The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Edinburgh 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 95 84 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 10.31% 8.061% 8.467%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.09% 41.18% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 29 44
Average daily rate £325 £337 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% +3.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £234 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £47.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+193.75% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
243 204 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.38% 19.58% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 72 108
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
Average hourly rate £24.00 £32.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +1.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £16.00 £18.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.60 £32.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Edinburgh SQL Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 64 (38.10%) Oracle
2 54 (32.14%) Finance
3 49 (29.17%) SQL Server
4 31 (18.45%) PL/SQL
5 29 (17.26%) .NET
6 27 (16.07%) Windows
6 27 (16.07%) Banking
7 23 (13.69%) Java
8 22 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (13.10%) Microsoft
9 21 (12.50%) T-SQL
10 20 (11.90%) C#
11 19 (11.31%) Migration
12 17 (10.12%) HTML
12 17 (10.12%) ETL
13 16 (9.524%) ASP.NET
13 16 (9.524%) XML
14 15 (8.929%) SAS
14 15 (8.929%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (8.929%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (8.333%) Asset Management
15 14 (8.333%) VMware
15 14 (8.333%) Linux
15 14 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
16 13 (7.738%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (7.738%) Business Intelligence
16 13 (7.738%) JavaScript
16 13 (7.738%) MVC
17 12 (7.143%) Project Management

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 29 (17.26%) .NET
2 17 (10.12%) HTML
3 16 (9.524%) ASP.NET
3 16 (9.524%) XML
4 12 (7.143%) jQuery
5 11 (6.548%) .NET Framework
6 10 (5.952%) CSS
7 8 (4.762%) J2EE
7 8 (4.762%) Web Services
8 7 (4.167%) Spring
9 5 (2.976%) Ajax
9 5 (2.976%) NHibernate
9 5 (2.976%) WebSphere
9 5 (2.976%) HTML5
9 5 (2.976%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.381%) Struts
10 4 (2.381%) CSS3
10 4 (2.381%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 3 (1.786%) WPF
11 3 (1.786%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 15 (8.929%) SAS
2 8 (4.762%) MS Exchange
3 7 (4.167%) Apache
4 5 (2.976%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.381%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.381%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (1.786%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (1.786%) IIS
7 2 (1.190%) CMS
8 1 (0.595%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.595%) Lync
8 1 (0.595%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.595%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.595%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (4.762%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.381%) MS Office
3 3 (1.786%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.595%) Office 365
4 1 (0.595%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.357%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.190%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.595%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.595%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.595%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.762%) TCP/IP
1 8 (4.762%) DNS
2 7 (4.167%) DHCP
3 5 (2.976%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.381%) Firewall
4 4 (2.381%) SAN
4 4 (2.381%) Internet
5 3 (1.786%) LAN
5 3 (1.786%) WAN
5 3 (1.786%) LDAP
6 1 (0.595%) Network Security
6 1 (0.595%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 22 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (8.929%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (8.929%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (7.738%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (6.548%) SQL Server 2005
7 10 (5.952%) Oracle 11g
8 9 (5.357%) DB2
9 8 (4.762%) RDBMS
10 7 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
11 6 (3.571%) Oracle 10g
12 5 (2.976%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (2.976%) QlikView
13 4 (2.381%) DTS
13 4 (2.381%) Oracle 9i
13 4 (2.381%) OLAP
13 4 (2.381%) Data Mining
13 4 (2.381%) Oracle Discoverer
13 4 (2.381%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 10 (5.952%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (4.762%) Visual Studio
3 7 (4.167%) Mercurial
4 5 (2.976%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.976%) Subversion
5 4 (2.381%) Eclipse
5 4 (2.381%) MSI
6 3 (1.786%) JIRA
6 3 (1.786%) Git (software)
6 3 (1.786%) TortoiseSVN
6 3 (1.786%) Maven
7 2 (1.190%) NUnit
7 2 (1.190%) MSTest
7 2 (1.190%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.190%) Selenium
7 2 (1.190%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.595%) FogBugz
8 1 (0.595%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.595%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.595%) Robotium
General
1 54 (32.14%) Finance
2 27 (16.07%) Banking
3 8 (4.762%) Front Office
3 8 (4.762%) Investment Banking
4 3 (1.786%) Marketing
4 3 (1.786%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.595%) Retail
