Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 8 February 2010 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 of the Programming Languages category.

LinkStructured Query Language (SQL)
Location
3 months to
8 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank544
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1No change0
Matching contract IT job ads6061541210539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK13.90 %11.73 %13.09 %
As % of the Programming Languages category36.84 %37.64 %37.59 %
Daily rates quoted292819363449
Average daily rate£400£350£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£313£325
% change year-on-year
-4.000 %-3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted275440742
Average hourly rate£26.50£27.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.630 %-8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.10£14.00£17.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£26.90£30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.040 %-10.35 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
164521437928040
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.74 %31.17 %34.82 %
Daily rates quoted801247928691
Average daily rate£410£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.14 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted82112321976
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.00£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£32.50£34.00
% change year-on-year
-12.30 %-4.410 %

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL Demand Trend

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 2010.

SQL Daily Rate Histogram

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 2010.

SQL Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 2010. 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-15723£415+18.57 %
LondonDown-13730£460+15.00 %
City of LondonNo change01348£475+11.76 %
South EastUp+1723£303+0.83 %
South WestUp+7261£300+0.41 %
BerkshireUp+5229£325-
ScotlandNo change0221£300-9.09 %
East of EnglandUp+1210£263-17.96 %
North WestDown-3200£275-15.38 %
West MidlandsNo change0184£325+4.00 %
YorkshireUp+1170£300-4.00 %
SurreyUp+1141£300-7.69 %
East MidlandsUp+1129£275-8.33 %
HampshireUp+3107£283-14.39 %
West YorkshireUp+1107£303-4.34 %
EdinburghDown-1105£300-26.38 %
ManchesterDown-490£289-23.00 %
Canary WharfUp+287£500-
WiltshireUp+576£300-7.69 %
LeedsUp+775£322+7.33 %
Docklands, LondonNo change070£475+26.66 %
BirminghamDown-163£250-28.57 %
BuckinghamshireUp+358£250-18.03 %
EssexUp+655£300-6.97 %
CambridgeshireUp+151£250-28.57 %
ReadingNo change050£300-2.04 %
HertfordshireNo change048£275-8.33 %
GlasgowDown-548£300-14.28 %
SwindonUp+1446£303+21.00 %
MidlandsUp+846£450+20.00 %

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

13645 (31.90 %)Oracle
23000 (26.26 %)SQL Server
32672 (23.39 %)Banking
42466 (21.58 %)Java
52334 (20.43 %).NET
62276 (19.92 %)Finance
72075 (18.16 %)C#
82037 (17.83 %)UNIX
91851 (16.20 %)PL/SQL
101832 (16.04 %)Investment Banking
111595 (13.96 %)Windows
121512 (13.23 %)XML
131118 (9.786 %)T-SQL
141112 (9.733 %)Microsoft
151110 (9.716 %)Front Office
161076 (9.418 %)Sybase
171061 (9.287 %)Derivative
181060 (9.278 %)SQL Server 2005
191047 (9.164 %)Datawarehouse
201018 (8.910 %)ASP.NET
21843 (7.379 %)Linux
22748 (6.547 %)Business Intelligence
23744 (6.512 %)Oracle 10g
24741 (6.486 %)JavaScript
24741 (6.486 %)SQL Server Integration Services
25724 (6.337 %)MS Excel
26720 (6.302 %)OO
26720 (6.302 %)HTML
27710 (6.214 %)C++
28677 (5.926 %)VB

