The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Runcorn 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 Runcorn 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 - 7 5
Contract jobs citing SQL 0 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn - 17.78% 18.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 100.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £213
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 £25.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -22.48%
All Programming Languages
Runcorn
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn 85.71% 17.78% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £119
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 £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Cheshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Runcorn SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (50.00%) LINQ to SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Ninject
3 3 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
4 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (33.33%) Subversion
4 2 (33.33%) ASP
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (16.67%) XPath
5 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
5 1 (16.67%) LINQ
5 1 (16.67%) jQuery
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) Telerik
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Inversion of Control

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (50.00%) LINQ to SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Ninject
3 3 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (33.33%) ASP
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) LINQ
5 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) XPath
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Telerik