East Midlands SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the East Midlands 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Ballymena Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grampian Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Ross-on-Wye Royston Rugby Ryde Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Wycombe Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	6
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	201	246
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.317 %	0.264 %
As % of the category below	41.36 %	36.55 %
Daily rates quoted	65	30
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£321
Average daily rate	£321	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£329
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.96	£21.72
Average hourly rate	£27.92	£24.81
% change on same period last year	+12.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.89	£27.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.48	£30.03
% change on same period last year	-8.47 %
Programming Languages East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	486	673
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.766 %	0.721 %
Daily rates quoted	95	100
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£350
Average daily rate	£296	£373
% change on same period last year	-20.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	90
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.74	£26.55
Average hourly rate	£29.59	£28.54
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.44	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
SQL England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 East Midlands region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Nottinghamshire	+1	57	£341	+4.82 %
Derbyshire	0	29	£323	-13.80 %
Leicestershire	+5	25	£298	-11.34 %
Northamptonshire	+1	14	£394	+21.18 %
Lincolnshire	+1	13	£212	-15.40 %

SQL England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 165 (40.74 %) Oracle 2 142 (35.06 %) SQL Server 3 117 (28.89 %) .NET 4 73 (18.02 %) Windows 5 71 (17.53 %) Microsoft 6 66 (16.30 %) C# 7 63 (15.56 %) PL/SQL 7 63 (15.56 %) UNIX 8 59 (14.57 %) Java 9 56 (13.83 %) XML 10 55 (13.58 %) ASP.NET 11 53 (13.09 %) SQL Server 2005 12 44 (10.86 %) Finance 13 41 (10.12 %) VB 14 38 (9.383 %) C

15 36 (8.889 %) Datawarehouse 16 35 (8.642 %) VB.NET 16 35 (8.642 %) WebServices 17 34 (8.395 %) Perl 18 33 (8.148 %) C++ 19 31 (7.654 %) SQL Server Integration Services 19 31 (7.654 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 20 30 (7.407 %) Transact-SQL 21 29 (7.160 %) Crystal Reports 21 29 (7.160 %) Oracle 10g 22 27 (6.667 %) MS Excel 23 26 (6.420 %) Active Directory 23 26 (6.420 %) Oracle Reports 24 25 (6.173 %) HTML 25 24 (5.926 %) Oracle 8/8i

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 117 (28.89 %) .NET 2 56 (13.83 %) XML 3 55 (13.58 %) ASP.NET 4 35 (8.642 %) WebServices 5 25 (6.173 %) HTML 6 17 (4.198 %) CSS 7 16 (3.951 %) ASP 8 14 (3.457 %) XSLT 9 11 (2.716 %) ADO.NET 10 10 (2.469 %) J2EE 10 10 (2.469 %) SOAP 11 7 (1.728 %) EJB 12 6 (1.481 %) Hibernate 12 6 (1.481 %) WinForms 13 5 (1.235 %) AJAX 13 5 (1.235 %) JSP 14 4 (0.988 %) Servlets 14 4 (0.988 %) Struts 14 4 (0.988 %) Spring 14 4 (0.988 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 13 (3.210 %) SharePoint 2 11 (2.716 %) SAS 3 10 (2.469 %) MS Exchange 4 9 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 8 (1.975 %) IIS 6 7 (1.728 %) WebLogic 7 5 (1.235 %) Tomcat 8 3 (0.741 %) Papyrus 8 3 (0.741 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 3 (0.741 %) CMS 9 2 (0.494 %) Oracle Workflow 9 2 (0.494 %) BizTalk Server 9 2 (0.494 %) Apache 10 1 (0.247 %) Tuxedo 10 1 (0.247 %) ColdFusion 10 1 (0.247 %) WebLogic Portal 10 1 (0.247 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 27 (6.667 %) MS Excel 2 15 (3.704 %) MS Office 3 5 (1.235 %) Spreadsheet 4 4 (0.988 %) MS Visio 5 3 (0.741 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.247 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 6 (1.481 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.247 %) VisionPLUS 2 1 (0.247 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (0.247 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 14 (3.457 %) Internet 2 13 (3.210 %) Intranet 3 7 (1.728 %) SAN 3 7 (1.728 %) LAN 3 7 (1.728 %) TCP/IP 4 6 (1.481 %) WAN 4 6 (1.481 %) Firewall 5 3 (0.741 %) FTP 5 3 (0.741 %) Extranet 6 1 (0.247 %) VPN 6 1 (0.247 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 142 (35.06 %) SQL Server 2 53 (13.09 %) SQL Server 2005 3 36 (8.889 %) Datawarehouse 4 31 (7.654 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 31 (7.654 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 29 (7.160 %) Oracle 10g 5 29 (7.160 %) Crystal Reports 6 26 (6.420 %) Oracle Reports 7 24 (5.926 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 23 (5.679 %) SQL Server 2000 9 21 (5.185 %) DTS 10 18 (4.444 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 16 (3.951 %) MS Access 12 15 (3.704 %) Oracle 9i 13 13 (3.210 %) RDBMS 14 12 (2.963 %) ETL 15 11 (2.716 %) BusinessObjects 16 7 (1.728 %) SQLPlus 16 7 (1.728 %) MySQL 17 5 (1.235 %) Ingres
Development Applications 1 17 (4.198 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (2.963 %) Oracle Forms 3 11 (2.716 %) QuickTest Pro 4 6 (1.481 %) Eclipse 5 5 (1.235 %) MSI 5 5 (1.235 %) Oracle APEX 6 4 (0.988 %) WinRunner 7 2 (0.494 %) TestDirector 7 2 (0.494 %) Flash 7 2 (0.494 %) Ant 7 2 (0.494 %) JUnit 8 1 (0.247 %) Dreamweaver 8 1 (0.247 %) Visual Studio Team System 8 1 (0.247 %) Bugzilla 8 1 (0.247 %) Subversion 8 1 (0.247 %) LoadRunner 8 1 (0.247 %) WebLogic Workshop	General 1 44 (10.86 %) Finance 2 23 (5.679 %) Government 3 15 (3.704 %) Manufacturing 4 13 (3.210 %) Back Office 5 12 (2.963 %) Health 5 12 (2.963 %) Local Government 6 8 (1.975 %) Marketing 7 7 (1.728 %) Banking 8 6 (1.481 %) Pharmaceutical 8 6 (1.481 %) Graphic Design 9 5 (1.235 %) Education 9 5 (1.235 %) Billing 10 4 (0.988 %) Insurance 10 4 (0.988 %) Retail 10 4 (0.988 %) Aerospace 11 2 (0.494 %) Financial Institution 11 2 (0.494 %) Retail Banking 12 1 (0.247 %) Games 12 1 (0.247 %) Front Office 12 1 (0.247 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 176 (43.46 %) Developer 2 90 (22.22 %) Analyst 3 38 (9.383 %) .NET Developer 3 38 (9.383 %) SQL Developer 4 26 (6.420 %) DBA 5 21 (5.185 %) C# Developer 6 20 (4.938 %) Oracle Developer 7 19 (4.691 %) Applications Support 7 19 (4.691 %) Support Analyst 7 19 (4.691 %) Architect 8 17 (4.198 %) Software Developer 9 16 (3.951 %) SQL Server Developer 9 16 (3.951 %) SQL DBA 10 15 (3.704 %) Information Analyst 10 15 (3.704 %) VB.NET Developer 11 14 (3.457 %) Tester 12 13 (3.210 %) Programmer 12 13 (3.210 %) ASP.NET Developer 13 