Brighton SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Brighton region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Immingham Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	5
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	28	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	90.32 %	60.98 %
Daily rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£363
Average daily rate	£336	£371
% change on same period last year	-9.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.80	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£20.70	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.60	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.91	£31.40
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence Brighton
Matching contract IT job ads	31	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	4	17
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£340
Average daily rate	£345	£355
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.50	£24.17
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£24.17
% change on same period last year	-6.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.50	£24.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
SQL Server East Sussex

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 31 (58.49 %) .NET 2 25 (47.17 %) C# 3 23 (43.40 %) SQL 3 23 (43.40 %) SQL Server 2005 4 18 (33.96 %) ASP.NET 5 13 (24.53 %) Finance 6 10 (18.87 %) ASP 6 10 (18.87 %) Microsoft 7 9 (16.98 %) XML 8 8 (15.09 %) Pensions 8 8 (15.09 %) JavaScript 8 8 (15.09 %) HTML 9 7 (13.21 %) SQL Server 2000 9 7 (13.21 %) WebServices 10 5 (9.434 %) Government

10 5 (9.434 %) Migration 10 5 (9.434 %) ColdFusion 10 5 (9.434 %) SharePoint 11 4 (7.547 %) Intranet 11 4 (7.547 %) Project Management 11 4 (7.547 %) Transact-SQL 11 4 (7.547 %) CSS 11 4 (7.547 %) Windows 11 4 (7.547 %) Web Design 11 4 (7.547 %) .NET Framework 11 4 (7.547 %) Local Government 11 4 (7.547 %) InfoPath 11 4 (7.547 %) Insurance 12 3 (5.660 %) Banking 12 3 (5.660 %) VB.NET

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 31 (58.49 %) .NET 2 18 (33.96 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (18.87 %) ASP 4 9 (16.98 %) XML 5 8 (15.09 %) HTML 6 7 (13.21 %) WebServices 7 4 (7.547 %) CSS 7 4 (7.547 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (3.774 %) XSLT 8 2 (3.774 %) XHTML 8 2 (3.774 %) AJAX 9 1 (1.887 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (1.887 %) J2EE 9 1 (1.887 %) SOAP 9 1 (1.887 %) DOM 9 1 (1.887 %) ADO 9 1 (1.887 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (1.887 %) COM 9 1 (1.887 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.434 %) ColdFusion 1 5 (9.434 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.887 %) CMS 2 1 (1.887 %) WebLogic 2 1 (1.887 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (7.547 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.547 %) Intranet 2 2 (3.774 %) VPN 2 2 (3.774 %) IPsec 3 1 (1.887 %) Internet 3 1 (1.887 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (43.40 %) SQL Server 2005 2 7 (13.21 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (3.774 %) MS Access 3 2 (3.774 %) DTS 3 2 (3.774 %) MySQL 3 2 (3.774 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (3.774 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (1.887 %) Oracle OLAP 4 1 (1.887 %) OLAP 4 1 (1.887 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (1.887 %) ETL 4 1 (1.887 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.887 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 2 (3.774 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (1.887 %) Visual Studio
General 1 13 (24.53 %) Finance 2 8 (15.09 %) Pensions 3 5 (9.434 %) Government 4 4 (7.547 %) Local Government 4 4 (7.547 %) Insurance 5 3 (5.660 %) Banking 6 2 (3.774 %) Education 7 1 (1.887 %) Marketing 7 1 (1.887 %) Retail 7 1 (1.887 %) Billing 7 1 (1.887 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.887 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 23 (43.40 %) Developer 2 13 (24.53 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (16.98 %) DBA 3 9 (16.98 %) C# Developer 3 9 (16.98 %) SQL DBA 4 6 (11.32 %) Team Leader 5 5 (9.434 %) SQL Server DBA 6 4 (7.547 %) Architect 6 4 (7.547 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (7.547 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (5.660 %) Server Support 7 3 (5.660 %) Analyst 8 2 (3.774 %) .NET Architect 8 2 (3.774 %) .NET Team Leader 9 1 (1.887 %) C# Web Developer 9 1 (1.887 %) Server Specialist 9 1 (1.887 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 1 (1.887 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (1.887 %) Database Developer 9 1 (1.887 %) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.887 %) Spread Betting 1 1 (1.887 %) Clustering 1 1 (1.887 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 4 (7.547 %) Windows 2 1 (1.887 %) UNIX 2 1 (1.887 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (9.434 %) Migration 2 4 (7.547 %) Project Management 2 4 (7.547 %) Web Design 3 2 (3.774 %) OO 3 2 (3.774 %) Data Migration 4 1 (1.887 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (1.887 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (1.887 %) Content Management 4 1 (1.887 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (1.887 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (1.887 %) OOD 4 1 (1.887 %) B2B	Programming Languages 1 25 (47.17 %) C# 2 23 (43.40 %) SQL 3 8 (15.09 %) JavaScript 4 4 (7.547 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (5.660 %) VB.NET 6 2 (3.774 %) VB 6 2 (3.774 %) VB6 7 1 (1.887 %) VBScript 7 1 (1.887 %) Java 7 1 (1.887 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 3 (5.660 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (3.774 %) MCSE	System Software 1 2 (3.774 %) ISA Server 2 1 (1.887 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.887 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 10 (18.87 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.774 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.887 %) RedDot 3 1 (1.887 %) SAP 3 1 (1.887 %) BEA