West Yorkshire SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the West Yorkshire 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 29 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 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 England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead 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 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 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 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 Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	6
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	275	207
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.367 %	0.207 %
As % of the category below	39.06 %	31.51 %
Daily rates quoted	75	20
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£300
Average daily rate	£293	£321
% change on same period last year	-8.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.75	£25.25
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£27.17
% change on same period last year	+4.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.25	£29.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.41	£30.05
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Programming Languages West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	704	657
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.938 %	0.655 %
Daily rates quoted	142	79
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£324
Average daily rate	£297	£341
% change on same period last year	-12.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.64	£30.10
Average hourly rate	£28.16	£31.78
% change on same period last year	-11.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.67	£33.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
SQL Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 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
Leeds	0	208	£289	-6.41 %
Halifax	+3	15	£263	-
Bradford	+6	11	-	-
Wakefield	-	5	-	-
Cleckheaton	-	4	-	-
Huddersfield	-	4	£400	-

SQL Yorkshire

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 183 (39.52 %) .NET 2 134 (28.94 %) Oracle 3 129 (27.86 %) SQL Server 4 106 (22.89 %) C# 5 101 (21.81 %) ASP.NET 6 95 (20.52 %) Microsoft 7 84 (18.14 %) Finance 8 77 (16.63 %) XML 9 67 (14.47 %) PL/SQL 10 65 (14.04 %) Windows 11 54 (11.66 %) SQL Server 2005 12 41 (8.855 %) VB.NET 13 40 (8.639 %) Java 13 40 (8.639 %) Migration 14 39 (8.423 %) Transact-SQL

14 39 (8.423 %) Crystal Reports 14 39 (8.423 %) MS Excel 15 37 (7.991 %) HTML 15 37 (7.991 %) Windows Server 2003 16 36 (7.775 %) WebServices 17 34 (7.343 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 34 (7.343 %) ITIL 18 32 (6.911 %) VB 18 32 (6.911 %) SharePoint 18 32 (6.911 %) ASP.NET 2.0 19 31 (6.695 %) UNIX 20 30 (6.479 %) CSS 20 30 (6.479 %) Law 21 28 (6.048 %) SQL Server 2000 21 28 (6.048 %) Oracle 9i

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 1 183 (39.52 %) .NET 2 101 (21.81 %) ASP.NET 3 77 (16.63 %) XML 4 37 (7.991 %) HTML 5 36 (7.775 %) WebServices 6 32 (6.911 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 30 (6.479 %) CSS 8 24 (5.184 %) ASP 9 19 (4.104 %) WCF 10 18 (3.888 %) .NET Framework 11 14 (3.024 %) AJAX 12 13 (2.808 %) J2EE 13 11 (2.376 %) Hibernate 14 10 (2.160 %) XHTML 15 9 (1.944 %) XSLT 15 9 (1.944 %) Middleware 16 8 (1.728 %) JSP 17 7 (1.512 %) ADO.NET 17 7 (1.512 %) WebSphere 18 6 (1.296 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 32 (6.911 %) SharePoint 2 24 (5.184 %) IIS 3 21 (4.536 