The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Sheffield 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 10 2
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 16 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 15.19% 9.816% 26.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.16% 21.62% 47.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 17
Average daily rate £300 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +33.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £140 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £500 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £14.00 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.43% -27.50%
All Programming Languages
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
38 74 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 24.05% 45.40% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 45
Average daily rate £275 £360 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.61% +27.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £135 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £525 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
Average hourly rate £14.00 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
South Yorkshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Sheffield SQL Daily Rate Histogram

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sheffield SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 16 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 11 (25.00%) .NET
3 11 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 9 (20.45%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (20.45%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (18.18%) SharePoint
5 8 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (15.91%) ETL
6 7 (15.91%) C#
7 6 (13.64%) CRM
7 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (11.36%) Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Windows
9 4 (9.091%) Oracle
9 4 (9.091%) ASP.NET
9 4 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (9.091%) Internet
9 4 (9.091%) Advertising
10 3 (6.818%) Content Management
10 3 (6.818%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (6.818%) Finance
10 3 (6.818%) Silverlight
10 3 (6.818%) Symfony
10 3 (6.818%) QA
10 3 (6.818%) Manual Testing
10 3 (6.818%) PHPUnit

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (9.091%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.818%) Silverlight
3 3 (6.818%) Symfony
3 3 (6.818%) XML
4 2 (4.545%) HTML
4 2 (4.545%) CSS
4 2 (4.545%) WCF
4 2 (4.545%) jQuery
5 1 (2.273%) Ajax
5 1 (2.273%) WinForms
5 1 (2.273%) MDX
5 1 (2.273%) Web Services
5 1 (2.273%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.818%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.273%) CMS
3 1 (2.273%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (2.273%) IIS
3 1 (2.273%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (6.818%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.091%) Internet
2 3 (6.818%) Intranet
3 1 (2.273%) Extranet
3 1 (2.273%) SSL
3 1 (2.273%) HTTP
3 1 (2.273%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 9 (20.45%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (20.45%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (6.818%) MySQL
7 2 (4.545%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (4.545%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (4.545%) OLAP
7 2 (4.545%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (2.273%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (2.273%) Oracle OWB
8 1 (2.273%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (2.273%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (2.273%) SQL CLR
8 1 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (2.273%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.818%) PHPUnit
2 2 (4.545%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (4.545%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.545%) PVCS
2 2 (4.545%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (9.091%) Advertising
2 3 (6.818%) Finance
3 2 (4.545%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.273%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Developer
2 8 (18.18%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) DBA
3 6 (13.64%) SQL DBA
4 5 (11.36%) Data Analyst
5 4 (9.091%) Administrator
6 3 (6.818%) SQL Developer
6 3 (6.818%) PHP Developer
6 3 (6.818%) QA Engineer
6 3 (6.818%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 3 (6.818%) CRM Developer
6 3 (6.818%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Consultant
7 2 (4.545%) Architect
7 2 (4.545%) SharePoint Consultant
7 2 (4.545%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (4.545%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.545%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.818%) NHS
1 3 (6.818%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.545%) Clustering
3 1 (2.273%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.273%) Statistics
3 1 (2.273%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 2 (4.545%) Linux
2 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.273%) UNIX
3 1 (2.273%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.91%) ETL
2 6 (13.64%) CRM
3 5 (11.36%) Migration
4 4 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (6.818%) Content Management
5 3 (6.818%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.818%) Manual Testing
5 3 (6.818%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.818%) MVC
5 3 (6.818%) Data Modelling
5 3 (6.818%) OO
5 3 (6.818%) Database Security
6 2 (4.545%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.545%) ERP
6 2 (4.545%) Web Development
6 2 (4.545%) Workflow
6 2 (4.545%) Data Analysis
7 1 (2.273%) Performance Testing
7 1 (2.273%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.273%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 7 (15.91%) C#
3 3 (6.818%) VB.NET
3 3 (6.818%) PHP
4 2 (4.545%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.545%) VBA
4 2 (4.545%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.545%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) ISEB
2 1 (2.273%) Degree
2 1 (2.273%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.273%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.818%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.818%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.273%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.273%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.545%) SCOM
2 1 (2.273%) SCCM
2 1 (2.273%) WSUS
2 1 (2.273%) OpenView
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (2.273%) VMware
3 1 (2.273%) Informatica
3 1 (2.273%) HP
3 1 (2.273%) Sitecore
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