Berkshire SQL Server Reporting Services Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server Reporting Services over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Location Aylesbury Banbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Salford Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	127	150
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	4	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.578 %	1.695 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£385
Average daily rate	-	£389
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£357
% change on same period last year	-13.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.25	£37.27
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Database & Business Intelligence Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	692	1062
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.913 %	1.058 %
Daily rates quoted	174	325
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£364
Average daily rate	£368	£380
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.16	£38.54
Average hourly rate	£38.97	£39.47
% change on same period last year	-1.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.77	£40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Reporting Services
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Windsor	-	1	-	-
Newbury	-	1	-	-

SQL Server Reporting Services South East

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Reporting Services.

1 15 (93.75 %) SQL Server 2 9 (56.25 %) C# 2 9 (56.25 %) .NET 3 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL 5 5 (31.25 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (31.25 %) Windows 6 4 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 7 3 (18.75 %) SharePoint 7 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 7 3 (18.75 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (18.75 %) IIS 7 3 (18.75 %) Data Modelling

7 3 (18.75 %) RUP 7 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 7 3 (18.75 %) Finance 7 3 (18.75 %) Scrum 8 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 8 2 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (12.50 %) Project Planning 8 2 (12.50 %) OLAP 8 2 (12.50 %) DTS 8 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 8 2 (12.50 %) RAD 8 2 (12.50 %) XML 9 1 (6.250 %) XSLT 9 1 (6.250 %) UNIX 9 1 (6.250 %) Apache

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Reporting Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (56.25 %) .NET 2 5 (31.25 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (12.50 %) XML 4 1 (6.250 %) XSLT 4 1 (6.250 %) JSP 4 1 (6.250 %) WebServices 4 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 4 1 (6.250 %) ASP 4 1 (6.250 %) HTML 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (6.250 %) AJAX 4 1 (6.250 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 3 (18.75 %) SharePoint 1 3 (18.75 %) IIS 2 1 (6.250 %) Apache 2 1 (6.250 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (6.250 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft CRM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) Intranet 1 1 (6.250 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (93.75 %) SQL Server 2 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 4 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (12.50 %) OLAP 5 2 (12.50 %) DTS 6 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (6.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 3 (18.75 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 9 (56.25 %) Developer 2 5 (31.25 %) C# Developer 3 3 (18.75 %) SQL Developer 3 3 (18.75 %) Architect 4 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse Specialist 4 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence Specialist 5 1 (6.250 %) Server Specialist 5 1 (6.250 %) WinForms Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) SharePoint Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) SQL DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 5 (31.25 %) Windows 2 1 (6.250 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (18.75 %) Data Modelling 2 3 (18.75 %) RUP 2 3 (18.75 %) Scrum 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Planning 3 2 (12.50 %) RAD 4 1 (6.250 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 9 (56.25 %) C# 2 6 (37.50 %) SQL 3 3 (18.75 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) VBScript 4 1 (6.250 %) VB 4 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET 4 1 (6.250 %) COBOL 4 1 (6.250 %) Java 4 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 2 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects 2 1 (6.250 %) Cognos