The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Colchester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 16 17 12
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 3.922% 6.977% 5.556%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.000% 60.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £238 £375 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +21.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -21.87%
All Programming Languages
Colchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
25 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 49.02% 11.63% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 6
Average daily rate £200 £250 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -40.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £188 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £375 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Essex

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester 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 Colchester region.

Colchester SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Colchester SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) COM+
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) CMS
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) ColdFusion
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) XSLT
4 1 (20.00%) ASP
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) VB

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) COM+
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) XSLT
4 1 (20.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) ColdFusion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree