The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 21 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 Uxbridge 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 15 15 7
Rank change year-on-year
0 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL 5 8 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 4.808% 6.202% 14.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.81% 61.54% 64.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 11
Average daily rate £325 £210 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.76% -30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £181 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £218 £459
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.39% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
21 13 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 20.19% 10.08% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 13
Average daily rate £344 £220 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £199 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -44.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
London

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) IIS
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Red Gate
3 2 (25.00%) Change Control
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (25.00%) DB2
3 2 (25.00%) MCP
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) JBoss
3 2 (25.00%) Apache
3 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (25.00%) DTS
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (12.50%) SMTP
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMTP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
1 2 (25.00%) DTS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Management Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Report Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PMI
1 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Change Control
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) MCTS
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Red Gate
2 2 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix