The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 19 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 Cardiff 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 15 8 8
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 17 32 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 8.173% 15.61% 15.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 56.67% 56.14% 70.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 20
Average daily rate £319 £350 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.85% +1.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £279 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £500 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £23.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.07%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
30 57 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 14.42% 27.80% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 27
Average daily rate £388 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +136.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
SQL Server
South Wales

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cardiff SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cardiff SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing SQL Server 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.

1 27 (64.29%) SQL
2 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (42.86%) Windows
4 15 (35.71%) Finance
5 14 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (30.95%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (28.57%) UNIX
7 12 (28.57%) T-SQL
8 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (26.19%) SQL Server 2008
9 10 (23.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (23.81%) ETL
10 9 (21.43%) Cognos
10 9 (21.43%) IBM
10 9 (21.43%) Visual Studio
10 9 (21.43%) Banking
10 9 (21.43%) WebSphere
10 9 (21.43%) Degree
10 9 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (19.05%) Project Management
11 8 (19.05%) IIS
12 7 (16.67%) .NET
12 7 (16.67%) MS Office
12 7 (16.67%) NHS
12 7 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
13 6 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (14.29%) Cognos Business Intelligence
13 6 (14.29%) Data Mart
13 6 (14.29%) Shell Script

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing SQL Server 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (21.43%) WebSphere
2 7 (16.67%) .NET
3 5 (11.90%) .NET Framework
4 4 (9.524%) Ajax
4 4 (9.524%) WCF
4 4 (9.524%) Spring
4 4 (9.524%) HTML
4 4 (9.524%) XML
4 4 (9.524%) ASP.NET
4 4 (9.524%) CSS
5 3 (7.143%) SOAP
5 3 (7.143%) Web Services
5 3 (7.143%) XSLT
5 3 (7.143%) J2EE
5 3 (7.143%) J2SE
5 3 (7.143%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.143%) JSF
5 3 (7.143%) WF
5 3 (7.143%) jQuery
6 1 (2.381%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) IIS
2 3 (7.143%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (7.143%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.143%) FileNet
2 3 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (4.762%) CMS
4 1 (2.381%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.381%) Kentico
4 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) MS Office
2 6 (14.29%) MS Project
3 3 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.762%) LAN
1 2 (4.762%) WAN
1 2 (4.762%) SAN
2 1 (2.381%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.381%) Internet
2 1 (2.381%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 13 (30.95%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (26.19%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (23.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (14.29%) Data Mart
6 4 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (9.524%) DB2
7 3 (7.143%) DTS
7 3 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (4.762%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (4.762%) OLTP
9 1 (2.381%) OLAP
9 1 (2.381%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (2.381%) Cognos Impromptu
9 1 (2.381%) Informix
9 1 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Visual Studio
1 9 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (7.143%) Subversion
2 3 (7.143%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.762%) TestDirector
4 1 (2.381%) Maven
General
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Developer
2 15 (35.71%) Analyst
3 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 7 (16.67%) Applications Support
5 6 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
6 5 (11.90%) SQL Server DBA
6 5 (11.90%) SQL DBA
6 5 (11.90%) DBA
7 4 (9.524%) Administrator
7 4 (9.524%) Test Analyst
8 3 (7.143%) C# Developer
8 3 (7.143%) Server Administrator
8 3 (7.143%) Software Developer
8 3 (7.143%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.762%) Software Team Leader
9 2 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (4.762%) MI Analyst
9 2 (4.762%) Development Manager
9 2 (4.762%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) NHS
2 5 (11.90%) Clustering
2 5 (11.90%) iSeries
3 4 (9.524%) AS400
4 3 (7.143%) Replication
5 2 (4.762%) Fat Client
5 2 (4.762%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.381%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.381%) Web 2.0
6 1 (2.381%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.381%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Windows
2 12 (28.57%) UNIX
3 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (14.29%) AIX
4 6 (14.29%) Linux
5 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (9.524%) OS/400
7 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (23.81%) ETL
3 8 (19.05%) Project Management
4 7 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 5 (11.90%) RUP
6 5 (11.90%) MVC
6 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
7 4 (9.524%) Integration Testing
7 4 (9.524%) Kimball Methodology
7 4 (9.524%) Regression Testing
8 3 (7.143%) OO
8 3 (7.143%) Workflow
8 3 (7.143%) Test Strategy
9 2 (4.762%) Time Management
9 2 (4.762%) Software Engineering
9 2 (4.762%) Service Delivery
9 2 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 6 (14.29%) C#
3 6 (14.29%) COBOL
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.524%) RPG
6 3 (7.143%) C
6 3 (7.143%) Java
6 3 (7.143%) FoxPro (VFP)
7 1 (2.381%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.381%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) ISEB
3 1 (2.381%) HNC
3 1 (2.381%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.381%) MCSE
3 1 (2.381%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.143%) HL7
2 2 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.381%) Terminal Services
1 1 (2.381%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.381%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.381%) ARCserve
1 1 (2.381%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.43%) Cognos
2 9 (21.43%) IBM
3 3 (7.143%) Oracle
3 3 (7.143%) Adobe
3 3 (7.143%) ILOG
4 2 (4.762%) Rackspace
4 2 (4.762%) VMware
5 1 (2.381%) SAP
5 1 (2.381%) Citrix
5 1 (2.381%) Intel
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Log shipping / Mirroring / Replication / Clustering/DB Backup/ DB Restoring. - Good understanding of Windows Server operating system (2003 / 2008) and related storage / network infrastructures... - T-SQL including stored procedures...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £285 to £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Log shipping / Mirroring / Replication / Clustering/DB Backup/ DB Restoring. Good understanding of Windows Server operating system (2003 / 2008) and related storage / network infrastructures... T-SQL including stored procedures...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £275 to £300 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013