The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the North West 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
SQL Developer
Rank 100 89 70
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -19
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 18 43 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.772% 1.382% 1.836%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.828% 1.508% 1.988%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 35
Average daily rate £330 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £238 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £367 £313 £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £11.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £30.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+13.11% +1.66%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2173 2851 2817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.22% 91.64% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1036 1402 1393
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 171 189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL Developer
England

SQL Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Developer across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West SQL Developer Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West SQL Developer Daily Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West SQL Developer Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Developer across the North West region.

North West SQL Developer Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the North West 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
Manchester +8 9 £330 +1.53%
Cheshire -20 4 £350 +16.66%
Lancashire +8 3 £238 +15.85%
Merseyside +4 2 £269 -10.41%
SQL Developer
England

SQL Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 54 (88.52%) SQL
2 37 (60.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 37 (60.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 33 (54.10%) SQL Server
4 23 (37.70%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (34.43%) T-SQL
5 21 (34.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 21 (34.43%) SQL Server 2008
6 19 (31.15%) .NET
7 16 (26.23%) NHS
8 14 (22.95%) VB.NET
8 14 (22.95%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (19.67%) MDX
10 11 (18.03%) ETL
11 10 (16.39%) C#
12 9 (14.75%) Finance
12 9 (14.75%) Migration
13 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
13 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2005
14 7 (11.48%) Data Migration
14 7 (11.48%) SQL Server 2012
14 7 (11.48%) VBA
14 7 (11.48%) OLAP
14 7 (11.48%) Visual Studio
15 5 (8.197%) SharePoint
16 4 (6.557%) ASP.NET
16 4 (6.557%) Kimball Methodology
17 3 (4.918%) PerformancePoint
17 3 (4.918%) Dimensional Modelling
17 3 (4.918%) Agile Software Development

SQL Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 19 (31.15%) .NET
2 12 (19.67%) MDX
3 4 (6.557%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.918%) XML
5 2 (3.279%) Web Services
5 2 (3.279%) jQuery
5 2 (3.279%) LINQ
5 2 (3.279%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (3.279%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.639%) COM
6 1 (1.639%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.197%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.279%) CMS
2 2 (3.279%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.279%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.639%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (1.639%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.918%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.279%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.639%) MS Office
3 1 (1.639%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.639%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (60.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 37 (60.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 33 (54.10%) SQL Server
3 21 (34.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 21 (34.43%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (22.95%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (11.48%) SQL Server 2012
6 7 (11.48%) OLAP
7 3 (4.918%) PerformancePoint
7 3 (4.918%) Star Schema
7 3 (4.918%) DTS
8 2 (3.279%) MS Access
8 2 (3.279%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (3.279%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (3.279%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.279%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
9 1 (1.639%) QlikView
9 1 (1.639%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.279%) Subversion
3 1 (1.639%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.639%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.639%) Mercurial
General
1 9 (14.75%) Finance
2 3 (4.918%) Retail
3 1 (1.639%) Local Government
3 1 (1.639%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) NHS
2 2 (3.279%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.279%) iPad
3 1 (1.639%) Data Extraction
3 1 (1.639%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.279%) Android
2 1 (1.639%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (18.03%) ETL
3 9 (14.75%) Migration
4 7 (11.48%) Data Migration
5 4 (6.557%) Kimball Methodology
6 3 (4.918%) Dimensional Modelling
6 3 (4.918%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (3.279%) CRM
7 2 (3.279%) RUP
7 2 (3.279%) E-Commerce
7 2 (3.279%) Scrum
7 2 (3.279%) Contact Management
7 2 (3.279%) Kanban
7 2 (3.279%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (3.279%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (3.279%) Data Transformation
8 1 (1.639%) Web Development
8 1 (1.639%) Time Management
8 1 (1.639%) Data Mapping
8 1 (1.639%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (88.52%) SQL
2 21 (34.43%) T-SQL
3 14 (22.95%) VB.NET
4 10 (16.39%) C#
5 7 (11.48%) VBA
6 3 (4.918%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.279%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.639%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (4.918%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.279%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.639%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.639%) LiteSpeed
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.918%) Oracle
2 3 (4.918%) Cognos
3 2 (3.279%) Business Objects
4 1 (1.639%) CommVault
Manchester, North West
SQL Server Developer,Manchester, 3 months, £Neg A client has recently won a large project which requires a SQL developer to join the business intelligence team. The successful...
Real Staffing
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
You should have excellent reporting skills and key skills for this role include; - SSRS - SSIS - T-SQL Any experience of supporting Enterprise wide systems would be interesting but...
Computer Futures
Rate: £120 - £130 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
You should have expert level T-SQL and the key skills for this role include; - SQL Server 2008, 2012 - T-SQL - SSIS - DataWarehouse maintenance - SSRS - Any DBA skills...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
North West
Venn Group. SQL Developer urgently required in the North West of England Venn Group have an NHS opportunity for a SQL Developer to start immediately This is an...
Venn Group
Rate: £200 - 230 Per Day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
ASP.Net / C# / SQL Server Developer required- Contract - Cheshire *** Type: 6 Month Contract Rate: Circa £200 per day Location:South Cheshire Start Date: ASAP C# / ASP.Net SQL...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013