West Midlands SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barking Barnet Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	2
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	433	528
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.571 %	0.526 %
As % of the category below	41.80 %	44.30 %
Daily rates quoted	104	105
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£285
Average daily rate	£304	£304
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.60	£22.48
Average hourly rate	£25.76	£24.28
% change on same period last year	+6.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.91	£26.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Programming Languages West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1036	1192
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.367 %	1.187 %
Daily rates quoted	223	229
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£287
Average daily rate	£305	£307
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	152
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.84	£25.73
Average hourly rate	£28.12	£27.79
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.41	£29.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
SQL England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL
Demand Trend

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

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL across the West Midlands region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the West Midlands region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+2	106	£284	-12.63 %
Staffordshire	0	46	£305	-2.83 %
Coventry	+8	40	£361	+3.11 %
Shropshire	-8	38	£366	+35.06 %
Warwickshire	-3	35	£322	+9.75 %
Herefordshire	+4	27	£325	-6.60 %
Wolverhampton	-4	17	£258	-
Solihull	0	8	-	-
Worcestershire	-4	4	£283	-7.60 %
Dudley	-	2	-	-
West Bromwich	-	1	£315	-

SQL England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 249 (29.75 %) SQL Server 2 237 (28.32 %) Oracle 3 188 (22.46 %) .NET 4 140 (16.73 %) PL/SQL 5 130 (15.53 %) XML 6 125 (14.93 %) ASP.NET 7 124 (14.81 %) VB 8 117 (13.98 %) Migration 9 108 (12.90 %) C# 10 101 (12.07 %) Transact-SQL 11 97 (11.59 %) JavaScript 12 95 (11.35 %) Microsoft 12 95 (11.35 %) Pensions 13 94 (11.23 %) HTML 14 92 (10.99 %) Data Migration

15 83 (9.916 %) NHS 16 78 (9.319 %) Finance 16 78 (9.319 %) SQL Server 2005 17 77 (9.200 %) Windows 18 76 (9.080 %) UNIX 19 71 (8.483 %) SQL Server 2000 20 68 (8.124 %) Java 21 63 (7.527 %) CSS 22 58 (6.930 %) VB.NET 22 58 (6.930 %) MS Excel 23 55 (6.571 %) Crystal Reports 23 55 (6.571 %) Visual Studio 23 55 (6.571 %) Oracle 10g 24 50 (5.974 %) ASP 24 50 (5.974 %) WebServices

