The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 St Albans 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 6 6 8
Rank change year-on-year
0 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 5 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 16.13% 11.11% 6.452%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.67% 17.65% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
Average daily rate £401 £268 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+49.71% -23.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £339 £254 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £282 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -22.48%
All Programming Languages
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
12 17 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 38.71% 62.96% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 8
Average daily rate £400 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £250 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £500 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Hertfordshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans 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 St Albans region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
3 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 4 (25.00%) Digital Media
4 3 (18.75%) Database Security
4 3 (18.75%) SAP
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) BAPI
4 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (18.75%) System Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Sybase IQ
4 3 (18.75%) LSMW
5 2 (12.50%) Marketing
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Teradata
5 2 (12.50%) Time Management
5 2 (12.50%) Degree
5 2 (12.50%) QA
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (12.50%) Brio
5 2 (12.50%) Epicor
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) CRM
5 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (12.50%) ERP

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 3 (18.75%) BAPI
2 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.250%) MDX
2 1 (6.250%) LINQ
2 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
2 1 (6.250%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) IIS
1 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) PowerPivot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Sybase IQ
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.250%) PerformancePoint
4 1 (6.250%) OLAP
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) LSMW
2 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Business Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) SAP Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Campaign Executive
3 2 (12.50%) Database Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Support Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.250%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
2 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (18.75%) System Testing
2 3 (18.75%) ETL
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Database Security
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) ERP
3 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 2 (12.50%) Time Management
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (6.250%) Web Development
4 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (6.250%) Waterfall
4 1 (6.250%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VB
2 1 (6.250%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Business Objects
2 2 (12.50%) Epicor
2 2 (12.50%) Brio
2 2 (12.50%) Teradata
3 1 (6.250%) Netezza
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
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