Middlesex SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aldershot Amersham Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford 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 Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	9
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	78	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.070 %
As % of the category below	48.15 %	55.83 %
Daily rates quoted	23	27
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£256
Average daily rate	£332	£274
% change on same period last year	+21.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£28.75
% change on same period last year	+21.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.10	£29.72
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Programming Languages Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	162	120
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.214 %	0.125 %
Daily rates quoted	56	37
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£263
Average daily rate	£334	£273
% change on same period last year	+22.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£333
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.17	£29.88
Average hourly rate	£36.17	£31.66
% change on same period last year	+14.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.17	£33.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£33.14
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
SQL South East

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 63 (54.31 %) Oracle 2 39 (33.62 %) PL/SQL 3 33 (28.45 %) Crystal Reports 4 28 (24.14 %) Security Cleared 5 27 (23.28 %) Oracle 10g 5 27 (23.28 %) SQL Server 6 24 (20.69 %) Business Objects 6 24 (20.69 %) BusinessObjects 7 21 (18.10 %) Windows 8 20 (17.24 %) Oracle 9i 9 19 (16.38 %) SC Cleared 10 18 (15.52 %) Unix 11 17 (14.66 %) Java 11 17 (14.66 %) Migration 12 16 (13.79 %) Remedy

13 15 (12.93 %) Government 14 14 (12.07 %) Microsoft 15 13 (11.21 %) BMC 15 13 (11.21 %) Oracle Reports 15 13 (11.21 %) ITSM 15 13 (11.21 %) Remedy ITSM 16 12 (10.34 %) J2EE 17 11 (9.483 %) .NET 18 9 (7.759 %) ITIL 18 9 (7.759 %) SQL Server 2000 18 9 (7.759 %) RDBMS 19 8 (6.897 %) MS Excel 19 8 (6.897 %) MS Visio 19 8 (6.897 %) C 19 8 (6.897 %) Insurance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 12 (10.34 %) J2EE 2 11 (9.483 %) .NET 3 7 (6.034 %) Hibernate 3 7 (6.034 %) Spring 4 6 (5.172 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (5.172 %) Struts 5 5 (4.310 %) MVC 5 5 (4.310 %) HTML 5 5 (4.310 %) JSP 6 4 (3.448 %) XML 6 4 (3.448 %) EDIFACT 7 3 (2.586 %) WebServices 8 2 (1.724 %) EDI 8 2 (1.724 %) ASP 8 2 (1.724 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (0.862 %) AJAX 9 1 (0.862 %) Silverlight 9 1 (0.862 %) Apache FOP 9 1 (0.862 %) JRules 9 1 (0.862 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 7 (6.034 %) WebLogic 2 4 (3.448 %) IIS 3 3 (2.586 %) SAS 4 2 (1.724 %) SharePoint 4 2 (1.724 %) CMS 5 1 (0.862 %) Oracle Workflow 5 1 (0.862 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (0.862 %) Documentum 5 1 (0.862 %) ColdFusion 5 1 (0.862 %) WebLogic Portal 5 1 (0.862 %) Community Server
Applications 1 8 (6.897 %) MS Excel 1 8 (6.897 %) MS Visio 2 4 (3.448 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.586 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 13 (11.21 %) Remedy ITSM 2 1 (0.862 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.310 %) HTTPS 2 3 (2.586 %) SAN 3 2 (1.724 %) WAN 3 2 (1.724 %) FTP 3 2 (1.724 %) HTTP 4 1 (0.862 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (0.862 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.862 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.862 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.862 %) NetScreen 4 1 (0.862 %) TELNET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (28.45 %) Crystal Reports 2 27 (23.28 %) Oracle 10g 2 27 (23.28 %) SQL Server 3 24 (20.69 %) BusinessObjects 4 20 (17.24 %) Oracle 9i 5 13 (11.21 %) Oracle Reports 6 9 (7.759 %) SQL Server 2000 6 9 (7.759 %) RDBMS 7 5 (4.310 %) Datawarehouse 8 4 (3.448 %) SQLPlus 8 4 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2005 9 3 (2.586 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 3 (2.586 %) DTS 9 3 (2.586 %) Data Mining 9 3 (2.586 %) SQL Server 7 10 2 (1.724 %) ETL 10 2 (1.724 %) DB2 10 2 (1.724 %) MySQL 10 2 (1.724 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 1 (0.862 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 5 (4.310 %) JUnit 2 3 (2.586 