The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dundee 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 Dundee 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 2 8 6
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 6 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dundee 30.00% 16.28% 12.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 33.33% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Dundee
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
14 21 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dundee 70.00% 48.84% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
Average daily rate £225 £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 4
Average hourly rate £16.72 £31.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.06% -4.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dundee 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 Dundee region.

Dundee 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 Dundee region.

Dundee SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dundee 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 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) MySQL
2 6 (66.67%) OOP
3 5 (55.56%) OO
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) C++
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) Refactoring
3 5 (55.56%) GWT
3 5 (55.56%) Linux
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Ext JS
4 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Retail
4 2 (22.22%) VBA
4 2 (22.22%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (22.22%) Business Objects
4 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (11.11%) C#

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dundee 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 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) CSS
3 5 (55.56%) GWT
3 5 (55.56%) Ext JS
4 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) WPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) PHP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Development Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (66.67%) OOP
2 5 (55.56%) OO
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) Refactoring
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) PHP
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) C++
3 2 (22.22%) VBA
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) MicroStrategy
1 2 (22.22%) Business Objects