Lancashire SQL Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SQL Developer role in IT contracts within the Lancashire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Developer
Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wirral Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	29
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	8	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	2.299 %	3.789 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£290
Average daily rate	-	£298
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.21	£33.25
% change on same period last year	+2.88 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	348	475
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.459 %	0.504 %
Daily rates quoted	71	113
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£321
Average daily rate	£332	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	55	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.48	£23.66
Average hourly rate	£22.28	£25.60
% change on same period last year	-12.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.07	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
SQL Developer North West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Developer across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SQL Developer within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Preston	-8	2	-	-

SQL Developer North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited SQL Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Developer in their job title.

1 24 (82.76 %) SQL Server 2 23 (79.31 %) SQL 3 17 (58.62 %) SQL Server 2005 4 13 (44.83 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 12 (41.38 %) Transact-SQL 6 11 (37.93 %) .NET 7 10 (34.48 %) SQL Server 2000 8 8 (27.59 %) OLAP 8 8 (27.59 %) C# 9 7 (24.14 %) Business Intelligence 10 6 (20.69 %) ASP.NET 11 5 (17.24 %) DTS 12 4 (13.79 %) Data Modelling 13 3 (10.34 %) Finance 13 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 7

13 3 (10.34 %) VB 14 2 (6.897 %) VB.NET 14 2 (6.897 %) PL/SQL 14 2 (6.897 %) ASP 14 2 (6.897 %) Datawarehouse 14 2 (6.897 %) Migration 14 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 2 (6.897 %) Time Management 14 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 2 (6.897 %) Spread Betting 15 1 (3.448 %) Zend 15 1 (3.448 %) Zend Framework 15 1 (3.448 %) Web Development 15 1 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 15 1 (3.448 %) MDX

SQL Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited SQL Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (37.93 %) .NET 2 6 (20.69 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (6.897 %) ASP 4 1 (3.448 %) HTML 4 1 (3.448 %) CSS 4 1 (3.448 %) AJAX 4 1 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (3.448 %) MDX 4 1 (3.448 %) Zend Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint 1 1 (3.448 %) ColdFusion
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (82.76 %) SQL Server 2 17 (58.62 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (44.83 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 10 (34.48 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (27.59 %) OLAP 6 5 (17.24 %) DTS 7 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (6.897 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (3.448 %) DB2 9 1 (3.448 %) ETL	Development Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 3 (10.34 %) Finance 2 1 (3.448 %) Publishing 2 1 (3.448 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) Spread Betting 2 1 (3.448 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (3.448 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (24.14 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (13.79 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (6.897 %) Time Management 3 2 (6.897 %) Migration 4 1 (3.448 %) Web Development 4 1 (3.448 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (3.448 %) E-business 4 1 (3.448 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 23 (79.31 %) SQL 2 12 (41.38 %) Transact-SQL 3 8 (27.59 %) C# 4 3 (10.34 %) VB 5 2 (6.897 %) VB.NET 5 2 (6.897 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (3.448 %) JavaScript 6 1 (3.448 %) PHP 6 1 (3.448 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (3.448 %) MCDBA 1 1 (3.448 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 1 1 (3.448 %) Adobe 1 1 (3.448 %) Zend