Reading Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Transact-SQL over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	35
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	36	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	10.98 %	9.649 %
Daily rates quoted	9	16
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£301
Average daily rate	£406	£323
% change on same period last year	+25.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£324
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.80	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£41.30	£29.00
% change on same period last year	+42.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.80	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.44	£34.11
% change on same period last year	+0.97 %
Programming Languages Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	328	342
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.433 %	0.363 %
Daily rates quoted	84	105
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£303
Average daily rate	£342	£328
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.75	£30.67
Average hourly rate	£32.32	£31.36
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.90	£32.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Transact-SQL Berkshire

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.

Transact-SQL
Demand Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL.

1 45 (97.83 %) SQL 2 34 (73.91 %) C# 2 34 (73.91 %) SQL Server 3 33 (71.74 %) SQL Server 2005 4 30 (65.22 %) Visual Studio 4 30 (65.22 %) XML 5 26 (56.52 %) DTS 5 26 (56.52 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 23 (50.00 %) SQL Server 7 6 23 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 7 22 (47.83 %) MIIS 8 19 (41.30 %) X.500 9 16 (34.78 %) .NET 10 14 (30.43 %) SC Cleared 11 11 (23.91 %) SharePoint

12 7 (15.22 %) JavaScript 12 7 (15.22 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 6 (13.04 %) VBScript 13 6 (13.04 %) WebServices 13 6 (13.04 %) ASP.NET 13 6 (13.04 %) N-Tier 13 6 (13.04 %) Content Management 13 6 (13.04 %) Government 14 5 (10.87 %) Telecoms 14 5 (10.87 %) Content Management Server 14 5 (10.87 %) Windows 14 5 (10.87 %) Windows SharePoint Services 15 4 (8.696 %) HTML 16 3 (6.522 %) Windows 2000 16 3 (6.522 %) BizTalk Server

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Transact-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 Transact-SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 30 (65.22 %) XML 2 16 (34.78 %) .NET 3 6 (13.04 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (13.04 %) WebServices 4 5 (10.87 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 4 (8.696 %) HTML 6 3 (6.522 %) CSS 6 3 (6.522 %) CAML 7 1 (2.174 %) WF 7 1 (2.174 %) ASP 7 1 (2.174 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 11 (23.91 %) SharePoint 2 7 (15.22 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 5 (10.87 %) Content Management Server 4 3 (6.522 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (4.348 %) Commerce Server 5 2 (4.348 %) Commerce Server 2007 5 2 (4.348 %) IIS 6 1 (2.174 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (2.174 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 1 (2.174 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (4.348 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 19 (41.30 %) X.500	Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (73.91 %) SQL Server 2 33 (71.74 %) SQL Server 2005 3 26 (56.52 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 26 (56.52 %) DTS 4 23 (50.00 %) SQL Server 7 5 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 30 (65.22 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (6.522 %) FrontPage	General 1 6 (13.04 %) Government 2 5 (10.87 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.174 %) Health 3 1 (2.174 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 23 (50.00 %) Developer 2 16 (34.78 %) Architect 3 8 (17.39 %) Consultant 4 7 (15.22 %) C# Developer 5 6 (13.04 %) .NET Developer 6 5 (10.87 %) Solutions Architect 6 5 (10.87 %) Senior Developer 6 5 (10.87 %) Enterprise Architect 7 4 (8.696 %) SQL Developer 8 3 (6.522 %) Implementation Consultant 8 3 (6.522 %) Technical Consultant 8 3 (6.522 %) Solutions Designer 8 3 (6.522 %) Senior Solutions Architect 9 2 (4.348 %) Senior SQL Server Developer 9 2 (4.348 %) Technical Architect 9 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server Developer 10 1 (2.174 %) ASP Developer 10 1 (2.174 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 1 (2.174 %) Senior C# Developer 10 1 (2.174 %) Senior .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.04 %) N-Tier 2 3 (6.522 %) Taxonomies 3 2 (4.348 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 5 (10.87 %) Windows 2 3 (6.522 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (2.174 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (30.43 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (13.04 %) Content Management 4 2 (4.348 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 2 (4.348 %) BC Cleared 4 2 (4.348 %) CRM 5 1 (2.174 %) EAI 5 1 (2.174 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.174 %) Migration 5 1 (2.174 %) Web Design 5 1 (2.174 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 45 (97.83 %) SQL 2 34 (73.91 %) C# 3 7 (15.22 %) JavaScript 4 6 (13.04 %) VBScript 5 1 (2.174 %) VB 5 1 (2.174 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (2.174 %) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management 1 22 (47.83 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 3 (6.522 %) Microsoft