Cambridgeshire SQL Server 2005 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough 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 Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	34
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	21	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	14.79 %	19.11 %
Daily rates quoted	9	1
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£240
Average daily rate	£360	£240
% change on same period last year	+49.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£340
% change on same period last year	-3.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.60
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£35.80
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.63	£35.80
% change on same period last year	-8.85 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	142	225
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.202 %	0.227 %
Daily rates quoted	35	28
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£317
Average daily rate	£359	£328
% change on same period last year	+9.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.63	£26.03
Average hourly rate	£28.41	£27.35
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.19	£28.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-5.33 %
SQL Server 2005 East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Cambridgeshire region.

SQL Server 2005
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+19	12	£358	+49.30 %
Peterborough	-13	3	£400	-

SQL Server 2005 East of England

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 82 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 49 (59.76 %) .NET 3 45 (54.88 %) SQL 4 33 (40.24 %) C# 5 30 (36.59 %) OLAP 6 29 (35.37 %) Finance 7 26 (31.71 %) SQL Server 2000 8 23 (28.05 %) Datawarehouse 8 23 (28.05 %) Transact-SQL 8 23 (28.05 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 21 (25.61 %) VB.NET 10 20 (24.39 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 20 (24.39 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 20 (24.39 %) Banking 11 18 (21.95 %) Microsoft Analysis Services

11 18 (21.95 %) Windows 11 18 (21.95 %) ETL 12 17 (20.73 %) XML 12 17 (20.73 %) Telecoms 13 16 (19.51 %) ASP.NET 14 15 (18.29 %) Business Intelligence 15 13 (15.85 %) Microsoft 15 13 (15.85 %) DTS 15 13 (15.85 %) VBA 16 11 (13.41 %) WinForms 16 11 (13.41 %) Insurance 16 11 (13.41 %) WCF 17 10 (12.20 %) SharePoint 18 9 (10.98 %) BusinessObjects 18 9 (10.98 %) Cognos

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 49 (59.76 %) .NET 2 17 (20.73 %) XML 3 16 (19.51 %) ASP.NET 4 11 (13.41 %) WinForms 4 11 (13.41 %) WCF 5 8 (9.756 %) WPF 6 4 (4.878 %) .NET Framework 6 4 (4.878 %) CSS 6 4 (4.878 %) WebServices 7 3 (3.659 %) J2ME 7 3 (3.659 %) HTML 7 3 (3.659 %) .NET Remoting 7 3 (3.659 %) Silverlight 7 3 (3.659 %) AJAX 8 2 (2.439 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 2 (2.439 %) XSLT 9 1 (1.220 %) OpenGL 9 1 (1.220 %) DirectX 9 1 (1.220 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 10 (12.20 %) SharePoint 2 3 (3.659 %) IIS 3 1 (1.220 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.220 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 4 (4.878 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.659 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.659 %) 3GPP 2 2 (2.439 %) SMS 2 2 (2.439 %) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence 1 82 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 30 (36.59 %) OLAP 3 26 (31.71 %) SQL Server 2000 4 23 (28.05 %) Datawarehouse 4 23 (28.05 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 20 (24.39 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 20 (24.39 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 18 (21.95 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 18 (21.95 %) ETL 7 13 (15.85 %) DTS 8 9 (10.98 %) BusinessObjects 9 2 (2.439 %) EDRMS	Development Applications 1 6 (7.317 %) Visual Studio
General 1 29 (35.37 %) Finance 2 20 (24.39 %) Banking 3 17 (20.73 %) Telecoms 4 11 (13.41 %) Insurance 5 4 (4.878 %) Retail 6 2 (2.439 %) Health 7 1 (1.220 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (1.220 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 67 (81.71 %) Developer 2 19 (23.17 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (21.95 %) SQL Developer 4 11 (13.41 %) Datawarehouse Developer 5 10 (12.20 %) ETL Developer 5 10 (12.20 %) C# Developer 6 9 (10.98 %) DBA 6 9 (10.98 %) VB.NET Developer 7 8 (9.756 %) SQL Server Developer 8 7 (8.537 %) SQL DBA 9 6 (7.317 %) SQL Server DBA 9 6 (7.317 %) WinForms Developer 9 6 (7.317 %) Business Developer 10 5 (6.098 %) Business Intelligence Developer 10 5 (6.098 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 4 (4.878 %) Administrator 11 4 (4.878 %) Systems Administrator 12 3 (3.659 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 3 (3.659 %) Server Administrator 13 2 (2.439 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (9.756 %) N-Tier 2 3 (3.659 %) Java Card 2 3 (3.659 %) Cryptography 2 3 (3.659 %) Replication 3 2 (2.439 %) Mathematics 3 2 (2.439 %) Computer Science 3 2 (2.439 %) Arabic Language 4 1 (1.220 %) Speech Recognition	Operating Systems 1 18 (21.95 %) Windows 2 9 (10.98 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (3.659 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (2.439 %) Windows Server 2008 4 2 (2.439 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.220 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.220 %) Linux 5 1 (1.220 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (18.29 %) Business Intelligence 2 6 (7.317 %) Web Development 3 5 (6.098 %) CRM 4 4 (4.878 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (4.878 %) Dimensional Modelling 5 2 (2.439 %) Data Management 5 2 (2.439 %) Logistics 5 2 (2.439 %) OO 6 1 (1.220 %) Project Management 6 1 (1.220 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (1.220 %) OOD 6 1 (1.220 %) SOA 6 1 (1.220 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.220 %) UML 6 1 (1.220 %) OOP 6 1 (1.220 %) Performance Management 6 1 (1.220 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (1.220 %) Migration 6 1 (1.220 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.220 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 45 (54.88 %) SQL 2 33 (40.24 %) C# 3 23 (28.05 %) Transact-SQL 4 21 (25.61 %) VB.NET 5 13 (15.85 %) VBA 6 5 (6.098 %) Java 7 3 (3.659 %) C 7 3 (3.659 %) JavaScript 7 3 (3.659 %) C++ 8 2 (2.439 %) VB 9 1 (1.220 %) XAML 9 1 (1.220 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 3 (3.659 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (3.659 %) Degree 2 2 (2.439 %) MCDBA 3 1 (1.220 %) MCSE	System Software 1 3 (3.659 %) MSMQ 2 2 (2.439 %) Active Directory 3 1 (1.220 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 3 (3.659 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (2.439 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 13 (15.85 %) Microsoft 2 9 (10.98 %) Cognos 2 9 (10.98 %) Business Objects 3 8 (9.756 %) ProClarity 4 2 (2.439 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.220 %) VMware 5 1 (1.220 %) ION Trading