SQL Contracts in West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

SQL (Structured Query Language) Yorkshire / West Yorkshire
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	9	9	5
Rank change year-on-year	0	-4
Contract jobs citing SQL	166	226	431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire	11.50%	11.11%	20.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category	26.60%	24.27%	52.69%
Number of daily rates quoted	110	156	312
Median daily rate	£375	£363	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.44%	+11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£310	£288	£268
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£431	£450	£400
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£340
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	5
Median hourly rate	-	£15.30	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-56.30%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£40.00	£32.50	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+23.07%	+44.44%

SQL is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills West Yorkshire
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	624	931	818
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire	43.24%	45.75%	38.99%
Number of daily rates quoted	449	646	571
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£330
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£310	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£500	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	4	9
Median hourly rate	£31.00	£14.88	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+108.40%	-62.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.28	£13.75	£35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.00	£16.09	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in West Yorkshire citing SQL as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SQL in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Leeds	+6	138	£375	+3.44%	111
Bradford	-4	9	£316	-14.23%	11
Halifax	-2	8	£403	+0.62%	4
Huddersfield	-7	2	-	-	3
Pudsey	-3	1	£450	+4.71%
Wakefield	-5	1	£400	+8.47%	4
SQL Yorkshire

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SQL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the West Yorkshire region with a requirement for SQL.

1	138 (40.23%)	Agile Software Development
2	130 (37.90%)	SQL Server
3	95 (27.70%)	.NET
4	88 (25.66%)	Java
5	84 (24.49%)	JavaScript
6	83 (24.20%)	C#
7	71 (20.70%)	Microsoft
8	70 (20.41%)	T-SQL
9	59 (17.20%)	NoSQL
10	57 (16.62%)	ASP.NET
11	56 (16.33%)	MVC
12	51 (14.87%)	Finance
13	50 (14.58%)	Test Automation
14	49 (14.29%)	TDD
15	47 (13.70%)	HTML

16	46 (13.41%)	Git (software)
17	45 (13.12%)	MongoDB
18	43 (12.54%)	SQL Server Integration Services
19	40 (11.66%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
20	39 (11.37%)	Oracle
21	38 (11.08%)	Linux
22	37 (10.79%)	ETL
23	36 (10.50%)	Python
23	36 (10.50%)	Continuous Integration
24	35 (10.20%)	Windows
24	35 (10.20%)	Visual Studio
24	35 (10.20%)	Business Intelligence
25	34 (9.91%)	MySQL
25	34 (9.91%)	Software Engineering
25	34 (9.91%)	Degree

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Co-occurring IT Skills in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	25 (7.29%)	SAS
2	14 (4.08%)	CMS
3	12 (3.50%)	Confluence
3	12 (3.50%)	WebSphere
4	9 (2.62%)	Sitecore CMS
5	8 (2.33%)	Tomcat
6	7 (2.04%)	IIS
7	5 (1.46%)	Apache Solr
7	5 (1.46%)	MS Exchange
8	4 (1.17%)	Elasticsearch
8	4 (1.17%)	SharePoint
8	4 (1.17%)	StreamWeaver
8	4 (1.17%)	WebSphere Application Server
8	4 (1.17%)	WebSphere Portal
9	3 (0.87%)	Apache
10	2 (0.58%)	Exchange Server 2010
10	2 (0.58%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	2 (0.58%)	Umbraco
11	1 (0.29%)	OpenStack
11	1 (0.29%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	16 (4.66%)	Microsoft Excel
2	15 (4.37%)	Microsoft Office
3	4 (1.17%)	Stata
4	2 (0.58%)	MS Visio
5	1 (0.29%)	InfoPath
5	1 (0.29%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	4 (1.17%)	Dynamics CRM
2	2 (0.58%)	Dynamics AX
2	2 (0.58%)	SAP IS-U
3	1 (0.29%)	Dynamics NAV
3	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Cash Management
3	1 (0.29%)	Oracle EBS
3	1 (0.29%)	Oracle EBS R12
3	1 (0.29%)	Oracle General Ledger
3	1 (0.29%)	Oracle iProcurement
3	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Payables
3	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	1 (0.29%)	Sage 50
3	1 (0.29%)	SAP Business One

Cloud Services
1	13 (3.79%)	Microsoft Azure
2	11 (3.21%)	Slack
3	6 (1.75%)	Google Analytics
4	5 (1.46%)	Amazon AWS
5	3 (0.87%)	SaaS
6	2 (0.58%)	Dynamics 365
6	2 (0.58%)	IaaS
6	2 (0.58%)	Office 365
6	2 (0.58%)	PaaS
7	1 (0.29%)	AdWords
7	1 (0.29%)	Amazon ELB
7	1 (0.29%)	Amazon S3
7	1 (0.29%)	Amazon SQS
7	1 (0.29%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	1 (0.29%)	AWS Lambda
7	1 (0.29%)	Azure Active Directory
7	1 (0.29%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	17 (4.96%)	Firewall
2	14 (4.08%)	Internet
3	13 (3.79%)	DNS
4	12 (3.50%)	HTTP
5	11 (3.21%)	LAN
5	11 (3.21%)	WAN
6	9 (2.62%)	Wi-Fi
7	6 (1.75%)	DHCP
7	6 (1.75%)	LDAP
7	6 (1.75%)	SAN
8	5 (1.46%)	VLAN
9	4 (1.17%)	VPN
10	3 (0.87%)	NAS
10	3 (0.87%)	SMTP
10	3 (0.87%)	SSH
11	1 (0.29%)	4G
11	1 (0.29%)	Cisco ISE
11	1 (0.29%)	Cisco Nexus
11	1 (0.29%)	Cisco Wireless
11	1 (0.29%)	VoLTE

Database & Business Intelligence
1	130 (37.90%)	SQL Server
2	59 (17.20%)	NoSQL
3	45 (13.12%)	MongoDB
4	43 (12.54%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	40 (11.66%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	34 (9.91%)	MySQL
7	30 (8.75%)	SQL Server 2008
8	26 (7.58%)	SQL Server 2012
9	25 (7.29%)	Data Warehouse
10	20 (5.83%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	18 (5.25%)	Relational Database
12	17 (4.96%)	PostgreSQL
13	15 (4.37%)	MS Access
14	14 (4.08%)	Apache Cassandra
15	13 (3.79%)	Big Data
16	12 (3.50%)	Couchbase
16	12 (3.50%)	SQL Server 2014
17	11 (3.21%)	BusinessObjects
17	11 (3.21%)	RDBMS
18	10 (2.92%)	DB2

Development Applications
1	46 (13.41%)	Git (software)
2	35 (10.20%)	Visual Studio
3	30 (8.75%)	JIRA
4	20 (5.83%)	Subversion
5	19 (5.54%)	Jenkins
6	17 (4.96%)	JUnit
7	16 (4.66%)	Mercurial
8	15 (4.37%)	Jasmine
9	13 (3.79%)	Cucumber
10	9 (2.62%)	Eclipse
10	9 (2.62%)	Maven
10	9 (2.62%)	Selenium
11	8 (2.33%)	Team Foundation Server
12	7 (2.04%)	gulp
13	6 (1.75%)	PHPUnit
14	5 (1.46%)	Grunt
14	5 (1.46%)	SpecFlow
15	4 (1.17%)	JMeter
15	4 (1.17%)	Octopus Deploy
15	4 (1.17%)	Rational Application Developer

General
1	51 (14.87%)	Finance
2	11 (3.21%)	Banking
3	9 (2.62%)	Marketing
4	7 (2.04%)	Games
4	7 (2.04%)	Retail
5	4 (1.17%)	Advertising
5	4 (1.17%)	Manufacturing
6	3 (0.87%)	Back Office
6	3 (0.87%)	Billing
6	3 (0.87%)	Law
6	3 (0.87%)	Telecoms
7	2 (0.58%)	Electronics
8	1 (0.29%)	Financial Institution

