The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2012 skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2012 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 East of England 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 2012
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 10 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.468% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.519% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £403 -
% change year-on-year
-19.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
397 679 571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.56% 22.98% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 357 265
Average daily rate £313 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 36 41
Average hourly rate £27.49 £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.45% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £21.85 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2012
England

SQL Server 2012
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

East of England SQL Server 2012 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2012
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the East of England region.

East of England SQL Server 2012 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England SQL Server 2012 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2012
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 2012 within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire - 6 £401 -
Suffolk - 2 £255 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £350 -
SQL Server 2012
England

SQL Server 2012
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (86.67%) SQL
3 10 (66.67%) Windows
4 8 (53.33%) T-SQL
4 8 (53.33%) Clustering
4 8 (53.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (53.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (33.33%) VMware
7 5 (33.33%) VMware ESX
7 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (20.00%) OLTP
9 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
9 3 (20.00%) C#
9 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (20.00%) Windows Azure
9 3 (20.00%) SaaS
9 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
10 2 (13.33%) MVC
10 2 (13.33%) .NET
10 2 (13.33%) XML
10 2 (13.33%) OLAP

SQL Server 2012
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) WCF
2 1 (6.667%) WF
2 1 (6.667%) jQuery
2 1 (6.667%) NHibernate
2 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (53.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (53.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (20.00%) OLTP
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (13.33%) OLAP
7 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (6.667%) NUnit
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (6.667%) Banking
1 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
1 1 (6.667%) Manufacturing
1 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) SQL DBA
1 6 (40.00%) DBA
2 4 (26.67%) Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Teradata DBA
4 2 (13.33%) Server Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Business Developer
5 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.667%) NHS
3 1 (6.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) MVC
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Data Security
4 1 (6.667%) ERP
4 1 (6.667%) TDD
4 1 (6.667%) Scrum
4 1 (6.667%) Use Case
4 1 (6.667%) Web Development
4 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
4 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) T-SQL
3 3 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (6.667%) VB
4 1 (6.667%) VBA
4 1 (6.667%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) A+ Certification
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 5 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) Business Objects
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle
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Posted: 22 May 2013