The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 22 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 Dunstable 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 3 2 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 50.00% 42.11% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £475 £335 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.79% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -19.23%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Dunstable
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 50.00% 42.11% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £475 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.15% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
SQL Server
Bedfordshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) XenApp
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (66.67%) XenDesktop
3 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Server
3 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (66.67%) IIS
3 4 (66.67%) IVR
3 4 (66.67%) Retail
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) Nortel Meridian
4 3 (50.00%) Nortel
5 2 (33.33%) Lync
5 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) Mercator
6 1 (16.67%) Firewall
6 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (16.67%) MAILsweeper
6 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 1 (16.67%) HP

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) Lync
2 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (16.67%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Nortel Meridian
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Support
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Support
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (83.33%) XenApp
2 4 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Server
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) NFS
3 1 (16.67%) XenServer
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (16.67%) MAILsweeper
2 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) Nortel
4 2 (33.33%) Mercator
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) CommVault
5 1 (16.67%) LANDesk