Midlands SQL Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SQL Developer role in IT contracts within the Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wirral Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	49
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	45	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	3.412 %	1.825 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£317
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.83
Average hourly rate	-	£32.83
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.21	£33.02
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1319	1589
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.739 %	1.662 %
Daily rates quoted	261	260
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£377
Average daily rate	£387	£396
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	108
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.68	£30.73
Average hourly rate	£23.78	£31.80
% change on same period last year	-25.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.88	£32.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
SQL Developer England

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 Developer across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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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 Developer across the Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 78 (87.64 %) SQL 2 63 (70.79 %) Oracle 3 47 (52.81 %) Oracle 10g 4 33 (37.08 %) HTML 4 33 (37.08 %) Java 5 32 (35.96 %) JavaScript 6 31 (34.83 %) PL/SQL 6 31 (34.83 %) Oracle Designer 10g 7 21 (23.60 %) SQL Server 8 16 (17.98 %) .NET 9 15 (16.85 %) Migration 10 14 (15.73 %) ASP.NET 10 14 (15.73 %) Data Migration 10 14 (15.73 %) Pensions 11 10 (11.24 %) SQL Server 2005

11 10 (11.24 %) VB.NET 12 9 (10.11 %) Oracle 11g 13 6 (6.742 %) OO 13 6 (6.742 %) Oracle Forms 13 6 (6.742 %) Oracle Reports 13 6 (6.742 %) NHS 14 5 (5.618 %) Oracle 9i 14 5 (5.618 %) Insurance 14 5 (5.618 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 4 (4.494 %) Transact-SQL 15 4 (4.494 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 4 (4.494 %) Microsoft 16 3 (3.371 %) Finance 16 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server 2000 16 3 (3.371 %) C#

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 33 (37.08 %) HTML 2 16 (17.98 %) .NET 3 14 (15.73 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (2.247 %) XML 4 2 (2.247 %) ASP 5 1 (1.124 %) Hibernate 5 1 (1.124 %) J2EE 5 1 (1.124 %) J2SE 5 1 (1.124 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (1.124 %) MDX	Business Applications 1 1 (1.124 %) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 47 (52.81 %) Oracle 10g 2 21 (23.60 %) SQL Server 3 10 (11.24 %) SQL Server 2005 4 9 (10.11 %) Oracle 11g 5 6 (6.742 %) Oracle Reports 6 5 (5.618 %) Oracle 9i 6 5 (5.618 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 4 (4.494 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server 2000 8 3 (3.371 %) Datawarehouse 8 3 (3.371 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 2 (2.247 %) ETL 9 2 (2.247 %) Crystal Reports 9 2 (2.247 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (1.124 %) OLAP 10 1 (1.124 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 1 (1.124 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 31 (34.83 %) Oracle Designer 10g 2 6 (6.742 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (1.124 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.124 %) JUnit
General 1 14 (15.73 %) Pensions 2 5 (5.618 %) Insurance 3 3 (3.371 %) Finance 4 2 (2.247 %) Investment Banking 4 2 (2.247 %) Telecoms 4 2 (2.247 %) Banking 4 2 (2.247 %) Front Office 5 1 (1.124 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.124 %) Aerospace 5 1 (1.124 %) Government 5 1 (1.124 %) Publishing	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.742 %) NHS 2 2 (2.247 %) Statistics 2 2 (2.247 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.124 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 3 (3.371 %) Unix 1 3 (3.371 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.124 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (16.85 %) Migration 2 14 (15.73 %) Data Migration 3 6 (6.742 %) OO 4 2 (2.247 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (2.247 %) UML 5 1 (1.124 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (1.124 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.124 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.124 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.124 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 78 (87.64 %) SQL 2 33 (37.08 %) Java 3 32 (35.96 %) JavaScript 4 31 (34.83 %) PL/SQL 5 10 (11.24 %) VB.NET 6 4 (4.494 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (3.371 %) C# 8 1 (1.124 %) Shell Script 8 1 (1.124 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (1.124 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (1.124 %) MCDBA
Vendors 1 63 (70.79 %) Oracle 2 4 (4.494 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.247 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.124 %) Mercator