The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2012 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 SQL Server 2012 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Rank 115 134 -
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.209% 0.032% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.208% 0.313% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £403 -
% change year-on-year
-19.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
414 320 540
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 17.29% 10.17% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 147 249
Average daily rate £375 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £425 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 46
Average hourly rate £33.50 £45.00 £44.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.55% +1.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £11.50 £32.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2012
South East

SQL Server 2012
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Berkshire SQL Server 2012 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2012
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire SQL Server 2012 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2012
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 2012 within the Berkshire 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
Maidenhead - 3 - -
Slough - 1 £290 -
SQL Server 2012
South East

SQL Server 2012
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 2 (33.33%) Statistics
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (16.67%) Cognos
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
4 1 (16.67%) SAP
4 1 (16.67%) Cognos Business Intelligence

SQL Server 2012
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) jQuery
1 2 (33.33%) NHibernate
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cognos
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
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