Cardiff SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Cardiff region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
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Rank	19	32
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	14	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	22.95 %	6.154 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£350
Average daily rate	£470	£425
% change on same period last year	+10.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£557	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£351
% change on same period last year	-7.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.38	£34.04
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	61	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.067 %
Daily rates quoted	20	14
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£348
Average daily rate	£336	£375
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£32.00	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+56.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.00	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.75	£31.10
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
SQL Server 2005 South Wales

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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Cardiff region.

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 30 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 13 (43.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (30.00 %) SQL 3 9 (30.00 %) Windows 4 8 (26.67 %) .NET 5 7 (23.33 %) C# 5 7 (23.33 %) Microsoft 5 7 (23.33 %) Active Directory 5 7 (23.33 %) Internet 6 6 (20.00 %) Finance 6 6 (20.00 %) Government 6 6 (20.00 %) XML 6 6 (20.00 %) Document Management 7 5 (16.67 %) EDRMS 7 5 (16.67 %) MS Exchange

8 4 (13.33 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (13.33 %) VMware 8 4 (13.33 %) Information Security 8 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 8 4 (13.33 %) UNIX 8 4 (13.33 %) Apache 8 4 (13.33 %) Tomcat 8 4 (13.33 %) Oracle 8 4 (13.33 %) Squid 8 4 (13.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 3 (10.00 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 3 (10.00 %) Knowledge Management 9 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 3 (10.00 %) VLAN

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 8 (26.67 %) .NET 2 6 (20.00 %) XML 3 3 (10.00 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (10.00 %) CORBA 4 2 (6.667 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (6.667 %) XSLT 4 2 (6.667 %) WebServices 5 1 (3.333 %) HTML 5 1 (3.333 %) CSS 5 1 (3.333 %) ADO.NET 5 1 (3.333 %) MDX 5 1 (3.333 %) XHTML 5 1 (3.333 %) AJAX 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 5 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (13.33 %) Apache 2 4 (13.33 %) Tomcat 3 2 (6.667 %) SharePoint 3 2 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (6.667 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (3.333 %) IIS 4 1 (3.333 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.333 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (23.33 %) Internet 2 3 (10.00 %) VLAN 2 3 (10.00 %) LAN 2 3 (10.00 %) WAN 2 3 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (10.00 %) IIOP 3 2 (6.667 %) SSL 4 1 (3.333 %) Intranet 4 1 (3.333 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 13 (43.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (16.67 %) EDRMS 4 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 3 (10.00 %) DTS 4 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (3.333 %) OLAP 6 1 (3.333 %) Data Mart 6 1 (3.333 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (3.333 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 6 (20.00 %) Finance 1 6 (20.00 %) Government 2 1 (3.333 %) Advertising 2 1 (3.333 %) Banking 2 1 (3.333 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 11 (36.67 %) Developer 2 6 (20.00 %) C# Developer 3 4 (13.33 %) DBA 3 4 (13.33 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (10.00 %) Server Specialist 4 3 (10.00 %) Architect 4 3 (10.00 %) Project Manager 4 3 (10.00 %) SQL Developer 4 3 (10.00 %) SQL DBA 5 2 (6.667 %) SQL Server Developer 5 2 (6.667 %) Windows Server Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) Server Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) SharePoint Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) Records Manager 6 1 (3.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) Web Applications Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) Datawarehouse Architect 6 1 (3.333 %) Implementation Specialist 6 1 (3.333 %) Infrastructure Architect 6 1 (3.333 %) Business Architect
Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.00 %) Management Information System 2 2 (6.667 %) Clustering 3 1 (3.333 %) PKI 3 1 (3.333 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 9 (30.00 %) Windows 2 4 (13.33 %) UNIX 2 4 (13.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (10.00 %) Windows XP 4 2 (6.667 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (20.00 %) Document Management 2 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (13.33 %) Information Security 3 3 (10.00 %) Project Management 3 3 (10.00 %) Knowledge Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 4 2 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (3.333 %) Content Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Information Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (3.333 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Migration 5 1 (3.333 %) Network Load Balancing 5 1 (3.333 %) Data Architecture	Programming Languages 1 9 (30.00 %) SQL 2 7 (23.33 %) C# 3 2 (6.667 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (3.333 %) VB 4 1 (3.333 %) VB.NET 4 1 (3.333 %) XPath 4 1 (3.333 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (3.333 %) MCSE 3 1 (3.333 %) MCDBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.667 %) SLA 2 1 (3.333 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 7 (23.33 %) Active Directory 2 4 (13.33 %) Squid 2 4 (13.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (10.00 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Vendors 1 7 (23.33 %) Microsoft 2 4 (13.33 %) VMware 2 4 (13.33 %) Oracle 3 3 (10.00 %) Cognos