The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Hounslow 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 12 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 20.34% 5.128% 7.042%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.43% 17.39% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
Average daily rate £400 £500 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +53.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £500 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
37 23 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 62.71% 29.49% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 12
Average daily rate £450 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £330 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
London

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hounslow SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 16 (72.73%) Java
2 15 (68.18%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (63.64%) XML
4 13 (59.09%) TDD
4 13 (59.09%) JSON
5 12 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (54.55%) RESTful
5 12 (54.55%) HTTP
6 11 (50.00%) Pair Programming
7 10 (45.45%) OO
8 9 (40.91%) Web Services
8 9 (40.91%) Multithreading
9 8 (36.36%) Scrum
10 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
10 7 (31.82%) HTML
10 7 (31.82%) Subversion
10 7 (31.82%) BDD
11 6 (27.27%) Cucumber
11 6 (27.27%) Mobile App
11 6 (27.27%) Mobile Application Development
11 6 (27.27%) Automated Testing
11 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
11 6 (27.27%) SQLite
11 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
11 6 (27.27%) Android
11 6 (27.27%) OOA/OOD
11 6 (27.27%) MVC
12 5 (22.73%) XSLT
12 5 (22.73%) Degree
12 5 (22.73%) Jenkins

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 14 (63.64%) XML
2 13 (59.09%) JSON
3 12 (54.55%) RESTful
4 9 (40.91%) Web Services
5 7 (31.82%) HTML
6 5 (22.73%) XSLT
7 4 (18.18%) jQuery
7 4 (18.18%) CSS
8 3 (13.64%) SOAP
8 3 (13.64%) HTML5
9 2 (9.091%) Node.js
10 1 (4.545%) J2EE
10 1 (4.545%) DOM
10 1 (4.545%) WebSphere
10 1 (4.545%) Ajax
10 1 (4.545%) soapUI
10 1 (4.545%) REST
10 1 (4.545%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) HTTP
2 1 (4.545%) DVB
2 1 (4.545%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQLite
2 2 (9.091%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.091%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (9.091%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.091%) MySQL
2 2 (9.091%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.545%) TOAD
3 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Subversion
2 6 (27.27%) Cucumber
3 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
4 4 (18.18%) Selenium
4 4 (18.18%) Git (software)
5 3 (13.64%) CruiseControl
5 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
5 3 (13.64%) WebDriver
5 3 (13.64%) WATIR
6 2 (9.091%) JIRA
7 1 (4.545%) LoadRunner
7 1 (4.545%) IntelliJ
7 1 (4.545%) JUnit
7 1 (4.545%) Maven
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (4.545%) QUnit
7 1 (4.545%) Jasmine
General
1 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.545%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Android Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Tester
4 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Automation Tester
5 2 (9.091%) Agile Tester
5 2 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (9.091%) C++ Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Business Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Business Objects Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Manual Tester
6 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 4 (18.18%) Open Source
3 3 (13.64%) Video on Demand
4 1 (4.545%) STB
4 1 (4.545%) MPEG
4 1 (4.545%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Android
2 4 (18.18%) UNIX
3 2 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (4.545%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (59.09%) TDD
3 12 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 10 (45.45%) OO
6 9 (40.91%) Multithreading
7 8 (36.36%) Scrum
8 7 (31.82%) BDD
9 6 (27.27%) Mobile Application Development
9 6 (27.27%) Automated Testing
9 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
9 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
9 6 (27.27%) OOA/OOD
9 6 (27.27%) MVC
10 4 (18.18%) OOP
11 3 (13.64%) Kanban
11 3 (13.64%) Release Management
11 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 2 (9.091%) Software Testing
13 1 (4.545%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) Ruby
3 4 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.091%) C
4 2 (9.091%) C++
4 2 (9.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 2 (9.091%) ISTQB
2 2 (9.091%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (9.091%) Sybase
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.545%) IBM
3 1 (4.545%) HP
3 1 (4.545%) Business Objects
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