Edinburgh SQL Server Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Edinburgh region.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carshalton Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coalville Cobham County Antrim County Londonderry County Tyrone Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Pontypool Pontypridd Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	25	21	12
Rank change year-on-year	-4 -9
Matching contract IT job ads	37	20	65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh	4.143 %	3.831 %	7.966 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	27.82 %	25.32 %	36.72 %
Daily rates quoted	17	4	12
Average daily rate	£320	£255	£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+25.49 % -20.31 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£240	£158	£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£318	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	-3.750 % -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2	0
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.50	£26.00	£31.50
% change year-on-year	-1.920 % -17.46 %
All Database & Business Intelligence Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category	133	79	177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh	14.89 %	15.13 %	21.69 %
Daily rates quoted	42	9	28
Average daily rate	£350	£300	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+16.66 % -
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£140	£210
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£430	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£320	£350
% change year-on-year	-6.250 % -8.570 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5	1
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50	£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- +12.50 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.50	£26.50	£32.00
% change year-on-year	+3.770 % -17.18 %
SQL Server Scotland

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.

SQL Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

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 Edinburgh region.

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 29 (49.15 %) SQL Server 2005 2 25 (42.37 %) SQL 3 21 (35.59 %) .NET 4 19 (32.20 %) Windows 5 16 (27.12 %) Finance 6 15 (25.42 %) Oracle 6 15 (25.42 %) T-SQL 7 12 (20.34 %) C# 8 11 (18.64 %) Microsoft 8 11 (18.64 %) Web Development 9 10 (16.95 %) VB 9 10 (16.95 %) ASP.NET 10 9 (15.25 %) VB6 11 8 (13.56 %) SQL Server 2008 11 8 (13.56 %) UNIX

11 8 (13.56 %) MS Excel 12 7 (11.86 %) SQL Server 2000 12 7 (11.86 %) IBM 13 6 (10.17 %) Government 13 6 (10.17 %) AIX 13 6 (10.17 %) MS Exchange 13 6 (10.17 %) VBA 13 6 (10.17 %) J2EE 13 6 (10.17 %) Banking 13 6 (10.17 %) Retail 14 5 (8.475 %) Retail Banking 14 5 (8.475 %) WebSphere 14 5 (8.475 %) MySQL 14 5 (8.475 %) C 14 5 (8.475 %) HTML

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 21 (35.59 %) .NET 2 10 (16.95 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (10.17 %) J2EE 4 5 (8.475 %) WebSphere 4 5 (8.475 %) HTML 4 5 (8.475 %) WinForms 5 4 (6.780 %) CSS 5 4 (6.780 %) Web Services 5 4 (6.780 %) XML 6 3 (5.085 %) ASP 7 2 (3.390 %) XSLT 7 2 (3.390 %) SOAP 7 2 (3.390 %) Spring 7 2 (3.390 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (1.695 %) Application Packaging 8 1 (1.695 %) Dojo 8 1 (1.695 %) WCF 8 1 (1.695 %) Apache Wicket 8 1 (1.695 %) XHTML 8 1 (1.695 %) WAP	Application Platforms 1 6 (10.17 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (8.475 %) SharePoint 3 3 (5.085 %) IIS 4 2 (3.390 %) CMS 4 2 (3.390 %) ColdFusion 4 2 (3.390 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (3.390 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (3.390 %) Progress Actional 5 1 (1.695 %) Office Project Server 5 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.695 %) Apache 5 1 (1.695 %) Tomcat 5 1 (1.695 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 8 (13.56 %) MS Excel 2 4 (6.780 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.695 %) Photoshop 3 1 (1.695 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.390 %) LAN 1 2 (3.390 %) WAN 2 1 (1.695 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.695 %) Internet 2 1 (1.695 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (49.15 %) SQL Server 2005 2 8 (13.56 %) SQL Server 2008 3 7 (11.86 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (8.475 %) MySQL 5 3 (5.085 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (5.085 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (3.390 %) DataStage 6 2 (3.390 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (3.390 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (3.390 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (3.390 %) DB2 6 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (1.695 %) NonStop SQL 7 1 (1.695 %) Sybase ASE 7 1 (1.695 %) BusinessObjects XI 7 1 (1.695 %) MS Access 7 1 (1.695 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (1.695 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (1.695 %) VLDB
Development Applications 1 4 (6.780 %) CruiseControl 2 3 (5.085 %) Eclipse 3 2 (3.390 %) ClearCase 3 2 (3.390 %) Ant 3 2 (3.390 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (3.390 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (3.390 %) Maven 3 2 (3.390 %) NUnit 4 1 (1.695 %) CheckStyle 4 1 (1.695 %) JUnit 4 1 (1.695 %) InstallShield	General 1 16 (27.12 %) Finance 2 6 (10.17 %) Government 2 6 (10.17 %) Banking 2 6 (10.17 %) Retail 3 5 (8.475 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (1.695 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 28 (47.46 %) Developer 2 14 (23.73 %) SQL Developer 2 14 (23.73 %) SQL Server Developer 3 11 (18.64 %) SQL Database Developer 3 11 (18.64 %) Database Developer 4 8 (13.56 %) .NET Developer 5 5 (8.475 %) Analyst 5 5 (8.475 %) DBA 6 4 (6.780 %) Applications Specialist 6 4 (6.780 %) Consultant 7 3 (5.085 %) Technical Specialist 7 3 (5.085 %) Oracle DBA 8 2 (3.390 %) Solutions Architect 8 2 (3.390 %) Architect 8 2 (3.390 %) C# Developer 8 2 (3.390 %) Administrator 8 2 (3.390 %) Environment Analyst 8 2 (3.390 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (3.390 %) Configuration Analyst 9 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.780 %) iSeries 2 3 (5.085 %) Mainframe 3 2 (3.390 %) Clustering 3 2 (3.390 %) Replication 4 1 (1.695 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (1.695 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.695 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.695 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 19 (32.20 %) Windows 2 8 (13.56 %) UNIX 3 6 (10.17 %) AIX 4 4 (6.780 %) Solaris 4 4 (6.780 %) Windows 7 5 2 (3.390 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (3.390 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (1.695 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.695 %) Linux 6 1 (1.695 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (18.64 %) Web Development 2 4 (6.780 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (5.085 %) Network Design 3 3 (5.085 %) Capacity Planning 3 3 (5.085 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (5.085 %) ITIL 4 2 (3.390 %) Project Management 4 2 (3.390 %) Scrum 4 2 (3.390 %) Extreme Programming 4 2 (3.390 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (3.390 %) RAD 4 2 (3.390 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (3.390 %) TDD 4 2 (3.390 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.695 %) Resource Management 5 1 (1.695 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.695 %) V-Model 5 1 (1.695 %) Risk Analysis 5 1 (1.695 %) IT Governance 5 1 (1.695 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 25 (42.37 %) SQL 2 15 (25.42 %) T-SQL 3 12 (20.34 %) C# 4 10 (16.95 %) VB 5 9 (15.25 %) VB6 6 6 (10.17 %) VBA 7 5 (8.475 %) C 8 4 (6.780 %) VB.NET 9 3 (5.085 %) Java 9 3 (5.085 %) JavaScript 9 3 (5.085 %) PHP 9 3 (5.085 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (3.390 %) Shell Script 10 2 (3.390 %) VBScript 10 2 (3.390 %) Perl 11 1 (1.695 %) PHP5 11 1 (1.695 %) FoxPro (VFP)	Qualifications 1 2 (3.390 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (3.390 %) MCSE 1 2 (3.390 %) Degree 2 1 (1.695 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.695 %) CTC Cleared 2 1 (1.695 %) Security Cleared
System Software 1 2 (3.390 %) Hyper-V 2 1 (1.695 %) XenServer	Systems Management 1 2 (3.390 %) HP Quality Center 2 1 (1.695 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.695 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.695 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 15 (25.42 %) Oracle 2 11 (18.64 %) Microsoft 3 7 (11.86 %) IBM 4 3 (5.085 %) HP 5 2 (3.390 %) Intel 5 2 (3.390 %) Sun 5 2 (3.390 %) Cisco 5 2 (3.390 %) JBoss 6 1 (1.695 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (1.695 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.695 %) Sybase 6 1 (1.695 %) SunGard 6 1 (1.695 %) VMware 6 1 (1.695 %) BMC 6 1 (1.695 %) CA 6 1 (1.695 %) Veritas 6 1 (1.695 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (1.695 %) Dell 6 1 (1.695 %) EMC