The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Welwyn Garden City 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 1 11
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 12.12% 27.50% 8.333%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.44% 64.71% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £400 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -21.87%
All Programming Languages
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9 17 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 27.27% 42.50% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
Average daily rate £400 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Hertfordshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City SQL Daily Rate Trend

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 3 (33.33%) VBA
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 3 (33.33%) ETL
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
1 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (22.22%) Teradata
2 2 (22.22%) PowerCenter
2 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Online Games
3 1 (11.11%) E-Learning
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) PowerCenter
General
1 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Tester
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Report Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Web Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Online Games
1 1 (11.11%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 3 (33.33%) ETL
1 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Teradata
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft