The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Developer
Rank 110 139 100
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -39
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 98 79 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.525% 1.005% 1.663%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.649% 1.098% 1.811%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 64 117
Average daily rate £425 £425 £484
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £25.38 £38.25
% change year-on-year
+35.96% -33.66%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 183 186
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL Developer
London

SQL Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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.

City of London SQL Developer Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London SQL Developer Daily Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 21 May 2013.

City of London SQL Developer Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Developer across the City of London region.

City of London SQL Developer Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

1 169 (88.48%) SQL
2 120 (62.83%) SQL Server
3 112 (58.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 82 (42.93%) Banking
5 73 (38.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 70 (36.65%) T-SQL
7 64 (33.51%) ETL
7 64 (33.51%) Finance
8 60 (31.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 58 (30.37%) SQL Server 2008
10 54 (28.27%) C#
11 52 (27.23%) Data Warehouse
11 52 (27.23%) Business Intelligence
12 50 (26.18%) .NET
13 40 (20.94%) Investment Banking
14 37 (19.37%) SQL Server 2005
15 34 (17.80%) Microsoft
16 32 (16.75%) Oracle
17 25 (13.09%) ASP.NET
18 21 (10.99%) MDX
19 20 (10.47%) QlikView
19 20 (10.47%) VBA
19 20 (10.47%) PL/SQL
20 19 (9.948%) OLAP
21 16 (8.377%) Data Modelling
22 12 (6.283%) Cognos
22 12 (6.283%) VB.NET
22 12 (6.283%) Migration
22 12 (6.283%) Fixed Income
23 11 (5.759%) Business Objects

SQL Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 50 (26.18%) .NET
2 25 (13.09%) ASP.NET
3 21 (10.99%) MDX
4 10 (5.236%) Web Services
5 9 (4.712%) WCF
6 8 (4.188%) .NET Framework
6 8 (4.188%) XML
7 7 (3.665%) WPF
8 6 (3.141%) HTML
8 6 (3.141%) ASP
9 5 (2.618%) jQuery
10 4 (2.094%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (1.571%) CSS
11 3 (1.571%) ASP.NET 2.0
12 2 (1.047%) Ajax
12 2 (1.047%) WinForms
12 2 (1.047%) XSL
13 1 (0.524%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 1 (0.524%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 1 (0.524%) ADO
Application Platforms
1 11 (5.759%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.236%) SAS
3 3 (1.571%) IIS
3 3 (1.571%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.524%) Apache
4 1 (0.524%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (5.759%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.571%) PowerPivot
3 2 (1.047%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (1.047%) MS Office
4 1 (0.524%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.141%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.047%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.524%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.665%) HTTP
2 2 (1.047%) SAN
3 1 (0.524%) FTP
3 1 (0.524%) SSL
3 1 (0.524%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (62.83%) SQL Server
2 112 (58.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 73 (38.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 60 (31.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 58 (30.37%) SQL Server 2008
6 52 (27.23%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (19.37%) SQL Server 2005
8 20 (10.47%) QlikView
9 19 (9.948%) OLAP
10 8 (4.188%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 6 (3.141%) Xcelsius
11 6 (3.141%) Oracle OLAP
11 6 (3.141%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (3.141%) SAP BI
11 6 (3.141%) SAP BW
11 6 (3.141%) DataStage
11 6 (3.141%) DTS
12 5 (2.618%) SQL Server 2012
12 5 (2.618%) MS Access
12 5 (2.618%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 10 (5.236%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.047%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.047%) ERwin
2 2 (1.047%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.524%) CruiseControl
3 1 (0.524%) Subversion
3 1 (0.524%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.524%) JIRA
General
1 82 (42.93%) Banking
2 64 (33.51%) Finance
3 40 (20.94%) Investment Banking
4 10 (5.236%) Front Office
5 8 (4.188%) Marketing
6 7 (3.665%) Advertising
7 4 (2.094%) Retail
8 3 (1.571%) German Language
8 3 (1.571%) International Banking
9 2 (1.047%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.524%) Law
10 1 (0.524%) Legal
10 1 (0.524%) Back Office
10 1 (0.524%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.524%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.283%) Fixed Income
2 11 (5.759%) Derivative
3 9 (4.712%) Credit Risk
4 8 (4.188%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.618%) NHS
6 3 (1.571%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.571%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.047%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.047%) Data Extraction
7 2 (1.047%) Replication
7 2 (1.047%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.047%) Kindle
8 1 (0.524%) Equities
8 1 (0.524%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.524%) Clustering
8 1 (0.524%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.524%) Tandem
8 1 (0.524%) PKI
8 1 (0.524%) Web 2.0
8 1 (0.524%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.141%) Windows
2 3 (1.571%) UNIX
3 2 (1.047%) Linux
4 1 (0.524%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.524%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.524%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.51%) ETL
2 52 (27.23%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (8.377%) Data Modelling
4 12 (6.283%) Migration
5 11 (5.759%) OO
5 11 (5.759%) Business Analysis
6 10 (5.236%) Data Analysis
7 7 (3.665%) E-Commerce
7 7 (3.665%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (3.665%) Asset Management
7 7 (3.665%) Fund Management
7 7 (3.665%) Investment Management
7 7 (3.665%) Data Migration
8 6 (3.141%) Scrum
8 6 (3.141%) Analytics
9 5 (2.618%) CRM
9 5 (2.618%) OOP
9 5 (2.618%) TDD
9 5 (2.618%) Unit Testing
10 4 (2.094%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 169 (88.48%) SQL
2 70 (36.65%) T-SQL
3 54 (28.27%) C#
4 20 (10.47%) VBA
4 20 (10.47%) PL/SQL
5 12 (6.283%) VB.NET
6 8 (4.188%) Perl
7 7 (3.665%) Java
7 7 (3.665%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.141%) MATLAB
9 5 (2.618%) VB
10 4 (2.094%) VBScript
11 3 (1.571%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.524%) C
12 1 (0.524%) C++
12 1 (0.524%) Python
12 1 (0.524%) Uniface
12 1 (0.524%) VB6
12 1 (0.524%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (3.665%) Degree
2 3 (1.571%) MCTS
3 2 (1.047%) MCITP
3 2 (1.047%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.524%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.618%) Basel III
2 3 (1.571%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.047%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.047%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.524%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.141%) Control-M
2 3 (1.571%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.524%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.524%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 34 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.75%) Oracle
3 12 (6.283%) Cognos
4 11 (5.759%) Business Objects
5 9 (4.712%) Teradata
6 8 (4.188%) Netezza
6 8 (4.188%) Informatica
6 8 (4.188%) Sybase
7 7 (3.665%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (3.141%) thinkFolio
8 6 (3.141%) Hyperion
8 6 (3.141%) SAP
8 6 (3.141%) Cadis
9 4 (2.094%) DataSynapse
10 2 (1.047%) Reuters
10 2 (1.047%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.047%) VMware
10 2 (1.047%) Perforce
10 2 (1.047%) Tableau
11 1 (0.524%) Red Gate
City of London
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Rate: neg
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
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Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
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Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
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Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
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Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
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Rate: £450 - £600 per day + dependant on candiate
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
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Posted: 9 May 2013