The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 North East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 9 5 3
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 31 73 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 11.07% 14.78% 17.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.21% 42.94% 49.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 35
Average daily rate £300 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £250 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £590 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -21.87%
All Programming Languages
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
63 170 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 22.50% 34.41% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 97 78
Average daily rate £275 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £238 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +70.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
England

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North East 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 North East region.

North East SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Tyne and Wear -4 20 £318 -9.28%
Durham 0 7 £310 -13.88%
SQL
England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 27 (39.71%) .NET
2 23 (33.82%) Oracle
3 21 (30.88%) C#
4 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
5 13 (19.12%) PL/SQL
6 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 12 (17.65%) ASP.NET
6 12 (17.65%) UNIX
7 11 (16.18%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (14.71%) Linux
9 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
9 9 (13.24%) Business Objects
9 9 (13.24%) T-SQL
9 9 (13.24%) VB.NET
9 9 (13.24%) Informatica
9 9 (13.24%) Finance
10 8 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (10.29%) SharePoint
11 7 (10.29%) Workflow
11 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
11 7 (10.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (10.29%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (10.29%) Change Control
12 6 (8.824%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (8.824%) SharePoint Server
12 6 (8.824%) WebSphere
12 6 (8.824%) Configuration Management
12 6 (8.824%) Oracle 10g
12 6 (8.824%) Sun

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 27 (39.71%) .NET
2 12 (17.65%) ASP.NET
3 6 (8.824%) WebSphere
3 6 (8.824%) Web Services
4 5 (7.353%) XML
5 4 (5.882%) jQuery
5 4 (5.882%) CSS
5 4 (5.882%) ASP
5 4 (5.882%) HTML
6 2 (2.941%) HTML5
7 1 (1.471%) J2EE
7 1 (1.471%) DCOM
7 1 (1.471%) JSP
7 1 (1.471%) Struts
7 1 (1.471%) XSLT
7 1 (1.471%) ActiveX
7 1 (1.471%) XHTML
7 1 (1.471%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.471%) LAMP
7 1 (1.471%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.824%) SharePoint Server
2 6 (8.824%) FileNet
3 4 (5.882%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.412%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (2.941%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (2.941%) Apache
6 1 (1.471%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.471%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.471%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.471%) CMS
6 1 (1.471%) MS Project Server
6 1 (1.471%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (8.824%) MS Excel
2 5 (7.353%) MS Office
3 3 (4.412%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.353%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.412%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.941%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.941%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.941%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.941%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (1.471%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.471%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.824%) SSL
1 6 (8.824%) LDAP
2 3 (4.412%) SAN
3 2 (2.941%) Intranet
3 2 (2.941%) Extranet
3 2 (2.941%) DHCP
3 2 (2.941%) DNS
4 1 (1.471%) HTTP
4 1 (1.471%) VPN
4 1 (1.471%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (10.29%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (8.824%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (7.353%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (7.353%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (7.353%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
7 4 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (2.941%) Data Mart
8 2 (2.941%) PowerCenter
8 2 (2.941%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.941%) TOAD
9 1 (1.471%) MySQL
9 1 (1.471%) OLAP
9 1 (1.471%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.471%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.941%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (2.941%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.471%) JUnit
2 1 (1.471%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.471%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.471%) Maven
2 1 (1.471%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.471%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (13.24%) Finance
2 4 (5.882%) Banking
3 2 (2.941%) Publishing
4 1 (1.471%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.471%) Law
4 1 (1.471%) Legal
4 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Developer
2 13 (19.12%) Analyst
3 9 (13.24%) SQL Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Consultant
5 6 (8.824%) Administrator
5 6 (8.824%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.882%) SharePoint Developer
7 3 (4.412%) Test Analyst
7 3 (4.412%) Web Developer
7 3 (4.412%) Team Leader
7 3 (4.412%) PL/SQL Developer
7 3 (4.412%) Designer
8 2 (2.941%) SharePoint Administrator
8 2 (2.941%) Build Engineer
8 2 (2.941%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (2.941%) Information Analyst
8 2 (2.941%) Storage Consultant
8 2 (2.941%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (2.941%) Storage Administrator
8 2 (2.941%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.882%) NHS
2 2 (2.941%) Replication
3 1 (1.471%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.471%) Clustering
3 1 (1.471%) PACS
3 1 (1.471%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.471%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.65%) UNIX
2 10 (14.71%) Linux
3 6 (8.824%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (8.824%) AIX
4 4 (5.882%) Solaris
5 3 (4.412%) Windows
6 1 (1.471%) CentOS
6 1 (1.471%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.18%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
3 7 (10.29%) Workflow
3 7 (10.29%) Change Control
4 6 (8.824%) Configuration Management
5 5 (7.353%) ETL
6 4 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (5.882%) Scrum
7 3 (4.412%) EAM
7 3 (4.412%) Validation
7 3 (4.412%) Asset Management
7 3 (4.412%) Data Analysis
7 3 (4.412%) Wealth Management
7 3 (4.412%) Integration Testing
8 2 (2.941%) Dimensional Modelling
8 2 (2.941%) Data Migration
8 2 (2.941%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (2.941%) Data Validation
8 2 (2.941%) Data Mapping
8 2 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) C#
2 13 (19.12%) PL/SQL
3 9 (13.24%) T-SQL
3 9 (13.24%) VB.NET
4 6 (8.824%) Perl
5 5 (7.353%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.412%) Java
6 3 (4.412%) VBA
7 2 (2.941%) VB6
7 2 (2.941%) VB
8 1 (1.471%) PHP
8 1 (1.471%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.471%) PHP5
8 1 (1.471%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.882%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.412%) HND
2 3 (4.412%) Degree
3 1 (1.471%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) DICOM
1 1 (1.471%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.412%) VMware ESX
1 3 (4.412%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.941%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 2 (2.941%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.471%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.471%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.471%) WSUS
2 1 (1.471%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.471%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Oracle
2 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.24%) Business Objects
3 9 (13.24%) Informatica
4 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
5 6 (8.824%) Sun
5 6 (8.824%) IBM
6 3 (4.412%) SAP
6 3 (4.412%) Siebel
6 3 (4.412%) VMware
7 2 (2.941%) HP
7 2 (2.941%) JBoss
8 1 (1.471%) Citrix
8 1 (1.471%) EMC
8 1 (1.471%) Zend
8 1 (1.471%) Axway
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