Southampton SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Southampton region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barking Barnet Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	10
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	21	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	32.81 %	26.32 %
Daily rates quoted	5	11
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£276
Average daily rate	£370	£296
% change on same period last year	+25.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.50
Average hourly rate	£33.50	£22.00
% change on same period last year	+52.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	£23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Programming Languages Southampton
Matching contract IT job ads	64	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.114 %
Daily rates quoted	24	47
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£274
Average daily rate	£363	£294
% change on same period last year	+23.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.14	£25.09
Average hourly rate	£37.95	£26.95
% change on same period last year	+40.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.76	£28.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
SQL Hampshire

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.

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 14 (36.84 %) .NET 2 12 (31.58 %) SQL Server 3 11 (28.95 %) XML 4 10 (26.32 %) ASP 4 10 (26.32 %) CSS 5 9 (23.68 %) VB.NET 5 9 (23.68 %) XHTML 6 8 (21.05 %) Oracle 6 8 (21.05 %) Visual Studio 6 8 (21.05 %) Windows 7 7 (18.42 %) ASP.NET 7 7 (18.42 %) Web Development 7 7 (18.42 %) .NET Framework 8 6 (15.79 %) Content Management 8 6 (15.79 %) CMS

8 6 (15.79 %) VBScript 8 6 (15.79 %) HTML 9 5 (13.16 %) C# 9 5 (13.16 %) PRINCE2 9 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 9 5 (13.16 %) RAD 9 5 (13.16 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 5 (13.16 %) Health 10 4 (10.53 %) WebSphere 10 4 (10.53 %) Linux 10 4 (10.53 %) Java 10 4 (10.53 %) VB 11 3 (7.895 %) MySQL 11 3 (7.895 %) Transact-SQL 11 3 (7.895 %) AIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 14 (36.84 %) .NET 2 11 (28.95 %) XML 3 10 (26.32 %) ASP 3 10 (26.32 %) CSS 4 9 (23.68 %) XHTML 5 7 (18.42 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (18.42 %) .NET Framework 6 6 (15.79 %) HTML 7 4 (10.53 %) WebSphere 8 3 (7.895 %) WebServices 8 3 (7.895 %) Adobe Flex 8 3 (7.895 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 2 (5.263 %) SOAP 9 2 (5.263 %) XSLT 10 1 (2.632 %) J2EE 10 1 (2.632 %) JSP 10 1 (2.632 %) Spring 10 1 (2.632 %) AJAX 10 1 (2.632 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 6 (15.79 %) CMS 2 3 (7.895 %) ColdFusion 2 3 (7.895 %) WebSphere MQ 3 2 (5.263 %) SAS 3 2 (5.263 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (2.632 %) ColdFusion MX
Applications 1 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.632 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.263 %) Wireless 2 1 (2.632 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (2.632 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (31.58 %) SQL Server 2 3 (7.895 %) MySQL 2 3 (7.895 %) RDBMS 2 3 (7.895 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (5.263 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 3 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (2.632 %) MS Access 4 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (2.632 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 8 (21.05 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (7.895 %) PVCS 3 2 (5.263 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (2.632 %) ClearQuest
General 1 5 (13.16 %) Health 2 2 (5.263 %) Finance 2 2 (5.263 %) Government 2 2 (5.263 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.632 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.632 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 17 (44.74 %) Developer 2 9 (23.68 %) Analyst 3 7 (18.42 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (13.16 %) Project Manager 5 4 (10.53 %) Web Developer 6 3 (7.895 %) Flex Developer 6 3 (7.895 %) WebSphere Consultant 6 3 (7.895 %) Integration Consultant 6 3 (7.895 %) Consultant 6 3 (7.895 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (7.895 %) Business Consultant 6 3 (7.895 %) ColdFusion Developer 7 2 (5.263 %) IT Support Analyst 7 2 (5.263 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (5.263 %) IT Project Manager 7 2 (5.263 %) C# Developer 7 2 (5.263 %) IT Manager 7 2 (5.263 %) Problem Analyst 7 2 (5.263 %) SAS Analyst 7 2 (5.263 %) MIS Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.895 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.632 %) NHS 2 1 (2.632 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 8 (21.05 %) Windows 2 4 (10.53 %) Linux 3 3 (7.895 %) AIX 3 3 (7.895 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 3 (7.895 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (2.632 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (18.42 %) Web Development 2 6 (15.79 %) Content Management 3 5 (13.16 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (13.16 %) RAD 4 3 (7.895 %) OO 4 3 (7.895 %) OOD 4 3 (7.895 %) ITIL 4 3 (7.895 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (5.263 %) Change Management 5 2 (5.263 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (5.263 %) e-GIF 6 1 (2.632 %) OOP 6 1 (2.632 %) Integration Testing 6 1 (2.632 %) Digital Marketing 6 1 (2.632 %) Penetration Testing 6 1 (2.632 %) Regression Testing	Programming Languages 1 9 (23.68 %) VB.NET 2 6 (15.79 %) VBScript 3 5 (13.16 %) C# 4 4 (10.53 %) Java 4 4 (10.53 %) VB 5 3 (7.895 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (5.263 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (5.263 %) C 7 1 (2.632 %) JavaScript 7 1 (2.632 %) Perl 7 1 (2.632 %) PHP 7 1 (2.632 %) VBA 7 1 (2.632 %) VB6 7 1 (2.632 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 5 (13.16 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (7.895 %) Degree 3 2 (5.263 %) RHCT 4 1 (2.632 %) RHCE	System Software 1 3 (7.895 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (5.263 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 8 (21.05 %) Oracle 2 3 (7.895 %) Adobe 2 3 (7.895 %) Red Hat 3 2 (5.263 %) Lotus 3 2 (5.263 %) Microsoft