The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Swindon 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 48 58 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 17.20% 16.07% 16.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.76% 53.21% 54.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 31
Average daily rate £350 £365 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £441 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
79 109 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 28.32% 30.19% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 74 46
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £502 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £32.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% -2.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £32.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £32.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Wiltshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 34 (45.33%) Finance
2 26 (34.67%) Oracle
3 21 (28.00%) PL/SQL
4 20 (26.67%) C#
4 20 (26.67%) .NET
5 19 (25.33%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (21.33%) SQL Server
6 16 (21.33%) XML
6 16 (21.33%) jQuery
7 15 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
8 14 (18.67%) Scrum
9 13 (17.33%) XSLT
9 13 (17.33%) ETL
10 12 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
10 12 (16.00%) ERP
10 12 (16.00%) WCF
11 11 (14.67%) Windows
11 11 (14.67%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (14.67%) Oracle Workflow
11 11 (14.67%) Workflow
11 11 (14.67%) SOA
12 10 (13.33%) MS Excel
12 10 (13.33%) VBA
12 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
13 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
13 9 (12.00%) Migration
13 9 (12.00%) Oracle BI EE
13 9 (12.00%) Data Migration
14 8 (10.67%) .NET Framework

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 20 (26.67%) .NET
2 16 (21.33%) XML
2 16 (21.33%) jQuery
3 13 (17.33%) XSLT
4 12 (16.00%) WCF
5 8 (10.67%) .NET Framework
6 7 (9.333%) LINQ
6 7 (9.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 6 (8.000%) Web Services
8 5 (6.667%) HTML
8 5 (6.667%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.667%) CSS
8 5 (6.667%) Ajax
8 5 (6.667%) Silverlight
9 4 (5.333%) JSON
9 4 (5.333%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (5.333%) Middleware
10 3 (4.000%) J2EE
10 3 (4.000%) WebCenter
11 2 (2.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 11 (14.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (10.67%) ESB
4 6 (8.000%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (8.000%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (5.333%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (5.333%) MS Exchange
6 3 (4.000%) WebLogic
6 3 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (4.000%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (2.667%) SAS
8 1 (1.333%) IIS
8 1 (1.333%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.667%) MS Office
3 1 (1.333%) MS Project
3 1 (1.333%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (25.33%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (6.667%) Oracle HRMS
4 4 (5.333%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (5.333%) Endur
5 3 (4.000%) Findur
5 3 (4.000%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (4.000%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (4.000%) FRx
6 2 (2.667%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.333%) HTTP
1 1 (1.333%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.333%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.333%) SAN
1 1 (1.333%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (14.67%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (12.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 6 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (5.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (5.333%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (4.000%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.667%) MS Access
8 1 (1.333%) OLAP
8 1 (1.333%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.333%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (1.333%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (1.333%) SAP BI
8 1 (1.333%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) JDeveloper
2 6 (8.000%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.667%) Subversion
3 5 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (4.000%) Oracle Forms
General
1 34 (45.33%) Finance
2 5 (6.667%) Back Office
2 5 (6.667%) General Ledger
3 2 (2.667%) Banking
3 2 (2.667%) Retail
3 2 (2.667%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.667%) Marketing
4 1 (1.333%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.333%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.333%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (52.00%) Developer
2 18 (24.00%) Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Consultant
3 11 (14.67%) .NET Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Oracle Consultant
6 6 (8.000%) Oracle Developer
6 6 (8.000%) SharePoint Developer
6 6 (8.000%) OBIEE Developer
7 5 (6.667%) IT Support
7 5 (6.667%) SQL Developer
7 5 (6.667%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (5.333%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.000%) Functional Consultant
9 3 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (4.000%) Payroll Consultant
9 3 (4.000%) Financial Analyst
10 2 (2.667%) HR Specialist
10 2 (2.667%) Oracle Analyst
10 2 (2.667%) Data Migration Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.667%) Data Conversion
2 2 (2.667%) Mainframe
2 2 (2.667%) Linked Data
3 1 (1.333%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.333%) PMI
3 1 (1.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.333%) Replication
3 1 (1.333%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Linux
3 4 (5.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.667%) UNIX
6 1 (1.333%) VME
6 1 (1.333%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.333%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.67%) Scrum
2 13 (17.33%) ETL
3 12 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (16.00%) ERP
4 11 (14.67%) SOA
4 11 (14.67%) Workflow
5 9 (12.00%) Migration
5 9 (12.00%) Data Migration
6 8 (10.67%) BPEL
6 8 (10.67%) E-business
6 8 (10.67%) CRM
7 7 (9.333%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (9.333%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (6.667%) ITIL
9 4 (5.333%) PRINCE2
9 4 (5.333%) Unit Testing
9 4 (5.333%) Content Management
9 4 (5.333%) ETRM
9 4 (5.333%) Investment Management
10 3 (4.000%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) PL/SQL
2 20 (26.67%) C#
3 10 (13.33%) VBA
3 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.333%) XQuery
4 7 (9.333%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.000%) Java
6 2 (2.667%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.667%) VB
6 2 (2.667%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.333%) C
7 1 (1.333%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.000%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.333%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.000%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.667%) OCP
5 1 (1.333%) MCP
5 1 (1.333%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.333%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.333%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.667%) SLA
2 3 (4.000%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.333%) QA
3 1 (1.333%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.333%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.667%) vSphere
3 1 (1.333%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.333%) NFS
3 1 (1.333%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.333%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.333%) XenApp
3 1 (1.333%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Oracle
2 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.333%) Epicor
4 6 (8.000%) Siebel
4 6 (8.000%) Informatica
4 6 (8.000%) Business Objects
5 5 (6.667%) VMware
6 3 (4.000%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (4.000%) OpenLink
6 3 (4.000%) Kofax
7 2 (2.667%) Stellent
7 2 (2.667%) Citrix
7 2 (2.667%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.333%) HP
8 1 (1.333%) SAP
8 1 (1.333%) ICL
8 1 (1.333%) ProCurve
8 1 (1.333%) Trayport
8 1 (1.333%) Twitter
8 1 (1.333%) MicroStrategy
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