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This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the East of England 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank147
Rank change on same period last yearDown-7
Matching contract IT job ads304535
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.405 %0.541 %
As % of the category below45.78 %53.39 %
Daily rates quoted93148
Average minimum daily rate£314£329
Average daily rate£336£347
% change on same period last year-3.18 %
Average maximum daily rate£359£365
UK excluding London average daily rate£326£331
% change on same period last year-1.61 %
Hourly rates quoted1869
Average minimum hourly rate£27.23£30.04
Average hourly rate£29.62£31.94
% change on same period last year-7.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate£32.01£33.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.49£30.39
% change on same period last year+3.60 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
East of England
Matching contract IT job ads6641002
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.885 %1.014 %
Daily rates quoted195301
Average minimum daily rate£341£338
Average daily rate£360£360
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£379£383
UK excluding London average daily rate£348£355
% change on same period last year-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted63115
Average minimum hourly rate£29.15£28.51
Average hourly rate£31.20£30.24
% change on same period last year+3.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate£33.24£31.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.85£31.30
% change on same period last year+4.96 %
SQL Server EnglandSQL Server
England

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 East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

East of England SQL Server Demand Trend

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 East of England region.

East of England SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

East of England SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

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 East of England region.

East of England SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

East of England SQL Server Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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.

LocationRank 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
CambridgeshireDown-1104£354+22.10 %
HertfordshireDown-1097£341-3.65 %
EssexDown-1434£302-27.65 %
NorfolkDown-1325£344+40.09 %
SuffolkUp+1222£331+25.69 %
BedfordshireUp+213£270-20.11 %
East AngliaNo change09£342+36.66 %
SQL Server EnglandSQL Server
England

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1449 (56.13 %).NET
2342 (42.75 %)C#
3312 (39.00 %)SQL Server 2005
4299 (37.38 %)SQL
5260 (32.50 %)ASP.NET
6205 (25.63 %)XML
7179 (22.38 %)Windows
8169 (21.13 %)Microsoft
9153 (19.13 %)Transact-SQL
10151 (18.88 %)SQL Server 2000
11131 (16.38 %)VB.NET
12115 (14.38 %)WebServices
13105 (13.13 %)Oracle
14104 (13.00 %)JavaScript
1594 (11.75 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1693 (11.63 %)Finance
1790 (11.25 %)HTML
1885 (10.63 %)CSS
1981 (10.13 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
2080 (10.00 %)ASP
2179 (9.875 %)VB
2275 (9.375 %)SQL Server Integration Services
2374 (9.250 %)Datawarehouse
2473 (9.125 %)OLAP
2569 (8.625 %)SharePoint
2668 (8.500 %)UML
2765 (8.125 %)DTS
2765 (8.125 %)Java
2862 (7.750 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
2960 (7.500 %)Visual Studio

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1449 (56.13 %).NET
2260 (32.50 %)ASP.NET
3205 (25.63 %)XML
4115 (14.38 %)WebServices
590 (11.25 %)HTML
685 (10.63 %)CSS
780 (10.00 %)ASP
858 (7.250 %)WinForms
955 (6.875 %)ADO.NET
1050 (6.250 %)XSL
1149 (6.125 %)AJAX
1248 (6.000 %)WCF
1342 (5.250 %)WPF
1432 (4.000 %).NET Framework
1531 (3.875 %)XSLT
1624 (3.000 %)J2EE
1722 (2.750 %)XHTML
1722 (2.750 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1820 (2.500 %)SOAP
1919 (2.375 %)WebSphere
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
169 (8.625 %)SharePoint
257 (7.125 %)IIS
343 (5.375 %)BizTalk Server
417 (2.125 %)CMS
516 (2.000 %)Exchange Server 2003
615 (1.875 %)MS Exchange
713 (1.625 %)Commerce Server
713 (1.625 %)Lotus Domino
713 (1.625 %)Tomcat
811 (1.375 %)Commerce Server 2007
910 (1.250 %)JBoss
108 (1.000 %)Apache
108 (1.000 %)Exchange Server 2000
116 (0.750 %)Lotus Notes
125 (0.625 %)Content Management Server
134 (0.500 %)WebLogic
134 (0.500 %)Office Project Server
134 (0.500 %)Oracle Application Server
143 (0.375 %)SharePoint Server 2007
152 (0.250 %)TeamSite
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
146 (5.750 %)MS Excel
216 (2.000 %)Photoshop
311 (1.375 %)MS Office
410 (1.250 %)InfoPath
58 (1.000 %)MS Project
66 (0.750 %)FreeHand
66 (0.750 %)Adobe Illustrator
75 (0.625 %)CA Clarity
82 (0.250 %)MS Visio
91 (0.125 %)MS PowerPoint
91 (0.125 %)Paint Shop Pro
91 (0.125 %)Spreadsheet
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
18 (1.000 %)Dynamics AX
23 (0.375 %)SAP Retail
23 (0.375 %)SAP FI
23 (0.375 %)Oracle Applications
23 (0.375 %)SAP FI/CO
23 (0.375 %)SAP CO
32 (0.250 %)Axapta
41 (0.125 %)TIBCO iProcess
41 (0.125 %)Pivotal CRM
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
123 (2.875 %)Internet
216 (2.000 %)Intranet
315 (1.875 %)SAN
412 (1.500 %)TCP/IP
412 (1.500 %)SMS
58 (1.000 %)TETRA
67 (0.875 %)CTI
67 (0.875 %)DNS
76 (0.750 %)3GPP
85 (0.625 %)LAN
85 (0.625 %)DHCP
85 (0.625 %)TELNET
94 (0.500 %)Firewall
94 (0.500 %)SSH
94 (0.500 %)VoIP
94 (0.500 %)WAN
94 (0.500 %)SMTP
103 (0.375 %)FTP
103 (0.375 %)HTTP
103 (0.375 %)VPN
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1312 (39.00 %)SQL Server 2005
2151 (18.88 %)SQL Server 2000
394 (11.75 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
481 (10.13 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
575 (9.375 %)SQL Server Integration Services
674 (9.250 %)Datawarehouse
773 (9.125 %)OLAP
865 (8.125 %)DTS
962 (7.750 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1059 (7.375 %)SQL Server 7
1144 (5.500 %)ETL
1235 (4.375 %)Crystal Reports
1322 (2.750 %)MS Access
1419 (2.375 %)MySQL
1518 (2.250 %)BusinessObjects
1617 (2.125 %)Oracle 10g
1617 (2.125 %)Oracle Reports
1712 (1.500 %)Oracle 9i
1811 (1.375 %)DB2
199 (1.125 %)RDBMS
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
160 (7.500 %)Visual Studio
212 (1.500 %)Flash
311 (1.375 %)NUnit
410 (1.250 %)VSS/SourceSafe
58 (1.000 %)Eclipse
58 (1.000 %)InstallShield
66 (0.750 %)MSI
66 (0.750 %)Dreamweaver
75 (0.625 %)JDeveloper
75 (0.625 %)JBuilder
75 (0.625 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
84 (0.500 %)Ant
84 (0.500 %)QuickTest Pro
93 (0.375 %)LoadRunner
93 (0.375 %)JUnit
93 (0.375 %)LSMW
93 (0.375 %)Subversion
93 (0.375 %)MorphX
102 (0.250 %)Oracle Forms
111 (0.125 %)ClearCase
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
193 (11.63 %)Finance
245 (5.625 %)Telecoms
245 (5.625 %)Banking
338 (4.750 %)Retail
427 (3.375 %)Insurance
513 (1.625 %)Back Office
611 (1.375 %)Government
78 (1.000 %)Education
86 (0.750 %)Health
95 (0.625 %)Marketing
104 (0.500 %)Local Government
104 (0.500 %)Front Office
113 (0.375 %)Pharmaceutical
113 (0.375 %)Graphic Design
113 (0.375 %)Manufacturing
122 (0.250 %)Animation
122 (0.250 %)Financial Institution
131 (0.125 %)Electronics
131 (0.125 %)Pensions
131 (0.125 %)Music
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1518 (64.75 %)Developer
2190 (23.75 %).NET Developer
3127 (15.88 %)C# Developer
489 (11.13 %)SQL Developer
576 (9.500 %)ASP.NET Developer
675 (9.375 %)Analyst
764 (8.000 %)SQL Server Developer
