The first table below looks at the demand for T-SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited T-SQL over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transact-SQL
Rank 78 74 94
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +20
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 44 35 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.780% 1.324% 0.804%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.151% 5.401% 2.723%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 9
Average daily rate £400 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £33.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
-31.81% +6.45%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1060 648 808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 42.88% 24.52% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 299 407
Average daily rate £356 £313 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.00% -9.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 20
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.00 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £32.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland T-SQL Jobs Demand Trend

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland T-SQL Daily Rate Trend

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing T-SQL across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland T-SQL Daily Rate Histogram

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland T-SQL Hourly Rate Trend

T-SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -4 24 £425 +41.66%
Edinburgh +1 9 £331 +1.92%
Stirling -6 7 £475 -
Scottish Borders - 2 £300 -
Aberdeen 0 1 - -
Dundee - 1 - -
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing T-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 T-SQL.

1 74 (98.67%) SQL
2 65 (86.67%) SQL Server
3 32 (42.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 29 (38.67%) C#
5 28 (37.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 25 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
6 25 (33.33%) .NET
7 23 (30.67%) XML
8 21 (28.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (26.67%) Finance
10 17 (22.67%) ASP.NET
10 17 (22.67%) Sybase
11 15 (20.00%) HTML
11 15 (20.00%) XPath
12 13 (17.33%) jQuery
12 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
12 13 (17.33%) DTS
12 13 (17.33%) ETL
13 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
13 12 (16.00%) OO
14 11 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (13.33%) Oracle
15 10 (13.33%) .NET Framework
15 10 (13.33%) Ajax
16 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
16 9 (12.00%) Windows
16 9 (12.00%) Data Modelling
17 8 (10.67%) UNIX
17 8 (10.67%) MS Excel

T-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing T-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 T-SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (33.33%) .NET
2 23 (30.67%) XML
3 17 (22.67%) ASP.NET
4 15 (20.00%) HTML
5 13 (17.33%) jQuery
6 10 (13.33%) .NET Framework
6 10 (13.33%) Ajax
7 7 (9.333%) CSS
7 7 (9.333%) Web Services
7 7 (9.333%) XSLT
8 6 (8.000%) ADO.NET
8 6 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 2
9 5 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 5 (6.667%) Spring
9 5 (6.667%) LINQ
9 5 (6.667%) XSL
9 5 (6.667%) XHTML
10 4 (5.333%) Silverlight
11 3 (4.000%) JFace
Application Platforms
1 8 (10.67%) Tomcat
2 5 (6.667%) IIS
3 4 (5.333%) WebLogic
3 4 (5.333%) CMS
3 4 (5.333%) Umbraco
4 3 (4.000%) GlassFish
5 2 (2.667%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.667%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (1.333%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.333%) GemFire
6 1 (1.333%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (10.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.000%) Agresso
2 1 (1.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.333%) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (86.67%) SQL Server
2 32 (42.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 28 (37.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 25 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 21 (28.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (17.33%) DTS
7 10 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (9.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (9.333%) Data Mining
9 6 (8.000%) OLTP
9 6 (8.000%) Data Mart
10 5 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
10 5 (6.667%) OLAP
11 4 (5.333%) Oracle 11g
12 3 (4.000%) QlikView
12 3 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
12 3 (4.000%) Oracle 9i
13 2 (2.667%) Oracle OLAP
14 1 (1.333%) DB2
14 1 (1.333%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (9.333%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.000%) Subversion
3 5 (6.667%) JIRA
4 4 (5.333%) CruiseControl
5 3 (4.000%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.000%) Hudson
5 3 (4.000%) Trac
5 3 (4.000%) Eclipse RCP
5 3 (4.000%) Maven
5 3 (4.000%) Bugzilla
5 3 (4.000%) Ant
5 3 (4.000%) JUnit
5 3 (4.000%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.333%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.333%) MbUnit
6 1 (1.333%) StyleCop
6 1 (1.333%) MSTest
6 1 (1.333%) NUnit
General
1 20 (26.67%) Finance
2 6 (8.000%) Banking
3 4 (5.333%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (72.00%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) .NET Developer
3 11 (14.67%) SQL Developer
4 8 (10.67%) C# Developer
5 6 (8.000%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.333%) Oracle Developer
6 4 (5.333%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (4.000%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 3 (4.000%) Programmer
7 3 (4.000%) Analyst
7 3 (4.000%) Web Developer
7 3 (4.000%) DBA
7 3 (4.000%) SQL DBA
7 3 (4.000%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.000%) SQL Server DBA
7 3 (4.000%) Senior Web Developer
7 3 (4.000%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (2.667%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.667%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.000%) Management Information System
1 6 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 5 (6.667%) Derivative
2 5 (6.667%) Equities
3 3 (4.000%) Statistics
3 3 (4.000%) Web 2.0
3 3 (4.000%) Data Integration
3 3 (4.000%) Social Network
3 3 (4.000%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.667%) NHS
4 2 (2.667%) Mathematics
4 2 (2.667%) Data Conversion
5 1 (1.333%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.333%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.333%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.333%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) UNIX
3 5 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (6.667%) Linux
4 3 (4.000%) Windows Vista
4 3 (4.000%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.33%) ETL
2 12 (16.00%) OO
3 11 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
4 9 (12.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (8.000%) TDD
5 6 (8.000%) Data Management
5 6 (8.000%) Migration
5 6 (8.000%) Data Cleansing
5 6 (8.000%) Data Analysis
6 5 (6.667%) Waterfall
6 5 (6.667%) BDD
6 5 (6.667%) OOD
6 5 (6.667%) ERP
7 4 (5.333%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.333%) Business Analysis
7 4 (5.333%) Information Architecture
8 3 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (4.000%) Systems Analysis
8 3 (4.000%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (98.67%) SQL
2 29 (38.67%) C#
3 15 (20.00%) XPath
4 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.67%) Java
6 6 (8.000%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.333%) VBA
7 4 (5.333%) XQuery
8 2 (2.667%) VB
8 2 (2.667%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.333%) Ruby
9 1 (1.333%) VB6
9 1 (1.333%) C
9 1 (1.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (8.000%) Degree
2 3 (4.000%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.000%) MCSE
3 2 (2.667%) ISEB
3 2 (2.667%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.000%) QA
2 1 (1.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.333%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Sybase
2 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.33%) Oracle
4 8 (10.67%) Cadis
5 2 (2.667%) Trillium
5 2 (2.667%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.667%) Informatica
5 2 (2.667%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (2.667%) DataFlux
6 1 (1.333%) BEA
6 1 (1.333%) Sage
6 1 (1.333%) VMware
6 1 (1.333%) JBoss
6 1 (1.333%) IBM
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