The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2005 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 Edinburgh 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 2005
Rank 45 43 53
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 12 20 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.441% 1.840% 1.158%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.000% 14.93% 8.427%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 5
Average daily rate £265 £305 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.11% -3.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £202 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £346 £331
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.69% -12.50%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
150 134 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.01% 12.33% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 70
Average daily rate £394 £335 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.53% -0.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £516 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% +175.86%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2005
Scotland

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Edinburgh SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SQL Server 2005 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 32 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (65.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (56.25%) .NET
4 16 (50.00%) SQL
5 13 (40.63%) Windows
6 11 (34.38%) T-SQL
6 11 (34.38%) C#
7 10 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
8 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET
9 8 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (25.00%) Finance
9 8 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (18.75%) Migration
10 6 (18.75%) XML
11 5 (15.63%) Oracle
11 5 (15.63%) VB.NET
11 5 (15.63%) Degree
11 5 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (15.63%) Data Management
12 4 (12.50%) XPath
12 4 (12.50%) Business Analysis
12 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
12 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
12 4 (12.50%) XQuery
12 4 (12.50%) ETL
12 4 (12.50%) PHP
12 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (56.25%) .NET
2 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET
3 6 (18.75%) XML
4 4 (12.50%) XSL
5 2 (6.250%) NHibernate
5 2 (6.250%) MDX
5 2 (6.250%) LINQ
5 2 (6.250%) ASP
6 1 (3.125%) Web Services
6 1 (3.125%) SAP XI
6 1 (3.125%) WinForms
6 1 (3.125%) XML Schema
6 1 (3.125%) WCF
6 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC 2
6 1 (3.125%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.250%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (3.125%) Apache
3 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.125%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.125%) IIS
3 1 (3.125%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (3.125%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) VoIP
1 2 (6.250%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (65.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (9.375%) DTS
6 3 (9.375%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (6.250%) Oracle OLAP
7 2 (6.250%) QlikView
7 2 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (6.250%) OLAP
7 2 (6.250%) Data Mining
7 2 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (6.250%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (3.125%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (3.125%) TOAD
8 1 (3.125%) OLTP
8 1 (3.125%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.125%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.125%) TortoiseSVN
2 1 (3.125%) MSTest
2 1 (3.125%) NUnit
2 1 (3.125%) Subversion
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Marketing
2 2 (6.250%) Back Office
3 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Developer
2 11 (34.38%) Software Developer
3 6 (18.75%) DBA
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Architect
6 3 (9.375%) Data Analyst
7 2 (6.250%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (6.250%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.250%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Senior Analyst Programmer
7 2 (6.250%) SQL DBA
7 2 (6.250%) Systems Architect
7 2 (6.250%) Senior Programmer
7 2 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Analyst Programmer
7 2 (6.250%) Programmer
7 2 (6.250%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Graduate
8 1 (3.125%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 2 (6.250%) Mathematics
2 2 (6.250%) Data Conversion
2 2 (6.250%) Data Integration
2 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.250%) Replication
3 1 (3.125%) Clustering
3 1 (3.125%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.250%) UNIX
5 1 (3.125%) Solaris
5 1 (3.125%) Linux
5 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) Migration
2 5 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (15.63%) Data Management
3 4 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 4 (12.50%) ETL
4 3 (9.375%) System Testing
4 3 (9.375%) Software Engineering
5 2 (6.250%) Master Data Management
5 2 (6.250%) Metadata Management
5 2 (6.250%) TDD
5 2 (6.250%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.250%) Change Control
5 2 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (6.250%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (6.250%) Data Architecture
5 2 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.250%) MVC
5 2 (6.250%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.125%) UML
6 1 (3.125%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) T-SQL
2 11 (34.38%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) VB.NET
4 4 (12.50%) XPath
4 4 (12.50%) XQuery
4 4 (12.50%) PHP
5 2 (6.250%) VB6
5 2 (6.250%) VB
6 1 (3.125%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 2 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.250%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (3.125%) vSphere
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 3 (9.375%) Business Objects
3 3 (9.375%) DevExpress
4 2 (6.250%) DataFlux
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco
4 2 (6.250%) Trillium
4 2 (6.250%) Informatica
4 2 (6.250%) VMware
5 1 (3.125%) SAP
5 1 (3.125%) Embarcadero
5 1 (3.125%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.125%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (3.125%) HP
5 1 (3.125%) Sun
5 1 (3.125%) Red Gate
5 1 (3.125%) Cadis