The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2000 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 SQL Server 2000 over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Rank 407 364 226
Rank change year-on-year
-43 -138
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 105 201 430
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.248% 0.376% 0.776%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.194% 1.966% 3.802%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 117 254
Average daily rate £339 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.21% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £260 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 20
Average hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £26.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -0.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £14.42 £17.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £41.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £29.25 £26.19
% change year-on-year
-14.52% +11.70%
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8794 10222 11309
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.79% 19.10% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5380 6026 6414
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 235 369
Average hourly rate £25.00 £26.89 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.02% -15.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £13.10 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
SQL Server 2000
UK

SQL Server 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

England SQL Server 2000 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the England region.

England SQL Server 2000 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England SQL Server 2000 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the England region.

England SQL Server 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England SQL Server 2000 Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2000
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
London -44 43 £388 -3.12%
North West +17 22 £388 +29.16%
South East +2 16 £400 +17.82%
Yorkshire +11 7 £231 -7.50%
East Midlands +5 5 £260 -
West Midlands -1 5 £340 -1.09%
South West +17 3 £275 +1.85%
East of England +8 3 - -
Midlands - 2 £325 -
SQL Server 2000
UK

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 257 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 192 (74.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 176 (68.48%) SQL Server 2005
4 159 (61.87%) SQL
5 105 (40.86%) Windows
6 102 (39.69%) .NET
7 80 (31.13%) C#
8 78 (30.35%) Microsoft
9 67 (26.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 60 (23.35%) T-SQL
11 58 (22.57%) Active Directory
12 57 (22.18%) XML
13 56 (21.79%) ASP.NET
13 56 (21.79%) Windows Server 2008
14 55 (21.40%) Windows Server 2003
15 52 (20.23%) Web Services
16 46 (17.90%) HTML
17 43 (16.73%) jQuery
17 43 (16.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 42 (16.34%) JavaScript
19 41 (15.95%) VMware
20 39 (15.18%) Finance
21 38 (14.79%) WCF
22 37 (14.40%) Oracle
23 36 (14.01%) Agile Software Development
24 34 (13.23%) CSS
24 34 (13.23%) MS Excel
24 34 (13.23%) Citrix
25 32 (12.45%) SAN
25 32 (12.45%) OO

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 102 (39.69%) .NET
2 57 (22.18%) XML
3 56 (21.79%) ASP.NET
4 52 (20.23%) Web Services
5 46 (17.90%) HTML
6 43 (16.73%) jQuery
7 38 (14.79%) WCF
8 34 (13.23%) CSS
9 29 (11.28%) Ajax
10 26 (10.12%) LINQ
11 24 (9.339%) ASP
12 22 (8.560%) .NET Framework
13 19 (7.393%) ASP.NET MVC
14 16 (6.226%) JSON
15 13 (5.058%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 13 (5.058%) WSDL
15 13 (5.058%) XSLT
15 13 (5.058%) COM+
16 12 (4.669%) XML Schema
17 9 (3.502%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 28 (10.89%) MS Exchange
2 27 (10.51%) SharePoint
3 25 (9.728%) IIS
4 18 (7.004%) Exchange Server 2003
5 16 (6.226%) MSMQ
6 12 (4.669%) Exchange Server 2010
7 11 (4.280%) Exchange Server 2007
8 9 (3.502%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 8 (3.113%) MTS
10 5 (1.946%) SharePoint 2010
10 5 (1.946%) Apache
11 4 (1.556%) ColdFusion
11 4 (1.556%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (1.167%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (1.167%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.778%) CMS
13 2 (0.778%) Exchange Server 2000
13 2 (0.778%) Zimbra
14 1 (0.389%) LiveCycle
14 1 (0.389%) Alfresco
Applications
1 34 (13.23%) MS Excel
2 11 (4.280%) MS Office
3 8 (3.113%) MS Project
4 5 (1.946%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.167%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.167%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.778%) Front Arena
2 2 (0.778%) Summit
3 1 (0.389%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.389%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.389%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.389%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.45%) SAN
2 21 (8.171%) DNS
3 16 (6.226%) Internet
4 12 (4.669%) Firewall
5 10 (3.891%) DHCP
5 10 (3.891%) VPN
5 10 (3.891%) WAN
6 8 (3.113%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.724%) LAN
8 6 (2.335%) Wireless
8 6 (2.335%) HTTP
9 5 (1.946%) SSL
9 5 (1.946%) 3G
10 3 (1.167%) NAS
10 3 (1.167%) 2G
11 2 (0.778%) ADSL
11 2 (0.778%) Broadband
11 2 (0.778%) GSM
11 2 (0.778%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.389%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 192 (74.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 176 (68.48%) SQL Server 2005
4 67 (26.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 43 (16.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (11.67%) DTS
7 21 (8.171%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (7.393%) Oracle 8/8i
9 18 (7.004%) MySQL
10 17 (6.615%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (5.447%) MS Access
12 13 (5.058%) Oracle 10g
13 11 (4.280%) RDBMS
14 10 (3.891%) SQL Server 2012
15 9 (3.502%) Oracle 11g
15 9 (3.502%) OLTP
16 8 (3.113%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (3.113%) VLDB
16 8 (3.113%) Sybase ASE
17 7 (2.724%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 31 (12.06%) Visual Studio
2 28 (10.89%) Subversion
3 11 (4.280%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 9 (3.502%) TortoiseSVN
5 8 (3.113%) JIRA
5 8 (3.113%) ReSharper
5 8 (3.113%) SpecFlow
5 8 (3.113%) Selenium
5 8 (3.113%) Git (software)
6 7 (2.724%) NUnit
7 6 (2.335%) Rhino Mocks
8 5 (1.946%) Visual Studio Team System
8 5 (1.946%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.167%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.167%) MSBuild
9 3 (1.167%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.778%) QuickTest Pro
10 2 (0.778%) StarTeam
11 1 (0.389%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.389%) InstallShield
General
1 39 (15.18%) Finance
2 25 (9.728%) Banking
3 14 (5.447%) Investment Banking
4 8 (3.113%) Telecoms
5 5 (1.946%) Retail
5 5 (1.946%) Legal
6 4 (1.556%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.556%) Marketing
7 3 (1.167%) Front Office
7 3 (1.167%) Back Office
7 3 (1.167%) Law
8 2 (0.778%) Games
9 1 (0.389%) Local Government
9 1 (0.389%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.389%) Publishing
9 1 (0.389%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (43.19%) Developer
2 57 (22.18%) DBA
3 44 (17.12%) .NET Developer
4 39 (15.18%) SQL DBA
5 23 (8.949%) C# Developer
5 23 (8.949%) SQL Developer
6 20 (7.782%) C# .NET Developer
7 17 (6.615%) Administrator
8 15 (5.837%) 3rd Line Support
8 15 (5.837%) SQL Server DBA
9 14 (5.447%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 13 (5.058%) Analyst
11 12 (4.669%) Agile .NET Developer
11 12 (4.669%) Agile C# Developer
12 11 (4.280%) ASP.NET Developer
13 10 (3.891%) Consultant
13 10 (3.891%) Programmer
13 10 (3.891%) SQL Server Developer
13 10 (3.891%) Teradata DBA
14 9 (3.502%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.560%) Clustering
2 19 (7.393%) Replication
3 11 (4.280%) Blackberry
4 8 (3.113%) N-Tier
4 8 (3.113%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.724%) Data Integration
5 7 (2.724%) RIA
6 5 (1.946%) Computer Science
6 5 (1.946%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.946%) W3C
7 4 (1.556%) PACS
7 4 (1.556%) Open Source
8 3 (1.167%) Mathematics
8 3 (1.167%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.778%) NHS
9 2 (0.778%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.778%) Statistics
10 1 (0.389%) SaaS
10 1 (0.389%) SWIFT
10 1 (0.389%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 105 (40.86%) Windows
2 56 (21.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 55 (21.40%) Windows Server 2003
4 27 (10.51%) Windows 2000
5 24 (9.339%) Linux
6 16 (6.226%) UNIX
7 8 (3.113%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.335%) Windows XP
8 6 (2.335%) Windows 2000 Server
9 5 (1.946%) Solaris
10 4 (1.556%) AIX
11 3 (1.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.167%) Windows Mobile
12 2 (0.778%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.389%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.389%) Android
13 1 (0.389%) VMS
13 1 (0.389%) Windows NT
13 1 (0.389%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (14.01%) Agile Software Development
2 32 (12.45%) OO
3 29 (11.28%) Migration
4 25 (9.728%) MVC
5 22 (8.560%) ITIL
6 21 (8.171%) Scrum
7 20 (7.782%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (7.782%) TDD
8 16 (6.226%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (6.226%) Data Modelling
9 14 (5.447%) ETL
10 13 (5.058%) SOA
11 12 (4.669%) Project Management
11 12 (4.669%) Change Management
11 12 (4.669%) Unit Testing
12 10 (3.891%) UML
13 9 (3.502%) Performance Management
13 9 (3.502%) MVVM
13 9 (3.502%) BDD
13 9 (3.502%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 159 (61.87%) SQL
2 80 (31.13%) C#
3 60 (23.35%) T-SQL
4 42 (16.34%) JavaScript
5 32 (12.45%) VB
6 29 (11.28%) VB.NET
7 24 (9.339%) VBA
8 20 (7.782%) VB6
9 16 (6.226%) VBScript
10 9 (3.502%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.335%) C
11 6 (2.335%) Perl
12 5 (1.946%) Java
