The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server Consultant role 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 Consultant in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Server Consultant
Rank 505 542 547
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +5
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Consultant 8 17 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.032% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.034% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 10
Average daily rate £415 £313 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.80% -26.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £244 £384
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £453 £583
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £250 £406
% change year-on-year
+58.00% -38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL Server Consultant
UK

SQL Server Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Consultant across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England SQL Server Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

England SQL Server Consultant Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England SQL Server Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
East of England - 3 £415 -
East Midlands -8 2 - -
South West - 2 £375 -
London +32 1 £450 +11.80%
SQL Server Consultant
UK

SQL Server Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited SQL Server Consultant in their job title 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 with SQL Server Consultant in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (53.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (40.00%) ETL
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (26.67%) VMware
6 4 (26.67%) Windows
6 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
7 3 (20.00%) VMware ESX
7 3 (20.00%) Clustering
7 3 (20.00%) Finance
7 3 (20.00%) Information Management
7 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
7 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
7 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (13.33%) MDX
8 2 (13.33%) Migration
8 2 (13.33%) OLAP
8 2 (13.33%) NHS
9 1 (6.667%) Commerce Server
9 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
9 1 (6.667%) SPSS
9 1 (6.667%) SAS

SQL Server Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited SQL Server Consultant in their job title 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 with SQL Server Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Commerce Server
1 1 (6.667%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) SPSS
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (53.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (13.33%) OLAP
6 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Games
2 1 (6.667%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) NHS
3 1 (6.667%) Statistics
3 1 (6.667%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ETL
2 3 (20.00%) Information Management
2 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.667%) CRM
4 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.667%) ERP
4 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
4 1 (6.667%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Business Transformation
4 1 (6.667%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (6.667%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
South West
The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience building data warehouse systems using SQL Server 2005 or 2008, with extensive BI stack experience... Essential Skills: -SQL Server...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Posted: 19 May 2013