North West SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	5
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	521	478
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.694 %	0.484 %
As % of the category below	41.02 %	38.96 %
Daily rates quoted	116	87
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£296
Average daily rate	£335	£313
% change on same period last year	+7.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£334
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.45	£23.34
Average hourly rate	£28.87	£25.64
% change on same period last year	+12.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.29	£27.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.88	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1270	1227
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.693 %	1.241 %
Daily rates quoted	257	204
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£301
Average daily rate	£342	£318
% change on same period last year	+7.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	127	134
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.55	£24.35
Average hourly rate	£29.98	£27.18
% change on same period last year	+10.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.41	£30.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
SQL England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+2	180	£331	+1.56 %
Cheshire	-2	110	£318	-13.33 %
Lancashire	+2	70	£342	+9.41 %
Merseyside	0	48	£396	+56.75 %
Cumbria	+8	19	£332	-

SQL England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 351 (32.93 %) Oracle 2 318 (29.83 %) .NET 3 267 (25.05 %) SQL Server 4 242 (22.70 %) PL/SQL 5 200 (18.76 %) ASP.NET 6 182 (17.07 %) C# 7 167 (15.67 %) XML 8 145 (13.60 %) Java 9 140 (13.13 %) SQL Server 2005 10 121 (11.35 %) Oracle Reports 11 114 (10.69 %) JavaScript 12 109 (10.23 %) HTML 13 108 (10.13 %) Transact-SQL 14 103 (9.662 %) Finance 15 98 (9.193 %) Microsoft

16 94 (8.818 %) Windows 17 90 (8.443 %) VB.NET 18 84 (7.880 %) WebServices 19 82 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 20 78 (7.317 %) NHS 20 78 (7.317 %) SQL Server 2000 21 77 (7.223 %) Datawarehouse 22 75 (7.036 %) CSS 23 72 (6.754 %) ASP 24 70 (6.567 %) VB 25 69 (6.473 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 26 64 (6.004 %) UNIX 26 64 (6.004 %) Oracle Forms 27 59 (5.535 %) MS Excel 27 59 (5.535 %) J2EE

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 318 (29.83 %) .NET 2 200 (18.76 %) ASP.NET 3 167 (15.67 %) XML 4 109 (10.23 %) HTML 5 84 (7.880 %) WebServices 6 75 (7.036 %) CSS 7 72 (6.754 %) ASP 8 59 (5.535 %) J2EE 9 57 (5.347 %) AJAX 10 44 (4.128 %) JSP 11 36 (3.377 %) XSLT 12 30 (2.814 %) XHTML 13 26 (2.439 %) .NET Framework 14 25 (2.345 %) Struts 15 23 (2.158 %) Hibernate 16 22 (2.064 %) Spring 17 17 (1.595 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 16 (1.501 %) jQuery 19 14 (1.313 %) WinForms 19 14 (1.313 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 45 (4.221 %) IIS 2 36 (3.377 %) Oracle Workflow 3 35 (3.283 %) SharePoint 4 27 (2.533 %) ArcIMS 5 23 (2.158 %) Oracle Application Server 6 11 (1.032 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 11 (1.032 %) SAS 7 10 (0.938 %) JBoss 8 8 (0.750 %) Lotus Notes 8 8 (0.750 %) MS Exchange 8 8 (0.750 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 7 (0.657 %) Apache 10 6 (0.563 %) Tomcat 10 6 (0.563 %) ColdFusion 10 6 (0.563 %) CICS 11 5 (0.469 %) ArcGIS 12 4 (0.375 %) LiveLink 12 4 (0.375 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 4 (0.375 %) Oracle 10gAS 12 4 (0.375 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 59 (5.535 %) MS Excel 2 26 (2.439 %) MS Office 3 8 (0.750 %) MS Visio 4 4 (0.375 %) Photoshop 4 4 (0.375 %) MS Project 5 2 (0.188 %) Spreadsheet 5 2 (0.188 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.094 %) InfoPath 6 1 (0.094 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (0.094 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 31 (2.908 %) Oracle Applications 2 29 (2.720 %) Oracle EBS 3 18 (1.689 %) Oracle iRecruitment 4 14 (1.313 %) Oracle 11i 5 8 (0.750 %) Navision 5 8 (0.750 %) Hyperion Planning 6 7 (0.657 %) Oracle HRMS 7 5 (0.469 %) Oracle Payroll 7 5 (0.469 %) SAP CO 8 4 (0.375 %) Hyperion Enterprise 8 4 (0.375 %) SAP SD 9 3 (0.281 %) Oracle CRM 9 3 (0.281 %) Dynamics CRM 10 2 (0.188 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 10 2 (0.188 %) SalesLogix 10 2 (0.188 %) Oracle Financials 10 2 (0.188 %) Summit 11 1 (0.094 %) Minerva 11 1 (0.094 %) SAP FI/CO 11 1 (0.094 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 33 (3.096 %) SAN 2 32 (3.002 %) LAN 3 31 (2.908 %) WAN 4 25 (2.345 %) Internet 5 14 (1.313 %) Intranet 6 12 (1.126 %) POP3 6 12 (1.126 %) SMTP 6 12 (1.126 %) HTTP 7 7 (0.657 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (0.469 %) FTP 8 5 (0.469 %) Firewall 9 4 (0.375 %) Ethernet 9 4 (0.375 %) SSL 9 4 (0.375 %) VPN 10 3 (0.281 %) Extranet 11 2 (0.188 %) MPLS 11 2 (0.188 %) IP Telephony 11 2 (0.188 %) BIG-IP 11 2 (0.188 %) VLAN 11 2 (0.188 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 267 (25.05 %) SQL Server 2 140 (13.13 %) SQL Server 2005 3 121 (11.35 %) Oracle Reports 4 78 (7.317 %) SQL Server 2000 5 77 (7.223 %) Datawarehouse 6 69 (6.473 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 51 (4.784 %) Crystal Reports 8 50 (4.690 %) Oracle 9i 9 46 (4.315 %) Oracle 10g 9 46 (4.315 %) BusinessObjects 10 43 (4.034 %) OLAP 11 30 (2.814 %) SQL Server 7 12 28 (2.627 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 28 (2.627 %) MS Access 13 27 (2.533 %) DTS 13 27 (2.533 %) ETL 14 26 (2.439 %) Oracle Discoverer 15 23 (2.158 %) GIS 16 22 (2.064 %) RDBMS 17 21 (1.970 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 64 (6.004 %) Oracle Forms 2 49 (4.597 %) Visual Studio 3 18 (1.689 %) Ant 4 14 (1.313 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 13 (1.220 %) Eclipse 6 11 (1.032 %) JUnit 7 10 (0.938 %) InterDev 7 10 (0.938 %) Paros 7 10 (0.938 %) Fiddler 8 6 (0.563 %) Flash 9 4 (0.375 %) PVCS 9 4 (0.375 %) TestDirector 10 3 (0.281 %) Dreamweaver 10 3 (0.281 %) JDeveloper 11 2 (0.188 %) ProC 11 2 (0.188 %) JIRA 11 2 (0.188 %) Subversion 12 1 (0.094 %) HttpUnit 12 1 (0.094 %) JMeter 12 1 (0.094 %) NUnit	General 1 103 (9.662 %) Finance 2 45 (4.221 %) Government 3 31 (2.908 %) Health 3 31 (2.908 %) Retail 4 24 (2.251 %) Pensions 5 19 (1.782 %) Insurance 6 17 (1.595 %) Telecoms 6 17 (1.595 %) Banking 7 13 (1.220 %) Local Government 7 13 (1.220 %) Auditing 8 10 (0.938 %) Marketing 8 10 (0.938 %) Education 9 8 (0.750 %) Pharmaceutical 9 8 (0.750 %) Manufacturing 10 6 (0.563 %) Legal 10 6 (0.563 %) Publishing 10 6 (0.563 %) Billing 11 5 (0.469 %) Financial Institution 12 4 (0.375 %) Aerospace 13 3 (0.281 %) Military
Job Titles 1 577 (54.13 %) Developer 2 186 (17.45 %) Analyst 3 137 (12.85 %) .NET Developer 4 115 (10.79 %) SQL Developer 5 87 (8.161 %) Oracle Developer 6 64 (6.004 %) Web Developer 7 61 (5.722 %) Information Analyst 8 60 (5.629 %) Java Developer 9 54 (5.066 %) C# Developer 10 52 (4.878 %) DBA 11 51 (4.784 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 51 (4.784 %) SQL Server Developer 12 50 (4.690 %) VB.NET Developer 13 47 (4.409 %) Consultant 14 37 (3.471 %) Administrator 15 34 (3.189 %) Data Analyst 15 34 (3.189 %) NHS Information Analyst 16 31 (2.908 %) SQL DBA 17 30 (2.814 %) Applications Developer 18 29 (2.720 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 78 (7.317 %) NHS 2 20 (1.876 %) N-Tier 3 11 (1.032 %) Replication 4 10 (0.938 %) Statistics 5 9 (0.844 %) W3C 5 9 (0.844 %) Management Information System 6 