12 (2.963 %) Web Developer 14 11 (2.716 %) Systems Designer	Miscellaneous 1 19 (4.691 %) NHS 2 14 (3.457 %) Client/Server 3 11 (2.716 %) Management Information System 4 5 (1.235 %) Mainframe 5 4 (0.988 %) Clustering 5 4 (0.988 %) Multithreading 6 3 (0.741 %) W3C 7 2 (0.494 %) N-Tier 7 2 (0.494 %) EPoS 7 2 (0.494 %) Web 2.0 7 2 (0.494 %) Statistics 7 2 (0.494 %) Informatics 7 2 (0.494 %) Mathematics 7 2 (0.494 %) Computer Science 8 1 (0.247 %) Dutch Language 8 1 (0.247 %) Credit Risk 8 1 (0.247 %) PDA 8 1 (0.247 %) PKI 8 1 (0.247 %) NPfIT 8 1 (0.247 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 73 (18.02 %) Windows 2 63 (15.56 %) UNIX 3 19 (4.691 %) Windows Server 2003 4 18 (4.444 %) Solaris 5 12 (2.963 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 11 (2.716 %) Linux 6 11 (2.716 %) Windows 2000 7 9 (2.222 %) Windows XP 7 9 (2.222 %) Windows Vista 8 8 (1.975 %) AIX 9 1 (0.247 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (5.185 %) Migration 1 21 (5.185 %) Security Cleared 2 19 (4.691 %) OO 3 18 (4.444 %) Data Management 4 14 (3.457 %) Agile Software Development 5 13 (3.210 %) UML 6 12 (2.963 %) Business Intelligence 7 10 (2.469 %) Validation 7 10 (2.469 %) Test Scripting 8 9 (2.222 %) SC Cleared 8 9 (2.222 %) Stakeholder Management 8 9 (2.222 %) B2B 9 8 (1.975 %) Data Modelling 9 8 (1.975 %) Unit Testing 9 8 (1.975 %) Data Analysis 10 7 (1.728 %) Web Development 10 7 (1.728 %) Data Migration 10 7 (1.728 %) CAD 10 7 (1.728 %) Configuration Management 10 7 (1.728 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 66 (16.30 %) C# 2 63 (15.56 %) PL/SQL 3 59 (14.57 %) Java 4 41 (10.12 %) VB 5 38 (9.383 %) C 6 35 (8.642 %) VB.NET 7 34 (8.395 %) Perl 8 33 (8.148 %) C++ 9 30 (7.407 %) Transact-SQL 10 23 (5.679 %) VB6 11 21 (5.185 %) JavaScript 12 18 (4.444 %) VBA 13 13 (3.210 %) Shell Script 14 12 (2.963 %) Uniface 14 12 (2.963 %) PHP 15 8 (1.975 %) VBScript 16 4 (0.988 %) Python 17 2 (0.494 %) FoxPro (VFP) 17 2 (0.494 %) ActionScript 17 2 (0.494 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 13 (3.210 %) Degree 2 12 (2.963 %) ISEB 3 6 (1.481 %) MCSE 3 6 (1.481 %) Microsoft Certification 4 5 (1.235 %) ISTQB 5 3 (0.741 %) ISEB Practitioner 6 2 (0.494 %) Sun Certification 7 1 (0.247 %) SAS Certification 7 1 (0.247 %) SCJD 7 1 (0.247 %) CCNP 7 1 (0.247 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.975 %) HL7 2 3 (0.741 %) SLA 3 2 (0.494 %) QA	System Software 1 26 (6.420 %) Active Directory 2 7 (1.728 %) NFS 3 2 (0.494 %) ISA Server 4 1 (0.247 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.247 %) Oracle RMAN 4 1 (0.247 %) Oracle RAC 4 1 (0.247 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.247 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 13 (3.210 %) Tivoli 2 7 (1.728 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 6 (1.481 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (0.247 %) CONTROL-M 4 1 (0.247 %) SCOM 4 1 (0.247 %) MOM	Vendors 1 165 (40.74 %) Oracle 2 71 (17.53 %) Microsoft 3 11 (2.716 %) Business Objects 3 11 (2.716 %) Teradata 4 9 (2.222 %) Capita 4 9 (2.222 %) IBM 5 8 (1.975 %) SeeBeyond 6 7 (1.728 %) NetApp 6 7 (1.728 %) Cisco 6 7 (1.728 %) Brocade 6 7 (1.728 %) InterSystems 6 7 (1.728 %) Ab Initio 7 6 (1.481 %) Hyperion 8 4 (0.988 %) VMware 8 4 (0.988 %) Cognos 8 4 (0.988 %) Sybase 8 4 (0.988 %) Sun 9 3 (0.741 %) iSOFT 10 2 (0.494 %) BEA 10 2 (0.494 %) BMC