The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon 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 Devon 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 12 10 13
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 17 28 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 10.06% 15.30% 11.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.22% 63.64% 43.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 9
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £284 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £338 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
Average hourly rate - £23.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -26.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
36 44 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 21.30% 24.04% 26.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 25
Average daily rate £305 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £308 £101
10% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £350 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 7
Average hourly rate - £18.25 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -29.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server
South West

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon 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
Exeter -2 9 £275 -
Plymouth -2 4 £313 -3.84%
Torquay - 1 £300 -
SQL Server
South West

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 23 (54.76%) SQL
1 23 (54.76%) SQL Server 2008
2 20 (47.62%) .NET
2 20 (47.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 19 (45.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 18 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (40.48%) ETL
6 15 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (35.71%) C#
7 14 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 13 (30.95%) Kimball Methodology
9 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
10 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
10 8 (19.05%) T-SQL
10 8 (19.05%) ASP.NET
11 7 (16.67%) Oracle
12 6 (14.29%) SharePoint
12 6 (14.29%) GIS
12 6 (14.29%) Ajax
12 6 (14.29%) MDX
12 6 (14.29%) Silverlight
12 6 (14.29%) jQuery
13 5 (11.90%) LINQ
13 5 (11.90%) ESRI
13 5 (11.90%) ArcGIS
13 5 (11.90%) DTS
13 5 (11.90%) Windows
13 5 (11.90%) Python
13 5 (11.90%) MS Excel
14 4 (9.524%) Visual Studio

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 20 (47.62%) .NET
2 8 (19.05%) ASP.NET
3 6 (14.29%) Ajax
3 6 (14.29%) MDX
3 6 (14.29%) Silverlight
3 6 (14.29%) jQuery
4 5 (11.90%) LINQ
5 4 (9.524%) WCF
5 4 (9.524%) .NET Framework
5 4 (9.524%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (7.143%) RESTful
6 3 (7.143%) WPF
6 3 (7.143%) CSS
7 2 (4.762%) Web Services
7 2 (4.762%) ArcObjects
8 1 (2.381%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 1 (2.381%) AppFabric
8 1 (2.381%) Memcached
8 1 (2.381%) REST
8 1 (2.381%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.90%) ArcGIS
3 2 (4.762%) IIS
3 2 (4.762%) ArcIMS
3 2 (4.762%) ArcSDE
4 1 (2.381%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (2.381%) WordPress
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Azure
4 1 (2.381%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.381%) Apache
4 1 (2.381%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.143%) PowerPivot
3 2 (4.762%) ArcInfo
4 1 (2.381%) MS Office
4 1 (2.381%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.381%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.762%) LDAP
2 1 (2.381%) Network Security
2 1 (2.381%) Internet
2 1 (2.381%) SSL
2 1 (2.381%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.381%) DNS
2 1 (2.381%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (54.76%) SQL Server 2008
2 20 (47.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 19 (45.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (14.29%) GIS
7 5 (11.90%) DTS
8 3 (7.143%) PerformancePoint
8 3 (7.143%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (7.143%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.381%) Redis
9 1 (2.381%) Data Mart
9 1 (2.381%) MS Access
9 1 (2.381%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (2.381%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (2.381%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.524%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.762%) NUnit
2 2 (4.762%) Subversion
2 2 (4.762%) TeamCity
2 2 (4.762%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (2.381%) Marketing
1 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (76.19%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 9 (21.43%) SQL Developer
4 6 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 5 (11.90%) C# Developer
6 4 (9.524%) DBA
6 4 (9.524%) Business Developer
6 4 (9.524%) SQL DBA
7 3 (7.143%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 3 (7.143%) GIS Developer
7 3 (7.143%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.762%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.762%) Analyst
8 2 (4.762%) Technical Project Manager
8 2 (4.762%) Analyst Programmer
8 2 (4.762%) Programmer
8 2 (4.762%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (4.762%) Technical Manager
8 2 (4.762%) GIS Analyst
8 2 (4.762%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.524%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.381%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.381%) Data Extraction
2 1 (2.381%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 4 (9.524%) Linux
3 2 (4.762%) UNIX
3 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (40.48%) ETL
3 13 (30.95%) Kimball Methodology
4 4 (9.524%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (7.143%) Logistics
5 3 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (7.143%) TDD
5 3 (7.143%) Migration
6 2 (4.762%) PRINCE2
6 2 (4.762%) MVC
7 1 (2.381%) Analytics
7 1 (2.381%) Master Data Management
7 1 (2.381%) Project Planning
7 1 (2.381%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (2.381%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (2.381%) Data Management
7 1 (2.381%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.381%) SEO
7 1 (2.381%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) SQL
2 15 (35.71%) C#
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 8 (19.05%) T-SQL
4 5 (11.90%) Python
5 3 (7.143%) Java
6 2 (4.762%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.381%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.762%) Degree
1 2 (4.762%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.762%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.381%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 3 (7.143%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.381%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.381%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (11.90%) ESRI
4 1 (2.381%) Google
4 1 (2.381%) VMware
4 1 (2.381%) IBM
4 1 (2.381%) Sun
Devon, South West
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