Dorset SQL Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the Dorset 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 2000 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	42
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	5.319 %	2.564 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£375
Average daily rate	£283	£425
% change on same period last year	-33.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£286	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.01	£30.73
% change on same period last year	+13.92 %
Database & Business Intelligence Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	94	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	33	36
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£361
Average daily rate	£399	£385
% change on same period last year	+3.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.78	£24.33
Average hourly rate	£27.22	£26.92
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
SQL Server 2000 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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Dorset region.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Dorset region.

SQL Server 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Poole	-	2	£271	-

SQL Server 2000 South West

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 8 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 4 (50.00 %) .NET 2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (37.50 %) FrontPage 3 3 (37.50 %) MCTS 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (37.50 %) Firewall 3 3 (37.50 %) ServiceCenter 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 3 (37.50 %) Clustering 3 3 (37.50 %) LAN 3 3 (37.50 %) WAN 3 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (37.50 %) SSL

3 3 (37.50 %) IBM 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) SAN 3 3 (37.50 %) Peregrine 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli 3 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint 3 3 (37.50 %) COM+ 3 3 (37.50 %) SOAP 3 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 3 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 2 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (50.00 %) .NET 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows SharePoint Services 2 3 (37.50 %) COM+ 2 3 (37.50 %) SOAP 2 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 3 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint Server 2007 1 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint 2 2 (25.00 %) IIS 2 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) Firewall 1 3 (37.50 %) LAN 1 3 (37.50 %) WAN 1 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (37.50 %) SSL 1 3 (37.50 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (25.00 %) DTS 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 1 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (12.50 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) FrontPage	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server DBA 3 2 (25.00 %) VB.NET Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) DBA 3 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) SQL DBA 3 2 (25.00 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Server Administrator 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Database Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Database Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) VB.NET 3 1 (12.50 %) C# 3 1 (12.50 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) MCTS	Systems Management 1 3 (37.50 %) ServiceCenter 1 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli 1 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) IBM 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 1 3 (37.50 %) Peregrine