The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2005 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 Birmingham 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
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 40 36 38
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 4 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.915% 3.195% 2.128%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.301% 11.30% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 6
Average daily rate £400 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £32.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
-14.06% -13.51%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
93 177 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.28% 28.27% 19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 105 61
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2005
West Midlands

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Birmingham SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SQL Server 2005 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (58.33%) SQL
4 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (33.33%) WCF
5 4 (33.33%) Finance
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (33.33%) .NET
5 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
6 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (25.00%) C#
6 3 (25.00%) MVC
6 3 (25.00%) TDD
6 3 (25.00%) jQuery
6 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (25.00%) BDD
7 2 (16.67%) MDX
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (16.67%) VMware
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (16.67%) IIS
7 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (33.33%) WCF
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (25.00%) jQuery
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (16.67%) MDX
4 1 (8.333%) HTML
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
4 1 (8.333%) LINQ
4 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
1 1 (8.333%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) SAN
1 1 (8.333%) Internet
1 1 (8.333%) Wireless
1 1 (8.333%) DHCP
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
1 1 (8.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
7 1 (8.333%) DTS
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Developer
3 1 (8.333%) DBA
3 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (8.333%) Web Editor
3 1 (8.333%) Web Content Editor
3 1 (8.333%) Content Editor
3 1 (8.333%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.333%) Network Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Network Support
3 1 (8.333%) Support Manager
3 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (8.333%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) MVC
1 3 (25.00%) TDD
1 3 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (8.333%) Workflow
3 1 (8.333%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) HP
2 1 (8.333%) Citrix
2 1 (8.333%) CODA
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
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