Yorkshire SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the 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 25 July 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 Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley 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 Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford 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 Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	5
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	380	398
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.507 %	0.403 %
As % of the category below	36.93 %	35.76 %
Daily rates quoted	83	45
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£301
Average daily rate	£299	£327
% change on same period last year	-8.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£334
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.13	£22.85
Average hourly rate	£27.02	£24.38
% change on same period last year	+10.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.92	£25.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.88	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Programming Languages Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1029	1113
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.372 %	1.126 %
Daily rates quoted	188	140
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£294
Average daily rate	£310	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	96	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.26	£25.84
Average hourly rate	£30.76	£27.30
% change on same period last year	+12.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.27	£28.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
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 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 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Yorkshire region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL
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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
West Yorkshire	0	265	£299	-11.19 %
South Yorkshire	0	40	£288	+6.13 %
North Yorkshire	-9	24	£305	+8.10 %
East Yorkshire	+3	9	£420	+95.34 %

SQL England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 221 (32.03 %) .NET 2 202 (29.28 %) SQL Server 3 173 (25.07 %) Oracle 4 130 (18.84 %) ASP.NET 5 127 (18.41 %) C# 6 105 (15.22 %) Microsoft 7 103 (14.93 %) SQL Server 2005 8 99 (14.35 %) PL/SQL 9 95 (13.77 %) Finance 10 88 (12.75 %) Windows 11 83 (12.03 %) XML 12 68 (9.855 %) Transact-SQL 13 62 (8.986 %) SQL Server 2000 14 57 (8.261 %) MS Excel 14 57 (8.261 %) Datawarehouse

15 50 (7.246 %) VB 15 50 (7.246 %) HTML 16 48 (6.957 %) ITIL 16 48 (6.957 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 47 (6.812 %) UNIX 18 46 (6.667 %) VB.NET 18 46 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 19 45 (6.522 %) NHS 20 43 (6.232 %) SharePoint 21 42 (6.087 %) ASP.NET 2.0 22 41 (5.942 %) JavaScript 23 39 (5.652 %) WebServices 23 39 (5.652 %) MS Access 23 39 (5.652 %) Migration 24 38 (5.507 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1 221 (32.03 %) .NET 2 130 (18.84 %) ASP.NET 3 83 (12.03 %) XML 4 50 (7.246 %) HTML 5 42 (6.087 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 39 (5.652 %) WebServices 7 33 (4.783 %) CSS 8 31 (4.493 %) AJAX 9 30 (4.348 %) ASP 10 20 (2.899 %) .NET Framework 11 16 (2.319 %) XSLT 12 14 (2.029 %) J2EE 13 12 (1.739 %) WCF 14 11 (1.594 %) WebSphere 14 11 (1.594 %) XHTML 15 10 (1.449 %) Middleware 15 10 (1.449 %) COM+ 16 9 (1.304 %) ADO.NET 16 9 (1.304 %) JSP 16 9 (1.304 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 43 (6.232 %) SharePoint 2 32 (4.638 %) MS Exchange 3 28 (4.058 %) IIS 4 24 (3.478 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 22 (3.188 %) CMS 6 18 (2.609 