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12334 (20.43 %).NET
21512 (13.23 %)XML
31018 (8.910 %)ASP.NET
4720 (6.302 %)HTML
5671 (5.873 %)Web Services
6637 (5.575 %)J2EE
7593 (5.190 %)Spring
8527 (4.613 %)CSS
9506 (4.429 %)Hibernate
10323 (2.827 %)AJAX
11303 (2.652 %)JSP
12272 (2.381 %)XSLT
13258 (2.258 %)WinForms
14255 (2.232 %).NET Framework
15243 (2.127 %)ASP
16223 (1.952 %)WebSphere
17195 (1.707 %)Struts
18180 (1.575 %)SOAP
19178 (1.558 %)Middleware
20177 (1.549 %)MVC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1449 (3.930 %)SharePoint
2293 (2.565 %)IIS
3255 (2.232 %)SAS
4222 (1.943 %)WebLogic
5217 (1.899 %)Tomcat
6214 (1.873 %)Apache
7168 (1.470 %)SharePoint Server 2007
8142 (1.243 %)CMS
9134 (1.173 %)Oracle Workflow
10126 (1.103 %)MS Exchange
11100 (0.875 %)MQSeries
1289 (0.779 %)Rendezvous
1380 (0.700 %)BizTalk Server
1479 (0.691 %)Exchange Server 2003
1578 (0.683 %)ESB
1658 (0.508 %)Exchange Server 2007
1756 (0.490 %)ColdFusion
1853 (0.464 %)WebSphere Application Server
1950 (0.438 %)Oracle Application Server
2041 (0.359 %)TIBCO EMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1724 (6.337 %)MS Excel
2299 (2.617 %)MS Office
3132 (1.155 %)Spreadsheet
4101 (0.884 %)MS Visio
584 (0.735 %)SPSS
665 (0.569 %)MS Project
758 (0.508 %)MS PowerPoint
832 (0.280 %)Photoshop
924 (0.210 %)InfoPath
1018 (0.158 %)Adobe Illustrator
1114 (0.123 %)CA Clarity
129 (0.079 %)MATLAB
135 (0.044 %)FastStats
143 (0.026 %)Fireworks
152 (0.018 %)S-PLUS
161 (0.009 %)Acrobat
161 (0.009 %)RoboHelp
161 (0.009 %)Stata
161 (0.009 %)CATIA
161 (0.009 %)GeoMedia
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1128 (1.120 %)Oracle Applications
289 (0.779 %)Endur
373 (0.639 %)Oracle EBS
472 (0.630 %)Summit
566 (0.578 %)Dynamics CRM
658 (0.508 %)Oracle 11i
755 (0.481 %)Oracle EBS R12
848 (0.420 %)BusinessWorks
945 (0.394 %)Singl.eView
1044 (0.385 %)ION MarketView
1137 (0.324 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1233 (0.289 %)Oracle Financials
1331 (0.271 %)RMDS
1428 (0.245 %)TIBCO iProcess
1525 (0.219 %)Microsoft CRM
1622 (0.193 %)Oracle iStore
1719 (0.166 %)Oracle iProcurement
1719 (0.166 %)SunGard Martini
1818 (0.158 %)Algo Collateral
1818 (0.158 %)Maximo
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1219 (1.917 %)Internet
2128 (1.120 %)Firewall
3127 (1.112 %)TCP/IP
4111 (0.972 %)DNS
4111 (0.972 %)SAN
5108 (0.945 %)Intranet
687 (0.761 %)HTTP
774 (0.648 %)LAN
865 (0.569 %)LDAP
964 (0.560 %)DHCP
1057 (0.499 %)WAN
1155 (0.481 %)3G
1234 (0.298 %)Nokia NetAct
1333 (0.289 %)Extranet
1431 (0.271 %)SMS
1529 (0.254 %)FTP
1529 (0.254 %)RNC
1628 (0.245 %)SSL
1726 (0.228 %)CTI
1825 (0.219 %)SMTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13000 (26.26 %)SQL Server
21060 (9.278 %)SQL Server 2005
31047 (9.164 %)Datawarehouse
4744 (6.512 %)Oracle 10g
5741 (6.486 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6616 (5.392 %)ETL
7598 (5.234 %)BusinessObjects
8565 (4.945 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9440 (3.851 %)Oracle Reports
10439 (3.842 %)SQL Server 2000
11388 (3.396 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
12354 (3.098 %)SQL Server 2008
13317 (2.775 %)MS Access
14288 (2.521 %)Oracle 9i
15287 (2.512 %)RDBMS
16274 (2.398 %)Oracle 8/8i
17265 (2.319 %)OLAP
18237 (2.074 %)Crystal Reports
19235 (2.057 %)MySQL
