Basingstoke SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Basingstoke region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Haslemere Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Rochester Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	20
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	19	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	30.65 %	73.53 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£350
Average daily rate	£325	£375
% change on same period last year	-13.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-46.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.15	£31.19
% change on same period last year	-3.33 %
Database & Business Intelligence Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	62	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	25	8
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£335
Average daily rate	£325	£348
% change on same period last year	-6.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.81	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£28.18	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-24.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.56	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.90
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
SQL Server Hampshire

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 Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server across the Basingstoke region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing SQL Server 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 Server.

1 24 (55.81 %) .NET 2 17 (39.53 %) C# 3 15 (34.88 %) SQL 4 13 (30.23 %) Windows 4 13 (30.23 %) SQL Server 2005 5 8 (18.60 %) ASP.NET 6 7 (16.28 %) Finance 6 7 (16.28 %) Insurance 6 7 (16.28 %) WebServices 6 7 (16.28 %) Oracle 7 6 (13.95 %) VB 7 6 (13.95 %) XML 7 6 (13.95 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (13.95 %) Unit Testing 7 6 (13.95 %) ASP

7 6 (13.95 %) VB6 8 5 (11.63 %) NetBackup 8 5 (11.63 %) WCF 8 5 (11.63 %) ISPF 8 5 (11.63 %) MS Excel 8 5 (11.63 %) DB2 8 5 (11.63 %) CICS 8 5 (11.63 %) VERITAS 8 5 (11.63 %) zOS 8 5 (11.63 %) SQL Server 2000 8 5 (11.63 %) JCL 8 5 (11.63 %) Mainframe 9 4 (9.302 %) E-Commerce 9 4 (9.302 %) Microsoft 9 4 (9.302 %) MySQL

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing SQL Server 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 Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (55.81 %) .NET 2 8 (18.60 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (16.28 %) WebServices 4 6 (13.95 %) XML 4 6 (13.95 %) ASP 4 6 (13.95 %) .NET Framework 5 5 (11.63 %) ISPF 5 5 (11.63 %) WCF 6 3 (6.977 %) WinForms 6 3 (6.977 %) AJAX 7 2 (4.651 %) HTML 7 2 (4.651 %) XSD 7 2 (4.651 %) SOAP 8 1 (2.326 %) MFC 8 1 (2.326 %) ADO.NET 8 1 (2.326 %) MDX	Application Platforms 1 5 (11.63 %) CICS 2 2 (4.651 %) IIS 2 2 (4.651 %) Apache 2 2 (4.651 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (4.651 %) SAS 3 1 (2.326 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.326 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 5 (11.63 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.326 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.326 %) LAN 1 1 (2.326 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (30.23 %) SQL Server 2005 2 5 (11.63 %) SQL Server 2000 2 5 (11.63 %) DB2 3 4 (9.302 %) MySQL 4 3 (6.977 %) Hyperion Essbase 5 2 (4.651 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (2.326 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (2.326 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (2.326 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (2.326 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.326 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (2.326 %) ETL 6 1 (2.326 %) MOLAP 6 1 (2.326 %) ROLAP 6 1 (2.326 %) Star Schema	Development Applications 1 4 (9.302 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (6.977 %) NUnit 3 1 (2.326 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 7 (16.28 %) Finance 1 7 (16.28 %) Insurance 2 2 (4.651 %) Pensions 2 2 (4.651 %) Multimedia 2 2 (4.651 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.326 %) Back Office 3 1 (2.326 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 28 (65.12 %) Developer 2 9 (20.93 %) Analyst 2 9 (20.93 %) .NET Developer 3 8 (18.60 %) C# Developer 4 4 (9.302 %) SQL Developer 5 3 (6.977 %) SQL Server Developer 5 3 (6.977 %) Software Tester 5 3 (6.977 %) Report Analyst 5 3 (6.977 %) Tester 6 2 (4.651 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 2 (4.651 %) Web Developer 6 2 (4.651 %) Systems Engineer 6 2 (4.651 %) Information Analyst 6 2 (4.651 %) VB.NET Developer 6 2 (4.651 %) VB Developer 6 2 (4.651 %) Analyst Developer 6 2 (4.651 %) PHP Developer 6 2 (4.651 %) Operations Analyst 6 2 (4.651 %) QA Analyst 6 2 (4.651 %) VB6 Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (11.63 %) Mainframe 2 2 (4.651 %) Derivative 2 2 (4.651 %) Statistics 3 1 (2.326 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.326 %) PKI 3 1 (2.326 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 13 (30.23 %) Windows 2 5 (11.63 %) zOS 3 4 (9.302 %) Linux 4 2 (4.651 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (4.651 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.95 %) Unit Testing 2 4 (9.302 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (6.977 %) Test Management 4 2 (4.651 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (4.651 %) B2B 4 2 (4.651 %) B2C 4 2 (4.651 %) OOP 4 2 (4.651 %) Information Management 4 2 (4.651 %) Web Development 4 2 (4.651 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (2.326 %) OO 5 1 (2.326 %) CRM 5 1 (2.326 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.326 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (2.326 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 17 (39.53 %) C# 2 15 (34.88 %) SQL 3 6 (13.95 %) VB 3 6 (13.95 %) VB6 4 5 (11.63 %) JCL 5 4 (9.302 %) VB.NET 6 3 (6.977 %) VBA 7 2 (4.651 %) PHP 7 2 (4.651 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (4.651 %) PHP5 8 1 (2.326 %) C++ 8 1 (2.326 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 2 (4.651 %) ISEB 1 2 (4.651 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.651 %) QA
System Software 1 5 (11.63 %) NetBackup 2 2 (4.651 %) MailMarshal 2 2 (4.651 %) VMware ESX	Vendors 1 7 (16.28 %) Oracle 2 5 (11.63 %) VERITAS 3 4 (9.302 %) Microsoft 4 3 (6.977 %) Hyperion 5 2 (4.651 %) HP 5 2 (4.651 %) Business Objects 5 2 (4.651 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (2.326 %) VMware 6 1 (2.326 %) Netezza 6 1 (2.326 %) Sun