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 15 (2.174 %) SAS 8 12 (1.739 %) Apache 8 12 (1.739 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 6 (0.870 %) Lotus Notes 10 5 (0.725 %) Tomcat 10 5 (0.725 %) Tuxedo 10 5 (0.725 %) OpenROAD 11 4 (0.580 %) Oracle Application Server 11 4 (0.580 %) Lotus Domino 11 4 (0.580 %) BizTalk Server 12 3 (0.435 %) ColdFusion 12 3 (0.435 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 3 (0.435 %) ColdFusion MX 12 3 (0.435 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 57 (8.261 %) MS Excel 2 18 (2.609 %) MS Office 3 9 (1.304 %) Spreadsheet 4 7 (1.014 %) MS Visio 5 3 (0.435 %) InfoPath 6 1 (0.145 %) ArcView 6 1 (0.145 %) SPSS 6 1 (0.145 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.145 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 11 (1.594 %) assyst 2 6 (0.870 %) Summit 3 2 (0.290 %) Navision 3 2 (0.290 %) Oracle Financials 3 2 (0.290 %) Oracle 11i 3 2 (0.290 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 3 2 (0.290 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 2 (0.290 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.145 %) Axapta 4 1 (0.145 %) CODA-Financials 4 1 (0.145 %) LabWindows
Communications & Networking 1 29 (4.203 %) Internet 2 14 (2.029 %) Firewall 3 12 (1.739 %) SAN 3 12 (1.739 %) WAN 4 10 (1.449 %) VPN 4 10 (1.449 %) MPLS 5 6 (0.870 %) Extranet 5 6 (0.870 %) LDAP 6 5 (0.725 %) SNMP 6 5 (0.725 %) DNS 7 4 (0.580 %) Intranet 7 4 (0.580 %) SSH 8 2 (0.290 %) TCP/IP 8 2 (0.290 %) DHCP 8 2 (0.290 %) LAN 9 1 (0.145 %) PBX 9 1 (0.145 %) ATM 9 1 (0.145 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 202 (29.28 %) SQL Server 2 103 (14.93 %) SQL Server 2005 3 62 (8.986 %) SQL Server 2000 4 57 (8.261 %) Datawarehouse 5 48 (6.957 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 46 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 7 39 (5.652 %) MS Access 8 33 (4.783 %) Oracle 9i 9 30 (4.348 %) BusinessObjects 10 29 (4.203 %) Oracle Reports 11 27 (3.913 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 26 (3.768 %) SQL Server 7 13 24 (3.478 %) Oracle 10g 14 20 (2.899 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 20 (2.899 %) TOAD 15 17 (2.464 %) DTS 15 17 (2.464 %) DB2 16 14 (2.029 %) GIS 17 12 (1.739 %) ETL 17 12 (1.739 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 34 (4.928 %) Visual Studio 2 22 (3.188 %) Oracle Forms 3 10 (1.449 %) JUnit 4 8 (1.159 %) Eclipse 5 6 (0.870 %) NUnit 5 6 (0.870 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 5 (0.725 %) Oracle APEX 6 5 (0.725 %) TestDirector 7 4 (0.580 %) QuickTest Pro 7 4 (0.580 %) Flash 8 3 (0.435 %) WinRunner 9 2 (0.290 %) Ant 9 2 (0.290 %) PeopleTools 9 2 (0.290 %) InstallShield 9 2 (0.290 %) Subversion 9 2 (0.290 %) CheckStyle 10 1 (0.145 %) HttpUnit 10 1 (0.145 %) JIRA 10 1 (0.145 %) WebSpeed 10 1 (0.145 %) ProC	General 1 95 (13.77 %) Finance 2 34 (4.928 %) Health 3 27 (3.913 %) Law 4 25 (3.623 %) Legal 5 22 (3.188 %) Banking 6 16 (2.319 %) Retail 7 10 (1.449 %) Telecoms 7 10 (1.449 %) Government 7 10 (1.449 %) Marketing 8 8 (1.159 %) Financial Institution 8 8 (1.159 %) Billing 9 5 (0.725 %) Manufacturing 10 4 (0.580 %) Construction 10 4 (0.580 %) Education 11 3 (0.435 %) Retail Banking 12 2 (0.290 %) International Banking 12 2 (0.290 %) Investment Banking 12 2 (0.290 %) Insurance 12 2 (0.290 %) Local Government 12 2 (0.290 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 337 (48.84 %) Developer 2 145 (21.01 %) Analyst 3 79 (11.45 %) .NET Developer 4 48 (6.957 %) Consultant 5 47 (6.812 %) DBA 6 45 (6.522 %) SQL Developer 7 43 (6.232 %) Data Analyst 8 42 (6.087 %) C# Developer 9 37 (5.362 %) Information Analyst 10 36 (5.217 %) Web Developer 11 32 (4.638 %) Oracle Developer 12 27 (3.913 %) ASP.NET Developer 13 26 (3.768 %) Oracle DBA 14 23 (3.333 %) Applications