The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 21 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 Wales 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 2 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing SQL 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Wales 7.143% 18.75% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £175 £234 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.13% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
North Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
7 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Wales 50.00% 37.50% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Average daily rate £300 £250 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +4.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.42 - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Wales

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Wales 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 Wales region.

North Wales SQL Daily Rate Trend

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 Wales region.

North Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
Flintshire -1 1 £175 +12.90%
SQL
Wales

SQL
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Security
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) Struts
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) J2SE

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Security
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) Struts
2 1 (50.00%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mid-Level C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle