The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell 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 21 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 Bracknell 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 38 19 23
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 2 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 0.820% 4.082% 0.592%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.545% 27.27% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £213 £274 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.37% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
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
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
44 22 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 18.03% 14.97% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 9
Average daily rate £213 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £265 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £360 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.92% -40.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
SQL Server 2008
Berkshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (25.00%) OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware