The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Windsor region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Windsor 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 11 11
Rank change year-on-year
+6 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 6 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 20.69% 9.589% 6.452%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 21.88% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £404 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -25.00%
All Programming Languages
Windsor
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18 32 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 62.07% 43.84% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 7
Average daily rate £518 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+59.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £425 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
SQL
Berkshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windsor 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 Windsor region.

Windsor 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 Windsor region.

Windsor SQL Hourly Rate Trend

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) SAN
2 8 (66.67%) Migration
2 8 (66.67%) Apache
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
4 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (16.67%) ASP
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Ajax
4 2 (16.67%) Web Development
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (16.67%) WCF
4 2 (16.67%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) SCCM
5 1 (8.333%) iSeries

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) ASP
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) Ajax
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) WCF
2 2 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 8 (66.67%) Senior Manager
1 8 (66.67%) Project Leader
1 8 (66.67%) Senior Project Manager
1 8 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 8 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
1 8 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Project Leader
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) ASP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) AS400 Developer
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.333%) AS400
2 1 (8.333%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum
2 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (16.67%) Web Development
2 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (16.67%) OO
2 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.333%) RPG
2 1 (8.333%) RPG IV
2 1 (8.333%) Java
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) IBM
2 1 (8.333%) Bloomberg
2 1 (8.333%) Trayport