Hampshire Transact-SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-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 Transact-SQL over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Darwen Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horley Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Ross-on-Wye Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	98
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	19	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	3.231 %	2.326 %
Daily rates quoted	12	9
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£342
Average daily rate	£299	£342
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£328
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£36.50	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-14.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.45	£32.61
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
Programming Languages Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	588	860
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.926 %	0.922 %
Daily rates quoted	137	244
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£330
Average daily rate	£326	£342
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	147	159
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.65	£33.92
Average hourly rate	£35.95	£36.24
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.24	£38.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Transact-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.

Transact-SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Hampshire region.

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Hampshire region.

Transact-SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Transact-SQL within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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	-	6	£320	-
Basingstoke	+11	2	£238	-
Southampton	-	1	£351	-

Transact-SQL South East

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL.

1 36 (100.00 %) SQL 2 30 (83.33 %) .NET 3 28 (77.78 %) SQL Server 4 21 (58.33 %) SQL Server 2005 5 16 (44.44 %) Visual Studio 5 16 (44.44 %) HTML 5 16 (44.44 %) ASP.NET 6 13 (36.11 %) CSS 7 12 (33.33 %) C# 8 11 (30.56 %) JavaScript 8 11 (30.56 %) VB.NET 8 11 (30.56 %) XHTML 8 11 (30.56 %) AJAX 8 11 (30.56 %) .NET Framework 9 10 (27.78 %) Microsoft

10 9 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 10 9 (25.00 %) MS Excel 10 9 (25.00 %) IIS 11 8 (22.22 %) VB 12 7 (19.44 %) DHTML 12 7 (19.44 %) XML 13 6 (16.67 %) MS Access 13 6 (16.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 5 (13.89 %) Telecoms 14 5 (13.89 %) Datawarehouse 14 5 (13.89 %) Data Modelling 14 5 (13.89 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 4 (11.11 %) MS Office 15 4 (11.11 %) VSS/SourceSafe 15 4 (11.11 %) Oracle

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 30 (83.33 %) .NET 2 16 (44.44 %) HTML 2 16 (44.44 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (36.11 %) CSS 4 11 (30.56 %) XHTML 4 11 (30.56 %) AJAX 4 11 (30.56 %) .NET Framework 5 7 (19.44 %) XML 6 3 (8.333 %) ASP 6 3 (8.333 %) WebServices 7 2 (5.556 %) WCF 7 2 (5.556 %) WinForms 8 1 (2.778 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 9 (25.00 %) IIS
Applications 1 9 (25.00 %) MS Excel 2 4 (11.11 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (11.11 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (77.78 %) SQL Server 2 21 (58.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (16.67 %) MS Access 4 6 (16.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 5 (13.89 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (13.89 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (8.333 %) OLAP 6 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (2.778 %) Data Mining 7 1 (2.778 %) ETL 7 1 (2.778 %) DTS 7 1 (2.778 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (2.778 %) Data Cleansing	Development Applications 1 16 (44.44 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (11.11 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 5 (13.89 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.778 %) Multimedia 2 1 (2.778 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 28 (77.78 %) Developer 2 15 (41.67 %) .NET Developer 3 12 (33.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 6 (16.67 %) SQL Developer 5 5 (13.89 %) SQL Server Developer 6 4 (11.11 %) Analyst 6 4 (11.11 %) C# Developer 7 3 (8.333 %) Analyst Developer 7 3 (8.333 %) VB.NET Developer 7 3 (8.333 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (5.556 %) Architect 8 2 (5.556 %) Software Engineer 8 2 (5.556 %) Web Developer 8 2 (5.556 %) Data Architect 8 2 (5.556 %) DBA 8 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server DBA 8 2 (5.556 %) SQL DBA 8 2 (5.556 %) Datawarehouse Architect 8 2 (5.556 %) .NET Web Developer 9 1 (2.778 %) Software Development Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.333 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.556 %) Windows 1 2 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (13.89 %) Data Modelling 2 4 (11.11 %) Data Analysis 3 3 (8.333 %) OO 3 3 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (5.556 %) Data Migration 4 2 (5.556 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (5.556 %) OOD 4 2 (5.556 %) Migration 5 1 (2.778 %) TDD 5 1 (2.778 %) Data Management 5 1 (2.778 %) UML 5 1 (2.778 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 36 (100.00 %) SQL 2 12 (33.33 %) C# 3 11 (30.56 %) JavaScript 3 11 (30.56 %) VB.NET 4 8 (22.22 %) VB 5 7 (19.44 %) DHTML 6 3 (8.333 %) VBA 7 2 (5.556 %) C 8 1 (2.778 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 2 (5.556 %) Degree	Vendors 1 10 (27.78 %) Microsoft 2 4 (11.11 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.778 %) Infragistics 3 1 (2.778 %) Northgate