The first 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 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 18 18 30
Rank change year-on-year
0 +12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 58 50 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 6.270% 4.708% 3.298%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.25% 31.45% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 20
Average daily rate £270 £325 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.92% +1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £182 £239 £153
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £418 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £24.00 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.07%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
160 159 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.30% 14.97% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 68 73
Average daily rate £400 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £47.00 £40.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.50% +175.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.30 £40.00 £14.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £40.00 £14.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
SQL Server
Scotland

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Edinburgh SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 58 (50.43%) .NET
2 49 (42.61%) SQL
3 48 (41.74%) C#
4 35 (30.43%) SQL Server 2008
5 34 (29.57%) Windows
6 30 (26.09%) ASP.NET
6 30 (26.09%) Microsoft
7 28 (24.35%) SQL Server 2005
8 22 (19.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (18.26%) Finance
10 20 (17.39%) Oracle
11 19 (16.52%) T-SQL
11 19 (16.52%) MVC
12 17 (14.78%) HTML
12 17 (14.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (13.91%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (13.91%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (13.04%) CSS
15 14 (12.17%) JavaScript
15 14 (12.17%) jQuery
16 13 (11.30%) Migration
16 13 (11.30%) Visual Studio
16 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (10.43%) XML
17 12 (10.43%) Banking
17 12 (10.43%) Agile Software Development
18 11 (9.565%) .NET Framework
18 11 (9.565%) Degree
18 11 (9.565%) SharePoint
18 11 (9.565%) SQL Server 2012

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 58 (50.43%) .NET
2 30 (26.09%) ASP.NET
3 17 (14.78%) HTML
4 15 (13.04%) CSS
5 14 (12.17%) jQuery
6 12 (10.43%) XML
7 11 (9.565%) .NET Framework
8 8 (6.957%) Web Services
9 7 (6.087%) WinForms
9 7 (6.087%) NHibernate
9 7 (6.087%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 6 (5.217%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (5.217%) HTML5
10 6 (5.217%) Ajax
11 5 (4.348%) CSS3
11 5 (4.348%) WPF
11 5 (4.348%) LINQ
12 4 (3.478%) WCF
12 4 (3.478%) ASP
13 2 (1.739%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 11 (9.565%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.957%) SharePoint 2013
3 6 (5.217%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (4.348%) IIS
5 3 (2.609%) Apache
5 3 (2.609%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.609%) MS Exchange
6 2 (1.739%) SAS
6 2 (1.739%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.739%) Jadu
6 2 (1.739%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.870%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.870%) ESB
7 1 (0.870%) Lync
7 1 (0.870%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.870%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.870%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.870%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.217%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.870%) PowerPivot
2 1 (0.870%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.870%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.870%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.087%) SAN
2 5 (4.348%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.478%) Firewall
4 2 (1.739%) DNS
4 2 (1.739%) LDAP
4 2 (1.739%) VoIP
4 2 (1.739%) WAN
4 2 (1.739%) DHCP
5 1 (0.870%) HTTP
5 1 (0.870%) Internet
5 1 (0.870%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.43%) SQL Server 2008
2 28 (24.35%) SQL Server 2005
3 22 (19.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (14.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (13.91%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (9.565%) SQL Server 2012
7 7 (6.087%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (6.087%) Oracle 11g
8 6 (5.217%) Oracle 9i
9 5 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
10 4 (3.478%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.478%) DTS
10 4 (3.478%) OLAP
11 3 (2.609%) Oracle 8/8i
11 3 (2.609%) DB2
12 2 (1.739%) MySQL
12 2 (1.739%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.739%) MSDE
12 2 (1.739%) Oracle OLAP
12 2 (1.739%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Visual Studio
2 7 (6.087%) Mercurial
3 5 (4.348%) Git (software)
4 4 (3.478%) Subversion
5 2 (1.739%) NUnit
5 2 (1.739%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.739%) MSTest
6 1 (0.870%) TortoiseSVN
6 1 (0.870%) ProC
General
1 21 (18.26%) Finance
2 12 (10.43%) Banking
3 5 (4.348%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.609%) Games
5 2 (1.739%) Back Office
5 2 (1.739%) Marketing
6 1 (0.870%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.870%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.870%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.870%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (53.91%) Developer
2 22 (19.13%) .NET Developer
3 17 (14.78%) C# Developer
4 13 (11.30%) DBA
5 12 (10.43%) Analyst
5 12 (10.43%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.565%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (6.087%) SQL DBA
7 7 (6.087%) SharePoint Developer
8 6 (5.217%) Architect
8 6 (5.217%) Web Developer
8 6 (5.217%) Consultant
8 6 (5.217%) SQL Server DBA
8 6 (5.217%) Programmer
9 4 (3.478%) SQL Developer
10 3 (2.609%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (2.609%) .NET Web Developer
10 3 (2.609%) WPF Developer
10 3 (2.609%) Server Specialist
10 3 (2.609%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.217%) Replication
2 4 (3.478%) Clustering
2 4 (3.478%) NHS
2 4 (3.478%) Computer Science
2 4 (3.478%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.609%) Data Integration
4 2 (1.739%) Data Conversion
4 2 (1.739%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.739%) Handset
4 2 (1.739%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.870%) Statistics
5 1 (0.870%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.870%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.870%) SaaS
5 1 (0.870%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.870%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.57%) Windows
2 16 (13.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (4.348%) Linux
5 4 (3.478%) UNIX
6 2 (1.739%) Solaris
6 2 (1.739%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.870%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.52%) MVC
2 13 (11.30%) Migration
3 12 (10.43%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (6.957%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (6.087%) Software Engineering
5 7 (6.087%) ETL
6 6 (5.217%) TDD
6 6 (5.217%) Project Management
7 5 (4.348%) Data Modelling
8 4 (3.478%) ITIL
8 4 (3.478%) PRINCE2
8 4 (3.478%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (3.478%) Asset Management
9 3 (2.609%) Business Analysis
9 3 (2.609%) Supplier Management
9 3 (2.609%) Network Load Balancing
9 3 (2.609%) Unit Testing
9 3 (2.609%) OO
9 3 (2.609%) Data Architecture
9 3 (2.609%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.61%) SQL
2 48 (41.74%) C#
3 19 (16.52%) T-SQL
4 14 (12.17%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.087%) PHP
6 6 (5.217%) VB.NET
7 5 (4.348%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.478%) VBA
9 3 (2.609%) VB
9 3 (2.609%) VB6
9 3 (2.609%) Java
10 2 (1.739%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
10 2 (1.739%) Delphi
11 1 (0.870%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (9.565%) Degree
3 2 (1.739%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.739%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.739%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (1.739%) MCITP
3 2 (1.739%) MCSE
3 2 (1.739%) MCSA
4 1 (0.870%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.870%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.478%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.609%) vSphere
2 3 (2.609%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.870%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.870%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.870%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.739%) Backup Exec
1 2 (1.739%) WSUS
2 1 (0.870%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.870%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 30 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.39%) Oracle
3 8 (6.957%) VMware
4 5 (4.348%) Cisco
5 4 (3.478%) IBM
5 4 (3.478%) Business Objects
5 4 (3.478%) HP
5 4 (3.478%) Telerik
6 3 (2.609%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.609%) Salesforce.com
6 3 (2.609%) DevExpress
6 3 (2.609%) Cadis
6 3 (2.609%) Nokia
6 3 (2.609%) SAP
7 2 (1.739%) JBoss
7 2 (1.739%) Trillium
7 2 (1.739%) Sybase
7 2 (1.739%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.739%) Nortel
7 2 (1.739%) Informatica
Edinburgh, Scotland
Contract DB2 DBA (Linux, JBoss) 2-4 weeks, ScotlandHarvey Nash's client urgently requires a DB2 DBA with strong configuration and troubleshooting skills to investigate some performance issues...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: Market
Posted: 11 June 2013