The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 17 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 Derbyshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 10 11 19
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 10 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 7.353% 11.11% 6.475%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 55.56% 54.55% 78.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 4
Average daily rate £303 £331 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.61% -5.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £275 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £445 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
Average hourly rate £15.50 £57.50 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-73.04% +177.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.66% -18.46%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Derbyshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
18 44 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 13.24% 20.37% 8.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 5
Average daily rate £271 £373 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.18% +6.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £253 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £445 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
Average hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.86% +180.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.20 £8.50 £19.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.80 £59.20 £42.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
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 within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Chesterfield -5 2 £438 +59.09%
Derby -3 1 - -
Buxton - 1 - -
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (33.33%) .NET
3 6 (33.33%) Windows
4 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
4 5 (27.78%) OLTP
4 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
4 5 (27.78%) Replication
4 5 (27.78%) QA
4 5 (27.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 4 (22.22%) CSS
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle
5 4 (22.22%) C#
5 4 (22.22%) HTML
5 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (16.67%) IIS
6 3 (16.67%) Web Services
6 3 (16.67%) WinForms
6 3 (16.67%) Internet
6 3 (16.67%) jQuery
7 2 (11.11%) Umbraco
7 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (11.11%) Ajax
7 2 (11.11%) HTML5
7 2 (11.11%) Kentico

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
3 4 (22.22%) CSS
3 4 (22.22%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) jQuery
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
4 3 (16.67%) WinForms
5 2 (11.11%) Ajax
5 2 (11.11%) HTML5
6 1 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (5.556%) LINQ to SQL
6 1 (5.556%) CAML
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.556%) WCF
6 1 (5.556%) Silverlight
6 1 (5.556%) LINQ
6 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) IIS
3 2 (11.11%) Umbraco
3 2 (11.11%) Kentico
3 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
4 1 (5.556%) CMS
4 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (5.556%) Drupal
4 1 (5.556%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
2 1 (5.556%) Wireless
2 1 (5.556%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.556%) ADSL
2 1 (5.556%) LAN
2 1 (5.556%) WLAN
2 1 (5.556%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (27.78%) OLTP
3 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (5.556%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.556%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 1 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Administrator
3 5 (27.78%) DBA
3 5 (27.78%) SQL DBA
3 5 (27.78%) Teradata DBA
4 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Server Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 3 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (5.556%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
2 1 (5.556%) CMDB
2 1 (5.556%) Open Source
2 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.556%) W3C
2 1 (5.556%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) VME
2 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) OO
1 2 (11.11%) CRM
1 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
1 2 (11.11%) OOD
1 2 (11.11%) Migration
1 2 (11.11%) E-business
2 1 (5.556%) Workflow
2 1 (5.556%) Content Management
2 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
2 1 (5.556%) Supplier Management
2 1 (5.556%) Business Development
2 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
2 1 (5.556%) ETL
2 1 (5.556%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.556%) PHP
3 1 (5.556%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) NetApp
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) ICL
3 1 (5.556%) Talend
3 1 (5.556%) HP
3 1 (5.556%) Dell
3 1 (5.556%) EMC
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) Lotus
3 1 (5.556%) SAP
3 1 (5.556%) Cisco