Developer 15 22 (3.188 %) Support Analyst 16 19 (2.754 %) Java Developer 17 18 (2.609 %) Applications Support 17 18 (2.609 %) SQL Server Developer 18 17 (2.464 %) SQL DBA 18 17 (2.464 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 45 (6.522 %) NHS 2 16 (2.319 %) Client/Server 3 11 (1.594 %) Clustering 4 8 (1.159 %) N-Tier 4 8 (1.159 %) Credit Risk 5 7 (1.014 %) Management Information System 6 6 (0.870 %) AS400 6 6 (0.870 %) Statistics 7 4 (0.580 %) Computer Science 7 4 (0.580 %) Data Conversion 7 4 (0.580 %) Web 2.0 8 3 (0.435 %) E-Learning 9 2 (0.290 %) SCORM 9 2 (0.290 %) Replication 9 2 (0.290 %) Mainframe 9 2 (0.290 %) Thin Client 9 2 (0.290 %) Fat Client 10 1 (0.145 %) Multithreading 10 1 (0.145 %) Data Extraction 10 1 (0.145 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 88 (12.75 %) Windows 2 47 (6.812 %) UNIX 3 25 (3.623 %) Linux 3 25 (3.623 %) Windows XP 4 15 (2.174 %) Solaris 5 12 (1.739 %) Windows Server 2003 6 11 (1.594 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (0.580 %) Windows NT 7 4 (0.580 %) HPUX 8 2 (0.290 %) AIX 8 2 (0.290 %) zOS 8 2 (0.290 %) Ubuntu 9 1 (0.145 %) SUSE 9 1 (0.145 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (6.957 %) ITIL 2 39 (5.652 %) Migration 3 34 (4.928 %) Business Intelligence 4 26 (3.768 %) E-Commerce 4 26 (3.768 %) Data Migration 5 20 (2.899 %) Unit Testing 6 18 (2.609 %) Project Management 7 17 (2.464 %) PRINCE2 7 17 (2.464 %) OO 8 15 (2.174 %) UML 9 13 (1.884 %) Content Management 10 12 (1.739 %) Data Analysis 11 10 (1.449 %) Business Analysis 11 10 (1.449 %) Agile Software Development 11 10 (1.449 %) Web Development 12 9 (1.304 %) Incident Management 12 9 (1.304 %) Problem Management 12 9 (1.304 %) Validation 12 9 (1.304 %) Systems Analysis 13 8 (1.159 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 127 (18.41 %) C# 2 99 (14.35 %) PL/SQL 3 68 (9.855 %) Transact-SQL 4 50 (7.246 %) VB 5 46 (6.667 %) VB.NET 6 41 (5.942 %) JavaScript 7 38 (5.507 %) Java 8 23 (3.333 %) VBScript 9 22 (3.188 %) PHP 10 17 (2.464 %) VBA 11 14 (2.029 %) Shell Script 11 14 (2.029 %) VB6 12 12 (1.739 %) C++ 13 10 (1.449 %) COBOL 14 8 (1.159 %) C 15 7 (1.014 %) DHTML 16 5 (0.725 %) XPath 17 4 (0.580 %) Perl 17 4 (0.580 %) RPG 18 2 (0.290 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 20 (2.899 %) MCSE 1 20 (2.899 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (1.594 %) Degree 3 6 (0.870 %) MCSA 3 6 (0.870 %) ISEB 4 5 (0.725 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 4 (0.580 %) MCP 6 3 (0.435 %) Sun Certification 6 3 (0.435 %) ITIL Certification 6 3 (0.435 %) MCDST 7 2 (0.290 %) IBM Certification 8 1 (0.145 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (1.304 %) SLA 2 5 (0.725 %) Basel II 3 4 (0.580 %) QA 4 2 (0.290 %) WAI	System Software 1 32 (4.638 %) Active Directory 2 17 (2.464 %) VMware ESX 3 16 (2.319 %) Oracle RAC 4 15 (2.174 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 5 (0.725 %) ISA Server 6 3 (0.435 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 7 1 (0.145 %) NetBackup 7 1 (0.145 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 11 (1.594 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 9 (1.304 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 7 (1.014 %) SCOM 4 4 (0.580 %) SCCM 5 3 (0.435 %) MOM 6 2 (0.290 %) OpenView 6 2 (0.290 %) MAINVIEW 6 2 (0.290 %) BMC Marimba	Vendors 1 173 (25.07 %) Oracle 2 105 (15.22 %) Microsoft 3 30 (4.348 %) Business Objects 4 24 (3.478 %) Cognos 5 19 (2.754 %) VMware 6 13 (1.884 %) IBM 7 11 (1.594 %) Sun 8 10 (1.449 %) HP 9 9 (1.304 %) Symantec 10 8 (1.159 %) PeopleSoft 11 7 (1.014 %) Informatica 12 6 (0.870 %) Lotus 12 6 (0.870 %) RedDot 13 5 (0.725 %) SAP 14 4 (0.580 %) Hyperion 14 4 (0.580 %) BEA 14 4 (0.580 %) Citrix 14 4 (0.580 %) Brio 14 4 (0.580 %) Teradata 15 3 (0.435 %) ESRI