The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 8 7 18
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 8.421% 14.77% 4.505%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.00% 54.17% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
Average daily rate £225 £326 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.03% -18.43%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 £30.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-59.01% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
25 24 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 26.32% 27.27% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 19
Average daily rate £325 £313 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -13.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Cambridgeshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 6 (42.86%) T-SQL
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) WPF
5 2 (14.29%) C
5 2 (14.29%) Subversion
5 2 (14.29%) Spring
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (14.29%) Apache Flex
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (14.29%) GWT
5 2 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Confluence
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
5 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle OWB
5 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Clustering
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) Crystal Reports

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 (35.71%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) WPF
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Flex
3 2 (14.29%) GWT
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.143%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) CODA-Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle OWB
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 2 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (14.29%) MS Access
2 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Subversion
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Development Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.143%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Scrum
2 2 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (7.143%) System Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Time Management
3 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) T-SQL
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) C
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Unisys
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) CODA
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