The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the SQL Database Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Database Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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.

SQL Database Developer
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank533533518
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Down-15
Matching contract IT job ads444521
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.075 %0.075 %0.038 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.081 %0.081 %0.041 %
Number of daily rates quoted32237
Average daily rate£350£388£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67 %-13.88 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£253£253£295
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£450£470
UK excluding London average daily rate£318£269£313
% change year-on-year
+18.13 %-14.00 %
Number of hourly rates quoted151
Average hourly rate£16.50£39.00£28.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.69 %+35.06 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£16.50£39.00-
% change year-on-year
-57.69 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
540465575050709
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.46 %92.67 %91.88 %
Number of daily rates quoted297953035424474
Average daily rate£400£425£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.03 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted258528802752
Average hourly rate£18.50£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.50 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.58
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£41.25£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

SQL Database Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Database Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL Database Developer Demand Trend

SQL Database Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Database Developer within the UK.

SQL Database Developer Daily Rate Trend

SQL Database Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Database Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

SQL Database Developer Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Database Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Database Developer within the UK.

SQL Database Developer Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Database Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Database Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-834£350-9.67 %
LondonUp+1917£394-10.56 %
ScotlandUp+126£288-
City of LondonUp+215£400-11.11 %
South EastUp+45£335-10.66 %
South WestDown-235£288+12.19 %
SurreyNew entry-5£335-
CheshireUp+123£288-
North WestDown-43£288+4.54 %
West MidlandsDown-143£350-
BirminghamNew entry-3£350-
BelfastNew entry-3--
County AntrimNew entry-3--
EdinburghNew entry-3£331-
Northern IrelandNew entry-3--
CreweUp+22£288-
StirlingNew entry-2£134-
GlasgowDown-21£350-
SwindonDown-41£250-9.09 %
WiltshireDown-81£250+1.01 %
BristolDown-121£375+42.85 %
GloucestershireDown-271--
WalesNew entry-1£500-
South WalesNew entry-1£500-
East MidlandsNew entry-1£225-
SomersetNew entry-1£300-
NorthamptonshireNew entry-1£225-
HampshireNew entry-1--
WokingNew entry-1--
RuncornNew entry-1--

SQL Database Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited SQL Database Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Database Developer in their job title.

153 (81.54 %)SQL
251 (78.46 %)SQL Server
333 (50.77 %)SQL Server Integration Services
423 (35.38 %)Finance
521 (32.31 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
521 (32.31 %)T-SQL
620 (30.77 %)SQL Server 2008
719 (29.23 %)SQL Server 2005
818 (27.69 %).NET
915 (23.08 %)Microsoft
1013 (20.00 %)MS Excel
1013 (20.00 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1013 (20.00 %)Banking
1112 (18.46 %)Oracle
1211 (16.92 %)C#
1211 (16.92 %)ETL
139 (13.85 %)Data Warehouse
146 (9.231 %)Telecoms
146 (9.231 %)MS Access
146 (9.231 %)Investment Banking
155 (7.692 %)Data Management
155 (7.692 %)Agile Software Development
155 (7.692 %)Sybase
155 (7.692 %)ASP.NET
164 (6.154 %)IIS
164 (6.154 %)Windows
164 (6.154 %)PL/SQL
164 (6.154 %)DTS
164 (6.154 %)Business Intelligence
164 (6.154 %)Risk Management

SQL Database Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited SQL Database Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Database Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
118 (27.69 %).NET
25 (7.692 %)ASP.NET
34 (6.154 %)MDX
43 (4.615 %)XML
51 (1.538 %).NET Framework
51 (1.538 %)WinForms
51 (1.538 %)Hibernate
51 (1.538 %)Spring
51 (1.538 %)Middleware
51 (1.538 %)HTML
51 (1.538 %)J2EE
51 (1.538 %)COM
51 (1.538 %)CSS
51 (1.538 %)Web Services
51 (1.538 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (6.154 %)IIS
22 (3.077 %)SharePoint
22 (3.077 %)SAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (20.00 %)MS Excel
22 (3.077 %)PowerPivot
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (3.077 %)SAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
151 (78.46 %)SQL Server
233 (50.77 %)SQL Server Integration Services
321 (32.31 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
420 (30.77 %)SQL Server 2008
519 (29.23 %)SQL Server 2005
613 (20.00 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
711 (16.92 %)ETL
89 (13.85 %)Data Warehouse
96 (9.231 %)MS Access
104 (6.154 %)DTS
113 (4.615 %)Business Intelligence Development Studio
113 (4.615 %)Data Mart
113 (4.615 %)SQL Server 2000
113 (4.615 %)RDBMS
113 (4.615 %)Crystal Reports
122 (3.077 %)DB2
122 (3.077 %)OLAP
122 (3.077 %)Oracle 8/8i
122 (3.077 %)PerformancePoint
122 (3.077 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (4.615 %)Team Foundation Server
21 (1.538 %)Subversion
21 (1.538 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
123 (35.38 %)Finance
213 (20.00 %)Banking
36 (9.231 %)Telecoms
36 (9.231 %)Investment Banking
43 (4.615 %)Retail
52 (3.077 %)Music
52 (3.077 %)Japanese Language
61 (1.538 %)Marketing
61 (1.538 %)Financial Institution
61 (1.538 %)Back Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (4.615 %)Credit Risk
22 (3.077 %)Computer Science
31 (1.538 %)Derivative
31 (1.538 %)Grid Computing
31 (1.538 %)Replication
31 (1.538 %)Freedom of Information
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (6.154 %)Windows
22 (3.077 %)UNIX
22 (3.077 %)Windows Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (7.692 %)Data Management
15 (7.692 %)Agile Software Development
24 (6.154 %)Business Intelligence
24 (6.154 %)Risk Management
24 (6.154 %)Migration
24 (6.154 %)Change Control
33 (4.615 %)Data Analysis
33 (4.615 %)Data Modelling
42 (3.077 %)OOD
42 (3.077 %)Multithreading
42 (3.077 %)Data Protection
51 (1.538 %)Root Cause Analysis
51 (1.538 %)Requirements Analysis
51 (1.538 %)Release Management
51 (1.538 %)User Acceptance Testing
51 (1.538 %)Data Mapping
51 (1.538 %)Data Migration
51 (1.538 %)Financial Modelling
51 (1.538 %)Online Marketing
51 (1.538 %)Project Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
153 (81.54 %)SQL
221 (32.31 %)T-SQL
311 (16.92 %)C#
44 (6.154 %)PL/SQL
53 (4.615 %)VBA
62 (3.077 %)Perl
62 (3.077 %)Java
71 (1.538 %)JavaScript
71 (1.538 %)VB
71 (1.538 %)VB.NET
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (6.154 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (1.538 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (3.077 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
115 (23.08 %)Microsoft
212 (18.46 %)Oracle
35 (7.692 %)Sybase
42 (3.077 %)Business Objects
42 (3.077 %)Perforce
42 (3.077 %)VMware
51 (1.538 %)Teradata
51 (1.538 %)Informatica