The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 20 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 Bristol 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 32 42 41
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 17 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 3.220% 2.384% 1.774%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.32% 14.93% 8.462%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 5
Average daily rate £325 £385 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.58% +40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £254 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £415 £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
- +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £33.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -17.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
111 134 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.02% 15.97% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 91 73
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £415 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2008
South West

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Bristol SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Bristol region.

Bristol SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Bristol SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Bristol region.

Bristol SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 36 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (58.33%) .NET
3 18 (50.00%) C#
4 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
5 15 (41.67%) ASP.NET
6 12 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
6 12 (33.33%) .NET Framework
7 11 (30.56%) Subversion
7 11 (30.56%) MS Excel
8 9 (25.00%) Windows
8 9 (25.00%) SQL
8 9 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (25.00%) jQuery
9 8 (22.22%) VMware
9 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (19.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 7 (19.44%) Firewall
10 7 (19.44%) MVC
10 7 (19.44%) Delphi
10 7 (19.44%) Oracle
10 7 (19.44%) IIS
10 7 (19.44%) Oracle 10g
10 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (16.67%) MS Exchange
11 6 (16.67%) ETL
11 6 (16.67%) LAN
11 6 (16.67%) WAN
11 6 (16.67%) OO
11 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (58.33%) .NET
2 15 (41.67%) ASP.NET
3 12 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 9 (25.00%) jQuery
5 7 (19.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (13.89%) WCF
6 5 (13.89%) KnockoutJS
7 4 (11.11%) HTML
7 4 (11.11%) Ajax
8 3 (8.333%) XML
9 2 (5.556%) CSS
9 2 (5.556%) Web Services
9 2 (5.556%) Silverlight
9 2 (5.556%) Ext JS
9 2 (5.556%) HTML5
9 2 (5.556%) Sass
9 2 (5.556%) LESS
9 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 1 (2.778%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) IIS
2 6 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 6 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (5.556%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (5.556%) ESB
5 1 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.778%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (30.56%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) LAN
2 6 (16.67%) WAN
3 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (13.89%) VPN
3 5 (13.89%) DNS
4 1 (2.778%) Intranet
4 1 (2.778%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (19.44%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (11.11%) OLAP
6 4 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (8.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (8.333%) MySQL
8 1 (2.778%) DTS
8 1 (2.778%) OLTP
8 1 (2.778%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Subversion
2 4 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 3 (8.333%) Selenium
3 3 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (5.556%) Finance
2 1 (2.778%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) .NET Developer
3 8 (22.22%) C# Developer
3 8 (22.22%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Network Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 2 (5.556%) SQL Developer
7 2 (5.556%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (5.556%) MI Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Technical Support
8 1 (2.778%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (2.778%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.556%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.556%) Clustering
1 2 (5.556%) PKI
1 2 (5.556%) iPhone
1 2 (5.556%) Augmented Reality
1 2 (5.556%) EqualLogic
1 2 (5.556%) iPad
1 2 (5.556%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.778%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.778%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (5.556%) Android
4 2 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.556%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.556%) Linux
5 1 (2.778%) UNIX
5 1 (2.778%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (19.44%) MVC
2 6 (16.67%) ETL
2 6 (16.67%) OO
2 6 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 6 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (8.333%) E-Commerce
3 3 (8.333%) Refactoring
3 3 (8.333%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.556%) Workflow
4 2 (5.556%) Validation
4 2 (5.556%) Migration
4 2 (5.556%) Data Validation
4 2 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (5.556%) Multithreading
4 2 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.778%) Test Automation
5 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
5 1 (2.778%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) C#
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) Delphi
4 5 (13.89%) VB
4 5 (13.89%) VB6
5 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.556%) PHP
6 2 (5.556%) VBA
7 1 (2.778%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.778%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) MCSE
1 5 (13.89%) MCSA
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (13.89%) MCTS
1 5 (13.89%) MCITP
2 2 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.556%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.778%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.556%) vSphere
2 2 (5.556%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.556%) SCCM
1 2 (5.556%) SCOM
1 2 (5.556%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.778%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) VMware
3 7 (19.44%) Oracle
4 2 (5.556%) Cisco
4 2 (5.556%) Dell
4 2 (5.556%) CommVault
4 2 (5.556%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.556%) SonicWALL
5 1 (2.778%) ProCurve
5 1 (2.778%) Symantec
5 1 (2.778%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (2.778%) HP
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