Surrey SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Surrey 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 25 July 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 Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley 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 Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford 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 Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	5
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	297	343
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.396 %	0.347 %
As % of the category below	37.26 %	42.66 %
Daily rates quoted	81	108
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£315
Average daily rate	£294	£335
% change on same period last year	-12.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£334
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.83	£28.63
Average hourly rate	£27.29	£30.61
% change on same period last year	-10.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.75	£32.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.88	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Programming Languages Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	797	804
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.062 %	0.813 %
Daily rates quoted	269	249
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£313
Average daily rate	£292	£335
% change on same period last year	-12.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	61	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.72	£33.36
Average hourly rate	£33.86	£34.94
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	£36.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
SQL South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Surrey 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
Staines	-1	30	£419	+23.16 %
Woking	+5	19	£337	-8.78 %
Guildford	+7	18	£285	+1.48 %
Weybridge	+5	12	£243	-
Farnham	-10	6	£240	-
Addlestone	-	6	£223	-
Dorking	-2	5	£227	-
Tadworth	-	5	£265	-
Epsom	+2	5	-	-
Redhill	+6	3	-	-
Leatherhead	-7	3	£155	-43.97 %
Sunbury-on-Thames	-16	1	-	-
Godalming	-3	1	£260	-
Camberley	-14	1	-	-
Chertsey	-	1	-	-

SQL South East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 209 (35.48 %) Oracle 2 170 (28.86 %) SQL Server 3 145 (24.62 %) PL/SQL 4 120 (20.37 %) .NET 5 85 (14.43 %) C# 6 83 (14.09 %) Finance 7 77 (13.07 %) XML 8 76 (12.90 %) UNIX 9 72 (12.22 %) Java 10 65 (11.04 %) Transact-SQL 11 64 (10.87 %) Windows 11 64 (10.87 %) Microsoft 12 57 (9.677 %) VB 13 56 (9.508 %) ASP.NET 14 55 (9.338 %) HTML

14 55 (9.338 %) SQL Server 2005 15 53 (8.998 %) Datawarehouse 16 51 (8.659 %) Oracle 10g 17 50 (8.489 %) Migration 18 45 (7.640 %) JavaScript 19 41 (6.961 %) CSS 19 41 (6.961 %) SQL Server 2000 20 40 (6.791 %) C 21 38 (6.452 %) Insurance 21 38 (6.452 %) Security Cleared 22 37 (6.282 %) VB.NET 22 37 (6.282 %) PHP 22 37 (6.282 %) J2EE 22 37 (6.282 %) Visual Studio 23 36 (6.112 %) Perl

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 1 120 (20.37 %) .NET 2 77 (13.07 %) XML 3 56 (9.508 %) ASP.NET 4 55 (9.338 %) HTML 5 41 (6.961 %) CSS 6 37 (6.282 %) J2EE 7 35 (5.942 %) ASP 8 26 (4.414 %) WebServices 9 25 (4.244 %) Spring 10 24 (4.075 %) AJAX 10 24 (4.075 %) Hibernate 11 22 (3.735 %) XHTML 12 20 (3.396 %) XSLT 13 15 (2.547 %) COM+ 14 14 (2.377 %) JSF 15 12 (2.037 %) SOAP 15 12 (2.037 %) Struts 15 12 (2.037 %) MVC 16 11 (1.868 %) WebSphere 17 9 (1.528 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 21 (3.565 %) IIS 2 11 (1.868 %) WebLogic 2 11 (1.868 %) MS Exchange 3 9 (1.528 %) SharePoint 3 9 (1.528 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 7 (1.188 %) BizTalk Server 5 6 (1.019 %) WebSphere MQ 5 6 (1.019 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 5 (0.849 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 5 (0.849 %) ColdFusion 6 5 (0.849 %) Oracle Application Server 7 4 (0.679 %) CMS 7 4 (0.679 %) Tomcat 8 3 (0.509 %) Apache 8 3 (0.509 %) Oracle Workflow 9 2 (0.340 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 2 (0.340 %) WebLogic Portal 9 2 (0.340 %) JBoss 9 2 (0.340 %) ESB 9 2 (0.340 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 32 (5.433 %) MS Excel 2 18 (3.056 %) MS Office 3 9 (1.528 %) Photoshop 4 5 (0.849 %) MS Visio 5 4 (0.679 %) MS Project 6 3 (0.509 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 1 (0.170 %) MS PowerPoint 7 1 (0.170 %) SPSS 7 1 (0.170 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 10 (1.698 %) Unica Affinium 2 7 (1.188 %) AWD 3 5 (0.849 %) Sophis VALUE 4 3 (0.509 %) Line 50 4 3 (0.509 %) Microsoft CRM 5 2 (0.340 %) Oracle EBS 5 2 (0.340 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (0.170 %) BASE24 6 1 (0.170 %) Pivotal CRM 6 1 (0.170 %) Staffware 6 1 (0.170 %) Great Plains 6 1 (0.170 %) Oracle Financials 6 1 (0.170 %) PeopleSoft Financials 6 1 (0.170 %) Cognos Planning 6 1 (0.170 %) Oracle Clinical
Communications & Networking 1 21 (3.565 %) Intranet 2 11 (1.868 %) TCP/IP 3 10 (1.698 %) DNS 4 8 (1.358 %) VoIP 5 6 (1.019 %) SAN 5 6 (1.019 %) CTI 6 5 (0.849 %) Firewall 7 4 (0.679 %) VPN 8 3 (0.509 %) Internet 8 3 (0.509 %) HTTP 8 3 (0.509 %) RIP 8 3 (0.509 %) VLAN 8 3 (0.509 %) Cisco PIX 9 1 (0.170 %) Network Security 9 1 (0.170 %) Wireless Security 9 1 (0.170 %) Bluetooth 9 1 (0.170 %) SMS 9 1 (0.170 %) WAN 9 1 (0.170 %) SMTP 9 1 (0.170 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 170 (28.86 %) SQL Server 2 55 (9.338 %) SQL Server 2005 3 53 (8.998 %) Datawarehouse 4 51 (8.659 %) Oracle 10g 5 41 (6.961 %) SQL Server 2000 6 23 (3.905 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 20 (3.396 %) Oracle 9i 8 16 (2.716 %) DB2 9 14 (2.377 %) ETL 10 13 (2.207 %) TOAD 11 12 (2.037 %) DTS 11 12 (2.037 %) OLAP 11 12 (2.037 %) Crystal Reports 11 12 (2.037 %) Star Schema 11 12 (2.037 %) Data Cleansing 12 11 (1.868 %) SQL Server 7 12 11 (1.868 %) Data Mart 12 11 (1.868 %) MS Access 12 11 (1.868 %) Cognos Powerplay 13 10 (1.698 %) DataStage
Development Applications 1 37 (6.282 %) Visual Studio 2 20 (3.396 %) QuickTest Pro 3 15 (2.547 %) Oracle Forms 4 14 (2.377 %) TestDirector 5 12 (2.037 %) MSI 5 12 (2.037 %) InstallShield 6 10 (1.698 %) Flash 7 9 (1.528 %) ProC 8 8 (1.358 %) Eclipse 9 7 (1.188 %) WinRunner 9 7 (1.188 %) JUnit 10 5 (0.849 %) JMeter 10 5 (0.849 %) NUnit 10 5 (0.849 %) QARun 11 4 (0.679 %) VSS/SourceSafe 12 3 (0.509 %) LoadRunner 13 2 (0.340 %) Dreamweaver 13 2 (0.340 %) ClearCase 13 2 (0.340 %) ClearQuest 13 2 (0.340 %) Subversion	General 1 83 (14.09 %) Finance 2 38 (6.452 %) Insurance 3 33 (5.603 %) Marketing 4 22 (3.735 %) Education 5 11 (1.868 %) Pharmaceutical 6 10 (1.698 %) Government 6 10 (1.698 %) Retail 7 9 (1.528 %) Pensions 8 8 (1.358 %) Telecoms 9 7 (1.188 %) Health 10 6 (1.019 %) Banking 11 5 (0.849 %) Back Office 11 5 (0.849 %) Billing 12 4 (0.679 %) Investment Banking 12 4 (0.679 %) Electronics 13 2 (0.340 %) Electric 13 2 (0.340 %) Publishing 13 2 (0.340 %) Manufacturing 14 1 (0.170 %) Advertising 14 1 (0.170 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 280 (47.54 %) Developer 2 127 (21.56 %) Analyst 3 60 (10.19 %) SQL Developer 4 52 (8.829 %) DBA 5 45 (7.640 %) .NET Developer 6 39 (6.621 %) C# Developer 7 37 (6.282 %) Java Developer 8 31 (5.263 %) SQL DBA 9 30 (5.093 %) Programmer 10 27 (4.584 %) Oracle Developer 11 23 (3.905 %) Systems Analyst 11 23 (3.905 %) Business Analyst 12 22 (3.735 %) Test Analyst 13 21 (3.565 %) Tester 14 20 (3.396 %) Analyst Programmer 15 19 (3.226 %) Web Developer 15 19 (3.226 %) Architect 15 19 (3.226 %) Data Analyst 15 19 (3.226 %) VB Developer 15 19 (3.226 %) PHP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (1.528 %) Mainframe 