The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 22 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 Stirling 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 2 4 16
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +12
Contract jobs citing SQL 38 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 32.48% 28.95% 6.329%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.46% 57.89% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 3
Average daily rate £400 £275 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -31.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £134 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £325 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
65 19 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 55.56% 50.00% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 13 13
Average daily rate £425 £275 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.54% -38.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £194 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling 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 Stirling region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Stirling region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stirlingshire - 1 - -
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 22 (51.16%) XML
2 21 (48.84%) Banking
3 17 (39.53%) SQL Server
4 16 (37.21%) Investment Banking
5 13 (30.23%) Finance
6 12 (27.91%) Oracle
7 11 (25.58%) Java
8 10 (23.26%) UNIX
9 9 (20.93%) UML
9 9 (20.93%) TOAD
9 9 (20.93%) Pega
9 9 (20.93%) Cadis
10 8 (18.60%) Use Case
10 8 (18.60%) MS Visio
10 8 (18.60%) T-SQL
11 7 (16.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (16.28%) Hibernate
11 7 (16.28%) Spring
12 6 (13.95%) WebSphere
12 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (13.95%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (13.95%) Reference Data
12 6 (13.95%) Workflow
12 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (13.95%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (13.95%) Process Management
12 6 (13.95%) Back Office
12 6 (13.95%) HP
12 6 (13.95%) DTS
13 5 (11.63%) Sybase

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 22 (51.16%) XML
2 7 (16.28%) Hibernate
2 7 (16.28%) Spring
3 6 (13.95%) WebSphere
4 5 (11.63%) XML Messaging
5 4 (9.302%) Java EE
5 4 (9.302%) XSLT
6 3 (6.977%) JSP
6 3 (6.977%) J2EE
6 3 (6.977%) HTML
6 3 (6.977%) Ajax
6 3 (6.977%) Java SE
6 3 (6.977%) Silverlight
7 2 (4.651%) CakePHP
7 2 (4.651%) .NET
7 2 (4.651%) CSS
7 2 (4.651%) JDBC
7 2 (4.651%) Servlets
7 2 (4.651%) Struts
8 1 (2.326%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 4 (9.302%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (4.651%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.326%) Documentum
3 1 (2.326%) MQSeries
3 1 (2.326%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.326%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.326%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.651%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.326%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (39.53%) SQL Server
2 9 (20.93%) TOAD
3 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (13.95%) DTS
4 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
4 5 (11.63%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (11.63%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (9.302%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.651%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (4.651%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.651%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (2.326%) SQLPlus
7 1 (2.326%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 2 (4.651%) Git (software)
1 2 (4.651%) Subversion
1 2 (4.651%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (2.326%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.326%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.326%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 21 (48.84%) Banking
2 16 (37.21%) Investment Banking
3 13 (30.23%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) Back Office
5 1 (2.326%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Developer
2 17 (39.53%) Analyst
3 11 (25.58%) Business Analyst
4 8 (18.60%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) Test Analyst
7 4 (9.302%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 3 (6.977%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (6.977%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.651%) IT Business Analyst
9 2 (4.651%) PHP Developer
10 1 (2.326%) Consultant
10 1 (2.326%) Development Specialist
10 1 (2.326%) Database Designer
10 1 (2.326%) MI Analyst
10 1 (2.326%) Senior Analyst
10 1 (2.326%) .NET Developer
10 1 (2.326%) Database Developer
10 1 (2.326%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (13.95%) Reference Data
3 4 (9.302%) Derivative
3 4 (9.302%) Equities
4 1 (2.326%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.326%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) UNIX
2 4 (9.302%) Linux
3 3 (6.977%) Windows
4 2 (4.651%) Debian
4 2 (4.651%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.326%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.326%) Solaris
5 1 (2.326%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.93%) UML
2 8 (18.60%) Use Case
3 6 (13.95%) Workflow
3 6 (13.95%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (13.95%) Process Management
4 5 (11.63%) Data Analysis
5 4 (9.302%) Waterfall
5 4 (9.302%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (9.302%) Test Scripting
5 4 (9.302%) Business Analysis
5 4 (9.302%) TDD
5 4 (9.302%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.302%) ETL
5 4 (9.302%) BDD
6 3 (6.977%) RAD
6 3 (6.977%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.977%) Scrum
7 2 (4.651%) Unit Testing
7 2 (4.651%) System Testing
7 2 (4.651%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) Java
2 8 (18.60%) T-SQL
3 4 (9.302%) XPath
4 3 (6.977%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.977%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.651%) C#
5 2 (4.651%) PHP
6 1 (2.326%) VB
6 1 (2.326%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (2.326%) ISEB
1 1 (2.326%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) MiFID
2 1 (2.326%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (9.302%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Oracle
2 9 (20.93%) Pega
2 9 (20.93%) Cadis
3 6 (13.95%) HP
4 5 (11.63%) Sybase
5 4 (9.302%) IBM
6 1 (2.326%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.326%) MKS
6 1 (2.326%) Murex
6 1 (2.326%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.326%) JBoss
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