Manchester Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Transact-SQL over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	40
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching contract IT job ads	18	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	3.482 %	8.631 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£214
Average daily rate	£270	£239
% change on same period last year	+12.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£264
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£322
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£20.33
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£20.67
% change on same period last year	+30.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.88	£34.64
% change on same period last year	+3.57 %
Programming Languages Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	517	336
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.689 %	0.340 %
Daily rates quoted	85	54
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£270
Average daily rate	£327	£294
% change on same period last year	+11.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.06	£22.91
Average hourly rate	£28.60	£24.31
% change on same period last year	+17.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.14	£25.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Transact-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.

Transact-SQL
Demand Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL.

1 36 (97.30 %) SQL 2 29 (78.38 %) SQL Server 3 26 (70.27 %) .NET 4 18 (48.65 %) ASP.NET 5 14 (37.84 %) SQL Server 2005 6 11 (29.73 %) C# 6 11 (29.73 %) SQL Server 2000 7 10 (27.03 %) Datawarehouse 7 10 (27.03 %) VB.NET 8 9 (24.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 8 (21.62 %) WebServices 9 8 (21.62 %) XML 9 8 (21.62 %) Windows 10 7 (18.92 %) JavaScript 10 7 (18.92 %) OLAP

11 6 (16.22 %) SOAP 12 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 5 (13.51 %) CSS 12 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint 12 5 (13.51 %) ETL 12 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft 12 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server 7 13 4 (10.81 %) Project Management 13 4 (10.81 %) Data Modelling 13 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 13 4 (10.81 %) ASP 13 4 (10.81 %) HTML 13 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 4 (10.81 %) AJAX 13 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server Integration Services

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 26 (70.27 %) .NET 2 18 (48.65 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (21.62 %) WebServices 3 8 (21.62 %) XML 4 6 (16.22 %) SOAP 5 5 (13.51 %) CSS 6 4 (10.81 %) HTML 6 4 (10.81 %) ASP 6 4 (10.81 %) AJAX 7 3 (8.108 %) XSLT 8 2 (5.405 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 2 (5.405 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (2.703 %) Flex 2 9 1 (2.703 %) Adobe Flex 9 1 (2.703 %) XHTML 9 1 (2.703 %) XML Schema 9 1 (2.703 %) COM 9 1 (2.703 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint 2 3 (8.108 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (5.405 %) Oracle BPEL
Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.703 %) Fireworks 2 1 (2.703 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.405 %) SAN 2 1 (2.703 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (78.38 %) SQL Server 2 14 (37.84 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (29.73 %) SQL Server 2000 4 10 (27.03 %) Datawarehouse 5 9 (24.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 7 (18.92 %) OLAP 7 5 (13.51 %) ETL 7 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server 7 7 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 3 (8.108 %) MS Access 10 2 (5.405 %) DTS 11 1 (2.703 %) Crystal Reports 11 1 (2.703 %) Firebird 11 1 (2.703 %) Oracle OLAP	Development Applications 1 3 (8.108 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.703 %) Flash 2 1 (2.703 %) NUnit
General 1 3 (8.108 %) Finance 2 2 (5.405 %) Financial Institution 2 2 (5.405 %) Retail 3 1 (2.703 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.703 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.703 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (2.703 %) Education	Job Titles 1 20 (54.05 %) Developer 2 10 (27.03 %) SQL Developer 3 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server Developer 3 6 (16.22 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (10.81 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) Database Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) SQL Database Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) Analyst 5 3 (8.108 %) Consultant 5 3 (8.108 %) DBA 6 2 (5.405 %) C# Developer 6 2 (5.405 %) Server Specialist 6 2 (5.405 %) SQL DBA 6 2 (5.405 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (5.405 %) Junior 6 2 (5.405 %) Delphi Developer 7 1 (2.703 %) Architect 7 1 (2.703 %) Information Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Senior Technical Architect 7 1 (2.703 %) Data Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.108 %) N-Tier 2 1 (2.703 %) Statistics 2 1 (2.703 %) Psychology 2 1 (2.703 %) Ergonomics 2 1 (2.703 %) Human Factors	Operating Systems 1 8 (21.62 %) Windows 2 1 (2.703 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (2.703 %) Windows NT 2 1 (2.703 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.81 %) Data Modelling 1 4 (10.81 %) Project Management 2 3 (8.108 %) OO 2 3 (8.108 %) Migration 3 2 (5.405 %) Web Development 3 2 (5.405 %) Data Migration 3 2 (5.405 %) BPEL 3 2 (5.405 %) Software Engineering 3 2 (5.405 %) SEO 3 2 (5.405 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (5.405 %) OOP 4 1 (2.703 %) UML 4 1 (2.703 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.703 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.703 %) Software Testing 4 1 (2.703 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (2.703 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 36 (97.30 %) SQL 2 11 (29.73 %) C# 3 10 (27.03 %) VB.NET 4 7 (18.92 %) JavaScript 5 3 (8.108 %) Delphi 6 2 (5.405 %) DHTML 6 2 (5.405 %) VB 7 1 (2.703 %) VB6 7 1 (2.703 %) XPath 7 1 (2.703 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (5.405 %) Degree 2 1 (2.703 %) MCDBA 2 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) ISO9001 1 1 (2.703 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (2.703 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.405 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.703 %) Adobe 3 1 (2.703 %) Lawson