East Sussex SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the East Sussex 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 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barking Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes 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 Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	8
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	30	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	36.59 %	24.31 %
Daily rates quoted	9	10
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£274
Average daily rate	£333	£290
% change on same period last year	+14.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.60	£26.67
Average hourly rate	£18.90	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-36.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.20	£33.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Programming Languages East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	82	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.143 %
Daily rates quoted	16	52
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£277
Average daily rate	£324	£291
% change on same period last year	+11.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.86	£29.93
Average hourly rate	£28.54	£32.60
% change on same period last year	-12.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.21	£35.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
SQL South East

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 Sussex 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 Sussex region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Brighton	+7	22	£316	+7.76 %
Hove	-	2	£320	-
Lewes	-	1	-	-

SQL South East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 33 (46.48 %) SQL Server 2 32 (45.07 %) .NET 3 23 (32.39 %) ASP.NET 4 20 (28.17 %) Finance 5 18 (25.35 %) Windows 6 15 (21.13 %) VB.NET 7 14 (19.72 %) ASP 8 13 (18.31 %) C# 9 12 (16.90 %) SQL Server 2005 9 12 (16.90 %) Microsoft 10 11 (15.49 %) XML 10 11 (15.49 %) Windows 2000 11 10 (14.08 %) Migration 12 9 (12.68 %) JavaScript 13 8 (11.27 %) Transact-SQL

13 8 (11.27 %) VB 13 8 (11.27 %) Data Migration 14 7 (9.859 %) Windows 2000 Server 14 7 (9.859 %) HTML 14 7 (9.859 %) Crystal Reports 14 7 (9.859 %) Windows XP 14 7 (9.859 %) Systems Analysis 14 7 (9.859 %) VB6 14 7 (9.859 %) Pensions 15 6 (8.451 %) ETL 15 6 (8.451 %) CSS 16 5 (7.042 %) SQL Server 2000 16 5 (7.042 %) Windows Server 2003 16 5 (7.042 %) Computer Science 16 5 (7.042 %) Degree

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 32 (45.07 %) .NET 2 23 (32.39 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (19.72 %) ASP 4 11 (15.49 %) XML 5 7 (9.859 %) HTML 6 6 (8.451 %) CSS 7 4 (5.634 %) XHTML 8 3 (4.225 %) XSL 9 1 (1.408 %) XSLT 9 1 (1.408 %) DOM 9 1 (1.408 %) ADO 9 1 (1.408 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (1.408 %) WebServices 9 1 (1.408 %) COM 9 1 (1.408 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.634 %) IIS 2 1 (1.408 %) Apache 2 1 (1.408 %) ColdFusion 2 1 (1.408 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.408 %) CMS
Applications 1 3 (4.225 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.408 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.634 %) VPN 1 4 (5.634 %) LAN 1 4 (5.634 %) WAN 2 1 (1.408 %) DNS 2 1 (1.408 %) Internet 2 1 (1.408 %) SMTP 2 1 (1.408 %) FTP 2 1 (1.408 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (46.48 %) SQL Server 2 12 (16.90 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (9.859 %) Crystal Reports 4 6 (8.451 %) ETL 5 5 (7.042 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (5.634 %) MS Access 6 4 (5.634 %) Datawarehouse 6 4 (5.634 %) DTS 7 3 (4.225 %) Data Cleansing 7 3 (4.225 %) MySQL 7 3 (4.225 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (1.408 %) OLAP 8 1 (1.408 %) RDBMS 8 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (1.408 %) Oracle OLAP	Development Applications 1 3 (4.225 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (4.225 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.408 %) Flash 2 1 (1.408 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 20 (28.17 %) Finance 2 7 (9.859 %) Pensions 3 5 (7.042 %) Insurance 3 5 (7.042 %) Banking 4 4 (5.634 %) Local Government 4 4 (5.634 %) Marketing 4 4 (5.634 %) Government 5 3 (4.225 %) Police 6 2 (2.817 %) Telecoms 6 2 (2.817 %) Education 7 1 (1.408 %) Law 7 1 (1.408 %) Publishing 7 1 (1.408 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 21 (29.58 %) Developer 2 16 (22.54 %) Analyst 3 13 (18.31 %) .NET Developer 4 12 (16.90 %) Programmer 5 11 (15.49 %) DBA 6 10 (14.08 %) Analyst Programmer 6 10 (14.08 %) SQL DBA 7 7 (9.859 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 7 7 (9.859 %) .NET Programmer 7 7 (9.859 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 7 7 (9.859 %) SQL Developer 7 7 (9.859 %) VB.NET Programmer 8 6 (8.451 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 6 (8.451 %) SQL Server DBA 9 5 (7.042 %) C# Developer 9 5 (7.042 %) Web Developer 10 4 (5.634 %) IT Manager 10 4 (5.634 %) Tester 10 4 (5.634 %) Helpdesk Manager 10 4 (5.634 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.042 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.408 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.408 %) Spread Betting	Operating Systems 1 18 (25.35 %) Windows 2 11 (15.49 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (9.859 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 7 (9.859 %) Windows XP 4 5 (7.042 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.408 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (1.408 %) UNIX 5 1 (1.408 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (14.08 %) Migration 2 8 (11.27 %) Data Migration 3 7 (9.859 %) Systems Analysis 4 4 (5.634 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 4 (5.634 %) Service Management 4 4 (5.634 %) ITSM 4 4 (5.634 %) ERP 5 3 (4.225 %) Web Development 6 2 (2.817 %) Regression Testing 6 2 (2.817 %) System Testing 7 1 (1.408 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.408 %) OOP 7 1 (1.408 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (1.408 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.408 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (1.408 %) Load Balancing 7 1 (1.408 %) Test Management 7 1 (1.408 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (1.408 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 15 (21.13 %) VB.NET 2 13 (18.31 %) C# 3 9 (12.68 %) JavaScript 4 8 (11.27 %) Transact-SQL 4 8 (11.27 %) VB 5 7 (9.859 %) VB6 6 2 (2.817 %) RPG 7 1 (1.408 %) VBScript 7 1 (1.408 %) Perl 7 1 (1.408 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.408 %) DHTML 7 1 (1.408 %) VBA 7 1 (1.408 %) Python 7 1 (1.408 %) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications 1 5 (7.042 %) Degree 2 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.225 %) WAI 2 1 (1.408 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (1.408 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.408 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 12 (16.90 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.817 %) Compuware 2 2 (2.817 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.408 %) Red Hat 3 1 (1.408 %) Infragistics