SQL Server 2008 Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 24 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 Bedfordshire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 27 15 15
Rank change year-on-year
-12 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 4 17 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.105% 6.250% 9.655%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.524% 34.00% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 18
Average daily rate £325 £375 £198
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +89.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £280 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £385 £246
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category		 42 50 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 22.11% 18.38% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 35
Average daily rate £365 £325 £198
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.30% +64.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £220 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £394 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
Average hourly rate £16.00 £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-91.57% +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Bedfordshire SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -3 3 £325 +62.50%
SQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (86.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 11 (73.33%) Windows
4 9 (60.00%) C#
5 8 (53.33%) .NET
5 8 (53.33%) XML
5 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
5 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
6 7 (46.67%) Web Services
6 7 (46.67%) SQL
7 6 (40.00%) HP
7 6 (40.00%) Internet
8 5 (33.33%) DOC1
8 5 (33.33%) PrintSoft PReS
8 5 (33.33%) Exstream
9 4 (26.67%) TDD
9 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (26.67%) QA
10 3 (20.00%) Degree
10 3 (20.00%) Change Management
10 3 (20.00%) VMware
10 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
10 3 (20.00%) Citrix
10 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
10 3 (20.00%) ETL
11 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
11 2 (13.33%) MS Exchange
11 2 (13.33%) Java
11 2 (13.33%) Project Management
11 2 (13.33%) Management Information System

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (53.33%) .NET
1 8 (53.33%) XML
1 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
2 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) NHibernate
3 1 (6.667%) WCF
3 1 (6.667%) WF
3 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (6.667%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) Papyrus
1 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.667%) Exstream Dialogue
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (6.667%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (6.667%) Lync
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) DOC1
1 5 (33.33%) PrintSoft PReS
2 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Exstream
2 1 (6.667%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Internet
2 1 (6.667%) Network Security
2 1 (6.667%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.667%) NAS
2 1 (6.667%) Firewall
2 1 (6.667%) Wireless
2 1 (6.667%) LAN
2 1 (6.667%) WAN
2 1 (6.667%) DHCP
2 1 (6.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (86.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (6.667%) GIS
5 1 (6.667%) OLAP
5 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.667%) NUnit
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (13.33%) SQL DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Wintel Support
4 1 (6.667%) Wintel Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Wintel Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Teradata DBA
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Server Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Statistics
2 1 (6.667%) Replication
2 1 (6.667%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) TDD
2 3 (20.00%) Change Management
2 3 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.667%) Web Development
4 1 (6.667%) AOP
4 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
4 1 (6.667%) Data Transformation
4 1 (6.667%) Use Case
4 1 (6.667%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) MVC
4 1 (6.667%) Workflow
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.667%) VB6
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.667%) VB
4 1 (6.667%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) MCSA
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 1 (6.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.667%) XenApp
3 1 (6.667%) XenServer
3 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
3 1 (6.667%) vSphere
3 1 (6.667%) Terminal Server
3 1 (6.667%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) HP
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (6.667%) XMPie
4 1 (6.667%) LANDesk
4 1 (6.667%) IBM
4 1 (6.667%) Cognos
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