The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 7 over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Rank 202 - 229
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 1 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% - 0.072%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.072% - 0.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £418 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £238
% change year-on-year
- +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1393 1413 1794
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.68% 17.97% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1046 1017 1345
Average daily rate £425 £425 £459
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.05% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
SQL Server 7
London

SQL Server 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London SQL Server 7 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 7
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the City of London region.

City of London SQL Server 7 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 7
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the City of London region.

City of London SQL Server 7 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SQL Server 7 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 7.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) DTS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Reuters
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g

SQL Server 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SQL Server 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) DTS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Database Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL V3
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCDBA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Reuters
1 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle