The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Norwich 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 7 12 5
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 18 18 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 12.50% 9.574% 17.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.00% 24.66% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 7
Average daily rate £290 £300 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -24.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £340 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
Average hourly rate £26.00 - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
50 73 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 34.72% 38.83% 29.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 47 17
Average daily rate £300 £300 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £440 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.63 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.37% -24.51%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Norfolk

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich 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 Norwich region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 11 (39.29%) Windows
1 11 (39.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (32.14%) ITIL
4 8 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (28.57%) XML
5 7 (25.00%) .NET
5 7 (25.00%) HP
5 7 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 7 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (25.00%) VMware
6 6 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (21.43%) MCITP
6 6 (21.43%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2
6 6 (21.43%) Windows XP
6 6 (21.43%) DNS
6 6 (21.43%) PRINCE
6 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
6 6 (21.43%) IIS
6 6 (21.43%) UAG
6 6 (21.43%) VCP5
6 6 (21.43%) Windows 8
7 5 (17.86%) C#
7 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 8 (28.57%) XML
2 7 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (14.29%) HTML
4 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.143%) jQuery
5 2 (7.143%) ASP
5 2 (7.143%) CSS
6 1 (3.571%) J2EE
6 1 (3.571%) JDBC
6 1 (3.571%) JSP
6 1 (3.571%) Servlets
6 1 (3.571%) Struts
6 1 (3.571%) Web Services
6 1 (3.571%) EJB
6 1 (3.571%) XSLT
6 1 (3.571%) JMS
6 1 (3.571%) WebSphere
6 1 (3.571%) JPA
6 1 (3.571%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 7 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 7 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (21.43%) IIS
3 3 (10.71%) Moodle
4 1 (3.571%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Project
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (7.143%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Intranet
3 1 (3.571%) SAN
3 1 (3.571%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (7.143%) MySQL
4 1 (3.571%) OLAP
4 1 (3.571%) MS Access
4 1 (3.571%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Selenium
2 1 (3.571%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.571%) JUnit
2 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.571%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 1 (3.571%) JDeveloper
2 1 (3.571%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (3.571%) ERwin
2 1 (3.571%) JBehave
2 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.571%) JIRA
2 1 (3.571%) Bugzilla
2 1 (3.571%) Log4j
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) Publishing
2 2 (7.143%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) DBA
4 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) ASP Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Database Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Team Leader
5 2 (7.143%) Development Team Leader
5 2 (7.143%) Technical Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) Database Designer
5 2 (7.143%) Designer
5 2 (7.143%) Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) Classic ASP Developer
6 1 (3.571%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Systems Support
6 1 (3.571%) Programmer
6 1 (3.571%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Wiki
1 3 (10.71%) VLE
2 1 (3.571%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Windows
1 11 (39.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (21.43%) Windows XP
2 6 (21.43%) Windows 8
3 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.571%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) ITIL
2 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2
2 6 (21.43%) PRINCE
3 5 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Integration Testing
5 3 (10.71%) Web Development
6 2 (7.143%) Data Management
6 2 (7.143%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (7.143%) ERP
6 2 (7.143%) Service Delivery
6 2 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.143%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.143%) Kimball Methodology
7 1 (3.571%) Agile Project Management
7 1 (3.571%) UML
7 1 (3.571%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (3.571%) Regression Testing
7 1 (3.571%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) C#
2 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) C++
4 2 (7.143%) PHP
4 2 (7.143%) VB
5 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.571%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (21.43%) MCITP
2 6 (21.43%) VCP5
3 2 (7.143%) Degree
4 1 (3.571%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
1 1 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (21.43%) Forefront TMG
3 6 (21.43%) UAG
4 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) HP
2 7 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 2 (7.143%) Sage
4 2 (7.143%) SAP
5 1 (3.571%) Guidewire
5 1 (3.571%) Business Objects
5 1 (3.571%) JBoss
5 1 (3.571%) Cisco
5 1 (3.571%) Coverity