The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 Milton Keynes 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 12 9 10
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 53 81 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 10.33% 11.14% 10.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.26% 43.55% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 49 39
Average daily rate £253 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.83% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £165 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £480 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
Average hourly rate £21.25 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -22.48%
All Programming Languages
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
135 186 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 26.32% 25.58% 29.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 93 79
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £395 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £35.00 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £38.70 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Buckinghamshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 35 (29.91%) .NET
2 33 (28.21%) Windows
3 32 (27.35%) SQL Server
4 23 (19.66%) ITIL
4 23 (19.66%) Microsoft
5 22 (18.80%) Oracle
6 20 (17.09%) Security Cleared
6 20 (17.09%) Windows Server 2008
7 18 (15.38%) MS Exchange
7 18 (15.38%) Finance
7 18 (15.38%) VMware
8 17 (14.53%) Citrix
8 17 (14.53%) UNIX
9 16 (13.68%) C#
10 15 (12.82%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (11.97%) Exchange Server 2003
12 13 (11.11%) HP
12 13 (11.11%) MS Excel
12 13 (11.11%) SharePoint
12 13 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
13 12 (10.26%) DV Cleared
13 12 (10.26%) XML
13 12 (10.26%) ASP.NET
14 11 (9.402%) IIS
14 11 (9.402%) Linux
14 11 (9.402%) SAN
14 11 (9.402%) Windows 7
15 10 (8.547%) SC Cleared
15 10 (8.547%) Active Directory
15 10 (8.547%) PL/SQL

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 35 (29.91%) .NET
2 12 (10.26%) XML
2 12 (10.26%) ASP.NET
3 9 (7.692%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.983%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (5.128%) Web Services
5 6 (5.128%) XSLT
5 6 (5.128%) HTML
6 5 (4.274%) CSS
7 4 (3.419%) Ajax
7 4 (3.419%) WCF
7 4 (3.419%) jQuery
8 3 (2.564%) LINQ
8 3 (2.564%) SOAP
9 2 (1.709%) WebSphere
9 2 (1.709%) ASP
9 2 (1.709%) WPF
9 2 (1.709%) HTML5
9 2 (1.709%) J2EE
9 2 (1.709%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 18 (15.38%) MS Exchange
2 14 (11.97%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (11.11%) SharePoint
4 11 (9.402%) IIS
5 7 (5.983%) CMS
5 7 (5.983%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (5.128%) GlassFish
7 5 (4.274%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 5 (4.274%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (3.419%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (3.419%) Lync
9 3 (2.564%) Umbraco
10 2 (1.709%) Lotus Notes
10 2 (1.709%) Apache
10 2 (1.709%) Drupal
10 2 (1.709%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.855%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.855%) ESB
11 1 (0.855%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.855%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 13 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 7 (5.983%) MS Office
3 2 (1.709%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.855%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.274%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.709%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.855%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.855%) Movex
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.402%) SAN
2 10 (8.547%) Firewall
3 7 (5.983%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.128%) LAN
4 6 (5.128%) WAN
5 5 (4.274%) DHCP
5 5 (4.274%) DNS
6 3 (2.564%) NAS
7 2 (1.709%) 3G
7 2 (1.709%) VoIP
7 2 (1.709%) WLAN
7 2 (1.709%) Broadband
7 2 (1.709%) VPN
7 2 (1.709%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.709%) Wireless
8 1 (0.855%) Symposium
8 1 (0.855%) DMZ
8 1 (0.855%) Internet
8 1 (0.855%) LDAP
8 1 (0.855%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.128%) DB2
2 6 (5.128%) RDBMS
2 6 (5.128%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (4.274%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (2.564%) MS Access
4 3 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.564%) MySQL
5 2 (1.709%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.709%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.709%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.709%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.709%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.709%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.855%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.855%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (0.855%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (0.855%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.855%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (0.855%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 4 (3.419%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.709%) Selenium
3 1 (0.855%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (0.855%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.855%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.855%) NMock
