SQL Contracts in the North West

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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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 West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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	Find Job Vacancies
Manchester	-1	147	£300	-	181
Cheshire	-3	105	£375	+25.00%	74
Merseyside	-1	28	£363	+20.83%	23
Lancashire	+4	24	£275	-15.38%	27
Cumbria	-	-	-	-	6
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 247 (37.09%) SQL Server 2 195 (29.28%) .NET 3 183 (27.48%) Oracle 4 150 (22.52%) C# 5 133 (19.97%) Finance 6 131 (19.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 130 (19.52%) T-SQL 8 119 (17.87%) SQL Server Integration Services 9 118 (17.72%) ASP.NET 10 112 (16.82%) Microsoft 11 111 (16.67%) JavaScript 12 104 (15.62%) Business Intelligence 13 99 (14.86%) Windows 14 97 (14.56%) SQL Server 2008 15 94 (14.11%) Java

16 92 (13.81%) XML 17 91 (13.66%) Data Warehouse 18 84 (12.61%) PL/SQL 19 82 (12.31%) Web Services 20 78 (11.71%) CSS 20 78 (11.71%) SQL Server 2005 21 72 (10.81%) MVC 21 72 (10.81%) HTML 21 72 (10.81%) ETL 22 66 (9.910%) SQL Server Analysis Services 23 63 (9.459%) jQuery 24 62 (9.309%) VB.NET 25 57 (8.559%) MS Excel 26 56 (8.408%) UNIX 27 50 (7.508%) Agile Software Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 1 195 (29.28%) .NET 2 118 (17.72%) ASP.NET 3 92 (13.81%) XML 4 82 (12.31%) Web Services 5 78 (11.71%) CSS 6 72 (10.81%) HTML 7 63 (9.459%) jQuery 8 48 (7.207%) Ajax 9 43 (6.456%) .NET Framework 9 43 (6.456%) J2EE 10 41 (6.156%) WCF 11 40 (6.006%) SOAP 12 32 (4.805%) XHTML 13 31 (4.655%) WebSphere 14 30 (4.505%) Hibernate 15 27 (4.054%) Servlets 16 26 (3.904%) MDX 17 25 (3.754%) JSP 18 24 (3.604%) Spring 19 23 (3.453%) WSDL	Application Platforms 1 45 (6.757%) SharePoint 2 26 (3.904%) MS Exchange 3 21 (3.153%) IIS 4 20 (3.003%) Apache 5 17 (2.553%) SAS 6 16 (2.402%) Exchange Server 2007 7 14 (2.102%) CMS 7 14 (2.102%) Oracle Workflow 8 13 (1.952%) WebLogic 9 12 (1.802%) Drupal 10 10 (1.502%) ESB 11 8 (1.201%) SharePoint 2010 12 7 (1.051%) WordPress 12 7 (1.051%) WebSphere Application Server 13 6 (0.901%) BizTalk Server 13 6 (0.901%) Exchange Server 2010 13 6 (0.901%) Umbraco 14 5 (0.751%) Oracle Spatial 14 5 (0.751%) CICS 15 4 (0.601%) PowerExchange
Applications 1 57 (8.559%) MS Excel 2 16 (2.402%) MS Office 3 13 (1.952%) Photoshop 4 7 (1.051%) MS Visio 5 4 (0.601%) Spreadsheet 6 3 (0.450%) InfoPath 7 2 (0.300%) PowerPivot 7 2 (0.300%) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (0.150%) MS Project 8 1 (0.150%) Maya	Business Applications 1 20 (3.003%) Oracle Applications 1 20 (3.003%) Oracle EBS R12 2 15 (2.252%) Oracle EBS 3 11 (1.652%) Dynamics AX 4 9 (1.351%) Oracle Financials 4 9 (1.351%) Oracle Payroll 5 8 (1.201%) Dynamics CRM 6 4 (0.601%) Maximo 6 4 (0.601%) Unica Affinium 7 3 (0.450%) Tridion 7 3 (0.450%) Oracle 11i 8 2 (0.300%) Oracle iProcurement 8 2 (0.300%) Visualfiles 9 1 (0.150%) Cognos Business Intelligence 9 1 (0.150%) SAP Business One 9 1 (0.150%) Remedy ITSM 9 1 (0.150%) Remedy AR System 9 1 (0.150%) Dynamics NAV 9 1 (0.150%) assyst 9 1 (0.150%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 21 (3.153%) Internet 2 11 (1.652%) HTTP 3 9 (1.351%) DNS 3 9 (1.351%) Firewall 4 8 (1.201%) TCP/IP 4 8 (1.201%) SAN 4 8 (1.201%) Fibre Channel 4 8 (1.201%) iSCSI 5 7 (1.051%) Unified Communications 5 7 (1.051%) LDAP 6 5 (0.751%) SNMP 7 4 (0.601%) LAN 7 4 (0.601%) NetScreen 7 4 (0.601%) VPN 8 3 (0.450%) SNA 8 3 (0.450%) DHCP 8 3 (0.450%) Intranet 8 3 (0.450%) SMS 9 2 (0.300%) WAN 9 2 (0.300%) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 247 (37.09%) SQL Server 2 131 (19.