20196 (1.716 %)DTS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1363 (3.177 %)Visual Studio
2266 (2.328 %)Oracle Forms
3263 (2.302 %)Subversion
4220 (1.926 %)JUnit
5157 (1.374 %)Eclipse
6154 (1.348 %)Ant
7140 (1.225 %)Maven
8118 (1.033 %)ClearCase
9113 (0.989 %)NUnit
1098 (0.858 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1179 (0.691 %)QuickTest Pro
1273 (0.639 %)JDeveloper
1368 (0.595 %)Oracle APEX
1467 (0.586 %)LoadRunner
1565 (0.569 %)Team Foundation Server
1565 (0.569 %)TestDirector
1657 (0.499 %)ClearQuest
1755 (0.481 %)JIRA
1847 (0.411 %)TeamCity
1847 (0.411 %)ProC
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12672 (23.39 %)Banking
22276 (19.92 %)Finance
31832 (16.04 %)Investment Banking
41110 (9.716 %)Front Office
5426 (3.729 %)Back Office
6337 (2.950 %)Government
7261 (2.284 %)Telecoms
8257 (2.249 %)Retail
9237 (2.074 %)Marketing
10233 (2.039 %)Insurance
11147 (1.287 %)Health
1295 (0.832 %)Billing
1389 (0.779 %)Financial Institution
1488 (0.770 %)Education
1584 (0.735 %)Legal
1683 (0.726 %)Pensions
1777 (0.674 %)Law
1861 (0.534 %)Construction
1958 (0.508 %)General Ledger
2055 (0.481 %)Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15556 (48.63 %)Developer
22749 (24.06 %)Analyst
31040 (9.103 %)Java Developer
4795 (6.958 %)SQL Developer
5783 (6.853 %)Business Analyst
6715 (6.258 %)C# Developer
7667 (5.838 %)DBA
8644 (5.637 %).NET Developer
9580 (5.077 %)Consultant
10534 (4.674 %)Oracle Developer
11435 (3.807 %)Support Analyst
12403 (3.527 %)Senior Developer
13402 (3.519 %)SQL DBA
14334 (2.923 %)Data Analyst
15283 (2.477 %)Programmer
16270 (2.363 %)Applications Support
17240 (2.101 %)Administrator
18236 (2.066 %)Architect
19227 (1.987 %)Web Developer
20221 (1.934 %)SQL Server Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11061 (9.287 %)Derivative
2566 (4.954 %)Fixed Income
3437 (3.825 %)NHS
4388 (3.396 %)Equities
5358 (3.133 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6335 (2.932 %)Equity Derivative
7256 (2.241 %)Credit Risk
8210 (1.838 %)Credit Derivative
9183 (1.602 %)Replication
10182 (1.593 %)Multithreading
11151 (1.322 %)Client/Server
12147 (1.287 %)Clustering
13130 (1.138 %)N-Tier
14129 (1.129 %)Interest Rate Derivative
15126 (1.103 %)Mathematics
16122 (1.068 %)Management Information System
17113 (0.989 %)Market Risk
1894 (0.823 %)Computer Science
1985 (0.744 %)Statistics
2060 (0.525 %)AS400
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12037 (17.83 %)UNIX
21595 (13.96 %)Windows
3843 (7.379 %)Linux
4383 (3.352 %)Solaris
5361 (3.160 %)Windows Server 2003
6173 (1.514 %)Windows XP
7146 (1.278 %)Windows Server 2008
892 (0.805 %)Red Hat Linux
990 (0.788 %)Windows 2000
1087 (0.761 %)AIX
1152 (0.455 %)Windows Vista
1152 (0.455 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1250 (0.438 %)Windows 2000 Server
1343 (0.376 %)VMS
1439 (0.341 %)HPUX
1538 (0.333 %)Windows NT
1613 (0.114 %)MVS
1613 (0.114 %)Windows Mobile
1712 (0.105 %)Windows 7
188 (0.070 %)Android
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1748 (6.547 %)Business Intelligence
2720 (6.302 %)OO
3625 (5.470 %)Migration
4525 (4.595 %)Agile Software Development
5460 (4.026 %)Data Modelling
6389 (3.405 %)Data Analysis
7373 (3.265 %)Business Analysis
8348 (3.046 %)Workflow
9338 (2.958 %)User Acceptance Testing
10337 (2.950 %)CRM
11334 (2.923 %)UML
12289 (2.530 %)Web Development
