The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 19 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 Guildford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 8 3 8
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 31 20 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 15.66% 16.13% 13.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.39% 38.46% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 13
Average daily rate £300 £290 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +0.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £380 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £48.75 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
102 52 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 51.52% 41.94% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 31
Average daily rate £320 £335 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +15.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £425 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £31.50 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £42.50 £54.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Surrey

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Guildford SQL Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 22 (44.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (42.00%) Oracle
2 21 (42.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (36.00%) Analytics
4 16 (32.00%) C#
5 14 (28.00%) Java
5 14 (28.00%) Computer Science
6 13 (26.00%) Degree
6 13 (26.00%) Windows
6 13 (26.00%) MS Excel
7 12 (24.00%) .NET
7 12 (24.00%) Games
7 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
8 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
9 10 (20.00%) Scrum
10 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
10 9 (18.00%) ASP.NET
11 8 (16.00%) PL/SQL
11 8 (16.00%) DB2
11 8 (16.00%) VB.NET
11 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
11 8 (16.00%) Game Development
12 7 (14.00%) Test Strategy
12 7 (14.00%) Oracle 11g
12 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
12 7 (14.00%) Apache
12 7 (14.00%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (14.00%) WebLogic
13 6 (12.00%) C

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 12 (24.00%) .NET
2 9 (18.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (12.00%) WebSphere
4 5 (10.00%) WinForms
4 5 (10.00%) HTML
4 5 (10.00%) Web Services
5 4 (8.000%) WCF
5 4 (8.000%) MapReduce
6 3 (6.000%) REST
6 3 (6.000%) Ajax
6 3 (6.000%) Velocity
6 3 (6.000%) XML
7 2 (4.000%) ASP
7 2 (4.000%) JMS
7 2 (4.000%) Cocoa
7 2 (4.000%) Spring
7 2 (4.000%) jQuery
7 2 (4.000%) Cocoa Touch
8 1 (2.000%) CSS3
8 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) Apache
1 7 (14.00%) WebLogic
2 6 (12.00%) SAS
2 6 (12.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (8.000%) MS Exchange
3 4 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (8.000%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (8.000%) Windows Azure
4 3 (6.000%) IIS
5 2 (4.000%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.000%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (2.000%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (26.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (12.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (6.000%) MS Office
4 1 (2.000%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (2.000%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.000%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.000%) DNS
1 2 (4.000%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.000%) Intranet
1 2 (4.000%) Internet
2 1 (2.000%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.000%) Firewall
2 1 (2.000%) SSL
2 1 (2.000%) LAN
2 1 (2.000%) WAN
2 1 (2.000%) DHCP
2 1 (2.000%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (16.00%) DB2
3 7 (14.00%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (14.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.00%) Data Mining
4 6 (12.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (8.000%) OLAP
6 4 (8.000%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (8.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 4 (8.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (8.000%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (8.000%) Big Data
6 4 (8.000%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.000%) TOAD
8 2 (4.000%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (4.000%) MySQL
8 2 (4.000%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) ClearCase
1 6 (12.00%) Mercurial
2 3 (6.000%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.000%) JUnit
3 2 (4.000%) InterDev
3 2 (4.000%) NUnit
4 1 (2.000%) Oracle APEX
General
1 12 (24.00%) Games
2 4 (8.000%) Finance
3 1 (2.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Developer
2 12 (24.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) .NET Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Consultant
5 6 (12.00%) Technical Consultant
5 6 (12.00%) Development Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Business Developer
7 4 (8.000%) Server Engineer
7 4 (8.000%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (8.000%) Server Analyst
8 3 (6.000%) DBA
8 3 (6.000%) SQL Developer
9 2 (4.000%) SQL DBA
9 2 (4.000%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (4.000%) VB Developer
9 2 (4.000%) Software Development Engineer
9 2 (4.000%) Developer Analyst
9 2 (4.000%) C# Developer
9 2 (4.000%) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
3 6 (12.00%) Mathematics
3 6 (12.00%) Kinect
4 4 (8.000%) Streaming Video
5 2 (4.000%) Client/Server
5 2 (4.000%) Blackberry
5 2 (4.000%) iPhone
5 2 (4.000%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.000%) iPad
5 2 (4.000%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (8.000%) Windows 8
4 2 (4.000%) Android
4 2 (4.000%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Analytics
2 10 (20.00%) Scrum
3 8 (16.00%) Game Development
4 7 (14.00%) Test Strategy
4 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (12.00%) Configuration Management
5 6 (12.00%) Code Coverage
5 6 (12.00%) Automated Testing
5 6 (12.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (12.00%) Software Architecture
5 6 (12.00%) Process Architecture
5 6 (12.00%) Business Analytics
6 5 (10.00%) MVC
7 4 (8.000%) Data Modelling
7 4 (8.000%) Migration
7 4 (8.000%) Regression Testing
7 4 (8.000%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.000%) Operations Research
7 4 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) C#
2 14 (28.00%) Java
3 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (16.00%) PL/SQL
4 8 (16.00%) VB.NET
5 6 (12.00%) C
5 6 (12.00%) C++
5 6 (12.00%) R
6 4 (8.000%) VB
6 4 (8.000%) Python
7 2 (4.000%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.000%) Objective-C
7 2 (4.000%) VB6
8 1 (2.000%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.000%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.000%) Perl
8 1 (2.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Degree
2 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.000%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.000%) MCITP
4 3 (6.000%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.000%) MCSE
5 2 (4.000%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.000%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.000%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.000%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.000%) SCCM
1 4 (8.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Oracle
1 21 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) JBoss
2 6 (12.00%) Perforce
3 4 (8.000%) VMware
3 4 (8.000%) Citrix
4 2 (4.000%) Cognos
4 2 (4.000%) Twitter
5 1 (2.000%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (2.000%) FatWire
5 1 (2.000%) Business Objects
5 1 (2.000%) SAP
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