The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford 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 Knutsford 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 17 8 16
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 5 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 4.673% 10.00% 7.792%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.74% 26.92% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 9
Average daily rate £375 £348 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.91% +10.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £293 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £336
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23 26 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 21.50% 37.14% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 26
Average daily rate £388 £335 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.67% +0.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £414 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Cheshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VB
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (20.00%) PVCS
3 2 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) AIX
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) OpenEdge
3 2 (20.00%) Progress 4GL
3 2 (20.00%) Progress
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) WebSpeed
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Sculptor
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Identity Manager

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (10.00%) TOAD
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (20.00%) PVCS
1 2 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (20.00%) WebSpeed
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Progress Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) AIX
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) ETL
1 2 (20.00%) Project Management
1 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Software Distribution
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (10.00%) Web Development
2 1 (10.00%) Test Management
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
2 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Data Management
2 1 (10.00%) Information Management
2 1 (10.00%) Information Security
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (10.00%) MVC
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) VB
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Progress 4GL
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CISA
1 1 (10.00%) GIAC
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Identity Manager
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Progress
3 2 (20.00%) Sculptor
4 1 (10.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) Informatica
4 1 (10.00%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (10.00%) IBM