The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 22 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 Dorset 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 49 37 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 22.58% 13.26% 19.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.58% 48.68% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 28
Average daily rate £370 £380 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% +16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £359 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £416 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
95 76 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 43.78% 27.24% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 51
Average daily rate £335 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £350 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £410 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
Average hourly rate £32.00 £40.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -2.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
SQL
South West

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bournemouth +1 26 £363 -8.22%
Poole +7 12 £375 +164.08%
Weymouth - 4 - -
SQL
South West

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 38 (48.72%) Oracle
2 31 (39.74%) PL/SQL
2 31 (39.74%) Finance
3 28 (35.90%) Microsoft
4 16 (20.51%) UNIX
5 15 (19.23%) Software Testing
5 15 (19.23%) Degree
6 13 (16.67%) Retail
6 13 (16.67%) Time Management
6 13 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 12 (15.38%) VBA
8 11 (14.10%) Java
8 11 (14.10%) Linux
8 11 (14.10%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (14.10%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (14.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (12.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (12.82%) Incident Management
9 10 (12.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (12.82%) MS Excel
9 10 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (12.82%) Data Modelling
9 10 (12.82%) SQL Server
9 10 (12.82%) Web Services
10 9 (11.54%) ITIL
10 9 (11.54%) MS Access
10 9 (11.54%) ISEB
11 8 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (10.26%) .NET
11 8 (10.26%) Banking

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 10 (12.82%) Web Services
2 8 (10.26%) .NET
3 6 (7.692%) XML
4 5 (6.410%) ASP.NET
5 4 (5.128%) WebSphere
6 3 (3.846%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.846%) Ajax
6 3 (3.846%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (3.846%) JSP
6 3 (3.846%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.564%) Middleware
7 2 (2.564%) Struts
7 2 (2.564%) ODBC
7 2 (2.564%) JMS
7 2 (2.564%) Servlets
7 2 (2.564%) JDBC
7 2 (2.564%) EJB
7 2 (2.564%) J2EE
7 2 (2.564%) jQuery
7 2 (2.564%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.128%) WebLogic
2 3 (3.846%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.564%) CMS
3 2 (2.564%) Apache
3 2 (2.564%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.564%) GlassFish
3 2 (2.564%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.282%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (1.282%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.282%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 10 (12.82%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.282%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.282%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.974%) Lawson
2 1 (1.282%) Prophet
2 1 (1.282%) EMB Igloo
2 1 (1.282%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.846%) FTP
2 2 (2.564%) HTTP
2 2 (2.564%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.282%) WAN
3 1 (1.282%) IIOP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (12.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (12.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 10 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 9 (11.54%) MS Access
4 7 (8.974%) TOAD
5 6 (7.692%) Star Schema
5 6 (7.692%) OLAP
6 5 (6.410%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (5.128%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (3.846%) MySQL
8 3 (3.846%) Oracle Discoverer
9 2 (2.564%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.564%) Oracle OWB
9 2 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (2.564%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
10 1 (1.282%) SQL Server 2005
10 1 (1.282%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (8.974%) JIRA
1 7 (8.974%) JMeter
2 5 (6.410%) Subversion
3 3 (3.846%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.846%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.564%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (2.564%) Introscope
4 2 (2.564%) NUnit
5 1 (1.282%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.282%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.282%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.282%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.282%) Rational Rose
5 1 (1.282%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.282%) JProbe
5 1 (1.282%) TestDirector
General
1 31 (39.74%) Finance
2 13 (16.67%) Retail
3 8 (10.26%) Banking
4 2 (2.564%) Advertising
4 2 (2.564%) Back Office
4 2 (2.564%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.282%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 43 (55.13%) Developer
2 26 (33.33%) Analyst
3 9 (11.54%) Applications Support
4 7 (8.974%) Analyst Developer
4 7 (8.974%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 6 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (7.692%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (7.692%) Support Analyst
5 6 (7.692%) Help Desk Analyst
5 6 (7.692%) SQL Developer
6 5 (6.410%) MI Analyst
6 5 (6.410%) .NET Developer
6 5 (6.410%) Test Analyst
7 4 (5.128%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.128%) Test Leader
7 4 (5.128%) Technical Leader
7 4 (5.128%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
7 4 (5.128%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 3 (3.846%) Systems Support
9 2 (2.564%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.692%) EPoS
2 4 (5.128%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.564%) Clustering
3 2 (2.564%) SWIFT
3 2 (2.564%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.282%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.282%) Semantic Web
4 1 (1.282%) Data Extraction
4 1 (1.282%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.282%) Replication
4 1 (1.282%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.51%) UNIX
2 11 (14.10%) Linux
3 5 (6.410%) Windows
4 3 (3.846%) Solaris
5 2 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.282%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.23%) Software Testing
2 13 (16.67%) Time Management
2 13 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 11 (14.10%) User Acceptance Testing
3 11 (14.10%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (12.82%) Incident Management
4 10 (12.82%) Data Modelling
5 9 (11.54%) ITIL
6 8 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (8.974%) Analytics
7 7 (8.974%) Risk Management
8 6 (7.692%) Mobile Commerce
8 6 (7.692%) MVC
8 6 (7.692%) E-Commerce
9 5 (6.410%) Test Management
10 4 (5.128%) ETL
10 4 (5.128%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (3.846%) Migration
11 3 (3.846%) Data Analysis
11 3 (3.846%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.74%) PL/SQL
2 12 (15.38%) VBA
3 11 (14.10%) Java
4 7 (8.974%) C#
5 6 (7.692%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.128%) VB
6 4 (5.128%) C++
7 3 (3.846%) VBScript
8 2 (2.564%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.282%) VB6
9 1 (1.282%) SPARQL
9 1 (1.282%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.282%) PHP
9 1 (1.282%) C
9 1 (1.282%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.282%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Degree
2 9 (11.54%) ISEB
3 6 (7.692%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.282%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.282%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.692%) QA
2 1 (1.282%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.282%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (1.282%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.974%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (2.564%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (1.282%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.282%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.282%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (48.72%) Oracle
2 28 (35.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.974%) Kronos
3 7 (8.974%) Fiserv
4 6 (7.692%) ATG
4 6 (7.692%) Business Objects
4 6 (7.692%) Northgate
5 2 (2.564%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.564%) HP
5 2 (2.564%) JBoss
6 1 (1.282%) Zend
6 1 (1.282%) SAP
6 1 (1.282%) VMware
6 1 (1.282%) EMC
6 1 (1.282%) TIBCO
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