Hampshire SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Hampshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lyndhurst 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ryde Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	9
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	256	223
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.360 %	0.225 %
As % of the category below	34.88 %	25.03 %
Daily rates quoted	88	75
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£294
Average daily rate	£339	£304
% change on same period last year	+11.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.26	£29.63
Average hourly rate	£36.52	£32.06
% change on same period last year	+13.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.78	£34.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.18	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Programming Languages Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	734	891
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.033 %	0.900 %
Daily rates quoted	202	235
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£310
Average daily rate	£342	£323
% change on same period last year	+5.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	150	147
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.13	£34.09
Average hourly rate	£36.88	£36.57
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.62	£39.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Hampshire region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL
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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Portsmouth	+17	41	£305	+1.06 %
Basingstoke	+20	39	£352	-2.34 %
Southampton	+5	24	£313	+0.90 %
Farnborough	-6	8	£385	+16.22 %
Havant	+1	5	-	-
Petersfield	-	3	£300	-
Lyndhurst	-	2	£240	-
Andover	-1	1	£225	-41.86 %
Eastleigh	+4	1	-	-
Fareham	-2	1	-	-

SQL South East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 148 (31.22 %) .NET 2 140 (29.54 %) Oracle 3 122 (25.74 %) SQL Server 3 122 (25.74 %) Windows 4 94 (19.83 %) C# 5 72 (15.19 %) ASP.NET 6 71 (14.98 %) UNIX 7 64 (13.50 %) PL/SQL 8 57 (12.03 %) Microsoft 9 56 (11.81 %) Security Cleared 10 55 (11.60 %) HTML 11 54 (11.39 %) Java 12 53 (11.18 %) VB 13 51 (10.76 %) SQL Server 2005 14 49 (10.34 %) VB.NET

14 49 (10.34 %) XML 15 43 (9.072 %) Finance 16 41 (8.650 %) Oracle Reports 17 37 (7.806 %) IIS 17 37 (7.806 %) Visual Studio 18 36 (7.595 %) JavaScript 18 36 (7.595 %) MS Excel 18 36 (7.595 %) Oracle 10g 19 35 (7.384 %) SQL Server 2000 20 34 (7.173 %) Windows Server 2003 21 33 (6.962 %) Transact-SQL 21 33 (6.962 %) Telecoms 22 31 (6.540 %) Solaris 22 31 (6.540 %) CSS 22 31 (6.540 %) TCP/IP

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 148 (31.22 %) .NET 2 72 (15.19 %) ASP.NET 3 55 (11.60 %) HTML 4 49 (10.34 %) XML 5 31 (6.540 %) CSS 6 30 (6.329 %) XHTML 6 30 (6.329 %) AJAX 7 28 (5.907 %) ASP 8 27 (5.696 %) .NET Framework 9 24 (5.063 %) WebServices 10 17 (3.586 %) WebSphere 11 16 (3.376 %) J2EE 12 14 (2.954 %) JSP 13 11 (2.321 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 9 (1.899 %) JDBC 15 7 (1.477 %) SOAP 15 7 (1.477 %) XSLT 15 7 (1.477 %) Hibernate 15 7 (1.477 %) Adobe Flex 15 7 (1.477 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 37 (7.806 %) IIS 2 16 (3.376 %) CMS 3 14 (2.954 %) SharePoint 4 13 (2.743 %) Apache 5 12 (2.532 %) MS Exchange 6 10 (2.110 %) WebLogic 7 7 (1.477 %) ColdFusion 7 7 (1.477 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 6 (1.266 %) BizTalk Server 8 6 (1.266 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 5 (1.055 %) Oracle Application Server 9 5 (1.055 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 4 (0.844 %) WebSphere MQ 10 4 (0.844 %) SAS 11 3 (0.633 %) Oracle 9iAS 11 3 (0.633 %) Oracle Spatial 12 2 (0.422 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 2 (0.422 %) JBoss 12 2 (0.422 %) MQSeries 12 2 (0.422 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 36 (7.595 %) MS Excel 2 10 (2.110 %) MS Office 3 3 (0.633 %) MS Project 3 3 (0.633 %) InfoPath 3 3 (0.633 %) Spreadsheet 4 2 (0.422 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (1.055 %) Navision 2 2 (0.422 %) Oracle General Ledger 2 2 (0.422 %) MAXIMO 3 1 (0.211 %) arcHouse 3 1 (0.211 %) Cognos Planning 3 1 (0.211 %) Siebel Analytics 3 1 (0.211 %) Great Plains 3 1 (0.211 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 31 (6.540 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (2.743 %) SNMP 3 12 (2.532 %) Internet 4 6 (1.266 %) Intranet 5 4 (0.844 %) Broadband 6 3 (0.633 %) SMS 7 2 (0.422 %) VoIP 7 2 (0.422 %) WAN 7 2 (0.422 %) LDAP 7 2 (0.422 %) LAN 7 2 (0.422 %) CTI 7 2 (0.422 %) DNS 8 1 (0.211 %) SSL 8 1 (0.211 %) SAN 8 1 (0.211 %) DWDM 8 1 (0.211 %) MPLS 8 1 (0.211 %) OSPF 8 1 (0.211 %) BGP 8 1 (0.211 %) EIGRP 8 1 (0.211 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 122 (25.74 %) SQL Server 2 51 (10.76 %) SQL Server 2005 3 41 (8.650 %) Oracle Reports 4 36 (7.595 %) Oracle 10g 5 35 (7.384 %) SQL Server 2000 6 25 (5.274 %) Oracle 9i 7 19 (4.008 %) Crystal Reports 8 16 (3.376 %) RDBMS 9 14 (2.954 %) Datawarehouse 10 13 (2.743 %) MS Access 10 13 (2.743 %) SQLPlus 11 12 (2.532 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 10 (2.110 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 10 (2.110 %) MySQL 12 10 (2.110 %) ETL 13 7 (1.477 %) DB2 14 6 (1.266 %) OLAP 15 5 (1.055 %) TOAD 16 4 (0.844 %) DTS 16 4 (0.844 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 37 (7.806 %) Visual Studio 2 15 (3.165 %) TestDirector 3 14 (2.954 %) Oracle Forms 4 10 (2.110 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 9 (1.899 %) Eclipse 5 9 (1.899 %) ClearQuest 6 8 (1.688 %) NUnit 7 6 (1.266 %) MSI 7 6 (1.266 %) Bugzilla 7 6 (1.266 %) WinRunner 8 5 (1.055 %) Ant 8 5 (1.055 %) ClearCase 9 4 (0.844 %) QuickTest Pro 9 4 (0.844 %) PowerBuilder 10 3 (0.633 %) JDeveloper 10 3 (0.633 %) RequisitePro 10 3 (0.633 %) Rational Rose 10 3 (0.633 %) PVCS 11 2 (0.422 %) LoadRunner 12 1 (0.211 %) Flash	General 1 43 (9.072 %) Finance 2 33 (6.962 %) Telecoms 3 29 (6.118 %) Government 4 19 (4.008 %) Pensions 5 16 (3.376 %) Health 6 7 (1.477 %) Back Office 6 7 (1.477 %) Retail 6 7 (1.477 %) Insurance 7 6 (1.266 %) Marketing 8 5 (1.055 %) Manufacturing 9 4 (0.844 %) Banking 9 4 (0.844 %) Auditing 10 3 (0.633 %) Online Games 10 3 (0.633 %) Billing 10 3 (0.633 %) Games 11 2 (0.422 %) Military 11 2 (0.422 %) Chemicals 11 2 (0.422 %) Electric 11 2 (0.422 %) Multimedia 12 1 (0.211 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 231 (48.73 %) Developer 2 73 (15.40 %) Analyst 3 58 (12.24 %) .NET Developer 4 56 (11.81 %) SQL Developer 5 37 (7.806 %) DBA 6 31 (6.540 %) C# Developer 7 29 (6.118 %) Oracle DBA 8 27 (5.696 %) Programmer 9 24 (5.063 %) Consultant 10 23 (4.852 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 22 (4.641 %) Analyst Programmer 11 22 (4.641 %) Web Developer 12 16 (3.376 %) Support Analyst 12 16 (3.376 %) Tester 12 16 (3.376 %) Java Developer 12 16 (3.376 %) SQL DBA 13 13 (2.743 %) Project Manager 14 12 (2.532 %) Test Analyst 14 12 (2.532 %) Administrator 14 12 (2.532 %) SQL Server Developer	Miscellaneous 1 15 (3.165 %) Management Information System 2 10 (2.110 %) Replication 2 10 (2.110 %) N-Tier 3 9 (1.899 %) NHS 4 5 (1.055 %) Clustering 4 5 (1.055 %) Client/Server 5 3 (0.633 %) EPoS 6 2 (0.422 %) Derivative 6 2 (0.422 %) Computer Science 6 2 (0.422 %) French Language 