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (2.586 %) Flash 2 3 (2.586 %) ProC 3 2 (1.724 %) Synon 3 2 (1.724 %) COOL2E 3 2 (1.724 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.724 %) MSI 4 1 (0.862 %) FrontPage 4 1 (0.862 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.862 %) ClearCase 4 1 (0.862 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.862 %) ERwin	General 1 15 (12.93 %) Government 2 8 (6.897 %) Insurance 3 7 (6.034 %) Finance 4 5 (4.310 %) Telecoms 4 5 (4.310 %) Pharmaceutical 5 3 (2.586 %) Marketing 5 3 (2.586 %) Banking 5 3 (2.586 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (1.724 %) Billing 6 2 (1.724 %) Retail 6 2 (1.724 %) Health 7 1 (0.862 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.862 %) Automotive 7 1 (0.862 %) Education 7 1 (0.862 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 54 (46.55 %) Developer 2 29 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 13 (11.21 %) Business Analyst 4 10 (8.621 %) DBA 4 10 (8.621 %) Java Developer 4 10 (8.621 %) Crystal Reports Developer 4 10 (8.621 %) Report Developer 5 8 (6.897 %) Consultant 6 6 (5.172 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 6 (5.172 %) Business Objects Developer 6 6 (5.172 %) Business Developer 7 5 (4.310 %) Data Analyst 7 5 (4.310 %) SQL DBA 7 5 (4.310 %) Business Data Analyst 8 4 (3.448 %) Crystal Reports Writer 8 4 (3.448 %) Development DBA 8 4 (3.448 %) .NET Developer 8 4 (3.448 %) Analyst Developer 8 4 (3.448 %) Information Analyst 8 4 (3.448 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.310 %) Computer Science 2 4 (3.448 %) NHS 2 4 (3.448 %) Mathematics 2 4 (3.448 %) Physics 3 3 (2.586 %) N-Tier 4 2 (1.724 %) Replication 4 2 (1.724 %) AS400 5 1 (0.862 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.862 %) PDA 5 1 (0.862 %) W3C 5 1 (0.862 %) Thin Client 5 1 (0.862 %) Video Conferencing 5 1 (0.862 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 21 (18.10 %) Windows 2 18 (15.52 %) Unix 3 7 (6.034 %) Linux 4 6 (5.172 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (2.586 %) Solaris 6 2 (1.724 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.862 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (0.862 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.862 %) Windows XP 7 1 (0.862 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (24.14 %) Security Cleared 2 19 (16.38 %) SC Cleared 3 17 (14.66 %) Migration 4 13 (11.21 %) ITSM 5 9 (7.759 %) ITIL 6 8 (6.897 %) Service Management 6 8 (6.897 %) Unit Testing 7 7 (6.034 %) Data Migration 8 4 (3.448 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (3.448 %) Disaster Recovery 9 3 (2.586 %) CRM 9 3 (2.586 %) Project Management 10 2 (1.724 %) DV Cleared 10 2 (1.724 %) Data Modelling 10 2 (1.724 %) OOD 10 2 (1.724 %) UML 10 2 (1.724 %) OOA/OOD 10 2 (1.724 %) Content Management 10 2 (1.724 %) Document Management 10 2 (1.724 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 39 (33.62 %) PL/SQL 2 17 (14.66 %) Java 3 8 (6.897 %) C 4 7 (6.034 %) C# 4 7 (6.034 %) VB 5 6 (5.172 %) Perl 5 6 (5.172 %) Korn 6 5 (4.310 %) JavaScript 6 5 (4.310 %) C++ 6 5 (4.310 %) Transact-SQL 7 4 (3.448 %) Shell Script 7 4 (3.448 %) RPG 7 4 (3.448 %) VB.NET 8 3 (2.586 %) AWK 8 3 (2.586 %) PHP 9 2 (1.724 %) VBA 9 2 (1.724 %) VB6 10 1 (0.862 %) Ruby 10 1 (0.862 %) VBScript 10 1 (0.862 %) Python	Qualifications 1 7 (6.034 %) Degree 2 3 (2.586 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (0.862 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.862 %) MCP 3 1 (0.862 %) HND 3 1 (0.862 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.862 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.862 %) BS15000 1 1 (0.862 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 1 (0.862 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (0.862 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.862 %) Foglight 1 1 (0.862 %) OVSD 1 1 (0.862 %) OpenView 1 1 (0.862 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.862 %) Tivoli Monitoring 1 1 (0.862 %) MOM 1 1 (0.862 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 63 (54.31 %) Oracle 2 24 (20.69 %) Business Objects 3 16 (13.79 %) Remedy 4 14 (12.07 %) Microsoft 5 13 (11.21 %) BMC 6 4 (3.448 %) IBM 7 3 (2.586 %) Sun 8 2 (1.724 %) Cognos 8 2 (1.724 %) Siebel 8 2 (1.724 %) HP 8 2 (1.724 %) SAP 8 2 (1.724 %) Altiris 9 1 (0.862 %) VMware 9 1 (0.862 %) ARDENTIA 9 1 (0.862 %) Intel 9 1 (0.862 %) BEA 9 1 (0.862 %) VERITAS 9 1 (0.862 %) Lotus 9 1 (0.862 %) Cisco 9 1 (0.862 %) Mercator