The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Nottingham 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 11 8 5
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 27 25 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 9.609% 11.11% 11.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.53% 28.41% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 13
Average daily rate £325 £310 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -7.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £435 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £24.75 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
76 88 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 27.05% 39.11% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 28
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £230 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £428 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -41.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.94 £8.50 £25.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.60 £26.25 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Nottinghamshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 24 (39.34%) SQL Server
2 23 (37.70%) .NET
2 23 (37.70%) C#
3 21 (34.43%) ASP.NET
4 17 (27.87%) JavaScript
5 16 (26.23%) HTML
6 15 (24.59%) Oracle
6 15 (24.59%) SQL Server 2008
7 14 (22.95%) CSS
8 13 (21.31%) jQuery
9 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
11 9 (14.75%) XML
11 9 (14.75%) T-SQL
12 8 (13.11%) Windows
12 8 (13.11%) WCF
12 8 (13.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (11.48%) Ajax
13 7 (11.48%) SQL Server 2005
13 7 (11.48%) Finance
13 7 (11.48%) Migration
14 6 (9.836%) MVC
14 6 (9.836%) SAN
14 6 (9.836%) Uniface
14 6 (9.836%) SQL Server 2000
14 6 (9.836%) MS Excel
14 6 (9.836%) Oracle 10g
14 6 (9.836%) ETL
14 6 (9.836%) Visual Studio
14 6 (9.836%) Agile Software Development

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 23 (37.70%) .NET
2 21 (34.43%) ASP.NET
3 16 (26.23%) HTML
4 14 (22.95%) CSS
5 13 (21.31%) jQuery
6 9 (14.75%) XML
7 8 (13.11%) WCF
8 7 (11.48%) Ajax
9 5 (8.197%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (8.197%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 4 (6.557%) Web Services
10 4 (6.557%) HTML5
11 2 (3.279%) EJB
11 2 (3.279%) J2EE
11 2 (3.279%) NHibernate
11 2 (3.279%) WebSphere
11 2 (3.279%) .NET Framework
11 2 (3.279%) WPF
11 2 (3.279%) REST
11 2 (3.279%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.918%) IIS
1 3 (4.918%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (3.279%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.639%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.639%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.639%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.639%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 6 (9.836%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.279%) SPSS
3 1 (1.639%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.279%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.279%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (3.279%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.639%) JDE World
2 1 (1.639%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.639%) JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.836%) SAN
2 1 (1.639%) FTP
2 1 (1.639%) HTTP
2 1 (1.639%) SNMP
2 1 (1.639%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (39.34%) SQL Server
2 15 (24.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (13.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (11.48%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (9.836%) SQL Server 2000
6 6 (9.836%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (3.279%) MS Access
7 2 (3.279%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.279%) QlikView
8 1 (1.639%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.639%) DB2
8 1 (1.639%) OLAP
8 1 (1.639%) OLTP
8 1 (1.639%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.639%) VLDB
8 1 (1.639%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (9.836%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.279%) JUnit
2 2 (3.279%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.279%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.639%) MbUnit
3 1 (1.639%) StyleCop
3 1 (1.639%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (1.639%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.639%) Subversion
3 1 (1.639%) CruiseControl
3 1 (1.639%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 1 (1.639%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (11.48%) Finance
2 3 (4.918%) Retail
2 3 (4.918%) Billing
3 1 (1.639%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (1.639%) Games
3 1 (1.639%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 35 (57.38%) Developer
2 10 (16.39%) Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) .NET Developer
4 7 (11.48%) ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (9.836%) C# Developer
5 6 (9.836%) Web Developer
5 6 (9.836%) Uniface Developer
6 5 (8.197%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (8.197%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.197%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (6.557%) .NET Web Developer
7 4 (6.557%) DBA
7 4 (6.557%) Designer
7 4 (6.557%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (4.918%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.918%) Consultant
8 3 (4.918%) Data Analyst
9 2 (3.279%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.279%) Systems Test Analyst
9 2 (3.279%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.918%) NHS
1 3 (4.918%) Blackberry
2 2 (3.279%) Replication
3 1 (1.639%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Windows
2 5 (8.197%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (8.197%) Windows 2000
2 5 (8.197%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (6.557%) Linux
3 4 (6.557%) UNIX
4 1 (1.639%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (11.48%) Migration
2 6 (9.836%) MVC
2 6 (9.836%) ETL
2 6 (9.836%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (8.197%) Waterfall
3 5 (8.197%) Scrum
4 4 (6.557%) Quality Management
4 4 (6.557%) QMS
4 4 (6.557%) Data Migration
5 3 (4.918%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.279%) Validation
6 2 (3.279%) Configuration Management
6 2 (3.279%) UML
6 2 (3.279%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (3.279%) Web Development
6 2 (3.279%) Unit Testing
6 2 (3.279%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (3.279%) Multithreading
6 2 (3.279%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.639%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) C#
2 17 (27.87%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.75%) T-SQL
4 6 (9.836%) Uniface
5 5 (8.197%) Java
5 5 (8.197%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.279%) RPG
6 2 (3.279%) Perl
7 1 (1.639%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.639%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (1.639%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (1.639%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.197%) QA
2 1 (1.639%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.639%) TickIT
System Software
1 5 (8.197%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Oracle
2 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.197%) IBM
3 5 (8.197%) Citrix
3 5 (8.197%) VMware
4 3 (4.918%) HP
5 2 (3.279%) JD Edwards
5 2 (3.279%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.639%) Talend
6 1 (1.639%) Altiris
6 1 (1.639%) SAP
6 1 (1.639%) Dell
6 1 (1.639%) Mercator
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