6 2 (0.422 %) Data Extraction 6 2 (0.422 %) PKI 7 1 (0.211 %) PDA 7 1 (0.211 %) HACMP 7 1 (0.211 %) Biometrics 7 1 (0.211 %) Mainframe 7 1 (0.211 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 122 (25.74 %) Windows 2 71 (14.98 %) UNIX 3 34 (7.173 %) Windows Server 2003 4 31 (6.540 %) Solaris 5 24 (5.063 %) AIX 6 21 (4.430 %) Linux 6 21 (4.430 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 6 (1.266 %) Red Hat Linux 7 6 (1.266 %) Windows 2000 7 6 (1.266 %) Windows XP 8 5 (1.055 %) Tru64 8 5 (1.055 %) Windows Mobile 9 3 (0.633 %) VMS 10 2 (0.422 %) Windows NT 10 2 (0.422 %) Windows Vista 10 2 (0.422 %) SUSE 10 2 (0.422 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 1 (0.211 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 56 (11.81 %) Security Cleared 2 31 (6.540 %) E-Commerce 3 26 (5.485 %) Web Development 4 25 (5.274 %) Migration 5 24 (5.063 %) SC Cleared 6 21 (4.430 %) UML 7 16 (3.376 %) Content Management 8 15 (3.165 %) Test Scripting 9 14 (2.954 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 14 (2.954 %) PRINCE2 9 14 (2.954 %) Configuration Management 10 13 (2.743 %) Quality Management 10 13 (2.743 %) RAD 11 11 (2.321 %) QMS 12 10 (2.110 %) Data Migration 12 10 (2.110 %) BC Cleared 13 9 (1.899 %) OO 13 9 (1.899 %) Unit Testing 14 8 (1.688 %) OOD 15 6 (1.266 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 94 (19.83 %) C# 2 64 (13.50 %) PL/SQL 3 54 (11.39 %) Java 4 53 (11.18 %) VB 5 49 (10.34 %) VB.NET 6 36 (7.595 %) JavaScript 7 33 (6.962 %) Transact-SQL 8 25 (5.274 %) Shell Script 8 25 (5.274 %) VB6 9 20 (4.219 %) Perl 9 20 (4.219 %) C 10 19 (4.008 %) C++ 11 14 (2.954 %) VBA 12 9 (1.899 %) VBScript 12 9 (1.899 %) Korn 13 8 (1.688 %) PHP 14 7 (1.477 %) DHTML 15 3 (0.633 %) PHP5 16 2 (0.422 %) Python 17 1 (0.211 %) REXX	Qualifications 1 16 (3.376 %) Microsoft Certification 2 14 (2.954 %) MCSE 2 14 (2.954 %) Cisco Certification 3 13 (2.743 %) MCSA 3 13 (2.743 %) CCNA 4 12 (2.532 %) Degree 5 10 (2.110 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 8 (1.688 %) ISEB 7 3 (0.633 %) MCP 8 2 (0.422 %) RHCT 9 1 (0.211 %) RHCE 9 1 (0.211 %) Sun Certification 9 1 (0.211 %) IBM AIX Certification 9 1 (0.211 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 1 (0.211 %) MCSD 9 1 (0.211 %) CCNP 9 1 (0.211 %) OCP 9 1 (0.211 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (0.844 %) ISO8583 2 2 (0.422 %) QA 2 2 (0.422 %) SLA 3 1 (0.211 %) BS7799 3 1 (0.211 %) ISO12207 3 1 (0.211 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 18 (3.797 %) Active Directory 2 5 (1.055 %) MailMarshal 3 3 (0.633 %) Oracle RMAN 3 3 (0.633 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (0.422 %) Oracle RAC 4 2 (0.422 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (0.422 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.211 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (0.211 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.211 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 16 (3.376 %) Oracle Statspack 2 11 (2.321 %) CONTROL-M 3 4 (0.844 %) Netcool 4 3 (0.633 %) NNM 5 2 (0.422 %) MOM 6 1 (0.211 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 1 (0.211 %) Tivoli 6 1 (0.211 %) OMEGAMON 6 1 (0.211 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 140 (29.54 %) Oracle 2 57 (12.03 %) Microsoft 3 26 (5.485 %) VMware 4 14 (2.954 %) Lucent 4 14 (2.954 %) Alcatel 5 10 (2.110 %) Tridion 6 8 (1.688 %) HP 7 7 (1.477 %) Actuate 7 7 (1.477 %) Adobe 7 7 (1.477 %) Netezza 8 6 (1.266 %) IBM 8 6 (1.266 %) Lagan 8 6 (1.266 %) Red Hat 8 6 (1.266 %) CheckPoint 9 5 (1.055 %) Sun 10 4 (0.844 %) Cisco 10 4 (0.844 %) Business Objects 10 4 (0.844 %) Citrix 10 4 (0.844 %) Civica 11 3 (0.633 %) StreamServe