The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 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 2008 over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 45 36 54
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +18
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 6 14 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.554% 3.704% 1.359%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.955% 12.39% 6.863%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 6
Average daily rate £625 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £565 £283 £468
10% offered a daily rate of more than £653 £635 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
67 113 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 17.36% 29.89% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 76 73
Average daily rate £575 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £400 £449
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +133.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2008
London

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) C++
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Java
4 3 (42.86%) OLAP
4 3 (42.86%) OOP
4 3 (42.86%) C#
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 3 (42.86%) Reuters
4 3 (42.86%) Bloomberg
4 3 (42.86%) AOP
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (42.86%) MDX
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (42.86%) Trayport
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (28.57%) BladeLogic
5 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
5 2 (28.57%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 2 (28.57%) Confluence
5 2 (28.57%) Puppet
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 2 (28.57%) JIRA

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 3 (42.86%) MDX
2 2 (28.57%) WSH
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) OLAP
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mart
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Market Data Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) OOP
2 3 (42.86%) AOP
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C++
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) BladeLogic
1 2 (28.57%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Reuters
1 3 (42.86%) Bloomberg
1 3 (42.86%) Trayport
2 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 2 (28.57%) NetIQ
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) BMC
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle