SQL Contracts in West Lothian
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 West Lothian 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 2 7 3
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 27.03% 9.615% 13.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.50% 45.45% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
Average daily rate £360 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £280 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £310 £307
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
All Programming Languages
West Lothian
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 16 11 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 43.24% 21.15% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 14
Average daily rate £375 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

West Lothian SQL Hourly Rate Trend

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 West Lothian region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank 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
Livingston +6 10 £360 +22.55%
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) Informatica
2 7 (35.00%) Scrum
2 7 (35.00%) Ab Initio
2 7 (35.00%) UNIX
2 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle
3 6 (30.00%) Business Objects
3 6 (30.00%) Netezza
4 5 (25.00%) TDD
4 5 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (20.00%) .NET
5 4 (20.00%) C#
5 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (20.00%) ETL
6 3 (15.00%) XML Schema
6 3 (15.00%) Windows
6 3 (15.00%) CSS
6 3 (15.00%) XML
6 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (15.00%) PHP
6 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (15.00%) ASP
6 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (15.00%) XPath
6 3 (15.00%) QA
6 3 (15.00%) FitNesse
6 3 (15.00%) jQuery
6 3 (15.00%) User Stories
7 2 (10.00%) Change Control

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) ASP
2 3 (15.00%) jQuery
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) XML Schema
3 2 (10.00%) Velocity
4 1 (5.000%) JSON
4 1 (5.000%) RESTful
4 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (5.000%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.000%) Ant
2 1 (5.000%) Maven
2 1 (5.000%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Informatica Developer
4 2 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Report Developer
5 1 (5.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Web Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.000%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Business Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Business Objects Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Ergonomics
1 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
2 1 (5.000%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) UNIX
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) Scrum
2 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) TDD
4 4 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (15.00%) User Stories
6 2 (10.00%) Change Control
6 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Release Management
6 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.000%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) PHP
2 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (15.00%) XPath
3 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Informatica
1 7 (35.00%) Ab Initio
2 6 (30.00%) Netezza
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 6 (30.00%) Business Objects
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
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