The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 7 4 5
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 148 267 275
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 12.87% 16.58% 14.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.91% 41.78% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 164 154
Average daily rate £325 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.41% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £268 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 10
Average hourly rate £26.50 £24.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% +4.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £16.50 £21.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.70 £40.00 £42.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.58% -26.15%
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
424 639 660
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 36.87% 39.69% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 338 357
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £494 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 50 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £22.50 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
South East

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey SQL Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Guildford -1 30 £320 +6.66%
Staines +5 18 £225 -43.75%
Woking 0 10 £338 +5.46%
Leatherhead +8 9 £313 -23.78%
Reigate +1 4 - -
Camberley -1 4 £300 -30.23%
Dorking +1 3 £343 +24.54%
Redhill -2 3 £180 -70.00%
Sunbury-on-Thames - 2 £300 -
Horley - 2 - -
Egham +2 1 £215 -
Godalming +1 1 £125 -
Epsom -1 1 £350 -
Cobham -1 1 - -
Farnham - 1 - -
SQL
South East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

1 120 (36.36%) .NET
2 114 (34.55%) C#
3 113 (34.24%) Oracle
4 99 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 91 (27.58%) Windows
6 79 (23.94%) SQL Server
7 64 (19.39%) ASP.NET
8 58 (17.58%) Finance
9 51 (15.45%) Scrum
9 51 (15.45%) XML
10 50 (15.15%) PL/SQL
11 47 (14.24%) VB.NET
12 46 (13.94%) Java
12 46 (13.94%) SharePoint
13 45 (13.64%) CRM
14 39 (11.82%) Visual Studio
14 39 (11.82%) MVC
14 39 (11.82%) WCF
15 38 (11.52%) Linux
16 37 (11.21%) MS Office
16 37 (11.21%) Migration
17 35 (10.61%) MS Excel
18 34 (10.30%) Degree
19 33 (10.00%) JavaScript
20 32 (9.697%) Dynamics CRM
20 32 (9.697%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 31 (9.394%) HTML
22 28 (8.485%) ETL
22 28 (8.485%) Security Cleared
23 27 (8.182%) WF

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 (36.36%) .NET
2 64 (19.39%) ASP.NET
3 51 (15.45%) XML
4 39 (11.82%) WCF
5 31 (9.394%) HTML
6 27 (8.182%) WF
7 23 (6.970%) Web Services
7 23 (6.970%) CSS
8 22 (6.667%) XSLT
9 18 (5.455%) .NET Framework
10 14 (4.242%) WinForms
11 13 (3.939%) jQuery
12 12 (3.636%) WPF
12 12 (3.636%) Spring
13 10 (3.030%) Ajax
14 9 (2.727%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (2.424%) LINQ
15 8 (2.424%) Silverlight
15 8 (2.424%) WebSphere
15 8 (2.424%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 46 (13.94%) SharePoint
2 20 (6.061%) Tomcat
3 19 (5.758%) Apache
4 18 (5.455%) SAS
5 11 (3.333%) IIS
6 10 (3.030%) CMS
6 10 (3.030%) MS Exchange
7 9 (2.727%) WebLogic
8 8 (2.424%) Exchange Server 2007
8 8 (2.424%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (2.121%) SharePoint 2010
10 5 (1.515%) Windows Azure
10 5 (1.515%) Liferay
11 4 (1.212%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.909%) Adobe CQ
12 3 (0.909%) ColdFusion
12 3 (0.909%) Documentum
12 3 (0.909%) ActiveMQ
12 3 (0.909%) Exchange Server 2003
12 3 (0.909%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 37 (11.21%) MS Office
2 35 (10.61%) MS Excel
3 8 (2.424%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.818%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (1.212%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.606%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.606%) MS Project
7 1 (0.303%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.303%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 32 (9.697%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.424%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (2.121%) SalesLogix
4 4 (1.212%) SAP IS-U
4 4 (1.212%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.909%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.606%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 2 (0.606%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.303%) Oracle iStore
7 1 (0.303%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.303%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.303%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.303%) Agresso
7 1 (0.303%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.303%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.545%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.636%) SSL
3 11 (3.333%) DNS
4 10 (3.030%) Firewall
5 7 (2.121%) DHCP
6 6 (1.818%) SAN
6 6 (1.818%) LDAP
6 6 (1.818%) HTTP
6 6 (1.818%) VPN
7 5 (1.515%) NAS
7 5 (1.515%) FTP
7 5 (1.515%) SMTP
8 4 (1.212%) iSCSI
8 4 (1.212%) SSH
8 4 (1.212%) Internet
8 4 (1.212%) TELNET
8 4 (1.212%) SNMP
8 4 (1.212%) tcpdump
9 3 (0.909%) WAN
9 3 (0.909%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.94%) SQL Server
2 32 (9.697%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 27 (8.182%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (6.364%) Oracle 11g
5 18 (5.455%) SQL Server 2008
6 17 (5.152%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (3.636%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (3.636%) MySQL
8 10 (3.030%) DB2
9 9 (2.727%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (2.121%) TOAD
10 7 (2.121%) Oracle 10g
10 7 (2.121%) MS Access
10 7 (2.121%) Oracle 8/8i
10 7 (2.121%) SQL Server 2005
11 6 (1.818%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.515%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.212%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.909%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.909%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 39 (11.82%) Visual Studio
2 18 (5.455%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (2.424%) ClearCase
4 7 (2.121%) Mercurial
5 6 (1.818%) Eclipse
5 6 (1.818%) Hudson
6 5 (1.515%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.515%) Git (software)
7 4 (1.212%) JUnit
8 3 (0.909%) Ant
8 3 (0.909%) JMeter
8 3 (0.909%) QuickTest Pro
8 3 (0.909%) Subversion
8 3 (0.909%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.606%) Maven
9 2 (0.606%) NUnit
9 2 (0.606%) InterDev
9 2 (0.606%) TestNG
9 2 (0.606%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (0.303%) Phing
General
1 58 (17.58%) Finance
2 18 (5.455%) Banking
3 15 (4.545%) Telecoms
4 12 (3.636%) Games
5 11 (3.333%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.121%) Marketing
7 5 (1.515%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.212%) Law
9 3 (0.909%) Legal
9 3 (0.909%) Retail
10 2 (0.606%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.606%) Publishing
10 2 (0.606%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.303%) Back Office
11 1 (0.303%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.303%) Advertising
11 1 (0.303%) Billing
11 1 (0.303%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 144 (43.64%) Developer
2 63 (19.09%) Analyst
3 62 (18.79%) .NET Developer
4 30 (9.091%) Architect
5 27 (8.182%) C# Developer
6 23 (6.970%) SQL Developer
6 23 (6.970%) Oracle Developer
6 23 (6.970%) DBA
6 23 (6.970%) C# .NET Developer
7 22 (6.667%) Applications Support
8 18 (5.455%) Consultant
9 15 (4.545%) Support Analyst
9 15 (4.545%) Applications Support Analyst
10 14 (4.242%) VB.NET Developer
11 13 (3.939%) Administrator
12 12 (3.636%) Data Analyst
13 11 (3.333%) ASP.NET Developer
14 10 (3.030%) Oracle DBA
14 10 (3.030%) Software Engineer
15 9 (2.727%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.061%) Computer Science
2 7 (2.121%) Mathematics
3 6 (1.818%) Visualisation
3 6 (1.818%) Kinect
4 5 (1.515%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.515%) Clustering
5 4 (1.212%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.212%) Cryptography
5 4 (1.212%) EFT
5 4 (1.212%) Streaming Video
5 4 (1.212%) N-Tier
5 4 (1.212%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.212%) Smart Meter
5 4 (1.212%) SaaS
5 4 (1.212%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.909%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.909%) Data Extraction
7 2 (0.606%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.606%) iPhone
7 2 (0.606%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 91 (27.58%) Windows
2 38 (11.52%) Linux
3 26 (7.879%) UNIX
4 25 (7.576%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.212%) AIX
7 4 (1.212%) Solaris
7 4 (1.212%) Windows XP
7 4 (1.212%) Windows 8
8 3 (0.909%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.909%) HPUX
9 2 (0.606%) Android
9 2 (0.606%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.606%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.303%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (15.45%) Scrum
2 45 (13.64%) CRM
3 39 (11.82%) MVC
4 37 (11.21%) Migration
5 28 (8.485%) ETL
6 26 (7.879%) Workflow
7 25 (7.576%) SOA
8 20 (6.061%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (5.758%) Data Migration
10 16 (4.848%) Data Analysis
10 16 (4.848%) Analytics
