The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Rochdale region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Rochdale 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank - 2 -
Contract jobs citing SQL 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Rochdale - 50.00% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Rochdale
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
3 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Rochdale 37.50% 50.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £175 £225 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% -15.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Manchester

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rochdale 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 Rochdale region.

Rochdale SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Rochdale 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 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Kaspersky
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Rochdale 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 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Kaspersky