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 17 (3.672 %) MS Exchange 5 16 (3.456 %) CMS 6 11 (2.376 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 9 (1.944 %) Apache 8 8 (1.728 %) Tomcat 9 7 (1.512 %) BizTalk Server 10 3 (0.648 %) SAS 10 3 (0.648 %) Lotus Notes 10 3 (0.648 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 3 (0.648 %) WebLogic 10 3 (0.648 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 2 (0.432 %) ATG Dynamo 11 2 (0.432 %) Oracle Application Server 11 2 (0.432 %) Lotus Domino 11 2 (0.432 %) Commerce Server 11 2 (0.432 %) WebSphere MQ 12 1 (0.216 %) MTS
Applications 1 39 (8.423 %) MS Excel 2 20 (4.320 %) MS Office 3 8 (1.728 %) MS Visio 4 4 (0.864 %) InfoPath 4 4 (0.864 %) Spreadsheet 5 2 (0.432 %) Photoshop 5 2 (0.432 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (0.432 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (0.216 %) CODA-Financials 2 1 (0.216 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.216 %) Line 50 2 1 (0.216 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (0.216 %) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 26 (5.616 %) Internet 2 16 (3.456 %) Firewall 3 12 (2.592 %) WAN 4 11 (2.376 %) SAN 5 10 (2.160 %) MPLS 5 10 (2.160 %) VPN 6 6 (1.296 %) DNS 7 4 (0.864 %) LDAP 7 4 (0.864 %) SSH 7 4 (0.864 %) Extranet 8 2 (0.432 %) Intranet 8 2 (0.432 %) LAN 9 1 (0.216 %) PBX 9 1 (0.216 %) ATM 9 1 (0.216 %) DHCP 9 1 (0.216 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 129 (27.86 %) SQL Server 2 54 (11.66 %) SQL Server 2005 3 39 (8.423 %) Crystal Reports 4 34 (7.343 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 28 (6.048 %) SQL Server 2000 5 28 (6.048 %) Oracle 9i 6 27 (5.832 %) Datawarehouse 7 22 (4.752 %) MS Access 7 22 (4.752 %) Oracle Reports 7 22 (4.752 %) BusinessObjects 8 18 (3.888 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 18 (3.888 %) TOAD 8 18 (3.888 %) Oracle 10g 9 13 (2.808 %) MySQL 10 12 (2.592 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 12 (2.592 %) GIS 11 10 (2.160 %) DTS 12 9 (1.944 %) DB2 13 6 (1.296 %) OLAP 13 6 (1.296 %) Oracle OWB
Development Applications 1 26 (5.616 %) Visual Studio 2 16 (3.456 %) Oracle Forms 3 5 (1.080 %) Flash 3 5 (1.080 %) Dreamweaver 4 4 (0.864 %) JUnit 4 4 (0.864 %) Oracle APEX 5 3 (0.648 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 3 (0.648 %) ProC 6 2 (0.432 %) InstallShield 6 2 (0.432 %) NUnit 6 2 (0.432 %) Subversion 6 2 (0.432 %) Eclipse 7 1 (0.216 %) TestDirector 7 1 (0.216 %) PeopleTools 7 1 (0.216 %) Ant 7 1 (0.216 %) PVCS 7 1 (0.216 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 84 (18.14 %) Finance 2 30 (6.479 %) Law 3 26 (5.616 %) Legal 4 25 (5.400 %) Health 5 13 (2.808 %) Banking 6 12 (2.592 %) Telecoms 7 11 (2.376 %) Government 8 8 (1.728 %) Billing 9 7 (1.512 %) Insurance 9 7 (1.512 %) Retail 10 6 (1.296 %) Marketing 11 4 (0.864 %) Financial Institution 12 3 (0.648 %) Graphic Design 13 1 (0.216 %) International Banking 13 1 (0.216 %) Construction 13 1 (0.216 %) Education 13 1 (0.216 %) Manufacturing 13 1 (0.216 %) Publishing 13 1 (0.216 %) Games
