South Wales Transact-SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the South Wales 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester 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 St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	47
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	17	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	7.265 %	3.165 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£264	-
Average daily rate	£286	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£307	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£334
% change on same period last year	-11.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-28.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.24	£34.51
% change on same period last year	+7.92 %
Programming Languages South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	234	158
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.309 %	0.157 %
Daily rates quoted	76	24
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£266
Average daily rate	£331	£310
% change on same period last year	+6.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.77	£28.56
Average hourly rate	£28.24	£31.00
% change on same period last year	-8.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.71	£33.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Transact-SQL Wales

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 Wales 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 Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Wales region.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Cardiff	+6	14	£292	-
Glamorgan	-	1	£250	-
Newport	-	1	-	-

Transact-SQL Wales

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 24 (100.00 %) SQL 2 20 (83.33 %) SQL Server 3 16 (66.67 %) Crystal Reports 4 15 (62.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 14 (58.33 %) DTS 6 13 (54.17 %) MS Access 6 13 (54.17 %) VBA 7 9 (37.50 %) MS Excel 8 7 (29.17 %) VB 8 7 (29.17 %) VB6 9 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 9 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 10 2 (8.333 %) Shell Script 10 2 (8.333 %) Datawarehouse

10 2 (8.333 %) ETL 10 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g 10 2 (8.333 %) OCA 10 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Certification 10 2 (8.333 %) Sybase 10 2 (8.333 %) .NET 10 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 10 2 (8.333 %) Perl 10 2 (8.333 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 10 2 (8.333 %) Law 11 1 (4.167 %) Legal 11 1 (4.167 %) Government

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (8.333 %) .NET 2 1 (4.167 %) MDX 2 1 (4.167 %) ActiveX 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (4.167 %) CSS 2 1 (4.167 %) XML 2 1 (4.167 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 9 (37.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2 16 (66.67 %) Crystal Reports 3 15 (62.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 14 (58.33 %) DTS 5 13 (54.17 %) MS Access 6 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (8.333 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (8.333 %) ETL 7 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 8 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (4.167 %) OLAP
General 1 2 (8.333 %) Law 2 1 (4.167 %) Legal 2 1 (4.167 %) Government	Job Titles 1 12 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 9 (37.50 %) Analyst Programmer 2 9 (37.50 %) Programmer 3 8 (33.33 %) Developer 4 5 (20.83 %) DBA 5 4 (16.67 %) SQL Developer 6 3 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports Developer 6 3 (12.50 %) SQL DBA 6 3 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 6 3 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 6 3 (12.50 %) Senior Programmer 6 3 (12.50 %) Report Developer 7 2 (8.333 %) Report Analyst 7 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server DBA 7 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Developer Analyst 8 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Data Analyst 8 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analysis 2 1 (4.167 %) UML 2 1 (4.167 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 24 (100.00 %) SQL 2 13 (54.17 %) VBA 3 7 (29.17 %) VB 3 7 (29.17 %) VB6 4 2 (8.333 %) Shell Script 4 2 (8.333 %) Perl 4 2 (8.333 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (4.167 %) Clipper 5 1 (4.167 %) VBScript 5 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET 5 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) OCA 1 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Certification
Vendors 1 2 (8.333 %) Sybase 1 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft