The first table below looks at the demand for Azure SQL Database skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Azure SQL Database 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 Berkshire 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
Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Rank 120 129 134
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.042% 0.286% 0.033%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.238% 2.821% 0.181%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £338
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
421 319 554
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 17.53% 10.12% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 145 254
Average daily rate £375 £350 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 48
Average hourly rate £33.75 £45.00 £43.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +3.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £11.50 £32.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Azure SQL Database Jobs Demand Trend

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Azure SQL Database Daily Rate Trend

Azure SQL Database
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Azure SQL Database 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 Azure SQL Database.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) C#

Azure SQL Database
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Azure SQL Database 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 Azure SQL Database. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Development DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft