Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cambridgeshire region.

 Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank3643-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7New entry-
Matching contract IT job ads650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire1.493 %0.958 %-
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category8.451 %5.376 %-
Daily rates quoted350
Average daily rate£290£350-
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14 %-
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£350£450
% change year-on-year
-21.42 %-22.22 %
Hourly rates quoted100
Average hourly rate£37.50--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£32.00-
% change year-on-year
-14.06 %-
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
7193325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire17.66 %17.82 %29.10 %
Daily rates quoted322085
Average daily rate£260£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.71 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£267
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£350£350£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£320£350
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-8.570 %
Hourly rates quoted91720
Average hourly rate£28.25£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.830 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.25£25.00£20.10
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£44.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£26.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.770 %-18.46 %
SQL Server 2008 East of EnglandSQL Server 2008
East of England

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.

SQL Server 2008
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

The 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
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 16 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
CambridgeNew entry-3£290-
HuntingdonNew entry-1£260-
SQL Server 2008 East of EnglandSQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

19 (100.00 %)SQL Server
26 (66.67 %)Windows
35 (55.56 %)ASP.NET
35 (55.56 %)Java
35 (55.56 %)SQL Server Integration Services
35 (55.56 %).NET
44 (44.44 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
44 (44.44 %)PerformancePoint
44 (44.44 %)Web Development
44 (44.44 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
44 (44.44 %)SQL Server 2005
44 (44.44 %)SharePoint Server 2007
44 (44.44 %)Silverlight
44 (44.44 %)Windows Server 2003
44 (44.44 %)MS Office
44 (44.44 %)Visual Studio
44 (44.44 %)SharePoint
44 (44.44 %)Business Intelligence
44 (44.44 %)Microsoft
52 (22.22 %)NHS
52 (22.22 %)C
52 (22.22 %)Windows Server 2008
61 (11.11 %)ASP.NET MVC
61 (11.11 %)Capacity Planning
61 (11.11 %)jQuery
61 (11.11 %).NET Framework
61 (11.11 %)C#
61 (11.11 %)HTML
61 (11.11 %)SQL
61 (11.11 %)CSS

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (55.56 %)ASP.NET
15 (55.56 %).NET
24 (44.44 %)Silverlight
31 (11.11 %)ASP.NET MVC
31 (11.11 %)jQuery
31 (11.11 %).NET Framework
31 (11.11 %)HTML
31 (11.11 %)CSS
31 (11.11 %)MVC
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (44.44 %)SharePoint Server 2007
14 (44.44 %)SharePoint
21 (11.11 %)Apache
21 (11.11 %)Tomcat
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (44.44 %)MS Office
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19 (100.00 %)SQL Server
25 (55.56 %)SQL Server Integration Services
34 (44.44 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
34 (44.44 %)PerformancePoint
34 (44.44 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
34 (44.44 %)SQL Server 2005
41 (11.11 %)FileMaker
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (44.44 %)Visual Studio
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15 (55.56 %)Developer
24 (44.44 %)SharePoint Developer
33 (33.33 %)DBA
42 (22.22 %)SQL DBA
51 (11.11 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
51 (11.11 %)Server Engineer
51 (11.11 %)Deployment Engineer
51 (11.11 %)Consultant
51 (11.11 %)Administrator
51 (11.11 %).NET Developer
51 (11.11 %)C# Developer
51 (11.11 %)SQL Server DBA
51 (11.11 %)ASP.NET Developer
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (22.22 %)NHS
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (66.67 %)Windows
24 (44.44 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (22.22 %)Windows Server 2008
41 (11.11 %)Linux
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14 (44.44 %)Web Development
14 (44.44 %)Business Intelligence
21 (11.11 %)Capacity Planning
21 (11.11 %)UML
21 (11.11 %)Agile Software Development
21 (11.11 %)Migration
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (55.56 %)Java
22 (22.22 %)C
31 (11.11 %)C#
31 (11.11 %)SQL
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (44.44 %)Microsoft
21 (11.11 %)VMware