2 7 (1.188 %) Client/Server 2 7 (1.188 %) N-Tier 2 7 (1.188 %) NHS 2 7 (1.188 %) AS400 3 4 (0.679 %) IBM Mainframe 4 3 (0.509 %) Derivative 4 3 (0.509 %) Computer Science 5 2 (0.340 %) Management Information System 5 2 (0.340 %) Replication 5 2 (0.340 %) W3C 5 2 (0.340 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 2 (0.340 %) PDA 5 2 (0.340 %) Multithreading 6 1 (0.170 %) Blackberry 6 1 (0.170 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.170 %) Tandem 6 1 (0.170 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.170 %) Pocket PC 6 1 (0.170 %) Photography
Operating Systems 1 76 (12.90 %) UNIX 2 64 (10.87 %) Windows 3 20 (3.396 %) Linux 4 13 (2.207 %) Windows Server 2003 5 12 (2.037 %) Windows XP 6 9 (1.528 %) Windows 2000 7 8 (1.358 %) AIX 8 4 (0.679 %) Windows NT 8 4 (0.679 %) MVS 9 2 (0.340 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (8.489 %) Migration 2 38 (6.452 %) Security Cleared 3 27 (4.584 %) UML 4 23 (3.905 %) Web Development 4 23 (3.905 %) SC Cleared 5 21 (3.565 %) Data Migration 5 21 (3.565 %) Business Intelligence 6 19 (3.226 %) OO 7 18 (3.056 %) ITIL 8 17 (2.886 %) CRM 9 16 (2.716 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 15 (2.547 %) Project Management 11 13 (2.207 %) Agile Software Development 11 13 (2.207 %) Data Analysis 12 12 (2.037 %) Data Management 13 11 (1.868 %) Configuration Management 14 10 (1.698 %) Data Modelling 14 10 (1.698 %) SEO 14 10 (1.698 %) Workflow 14 10 (1.698 %) Direct Marketing
Programming Languages 1 145 (24.62 %) PL/SQL 2 85 (14.43 %) C# 3 72 (12.22 %) Java 4 65 (11.04 %) Transact-SQL 5 57 (9.677 %) VB 6 45 (7.640 %) JavaScript 7 40 (6.791 %) C 8 37 (6.282 %) PHP 8 37 (6.282 %) VB.NET 9 36 (6.112 %) Perl 10 27 (4.584 %) Shell Script 11 26 (4.414 %) C++ 12 22 (3.735 %) VB6 13 21 (3.565 %) VBScript 14 19 (3.226 %) PHP5 15 14 (2.377 %) Korn 16 13 (2.207 %) VBA 16 13 (2.207 %) PHP4 17 5 (0.849 %) AWK 18 4 (0.679 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 28 (4.754 %) Microsoft Certification 2 25 (4.244 %) MCSE 3 16 (2.716 %) ISEB 4 13 (2.207 %) Degree 5 3 (0.509 %) CCNA 5 3 (0.509 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (0.509 %) MCP 6 2 (0.340 %) Oracle Certification 7 1 (0.170 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 1 (0.170 %) MCTS 7 1 (0.170 %) MCITP 7 1 (0.170 %) MCPD 7 1 (0.170 %) MCAD 7 1 (0.170 %) MCSD 7 1 (0.170 %) MCDBA 7 1 (0.170 %) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (2.037 %) QA 2 7 (1.188 %) SLA 3 6 (1.019 %) GCP 4 1 (0.170 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.170 %) ISO9001 4 1 (0.170 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 19 (3.226 %) Active Directory 2 4 (0.679 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (0.509 %) Terminal Server 4 2 (0.340 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (0.340 %) AquaLogic 4 2 (0.340 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.170 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.170 %) Oracle RMAN 5 1 (0.170 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 8 (1.358 %) CONTROL-M 2 5 (0.849 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 3 (0.509 %) MOM 3 3 (0.509 %) MAILsweeper 4 2 (0.340 %) Windows Storage Server 4 2 (0.340 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 2 (0.340 %) Unicenter 5 1 (0.170 %) Tivoli 5 1 (0.170 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 209 (35.48 %) Oracle 2 64 (10.87 %) Microsoft 3 18 (3.056 %) Cognos 4 16 (2.716 %) VMware 5 15 (2.547 %) Citrix 6 13 (2.207 %) HP 7 12 (2.037 %) Adobe 7 12 (2.037 %) Siebel 8 10 (1.698 %) Chordiant 8 10 (1.698 %) IBM 8 10 (1.698 %) Epiphany 8 10 (1.698 %) Unica 9 9 (1.528 %) Business Objects 9 9 (1.528 %) Intel 10 8 (1.358 %) SAP 11 7 (1.188 %) BEA 12 6 (1.019 %) Motorola 12 6 (1.019 %) Sophis 12 6 (1.019 %) Genesys 12 6 (1.019 %) Ab Initio