The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 15 8 2
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 33 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.375% 10.51% 20.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.89% 36.67% 46.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 20
Average daily rate £335 £408 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.79% +46.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £255 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £559 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.64 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18 90 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.25% 28.66% 44.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 52 42
Average daily rate £335 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.66% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £550 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +70.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Tyne and Wear

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 20 (51.28%) .NET
2 18 (46.15%) C#
3 16 (41.03%) Oracle
4 11 (28.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
5 9 (23.08%) PL/SQL
5 9 (23.08%) UNIX
5 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 8 (20.51%) ASP.NET
6 8 (20.51%) VB.NET
7 7 (17.95%) Linux
7 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
8 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
8 6 (15.38%) FileNet
8 6 (15.38%) Workflow
8 6 (15.38%) Finance
8 6 (15.38%) WebSphere
8 6 (15.38%) Informatica
8 6 (15.38%) SSL
8 6 (15.38%) IBM
8 6 (15.38%) Sun
8 6 (15.38%) LDAP
8 6 (15.38%) Perl
8 6 (15.38%) AIX
8 6 (15.38%) Business Objects
8 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (15.38%) Change Control
9 5 (12.82%) T-SQL
9 5 (12.82%) MS Excel

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 20 (51.28%) .NET
2 8 (20.51%) ASP.NET
3 6 (15.38%) WebSphere
4 4 (10.26%) Web Services
4 4 (10.26%) XML
5 3 (7.692%) ASP
5 3 (7.692%) CSS
6 1 (2.564%) HTML5
6 1 (2.564%) JSP
6 1 (2.564%) Struts
6 1 (2.564%) J2EE
6 1 (2.564%) HTML
6 1 (2.564%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (2.564%) XHTML
6 1 (2.564%) WCF
6 1 (2.564%) jQuery
6 1 (2.564%) Spring
6 1 (2.564%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.38%) FileNet
2 4 (10.26%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (10.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.692%) WebLogic
3 3 (7.692%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (5.128%) Apache
5 1 (2.564%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.564%) Umbraco
5 1 (2.564%) CMS
5 1 (2.564%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.692%) MS Office
2 3 (7.692%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.692%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (7.692%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.128%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.128%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (5.128%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.564%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) SSL
1 6 (15.38%) LDAP
2 1 (2.564%) SAN
2 1 (2.564%) DNS
2 1 (2.564%) DHCP
2 1 (2.564%) VPN
2 1 (2.564%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (7.692%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (7.692%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (5.128%) TOAD
7 1 (2.564%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 1 (2.564%) MySQL
7 1 (2.564%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.128%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (5.128%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.564%) JUnit
2 1 (2.564%) Maven
General
1 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (5.128%) Publishing
3 1 (2.564%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 3 (7.692%) Web Developer
4 3 (7.692%) Consultant
4 3 (7.692%) PL/SQL Developer
4 3 (7.692%) Team Leader
4 3 (7.692%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (7.692%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.128%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) Administrator
5 2 (5.128%) Build Engineer
6 1 (2.564%) Designer
6 1 (2.564%) Technical Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.564%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (2.564%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.564%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.564%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) UNIX
2 7 (17.95%) Linux
3 6 (15.38%) AIX
3 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Solaris
5 1 (2.564%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
2 6 (15.38%) Workflow
2 6 (15.38%) Change Control
3 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
4 3 (7.692%) EAM
4 3 (7.692%) Scrum
4 3 (7.692%) Asset Management
5 2 (5.128%) Validation
5 2 (5.128%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (5.128%) Data Validation
5 2 (5.128%) Data Mapping
5 2 (5.128%) CRM
6 1 (2.564%) ETL
6 1 (2.564%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (2.564%) System Testing
6 1 (2.564%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.564%) Regression Testing
6 1 (2.564%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) C#
2 9 (23.08%) PL/SQL
3 8 (20.51%) VB.NET
4 6 (15.38%) Perl
5 5 (12.82%) T-SQL
6 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (7.692%) Java
7 3 (7.692%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.692%) HND
2 3 (7.692%) Degree
3 1 (2.564%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (2.564%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Oracle
2 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
4 6 (15.38%) Informatica
4 6 (15.38%) IBM
4 6 (15.38%) Sun
4 6 (15.38%) Business Objects
5 3 (7.692%) Siebel
6 2 (5.128%) HP
6 2 (5.128%) JBoss
7 1 (2.564%) Citrix
7 1 (2.564%) Axway
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