The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Basingstoke 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 4 12 10
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 45 16 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 22.61% 8.696% 10.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 70.31% 40.00% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 7 10
Average daily rate £350 £300 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £275 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £470 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -20.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
64 40 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 32.16% 21.74% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 11 21
Average daily rate £350 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £482 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £19.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -44.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server
Hampshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Basingstoke SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 60 (59.41%) SQL
2 58 (57.43%) MVC
3 57 (56.44%) Git (software)
4 55 (54.46%) Web Services
5 53 (52.48%) SOAP
6 51 (50.50%) Java EE
6 51 (50.50%) BDD
7 49 (48.51%) C#
8 48 (47.52%) Java
8 48 (47.52%) jQuery
9 46 (45.54%) Maven
10 45 (44.55%) BizTalk Server
11 44 (43.56%) Spring
11 44 (43.56%) Spring MVC
11 44 (43.56%) Hibernate
11 44 (43.56%) REST
12 43 (42.57%) JavaScript
12 43 (42.57%) CSS
13 42 (41.58%) EJB
13 42 (41.58%) JMS
14 41 (40.59%) JAXB
14 41 (40.59%) HTML
14 41 (40.59%) Web Development
14 41 (40.59%) JSON
14 41 (40.59%) JTA
14 41 (40.59%) Spring Security
14 41 (40.59%) Spring Web Flow
14 41 (40.59%) JPA
15 37 (36.63%) Software Architecture
15 37 (36.63%) JUnit

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 55 (54.46%) Web Services
2 53 (52.48%) SOAP
3 51 (50.50%) Java EE
4 48 (47.52%) jQuery
5 44 (43.56%) Spring
5 44 (43.56%) Spring MVC
5 44 (43.56%) Hibernate
5 44 (43.56%) REST
6 43 (42.57%) CSS
7 42 (41.58%) EJB
7 42 (41.58%) JMS
8 41 (40.59%) JAXB
8 41 (40.59%) HTML
8 41 (40.59%) JSON
8 41 (40.59%) JTA
8 41 (40.59%) Spring Security
8 41 (40.59%) Spring Web Flow
8 41 (40.59%) JPA
9 33 (32.67%) WCF
10 32 (31.68%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 45 (44.55%) BizTalk Server
2 12 (11.88%) IIS
3 9 (8.911%) ESB
4 3 (2.970%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.970%) MS Exchange
5 2 (1.980%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.990%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.950%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.990%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.990%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.980%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (35.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 36 (35.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 24 (23.76%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (13.86%) NoSQL
4 12 (11.88%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (9.901%) SQL Server 2000
6 8 (7.921%) MySQL
7 3 (2.970%) DB2
8 2 (1.980%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.980%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.980%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (0.990%) SSDT
9 1 (0.990%) WhereScape RED
9 1 (0.990%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 57 (56.44%) Git (software)
2 46 (45.54%) Maven
3 37 (36.63%) JUnit
4 34 (33.66%) Mockito
5 28 (27.72%) Selenium
6 12 (11.88%) JBehave
7 9 (8.911%) TeamCity
7 9 (8.911%) MSBuild
7 9 (8.911%) SpecFlow
8 8 (7.921%) ReSharper
8 8 (7.921%) Subversion
9 4 (3.960%) NUnit
10 2 (1.980%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.980%) Moq
11 1 (0.990%) GitHub
11 1 (0.990%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.990%) Firebug
11 1 (0.990%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.990%) FitNesse
11 1 (0.990%) WATIR
General
1 6 (5.941%) Finance
2 5 (4.950%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.980%) Retail
4 1 (0.990%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (73.27%) Developer
2 36 (35.64%) Java Developer
3 20 (19.80%) C# Developer
4 17 (16.83%) .NET Developer
5 12 (11.88%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (9.901%) Architect
6 10 (9.901%) Technical Leader
7 9 (8.911%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (8.911%) Agile .NET Developer
8 8 (7.921%) Agile C# Developer
8 8 (7.921%) ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (6.931%) Software Architect
9 7 (6.931%) SQL Developer
9 7 (6.931%) Build Manager
9 7 (6.931%) Release Manager
10 6 (5.941%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.950%) Lead Developer
11 5 (4.950%) SQL Server Developer
12 4 (3.960%) Java Architect
12 4 (3.960%) Java Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.911%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.990%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (0.990%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (0.990%) SaaS
2 1 (0.990%) Data Integration
2 1 (0.990%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.990%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.86%) Windows
2 11 (10.89%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (3.960%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (2.970%) UNIX
5 2 (1.980%) AIX
5 2 (1.980%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.980%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.990%) Linux
6 1 (0.990%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (57.43%) MVC
2 51 (50.50%) BDD
3 41 (40.59%) Web Development
4 37 (36.63%) Software Architecture
5 35 (34.65%) Scrum
6 32 (31.68%) UML
7 31 (30.69%) OOD
7 31 (30.69%) Pair Programming
8 28 (27.72%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (24.75%) Agile Software Development
9 25 (24.75%) TDD
10 16 (15.84%) Dependency Injection
11 12 (11.88%) SOA
12 11 (10.89%) OO
13 9 (8.911%) Test Scripting
14 8 (7.921%) Kanban
15 7 (6.931%) Software Engineering
15 7 (6.931%) Test Automation
15 7 (6.931%) Release Management
16 6 (5.941%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (59.41%) SQL
2 49 (48.51%) C#
3 48 (47.52%) Java
4 43 (42.57%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.86%) T-SQL
6 9 (8.911%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.980%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.990%) Perl
8 1 (0.990%) C
8 1 (0.990%) C++
8 1 (0.990%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (1.980%) Degree
1 2 (1.980%) DV Cleared
1 2 (1.980%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (2.970%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.970%) Data Guard
1 3 (2.970%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 29 (28.71%) JBoss
2 12 (11.88%) Twitter
3 11 (10.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.960%) Business Objects
5 3 (2.970%) Oracle
5 3 (2.970%) VMware