The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 10 13 11
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 34 14 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 14.59% 9.722% 8.939%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 77.27% 77.78% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
Average daily rate £213 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.61% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £28.00 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -40.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.66% -18.46%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
44 18 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 18.88% 12.50% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 10
Average daily rate £213 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.61% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £360 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
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 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server
Berkshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bracknell SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bracknell SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell region citing SQL Server 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.

1 32 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 32 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 31 (70.45%) SQL
3 30 (68.18%) Windows
4 29 (65.91%) VMware
5 27 (61.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (61.36%) Oracle
6 25 (56.82%) Windows Server 2008
6 25 (56.82%) Migration
7 20 (45.45%) Active Directory
7 20 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
8 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
8 16 (36.36%) Test Scripting
9 14 (31.82%) Regression Testing
10 13 (29.55%) Oracle 8/8i
10 13 (29.55%) LAN
11 12 (27.27%) Windows XP
12 11 (25.00%) WAN
12 11 (25.00%) Tomcat
12 11 (25.00%) IIS
12 11 (25.00%) Validation
12 11 (25.00%) HP
12 11 (25.00%) LoadRunner
12 11 (25.00%) Windows 7
12 11 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
12 11 (25.00%) VMware ESX
13 10 (22.73%) Non-Functional Testing
14 7 (15.91%) NetApp
14 7 (15.91%) Data Migration
14 7 (15.91%) Business Continuity

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell region citing SQL Server 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.091%) Web Services
2 3 (6.818%) .NET
2 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.545%) XML
4 1 (2.273%) XSLT
4 1 (2.273%) XML Schema
4 1 (2.273%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.273%) jQuery
4 1 (2.273%) Castle Windsor
4 1 (2.273%) CSS
4 1 (2.273%) ADO.NET
4 1 (2.273%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 11 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.273%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (2.273%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.273%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.818%) MS Office
3 1 (2.273%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 13 (29.55%) LAN
2 11 (25.00%) WAN
3 5 (11.36%) Firewall
4 4 (9.091%) DNS
5 1 (2.273%) Cisco ICM
5 1 (2.273%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Oracle 8/8i
2 6 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (6.818%) OLAP
5 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.273%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (4.545%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (4.545%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.273%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (2.273%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (2.273%) Back Office
1 1 (2.273%) Telecoms
1 1 (2.273%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Architect
1 9 (20.45%) Tester
2 7 (15.91%) Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Test Manager
4 5 (11.36%) Test Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Analyst
5 4 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.818%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) Consultant
7 2 (4.545%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) Test Specialist
7 2 (4.545%) Applications Architect
7 2 (4.545%) Data Migration Specialist
7 2 (4.545%) Systems Test Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Junior Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Junior
8 1 (2.273%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.091%) N-Tier
2 3 (6.818%) PKI
3 1 (2.273%) Replication
3 1 (2.273%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 30 (68.18%) Windows
2 25 (56.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 20 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (27.27%) Windows XP
5 11 (25.00%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.273%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) Migration
2 16 (36.36%) Test Scripting
3 14 (31.82%) Regression Testing
4 11 (25.00%) Validation
5 10 (22.73%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (15.91%) Business Continuity
6 7 (15.91%) Data Migration
7 6 (13.64%) Integration Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.36%) ETL
8 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (9.091%) Reverse Engineering
10 2 (4.545%) Release Management
10 2 (4.545%) Project Management
10 2 (4.545%) Service Management
11 1 (2.273%) MVC
11 1 (2.273%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (2.273%) Agile Software Development
11 1 (2.273%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (70.45%) SQL
2 3 (6.818%) T-SQL
2 3 (6.818%) C#
3 2 (4.545%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.273%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 32 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.273%) ISTQB
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 5 (11.36%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.273%) vSphere
5 1 (2.273%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.273%) SCCM
2 1 (2.273%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (65.91%) VMware
2 27 (61.36%) Oracle
3 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 11 (25.00%) HP
5 7 (15.91%) NetApp
6 3 (6.818%) Cisco
7 1 (2.273%) Lotus