The first table below looks at the demand for Azure SQL Database skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Azure SQL Database 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Rank 524 544 577
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +33
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 11 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.025% 0.009% 0.003%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.122% 0.048% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 2
Average daily rate £375 £394 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £326 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £400 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £188 £300 £338
% change year-on-year
-37.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9019 10361 11958
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.60% 19.54% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5510 6215 6898
Average daily rate £388 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 233 324
Average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.45% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £15.00 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £43.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Azure SQL Database Jobs Demand Trend

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database across the England region.

England Azure SQL Database Daily Rate Trend

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Azure SQL Database Daily Rate Histogram

Azure SQL Database
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +21 6 £175 -41.66% 2
London +22 4 £450 +12.50% 6
West Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
East of England - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Azure SQL Database 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 Azure SQL Database.

1 30 (100.00%) SQL
1 30 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 25 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 19 (63.33%) Windows
4 18 (60.00%) C#
5 16 (53.33%) .NET
6 15 (50.00%) SQL Server
6 15 (50.00%) MVC
7 13 (43.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 12 (40.00%) PaaS
9 11 (36.67%) Multithreading
10 9 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (30.00%) Scrum
10 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
11 8 (26.67%) MS Excel
11 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (26.67%) TDD
11 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
12 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (20.00%) Games
13 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (16.67%) OLAP
14 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
14 5 (16.67%) MapReduce
14 5 (16.67%) Task Parallel Library
14 5 (16.67%) Big Data
14 5 (16.67%) Business Analytics

Azure SQL Database
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Azure SQL Database 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 Azure SQL Database. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (53.33%) .NET
2 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (16.67%) MapReduce
4 5 (16.67%) Task Parallel Library
4 5 (16.67%) WCF
5 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (13.33%) CSS
5 4 (13.33%) Web Services
5 4 (13.33%) Velocity
5 4 (13.33%) HTML5
6 3 (10.00%) REST
6 3 (10.00%) XML
6 3 (10.00%) ADO.NET
6 3 (10.00%) JSON
6 3 (10.00%) WF
7 2 (6.667%) Lucene
7 2 (6.667%) XSL
7 2 (6.667%) XSLT
7 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 30 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (13.33%) IIS
4 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (43.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
5 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (16.67%) OLAP
6 5 (16.67%) Hadoop
6 5 (16.67%) Big Data
6 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (10.00%) OLTP
8 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (10.00%) Moq
1 3 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (3.333%) Retail
2 1 (3.333%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) C# Developer
3 6 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 5 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Business Developer
4 5 (16.67%) DBA
5 4 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (6.667%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.667%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.667%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (3.333%) CRM Consultant
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Applications Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Consultant
8 1 (3.333%) C# Web Developer
8 1 (3.333%) SQL Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) PaaS
2 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 2 (6.667%) SaaS
4 1 (3.333%) FMCG
4 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.333%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.667%) Linux
2 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) MVC
2 11 (36.67%) Multithreading
3 9 (30.00%) Scrum
4 8 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (26.67%) TDD
4 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) Business Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 4 (13.33%) BDD
7 3 (10.00%) Kanban
7 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (10.00%) Workflow
8 2 (6.667%) MVVM
8 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (3.333%) Migration
9 1 (3.333%) CRM
9 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
9 1 (3.333%) Data Modelling
9 1 (3.333%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (60.00%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.667%) Perl
6 1 (3.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) MCSE
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (13.33%) MCITP
2 1 (3.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) Dublin Core
2 1 (3.333%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) Microsoft
Guildford, South East
The ideal candidate is someone who has proven experience in designing and implementing Business Intelligence Solutions from large volume/high velocity sources using Microsoft technologies.The role will...
Rate: £150 - £200 per annum + Negotiable
Posted: 10 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
My client is looking for a Senior Consultant with deep technical Microsoft Dynamics CRM business process and implementation experience... We deal with both Microsoft Partners & End Users globally...
Nigel Frank International
Rate: £325 - £425 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
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