South East Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Transact-SQL over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire 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 Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	96	85
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	198	316
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.264 %	0.320 %
As % of the category below	4.879 %	4.995 %
Daily rates quoted	55	84
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£310
Average daily rate	£314	£325
% change on same period last year	-3.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£322
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.63	£35.42
Average hourly rate	£36.30	£36.85
% change on same period last year	-1.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.98	£38.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.88	£34.64
% change on same period last year	+3.57 %
Programming Languages South East
Matching contract IT job ads	4058	6326
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.409 %	6.400 %
Daily rates quoted	1004	1560
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£311
Average daily rate	£330	£330
% change on same period last year	-0.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	463	742
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.74	£33.91
Average hourly rate	£35.54	£35.86
% change on same period last year	-0.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.35	£37.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Transact-SQL England

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 South East 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 South East region.

Transact-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 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 South East region.

Transact-SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Transact-SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Transact-SQL within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	-8	80	£347	-2.29 %
Buckinghamshire	+12	35	£323	+30.47 %
Surrey	+15	33	£290	+14.53 %
Oxfordshire	-6	14	£247	-5.45 %
Hampshire	+17	12	-	-
West Sussex	-1	7	-	-
Kent	+11	6	£294	+17.50 %
East Sussex	+3	3	£350	+34.61 %
Middlesex	-6	2	£248	-
Thames Valley	-5	1	-	-

Transact-SQL England

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 357 (99.17 %) SQL 2 309 (85.83 %) SQL Server 3 185 (51.39 %) .NET 4 159 (44.17 %) SQL Server 2005 5 128 (35.56 %) C# 6 120 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 7 119 (33.06 %) XML 8 110 (30.56 %) HTML 9 106 (29.44 %) JavaScript 10 99 (27.50 %) DTS 11 97 (26.94 %) SQL Server 2000 12 87 (24.17 %) Microsoft 13 79 (21.94 %) ASP 14 71 (19.72 %) VB 15 70 (19.44 %) VB.NET

16 68 (18.89 %) Visual Studio 17 67 (18.61 %) SQL Server 7 18 65 (18.06 %) Windows 19 63 (17.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 20 60 (16.67 %) SQL Server Integration Services 21 52 (14.44 %) Security Cleared 22 47 (13.06 %) XSL 23 45 (12.50 %) DHTML 24 38 (10.56 %) COM+ 25 37 (10.28 %) VB6 25 37 (10.28 %) InterDev 26 36 (10.00 %) VBScript 27 35 (9.722 %) Business Intelligence 28 34 (9.444 %) N-Tier 29 32 (8.889 %) SC Cleared

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 185 (51.39 %) .NET 2 120 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 119 (33.06 %) XML 4 110 (30.56 %) HTML 5 79 (21.94 %) ASP 6 47 (13.06 %) XSL 7 38 (10.56 %) COM+ 8 30 (8.333 %) CSS 9 25 (6.944 %) AJAX 10 24 (6.667 %) WebServices 11 15 (4.167 %) Fusebox 12 11 (3.056 %) .NET Framework 12 11 (3.056 %) XHTML 12 11 (3.056 %) WSH 12 11 (3.056 %) WinForms 13 8 (2.222 %) DCOM 14 6 (1.667 %) XSLT 15 5 (1.389 %) Windows SharePoint Services 16 4 (1.111 %) ADO.NET 17 3 (0.833 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 21 (5.833 %) IIS 1 21 (5.833 %) SharePoint 2 18 (5.000 %) ColdFusion 3 14 (3.889 %) ColdFusion MX 4 11 (3.056 %) BizTalk Server 5 8 (2.222 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 5 (1.389 %) Content Management Server 7 3 (0.833 %) WebSphere MQ 7 3 (0.833 %) WebSphere Message Broker 8 2 (0.556 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 2 (0.556 %) Commerce Server 2007 8 2 (0.556 %) Commerce Server 8 2 (0.556 %) SAS 9 1 (0.278 %) MS Exchange 9 1 (0.278 %) NetWeaver 9 1 (0.278 %) DotNetNuke 9 1 (0.278 %) CMS 9 1 (0.278 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 14 (3.889 %) MS Excel 2 8 (2.222 %) MS Visio 3 7 (1.944 %) Photoshop 4 2 (0.556 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.556 %) MS Office 5 1 (0.278 %) Fireworks 5 1 (0.278 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (0.278 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 6 (1.667 %) Microsoft CRM 2 3 (0.833 %) Summit 2 3 (0.833 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 2 (0.556 %) Sophis VALUE 4 1 (0.278 %) Siebel Analytics 4 1 (0.278 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 25 (6.944 %) X.500 2 21 (5.833 %) SAN 3 10 (2.778 %) Intranet 4 9 (2.500 %) Internet 5 4 (1.111 %) HTTP 6 3 (0.833 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (0.556 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 309 (85.83 %) SQL Server 2 159 (44.17 %) SQL Server 2005 3 99 (27.50 %) DTS 4 97 (26.94 %) SQL Server 2000 5 67 (18.61 %) SQL Server 7 6 63 (17.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 60 (16.67 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 28 (7.778 %) Datawarehouse 9 23 (6.389 %) OLAP 10 18 (5.000 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 16 (4.444 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 14 (3.889 %) Crystal Reports 13 9 (2.500 %) ETL 14 8 (2.222 %) Cognos Powerplay 14 8 (2.222 %) Cognos Impromptu 14 8 (2.222 %) DecisionStream 15 4 (1.111 %) BusinessObjects 16 3 (0.833 %) Oracle OLAP 16 3 (0.833 %) Data Mining 16 3 (0.833 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 68 (18.89 %) Visual Studio 2 37 (10.28 %) InterDev 3 9 (2.500 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 6 (1.667 %) Dreamweaver 5 3 (0.833 %) NUnit 5 3 (0.833 %) FrontPage 6 2 (0.556 %) ClearCase 7 1 (0.278 %) PVCS 7 1 (0.278 %) CruiseControl 7 1 (0.278 %) InstallShield 7 1 (0.278 %) Ant	General 1 19 (5.278 %) Government 2 16 (4.444 %) Finance 2 16 (4.444 %) Marketing 3 12 (3.333 %) Telecoms 4 11 (3.056 %) Insurance 5 6 (1.667 %) Police 5 6 (1.667 %) Health 6 3 (0.833 %) Banking 7 2 (0.556 %) Publishing 7 2 (0.556 %) Billing 7 2 (0.556 %) Automotive 7 2 (0.556 %) Education 7 2 (0.556 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.278 %) Electronics 8 1 (0.278 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.278 %) Law 8 1 (0.278 %) Retail 8 1 (0.278 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 219 (60.83 %) Developer 2 94 (26.11 %) .NET Developer 3 59 (16.39 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 59 (16.39 %) SQL Developer 4 57 (15.83 %) C# Developer 5 39 (10.83 %) SQL Server Developer 6 32 (8.889 %) Architect 7 31 (8.611 %) DBA 8 30 (8.333 %) SQL DBA 9 27 (7.500 %) Analyst 10 26 (7.222 %) Applications Developer 10 26 (7.222 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 23 (6.389 %) VB.NET Developer 12 21 (5.833 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 13 20 (5.556 %) Consultant 14 19 (5.278 %) Software Developer 15 17 (4.722 %) ASP Developer 15 17 (4.722 %) ColdFusion Developer 16 16 (4.444 %) CSharp Software Developer 17 14 (3.889 %) .NET Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 34 (9.444 %) N-Tier 2 20 (5.556 %) Clustering 3 7 (1.944 %) Replication 4 3 (0.833 %) Taxonomies 4 3 (0.833 %) Computer Science 5 2 (0.556 %) NHS 5 2 (0.556 %) Derivative 6 1 (0.278 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.278 %) Pocket PC
Operating Systems 1 65 (18.06 %) Windows 2 16 (4.444 %) Windows 2000 3 9 (2.500 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (1.111 %) UNIX 4 4 (1.111 %) Windows XP 5 3 (0.833 %) AIX 6 2 (0.556 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.278 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 52 (14.44 %) Security Cleared 2 35 (9.722 %) Business Intelligence 3 32 (8.889 %) SC Cleared 4 18 (5.000 %) OOD 5 16 (4.444 %) Workflow 5 16 (4.444 %) Migration 6 14 (3.889 %) Web Development 7 12 (3.333 %) Release Management 7 12 (3.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 12 (3.333 %) OO 7 12 (3.333 %) Business Analysis 8 10 (2.778 %) ITIL 9 9 (2.500 %) ITSM 9 9 (2.500 %) Content Management 9 9 (2.500 %) System Testing 10 7 (1.944 %) Unit Testing 11 5 (1.389 %) Data Management 11 5 (1.389 %) Agile Software Development 11 5 (1.389 %) E-Commerce 12 4 (1.111 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 357 (99.17 %) SQL 2 128 (35.56 %) C# 3 106 (29.44 %) JavaScript 4 71 (19.72 %) VB 5 70 (19.44 %) VB.NET 6 45 (12.50 %) DHTML 7 37 (10.28 %) VB6 8 36 (10.00 %) VBScript 9 20 (5.556 %) Java 10 11 (3.056 %) C++ 11 8 (2.222 %) PL/SQL 12 4 (1.111 %) VBA 13 3 (0.833 %) Perl 13 3 (0.833 %) COBOL 14 2 (0.556 %) PHP 14 2 (0.556 %) REXX 14 2 (0.556 %) Tcl 14 2 (0.556 %) ActionScript 15 1 (0.278 %) VC++ 15 1 (0.278 %) C	Qualifications 1 17 (4.722 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (3.056 %) MCDBA 3 6 (1.667 %) Degree 4 4 (1.111 %) MCSD 5 3 (0.833 %) MCAD 6 2 (0.556 %) MCP 7 1 (0.278 %) MCSE 7 1 (0.278 %) CNE 7 1 (0.278 %) Novell Certification 7 1 (0.278 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (1.667 %) WAI 2 1 (0.278 %) QA 2 1 (0.278 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.278 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (0.833 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 30 (8.333 %) MIIS 2 2 (0.556 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 87 (24.17 %) Microsoft 2 13 (3.611 %) Oracle 3 10 (2.778 %) Cognos 4 6 (1.667 %) Motorola 5 4 (1.111 %) Business Objects 6 3 (0.833 %) Sophis 7 2 (0.556 %) ProClarity 7 2 (0.556 %) SAP 8 1 (0.278 %) Sybase 8 1 (0.278 %) Ascential 8 1 (0.278 %) Ericsson 8 1 (0.278 %) Hyperion 8 1 (0.278 %) Informatica 8 1 (0.278 %) Siebel 8 1 (0.278 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.278 %) Nokia 8 1 (0.278 %) Sony 8 1 (0.278 %) VMware