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 119 (17.87%) SQL Server Integration Services 4 97 (14.56%) SQL Server 2008 5 91 (13.66%) Data Warehouse 6 78 (11.71%) SQL Server 2005 7 66 (9.910%) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 39 (5.856%) RDBMS 9 34 (5.105%) DB2 9 34 (5.105%) Oracle 11g 10 32 (4.805%) MySQL 11 29 (4.354%) Oracle Reports 12 26 (3.904%) Oracle 10g 13 18 (2.703%) SQL Server 2000 13 18 (2.703%) SQL Server 2012 14 16 (2.402%) Business Intelligence Development Studio 15 15 (2.252%) OLAP 15 15 (2.252%) Oracle 8/8i 16 13 (1.952%) DTS 17 12 (1.802%) MS Access
Development Applications 1 46 (6.907%) Visual Studio 2 38 (5.706%) Subversion 3 23 (3.453%) Eclipse 4 16 (2.402%) JIRA 5 12 (1.802%) Oracle Forms 5 12 (1.802%) VSS/SourceSafe 5 12 (1.802%) JUnit 6 9 (1.351%) Git (software) 6 9 (1.351%) Team Foundation Server 7 8 (1.201%) Gradle 8 6 (0.901%) NetBeans 8 6 (0.901%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 6 (0.901%) Dreamweaver 8 6 (0.901%) Oracle APEX 9 5 (0.751%) Selenium 9 5 (0.751%) ClearCase 10 4 (0.601%) InstallShield 10 4 (0.601%) ClearQuest 10 4 (0.601%) Hudson 10 4 (0.601%) FinalBuilder	General 1 133 (19.97%) Finance 2 35 (5.255%) Retail 3 26 (3.904%) Banking 4 14 (2.102%) Telecoms 5 12 (1.802%) Legal 6 11 (1.652%) Marketing 7 10 (1.502%) Local Government 8 7 (1.051%) Manufacturing 9 5 (0.751%) Games 10 4 (0.601%) Back Office 10 4 (0.601%) Pharmaceutical 11 3 (0.450%) Billing 11 3 (0.450%) General Ledger 11 3 (0.450%) Publishing 12 2 (0.300%) Law 12 2 (0.300%) Advertising 12 2 (0.300%) Financial Institution 13 1 (0.150%) French Language 13 1 (0.150%) German Language 13 1 (0.150%) Italian Language
Job Titles 1 357 (53.60%) Developer 2 94 (14.11%) Analyst 3 74 (11.11%) .NET Developer 4 59 (8.859%) DBA 5 53 (7.958%) SQL Developer 6 50 (7.508%) Consultant 7 35 (5.255%) Java Developer 8 34 (5.105%) Business Intelligence Developer 9 29 (4.354%) Web Developer 9 29 (4.354%) SQL DBA 10 27 (4.054%) ASP.NET Developer 11 26 (3.904%) Senior Developer 12 25 (3.754%) Oracle Developer 13 22 (3.303%) Oracle Consultant 14 20 (3.003%) Architect 14 20 (3.003%) Administrator 15 18 (2.703%) C# Developer 16 17 (2.553%) Data Analyst 17 16 (2.402%) Business Analyst 18 15 (2.252%) Oracle DBA	Miscellaneous 1 50 (7.508%) NHS 2 21 (3.153%) Replication 3 13 (1.952%) Management Information System 4 11 (1.652%) Web 2.0 4 11 (1.652%) Data Integration 5 9 (1.351%) Enterprise Software 6 8 (1.201%) iPad 6 8 (1.201%) Computer Science 7 7 (1.051%) Mobile App 7 7 (1.051%) Mainframe 8 6 (0.901%) N-Tier 9 5 (0.751%) PMI 10 4 (0.601%) VSAM 10 4 (0.601%) W3C 10 4 (0.601%) PKI 11 3 (0.450%) Informatics 11 3 (0.450%) Online Banking 11 3 (0.450%) IBM Mainframe 11 3 (0.450%) iSeries 11 3 (0.450%) iPhone
Operating Systems 1 99 (14.86%) Windows 2 56 (8.408%) UNIX 3 47 (7.057%) Linux 4 45 (6.757%) Windows Server 2008 5 22 (3.303%) Windows Server 2003 6 17 (2.553%) AIX 7 15 (2.252%) Android 8 11 (1.652%) Windows XP 9 9 (1.351%) Solaris 10 8 (1.201%) HPUX 11 7 (1.051%) Apple iOS 12 4 (0.601%) VMS 12 4 (0.601%) Windows 2000 12 4 (0.601%) Windows 7 13 3 (0.450%) Mac OS X 13 3 (0.450%) zOS 13 3 (0.450%) Windows CE 14 2 (0.300%) Windows 8 14 2 (0.300%) Windows Server 2012 14 2 (0.300%) bada	Processes & Methodologies 1 104 (15.62%) Business Intelligence 2 72 (10.81%) MVC 2 72 (10.81%) ETL 3 50 (7.508%) Agile Software Development 3 50 (7.508%) Migration 4 48 (7.207%) E-Commerce 5 38 (5.706%) OO 6 35 (5.255%) ITIL 7 34 (5.105%) Data Migration 8 33 (4.955%) Data Modelling 9 25 (3.754%) TDD 10 22 (3.303%) Change Management 10 22 (3.303%) Workflow 11 21 (3.153%) Project Management 12 18 (2.703%) Scrum 12 18 (2.703%) Kimball Methodology 12 18 (2.703%) Continuous Integration 13 17 (2.553%) UML 13 17 (2.553%) CRM 13 17 (2.553%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 150 (22.52%) C# 2 130 (19.52%) T-SQL 3 111 (16.67%) JavaScript 4 94 (14.11%) Java 5 84 (12.61%) PL/SQL 6 62 (9.309%) VB.NET 7 35 (5.255%) VB 8 32 (4.805%) PHP 9 28 (4.204%) Shell Script 10 23 (3.453%) VBA 11 20 (3.003%) C++ 12 14 (2.102%) C 13 13 (1.952%) XPath 13 13 (1.952%) VBScript 14 9 (1.351%) VB6 15 8 (1.201%) Perl 16 7 (1.051%) Ruby 17 6 (0.901%) Bash shell 17 6 (0.901%) PowerShell 17 6 (0.901%) X++	Qualifications 1 34 (5.105%) Security Cleared 2 25 (3.754%) Degree 3 22 (3.303%) SC Cleared 4 15 (2.252%) Microsoft Certification 5 11 (1.652%) ISEB 6 7 (1.051%) CISSP 7 6 (0.901%) MCSE 8 5 (0.751%) ISTQB 8 5 (0.751%) PMI Certification 9 4 (0.601%) Cisco Certification 9 4 (0.601%) CCNA 10 3 (0.450%) BC Cleared 10 3 (0.450%) DV Cleared 10 3 (0.450%) ITIL Certification 10 3 (0.450%) PhD 10 3 (0.450%) GIAC 10 3 (0.450%) CISA 11 2 (0.300%) MCSD 11 2 (0.300%) HNC 11 2 (0.300%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (1.502%) QA 2 2 (0.300%) ISO 9001 2 2 (0.300%) SLA 2 2 (0.300%) HL7 3 1 (0.150%) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.150%) ISO/IEC 17799	System Software 1 37 (5.556%) Active Directory 2 22 (3.303%) Hyper-V 3 16 (2.402%) vSphere 3 16 (2.402%) Oracle RAC 4 13 (1.952%) XenDesktop 4 13 (1.952%) VMware Infrastructure 5 11 (1.652%) XenApp 6 8 (1.201%) NFS 7 5 (0.751%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8 4 (0.601%) XenServer 9 3 (0.450%) Postfix 9 3 (0.450%) Oracle RMAN 10 1 (0.150%) LiteSpeed 10 1 (0.150%) Citrix Presentation Server 10 1 (0.150%) VMware Server 10 1 (0.150%) Terminal Server 10 1 (0.150%) Terminal Services 10 1 (0.150%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management 1 15 (2.252%) Data Guard 2 12 (1.802%) SCCM 3 11 (1.652%) SCOM 4 8 (1.201%) Backup Exec 4 8 (1.201%) Tivoli 5 7 (1.051%) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 6 (0.901%) Oracle Identity Manager 7 4 (0.601%) HP Quality Center 8 3 (0.450%) Cisco CUCM 8 3 (0.450%) Norton AntiVirus 8 3 (0.450%) Tivoli Identity Manager 9 2 (0.300%) OMEGAMON 10 1 (0.150%) ServiceCenter 10 1 (0.150%) NetBackup	Vendors 1 183 (27.48%) Oracle 2 112 (16.82%) Microsoft 3 37 (5.556%) VMware 4 29 (4.354%) IBM 5 27 (4.054%) SAP 6 22 (3.303%) Cisco 6 22 (3.303%) Citrix 7 15 (2.252%) Business Objects 8 14 (2.102%) Cognos 9 12 (1.802%) JBoss 9 12 (1.802%) HP 10 11 (1.652%) NetApp 11 9 (1.351%) Curam 12 8 (1.201%) Ab Initio 12 8 (1.201%) Sage 12 8 (1.201%) Twitter 13 7 (1.051%) Informatica 13 7 (1.051%) Teradata 14 6 (0.901%) CA 15 5 (0.751%) Brocade