3.147 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 36 (12.59 %) Oracle 2 35 (12.24 %) Microsoft 3 24 (8.392 %) Sybase 4 13 (4.545 %) Business Objects 5 5 (1.748 %) ProClarity 6 4 (1.399 %) Informatica 7 3 (1.049 %) Apple 7 3 (1.049 %) Trillium 8 2 (0.699 %) Mantas 8 2 (0.699 %) Sony 8 2 (0.699 %) Cognos 9 1 (0.350 %) HP