The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2000 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 Cheshire 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 2000
Rank 51 52 40
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 12 11 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.657% 1.377% 3.406%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.756% 6.962% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 25
Average daily rate £400 £288 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.13% -17.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+14.16% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
123 158 223
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 16.99% 19.77% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 115
Average daily rate £388 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.16% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £260 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £379 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 10
Average hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +81.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2000
North West

SQL Server 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cheshire SQL Server 2000 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire SQL Server 2000 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire SQL Server 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2000
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 9 £394 -
SQL Server 2000
North West

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 14 (93.33%) SQL
3 13 (86.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
5 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (60.00%) T-SQL
6 8 (53.33%) VLDB
7 7 (46.67%) Replication
8 6 (40.00%) OLTP
8 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
8 6 (40.00%) Data Integration
9 5 (33.33%) IDMS
9 5 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (26.67%) Load Testing
10 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
10 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (20.00%) MySQL
11 3 (20.00%) ITIL
11 3 (20.00%) Change Management
11 3 (20.00%) Finance
11 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
12 2 (13.33%) Retail
12 2 (13.33%) Degree
12 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
12 2 (13.33%) Migration
12 2 (13.33%) ETL
13 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
13 1 (6.667%) Data Security

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.667%) Web Services
1 1 (6.667%) jQuery
1 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 13 (86.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (53.33%) VLDB
5 6 (40.00%) OLTP
6 5 (33.33%) IDMS
7 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
7 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (20.00%) MySQL
8 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
9 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.667%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) DBA
2 7 (46.67%) SQL DBA
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Teradata DBA
5 1 (6.667%) Lead Designer
5 1 (6.667%) Database Designer
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Team Leader
5 1 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior SQL DBA
5 1 (6.667%) Support Team Leader
5 1 (6.667%) Senior DBA
5 1 (6.667%) IT Support
5 1 (6.667%) Designer
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Replication
2 6 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
1 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
1 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (26.67%) Load Testing
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
7 1 (6.667%) Data Security
7 1 (6.667%) MVC
7 1 (6.667%) CRM
7 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
7 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (6.667%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.667%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) VMware
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