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 188 (22.46 %) .NET 2 130 (15.53 %) XML 3 125 (14.93 %) ASP.NET 4 94 (11.23 %) HTML 5 63 (7.527 %) CSS 6 50 (5.974 %) ASP 6 50 (5.974 %) WebServices 7 31 (3.704 %) J2EE 8 28 (3.345 %) XHTML 8 28 (3.345 %) AJAX 9 22 (2.628 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 22 (2.628 %) .NET Framework 10 20 (2.389 %) Struts 11 19 (2.270 %) XSL 12 18 (2.151 %) JSP 13 16 (1.912 %) XSLT 13 16 (1.912 %) SOAP 14 14 (1.673 %) WebSphere 14 14 (1.673 %) Spring 15 12 (1.434 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 26 (3.106 %) SharePoint 2 21 (2.509 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 17 (2.031 %) IIS 3 17 (2.031 %) Lotus Domino 4 16 (1.912 %) MS Exchange 5 12 (1.434 %) Lotus Notes 6 11 (1.314 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 9 (1.075 %) WebLogic 8 7 (0.836 %) Oracle Workflow 8 7 (0.836 %) Apache 8 7 (0.836 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 6 (0.717 %) ESB 9 6 (0.717 %) Tuxedo 10 5 (0.597 %) CMS 10 5 (0.597 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 4 (0.478 %) PegaRULES 12 3 (0.358 %) WebSphere MQ 12 3 (0.358 %) BizTalk Server 13 2 (0.239 %) Oracle HTTP Server 13 2 (0.239 %) CICS
Applications 1 58 (6.930 %) MS Excel 2 9 (1.075 %) MS Office 3 7 (0.836 %) InfoPath 4 6 (0.717 %) Photoshop 5 5 (0.597 %) MS Visio 6 4 (0.478 %) Spreadsheet 6 4 (0.478 %) 3ds Max 7 2 (0.239 %) CA Clarity 7 2 (0.239 %) SPSS 8 1 (0.119 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (0.119 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 6 (0.717 %) Oracle Financials 2 5 (0.597 %) assyst 3 4 (0.478 %) Oracle 11i 4 2 (0.239 %) Oracle Applications 4 2 (0.239 %) Oracle Payroll 5 1 (0.119 %) Oracle EBS 5 1 (0.119 %) Movex 5 1 (0.119 %) Great Plains 5 1 (0.119 %) Axapta 5 1 (0.119 %) Navision 5 1 (0.119 %) Dynamics NAV 5 1 (0.119 %) Dynamics AX 5 1 (0.119 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 44 (5.257 %) HTTP 2 22 (2.628 %) Intranet 3 21 (2.509 %) Internet 4 16 (1.912 %) SAN 5 13 (1.553 %) Firewall 5 13 (1.553 %) DNS 6 7 (0.836 %) SSL 6 7 (0.836 %) DHCP 7 6 (0.717 %) LAN 7 6 (0.717 %) LDAP 8 4 (0.478 %) WAN 8 4 (0.478 %) Wireless 9 3 (0.358 %) TETRA 9 3 (0.358 %) FTP 9 3 (0.358 %) VPN 9 3 (0.358 %) VLAN 10 2 (0.239 %) Network Security 10 2 (0.239 %) HTTPS 10 2 (0.239 %) GPRS 10 2 (0.239 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 249 (29.75 %) SQL Server 2 78 (9.319 %) SQL Server 2005 3 71 (8.483 %) SQL Server 2000 4 55 (6.571 %) Crystal Reports 4 55 (6.571 %) Oracle 10g 5 45 (5.376 %) Datawarehouse 6 43 (5.137 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 29 (3.465 %) Oracle Reports 7 29 (3.465 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 29 (3.465 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 22 (2.628 %) MS Access 9 21 (2.509 %) RDBMS 9 21 (2.509 %) Oracle 9i 10 20 (2.389 %) OLAP 10 20 (2.389 %) SQLPlus 11 18 (2.151 %) BusinessObjects 12 16 (1.912 %) MySQL 13 14 (1.673 %) DTS 13 14 (1.673 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 13 (1.553 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 55 (6.571 %) Visual Studio 2 39 (4.659 %) Paros 2 39 (4.659 %) Fiddler 3 20 (2.389 %) Oracle Forms 4 14 (1.673 %) TestDirector 5 6 (0.717 %) Ant 6 5 (0.597 %) JUnit 6 5 (0.597 %) Flash 7 4 (0.478 %) PVCS 8 3 (0.358 %) PowerBuilder 8 3 (0.358 %) WinRunner 8 3 (0.358 %) Oracle APEX 9 2 (0.239 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 2 (0.239 %) Dreamweaver 9 2 (0.239 %) JDeveloper 9 2 (0.239 %) QuickTest Pro 9 2 (0.239 %) LoadRunner 9 2 (0.239 %) ClearQuest 9 2 (0.239 %) Rational Robot 9 2 (0.239 %) ProC	General 1 95 (11.35 %) Pensions 2 78 (9.319 %) Finance 3 40 (4.779 %) Government 4 39 (4.659 %) Auditing 5 33 (3.943 %) Health 6 18 (2.151 %) Retail 7 16 (1.912 %) Insurance 8 10 (1.195 %) Telecoms 9 7 (0.836 %) Law 10 6 (0.717 %) Automotive 11 5 (0.597 %) Local Government 11 5 (0.597 %) Back Office 11 5 (0.597 %) Manufacturing 12 4 (0.478 %) Education 13 3 (0.358 %) Billing 13 3 (0.358 %) Construction 13 3 (0.358 %) Legal 13 3 (0.358 %) Games 14 1 (0.119 %) Banking 14 1 (0.119 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 393 (46.95 %) Developer 2 212 (25.33 %) Analyst 3 74 (8.841 %) .NET Developer 4 71 (8.483 %) SQL Developer 5 54 (6.452 %) Data Analyst 6 48 (5.735 %) Tester 7 46 (5.496 %) Consultant 8 44 (5.257 %) Programmer 9 40 (4.779 %) Oracle Developer 10 39 (4.659 %) Information Analyst 11 37 (4.421 %) Web Developer 12 34 (4.062 %) Analyst Programmer 13 31 (3.704 %) ASP.NET Developer 14 30 (3.584 %) C# Developer 15 29 (3.465 %) DBA 16 28 (3.345 %) Support Analyst 16 28 (3.345 %) VB.NET Developer 17 26 (3.106 %) Data Migration Analyst 18 24 (2.867 %) SQL Server Developer 18 24 (2.867 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 83 (9.916 %) NHS 2 14 (1.673 %) Client/Server 3 11 (1.314 %) Replication 4 10 (1.195 %) W3C 4 10 (1.195 %) Clustering 5 9 (1.075 %) Computer Science 6 8 (0.956 %) Web 2.0 7 7 (0.836 %) Mainframe 8 6 (0.717 %) PDA 8 6 (0.717 %) AS400 9 4 (0.478 %) Mathematics 9 4 (0.478 %) Data Integration 10 3 (0.358 %) N-Tier 10 3 (0.358 %) Data Conversion 10 3 (0.358 %) CMDB 11 2 (0.239 %) Arabic Language 11 2 (0.239 %) German Language 11 2 (0.239 %) IBM Mainframe 11 2 (0.239 %) PKI 11 2 (0.239 %) DataPower
Operating Systems 1 77 (9.200 %) Windows 2 76 (9.080 %) UNIX 3 25 (2.987 %) Windows Server 2003 4 13 (1.553 %) Solaris 5 12 (1.434 %) Linux 6 7 (0.836 %) Windows XP 7 6 (0.717 %) Windows Vista 8 5 (0.597 %) Windows Mobile 9 4 (0.478 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 4 (0.478 %) HPUX 10 2 (0.239 %) VME 10 2 (0.239 %) Windows 2000 10 2 (0.239 %) AIX 11 1 (0.119 %) SUSE 11 1 (0.119 %) Windows NT 11 1 (0.119 %) NetWare 11 1 (0.119 %) VMS 11 1 (0.119 %) Windows Server 2008 11 1 (0.119 %) Red Hat Linux 11 1 (0.119 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 117 (13.98 %) Migration 2 92 (10.99 %) Data Migration 3 39 (4.659 %) Information Security 4 36 (4.301 %) Web Development 5 33 (3.943 %) ITIL 6 31 (3.704 %) OO 7 29 (3.465 %) Security Cleared 8 24 (2.867 %) Unit Testing 9 23 (2.748 %) Agile Software Development 10 19 (2.270 %) Workflow 10 19 (2.270 %) Business Intelligence 11 17 (2.031 %) UML 12 16 (1.912 %) System Testing 12 16 (1.912 %) Business Analysis 13 15 (1.792 %) Data Modelling 13 15 (1.792 %) SC Cleared 14 13 (1.553 %) Data Analysis 14 13 (1.553 %) Web Design 14 13 (1.553 %) Service Management 14 13 (1.553 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 140 (16.73 %) PL/SQL 2 124 (14.81 %) VB 3 108 (12.90 %) C# 4 101 (12.07 %) Transact-SQL 5 97 (11.59 %) JavaScript 6 68 (8.124 %) Java 7 58 (6.930 %) VB.NET 8 27 (3.226 %) VBA 9 23 (2.748 %) C++ 10 21 (2.509 %) COBOL 10 21 (2.509 %) VBScript 11 19 (2.270 %) VB6 12 14 (1.673 %) C 13 10 (1.195 %) LotusScript 14 9 (1.075 %) PHP 15 7 (0.836 %) Delphi 16 6 (0.717 %) Shell Script 17 4 (0.478 %) VC++ 17 4 (0.478 %) ActionScript 17 4 (0.478 %) XAML	Qualifications 1 18 (2.151 %) ISEB 2 17 (2.031 %) Degree 3 8 (0.956 %) Microsoft Certification 4 5 (0.597 %) Sun Certification 5 4 (0.478 %) MCDBA 6 3 (0.358 %) SCJP 6 3 (0.358 %) SCJA 7 2 (0.239 %) ISTQB 7 2 (0.239 %) MCP 7 2 (0.239 %) MCAD 7 2 (0.239 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 1 (0.119 %) ITIL Certification 8 1 (0.119 %) MCSD 8 1 (0.119 %) MCSE 8 1 (0.119 %) MCDST 8 1 (0.119 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (1.195 %) SLA 2 6 (0.717 %) QA 3 4 (0.478 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 2 (0.239 %) WAI 5 1 (0.119 %) HL7	System Software 1 47 (5.615 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.597 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (0.478 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (0.358 %) Terminal Server 5 2 (0.239 %) Oracle RMAN 6 1 (0.119 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (0.119 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.119 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 1 (0.119 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 11 (1.314 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 7 (0.836 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 4 (0.478 %) Unicenter 4 3 (0.358 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.119 %) Tivoli 5 1 (0.119 %) MOM 5 1 (0.119 %) AutoSys 5 1 (0.119 %) BMC PATROL 5 1 (0.119 %) Oracle Statspack 5 1 (0.119 %) SCCM 5 1 (0.119 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 237 (28.32 %) Oracle 2 95 (11.35 %) Microsoft 3 22 (2.628 %) Citrix 4 19 (2.270 %) Lotus 5 18 (2.151 %) Business Objects 5 18 (2.151 %) HP 6 15 (1.792 %) Sun 7 11 (1.314 %) Northgate 7 11 (1.314 %) IBM 8 9 (1.075 %) Cognos 9 7 (0.836 %) LANDesk 10 6 (0.717 %) Pega 10 6 (0.717 %) Cisco 10 6 (0.717 %) Dell 10 6 (0.717 %) Retek 11 5 (0.597 %) Altiris 11 5 (0.597 %) VMware 11 5 (0.597 %) Mercator 11 5 (0.597 %) Micro Focus 11 5 (0.597 %) Intel