5 1 (0.595%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.595%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 51 (30.36%) Developer
2 41 (24.40%) Analyst
3 15 (8.929%) Data Analyst
4 14 (8.333%) Consultant
5 13 (7.738%) Oracle Developer
6 11 (6.548%) .NET Developer
6 11 (6.548%) DBA
7 9 (5.357%) Support Analyst
8 8 (4.762%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.167%) Oracle Consultant
9 7 (4.167%) Database Specialist
10 6 (3.571%) Applications Support
10 6 (3.571%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (2.976%) Architect
11 5 (2.976%) SQL DBA
11 5 (2.976%) Test Analyst
11 5 (2.976%) Administrator
12 4 (2.381%) Applications Packager
12 4 (2.381%) Web Developer
12 4 (2.381%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.762%) Data Integration
2 6 (3.571%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.381%) NHS
4 3 (1.786%) Blackberry
4 3 (1.786%) Clustering
4 3 (1.786%) Replication
5 2 (1.190%) Handset
5 2 (1.190%) Data Conversion
5 2 (1.190%) Visualisation
5 2 (1.190%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.190%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.190%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.595%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.595%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.595%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.595%) Statistics
6 1 (0.595%) iSeries
6 1 (0.595%) iPhone
6 1 (0.595%) SaaS
6 1 (0.595%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.07%) Windows
2 14 (8.333%) Linux
3 11 (6.548%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (5.952%) UNIX
5 6 (3.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.976%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (2.381%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.786%) Windows Vista
8 3 (1.786%) Android
9 2 (1.190%) Solaris
9 2 (1.190%) zOS
10 1 (0.595%) Windows Phone
10 1 (0.595%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.595%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.595%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.595%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (11.31%) Migration
2 17 (10.12%) ETL
3 14 (8.333%) Asset Management
4 13 (7.738%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (7.738%) MVC
5 12 (7.143%) Project Management
5 12 (7.143%) Investment Management
6 11 (6.548%) Data Modelling
7 9 (5.357%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (4.167%) Data Migration
9 7 (4.167%) UML
9 7 (4.167%) Data Analysis
10 6 (3.571%) CRM
10 6 (3.571%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (2.976%) Data Mapping
11 5 (2.976%) Configuration Management
12 4 (2.381%) Service Delivery
12 4 (2.381%) Scrum
12 4 (2.381%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.45%) PL/SQL
2 23 (13.69%) Java
3 21 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 20 (11.90%) C#
5 13 (7.738%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.167%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.381%) VBA
7 4 (2.381%) Perl
8 3 (1.786%) SAS Macro
9 2 (1.190%) Python
9 2 (1.190%) PHP
9 2 (1.190%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.190%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
10 1 (0.595%) Korn
10 1 (0.595%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.595%) VB
10 1 (0.595%) VB6
Qualifications
1 14 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (6.548%) Degree
3 6 (3.571%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (2.381%) MCSE
5 2 (1.190%) MCSA
5 2 (1.190%) ISEB
5 2 (1.190%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.190%) MCITP
6 1 (0.595%) CISSP
6 1 (0.595%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.190%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (1.190%) QA
2 1 (0.595%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (0.595%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.548%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (5.357%) vSphere
3 7 (4.167%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.976%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.190%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.595%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.595%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 5 (2.976%) SCCM
2 4 (2.381%) Backup Exec
2 4 (2.381%) WSUS
3 3 (1.786%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 3 (1.786%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.190%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (0.595%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.595%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 64 (38.10%) Oracle
2 22 (13.10%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.333%) VMware
4 8 (4.762%) Charles River
5 7 (4.167%) Business Objects
6 6 (3.571%) Citrix
6 6 (3.571%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.976%) Cadis
7 5 (2.976%) HP
8 4 (2.381%) Telerik
8 4 (2.381%) Sybase
8 4 (2.381%) NetApp
8 4 (2.381%) IBM
8 4 (2.381%) Veeam
9 3 (1.786%) Informatica
9 3 (1.786%) SAP
10 2 (1.190%) Trillium
10 2 (1.190%) Siebel
10 2 (1.190%) BMC
10 2 (1.190%) Hyperion
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Rate: £Market
Posted: 18 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Rate: £200.00 - £266.00 per day
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Posted: 4 June 2013
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Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Rate: £175 - £325 per day
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