The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Canary Wharf 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 45 45 54
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 2 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.578% 1.285% 0.969%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.509% 4.098% 4.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 4
Average daily rate - £300 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -45.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-21.87% -20.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
57 122 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 16.47% 31.36% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 76 82
Average daily rate £575 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.52% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+7.54% -15.87%
SQL Server 2005
London

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Canary Wharf SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (80.00%) Banking
3 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
4 8 (53.33%) VBA
4 8 (53.33%) RAD
4 8 (53.33%) QlikView
5 5 (33.33%) JIRA
6 4 (26.67%) Investment Banking
6 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
7 3 (20.00%) Perforce
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
7 3 (20.00%) Degree
7 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (13.33%) Puppet
8 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
8 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (13.33%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 2 (13.33%) Confluence
8 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
8 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (13.33%) WSH
2 1 (6.667%) Middleware
2 1 (6.667%) WCF
2 1 (6.667%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (53.33%) QlikView
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (6.667%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.667%) ERwin
General
1 12 (80.00%) Banking
2 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.667%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Lead SQL Server Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.667%) DBA
4 1 (6.667%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Solaris
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) RAD
2 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (20.00%) Scrum
2 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (13.33%) OO
3 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.667%) SOA
4 1 (6.667%) Data Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.667%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) VBA
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.667%) MCTS
2 1 (6.667%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) BladeLogic
1 2 (13.33%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Perforce
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) BMC
3 2 (13.33%) NetIQ