Cheshire SQL Server Reporting Services Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) skills within the Cheshire 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 Reporting Services over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Location Banbury Barnet Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	56
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	9	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	6.000 %	1.980 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£225	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£353
% change on same period last year	-12.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£42.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.96	£39.29
% change on same period last year	-3.36 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	150	202
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.199 %	0.207 %
Daily rates quoted	31	47
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£361
Average daily rate	£305	£375
% change on same period last year	-18.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.29	£28.15
Average hourly rate	£32.98	£29.85
% change on same period last year	+10.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.66	£31.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.75	£31.10
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
SQL Server Reporting Services North West

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 Reporting Services
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SQL Server Reporting Services within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	-2	2	-	-

SQL Server Reporting Services North West

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Reporting Services.

1 14 (82.35 %) SQL 2 13 (76.47 %) SQL Server 2 13 (76.47 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (35.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 5 (29.41 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (29.41 %) C# 4 5 (29.41 %) ASP.NET 4 5 (29.41 %) Visual Studio 4 5 (29.41 %) MS Excel 4 5 (29.41 %) .NET 4 5 (29.41 %) Microsoft 5 4 (23.53 %) ADO.NET 5 4 (23.53 %) SharePoint 5 4 (23.53 %) WebServices 5 4 (23.53 %) XML

5 4 (23.53 %) XSD 5 4 (23.53 %) XSLT 5 4 (23.53 %) DHTML 5 4 (23.53 %) HTML 5 4 (23.53 %) JavaScript 5 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 3 (17.65 %) WCF 6 3 (17.65 %) WF 6 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 3 (17.65 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (17.65 %) DTS 6 3 (17.65 %) CRM 6 3 (17.65 %) Finance 6 3 (17.65 %) Replication

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Reporting Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (29.41 %) ASP.NET 1 5 (29.41 %) .NET 2 4 (23.53 %) ADO.NET 2 4 (23.53 %) WebServices 2 4 (23.53 %) XML 2 4 (23.53 %) XSD 2 4 (23.53 %) XSLT 2 4 (23.53 %) HTML 3 3 (17.65 %) WCF 3 3 (17.65 %) WF 4 2 (11.76 %) MDX 5 1 (5.882 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 4 (23.53 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (29.41 %) MS Excel 2 1 (5.882 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (76.47 %) SQL Server 1 13 (76.47 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (35.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 5 (29.41 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 3 (17.65 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (17.65 %) DTS 5 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server 7 6 2 (11.76 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 5 (29.41 %) Visual Studio
General 1 3 (17.65 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (41.18 %) Developer 2 4 (23.53 %) DBA 2 4 (23.53 %) SQL DBA 2 4 (23.53 %) Report Writer 3 3 (17.65 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server DBA 4 2 (11.76 %) Programmer 4 2 (11.76 %) Lead Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse Consultant 5 1 (5.882 %) Business Intelligence Specialist 5 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse Specialist 5 1 (5.882 %) Senior .NET Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) .NET Programmer 5 1 (5.882 %) Analyst Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) Senior Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) Analyst Programmer 5 1 (5.882 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (17.65 %) Replication 2 2 (11.76 %) Clustering 3 1 (5.882 %) N-Tier 3 1 (5.882 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 2 (11.76 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (17.65 %) CRM 2 2 (11.76 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (11.76 %) Workflow 2 2 (11.76 %) ITIL 3 1 (5.882 %) Data Management 3 1 (5.882 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (5.882 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 14 (82.35 %) SQL 2 5 (29.41 %) C# 3 4 (23.53 %) DHTML 3 4 (23.53 %) JavaScript 4 2 (11.76 %) VB 4 2 (11.76 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (11.76 %) MCDBA 1 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 5 (29.41 %) Microsoft 2 2 (11.76 %) ProClarity