Job Titles 1 229 (49.46 %) Developer 2 117 (25.27 %) Analyst 3 69 (14.90 %) .NET Developer 4 35 (7.559 %) C# Developer 5 34 (7.343 %) DBA 6 31 (6.695 %) SQL Developer 7 30 (6.479 %) Data Analyst 8 29 (6.263 %) Web Developer 9 21 (4.536 %) Oracle Developer 10 20 (4.320 %) Consultant 11 19 (4.104 %) Test Analyst 11 19 (4.104 %) Oracle DBA 12 18 (3.888 %) Information Analyst 13 16 (3.456 %) ASP.NET Developer 13 16 (3.456 %) Support Analyst 13 16 (3.456 %) MI Analyst 14 15 (3.240 %) Applications Developer 14 15 (3.240 %) Java Developer 14 15 (3.240 %) VB.NET Developer 15 14 (3.024 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 25 (5.400 %) NHS 2 20 (4.320 %) Client/Server 3 13 (2.808 %) N-Tier 4 8 (1.728 %) Clustering 5 6 (1.296 %) Computer Science 6 4 (0.864 %) Data Conversion 7 3 (0.648 %) Data Integration 7 3 (0.648 %) Web 2.0 7 3 (0.648 %) Management Information System 7 3 (0.648 %) AS400 8 2 (0.432 %) Replication 8 2 (0.432 %) W3C 8 2 (0.432 %) Thin Client 8 2 (0.432 %) Fat Client 9 1 (0.216 %) Statistics 9 1 (0.216 %) Mathematics 9 1 (0.216 %) IVR 9 1 (0.216 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 65 (14.04 %) Windows 2 37 (7.991 %) Windows Server 2003 3 31 (6.695 %) UNIX 4 23 (4.968 %) Windows Vista 5 21 (4.536 %) Windows XP 6 18 (3.888 %) Linux 7 11 (2.376 %) Solaris 7 11 (2.376 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 6 (1.296 %) Windows 2000 9 5 (1.080 %) HPUX 10 4 (0.864 %) zOS 11 3 (0.648 %) Windows Server 2008 12 1 (0.216 %) SUSE 12 1 (0.216 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (8.639 %) Migration 2 34 (7.343 %) ITIL 3 24 (5.184 %) Data Migration 4 19 (4.104 %) UML 5 17 (3.672 %) OO 5 17 (3.672 %) E-Commerce 5 17 (3.672 %) Agile Software Development 6 14 (3.024 %) Unit Testing 7 13 (2.808 %) PRINCE2 7 13 (2.808 %) Project Management 8 12 (2.592 %) Test Scripting 9 11 (2.376 %) Manual Testing 10 10 (2.160 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 10 (2.160 %) Web Development 11 9 (1.944 %) Content Management 11 9 (1.944 %) Data Analysis 11 9 (1.944 %) Workflow 12 8 (1.728 %) Business Analysis 12 8 (1.728 %) Data Management 12 8 (1.728 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 106 (22.89 %) C# 2 67 (14.47 %) PL/SQL 3 41 (8.855 %) VB.NET 4 40 (8.639 %) Java 5 39 (8.423 %) Transact-SQL 6 32 (6.911 %) VB 7 24 (5.184 %) JavaScript 8 18 (3.888 %) PHP 9 14 (3.024 %) VBScript 10 13 (2.808 %) Shell Script 11 10 (2.160 %) VBA 12 9 (1.944 %) VB6 13 5 (1.080 %) Perl 14 4 (0.864 %) COBOL 14 4 (0.864 %) JCL 15 3 (0.648 %) XPath 15 3 (0.648 %) C++ 15 3 (0.648 %) C 16 2 (0.432 %) DHTML 16 2 (0.432 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 18 (3.888 %) ISEB 2 13 (2.808 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (2.808 %) MCSE 2 13 (2.808 %) Degree 3 5 (1.080 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 4 (0.864 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (0.648 %) MCDST 6 2 (0.432 %) CITP 6 2 (0.432 %) IBM Certification 6 2 (0.432 %) MCSA 6 2 (0.432 %) Sun Certification 7 1 (0.216 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (2.160 %) QA 2 2 (0.432 %) WAI 3 1 (0.216 %) SLA	System Software 1 21 (4.536 %) Active Directory 2 16 (3.456 %) VMware ESX 3 15 (3.240 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 13 (2.808 %) Oracle RAC 5 3 (0.648 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 9 (1.944 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 8 (1.728 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 4 (0.864 %) MAINVIEW 4 3 (0.648 %) OpenView 5 2 (0.432 %) BMC Marimba	Vendors 1 134 (28.94 %) Oracle 2 95 (20.52 %) Microsoft 3 22 (4.752 %) Business Objects 4 15 (3.240 %) VMware 5 10 (2.160 %) HP 6 9 (1.944 %) Symantec 6 9 (1.944 %) IBM 7 6 (1.296 %) PeopleSoft 8 5 (1.080 %) BEA 8 5 (1.080 %) Sun 9 4 (0.864 %) Brio 9 4 (0.864 %) RedDot 9 4 (0.864 %) BMC 9 4 (0.864 %) Hyperion 9 4 (0.864 %) Cognos 10 3 (0.648 %) Lotus 10 3 (0.648 %) ESRI 11 2 (0.432 %) ATG 11 2 (0.432 %) webMethods 11 2 (0.432 %) Reuters