Bristol SQL Server 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the Bristol 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 2000 over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Thame Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	53
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	8	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	6.061 %	6.731 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£280
Average daily rate	£307	£320
% change on same period last year	-4.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£26.67
Average hourly rate	-	£31.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.74	£30.38
% change on same period last year	+4.46 %
Database & Business Intelligence Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	132	208
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.184 %	0.209 %
Daily rates quoted	50	63
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£353
Average daily rate	£321	£414
% change on same period last year	-22.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£476
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£350
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.17	£31.12
Average hourly rate	£33.00	£34.45
% change on same period last year	-4.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.83	£37.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.29	£31.81
% change on same period last year	-4.77 %
SQL Server 2000 South West

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Bristol region.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Bristol region.

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 16 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 15 (93.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (68.75 %) .NET 4 9 (56.25 %) SQL 5 8 (50.00 %) C# 6 7 (43.75 %) ASP.NET 7 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 7 4 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 7 4 (25.00 %) ISEB 8 3 (18.75 %) QuickTest Pro 8 3 (18.75 %) LoadRunner 8 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 8 3 (18.75 %) XML 8 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 8 3 (18.75 %) VB.NET

8 3 (18.75 %) AJAX 8 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (12.50 %) FitNesse 9 2 (12.50 %) Data Migration 9 2 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing 9 2 (12.50 %) Migration 9 2 (12.50 %) VB 9 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 9 2 (12.50 %) CSS 9 2 (12.50 %) WebServices 9 2 (12.50 %) Client/Server 9 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 10 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (6.250 %) HOOD

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (68.75 %) .NET 2 7 (43.75 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (18.75 %) XML 3 3 (18.75 %) AJAX 4 2 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (12.50 %) CSS 4 2 (12.50 %) WebServices 5 1 (6.250 %) WCF 5 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (6.250 %) HTML	Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 15 (93.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (6.250 %) OLAP 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (18.75 %) QuickTest Pro 1 3 (18.75 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (12.50 %) FitNesse
General 1 1 (6.250 %) Finance 1 1 (6.250 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Developer 2 7 (43.75 %) .NET Developer 3 5 (31.25 %) Tester 4 2 (12.50 %) Manual Tester 4 2 (12.50 %) C# Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Database Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Technical Tester 5 1 (6.250 %) .NET Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) .NET Applications Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Oracle DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Software Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Client/Server 2 1 (6.250 %) French Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 1 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (12.50 %) Migration 3 2 (12.50 %) Data Migration 3 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) HOOD 4 1 (6.250 %) UML 4 1 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (6.250 %) Manual Testing
Programming Languages 1 9 (56.25 %) SQL 2 8 (50.00 %) C# 3 3 (18.75 %) VB.NET 4 2 (12.50 %) VB 5 1 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (25.00 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle