The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 23 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 Cambridgeshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 32 27 40
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +13
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 20 39 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 3.704% 5.677% 2.230%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.22% 23.08% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 11
Average daily rate £300 £295 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% -26.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
90 169 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 16.67% 24.60% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 88 45
Average daily rate £300 £319 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -20.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £231 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £352 £450 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 8
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +7.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
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 2008 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +2 15 £300 -1.63%
Peterborough -3 3 £223 -22.60%
SQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 48 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 29 (60.42%) SQL
2 29 (60.42%) SQL Server 2005
3 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 22 (45.83%) T-SQL
4 22 (45.83%) MS Office
4 22 (45.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (45.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (43.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 21 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (41.67%) Oracle
7 19 (39.58%) PL/SQL
8 14 (29.17%) Windows
8 14 (29.17%) MS Exchange
8 14 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2003
8 14 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
10 11 (22.92%) Windows Server 2003
10 11 (22.92%) .NET
10 11 (22.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (20.83%) Hyper-V
11 10 (20.83%) Windows 7
11 10 (20.83%) HP
11 10 (20.83%) Cisco
11 10 (20.83%) Firewall
11 10 (20.83%) Migration
12 9 (18.75%) Wireless
12 9 (18.75%) ITIL
12 9 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (14.58%) Altiris

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 11 (22.92%) .NET
2 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.167%) WCF
4 1 (2.083%) HTML
4 1 (2.083%) CSS
4 1 (2.083%) XML
4 1 (2.083%) WinForms
4 1 (2.083%) WPF
4 1 (2.083%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 14 (29.17%) MS Exchange
1 14 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2003
1 14 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (10.42%) Lync
3 2 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (4.167%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.083%) ColdFusion
4 1 (2.083%) IIS
4 1 (2.083%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (45.83%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) Firewall
2 9 (18.75%) Wireless
2 9 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (10.42%) Intranet
3 5 (10.42%) Internet
3 5 (10.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.083%) LAN
4 1 (2.083%) WAN
4 1 (2.083%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 29 (60.42%) SQL Server 2005
3 22 (45.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (45.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (43.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (6.250%) OLAP
5 3 (6.250%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (2.083%) Retail
1 1 (2.083%) Finance
1 1 (2.083%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Support Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Developer
3 8 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Analyst
5 3 (6.250%) Senior Support Engineer
5 3 (6.250%) SQL Developer
6 1 (2.083%) SQL DBA
6 1 (2.083%) ColdFusion Developer
6 1 (2.083%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (2.083%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (2.083%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (2.083%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (2.083%) Applications Support
6 1 (2.083%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.083%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (2.083%) Network Analyst
6 1 (2.083%) DBA
6 1 (2.083%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.083%) Database Specialist
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.17%) Windows
2 11 (22.92%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (22.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (20.83%) Windows 7
4 4 (8.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (20.83%) Migration
3 9 (18.75%) ITIL
4 5 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (8.333%) TDD
5 4 (8.333%) MVC
6 2 (4.167%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (2.083%) OO
7 1 (2.083%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (2.083%) Data Analysis
7 1 (2.083%) Software Testing
7 1 (2.083%) Web Development
7 1 (2.083%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) SQL
2 22 (45.83%) T-SQL
3 19 (39.58%) PL/SQL
4 7 (14.58%) C#
5 4 (8.333%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (41.67%) Oracle
3 10 (20.83%) HP
3 10 (20.83%) Cisco
4 7 (14.58%) Altiris
5 5 (10.42%) Riverbed
5 5 (10.42%) Exinda
6 1 (2.083%) Adobe
6 1 (2.083%) SAP
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
C# - MVC - Contract - Finance - Cambridgeshire. I have a 6 month contract for a mid-senior .NET MVC Developer to create a financial web application for a client based...
X4 Group
Rate: From £200 to £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Team Lead - Senior dev - C# - MVC - Contract - Finance - Cambridgeshire. I have a 6 month contract for a Senior developer/Team Lead to create a financial web application for...
X4 Group
Rate: From £300 to £375 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
My client has a urgent need for a Congnos developer, the successful candidate will need to have the following skills and experience: Experience of developing Cognos using Oracle...
iKonnect
Rate: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Expert around Cognos ReportNet 8.4.1 and Framework Manager... Excellent knowledge in SQL Server 2000/2008, T-SQL, Data Manager and SSIS and DW concepts. Designing and...
iKas International
Rate: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
The Cognos development work required focuses entirely on data that has its source in the oracle eBusiness Suite. The successful candidate will need to have the following skills...
Hudson
Posted: 22 May 2013