Dorset SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) 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 over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Haslemere Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Rochester Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby 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 Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	20
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	25	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	32.05 %	28.26 %
Daily rates quoted	9	13
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£356
Average daily rate	£327	£368
% change on same period last year	-11.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.33	-
Average hourly rate	£25.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.09	£31.20
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Database & Business Intelligence Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	78	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.109 %	0.094 %
Daily rates quoted	21	38
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£333
Average daily rate	£379	£346
% change on same period last year	+9.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.92	£29.50
Average hourly rate	£33.37	£30.63
% change on same period last year	+8.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.83	£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.15	£31.77
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
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 Dorset 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 Dorset region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 8 October 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 Dorset region.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 8 October 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 8 October 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
Bournemouth	+9	8	£321	-24.67 %
Poole	-5	2	£271	-12.58 %

SQL Server South West

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 24 (53.33 %) .NET 2 18 (40.00 %) C# 3 17 (37.78 %) SQL 4 10 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 4 10 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 5 9 (20.00 %) WebServices 5 9 (20.00 %) Windows 6 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 6 8 (17.78 %) Finance 7 7 (15.56 %) SQL Server 2000 8 6 (13.33 %) WinForms 8 6 (13.33 %) UML 8 6 (13.33 %) OO 8 6 (13.33 %) XML 8 6 (13.33 %) UNIX

8 6 (13.33 %) Microsoft 9 5 (11.11 %) Content Management 10 4 (8.889 %) VB6 10 4 (8.889 %) Agile Software Development 10 4 (8.889 %) CMS 10 4 (8.889 %) Windows Server 2003 10 4 (8.889 %) SAN 10 4 (8.889 %) DTS 10 4 (8.889 %) COM+ 10 4 (8.889 %) VB 10 4 (8.889 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (8.889 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 3 (6.667 %) ServiceCenter 11 3 (6.667 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 3 (6.667 %) Windows SharePoint Services

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 24 (53.33 %) .NET 2 10 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (20.00 %) WebServices 4 6 (13.33 %) XML 4 6 (13.33 %) WinForms 5 4 (8.889 %) .NET Framework 5 4 (8.889 %) COM+ 6 3 (6.667 %) ASP 6 3 (6.667 %) SOAP 6 3 (6.667 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 2 (4.444 %) AJAX 7 2 (4.444 %) HTML 7 2 (4.444 %) J2EE 8 1 (2.222 %) MFC 8 1 (2.222 %) CSS 8 1 (2.222 %) XSLT 8 1 (2.222 %) .NET Remoting 8 1 (2.222 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.889 %) CMS 2 3 (6.667 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (6.667 %) IIS 2 3 (6.667 %) SharePoint 3 2 (4.444 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 2 (4.444 %) Immediacy CMS 4 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (2.222 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (2.222 %) Apache
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.222 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.889 %) SAN 2 3 (6.667 %) SSL 2 3 (6.667 %) Firewall 2 3 (6.667 %) LAN 2 3 (6.667 %) WAN 2 3 (6.667 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (2.222 %) DNS 3 1 (2.222 %) DHCP 3 1 (2.222 %) Intranet 3 1 (2.222 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 2 7 (15.56 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (8.889 %) DTS 4 3 (6.667 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (4.444 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (4.444 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (2.222 %) OLAP 6 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (2.222 %) ETL 6 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (2.222 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) FrontPage 2 1 (2.222 %) Visual Studio	General 1 8 (17.78 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Banking 3 2 (4.444 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (2.222 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.222 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.222 %) Government 4 1 (2.222 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 22 (48.89 %) Developer 2 8 (17.78 %) Analyst 2 8 (17.78 %) DBA 2 8 (17.78 %) .NET Developer 2 8 (17.78 %) C# Developer 3 7 (15.56 %) SQL Developer 4 6 (13.33 %) SQL DBA 4 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server Developer 5 5 (11.11 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (11.11 %) SQL Server DBA 6 3 (6.667 %) Programmer 6 3 (6.667 %) Web Developer 7 2 (4.444 %) Consultant 7 2 (4.444 %) Software Architect 7 2 (4.444 %) Architect 7 2 (4.444 %) Business Analyst 7 2 (4.444 %) Java Developer 7 2 (4.444 %) Oracle DBA 7 2 (4.444 %) VB.NET Developer 7 2 (4.444 %) Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.667 %) Clustering 1 3 (6.667 %) N-Tier 2 2 (4.444 %) Pocket PC 3 1 (2.222 %) PDA 3 1 (2.222 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (2.222 %) Data Conversion 3 1 (2.222 %) BBC
Operating Systems 1 9 (20.00 %) Windows 2 6 (13.33 %) UNIX 3 4 (8.889 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 4 (8.889 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (4.444 %) Windows CE 5 1 (2.222 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.33 %) UML 1 6 (13.33 %) OO 2 5 (11.11 %) Content Management 3 4 (8.889 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (6.667 %) Technical Architecture 4 3 (6.667 %) ITIL 4 3 (6.667 %) Migration 4 3 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 4 3 (6.667 %) OOD 5 2 (4.444 %) Web Development 5 2 (4.444 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (2.222 %) Data Migration 6 1 (2.222 %) Information Management 6 1 (2.222 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (2.222 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.222 %) E-Procurement 6 1 (2.222 %) Workflow 6 1 (2.222 %) CRM 6 1 (2.222 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (2.222 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 18 (40.00 %) C# 2 17 (37.78 %) SQL 3 4 (8.889 %) VB 3 4 (8.889 %) VB6 4 3 (6.667 %) Shell Script 4 3 (6.667 %) VB.NET 4 3 (6.667 %) C++ 4 3 (6.667 %) Java 5 2 (4.444 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.222 %) VC++ 6 1 (2.222 %) JavaScript 6 1 (2.222 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 3 (6.667 %) MCTS 2 1 (2.222 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.222 %) CNE 2 1 (2.222 %) Novell Certification
System Software 1 2 (4.444 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (2.222 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.222 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 3 (6.667 %) Tivoli 1 3 (6.667 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 3 (6.667 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 2 6 (13.33 %) Microsoft 3 3 (6.667 %) Business Objects 3 3 (6.667 %) IBM 3 3 (6.667 %) Peregrine 4 2 (4.444 %) RedDot 4 2 (4.444 %) Sybase 4 2 (4.444 %) Sun 5 1 (2.222 %) HP 5 1 (2.222 %) Novell 5 1 (2.222 %) VMware