8 (0.750 %) Mainframe 6 8 (0.750 %) Clustering 7 7 (0.657 %) E-Learning 7 7 (0.657 %) Data Extraction 8 5 (0.469 %) Spread Betting 8 5 (0.469 %) Informatics 8 5 (0.469 %) SCORM 8 5 (0.469 %) VSAM 9 4 (0.375 %) NPfIT 9 4 (0.375 %) Client/Server 9 4 (0.375 %) Computer Science 9 4 (0.375 %) Data Integration 10 3 (0.281 %) PDA 10 3 (0.281 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 94 (8.818 %) Windows 2 64 (6.004 %) UNIX 3 23 (2.158 %) Windows Server 2003 4 12 (1.126 %) Windows XP 4 12 (1.126 %) Windows 2000 5 11 (1.032 %) Windows NT 6 8 (0.750 %) Linux 7 5 (0.469 %) HPUX 7 5 (0.469 %) Solaris 8 4 (0.375 %) AIX 9 2 (0.188 %) Windows Mobile 10 1 (0.094 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 82 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 2 56 (5.253 %) Migration 3 51 (4.784 %) CRM 3 51 (4.784 %) Business Intelligence 4 50 (4.690 %) Workflow 5 44 (4.128 %) E-Commerce 6 39 (3.659 %) SC Cleared 6 39 (3.659 %) BC Cleared 7 35 (3.283 %) UML 8 32 (3.002 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 30 (2.814 %) Data Modelling 10 29 (2.720 %) OO 11 28 (2.627 %) PRINCE2 12 25 (2.345 %) SOA 13 24 (2.251 %) Project Management 14 23 (2.158 %) Data Analysis 15 20 (1.876 %) Data Migration 15 20 (1.876 %) Integration Testing 16 19 (1.782 %) Web Development 17 16 (1.501 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 242 (22.70 %) PL/SQL 2 182 (17.07 %) C# 3 145 (13.60 %) Java 4 114 (10.69 %) JavaScript 5 108 (10.13 %) Transact-SQL 6 90 (8.443 %) VB.NET 7 70 (6.567 %) VB 8 30 (2.814 %) PHP 9 26 (2.439 %) C 10 25 (2.345 %) VB6 11 24 (2.251 %) VBScript 12 19 (1.782 %) C++ 13 16 (1.501 %) ActionScript 14 15 (1.407 %) VBA 15 13 (1.220 %) DHTML 16 9 (0.844 %) Korn 17 8 (0.750 %) Lingo 17 8 (0.750 %) Shell Script 17 8 (0.750 %) Perl 17 8 (0.750 %) Python	Qualifications 1 33 (3.096 %) Degree 2 25 (2.345 %) Microsoft Certification 3 20 (1.876 %) MCSE 4 11 (1.032 %) ISEB 5 6 (0.563 %) Oracle Certification 5 6 (0.563 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 6 (0.563 %) ISTQB 6 5 (0.469 %) Sun Certification 6 5 (0.469 %) MCDBA 7 3 (0.281 %) HND 8 2 (0.188 %) MCP 8 2 (0.188 %) Citrix Certification 8 2 (0.188 %) ACCA 8 2 (0.188 %) CIMA 9 1 (0.094 %) MCDST 9 1 (0.094 %) IBM Certification 9 1 (0.094 %) Cisco Certification 9 1 (0.094 %) CCA 9 1 (0.094 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 34 (3.189 %) QA 2 6 (0.563 %) SLA 3 1 (0.094 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.094 %) HL7 3 1 (0.094 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 34 (3.189 %) Active Directory 2 13 (1.220 %) Oracle RMAN 3 5 (0.469 %) MSMQ 3 5 (0.469 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (0.188 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (0.188 %) NetBackup 4 2 (0.188 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (0.094 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.094 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.094 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.094 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 5 (0.469 %) AutoSys 2 3 (0.281 %) OpenView 2 3 (0.281 %) Tivoli 3 2 (0.188 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 1 (0.094 %) MOM 4 1 (0.094 %) ARCserve 4 1 (0.094 %) ServiceCenter 4 1 (0.094 %) AssetCenter 4 1 (0.094 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 351 (32.93 %) Oracle 2 98 (9.193 %) Microsoft 3 46 (4.315 %) Business Objects 4 36 (3.377 %) Citrix 5 25 (2.345 %) VMware 6 22 (2.064 %) ESRI 7 19 (1.782 %) Cognos 8 14 (1.313 %) Sybase 9 13 (1.220 %) Hyperion 10 12 (1.126 %) BMC 10 12 (1.126 %) Altiris 11 11 (1.032 %) Ab Initio 12 9 (0.844 %) Lotus 13 8 (0.750 %) Cisco 13 8 (0.750 %) SAP 14 7 (0.657 %) Google 14 7 (0.657 %) IBM 14 7 (0.657 %) HP 15 6 (0.563 %) Brio 16 5 (0.469 %) Agresso