Tyne and Wear SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Tyne and Wear 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Clevedon Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	3
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	42	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.090 %
As % of the category below	37.50 %	44.12 %
Daily rates quoted	7	23
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£340
Average daily rate	£321	£343
% change on same period last year	-6.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£39.00
Average hourly rate	£28.38	£41.50
% change on same period last year	-31.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.25	£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.27	£30.14
% change on same period last year	-2.90 %
Programming Languages Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	112	204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.205 %
Daily rates quoted	20	51
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£348
Average daily rate	£322	£355
% change on same period last year	-9.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£335
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.53	£33.08
Average hourly rate	£30.20	£34.23
% change on same period last year	-11.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.87	£35.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
SQL North 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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Tyne and Wear region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Newcastle Upon Tyne	0	17	£325	-17.19 %
Newcastle	-7	17	£225	-21.84 %
Sunderland	+4	5	£350	+75.00 %
Gateshead	-4	1	-	-

SQL North East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 50 (46.30 %) .NET 2 45 (41.67 %) C# 3 38 (35.19 %) Oracle 4 33 (30.56 %) PL/SQL 5 32 (29.63 %) SQL Server 6 24 (22.22 %) Windows 7 20 (18.52 %) UNIX 7 20 (18.52 %) HTML 7 20 (18.52 %) Visual Studio 7 20 (18.52 %) Microsoft 8 18 (16.67 %) ASP.NET 8 18 (16.67 %) ETL 9 17 (15.74 %) Transact-SQL 10 15 (13.89 %) XML 10 15 (13.89 %) Datawarehouse

10 15 (13.89 %) RDBMS 10 15 (13.89 %) Informatica 11 14 (12.96 %) Government 12 13 (12.04 %) SQL Server 2000 13 12 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects 13 12 (11.11 %) Business Objects 13 12 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 14 11 (10.19 %) VB 14 11 (10.19 %) XHTML 14 11 (10.19 %) PowerCenter 15 10 (9.259 %) .NET Framework 16 9 (8.333 %) Korn 16 9 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g 16 9 (8.333 %) PowerExchange 16 9 (8.333 %) Solaris

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 50 (46.30 %) .NET 2 20 (18.52 %) HTML 3 18 (16.67 %) ASP.NET 4 15 (13.89 %) XML 5 11 (10.19 %) XHTML 6 10 (9.259 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (6.481 %) CSS 8 6 (5.556 %) ASP 9 5 (4.630 %) WebServices 10 2 (1.852 %) WinForms 10 2 (1.852 %) J2EE 10 2 (1.852 %) XSLT 10 2 (1.852 %) SOAP 11 1 (0.926 %) Struts 11 1 (0.926 %) JMS 11 1 (0.926 %) WSDL 11 1 (0.926 %) Hibernate 11 1 (0.926 %) JDBC 11 1 (0.926 %) JSP 11 1 (0.926 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 9 (8.333 %) PowerExchange 2 3 (2.778 %) SharePoint 3 2 (1.852 %) WebLogic 3 2 (1.852 %) Oracle Workflow 4 1 (0.926 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 5 (4.630 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.852 %) MS Visio 2 2 (1.852 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (1.852 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (1.852 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.926 %) FTP 1 1 (0.926 %) HTTP 1 1 (0.926 %) HTTPS 1 1 (0.926 %) SSL 1 1 (0.926 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (29.63 %) SQL Server 2 18 (16.67 %) ETL 3 15 (13.89 %) RDBMS 3 15 (13.89 %) Datawarehouse 4 13 (12.04 %) SQL Server 2000 5 12 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects 5 12 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 6 11 (10.19 %) PowerCenter 7 9 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g 8 7 (6.481 %) Oracle 9i 9 6 (5.556 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 6 (5.556 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 6 (5.556 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 5 (4.630 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 10 5 (4.630 %) Oracle OWB 10 5 (4.630 %) Crystal Reports 11 4 (3.704 %) Oracle Reports 11 4 (3.704 %) MS Access 11 4 (3.704 %) Data Mart 11 4 (3.704 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 20 (18.52 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (4.630 %) NUnit 2 5 (4.630 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 3 (2.778 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.852 %) JDeveloper 4 2 (1.852 %) ProC 5 1 (0.926 %) Ant 5 1 (0.926 %) JUnit 5 1 (0.926 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.926 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (0.926 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 14 (12.96 %) Government 2 6 (5.556 %) Finance 3 4 (3.704 %) Telecoms 3 4 (3.704 %) Education 4 3 (2.778 %) Health 4 3 (2.778 %) Banking 5 2 (1.852 %) Games 6 1 (0.926 %) Multimedia 6 1 (0.926 %) Local Government 6 1 (0.926 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.926 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.926 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 73 (67.59 %) Developer 2 24 (22.22 %) .NET Developer 3 22 (20.37 %) C# Developer 4 18 (16.67 %) SQL Developer 5 10 (9.259 %) Analyst 6 9 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 8 (7.407 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 7 (6.481 %) Software Developer 9 6 (5.556 %) Web Developer 9 6 (5.556 %) Oracle Developer 9 6 (5.556 %) SQL Server Developer 10 5 (4.630 %) Informatica Developer 10 5 (4.630 %) DBA 11 4 (3.704 %) Consultant 12 3 (2.778 %) Business Developer 12 3 (2.778 %) Senior Analyst 12 3 (2.778 %) Oracle DBA 12 3 (2.778 %) Business Consultant 12 3 (2.778 %) Business Objects Developer 12 3 (2.778 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.778 %) Blog 2 2 (1.852 %) Data Extraction 2 2 (1.852 %) Statistics 3 1 (0.926 %) Contract for Difference 3 1 (0.926 %) Spread Betting 3 1 (0.926 %) Data Integration 3 1 (0.926 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.926 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.926 %) NHS 3 1 (0.926 %) W3C 3 1 (0.926 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 24 (22.22 %) Windows 2 20 (18.52 %) UNIX 3 9 (8.333 %) Solaris 4 2 (1.852 %) Linux 4 2 (1.852 %) Windows XP 4 2 (1.852 %) Tru64 5 1 (0.926 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (0.926 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.926 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (5.556 %) Data Modelling 1 6 (5.556 %) Business Intelligence 1 6 (5.556 %) Migration 1 6 (5.556 %) Data Analysis 1 6 (5.556 %) Dimensional Modelling 2 5 (4.630 %) Business Analysis 3 3 (2.778 %) Data Management 3 3 (2.778 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (2.778 %) CRM 3 3 (2.778 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (2.778 %) Risk Management 3 3 (2.778 %) UML 4 2 (1.852 %) OO 4 2 (1.852 %) Service Management 4 2 (1.852 %) Workflow 4 2 (1.852 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (1.852 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (1.852 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (1.852 %) ERD 4 2 (1.852 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 45 (41.67 %) C# 2 33 (30.56 %) PL/SQL 3 17 (15.74 %) Transact-SQL 4 11 (10.19 %) VB 5 9 (8.333 %) VB.NET 5 9 (8.333 %) Korn 6 7 (6.481 %) Java 7 4 (3.704 %) Shell Script 8 3 (2.778 %) C 9 2 (1.852 %) VB6 9 2 (1.852 %) JavaScript 9 2 (1.852 %) PHP 9 2 (1.852 %) C++	Qualifications 1 4 (3.704 %) Degree 2 2 (1.852 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.926 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (0.926 %) Sun Certification
System Software 1 3 (2.778 %) Oracle RMAN 1 3 (2.778 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (0.926 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (1.852 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 38 (35.19 %) Oracle 2 20 (18.52 %) Microsoft 3 15 (13.89 %) Informatica 4 12 (11.11 %) Business Objects 5 3 (2.778 %) Sun 5 3 (2.778 %) NetApp 5 3 (2.778 %) CommVault 5 3 (2.778 %) Hitachi 5 3 (2.778 %) VMware 6 2 (1.852 %) HP 6 2 (1.852 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.926 %) SAP 7 1 (0.926 %) BEA 7 1 (0.926 %) webMethods