Devon SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Devon region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Ballymena Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grampian Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Ross-on-Wye Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	20
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	26	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	32.50 %	30.53 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£235
Average daily rate	£319	£260
% change on same period last year	+22.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£331
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.80	£22.60
Average hourly rate	£21.40	£27.30
% change on same period last year	-21.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.56	£31.40
% change on same period last year	-12.24 %
Database & Business Intelligence Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	80	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.103 %
Daily rates quoted	16	18
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£275
Average daily rate	£321	£299
% change on same period last year	+7.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£346
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	£33.48
Average hourly rate	£20.10	£35.88
% change on same period last year	-43.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.46	£38.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.31	£31.85
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
SQL Server South 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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Devon region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Devon region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

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 20 November 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
Exeter	+7	17	£350	+34.61 %
Plymouth	+6	3	£300	-
Newton Abbot	-	1	-	-

SQL Server South West

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, 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 27 (55.10 %) .NET 2 21 (42.86 %) HTML 3 19 (38.78 %) Microsoft 4 18 (36.73 %) SQL 5 17 (34.69 %) JavaScript 6 16 (32.65 %) VB 7 15 (30.61 %) MS Exchange 7 15 (30.61 %) Citrix 8 14 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 8 14 (28.57 %) BizTalk Server 8 14 (28.57 %) Cisco 8 14 (28.57 %) SharePoint 8 14 (28.57 %) ASP 8 14 (28.57 %) J2EE 8 14 (28.57 %) CCNA

8 14 (28.57 %) VMware 8 14 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 13 (26.53 %) OVPI 9 13 (26.53 %) VMware Server 9 13 (26.53 %) ITSM 9 13 (26.53 %) Extranet 9 13 (26.53 %) UNIX 9 13 (26.53 %) Intranet 10 12 (24.49 %) MS Access 10 12 (24.49 %) Clustering 10 12 (24.49 %) VB6 10 12 (24.49 %) Content Management 11 11 (22.45 %) Web Development 11 11 (22.45 %) Visual Studio 12 9 (18.37 %) ODBC

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, 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 27 (55.10 %) .NET 2 21 (42.86 %) HTML 3 14 (28.57 %) J2EE 3 14 (28.57 %) ASP 4 9 (18.37 %) ODBC 5 7 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 6 5 (10.20 %) CSS 7 2 (4.082 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 15 (30.61 %) MS Exchange 2 14 (28.57 %) BizTalk Server 2 14 (28.57 %) SharePoint 2 14 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (6.122 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 6 (12.24 %) MS Project 2 1 (2.041 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.041 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 13 (26.53 %) Intranet 1 13 (26.53 %) Extranet 2 2 (4.082 %) Internet 3 1 (2.041 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (24.49 %) MS Access 2 7 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 2 7 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2008 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (2.041 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.041 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 11 (22.45 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.041 %) QARun 2 1 (2.041 %) QALoad
General 1 5 (10.20 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.041 %) Criminal Justice	Job Titles 1 29 (59.18 %) Developer 2 13 (26.53 %) Consultant 3 11 (22.45 %) Technical Consultant 4 10 (20.41 %) SQL Developer 4 10 (20.41 %) SQL Server Developer 5 7 (14.29 %) VB Developer 5 7 (14.29 %) Software Developer 6 5 (10.20 %) Analyst 6 5 (10.20 %) Implementation Consultant 7 4 (8.163 %) Developer Analyst 7 4 (8.163 %) Analyst Programmer 7 4 (8.163 %) Programmer 7 4 (8.163 %) .NET Developer 8 3 (6.122 %) Administrator 9 2 (4.082 %) Systems Administrator 9 2 (4.082 %) Server Analyst 9 2 (4.082 %) VB Analyst Programmer 9 2 (4.082 %) Software Programmer 9 2 (4.082 %) ASP Developer 9 2 (4.082 %) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 12 (24.49 %) Clustering 2 2 (4.082 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 13 (26.53 %) UNIX 2 4 (8.163 %) Windows 3 1 (2.041 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (26.53 %) ITSM 2 12 (24.49 %) Content Management 3 11 (22.45 %) Web Development 4 8 (16.33 %) Migration 5 1 (2.041 %) Logistics 5 1 (2.041 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (2.041 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (2.041 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (2.041 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 18 (36.73 %) SQL 2 17 (34.69 %) JavaScript 3 16 (32.65 %) VB 4 12 (24.49 %) VB6 5 5 (10.20 %) VB.NET 6 3 (6.122 %) C# 6 3 (6.122 %) VBScript 7 1 (2.041 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 14 (28.57 %) CCNA 1 14 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.041 %) QA
System Software 1 13 (26.53 %) VMware Server 2 1 (2.041 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 13 (26.53 %) OVPI 2 2 (4.082 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 19 (38.78 %) Microsoft 2 15 (30.61 %) Citrix 3 14 (28.57 %) VMware 3 14 (28.57 %) Cisco 4 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 4 1 (2.041 %) Compuware