Lancashire SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barking Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	4
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	77	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.083 %
As % of the category below	53.47 %	47.98 %
Daily rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£267
Average daily rate	£300	£317
% change on same period last year	-5.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.35	£25.87
Average hourly rate	£26.46	£27.87
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.56	£29.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.41	£30.05
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	144	173
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.192 %	0.173 %
Daily rates quoted	18	17
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£306
Average daily rate	£289	£345
% change on same period last year	-16.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.24	£24.28
Average hourly rate	£28.35	£26.95
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.46	£29.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
SQL 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.

SQL
Demand Trend

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

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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	-1	15	£198	-55.92 %
Blackpool	+11	11	£450	-
Blackburn	+3	8	£317	-
Chorley	+3	2	-	-
Lancaster	+3	2	-	-
Lytham St Annes	-	1	£350	-

SQL North West

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 51 (35.92 %) Oracle 2 48 (33.80 %) SQL Server 2 48 (33.80 %) .NET 3 35 (24.65 %) PL/SQL 4 29 (20.42 %) Oracle Reports 5 24 (16.90 %) ASP.NET 5 24 (16.90 %) Microsoft 6 22 (15.49 %) Transact-SQL 6 22 (15.49 %) JavaScript 7 20 (14.08 %) XML 8 18 (12.68 %) SQL Server 2005 8 18 (12.68 %) C# 9 17 (11.97 %) CSS 9 17 (11.97 %) ASP 10 16 (11.27 %) MS Excel

11 15 (10.56 %) Visual Studio 11 15 (10.56 %) Crystal Reports 12 14 (9.859 %) Government 12 14 (9.859 %) Finance 12 14 (9.859 %) SQL Server 2000 12 14 (9.859 %) VBScript 13 13 (9.155 %) WebServices 13 13 (9.155 %) Migration 14 12 (8.451 %) Windows 14 12 (8.451 %) VB.NET 15 11 (7.746 %) C 15 11 (7.746 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 16 10 (7.042 %) Java 16 10 (7.042 %) E-Commerce 16 10 (7.042 %) NHS

