The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Maidenhead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Maidenhead 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 12 13 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead 8.974% 1.250% 12.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.33% 8.333% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
Average daily rate £350 £425 £105
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +304.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -21.87%
All Programming Languages
Maidenhead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
30 12 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead 38.46% 15.00% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 11
Average daily rate £325 £375 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +76.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £225 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £425 £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Berkshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Maidenhead SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 6 (46.15%) UNIX
1 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 4 (30.77%) Perl
3 4 (30.77%) XML
3 4 (30.77%) HNC
3 4 (30.77%) HND
3 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
3 4 (30.77%) CCNP
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle
5 2 (15.38%) HTML
5 2 (15.38%) Business Objects
5 2 (15.38%) MS Office
5 2 (15.38%) MS Access
5 2 (15.38%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) Linux
5 2 (15.38%) 3G
5 2 (15.38%) 2G
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
5 2 (15.38%) LTE
5 2 (15.38%) 4G
5 2 (15.38%) Data Extraction
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.692%) JPA
6 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (7.692%) High Availability
6 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 4 (30.77%) XML
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 1 (7.692%) JPA
3 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (7.692%) jQuery
3 1 (7.692%) NHibernate
3 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
3 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.692%) JDBC
3 1 (7.692%) Web Services
3 1 (7.692%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
2 2 (15.38%) MS Office
3 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) 3G
1 2 (15.38%) 2G
1 2 (15.38%) LTE
1 2 (15.38%) 4G
2 1 (7.692%) SGSN
2 1 (7.692%) SMTP
2 1 (7.692%) FTP
2 1 (7.692%) HTTP
2 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) MS Access
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (7.692%) ActiveReports
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (7.692%) Cognos Powerplay
3 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.692%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.692%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (7.692%) Maven
1 1 (7.692%) Ant
General
1 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.692%) German Language
2 1 (7.692%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Report Writer
2 2 (15.38%) Databuild Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Build Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Designer
3 1 (7.692%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Project Planner
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Cognos Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
2 2 (15.38%) Data Extraction
3 1 (7.692%) Mathematics
3 1 (7.692%) Chemistry
3 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.692%) Replication
3 1 (7.692%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) UNIX
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Validation
1 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (7.692%) High Availability
2 1 (7.692%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (7.692%) Multithreading
2 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
2 1 (7.692%) Bioinformatics
2 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
2 1 (7.692%) Project Planning
2 1 (7.692%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) Programme Management
2 1 (7.692%) Project Management
2 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
2 1 (7.692%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Perl
2 1 (7.692%) Java
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.692%) C#
2 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
2 1 (7.692%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) HNC
1 4 (30.77%) HND
1 4 (30.77%) CCNP
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (7.692%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Business Objects
3 1 (7.692%) Niku
3 1 (7.692%) Cognos
3 1 (7.692%) Sybase