The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Merseyside 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Developer
Rank 21 33 32
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -1
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.094% 0.823% 0.365%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.186% 0.881% 0.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £363 £300 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% +39.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +12.00%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
183 227 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 95.81% 93.42% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 106 131
Average daily rate £340 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £465 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 37 43
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -19.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £22.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL Developer
North West

SQL Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Developer across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Merseyside SQL Developer Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside SQL Developer Daily Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside SQL Developer Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Liverpool - - - - 2
Southport - - - - 2
SQL Developer
North West

SQL Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (33.33%) NHS
4 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 3 (33.33%) .NET
4 3 (33.33%) Retail
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
5 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 2 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle
5 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
5 2 (22.22%) IPTV
5 2 (22.22%) FMCG
5 2 (22.22%) Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) Digital Media
6 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (11.11%) Web Development
6 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework

SQL Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) LINQ
3 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (11.11%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
1 1 (11.11%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) NHS
2 2 (22.22%) IPTV
2 2 (22.22%) FMCG
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Media
3 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ETL
1 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) LiteSpeed
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) CommVault