The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 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 2008 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 2008
Rank 25 17 38
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +21
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 19 42 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 4.348% 6.709% 2.128%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.43% 23.73% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 7
Average daily rate £363 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.63% +0.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £265 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £340 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
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 2008
West Midlands

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Birmingham SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Birmingham SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 42 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (59.52%) SQL
3 24 (57.14%) C#
3 24 (57.14%) .NET
4 15 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 14 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 14 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (30.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (26.19%) .NET Framework
7 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (26.19%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (23.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (23.81%) MVC
9 9 (21.43%) WCF
9 9 (21.43%) SQL Server 2005
9 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
9 9 (21.43%) Visual Studio
10 8 (19.05%) Web Services
10 8 (19.05%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 7 (16.67%) Windows
11 7 (16.67%) TDD
11 7 (16.67%) MDX
12 6 (14.29%) jQuery
12 6 (14.29%) Finance
12 6 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
12 6 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
13 5 (11.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 5 (11.90%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (11.90%) UML
13 5 (11.90%) JavaScript

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (57.14%) .NET
2 15 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 11 (26.19%) .NET Framework
3 11 (26.19%) ASP.NET MVC
4 9 (21.43%) WCF
5 8 (19.05%) Web Services
5 8 (19.05%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 7 (16.67%) MDX
7 6 (14.29%) jQuery
8 5 (11.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 5 (11.90%) HTML
8 5 (11.90%) Silverlight
9 4 (9.524%) CSS
9 4 (9.524%) Managed Extensibility Framework
10 2 (4.762%) Ajax
10 2 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC 2
11 1 (2.381%) HTML5
11 1 (2.381%) RESTful
11 1 (2.381%) JDBC
11 1 (2.381%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (11.90%) IIS
3 4 (9.524%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.381%) SharePoint Foundation
4 1 (2.381%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (2.381%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.381%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.381%) ESB
4 1 (2.381%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.381%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (2.381%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 4 (9.524%) PowerPivot
2 2 (4.762%) MS Office
3 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.381%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.762%) HTTP
2 1 (2.381%) LDAP
2 1 (2.381%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.381%) IIOP
2 1 (2.381%) SSL
2 1 (2.381%) SNMP
2 1 (2.381%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.381%) DNS
2 1 (2.381%) SMTP
2 1 (2.381%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 13 (30.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (23.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 9 (21.43%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
7 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (9.524%) OLAP
9 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2000
9 2 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.381%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (2.381%) DB2
10 1 (2.381%) DTS
10 1 (2.381%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Visual Studio
2 5 (11.90%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (9.524%) MSTest
3 4 (9.524%) Moq
4 1 (2.381%) MSBuild
4 1 (2.381%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.381%) NUnit
4 1 (2.381%) CruiseControl
General
1 6 (14.29%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (85.71%) Developer
2 18 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 16 (38.10%) C# Developer
4 14 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (26.19%) ASP.NET Developer
6 10 (23.81%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (21.43%) SQL Developer
8 6 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (11.90%) SQL Server Developer
10 4 (9.524%) Software Engineer
10 4 (9.524%) Software Developer
10 4 (9.524%) Programmer
10 4 (9.524%) Software Programmer
10 4 (9.524%) C# Programmer
10 4 (9.524%) Agile .NET Developer
10 4 (9.524%) Agile C# Developer
11 3 (7.143%) Business Developer
12 2 (4.762%) C# Software Engineer
12 2 (4.762%) SQL DBA
12 2 (4.762%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.524%) RIA
1 4 (9.524%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.762%) Open Source
3 1 (2.381%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (9.524%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.381%) Linux
3 1 (2.381%) Windows 2000
3 1 (2.381%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.381%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (23.81%) MVC
3 7 (16.67%) TDD
4 5 (11.90%) UML
5 4 (9.524%) Unit Testing
6 3 (7.143%) BDD
6 3 (7.143%) Migration
6 3 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (4.762%) Project Management
7 2 (4.762%) RUP
7 2 (4.762%) Dimensional Modelling
7 2 (4.762%) Kimball Methodology
8 1 (2.381%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (2.381%) Database Security
8 1 (2.381%) MSF
8 1 (2.381%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (2.381%) CRM
8 1 (2.381%) OOA/OOD
8 1 (2.381%) OO
8 1 (2.381%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) SQL
2 24 (57.14%) C#
3 14 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.762%) PHP
5 2 (4.762%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.381%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.381%) Java
6 1 (2.381%) C++
6 1 (2.381%) Jython
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.143%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.762%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.762%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.381%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.524%) ESRI
3 3 (7.143%) Hyperion
4 2 (4.762%) VMware
5 1 (2.381%) Oracle
5 1 (2.381%) Citrix
5 1 (2.381%) IBM
5 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
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