The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 13 5 5
Rank change year-on-year
-8 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 48 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 10.86% 13.87% 13.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.34% 36.64% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 33 15
Average daily rate £300 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £325 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £548 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -22.48%
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
61 131 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 27.60% 37.86% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 87 41
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +62.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Oxfordshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 28 (40.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 27 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (30.43%) T-SQL
3 21 (30.43%) SQL Server
4 16 (23.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 13 (18.84%) WhereScape RED
5 13 (18.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (15.94%) CRM
6 11 (15.94%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (15.94%) Project Management
7 8 (11.59%) VMware
7 8 (11.59%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (11.59%) Cognos
7 8 (11.59%) Windows
7 8 (11.59%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (8.696%) ETL
8 6 (8.696%) PL/SQL
8 6 (8.696%) Oracle
8 6 (8.696%) Active Directory
8 6 (8.696%) Tivoli
8 6 (8.696%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (8.696%) Nagios
8 6 (8.696%) NetWare
8 6 (8.696%) Migration
8 6 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (8.696%) Altiris
9 5 (7.246%) Cognos Business Intelligence
9 5 (7.246%) Star Schema
9 5 (7.246%) Business Objects

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (7.246%) HTML
2 4 (5.797%) CSS
3 3 (4.348%) WSH
3 3 (4.348%) Ajax
3 3 (4.348%) jQuery
4 2 (2.899%) MDX
4 2 (2.899%) Web Services
4 2 (2.899%) XML
4 2 (2.899%) .NET
4 2 (2.899%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.449%) JSON
5 1 (1.449%) CGI
5 1 (1.449%) LAMP
5 1 (1.449%) RESTful
5 1 (1.449%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.899%) IIS
1 2 (2.899%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.449%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.449%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (7.246%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 2 (2.899%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.449%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.797%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.348%) DNS
2 3 (4.348%) DHCP
2 3 (4.348%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (2.899%) Network Security
3 2 (2.899%) SAN
3 2 (2.899%) Firewall
4 1 (1.449%) Intranet
4 1 (1.449%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (40.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 21 (30.43%) SQL Server
3 16 (23.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 13 (18.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (18.84%) WhereScape RED
5 11 (15.94%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (11.59%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (7.246%) BusinessObjects XI
7 5 (7.246%) Star Schema
8 4 (5.797%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (2.899%) OLAP
9 2 (2.899%) QlikView
9 2 (2.899%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (1.449%) MySQL
10 1 (1.449%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (1.449%) SQLite
10 1 (1.449%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (1.449%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.449%) Ingres
10 1 (1.449%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.899%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.449%) Subversion
General
1 3 (4.348%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (1.449%) Publishing
2 1 (1.449%) Marketing
2 1 (1.449%) German Language
2 1 (1.449%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Developer
2 16 (23.19%) Administrator
2 16 (23.19%) SQL Developer
3 11 (15.94%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 10 (14.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 10 (14.49%) Coordinator
5 8 (11.59%) SQL DBA
5 8 (11.59%) DBA
6 6 (8.696%) Windows Administrator
6 6 (8.696%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.797%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.797%) Teradata DBA
8 3 (4.348%) PL/SQL Developer
9 2 (2.899%) Programmer
9 2 (2.899%) Network Administrator
9 2 (2.899%) Software Test Engineer
9 2 (2.899%) Senior QA Engineer
9 2 (2.899%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (2.899%) QA Engineer
9 2 (2.899%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.348%) Pharmacovigilance
2 1 (1.449%) Wiki
2 1 (1.449%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.449%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
1 8 (11.59%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (8.696%) NetWare
3 5 (7.246%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.348%) UNIX
5 1 (1.449%) AIX
5 1 (1.449%) Linux
5 1 (1.449%) Debian
5 1 (1.449%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (15.94%) CRM
2 11 (15.94%) Project Management
3 6 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (8.696%) Migration
3 6 (8.696%) ETL
4 4 (5.797%) ERP
5 3 (4.348%) Test Strategy
5 3 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (2.899%) Workflow
6 2 (2.899%) Unit Testing
6 2 (2.899%) Manual Testing
6 2 (2.899%) Test Automation
6 2 (2.899%) OO
6 2 (2.899%) Regression Testing
7 1 (1.449%) MVC
7 1 (1.449%) Automated Testing
7 1 (1.449%) Software Engineering
7 1 (1.449%) Web Development
7 1 (1.449%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) T-SQL
2 6 (8.696%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.246%) VB
4 3 (4.348%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.449%) Perl
5 1 (1.449%) PHP
5 1 (1.449%) PHP5
5 1 (1.449%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.797%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.348%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.696%) Active Directory
1 6 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.696%) Tivoli
1 6 (8.696%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (8.696%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Cognos
1 8 (11.59%) VMware
2 6 (8.696%) Altiris
2 6 (8.696%) Oracle
3 5 (7.246%) Business Objects
4 4 (5.797%) Lagan
5 3 (4.348%) SAP
5 3 (4.348%) Cisco
6 2 (2.899%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.899%) Citrix