The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 Luton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 9 13 8
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 10.67% 1.493% 7.273%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.67% 6.667% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £325 £175 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% -46.15%
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 £25.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -22.48%
All Programming Languages
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
30 15 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 40.00% 22.39% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 13
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £203 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £402 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £35.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.01% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Bedfordshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 9 (39.13%) Web Services
2 8 (34.78%) Bugzilla
2 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 8 (34.78%) Test Scripting
2 8 (34.78%) FogBugz
3 7 (30.43%) ISTQB
3 7 (30.43%) C#
3 7 (30.43%) .NET
3 7 (30.43%) ETL
3 7 (30.43%) ISEB
4 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
4 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (26.09%) Client/Server
4 6 (26.09%) XML
4 6 (26.09%) Windows
4 6 (26.09%) QA
4 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (26.09%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
6 4 (17.39%) Risk Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Degree
7 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (13.04%) Finance
7 3 (13.04%) Internet
7 3 (13.04%) MS Office
7 3 (13.04%) OO
8 2 (8.696%) Cognos
8 2 (8.696%) SharePoint

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 9 (39.13%) Web Services
2 7 (30.43%) .NET
3 6 (26.09%) XML
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.696%) jQuery
6 1 (4.348%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.348%) CSS
6 1 (4.348%) HTML
6 1 (4.348%) WCF
6 1 (4.348%) WF
6 1 (4.348%) LINQ
6 1 (4.348%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.348%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.696%) MS Exchange
1 2 (8.696%) CMS
1 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.348%) IIS
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Office
2 2 (8.696%) DOC1
2 2 (8.696%) PrintSoft PReS
2 2 (8.696%) Photoshop
3 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Agresso
1 2 (8.696%) Exstream
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle iRecruitment
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Internet
2 2 (8.696%) LAN
2 2 (8.696%) DHCP
2 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.696%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (8.696%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.696%) OLAP
5 1 (4.348%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (4.348%) GIS
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Bugzilla
1 8 (34.78%) FogBugz
2 2 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.348%) NUnit
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) Test Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) C# Developer
3 5 (21.74%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
4 4 (17.39%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 2 (8.696%) Web Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Tester
5 2 (8.696%) Support Technician
5 2 (8.696%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.696%) Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) Junior
6 1 (4.348%) Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) DBA
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.348%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.348%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (4.348%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Client/Server
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.348%) Statistics
3 1 (4.348%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Windows XP
2 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (8.696%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Test Scripting
2 7 (30.43%) ETL
3 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
4 4 (17.39%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) OO
6 2 (8.696%) ITIL
6 2 (8.696%) OOP
6 2 (8.696%) MVC
6 2 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.696%) TDD
6 2 (8.696%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (4.348%) AOP
7 1 (4.348%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.348%) Web Development
7 1 (4.348%) Refactoring
7 1 (4.348%) Unit Testing
7 1 (4.348%) Use Case
7 1 (4.348%) Workflow
7 1 (4.348%) Change Management
7 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) C#
2 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.348%) T-SQL
2 1 (4.348%) VB
2 1 (4.348%) VB.NET
2 1 (4.348%) VBA
2 1 (4.348%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) ISEB
1 7 (30.43%) ISTQB
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.696%) Adobe
2 2 (8.696%) HP
2 2 (8.696%) Cognos
2 2 (8.696%) IBM
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle
3 1 (4.348%) Sitecore