The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 257 162 167
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.28% 20.98% 23.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.54% 58.91% 52.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 72 110
Average daily rate £338 £300 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £228 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £388 £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
Average hourly rate - £11.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -22.48%
All Programming Languages
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
577 275 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 61.25% 35.62% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 138 206
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
Average hourly rate £12.18 £20.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.11% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.86 £11.00 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.23 £20.00 £94.00
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

1 143 (32.95%) Sybase
2 141 (32.49%) Oracle
3 138 (31.80%) Finance
4 129 (29.72%) Java
5 122 (28.11%) C#
6 120 (27.65%) UNIX
7 94 (21.66%) SQL Server
8 80 (18.43%) XML
9 77 (17.74%) PL/SQL
9 77 (17.74%) Banking
10 74 (17.05%) Spring
11 70 (16.13%) Multithreading
12 65 (14.98%) .NET
13 64 (14.75%) RDBMS
14 63 (14.52%) Linux
15 55 (12.67%) Perl
15 55 (12.67%) Agile Software Development
16 54 (12.44%) Data Warehouse
17 52 (11.98%) Unit Testing
18 51 (11.75%) WPF
18 51 (11.75%) Windows
19 48 (11.06%) JavaScript
20 42 (9.677%) JMS
21 40 (9.217%) OO
22 38 (8.756%) Tomcat
23 37 (8.525%) ASP.NET
23 37 (8.525%) T-SQL
24 36 (8.295%) Web Services
24 36 (8.295%) Data Modelling
25 34 (7.834%) Microsoft

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 80 (18.43%) XML
2 74 (17.05%) Spring
3 65 (14.98%) .NET
4 51 (11.75%) WPF
5 42 (9.677%) JMS
6 37 (8.525%) ASP.NET
7 36 (8.295%) Web Services
8 34 (7.834%) HTML
9 31 (7.143%) Hibernate
10 29 (6.682%) CSS
11 28 (6.452%) XSLT
12 24 (5.530%) J2EE
12 24 (5.530%) WebSphere
12 24 (5.530%) Ajax
13 20 (4.608%) jQuery
14 19 (4.378%) WinForms
14 19 (4.378%) JDBC
14 19 (4.378%) J2SE
15 18 (4.147%) SOAP
16 16 (3.687%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 38 (8.756%) Tomcat
2 11 (2.535%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.535%) Apache
3 8 (1.843%) IIS
4 6 (1.382%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.382%) CMS
4 6 (1.382%) Mule
5 5 (1.152%) ESB
5 5 (1.152%) Oracle Coherence
5 5 (1.152%) Documentum
6 4 (0.922%) TIBCO EMS
6 4 (0.922%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.691%) GlassFish
7 3 (0.691%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.691%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.461%) MS Exchange
8 2 (0.461%) Lync
8 2 (0.461%) Captiva
8 2 (0.461%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 2 (0.461%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 20 (4.608%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.152%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.691%) MS Office
3 3 (0.691%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.461%) Office 365
4 2 (0.461%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.230%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 3 (0.691%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.461%) Agresso
2 2 (0.461%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.230%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.230%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.230%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.230%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.382%) HTTP
1 6 (1.382%) Internet
1 6 (1.382%) SAN
2 3 (0.691%) Intranet
3 2 (0.461%) FTP
4 1 (0.230%) Extranet
4 1 (0.230%) Firewall
4 1 (0.230%) VLAN
4 1 (0.230%) DNS
4 1 (0.230%) LDAP
4 1 (0.230%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (21.66%) SQL Server
2 64 (14.75%) RDBMS
3 54 (12.44%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.760%) SQL Server 2008
5 24 (5.530%) SQL Server 2005
6 22 (5.069%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 22 (5.069%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (4.839%) DB2
8 15 (3.456%) Oracle 10g
9 14 (3.226%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (2.995%) SQL Server 2000
11 11 (2.535%) Oracle 8/8i
12 10 (2.304%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (2.074%) Oracle 9i
13 9 (2.074%) DTS
14 8 (1.843%) TOAD
14 8 (1.843%) SQL Server 2012
15 7 (1.613%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.613%) MySQL
16 6 (1.382%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 32 (7.373%) Subversion
2 28 (6.452%) JUnit
3 21 (4.839%) CruiseControl
4 18 (4.147%) Selenium
5 17 (3.917%) Maven
5 17 (3.917%) Eclipse
6 12 (2.765%) JIRA
7 9 (2.074%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (1.843%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.843%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.613%) ProC
10 6 (1.382%) ClearCase
10 6 (1.382%) MbUnit
10 6 (1.382%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.152%) StyleCop
12 4 (0.922%) Hudson
12 4 (0.922%) TestDirector
12 4 (0.922%) QuickTest Pro
13 3 (0.691%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.691%) PVCS
General
1 138 (31.80%) Finance
2 77 (17.74%) Banking