12289 (2.530 %)Data Migration
13288 (2.521 %)Risk Management
14281 (2.460 %)Project Management
15276 (2.416 %)TDD
16239 (2.092 %)ITIL
17229 (2.004 %)SOA
18226 (1.978 %)Scrum
18226 (1.978 %)Unit Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12466 (21.58 %)Java
22075 (18.16 %)C#
31851 (16.20 %)PL/SQL
41118 (9.786 %)T-SQL
5741 (6.486 %)JavaScript
6710 (6.214 %)C++
7677 (5.926 %)VB
8656 (5.742 %)VBA
9546 (4.779 %)C
10538 (4.709 %)Perl
11450 (3.939 %)Shell Script
12407 (3.562 %)VB.NET
13191 (1.672 %)PHP
14184 (1.611 %)VB6
15162 (1.418 %)VBScript
16121 (1.059 %)Python
17119 (1.042 %)VC++
1888 (0.770 %)Korn
1949 (0.429 %)PHP5
2042 (0.368 %)XQuery
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1535 (4.683 %)Security Cleared
2416 (3.641 %)Degree
3353 (3.090 %)SC Cleared
4180 (1.575 %)Microsoft Certification
5115 (1.007 %)ISEB
6106 (0.928 %)MCSE
754 (0.473 %)DV Cleared
842 (0.368 %)Oracle Certification
936 (0.315 %)BC Cleared
1031 (0.271 %)ITIL Certification
1130 (0.263 %)MCTS
1228 (0.245 %)CTC Cleared
1327 (0.236 %)MCP
1426 (0.228 %)MCDBA
1523 (0.201 %)OCA
1523 (0.201 %)Cisco Certification
1622 (0.193 %)OCP
1720 (0.175 %)CCNA
1720 (0.175 %)ACCA
1818 (0.158 %)CIMA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1246 (2.153 %)QA
264 (0.560 %)SLA
344 (0.385 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
430 (0.263 %)Basel II
515 (0.131 %)GAMP
613 (0.114 %)GxP
613 (0.114 %)ISO27001
712 (0.105 %)HL7
87 (0.061 %)ISO9001
96 (0.053 %)PCI DSS
105 (0.044 %)MiFID
114 (0.035 %)GAAP
123 (0.026 %)WAI
123 (0.026 %)COBIT
132 (0.018 %)IAS 39
132 (0.018 %)DICOM
141 (0.009 %)BS7799
141 (0.009 %)WCAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1313 (2.740 %)Active Directory
2131 (1.147 %)Oracle RAC
387 (0.761 %)VMware Infrastructure
467 (0.586 %)Oracle RMAN
534 (0.298 %)VMware ESX
622 (0.193 %)AquaLogic
720 (0.175 %)Terminal Services
816 (0.140 %)NetBackup
913 (0.114 %)ISA Server
1012 (0.105 %)MSMQ
1012 (0.105 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1111 (0.096 %)vSphere
1111 (0.096 %)NFS
1111 (0.096 %)Squid
1210 (0.088 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1210 (0.088 %)Terminal Server
138 (0.070 %)XenApp
138 (0.070 %)Hyper-V
146 (0.053 %)Backup Exec
154 (0.035 %)VMware Workstation
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1103 (0.902 %)AutoSys
266 (0.578 %)Data Guard
364 (0.560 %)Tivoli
441 (0.359 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
539 (0.341 %)SCCM
637 (0.324 %)SCOM
730 (0.263 %)CONTROL-M
829 (0.254 %)HP Quality Center
920 (0.175 %)MSI
1018 (0.158 %)MOM
1116 (0.140 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1213 (0.114 %)BMC PATROL
1213 (0.114 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1213 (0.114 %)WSUS
1311 (0.096 %)Netcool
1311 (0.096 %)Foglight
1410 (0.088 %)OpenView
1410 (0.088 %)MIIS
1410 (0.088 %)McAfee ePO
159 (0.079 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13645 (31.90 %)Oracle
21112 (9.733 %)Microsoft
31076 (9.418 %)Sybase
4598 (5.234 %)Business Objects
5264 (2.311 %)Cognos
6256 (2.241 %)TIBCO
7231 (2.022 %)SAP
8210 (1.838 %)VMware
9190 (1.663 %)IBM
10153 (1.339 %)Informatica
10153 (1.339 %)HP
11138 (1.208 %)Citrix
12123 (1.077 %)JBoss
1397 (0.849 %)Siebel
1496 (0.840 %)Sun
1583 (0.726 %)OpenLink
1682 (0.718 %)PeopleSoft
1776 (0.665 %)Murex
1875 (0.656 %)Bloomberg
1969 (0.604 %)Red Hat