The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Devon 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 30 35 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 17.24% 19.34% 16.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.45% 43.75% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 11
Average daily rate £275 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £340 £303
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
Average hourly rate - £15.25 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
66 80 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 37.93% 44.20% 53.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 42 42
Average daily rate £320 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £435 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 9
Average hourly rate £40.00 £15.50 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+158.06% -47.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
South West

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Exeter +5 16 £275 -0.90%
Plymouth -1 6 £313 -3.84%
Barnstaple - 2 £278 -
Exmouth +3 1 £143 -
SQL
South West

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 24 (29.63%) SQL Server
1 24 (29.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 23 (28.40%) .NET
3 22 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 22 (27.16%) Security Cleared
4 21 (25.93%) Oracle
5 20 (24.69%) ETL
6 19 (23.46%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (23.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (20.99%) T-SQL
8 16 (19.75%) C#
8 16 (19.75%) XML
9 15 (18.52%) Web Services
9 15 (18.52%) PL/SQL
9 15 (18.52%) SQL Server 2008
10 13 (16.05%) Remedy ITSM
10 13 (16.05%) CMDB
10 13 (16.05%) BMC
10 13 (16.05%) Remedy
11 12 (14.81%) TOAD
11 12 (14.81%) ITIL
11 12 (14.81%) ITSM
11 12 (14.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 11 (13.58%) Kimball Methodology
12 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET
12 11 (13.58%) Oracle 10g
13 10 (12.35%) Oracle 11g
14 8 (9.877%) Data Modelling
14 8 (9.877%) Oracle Reports

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 23 (28.40%) .NET
2 16 (19.75%) XML
3 15 (18.52%) Web Services
4 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET
5 6 (7.407%) CSS
6 5 (6.173%) RESTful
7 3 (3.704%) REST
7 3 (3.704%) XSLT
7 3 (3.704%) HTML
7 3 (3.704%) Ajax
7 3 (3.704%) MDX
7 3 (3.704%) Silverlight
7 3 (3.704%) jQuery
8 2 (2.469%) WCF
8 2 (2.469%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.469%) Spring
8 2 (2.469%) J2EE
8 2 (2.469%) ASP
9 1 (1.235%) WPF
9 1 (1.235%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.938%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (3.704%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.469%) GlassFish
4 1 (1.235%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.235%) IIS
4 1 (1.235%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.469%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.938%) SAN
2 1 (1.235%) Internet
2 1 (1.235%) LDAP
2 1 (1.235%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (29.63%) SQL Server
1 24 (29.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 19 (23.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 19 (23.46%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (18.52%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (14.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (14.81%) TOAD
5 11 (13.58%) Oracle 10g
6 10 (12.35%) Oracle 11g
7 8 (9.877%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (7.407%) DTS
9 5 (6.173%) Data Mart
9 5 (6.173%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (2.469%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.469%) Star Schema
11 1 (1.235%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (4.938%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.704%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.469%) JUnit
3 2 (2.469%) NUnit
3 2 (2.469%) Selenium
3 2 (2.469%) jMock
3 2 (2.469%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.469%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.469%) Mockito
4 1 (1.235%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.235%) Subversion
4 1 (1.235%) Maven
General
1 5 (6.173%) Finance
Job Titles
1 55 (67.90%) Developer
2 19 (23.46%) SQL Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Oracle Developer
4 9 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 7 (8.642%) .NET Developer
5 7 (8.642%) C# Developer
5 7 (8.642%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.642%) SQL DBA
5 7 (8.642%) DBA
6 6 (7.407%) Consultant
6 6 (7.407%) Analyst
7 5 (6.173%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 4 (4.938%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (4.938%) Oracle Forms Developer
9 3 (3.704%) OBIEE Developer
9 3 (3.704%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.469%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.469%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.469%) Technical Project Manager
10 2 (2.469%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) CMDB
2 3 (3.704%) Data Extraction
3 2 (2.469%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.407%) UNIX
2 4 (4.938%) HPUX
3 3 (3.704%) Linux
3 3 (3.704%) Windows
4 2 (2.469%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (24.69%) ETL
3 12 (14.81%) ITIL
3 12 (14.81%) ITSM
4 11 (13.58%) Kimball Methodology
5 8 (9.877%) Data Modelling
6 7 (8.642%) Unit Testing
6 7 (8.642%) Test Scripting
7 6 (7.407%) Migration
7 6 (7.407%) ERP
8 5 (6.173%) OO
8 5 (6.173%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (4.938%) Quality Management
9 4 (4.938%) Technical Architecture
10 3 (3.704%) Service Delivery
10 3 (3.704%) MVC
10 3 (3.704%) SOA
10 3 (3.704%) Project Management
11 2 (2.469%) Workflow
11 2 (2.469%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.99%) T-SQL
2 16 (19.75%) C#
3 15 (18.52%) PL/SQL
4 7 (8.642%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.407%) Java
5 6 (7.407%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.469%) C
6 2 (2.469%) VB
7 1 (1.235%) VBScript
7 1 (1.235%) Python
7 1 (1.235%) XQuery
7 1 (1.235%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (27.16%) SC Cleared
1 22 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.173%) Degree
3 3 (3.704%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.235%) MCAD
4 1 (1.235%) MCSD
4 1 (1.235%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.235%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.235%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.173%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.235%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.235%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Oracle
2 13 (16.05%) BMC
2 13 (16.05%) Remedy
3 5 (6.173%) VMware
3 5 (6.173%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.938%) HP
5 2 (2.469%) SAP
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