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 48 (33.80 %) .NET 2 24 (16.90 %) ASP.NET 3 20 (14.08 %) XML 4 17 (11.97 %) CSS 4 17 (11.97 %) ASP 5 13 (9.155 %) WebServices 6 9 (6.338 %) .NET Framework 7 8 (5.634 %) AJAX 8 7 (4.930 %) XSLT 9 6 (4.225 %) MVC 9 6 (4.225 %) JSON 9 6 (4.225 %) jQuery 9 6 (4.225 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 5 (3.521 %) HTML 11 2 (1.408 %) Hibernate 11 2 (1.408 %) Zend Framework 11 2 (1.408 %) Spring 11 2 (1.408 %) JSP 11 2 (1.408 %) SOAP 11 2 (1.408 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 6 (4.225 %) SharePoint 2 5 (3.521 %) ColdFusion 2 5 (3.521 %) CICS 3 3 (2.113 %) IIS 3 3 (2.113 %) Oracle Application Server 4 2 (1.408 %) Apache 5 1 (0.704 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (0.704 %) Oracle 9iAS 5 1 (0.704 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.704 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.704 %) Papyrus 5 1 (0.704 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 16 (11.27 %) MS Excel 2 4 (2.817 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.704 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 6 (4.225 %) Oracle EBS 2 4 (2.817 %) Navision 3 3 (2.113 %) Oracle Applications 3 3 (2.113 %) Summit 4 1 (0.704 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (0.704 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 4 (2.817 %) Intranet 1 4 (2.817 %) FTP 2 2 (1.408 %) Internet 3 1 (0.704 %) SAN 3 1 (0.704 %) VoIP 3 1 (0.704 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.704 %) VPN 3 1 (0.704 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (0.704 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 48 (33.80 %) SQL Server 2 29 (20.42 %) Oracle Reports 3 18 (12.68 %) SQL Server 2005 4 15 (10.56 %) Crystal Reports 5 14 (9.859 %) SQL Server 2000 6 11 (7.746 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 9 (6.338 %) Oracle 10g 8 8 (5.634 %) Datawarehouse 8 8 (5.634 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 7 (4.930 %) DTS 10 6 (4.225 %) DB2 10 6 (4.225 %) OLAP 10 6 (4.225 %) Oracle 9i 11 4 (2.817 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 4 (2.817 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 3 (2.113 %) SQLPlus 13 2 (1.408 %) Data Cleansing 13 2 (1.408 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 2 (1.408 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 1 (0.704 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 15 (10.56 %) Visual Studio 2 9 (6.338 %) InterDev 3 4 (2.817 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.408 %) PVCS 4 2 (1.408 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 2 (1.408 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.704 %) Oracle Developer 2000 5 1 (0.704 %) ProC 5 1 (0.704 %) Flash 5 1 (0.704 %) Ant	General 1 14 (9.859 %) Government 1 14 (9.859 %) Finance 2 6 (4.225 %) Local Government 2 6 (4.225 %) Retail 3 4 (2.817 %) Insurance 4 3 (2.113 %) Pensions 4 3 (2.113 %) Telecoms 4 3 (2.113 %) Aerospace 5 2 (1.408 %) Health 5 2 (1.408 %) Military 6 1 (0.704 %) Banking 6 1 (0.704 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.704 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.704 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.704 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 70 (49.30 %) Developer 2 24 (16.90 %) Analyst 3 19 (13.38 %) .NET Developer 4 15 (10.56 %) Web Developer 4 15 (10.56 %) SQL Developer 5 10 (7.042 %) Consultant 6 9 (6.338 %) DBA 6 9 (6.338 %) Oracle Developer 7 7 (4.930 %) SQL Server Developer 7 7 (4.930 %) SQL DBA 7 7 (4.930 %) Information Analyst 8 6 (4.225 %) C# Developer 8 6 (4.225 %) Data Analyst 8 6 (4.225 %) Support Engineer 9 5 (3.521 %) Programmer 9 5 (3.521 %) VB.NET Developer 9 5 (3.521 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 4 (2.817 %) Navision Developer 10 4 (2.817 %) Applications Support 10 4 (2.817 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 10 (7.042 %) NHS 2 5 (3.521 %) Mainframe 2 5 (3.521 %) VAX 3 4 (2.817 %) VSAM 4 3 (2.113 %) Spread Betting 4 3 (2.113 %) Management Information System 5 2 (1.408 %) Mathematics 6 1 (0.704 %) Computer Science 6 1 (0.704 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.704 %) Replication 6 1 (0.704 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (0.704 %) Data Integration 6 1 (0.704 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 12 (8.451 %) Windows 2 9 (6.338 %) UNIX 3 5 (3.521 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (2.817 %) Linux 4 4 (2.817 %) VMS 5 2 (1.408 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (1.408 %) Windows XP 6 1 (0.704 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.704 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (0.704 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (9.155 %) Migration 2 10 (7.042 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (5.634 %) Security Cleared 4 7 (4.930 %) e-GIF 5 6 (4.225 %) Unit Testing 5 6 (4.225 %) SOA 5 6 (4.225 %) BC Cleared 6 5 (3.521 %) SC Cleared 6 5 (3.521 %) Data Modelling 7 4 (2.817 %) Service Delivery 7 4 (2.817 %) Test Scripting 7 4 (2.817 %) Asset Management 8 3 (2.113 %) Configuration Management 8 3 (2.113 %) UML 8 3 (2.113 %) ITIL 8 3 (2.113 %) Change Management 8 3 (2.113 %) Web Development 8 3 (2.113 %) Time Management 8 3 (2.113 %) Performance Management 8 3 (2.113 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 35 (24.65 %) PL/SQL 2 22 (15.49 %) Transact-SQL 2 22 (15.49 %) JavaScript 3 18 (12.68 %) C# 4 14 (9.859 %) VBScript 5 12 (8.451 %) VB.NET 6 11 (7.746 %) C 7 10 (7.042 %) Java 8 9 (6.338 %) VB 9 7 (4.930 %) VBA 10 6 (4.225 %) C++ 11 5 (3.521 %) JCL 12 4 (2.817 %) DCL 12 4 (2.817 %) REXX 12 4 (2.817 %) Pascal 13 3 (2.113 %) Uniface 13 3 (2.113 %) DHTML 13 3 (2.113 %) VB6 14 2 (1.408 %) PHP 14 2 (1.408 %) Progress 4GL	Qualifications 1 4 (2.817 %) Oracle Certification 2 2 (1.408 %) Degree 3 1 (0.704 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.704 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.704 %) HL7	System Software 1 2 (1.408 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.704 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 5 (3.521 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 51 (35.92 %) Oracle 2 24 (16.90 %) Microsoft 3 3 (2.113 %) Sybase 4 2 (1.408 %) Zend 4 2 (1.408 %) Cognos 4 2 (1.408 %) Progress 4 2 (1.408 %) Adobe 4 2 (1.408 %) Genesys 5 1 (0.704 %) CA 5 1 (0.704 %) Informatica 5 1 (0.704 %) VERITAS 5 1 (0.704 %) Intel 5 1 (0.704 %) Cisco 5 1 (0.704 %) IBM 5 1 (0.704 %) JD Edwards 5 1 (0.704 %) Agresso 5 1 (0.704 %) SeeBeyond 5 1 (0.704 %) Business Objects 5 1 (0.704 %) InterSystems