West Wales SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the West Wales 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 5 September 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 Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath 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 Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes 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 Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street 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 Wallingford Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	27
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	25	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	37.88 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£450
Average daily rate	£382	£468
% change on same period last year	-18.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£485
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.72	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Programming Languages West Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	66	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.011 %
Daily rates quoted	41	1
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£450
Average daily rate	£377	£468
% change on same period last year	-19.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£485
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
SQL Wales

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 Wales 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 Wales region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the West Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Wales region.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Swansea	+17	22	£382	-18.24 %

SQL Wales

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 27 (60.00 %) UNIX 2 21 (46.67 %) Security Cleared 3 16 (35.56 %) Oracle 4 15 (33.33 %) Java 4 15 (33.33 %) J2EE 5 14 (31.11 %) WebLogic 6 13 (28.89 %) XML 6 13 (28.89 %) Government 7 11 (24.44 %) TestDirector 8 10 (22.22 %) SOA 9 9 (20.00 %) WinRunner 10 8 (17.78 %) ClearCase 10 8 (17.78 %) PL/SQL 10 8 (17.78 %) Test Scripting 10 8 (17.78 %) SC Cleared

11 7 (15.56 %) HP 11 7 (15.56 %) BEA 12 6 (13.33 %) Eclipse 12 6 (13.33 %) Oracle 10g 12 6 (13.33 %) SOAP 13 5 (11.11 %) JSP 13 5 (11.11 %) UML 13 5 (11.11 %) HTML 13 5 (11.11 %) QuickTest Pro 14 4 (8.889 %) WSDL 14 4 (8.889 %) WebLogic Portal 14 4 (8.889 %) AIX 14 4 (8.889 %) Data Modelling 14 4 (8.889 %) JUnit 14 4 (8.889 %) CTC Cleared

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 15 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 13 (28.89 %) XML 3 6 (13.33 %) SOAP 4 5 (11.11 %) HTML 4 5 (11.11 %) JSP 5 4 (8.889 %) WSDL 6 3 (6.667 %) WebServices 6 3 (6.667 %) .NET 6 3 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (6.667 %) EJB 6 3 (6.667 %) JDBC 6 3 (6.667 %) WebSphere 7 2 (4.444 %) Struts 8 1 (2.222 %) JMS 8 1 (2.222 %) SAP Smart Forms 8 1 (2.222 %) BAPI 8 1 (2.222 %) JNDI 8 1 (2.222 %) SAP ALE 8 1 (2.222 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 14 (31.11 %) WebLogic 2 4 (8.889 %) WebLogic Portal 3 3 (6.667 %) ESB 3 3 (6.667 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 1 (2.222 %) IIS 4 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.222 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (13.33 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (6.667 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 3 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2 3 (6.667 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (4.444 %) MS Access 3 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (2.222 %) DataStage 4 1 (2.222 %) TOAD 4 1 (2.222 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 11 (24.44 %) TestDirector 2 9 (20.00 %) WinRunner 3 8 (17.78 %) ClearCase 4 6 (13.33 %) Eclipse 5 5 (11.11 %) QuickTest Pro 6 4 (8.889 %) JUnit 7 3 (6.667 %) Visual Studio 7 3 (6.667 %) Ant 7 3 (6.667 %) ClearQuest 8 2 (4.444 %) CruiseControl 8 2 (4.444 %) CheckStyle 8 2 (4.444 %) Cactus 8 2 (4.444 %) Rational Functional Tester 8 2 (4.444 %) LoadRunner 9 1 (2.222 %) Rational Rose	General 1 13 (28.89 %) Government 2 3 (6.667 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 21 (46.67 %) Developer 2 10 (22.22 %) Applications Developer 3 9 (20.00 %) Test Specialist 4 4 (8.889 %) Java Developer 4 4 (8.889 %) Support Engineer 4 4 (8.889 %) Architect 5 3 (6.667 %) Senior Developer 5 3 (6.667 %) Solutions Architect 6 2 (4.444 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (4.444 %) Applications Support Engineer 6 2 (4.444 %) Applications Support 6 2 (4.444 %) DBA 6 2 (4.444 %) Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) Test Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (4.444 %) Java Applications Developer 7 1 (2.222 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 7 1 (2.222 %) Java Architect 7 1 (2.222 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 1 (2.222 %) Website Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.444 %) NHS 1 2 (4.444 %) NPfIT 2 1 (2.222 %) Streaming Video 2 1 (2.222 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 27 (60.00 %) UNIX 2 4 (8.889 %) AIX 3 2 (4.444 %) Windows 4 1 (2.222 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (46.67 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (22.22 %) SOA 3 8 (17.78 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (17.78 %) Test Scripting 4 5 (11.11 %) UML 5 4 (8.889 %) CTC Cleared 5 4 (8.889 %) Data Modelling 6 3 (6.667 %) OO 6 3 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (4.444 %) Project Planning 7 2 (4.444 %) Web Development 8 1 (2.222 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (2.222 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (2.222 %) Workflow 8 1 (2.222 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (2.222 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (2.222 %) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages 1 15 (33.33 %) Java 2 8 (17.78 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (6.667 %) C# 4 2 (4.444 %) C 5 1 (2.222 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) ISEB
System Software 1 1 (2.222 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (2.222 %) Tivoli 1 1 (2.222 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 16 (35.56 %) Oracle 2 7 (15.56 %) HP 2 7 (15.56 %) BEA 3 3 (6.667 %) Microsoft 4 1 (2.222 %) Dell 4 1 (2.222 %) Citrix 4 1 (2.222 %) SAP