Cardiff SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) 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 over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	18
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	41	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	67.21 %	27.69 %
Daily rates quoted	16	3
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£317
Average daily rate	£364	£367
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£331
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£32.00	£25.50
% change on same period last year	+25.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.00	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.11	£30.48
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
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 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 41 (48.81 %) SQL 2 30 (35.71 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (28.57 %) .NET 4 23 (27.38 %) SQL Server 2000 5 19 (22.62 %) Finance 6 18 (21.43 %) Transact-SQL 7 17 (20.24 %) XML 7 17 (20.24 %) Windows 7 17 (20.24 %) Microsoft 7 17 (20.24 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 16 (19.05 %) CSS 9 15 (17.86 %) VB 9 15 (17.86 %) C# 9 15 (17.86 %) DTS 10 14 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports

11 13 (15.48 %) JavaScript 11 13 (15.48 %) ASP.NET 12 12 (14.29 %) VBA 12 12 (14.29 %) MS Access 13 10 (11.90 %) Oracle 13 10 (11.90 %) HTML 14 9 (10.71 %) WebServices 14 9 (10.71 %) MS Excel 15 8 (9.524 %) UNIX 16 7 (8.333 %) Windows XP 16 7 (8.333 %) VB.NET 16 7 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 7 (8.333 %) Active Directory 16 7 (8.333 %) Internet 17 6 (7.143 %) Government

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 24 (28.57 %) .NET 2 17 (20.24 %) XML 3 16 (19.05 %) CSS 4 13 (15.48 %) ASP.NET 5 10 (11.90 %) HTML 6 9 (10.71 %) WebServices 7 6 (7.143 %) AJAX 8 4 (4.762 %) SOAP 9 3 (3.571 %) ASP 9 3 (3.571 %) XSLT 9 3 (3.571 %) CORBA 10 2 (2.381 %) XHTML 10 2 (2.381 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (2.381 %) ADO.NET 11 1 (1.190 %) JSP 11 1 (1.190 %) MDX 11 1 (1.190 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 5 (5.952 %) Tomcat 1 5 (5.952 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (4.762 %) ColdFusion 2 4 (4.762 %) IIS 2 4 (4.762 %) Apache 2 4 (4.762 %) Oracle Application Server 3 2 (2.381 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (2.381 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (2.381 %) SharePoint 4 1 (1.190 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.190 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 9 (10.71 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.381 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (1.190 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 7 (8.333 %) Internet 2 3 (3.571 %) LAN 2 3 (3.571 %) WAN 2 3 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (3.571 %) IIOP 2 3 (3.571 %) VLAN 3 2 (2.381 %) Network Security 3 2 (2.381 %) SSL 4 1 (1.190 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.190 %) HTTP 4 1 (1.190 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (35.71 %) SQL Server 2005 2 23 (27.38 %) SQL Server 2000 3 17 (20.24 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 15 (17.86 %) DTS 5 14 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 6 12 (14.29 %) MS Access 7 7 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 6 (7.143 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 5 (5.952 %) EDRMS 9 5 (5.952 %) Datawarehouse 10 4 (4.762 %) ETL 10 4 (4.762 %) Oracle Reports 10 4 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i 10 4 (4.762 %) SQL Server 7 11 3 (3.571 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 2 (2.381 %) MySQL 12 2 (2.381 %) GIS 12 2 (2.381 %) Data Mart 12 2 (2.381 %) Oracle 10g 13 1 (1.190 %) ReportNet
Development Applications 1 6 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (4.762 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (1.190 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 1 (1.190 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 19 (22.62 %) Finance 2 6 (7.143 %) Government 3 4 (4.762 %) Health 4 3 (3.571 %) Banking 4 3 (3.571 %) Retail 5 2 (2.381 %) Law 6 1 (1.190 %) Legal 6 1 (1.190 %) Advertising 6 1 (1.190 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.190 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.190 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.190 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 41 (48.81 %) Developer 2 15 (17.86 %) DBA 2 15 (17.86 %) SQL Developer 3 12 (14.29 %) SQL DBA 3 12 (14.29 %) .NET Developer 4 9 (10.71 %) C# Developer 5 8 (9.524 %) Analyst 5 8 (9.524 %) SQL Server Developer 6 7 (8.333 %) Analyst Programmer 6 7 (8.333 %) Programmer 7 6 (7.143 %) Architect 7 6 (7.143 %) SQL Server DBA 7 6 (7.143 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (4.762 %) Oracle Developer 8 4 (4.762 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (3.571 %) Crystal Reports Developer 9 3 (3.571 %) Server Specialist 9 3 (3.571 %) Report Developer 9 3 (3.571 %) Applications Developer 9 3 (3.571 %) ColdFusion Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.571 %) Management Information System 2 2 (2.381 %) Clustering 2 2 (2.381 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (1.190 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.190 %) PKI 3 1 (1.190 %) AS400 3 1 (1.190 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.190 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 17 (20.24 %) Windows 2 8 (9.524 %) UNIX 3 7 (8.333 %) Windows XP 4 4 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (4.762 %) AIX 5 2 (2.381 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (7.143 %) Document Management 2 4 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (4.762 %) RAD 2 4 (4.762 %) Data Modelling 2 4 (4.762 %) SOA 2 4 (4.762 %) Information Security 3 3 (3.571 %) Project Management 3 3 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (3.571 %) Knowledge Management 4 2 (2.381 %) Web Development 4 2 (2.381 %) ITIL 4 2 (2.381 %) UML 4 2 (2.381 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (2.381 %) Data Management 5 1 (1.190 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.190 %) Information Management 5 1 (1.190 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.190 %) SEO 5 1 (1.190 %) Migration 5 1 (1.190 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 41 (48.81 %) SQL 2 18 (21.43 %) Transact-SQL 3 15 (17.86 %) VB 3 15 (17.86 %) C# 4 13 (15.48 %) JavaScript 5 12 (14.29 %) VBA 6 7 (8.333 %) VB.NET 7 6 (7.143 %) VB6 7 6 (7.143 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (4.762 %) Perl 8 4 (4.762 %) Java 9 2 (2.381 %) PHP 9 2 (2.381 %) Shell Script 10 1 (1.190 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 3 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (2.381 %) CCNA 2 2 (2.381 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (2.381 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.381 %) OCA 2 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (1.190 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.190 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.381 %) SLA 2 1 (1.190 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (1.190 %) QA	System Software 1 7 (8.333 %) Active Directory 2 4 (4.762 %) Squid 2 4 (4.762 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 4 (4.762 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 17 (20.24 %) Microsoft 2 10 (11.90 %) Oracle 3 6 (7.143 %) Sybase 3 6 (7.143 %) Cognos 4 4 (4.762 %) VMware 5 2 (2.381 %) Dell 5 2 (2.381 %) Cisco