The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 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 Crawley 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 (MS SQL)
Rank 11 15 6
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 14 21 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 9.396% 7.581% 17.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 60.87% 91.30% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 2
Average daily rate £390 £288 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.65% -17.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
23 23 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 15.44% 8.303% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 5
Average daily rate £345 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.00% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server
West Sussex

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley 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 Crawley region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 13 (48.15%) MS Excel
1 13 (48.15%) SQL Server 2008
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 11 (40.74%) .NET
4 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
5 8 (29.63%) C#
6 7 (25.93%) MS Office
6 7 (25.93%) SAP
6 7 (25.93%) XML
7 6 (22.22%) Business Objects
7 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (22.22%) MS Visio
7 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
8 5 (18.52%) T-SQL
8 5 (18.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (18.52%) .NET Framework
8 5 (18.52%) WCF
8 5 (18.52%) Data Architecture
9 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 4 (14.81%) Razor View Engine
9 4 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET
9 4 (14.81%) SOAP
9 4 (14.81%) Windows
9 4 (14.81%) ETL
10 3 (11.11%) SOA
10 3 (11.11%) HP
10 3 (11.11%) BusinessObjects

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 11 (40.74%) .NET
2 7 (25.93%) XML
3 5 (18.52%) .NET Framework
3 5 (18.52%) WCF
4 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 4 (14.81%) Razor View Engine
4 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET
4 4 (14.81%) SOAP
5 3 (11.11%) Web Services
6 1 (3.704%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 3 (11.11%) Apache
1 3 (11.11%) IIS
2 2 (7.407%) Zimbra
2 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (7.407%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.704%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (3.704%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (48.15%) MS Excel
2 7 (25.93%) MS Office
3 6 (22.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (7.407%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (3.704%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.704%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.407%) IP Telephony
1 2 (7.407%) Firewall
1 2 (7.407%) SAN
1 2 (7.407%) SSL
1 2 (7.407%) ADSL
1 2 (7.407%) Broadband
1 2 (7.407%) LAN
1 2 (7.407%) WAN
1 2 (7.407%) DHCP
1 2 (7.407%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.407%) VPN
1 2 (7.407%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.407%) MySQL
4 2 (7.407%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (7.407%) SAP BI
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MSBuild
1 1 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (3.704%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (3.704%) Finance
1 1 (3.704%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Architect
4 4 (14.81%) XML Developer
4 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Systems Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.407%) .NET Technical Architect
6 2 (7.407%) .NET Architect
6 2 (7.407%) Systems Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Administrator
6 2 (7.407%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (3.704%) DBA
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Smart Meter
2 2 (7.407%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.704%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.704%) Solaris
3 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 5 (18.52%) Data Architecture
3 4 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (14.81%) ETL
4 3 (11.11%) SOA
5 2 (7.407%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (7.407%) Validation
5 2 (7.407%) Migration
6 1 (3.704%) Project Management
6 1 (3.704%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.704%) ERP
6 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.704%) ITIL
6 1 (3.704%) Data Security
6 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.704%) Scrum
6 1 (3.704%) Data Management
6 1 (3.704%) TDD
6 1 (3.704%) Bioinformatics
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 8 (29.63%) C#
3 5 (18.52%) T-SQL
4 3 (11.11%) C
4 3 (11.11%) VBA
5 2 (7.407%) VB
6 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.704%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) MCP
1 2 (7.407%) MCSD
1 2 (7.407%) ISEB
1 2 (7.407%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.704%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.704%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) VMware ESX
2 2 (7.407%) Postfix
2 2 (7.407%) XenApp
2 2 (7.407%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (7.407%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.704%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) SAP
3 6 (22.22%) Business Objects
4 3 (11.11%) HP
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 3 (11.11%) VMware
5 2 (7.407%) Citrix
5 2 (7.407%) Avaya
5 2 (7.407%) Juniper
5 2 (7.407%) CommVault
5 2 (7.407%) Sophos
5 2 (7.407%) Cisco
6 1 (3.704%) EMC
6 1 (3.704%) NetApp
6 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
Crawley, West Sussex
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