Bristol SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 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 2005 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hornchurch Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	42
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	14	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	11.86 %	15.34 %
Daily rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£364
Average daily rate	£292	£422
% change on same period last year	-30.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£481
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£348
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.00	£34.50
Average hourly rate	£44.00	£37.00
% change on same period last year	+18.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£46.00	£39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.44	£34.27
% change on same period last year	+0.49 %
Database & Business Intelligence Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	118	189
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.157 %	0.191 %
Daily rates quoted	38	46
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£363
Average daily rate	£317	£415
% change on same period last year	-23.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£467
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.63	£29.30
Average hourly rate	£38.91	£33.28
% change on same period last year	+16.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.19	£37.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 2005 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 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bristol region.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bristol region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 57 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 32 (56.14 %) .NET 3 30 (52.63 %) SQL 4 23 (40.35 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 19 (33.33 %) C# 5 19 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 5 19 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 6 17 (29.82 %) SQL Server 2000 7 15 (26.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 11 (19.30 %) Visual Studio 9 10 (17.54 %) Transact-SQL 9 10 (17.54 %) XML 10 8 (14.04 %) Windows 10 8 (14.04 %) VB.NET 11 7 (12.28 %) Replication

12 6 (10.53 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 6 (10.53 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 6 (10.53 %) Microsoft 12 6 (10.53 %) WebServices 13 5 (8.772 %) UML 13 5 (8.772 %) XSLT 13 5 (8.772 %) E-Commerce 13 5 (8.772 %) VLDB 13 5 (8.772 %) ISEB 13 5 (8.772 %) Agile Software Development 13 5 (8.772 %) AJAX 13 5 (8.772 %) .NET Framework 14 4 (7.018 %) Business Intelligence 14 4 (7.018 %) OLTP 14 4 (7.018 %) Regression Testing

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 32 (56.14 %) .NET 2 19 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (17.54 %) XML 4 6 (10.53 %) WebServices 5 5 (8.772 %) AJAX 5 5 (8.772 %) .NET Framework 5 5 (8.772 %) XSLT 6 4 (7.018 %) ASP 6 4 (7.018 %) COM+ 7 3 (5.263 %) WCF 7 3 (5.263 %) WinForms 8 2 (3.509 %) MDX 8 2 (3.509 %) ADO.NET 8 2 (3.509 %) SOAP 8 2 (3.509 %) WSDL 9 1 (1.754 %) CSS 9 1 (1.754 %) Silverlight 9 1 (1.754 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (1.754 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.509 %) IIS 1 2 (3.509 %) CMS 2 1 (1.754 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (1.754 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (5.263 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.509 %) WAN 1 2 (3.509 %) SAN 2 1 (1.754 %) Internet 2 1 (1.754 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 57 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 23 (40.35 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 19 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 4 17 (29.82 %) SQL Server 2000 5 15 (26.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 6 (10.53 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 6 (10.53 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 5 (8.772 %) VLDB 8 4 (7.018 %) OLTP 9 3 (5.263 %) Star Schema 9 3 (5.263 %) OLAP 10 2 (3.509 %) ETL 11 1 (1.754 %) DTS 11 1 (1.754 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 11 (19.30 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (5.263 %) Oracle APEX 3 2 (3.509 %) Flash 3 2 (3.509 %) QuickTest Pro 4 1 (1.754 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (1.754 %) NUnit 4 1 (1.754 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.754 %) FitNesse
General 1 2 (3.509 %) Telecoms 1 2 (3.509 %) Finance 1 2 (3.509 %) Insurance 1 2 (3.509 %) Music 1 2 (3.509 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.754 %) Government 2 1 (1.754 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 33 (57.89 %) Developer 2 16 (28.07 %) DBA 3 12 (21.05 %) SQL Developer 3 12 (21.05 %) SQL DBA 4 11 (19.30 %) .NET Developer 4 11 (19.30 %) SQL Server DBA 5 9 (15.79 %) SQL Server Developer 6 7 (12.28 %) C# Developer 7 6 (10.53 %) Tester 7 6 (10.53 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (10.53 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 5 (8.772 %) Systems Developer 9 4 (7.018 %) Analyst 10 3 (5.263 %) Test Analyst 11 2 (3.509 %) Manual Tester 11 2 (3.509 %) Regression Tester 12 1 (1.754 %) Database Developer 12 1 (1.754 %) Software Developer 12 1 (1.754 %) Technical Tester 12 1 (1.754 %) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (12.28 %) Replication 2 4 (7.018 %) Clustering 3 3 (5.263 %) Client/Server 3 3 (5.263 %) Multithreading 4 1 (1.754 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 8 (14.04 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.772 %) UML 1 5 (8.772 %) E-Commerce 1 5 (8.772 %) Agile Software Development 2 4 (7.018 %) Regression Testing 2 4 (7.018 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (5.263 %) TDD 3 3 (5.263 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (5.263 %) Dimensional Modelling 3 3 (5.263 %) Data Migration 3 3 (5.263 %) Migration 4 2 (3.509 %) Performance Management 4 2 (3.509 %) Software Testing 4 2 (3.509 %) Direct Marketing 5 1 (1.754 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (1.754 %) Manual Testing 5 1 (1.754 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (1.754 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.754 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.754 %) HOOD 5 1 (1.754 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 30 (52.63 %) SQL 2 19 (33.33 %) C# 3 10 (17.54 %) Transact-SQL 4 8 (14.04 %) VB.NET 5 4 (7.018 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (5.263 %) VB 7 2 (3.509 %) PHP 8 1 (1.754 %) Delphi 8 1 (1.754 %) JavaScript 8 1 (1.754 %) ActionScript 8 1 (1.754 %) XAML 8 1 (1.754 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 5 (8.772 %) ISEB	System Software 1 4 (7.018 %) MSMQ 2 3 (5.263 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 6 (10.53 %) Microsoft 2 4 (7.018 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.754 %) Borland