Devon SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Devon region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ryde Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	2
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	41	105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.106 %
As % of the category below	43.62 %	49.07 %
Daily rates quoted	27	18
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£265
Average daily rate	£310	£282
% change on same period last year	+10.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£32.72
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£35.08
% change on same period last year	-44.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£37.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.18	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Programming Languages Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	94	214
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.132 %	0.216 %
Daily rates quoted	38	67
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£326
Average daily rate	£309	£338
% change on same period last year	-8.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.28	£30.25
Average hourly rate	£20.39	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-37.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.50	£35.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
SQL South West

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.

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Devon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Devon region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Plymouth	+7	26	£342	+21.70 %
Exeter	-3	12	£240	-20.32 %
Tiverton	-	1	-	-

SQL South West

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 32 (40.00 %) Microsoft 2 31 (38.75 %) UNIX 3 23 (28.75 %) .NET 4 22 (27.50 %) VMware 5 19 (23.75 %) Clustering 5 19 (23.75 %) VMware Server 6 18 (22.50 %) Oracle 6 18 (22.50 %) SQL Server 6 18 (22.50 %) JavaScript 7 16 (20.00 %) J2EE 8 13 (16.25 %) Windows 8 13 (16.25 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 13 (16.25 %) Citrix 8 13 (16.25 %) SharePoint 8 13 (16.25 %) MS Exchange

8 13 (16.25 %) Intranet 8 13 (16.25 %) Extranet 8 13 (16.25 %) Oracle RMAN 8 13 (16.25 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 12 (15.00 %) OVPI 9 12 (15.00 %) Content Management 9 12 (15.00 %) ITSM 9 12 (15.00 %) BizTalk Server 9 12 (15.00 %) Shell Script 9 12 (15.00 %) Cisco Certification 9 12 (15.00 %) CCNA 9 12 (15.00 %) Cisco 9 12 (15.00 %) HTML 10 11 (13.75 %) XML 10 11 (13.75 %) Oracle 9i

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 (28.75 %) .NET 2 16 (20.00 %) J2EE 3 12 (15.00 %) HTML 4 11 (13.75 %) XML 5 6 (7.500 %) XHTML 5 6 (7.500 %) CSS 6 4 (5.000 %) .NET Framework 7 3 (3.750 %) Middleware 7 3 (3.750 %) JSP 7 3 (3.750 %) WebServices 7 3 (3.750 %) WebSphere 8 2 (2.500 %) Ext JS 8 2 (2.500 %) ASP 8 2 (2.500 %) JSF 9 1 (1.250 %) AJAX 9 1 (1.250 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 1 (1.250 %) iBATIS 9 1 (1.250 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (1.250 %) Hibernate 9 1 (1.250 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 13 (16.25 %) SharePoint 1 13 (16.25 %) MS Exchange 1 13 (16.25 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 12 (15.00 %) BizTalk Server 3 9 (11.25 %) ColdFusion 4 3 (3.750 %) Documentum 4 3 (3.750 %) WebLogic 4 3 (3.750 %) IIS 4 3 (3.750 %) LiveLink 5 2 (2.500 %) WebSphere MQ 5 2 (2.500 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 1 (1.250 %) JBoss 6 1 (1.250 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (1.250 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (8.750 %) MS Project 1 7 (8.750 %) MS Excel 2 5 (6.250 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 7 (8.750 %) Summit 2 3 (3.750 %) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 13 (16.25 %) Intranet 1 13 (16.25 %) Extranet 2 7 (8.750 %) LDAP 3 5 (6.250 %) Internet 4 4 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (3.750 %) SMTP 5 3 (3.750 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (22.50 %) SQL Server 2 11 (13.75 %) Oracle 9i 3 10 (12.50 %) TOAD 3 10 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 4 8 (10.00 %) Crystal Reports 5 3 (3.750 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (3.750 %) DataStage 5 3 (3.750 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 2 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (2.500 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (1.250 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 1 (1.250 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.250 %) Eclipse	General 1 8 (10.00 %) Construction 2 6 (7.500 %) Health 3 5 (6.250 %) Telecoms 3 5 (6.250 %) Finance 4 2 (2.500 %) Education 4 2 (2.500 %) Government 5 1 (1.250 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.250 %) Billing 5 1 (1.250 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 35 (43.75 %) Developer 2 19 (23.75 %) Administrator 3 17 (21.25 %) Consultant 3 17 (21.25 %) Systems Administrator 4 13 (16.25 %) DBA 4 13 (16.25 %) Oracle Developer 5 11 (13.75 %) Implementation Consultant 6 9 (11.25 %) Oracle DBA 6 9 (11.25 %) Technical Consultant 7 6 (7.500 %) Analyst 8 5 (6.250 %) Software Developer 8 5 (6.250 %) Applications Support 9 4 (5.000 %) Systems Support 9 4 (5.000 %) Applications Developer 9 4 (5.000 %) Microsoft Consultant 10 3 (3.750 %) Web Developer 10 3 (3.750 %) SQL Developer 11 2 (2.500 %) Java Developer 11 2 (2.500 %) VB Developer 11 2 (2.500 %) ASP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 19 (23.75 %) Clustering 2 7 (8.750 %) NHS 3 6 (7.500 %) Thin Client 3 6 (7.500 %) Fat Client 4 5 (6.250 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.250 %) Data Extraction 5 1 (1.250 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 31 (38.75 %) UNIX 2 13 (16.25 %) Windows 3 3 (3.750 %) AIX 3 3 (3.750 %) Windows XP 3 3 (3.750 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (3.750 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (2.500 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.00 %) ITSM 1 12 (15.00 %) Content Management 2 10 (12.50 %) Software Testing 3 8 (10.00 %) Business Analysis 4 6 (7.500 %) Migration 4 6 (7.500 %) Quality Management 5 5 (6.250 %) ITIL 6 4 (5.000 %) OO 6 4 (5.000 %) Web Development 7 3 (3.750 %) Time Management 7 3 (3.750 %) Disaster Recovery 7 3 (3.750 %) Data Protection 7 3 (3.750 %) Service Management 8 2 (2.500 %) Requirements Analysis 9 1 (1.250 %) Performance Management 9 1 (1.250 %) QMS 9 1 (1.250 %) CRM 9 1 (1.250 %) Data Modelling 9 1 (1.250 %) BC Cleared 9 1 (1.250 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 18 (22.50 %) JavaScript 2 12 (15.00 %) Shell Script 3 8 (10.00 %) C# 3 8 (10.00 %) PL/SQL 4 6 (7.500 %) Perl 5 5 (6.250 %) VB 5 5 (6.250 %) C 6 4 (5.000 %) VBScript 7 3 (3.750 %) VB.NET 7 3 (3.750 %) Java 8 2 (2.500 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 12 (15.00 %) CCNA 1 12 (15.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.250 %) Degree
System Software 1 19 (23.75 %) VMware Server 2 13 (16.25 %) Oracle RMAN 3 3 (3.750 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (3.750 %) Active Directory 3 3 (3.750 %) Terminal Services 3 3 (3.750 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 13 (16.25 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 12 (15.00 %) OVPI 3 8 (10.00 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 6 (7.500 %) BMC PATROL 5 3 (3.750 %) Tivoli 5 3 (3.750 %) Tivoli Remote Control 6 1 (1.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 32 (40.00 %) Microsoft 2 22 (27.50 %) VMware 3 18 (22.50 %) Oracle 4 13 (16.25 %) Citrix 5 12 (15.00 %) Cisco 6 6 (7.500 %) Intel 6 6 (7.500 %) BMC 7 3 (3.750 %) McAfee Security 7 3 (3.750 %) Business Objects 7 3 (3.750 %) HP 7 3 (3.750 %) Lagan 8 1 (1.250 %) SAP 8 1 (1.250 %) Metastorm