The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 19 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 County Antrim 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 4 7 5
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 23 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 18.13% 14.56% 14.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 43.40% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 16
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £575
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 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
County Antrim
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
87 53 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 54.38% 33.54% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 24 33
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
Average hourly rate £12.42 - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Northern Ireland

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Belfast +1 29 £375 - 3
SQL
Northern Ireland

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 37 (40.22%) C#
2 36 (39.13%) SQL Server
3 35 (38.04%) .NET
4 31 (33.70%) Oracle
5 25 (27.17%) Sybase
6 23 (25.00%) WPF
7 21 (22.83%) Java
8 19 (20.65%) SQL Server 2008
9 17 (18.48%) WCF
9 17 (18.48%) Computer Science
9 17 (18.48%) Finance
9 17 (18.48%) WinForms
10 16 (17.39%) Degree
10 16 (17.39%) WF
11 15 (16.30%) VB
11 15 (16.30%) UML
12 14 (15.22%) OO
12 14 (15.22%) UNIX
13 13 (14.13%) Banking
14 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
15 11 (11.96%) SQL Server 2005
16 10 (10.87%) Web Services
17 9 (9.783%) T-SQL
18 8 (8.696%) HTML
18 8 (8.696%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 8 (8.696%) WebSphere
19 7 (7.609%) C++
19 7 (7.609%) J2EE
19 7 (7.609%) Shell Script
19 7 (7.609%) Data Modelling

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 35 (38.04%) .NET
2 23 (25.00%) WPF
3 17 (18.48%) WCF
3 17 (18.48%) WinForms
4 16 (17.39%) WF
5 10 (10.87%) Web Services
6 8 (8.696%) HTML
6 8 (8.696%) WebSphere
7 7 (7.609%) J2EE
8 6 (6.522%) CSS
9 5 (5.435%) XML
9 5 (5.435%) Java EE
10 4 (4.348%) jQuery
11 3 (3.261%) ASP.NET
12 2 (2.174%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.174%) STL
13 1 (1.087%) JDBC
13 1 (1.087%) XSL
13 1 (1.087%) XSLT
13 1 (1.087%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.609%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.348%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (4.348%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.261%) Progress Apama
4 2 (2.174%) ESB
4 2 (2.174%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.087%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.087%) Lync
5 1 (1.087%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 2 (2.174%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.087%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.087%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.087%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.261%) Intranet
2 1 (1.087%) LDAP
2 1 (1.087%) FTP
2 1 (1.087%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.087%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 19 (20.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (11.96%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (8.696%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (7.609%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (4.348%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (4.348%) MySQL
6 4 (4.348%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.087%) DB2
7 1 (1.087%) OLAP
7 1 (1.087%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.087%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.087%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.087%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.087%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.087%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 6 (6.522%) JUnit
2 3 (3.261%) Ant
3 1 (1.087%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.087%) Maven
3 1 (1.087%) Subversion
3 1 (1.087%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.087%) HttpUnit
3 1 (1.087%) Oracle APEX
General
1 17 (18.48%) Finance
2 13 (14.13%) Banking
3 5 (5.435%) Financial Institution
4 3 (3.261%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.087%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.087%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 50 (54.35%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) C# Developer
3 11 (11.96%) Analyst
4 7 (7.609%) Java Developer
5 6 (6.522%) Consultant
6 5 (5.435%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.435%) SQL Developer
7 4 (4.348%) SharePoint Developer
7 4 (4.348%) Sybase Developer
7 4 (4.348%) SQL Server Developer
7 4 (4.348%) SharePoint Consultant
8 3 (3.261%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.261%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.261%) DBA
8 3 (3.261%) Web Analyst
8 3 (3.261%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (3.261%) Web Support Analyst
9 2 (2.174%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (2.174%) Database Developer
9 2 (2.174%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) Computer Science
2 5 (5.435%) Credit Risk
2 5 (5.435%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.348%) Derivative
3 4 (4.348%) Equities
3 4 (4.348%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.087%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.087%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) UNIX
2 5 (5.435%) Linux
3 4 (4.348%) Windows
4 1 (1.087%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (16.30%) UML
2 14 (15.22%) OO
3 7 (7.609%) Data Modelling
4 6 (6.522%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (5.435%) Integration Testing
6 4 (4.348%) ITIL
7 3 (3.261%) ETL
7 3 (3.261%) Workflow
7 3 (3.261%) Migration
7 3 (3.261%) Automated Testing
7 3 (3.261%) Unit Testing
8 2 (2.174%) Performance Testing
8 2 (2.174%) Multithreading
8 2 (2.174%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (2.174%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.174%) Business Analysis
8 2 (2.174%) Project Management
9 1 (1.087%) Configuration Management
9 1 (1.087%) Web Design
9 1 (1.087%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.22%) C#
2 21 (22.83%) Java
3 15 (16.30%) VB
4 9 (9.783%) T-SQL
5 7 (7.609%) C++
5 7 (7.609%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.435%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.435%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.435%) Perl
7 2 (2.174%) Python
7 2 (2.174%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.087%) VBA
8 1 (1.087%) PHP
8 1 (1.087%) Delphi
8 1 (1.087%) Ruby
8 1 (1.087%) Groovy
8 1 (1.087%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 16 (17.39%) Degree
2 6 (6.522%) HND
3 3 (3.261%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.261%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.087%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.087%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (1.087%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (1.087%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 31 (33.70%) Oracle
2 25 (27.17%) Sybase
3 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.261%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.087%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.087%) Symantec
5 1 (1.087%) HP
5 1 (1.087%) Metastorm
5 1 (1.087%) Jaspersoft
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