Bristol SQL Server 7 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 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 7 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Location Aberdeen Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	68
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.847 %	1.587 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.69	£29.06
% change on same period last year	+9.02 %
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 7 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 7
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 7
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Bristol region.

SQL Server 7
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Bristol region.

SQL Server 7
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 7 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 7.

1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (33.33 %) C# 3 1 (33.33 %) C++ 3 1 (33.33 %) Delphi 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) RUP 3 1 (33.33 %) GIS

3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Unified Process

SQL Server 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing SQL Server 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ADO 1 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET 1 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (33.33 %) GIS
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Database Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) RUP 1 1 (33.33 %) Unified Process	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C# 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Delphi 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) VB 1 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET