The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 22 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 Bradford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 8 25 21
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 19 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 12.18% 2.439% 1.739%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 41.30% 6.250% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
Average daily rate £250 £250 £188
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -19.23%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
46 64 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 29.49% 39.02% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 8
Average daily rate £300 £365 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.80% +73.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £450 £274
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +58.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
SQL Server
West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Bradford region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bradford SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

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 Bradford region.

Bradford SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 18 (52.94%) SQL Server 2008
2 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 13 (38.24%) Oracle
3 12 (35.29%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (32.35%) .NET
4 11 (32.35%) C#
5 10 (29.41%) ETL
5 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 10 (29.41%) Oracle 11g
6 8 (23.53%) Oracle 10g
6 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (23.53%) MS Excel
6 8 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
7 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
7 7 (20.59%) ITIL
7 7 (20.59%) Windows
7 7 (20.59%) SharePoint
7 7 (20.59%) Retail
7 7 (20.59%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (17.65%) Manufacturing
8 6 (17.65%) VMware
8 6 (17.65%) Banking
8 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
8 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (17.65%) Oracle 9i
8 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
8 6 (17.65%) PL/SQL
9 5 (14.71%) T-SQL

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 11 (32.35%) .NET
2 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
3 5 (14.71%) CSS
4 3 (8.824%) HTML
4 3 (8.824%) WCF
5 2 (5.882%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.882%) jQuery
5 2 (5.882%) XHTML
5 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.941%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.941%) JSP
6 1 (2.941%) SOAP
6 1 (2.941%) Struts
6 1 (2.941%) XML
6 1 (2.941%) J2EE
6 1 (2.941%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.76%) CMS
3 3 (8.824%) EPiServer CMS
3 3 (8.824%) Lotus Notes
3 3 (8.824%) Lotus Domino
4 2 (5.882%) MS Exchange
4 2 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.941%) Apache
5 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.941%) IIS
5 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) SAN
2 3 (8.824%) VoIP
2 3 (8.824%) Firewall
2 3 (8.824%) Wireless
3 1 (2.941%) NAS
3 1 (2.941%) LAN
3 1 (2.941%) WAN
3 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) SQL Server 2008
2 12 (35.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (29.41%) Oracle 11g
4 8 (23.53%) Oracle 10g
4 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (17.65%) Oracle 9i
6 5 (14.71%) DTS
7 4 (11.76%) Oracle OWB
7 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (8.824%) RDBMS
8 3 (8.824%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (5.882%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
10 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (2.941%) OLAP
10 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (5.882%) Visual Studio
1 2 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (20.59%) Retail
2 6 (17.65%) Manufacturing
2 6 (17.65%) Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) .NET Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Architect
4 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (14.71%) C# Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) Support Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) DBA
6 4 (11.76%) SQL Developer
7 3 (8.824%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (8.824%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (8.824%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (8.824%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (5.882%) SQL DBA
9 1 (2.941%) VMware Consultant
9 1 (2.941%) XML Developer
9 1 (2.941%) ETL Architect
9 1 (2.941%) Teradata DBA
9 1 (2.941%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
2 3 (8.824%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
1 7 (20.59%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (8.824%) UNIX
3 3 (8.824%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.941%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.941%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) ETL
2 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
2 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (20.59%) ITIL
4 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
5 4 (11.76%) Data Transformation
6 3 (8.824%) Database Security
6 3 (8.824%) Test Scripting
6 3 (8.824%) Migration
7 2 (5.882%) SOA
7 2 (5.882%) Web Application Development
8 1 (2.941%) Database Tuning
8 1 (2.941%) Content Management
8 1 (2.941%) Data Migration
8 1 (2.941%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (2.941%) TDD
8 1 (2.941%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.941%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 11 (32.35%) C#
3 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) PL/SQL
4 5 (14.71%) T-SQL
5 3 (8.824%) VBA
6 2 (5.882%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.882%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.941%) Java
7 1 (2.941%) Perl
7 1 (2.941%) VBScript
7 1 (2.941%) VB
7 1 (2.941%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (11.76%) MCSE
1 4 (11.76%) MCSA
2 3 (8.824%) CCNA
2 3 (8.824%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.824%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.941%) MCTS
3 1 (2.941%) MCITP
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.824%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.882%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (5.882%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (5.882%) XenApp
5 1 (2.941%) XenServer
5 1 (2.941%) vSphere
5 1 (2.941%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) OVSD
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (5.882%) OpenView
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Oracle
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) VMware
4 5 (14.71%) Citrix
5 4 (11.76%) EPiServer
5 4 (11.76%) Cisco
5 4 (11.76%) Informatica
6 3 (8.824%) Lotus
6 3 (8.824%) LANDesk
6 3 (8.824%) HP
7 2 (5.882%) Perforce
8 1 (2.941%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.941%) Twitter
8 1 (2.941%) SAP
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