3 1 (0.855%) Ant
3 1 (0.855%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.855%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.855%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.855%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.855%) NUnit
3 1 (0.855%) Subversion
3 1 (0.855%) Maven
General
1 18 (15.38%) Finance
2 5 (4.274%) Retail
3 3 (2.564%) Manufacturing
3 3 (2.564%) Banking
3 3 (2.564%) Financial Institution
4 2 (1.709%) Spanish Language
5 1 (0.855%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.855%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 41 (35.04%) Analyst
2 40 (34.19%) Developer
3 25 (21.37%) Support Analyst
4 17 (14.53%) Applications Support
5 16 (13.68%) .NET Developer
6 13 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
6 13 (11.11%) SQL Developer
7 8 (6.838%) 3rd Line Support
7 8 (6.838%) Consultant
8 7 (5.983%) Architect
9 6 (5.128%) DBA
9 6 (5.128%) Systems Support
10 5 (4.274%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.274%) Navision Consultant
10 5 (4.274%) ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (4.274%) Navision Developer
11 4 (3.419%) SQL DBA
11 4 (3.419%) PL/SQL Developer
11 4 (3.419%) Database Developer
11 4 (3.419%) Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.983%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.274%) EPoS
2 5 (4.274%) Blackberry
3 4 (3.419%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.564%) iSeries
4 3 (2.564%) Cryptography
4 3 (2.564%) PDA
4 3 (2.564%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.564%) AS400
5 2 (1.709%) Replication
5 2 (1.709%) NHS
5 2 (1.709%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.709%) Open Source
5 2 (1.709%) Social Media
6 1 (0.855%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.855%) SaaS
6 1 (0.855%) HACMP
6 1 (0.855%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.855%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.21%) Windows
2 20 (17.09%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (14.53%) UNIX
4 15 (12.82%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (9.402%) Windows 7
5 11 (9.402%) Linux
6 6 (5.128%) Windows Vista
7 5 (4.274%) Solaris
8 4 (3.419%) AIX
8 4 (3.419%) Windows XP
9 3 (2.564%) Windows NT
10 2 (1.709%) MVS
10 2 (1.709%) Windows 2000 Server
10 2 (1.709%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.66%) ITIL
2 10 (8.547%) Service Delivery
2 10 (8.547%) MVC
2 10 (8.547%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (7.692%) CRM
3 9 (7.692%) ERP
4 8 (6.838%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (6.838%) Content Management
5 7 (5.983%) Service Management
5 7 (5.983%) Change Management
6 6 (5.128%) Data Architecture
6 6 (5.128%) Analytics
7 5 (4.274%) Test Scripting
7 5 (4.274%) OO
7 5 (4.274%) Data Analysis
7 5 (4.274%) Logistics
7 5 (4.274%) Load Balancing
8 4 (3.419%) Web Development
8 4 (3.419%) Configuration Management
8 4 (3.419%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.68%) C#
2 10 (8.547%) JavaScript
2 10 (8.547%) PL/SQL
2 10 (8.547%) T-SQL
3 9 (7.692%) Java
4 8 (6.838%) VBA
5 6 (5.128%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.564%) PHP
7 1 (0.855%) COBOL
7 1 (0.855%) VBScript
7 1 (0.855%) VB
7 1 (0.855%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.855%) Korn
7 1 (0.855%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 20 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.26%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.547%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.838%) Degree
6 7 (5.983%) MCP
6 7 (5.983%) MCSE
7 4 (3.419%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.855%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.855%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.564%) SLA
1 3 (2.564%) QA
2 2 (1.709%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.855%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (8.547%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.692%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.564%) vSphere
4 3 (2.564%) VMware ESX
5 2 (1.709%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.855%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.855%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.855%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.855%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.855%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 8 (6.838%) Backup Exec
2 3 (2.564%) OpenView
2 3 (2.564%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (1.709%) CA SiteMinder
3 2 (1.709%) SCOM
4 1 (0.855%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.855%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.855%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.855%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (0.855%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.855%) Unicenter
4 1 (0.855%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.80%) Oracle
3 18 (15.38%) VMware
4 17 (14.53%) Citrix
5 13 (11.11%) HP
6 8 (6.838%) SAP
7 6 (5.128%) Business Objects
8 3 (2.564%) Compaq
8 3 (2.564%) Sun
8 3 (2.564%) StorageTek
8 3 (2.564%) Lotus
8 3 (2.564%) IBM
8 3 (2.564%) Remedy
9 2 (1.709%) Zend
9 2 (1.709%) Facebook
9 2 (1.709%) Twitter
10 1 (0.855%) Talend
10 1 (0.855%) Veeam
10 1 (0.855%) Symantec
10 1 (0.855%) CA
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