11 14 (4.242%) Data Modelling
11 14 (4.242%) ITIL
12 12 (3.636%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (3.333%) Configuration Management
14 10 (3.030%) Test Automation
15 9 (2.727%) Test Strategy
15 9 (2.727%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (2.727%) Agile Software Development
15 9 (2.727%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 114 (34.55%) C#
2 50 (15.15%) PL/SQL
3 47 (14.24%) VB.NET
4 46 (13.94%) Java
5 33 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.970%) T-SQL
7 19 (5.758%) VB
8 11 (3.333%) C
8 11 (3.333%) C++
8 11 (3.333%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.030%) VB6
10 9 (2.727%) VBA
11 8 (2.424%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.121%) R
12 7 (2.121%) Bash shell
12 7 (2.121%) PHP
13 6 (1.818%) Perl
13 6 (1.818%) Python
14 4 (1.212%) AWK
14 4 (1.212%) sed
Qualifications
1 34 (10.30%) Degree
2 28 (8.485%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.273%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.121%) ISEB
5 4 (1.212%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.212%) MCITP
5 4 (1.212%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.212%) MCSE
6 3 (0.909%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.303%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.303%) CCNA
7 1 (0.303%) MCP
7 1 (0.303%) MCSA
7 1 (0.303%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.303%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.303%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.303%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.303%) SCJP
7 1 (0.303%) MCDST
7 1 (0.303%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.030%) QA
2 4 (1.212%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.606%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.303%) SLA
4 1 (0.303%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (4.848%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.636%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.515%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.212%) Squid
4 4 (1.212%) Nmap
4 4 (1.212%) NFS
4 4 (1.212%) Postfix
5 3 (0.909%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.909%) LiteSpeed
6 2 (0.606%) VMware ESX
6 2 (0.606%) XenApp
6 2 (0.606%) vSphere
7 1 (0.303%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.303%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.303%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 8 (2.424%) Puppet
2 6 (1.818%) SCCM
3 5 (1.515%) SCOM
4 4 (1.212%) Nagios
4 4 (1.212%) NetBackup
4 4 (1.212%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.303%) Foglight
5 1 (0.303%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.303%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.303%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.303%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (0.303%) Legato
5 1 (0.303%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 113 (34.24%) Oracle
2 99 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.455%) Business Objects
4 17 (5.152%) JBoss
5 16 (4.848%) VMware
6 15 (4.545%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.939%) SAP
8 9 (2.727%) Teradata
9 8 (2.424%) Citrix
10 7 (2.121%) Cognos
10 7 (2.121%) Perforce
10 7 (2.121%) Sage
11 5 (1.515%) Cisco
11 5 (1.515%) NetApp
12 4 (1.212%) EMC
13 3 (0.909%) Red Gate
13 3 (0.909%) Twitter
13 3 (0.909%) IBM
13 3 (0.909%) Adobe
13 3 (0.909%) Chordiant
Surrey
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Proactive Appointments
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Surrey
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Rate: £500 per day + market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Our client a Global technology company is seeking a Business Intelligence Developer to be based in Guildford for an initial 12 month contract.Job Description:* Contribute to technical...
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The ideal candidate is someone who has proven experience in designing and implementing Business Intelligence Solutions from large volume/high velocity sources using Microsoft technologies.The role will...
Rate: £150 - £200 per annum + Negotiable
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The role will be a part of a larger development team working on the next generation of our client's market leading advanced targeted attack monitoring solution. This...
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Our client based in Surrey is looking for a Senior SAS Programmer to be responsible for the maintenance and development of the SAS Data Warehouse to include the...
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