857 (7.125 %)VB.NET Developer
953 (6.625 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
1042 (5.250 %)Web Developer
1042 (5.250 %)DBA
1133 (4.125 %)Architect
1231 (3.875 %)Senior Developer
1330 (3.750 %)Software Developer
1429 (3.625 %)Datawarehouse Developer
1528 (3.500 %)SQL DBA
1624 (3.000 %)Consultant
1624 (3.000 %)WinForms Developer
1723 (2.875 %)SQL Server DBA
1821 (2.625 %)Business Intelligence Developer
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
129 (3.625 %)N-Tier
212 (1.500 %)Client/Server
39 (1.125 %)Computer Science
48 (1.000 %)NHS
56 (0.750 %)Cryptography
56 (0.750 %)Java Card
56 (0.750 %)Data Integration
65 (0.625 %)Mathematics
65 (0.625 %)Web 2.0
65 (0.625 %)Replication
65 (0.625 %)Mainframe
74 (0.500 %)W3C
74 (0.500 %)Clustering
83 (0.375 %)AS400
83 (0.375 %)Thin Client
83 (0.375 %)CMDB
83 (0.375 %)Fat Client
83 (0.375 %)Multithreading
83 (0.375 %)Data Extraction
92 (0.250 %)Arabic Language
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1179 (22.38 %)Windows
229 (3.625 %)UNIX
323 (2.875 %)Windows 2000
421 (2.625 %)Linux
520 (2.500 %)Windows Server 2003
615 (1.875 %)Solaris
712 (1.500 %)Windows XP
810 (1.250 %)Windows NT
99 (1.125 %)HPUX
104 (0.500 %)AIX
104 (0.500 %)Mac OS X
113 (0.375 %)Ubuntu
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
168 (8.500 %)UML
259 (7.375 %)Agile Software Development
356 (7.000 %)OO
451 (6.375 %)Business Intelligence
534 (4.250 %)CRM
627 (3.375 %)Web Development
725 (3.125 %)Business Analysis
821 (2.625 %)OOD
821 (2.625 %)Migration
920 (2.500 %)Project Management
1018 (2.250 %)Content Management
1018 (2.250 %)User Acceptance Testing
1117 (2.125 %)OOA/OOD
1117 (2.125 %)RAD
1117 (2.125 %)ITIL
1216 (2.000 %)E-Commerce
1216 (2.000 %)Workflow
1312 (1.500 %)Scrum
1312 (1.500 %)Software Testing
1410 (1.250 %)RUP
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1342 (42.75 %)C#
2299 (37.38 %)SQL
3153 (19.13 %)Transact-SQL
4131 (16.38 %)VB.NET
5104 (13.00 %)JavaScript
679 (9.875 %)VB
765 (8.125 %)Java
857 (7.125 %)C++
943 (5.375 %)VB6
1026 (3.250 %)VBA
1124 (3.000 %)VBScript
1223 (2.875 %)VC++
1321 (2.625 %)DHTML
1417 (2.125 %)C
1515 (1.875 %)PHP
1612 (1.500 %)PL/SQL
1612 (1.500 %)Delphi
1711 (1.375 %)ActionScript
187 (0.875 %)XPath
187 (0.875 %)Python
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
125 (3.125 %)Microsoft Certification
125 (3.125 %)Degree
213 (1.625 %)MCSD
310 (1.250 %)MCAD
46 (0.750 %)MCP
46 (0.750 %)HND
55 (0.625 %)MCDBA
64 (0.500 %)MCSE
64 (0.500 %)ITIL Certification
64 (0.500 %)SNIA Certification
73 (0.375 %)Sun Certification
73 (0.375 %)ISEB
81 (0.125 %)Cisco Certification
81 (0.125 %)CCNA
81 (0.125 %)PMP
81 (0.125 %)PMI Certification
81 (0.125 %)IBM Certification
81 (0.125 %)CNE
81 (0.125 %)Novell Certification
81 (0.125 %)PRINCE2 Certification
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.375 %)WCAG
13 (0.375 %)WAI
22 (0.250 %)SLA
31 (0.125 %)QA
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
155 (6.875 %)Active Directory
29 (1.125 %)MSMQ
35 (0.625 %)NetBackup
44 (0.500 %)Terminal Server
53 (0.375 %)Oracle RAC
53 (0.375 %)VMware Infrastructure
62 (0.250 %)VMware ESX
71 (0.125 %)Backup Exec
71 (0.125 %)Oracle RMAN
71 (0.125 %)Terminal Services
71 (0.125 %)ISA Server
71 (0.125 %)MetaFrame
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
19 (1.125 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
24 (0.500 %)OpenView Configuration Management
24 (0.500 %)OpenView
24 (0.500 %)Legato
24 (0.500 %)HP Data Protector
32 (0.250 %)WSUS
32 (0.250 %)ServiceCenter
41 (0.125 %)ARCserve
41 (0.125 %)MOM
41 (0.125 %)Unicenter
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1169 (21.13 %)Microsoft
2105 (13.13 %)Oracle
336 (4.500 %)ProClarity
418 (2.250 %)Business Objects
418 (2.250 %)IBM
517 (2.125 %)HP
517 (2.125 %)Citrix
615 (1.875 %)Lotus
615 (1.875 %)Cognos
615 (1.875 %)Cisco
711 (1.375 %)Sun
711 (1.375 %)VMware
810 (1.250 %)Sybase
99 (1.125 %)Remedy
107 (0.875 %)VERITAS
115 (0.625 %)SAP
115 (0.625 %)Adobe
115 (0.625 %)EMC
115 (0.625 %)Northgate
124 (0.500 %)Brocade
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