3 28 (6.452%) Investment Banking
4 10 (2.304%) Front Office
5 8 (1.843%) Retail
6 4 (0.922%) Telecoms
6 4 (0.922%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.230%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.230%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.230%) Back Office
7 1 (0.230%) Legal
Job Titles
1 250 (57.60%) Developer
2 93 (21.43%) Analyst
3 77 (17.74%) Java Developer
4 65 (14.98%) C# Developer
5 34 (7.834%) Business Analyst
6 28 (6.452%) WPF Developer
7 25 (5.760%) Applications Support
8 24 (5.530%) Support Analyst
9 23 (5.300%) Oracle Developer
10 21 (4.839%) Applications Support Analyst
10 21 (4.839%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.608%) Programmer
11 20 (4.608%) .NET Developer
12 18 (4.147%) SQL Developer
12 18 (4.147%) Consultant
13 15 (3.456%) Analyst Programmer
13 15 (3.456%) WinForms Developer
14 14 (3.226%) DBA
15 11 (2.535%) Tester
15 11 (2.535%) Oracle Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.604%) Fixed Income
2 13 (2.995%) N-Tier
2 13 (2.995%) Derivative
2 13 (2.995%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (2.535%) Computer Science
4 8 (1.843%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (1.613%) Clustering
6 5 (1.152%) Equities
6 5 (1.152%) NHS
6 5 (1.152%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.922%) Data Integration
7 4 (0.922%) Inversion of Control
8 3 (0.691%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.691%) Market Risk
8 3 (0.691%) Social Network
8 3 (0.691%) Web 2.0
8 3 (0.691%) PDA
8 3 (0.691%) Blackberry
8 3 (0.691%) Statistics
8 3 (0.691%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 120 (27.65%) UNIX
2 63 (14.52%) Linux
3 51 (11.75%) Windows
4 15 (3.456%) Solaris
5 11 (2.535%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (2.074%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (1.613%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.152%) Windows XP
9 4 (0.922%) AIX
10 3 (0.691%) Windows Mobile
10 3 (0.691%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.230%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (0.230%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.230%) HPUX
11 1 (0.230%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.230%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (16.13%) Multithreading
2 55 (12.67%) Agile Software Development
3 52 (11.98%) Unit Testing
4 40 (9.217%) OO
5 36 (8.295%) Data Modelling
6 26 (5.991%) ETL
7 23 (5.300%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (4.608%) ITIL
8 20 (4.608%) UML
8 20 (4.608%) MVC
9 19 (4.378%) Scrum
10 18 (4.147%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (3.917%) Change Management
12 16 (3.687%) TDD
13 15 (3.456%) Data Analysis
14 14 (3.226%) SOA
15 13 (2.995%) Test Automation
16 11 (2.535%) Web Application Development
16 11 (2.535%) Risk Management
16 11 (2.535%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 129 (29.72%) Java
2 122 (28.11%) C#
3 77 (17.74%) PL/SQL
4 55 (12.67%) Perl
5 48 (11.06%) JavaScript
6 37 (8.525%) T-SQL
7 34 (7.834%) Shell Script
8 20 (4.608%) VB
9 19 (4.378%) C++
10 18 (4.147%) VBA
11 13 (2.995%) Python
12 10 (2.304%) C
13 8 (1.843%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.613%) Scala
15 6 (1.382%) XPath
15 6 (1.382%) Ruby
16 4 (0.922%) Korn
16 4 (0.922%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.691%) Bash shell
17 3 (0.691%) Jython
Qualifications
1 14 (3.226%) Security Cleared
2 8 (1.843%) Degree
2 8 (1.843%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.152%) ISEB
4 3 (0.691%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.691%) MCTS
5 2 (0.461%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.682%) QA
2 16 (3.687%) SLA
3 4 (0.922%) HL7
4 2 (0.461%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.461%) WCAG
5 1 (0.230%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (0.922%) Active Directory
1 4 (0.922%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (0.461%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.461%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.230%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.230%) MetaFrame
3 1 (0.230%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.230%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.230%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 11 (2.535%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (0.922%) Control-M
3 1 (0.230%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.230%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 1 (0.230%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.230%) Netcool
3 1 (0.230%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (0.230%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (0.230%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (0.230%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 143 (32.95%) Sybase
2 141 (32.49%) Oracle
3 34 (7.834%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.687%) Informatica
5 14 (3.226%) ION Trading
6 10 (2.304%) TIBCO
7 8 (1.843%) HP
7 8 (1.843%) Sun
8 7 (1.613%) Business Objects
8 7 (1.613%) JBoss
9 5 (1.152%) IBM
9 5 (1.152%) Avaloq
10 4 (0.922%) Perforce
10 4 (0.922%) Citrix
11 3 (0.691%) VMware
12 2 (0.461%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.461%) InterSystems
12 2 (0.461%) Peregrine
12 2 (0.461%) EMC
12 2 (0.461%) Temenos
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