Hertfordshire Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	63
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	17	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	2.911 %	5.167 %
Daily rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£335
Average daily rate	£275	£356
% change on same period last year	-22.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£283	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£322
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-14.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.88	£34.64
% change on same period last year	+3.57 %
Programming Languages Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	584	600
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.778 %	0.607 %
Daily rates quoted	236	247
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£307
Average daily rate	£366	£331
% change on same period last year	+10.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.05	£28.13
Average hourly rate	£32.54	£30.42
% change on same period last year	+6.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.03	£32.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Transact-SQL East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Hertfordshire region.

Transact-SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Transact-SQL within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Watford	+6	3	-	-
Ware	-	1	£200	-
Bishop's Stortford	-	1	-	-

Transact-SQL East of England

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 25 (92.59 %) SQL Server 2 22 (81.48 %) SQL 3 15 (55.56 %) Windows 4 14 (51.85 %) .NET 5 12 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2005 6 8 (29.63 %) C# 6 8 (29.63 %) SQL Server 2000 7 7 (25.93 %) Microsoft 7 7 (25.93 %) VB.NET 7 7 (25.93 %) WebServices 8 6 (22.22 %) XML 8 6 (22.22 %) XSL 8 6 (22.22 %) UML 8 6 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 8 6 (22.22 %) XHTML

8 6 (22.22 %) ADO.NET 9 5 (18.52 %) SAN 9 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 4 (14.81 %) WMI 10 4 (14.81 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 4 (14.81 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 4 (14.81 %) Data Extraction 10 4 (14.81 %) Content Management 10 4 (14.81 %) Automated Testing 10 4 (14.81 %) QuickTest Pro 10 4 (14.81 %) Lotus 10 4 (14.81 %) Active Directory 10 4 (14.81 %) Citrix 10 4 (14.81 %) E-Commerce 10 4 (14.81 %) ADSI

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 14 (51.85 %) .NET 2 7 (25.93 %) WebServices 3 6 (22.22 %) XML 3 6 (22.22 %) XSL 3 6 (22.22 %) XHTML 3 6 (22.22 %) ADO.NET 3 6 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (14.81 %) WMI 4 4 (14.81 %) ADO 4 4 (14.81 %) ADSI 5 3 (11.11 %) ASP 6 2 (7.407 %) CSS 6 2 (7.407 %) HTML 6 2 (7.407 %) AJAX 7 1 (3.704 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 4 (14.81 %) Lotus Domino 1 4 (14.81 %) Commerce Server 1 4 (14.81 %) Commerce Server 2007 2 3 (11.11 %) SharePoint 3 1 (3.704 %) SAS 3 1 (3.704 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (7.407 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 5 (18.52 %) SAN 2 4 (14.81 %) DHCP 2 4 (14.81 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (92.59 %) SQL Server 2 12 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (29.63 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (11.11 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (11.11 %) DTS 6 2 (7.407 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (7.407 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 2 (7.407 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (3.704 %) ETL 7 1 (3.704 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 4 (14.81 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 4 (14.81 %) Government 2 2 (7.407 %) Telecoms 2 2 (7.407 %) Education 3 1 (3.704 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 16 (59.26 %) Developer 2 7 (25.93 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (14.81 %) VB.NET Developer 3 4 (14.81 %) Analyst 3 4 (14.81 %) Senior Developer 4 3 (11.11 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) Report Developer 5 2 (7.407 %) Crystal Reports Developer 5 2 (7.407 %) SQL DBA 5 2 (7.407 %) Web Developer 5 2 (7.407 %) Consultant 5 2 (7.407 %) DBA 6 1 (3.704 %) Database Developer 6 1 (3.704 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (3.704 %) Senior .NET Developer 6 1 (3.704 %) SQL Database Developer 6 1 (3.704 %) WinForms Developer 6 1 (3.704 %) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (14.81 %) Data Extraction 2 2 (7.407 %) Streaming Media 3 1 (3.704 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 15 (55.56 %) Windows 2 4 (14.81 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (22.22 %) UML 2 4 (14.81 %) CRM 2 4 (14.81 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (14.81 %) Content Management 2 4 (14.81 %) Automated Testing 2 4 (14.81 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (11.11 %) B2C 3 3 (11.11 %) Data Management 3 3 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (7.407 %) Project Management 4 2 (7.407 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (3.704 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 22 (81.48 %) SQL 2 8 (29.63 %) C# 3 7 (25.93 %) VB.NET 4 4 (14.81 %) VBScript 4 4 (14.81 %) VB 4 4 (14.81 %) C++ 4 4 (14.81 %) Java 5 3 (11.11 %) C 6 2 (7.407 %) JavaScript 6 2 (7.407 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 2 (7.407 %) MCAD 1 2 (7.407 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.704 %) Degree	System Software 1 4 (14.81 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (14.81 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 7 (25.93 %) Microsoft 2 4 (14.81 %) Citrix 2 4 (14.81 %) Lotus 2 4 (14.81 %) IBM 3 1 (3.704 %) Oracle