Portsmouth SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Portsmouth region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	19
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	40	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	48.78 %	25.71 %
Daily rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£282
Average daily rate	£305	£302
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.27	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£29.86	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+13.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.44	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.13	£30.03
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Programming Languages Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	82	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.117 %	0.035 %
Daily rates quoted	9	6
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£258
Average daily rate	£305	£288
% change on same period last year	+5.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.28	£34.40
Average hourly rate	£35.09	£36.71
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.89	£39.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.32	£32.74
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
SQL Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL across the Portsmouth region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Portsmouth region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 (42.11 %) SQL Server 2 21 (36.84 %) Windows 3 20 (35.09 %) SQL Server 2000 4 19 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 5 17 (29.82 %) Windows Server 2003 6 15 (26.32 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 13 (22.81 %) Microsoft Certification 8 12 (21.05 %) Alcatel 8 12 (21.05 %) Lucent 9 11 (19.30 %) Cisco Certification 9 11 (19.30 %) TCP/IP 9 11 (19.30 %) CCNA 9 11 (19.30 %) MCSE 9 11 (19.30 %) MCSA 9 11 (19.30 %) .NET

10 10 (17.54 %) Transact-SQL 10 10 (17.54 %) Visual Studio 10 10 (17.54 %) SNMP 11 9 (15.79 %) Microsoft 11 9 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 11 9 (15.79 %) Finance 12 8 (14.04 %) VB.NET 13 7 (12.28 %) Telecoms 14 6 (10.53 %) C# 14 6 (10.53 %) HTML 14 6 (10.53 %) JavaScript 14 6 (10.53 %) IIS 14 6 (10.53 %) UNIX 14 6 (10.53 %) Active Directory 14 6 (10.53 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 11 (19.30 %) .NET 2 9 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (10.53 %) HTML 3 6 (10.53 %) AJAX 3 6 (10.53 %) .NET Framework 4 5 (8.772 %) XHTML 4 5 (8.772 %) CSS 5 4 (7.018 %) XML 5 4 (7.018 %) WebSphere 6 2 (3.509 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 1 (1.754 %) ISPF 7 1 (1.754 %) ADO.NET 7 1 (1.754 %) J2EE 7 1 (1.754 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 6 (10.53 %) IIS 2 3 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (5.263 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (3.509 %) MQSeries 3 2 (3.509 %) SharePoint 3 2 (3.509 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (1.754 %) CICS
Applications 1 6 (10.53 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (8.772 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 11 (19.30 %) TCP/IP 2 10 (17.54 %) SNMP 3 2 (3.509 %) Internet 4 1 (1.754 %) SNA 4 1 (1.754 %) DNS 4 1 (1.754 %) SAN 4 1 (1.754 %) SMS 4 1 (1.754 %) DHCP 4 1 (1.754 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (42.11 %) SQL Server 2 20 (35.09 %) SQL Server 2000 3 19 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (5.263 %) DB2 4 3 (5.263 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (3.509 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (3.509 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (1.754 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 10 (17.54 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (7.018 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (3.509 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (1.754 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (1.754 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 9 (15.79 %) Finance 2 7 (12.28 %) Telecoms 3 4 (7.018 %) Auditing 4 3 (5.263 %) Banking 5 2 (3.509 %) Health 5 2 (3.509 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.754 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 15 (26.32 %) Developer 2 8 (14.04 %) Analyst 3 7 (12.28 %) .NET Developer 3 7 (12.28 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 7 (12.28 %) Network Specialist 4 6 (10.53 %) Administrator 5 4 (7.018 %) Systems Administrator 5 4 (7.018 %) Network Engineer 5 4 (7.018 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (5.263 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (5.263 %) Technical Support 6 3 (5.263 %) Systems Analyst 6 3 (5.263 %) Applications Developer 7 2 (3.509 %) Software Development Engineer 7 2 (3.509 %) Systems Support Analyst 7 2 (3.509 %) Lead Test Analyst 7 2 (3.509 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (3.509 %) VB.NET Developer 7 2 (3.509 %) Technical Analyst 7 2 (3.509 %) Network Technician	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.263 %) NHS 2 2 (3.509 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.754 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.754 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 21 (36.84 %) Windows 2 17 (29.82 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (26.32 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 6 (10.53 %) UNIX 5 2 (3.509 %) Windows NT 5 2 (3.509 %) AIX 5 2 (3.509 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.754 %) zOS 6 1 (1.754 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.772 %) Migration 2 4 (7.018 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (3.509 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (3.509 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.754 %) Data Migration 4 1 (1.754 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (1.754 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (1.754 %) Data Architecture 4 1 (1.754 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (1.754 %) Service Management 4 1 (1.754 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 10 (17.54 %) Transact-SQL 2 8 (14.04 %) VB.NET 3 6 (10.53 %) C# 3 6 (10.53 %) JavaScript 4 5 (8.772 %) Java 4 5 (8.772 %) DHTML 5 4 (7.018 %) C 5 4 (7.018 %) VBA 6 3 (5.263 %) VB 6 3 (5.263 %) Shell Script 7 2 (3.509 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (3.509 %) C++ 8 1 (1.754 %) PHP 8 1 (1.754 %) REXX 8 1 (1.754 %) Python	Qualifications 1 13 (22.81 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (19.30 %) Cisco Certification 2 11 (19.30 %) CCNA 2 11 (19.30 %) MCSE 2 11 (19.30 %) MCSA 3 2 (3.509 %) ISEB 3 2 (3.509 %) MCP 4 1 (1.754 %) Degree 4 1 (1.754 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.754 %) BS7799	System Software 1 6 (10.53 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.509 %) ISA Server 3 1 (1.754 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (1.754 %) RACF 3 1 (1.754 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 1 (1.754 %) OMEGAMON	Vendors 1 12 (21.05 %) Alcatel 1 12 (21.05 %) Lucent 2 9 (15.79 %) Microsoft 3 3 (5.263 %) Civica 3 3 (5.263 %) Oracle 4 2 (3.509 %) StreamServe 4 2 (3.509 %) Northgate 5 1 (1.754 %) SAP 5 1 (1.754 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.754 %) IBM 5 1 (1.754 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.754 %) Actuate 5 1 (1.754 %) Infragistics 5 1 (1.754 %) VMware