Job Titles
1	184 (53.64%)	Developer
2	60 (17.49%)	.NET Developer
3	52 (15.16%)	SQL Developer
4	42 (12.24%)	Analyst
4	42 (12.24%)	Java Developer
5	35 (10.20%)	C# Developer
6	28 (8.16%)	C# .NET Developer
7	17 (4.96%)	ASP.NET Developer
7	17 (4.96%)	Business Intelligence Developer
8	16 (4.66%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
8	16 (4.66%)	DBA
8	16 (4.66%)	Senior Developer
9	15 (4.37%)	Software Developer
9	15 (4.37%)	T-SQL Developer
10	14 (4.08%)	PHP Developer
11	13 (3.79%)	Tester
12	12 (3.50%)	ETL Developer
12	12 (3.50%)	SQL BI Developer
13	11 (3.21%)	SQL DBA
13	11 (3.21%)	SSIS Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	95 (27.70%)	.NET
2	57 (16.62%)	ASP.NET
3	47 (13.70%)	HTML
4	32 (9.33%)	ASP.NET MVC
5	31 (9.04%)	AngularJS
5	31 (9.04%)	Spring
6	30 (8.75%)	CSS
7	27 (7.87%)	ASP.NET Web API
7	27 (7.87%)	Hibernate
7	27 (7.87%)	XML
8	25 (7.29%)	REST
9	24 (7.00%)	.NET Framework
10	22 (6.41%)	Web Services
11	21 (6.12%)	jQuery
12	18 (5.25%)	Node.js
13	16 (4.66%)	J2EE
14	14 (4.08%)	RESTful
15	12 (3.50%)	SOAP
16	11 (3.21%)	Entity Framework
17	10 (2.92%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	28 (8.16%)	Analytical Skills
2	15 (4.37%)	Data Structures
3	13 (3.79%)	Algorithms
4	12 (3.50%)	NHS
5	11 (3.21%)	Data Centre
6	9 (2.62%)	Greenfield Project
7	7 (2.04%)	Management Information System
8	6 (1.75%)	Enterprise Software
8	6 (1.75%)	Replication
9	5 (1.46%)	Social Media
10	4 (1.17%)	Clustering
10	4 (1.17%)	User Experience
11	3 (0.87%)	Client/Server
11	3 (0.87%)	iPad
11	3 (0.87%)	Mobile App
11	3 (0.87%)	Private Cloud
11	3 (0.87%)	Virtual Team
11	3 (0.87%)	VxBlock/Vblock
12	2 (0.58%)	Enterprise Storage
12	2 (0.58%)	Over-the-Top Content

Operating Systems
1	38 (11.08%)	Linux
2	35 (10.20%)	Windows
3	17 (4.96%)	Unix
4	13 (3.79%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	10 (2.92%)	Android
5	10 (2.92%)	Windows Server
6	8 (2.33%)	Windows Server 2008
7	5 (1.46%)	Solaris
7	5 (1.46%)	Windows Server 2012
8	4 (1.17%)	Windows Phone
9	3 (0.87%)	AIX
9	3 (0.87%)	Apple iOS
9	3 (0.87%)	Embedded Linux
9	3 (0.87%)	Windows Server 2003
10	2 (0.58%)	Windows Embedded Compact
11	1 (0.29%)	Mac OS X
11	1 (0.29%)	VMS
11	1 (0.29%)	Windows 10
11	1 (0.29%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	138 (40.23%)	Agile Software Development
2	56 (16.33%)	MVC
3	50 (14.58%)	Test Automation
4	49 (14.29%)	TDD
5	37 (10.79%)	ETL
6	36 (10.50%)	Continuous Integration
7	35 (10.20%)	Business Intelligence
8	34 (9.91%)	Software Engineering
9	33 (9.62%)	Scrum
10	29 (8.45%)	OO
11	25 (7.29%)	Open Source
11	25 (7.29%)	Project Management
12	24 (7.00%)	E-Commerce
13	23 (6.71%)	Migration
14	20 (5.83%)	SDLC
15	19 (5.54%)	BDD
16	18 (5.25%)	ITIL
16	18 (5.25%)	Microservices
16	18 (5.25%)	SOLID
17	16 (4.66%)	Analytics

Programming Languages
1	88 (25.66%)	Java
2	84 (24.49%)	JavaScript
3	83 (24.20%)	C#
4	70 (20.41%)	T-SQL
5	36 (10.50%)	Python
6	22 (6.41%)	VBA
7	18 (5.25%)	PHP
8	10 (2.92%)	Perl
8	10 (2.92%)	Shell Script
9	9 (2.62%)	Bash Shell
9	9 (2.62%)	Groovy
9	9 (2.62%)	VB
10	7 (2.04%)	C
10	7 (2.04%)	PowerShell
10	7 (2.04%)	TypeScript
11	6 (1.75%)	C++
11	6 (1.75%)	PL/SQL
11	6 (1.75%)	VB.NET
12	5 (1.46%)	Delphi
13	3 (0.87%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	34 (9.91%)	Degree
2	8 (2.33%)	ISTQB
3	7 (2.04%)	BPSS Clearance
3	7 (2.04%)	ISEB
3	7 (2.04%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
4	6 (1.75%)	Computer Science Degree
4	6 (1.75%)	Security Cleared
5	4 (1.17%)	Numerate Degree
5	4 (1.17%)	SAS Certification
5	4 (1.17%)	Sun Certification
6	3 (0.87%)	Microsoft Certification
7	2 (0.58%)	ITIL Certification
8	1 (0.29%)	AWS Certification
8	1 (0.29%)	CCDA
8	1 (0.29%)	CCIE
8	1 (0.29%)	CCNA
8	1 (0.29%)	CCNP
8	1 (0.29%)	Cisco Certification
8	1 (0.29%)	MCSE
8	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	16 (4.66%)	Data Quality
2	15 (4.37%)	QA
3	3 (0.87%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	1 (0.29%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	1 (0.29%)	GDPR
4	1 (0.29%)	IFRS
4	1 (0.29%)	IFRS 9
4	1 (0.29%)	SLA

System Software
1	11 (3.21%)	Active Directory
1	11 (3.21%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	9 (2.62%)	Docker
3	6 (1.75%)	VMware ESXi
4	5 (1.46%)	Hyper-V
5	4 (1.17%)	XenDesktop
6	3 (0.87%)	Oracle RAC
6	3 (0.87%)	vCloud

Systems Management
1	12 (3.50%)	Puppet
2	8 (2.33%)	Ansible
3	6 (1.75%)	Opscode Chef
4	3 (0.87%)	Oracle Identity Management
4	3 (0.87%)	Oracle Identity Manager
4	3 (0.87%)	SCCM
4	3 (0.87%)	vRealize
5	2 (0.58%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5	2 (0.58%)	Oracle RMAN
5	2 (0.58%)	SCOM
6	1 (0.29%)	Backup Exec
6	1 (0.29%)	HP Quality Center
6	1 (0.29%)	MAINVIEW
6	1 (0.29%)	Norton AntiVirus
6	1 (0.29%)	SCDPM
6	1 (0.29%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
6	1 (0.29%)	Tivoli Storage Manager

Vendors
1	71 (20.70%)	Microsoft
2	39 (11.37%)	Oracle
3	21 (6.12%)	VMware
4	14 (4.08%)	SAP
4	14 (4.08%)	Sitecore
5	13 (3.79%)	HP
5	13 (3.79%)	IBM
6	11 (3.21%)	Tableau
7	10 (2.92%)	Red Hat
8	8 (2.33%)	EMC
8	8 (2.33%)	Google
8	8 (2.33%)	Zend
9	7 (2.04%)	Sun
10	5 (1.46%)	Cisco
10	5 (1.46%)	Citrix
10	5 (1.46%)	Cognos
11	4 (1.17%)	NetApp
11	4 (1.17%)	Veeam
12	3 (0.87%)	F5
12	3 (0.87%)	Infoblox