SQL Contracts in Northern Ireland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland 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 4 7 5
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 48 24 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 20.60% 12.18% 13.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.09% 35.82% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 9 19
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £405 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £36.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -21.87%
Search 6 SQL jobs in Northern Ireland
All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 133 67 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 57.08% 34.01% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 23 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £264 £299
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £490 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £12.42 £36.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.97% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
UK

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +3 46 £363 -3.33%
SQL
UK

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 38 (38.78%) SQL Server
2 37 (37.76%) Oracle
2 37 (37.76%) C#
3 35 (35.71%) .NET
4 24 (24.49%) Sybase
5 23 (23.47%) WPF
6 22 (22.45%) Finance
7 21 (21.43%) Java
8 19 (19.39%) SQL Server 2008
9 17 (17.35%) WCF
9 17 (17.35%) Degree
9 17 (17.35%) Computer Science
9 17 (17.35%) WinForms
10 16 (16.33%) WF
11 15 (15.31%) VB
11 15 (15.31%) UNIX
11 15 (15.31%) UML
12 14 (14.29%) OO
13 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
14 11 (11.22%) Banking
14 11 (11.22%) SQL Server 2005
15 10 (10.20%) Web Services
15 10 (10.20%) PL/SQL
16 9 (9.184%) WebSphere
17 8 (8.163%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (8.163%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (8.163%) T-SQL
17 8 (8.163%) HTML
17 8 (8.163%) Shell Script
18 7 (7.143%) Oracle 10g

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 35 (35.71%) .NET
2 23 (23.47%) WPF
3 17 (17.35%) WCF
3 17 (17.35%) WinForms
4 16 (16.33%) WF
5 10 (10.20%) Web Services
6 9 (9.184%) WebSphere
7 8 (8.163%) HTML
8 7 (7.143%) J2EE
9 6 (6.122%) CSS
9 6 (6.122%) Java EE
10 4 (4.082%) XML
10 4 (4.082%) jQuery
11 3 (3.061%) ASP.NET
12 2 (2.041%) STL
12 2 (2.041%) .NET Framework
13 1 (1.020%) HTML5
13 1 (1.020%) XAMPP
13 1 (1.020%) Oracle Streams
13 1 (1.020%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.143%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.102%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.082%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (3.061%) Progress Apama
5 2 (2.041%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.041%) ESB
6 1 (1.020%) Lync
6 1 (1.020%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.041%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.143%) Oracle 11i
1 7 (7.143%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.102%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (3.061%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.061%) Intranet
2 2 (2.041%) SSH
2 2 (2.041%) FTP
3 1 (1.020%) LDAP
3 1 (1.020%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (38.78%) SQL Server
2 19 (19.39%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (11.22%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (8.163%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (8.163%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (7.143%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (4.082%) MySQL
6 4 (4.082%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (4.082%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.041%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (2.041%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.041%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.041%) OLAP
7 2 (2.041%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (1.020%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 1 (1.020%) DB2
8 1 (1.020%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (6.122%) JUnit
1 6 (6.122%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (3.061%) Ant
3 2 (2.041%) Subversion
4 1 (1.020%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.020%) HttpUnit
4 1 (1.020%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.020%) Maven
General
1 22 (22.45%) Finance
2 11 (11.22%) Banking
3 6 (6.122%) General Ledger
4 4 (4.082%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.061%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.020%) Retail
6 1 (1.020%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (52.04%) Developer
2 22 (22.45%) C# Developer
3 11 (11.22%) Analyst
4 8 (8.163%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.163%) DBA
5 7 (7.143%) Consultant
6 6 (6.122%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (5.102%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.102%) SQL Developer
8 4 (4.082%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (4.082%) Sybase Developer
8 4 (4.082%) SQL Server Developer
8 4 (4.082%) SharePoint Consultant
9 3 (3.061%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.061%) Web Support Analyst
9 3 (3.061%) Web Analyst
9 3 (3.061%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.061%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.061%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.061%) Oracle Applications DBA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Computer Science
2 5 (5.102%) Derivative
2 5 (5.102%) Equities
2 5 (5.102%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.082%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.082%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.041%) Data Conversion
4 2 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.020%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.31%) UNIX
2 5 (5.102%) Linux
3 4 (4.082%) Windows
4 1 (1.020%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.31%) UML
2 14 (14.29%) OO
3 7 (7.143%) Data Modelling
4 6 (6.122%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (5.102%) Integration Testing
6 4 (4.082%) Configuration Management
6 4 (4.082%) ITIL
7 3 (3.061%) Unit Testing
7 3 (3.061%) Project Management
7 3 (3.061%) ETL
7 3 (3.061%) Business Analysis
7 3 (3.061%) Automated Testing
7 3 (3.061%) Migration
7 3 (3.061%) Workflow
8 2 (2.041%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.041%) Performance Testing
8 2 (2.041%) Multithreading
8 2 (2.041%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (2.041%) Demand Management
9 1 (1.020%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.76%) C#
2 21 (21.43%) Java
3 15 (15.31%) VB
4 10 (10.20%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.163%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.163%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.143%) C++
7 5 (5.102%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.082%) Perl
9 2 (2.041%) Python
9 2 (2.041%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.020%) PHP5
10 1 (1.020%) Groovy
10 1 (1.020%) VBA
10 1 (1.020%) PHP
10 1 (1.020%) Delphi
10 1 (1.020%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (17.35%) Degree
2 6 (6.122%) HND
3 3 (3.061%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.061%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (6.122%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.020%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.122%) Data Guard
2 5 (5.102%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 37 (37.76%) Oracle
2 24 (24.49%) Sybase
3 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.061%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.041%) HP
6 1 (1.020%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.020%) Symantec
6 1 (1.020%) Metastorm
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