Essex SQL Server Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SQL Server Developer role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL Server Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Server Developer
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	49
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	9	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	1.398 %	1.582 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£180	-
Average daily rate	£200	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£220	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£305
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£31.25
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£33.13
% change on same period last year	+13.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.14	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	644	632
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.670 %
Daily rates quoted	249	188
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£331
Average daily rate	£292	£356
% change on same period last year	-18.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£25.86
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£26.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
SQL Server Developer East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL Server Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the Essex region.

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

SQL Server Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SQL Server Developer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basildon	-	3	-	-

SQL Server Developer East of England

SQL Server Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited SQL Server Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 8 (50.00 %) .NET 3 7 (43.75 %) DTS 3 7 (43.75 %) OLAP 3 7 (43.75 %) C# 3 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 6 (37.50 %) ProClarity 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL 5 5 (31.25 %) Transact-SQL 5 5 (31.25 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (31.25 %) Business Intelligence 5 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005

5 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 4 (25.00 %) Web Development 7 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 7 3 (18.75 %) AJAX 8 2 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 9 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (6.250 %) Silverlight 9 1 (6.250 %) VB6 9 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 9 1 (6.250 %) VB 9 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET 9 1 (6.250 %) VBA 9 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (6.250 %) Service Management

SQL Server Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited SQL Server Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (50.00 %) .NET 2 5 (31.25 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 3 (18.75 %) AJAX 5 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (6.250 %) Silverlight 5 1 (6.250 %) WinForms	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 7 (43.75 %) OLAP 2 7 (43.75 %) DTS 2 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (31.25 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (25.00 %) Web Development 3 2 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 7 (43.75 %) C# 2 6 (37.50 %) SQL 3 5 (31.25 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) VB 4 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET 4 1 (6.250 %) VBA 4 1 (6.250 %) VB6
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) ProClarity