13 4 (1.556%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.167%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.167%) C++
14 3 (1.167%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.778%) Ruby
15 2 (0.778%) Bash shell
16 1 (0.389%) F#
Qualifications
1 17 (6.615%) Security Cleared
1 17 (6.615%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (5.447%) Degree
3 13 (5.058%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.669%) MCSE
5 11 (4.280%) MCITP
6 5 (1.946%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (1.946%) Citrix Certification
7 4 (1.556%) CCA
8 3 (1.167%) VCP5
8 3 (1.167%) MCDST
8 3 (1.167%) MCDBA
8 3 (1.167%) MCP
9 2 (0.778%) ISEB
9 2 (0.778%) MOS
9 2 (0.778%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (0.778%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.778%) HP AIS
10 1 (0.389%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.389%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.280%) SLA
2 2 (0.778%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.389%) QA
System Software
1 58 (22.57%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.393%) XenApp
3 10 (3.891%) VMware ESX
3 10 (3.891%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 7 (2.724%) ISA Server
5 6 (2.335%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (2.335%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.946%) vSphere
6 5 (1.946%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (1.556%) Terminal Services
7 4 (1.556%) Forefront TMG
7 4 (1.556%) Postfix
8 2 (0.778%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.389%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 7 (2.724%) Backup Exec
2 5 (1.946%) Norton AntiVirus
3 4 (1.556%) SCCM
3 4 (1.556%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (1.167%) SCOM
4 3 (1.167%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.778%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.778%) Nagios
5 2 (0.778%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.778%) DameWare
5 2 (0.778%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.778%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.778%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (0.778%) Splunk
5 2 (0.778%) HP SIM
5 2 (0.778%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.389%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.389%) Oracle Statspack
6 1 (0.389%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.389%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 78 (30.35%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.95%) VMware
3 37 (14.40%) Oracle
4 34 (13.23%) Citrix
5 21 (8.171%) HP
6 13 (5.058%) Veritas
7 12 (4.669%) Sybase
8 11 (4.280%) Sophos
9 8 (3.113%) IBM
10 7 (2.724%) Business Objects
11 6 (2.335%) Symantec
11 6 (2.335%) Cisco
11 6 (2.335%) Juniper
11 6 (2.335%) CommVault
12 5 (1.946%) Acronis
12 5 (1.946%) SAP
13 4 (1.556%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.556%) Cramer
13 4 (1.556%) ADIC
13 4 (1.556%) Compaq
City, London
RIO Specialist urgently required to work in the city of London on a contract basis. You will be responsible for preparing and leading workshops at the client site,...
MBA Ltd
Posted: 15 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
The new system will be based on a .Net 4.5 framework with an SQL Server 2008R2 back end... Developing application using: .Net 4.5, WCF, SQL 2008R2.....
Brightred Resourcing Limited
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
A national media organisation are urgently seeking an experienced Lead Developer to come on board and lead the update of their customer membership system which is currently developed...
Brightred Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
In depth SQL Server (2005/2008) skills including performance tuning, T-SQL, stored procedures, using SSIS to implement and manage Extract Transform Load (ETL) Strong written and communication...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: YES
Posted: 8 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
In depth SQL Server (2005/2008) skills including performance tuning, T-SQL, stored procedures, using SSIS to implement and manage Extract Transform Load (ETL) Strong written and communication...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: Depending on experience
Posted: 21 May 2013
Oxfordshire
The candidate will work alongside a Business Analyst who is well versed in the Contract Management working practices. Skills MS Access VBA SQL Server 2000/2008 ASP .NET...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 16 May 2013
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Key skills include: Active Directory configuration VMware Windows 2000/2003/2008 system admin SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Citrix Ideally you will have worked in a technical support...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £220 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
You will also be responsible for all aspects of SQL Server database development in adherence with iDMS standards, including unit testing and documentation. Key skills: - Demonstrable experience in...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £350.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
Lancashire, North West
The client is looking for professionals who have previous BI experience, working with SQL Server all versions (from 2000 - 2012) in a development environment.Key skills:SQL Server (...
Rate: £225.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 27 April 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
3rd Line Support Role- Birmingham- 300 p/d An opportunity has become available for a 3rd line Support Engineer to work for our client based in a central...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
It would also be beneficial but not essential to have experience of VB6, SQL 2008 SSIS, SQL 2000 DTS, VB6 DCOM, VB6 Active-X control development and ASP...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Competitive rates on application
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Tech: C# 4.0, .Net, OO, BDD, Kanban, Agile, SQL... Web services, WCF, WSDL, XML, XML Schema... SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, T-SQL, Stored Procedures. Web API,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £400 to £550 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Data Analysis & Database Design4... Ability to work on several development and support tasks at any one time Formal Qualifications Required ESSENTIAL Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2010-...
Capita Resourcing
Rate: £200.00 - £330 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Active Directory 2008 - PACS system Administration exposure - ISA Server 2006 and ForeFront TMG 2010 - Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 - Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 - Windows Server...
Skye Group
Rate: £25 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013