Berkshire SQL Server Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SQL Server Developer role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Server Developer
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	129
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	15	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	0.474 %	0.896 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£377
Average daily rate	£270	£377
% change on same period last year	-28.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£283	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£312
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.90
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£41.50
% change on same period last year	-15.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.65	£35.94
% change on same period last year	-14.71 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3162	4463
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.215 %	4.452 %
Daily rates quoted	801	1426
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£352
Average daily rate	£366	£369
% change on same period last year	-0.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	228	443
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.03	£28.20
Average hourly rate	£24.65	£29.62
% change on same period last year	-16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.27	£31.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
SQL Server Developer South East

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 Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Slough	-6	7	£265	-
Newbury	+21	2	£300	-
Reading	-6	2	-	-

SQL Server Developer South East

SQL Server Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Server Developer in their job title.

1 31 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 24 (77.42 %) .NET 3 21 (67.74 %) ASP.NET 4 18 (58.06 %) SQL 5 16 (51.61 %) XML 6 15 (48.39 %) Transact-SQL 7 14 (45.16 %) HTML 8 13 (41.94 %) JavaScript 8 13 (41.94 %) VB.NET 8 13 (41.94 %) ASP 9 12 (38.71 %) InterDev 9 12 (38.71 %) DHTML 9 12 (38.71 %) XSL 9 12 (38.71 %) COM+ 9 12 (38.71 %) N-Tier

10 11 (35.48 %) SQL Server 2005 11 10 (32.26 %) C# 12 7 (22.58 %) SQL Server 2000 13 3 (9.677 %) WinForms 13 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 3 (9.677 %) VB6 13 3 (9.677 %) WebServices 13 3 (9.677 %) VB 14 2 (6.452 %) IIS 14 2 (6.452 %) Visual Studio 14 2 (6.452 %) SharePoint 14 2 (6.452 %) DTS 14 2 (6.452 %) X.500 14 2 (6.452 %) MIIS 14 2 (6.452 %) Intranet

SQL Server Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Server Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (77.42 %) .NET 2 21 (67.74 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (51.61 %) XML 4 14 (45.16 %) HTML 5 13 (41.94 %) ASP 6 12 (38.71 %) XSL 6 12 (38.71 %) COM+ 7 3 (9.677 %) WebServices 7 3 (9.677 %) WinForms 8 1 (3.226 %) Silverlight 8 1 (3.226 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 1 (3.226 %) XSLT 8 1 (3.226 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.452 %) IIS 1 2 (6.452 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.226 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (3.226 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.452 %) Intranet 1 2 (6.452 %) X.500 2 1 (3.226 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 11 (35.48 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (22.58 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (6.452 %) DTS 6 1 (3.226 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (3.226 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 12 (38.71 %) InterDev 2 2 (6.452 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (3.226 %) Telecoms 1 1 (3.226 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 12 (38.71 %) N-Tier 2 1 (3.226 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.226 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.452 %) Web Analytics 1 2 (6.452 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (6.452 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (3.226 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 18 (58.06 %) SQL 2 15 (48.39 %) Transact-SQL 3 13 (41.94 %) VB.NET 3 13 (41.94 %) JavaScript 4 12 (38.71 %) DHTML 5 10 (32.26 %) C# 6 3 (9.677 %) VB6 6 3 (9.677 %) VB 7 1 (3.226 %) VBScript 7 1 (3.226 %) C
Systems Management 1 2 (6.452 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 1 2 (6.452 %) Omniture 2 1 (3.226 %) Sitecore 2 1 (3.226 %) Oracle