The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 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 Essex 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 (MS SQL)
Rank 9 17 5
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 46 34 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 10.95% 8.333% 18.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 56.79% 46.58% 70.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 33
Average daily rate £243 £279 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.00% -20.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £250 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £364 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 14
Average hourly rate £28.75 - £31.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 - £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.45 - £38.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-3.38% -20.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
81 73 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 19.29% 17.89% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 45
Average daily rate £300 £288 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £240 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £444 £375 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 20
Average hourly rate £30.89 £26.28 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.54% -12.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £25.60 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £37.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Essex SQL Server Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server
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 within the Essex 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
Colchester +10 14 £190 -13.14%
Chelmsford -1 4 £356 +23.91%
Basildon -6 3 £245 -7.54%
Harlow +3 2 £250 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Brentwood - 1 £550 -
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 54 (59.34%) SQL
2 47 (51.65%) .NET
3 39 (42.86%) C#
4 38 (41.76%) ASP.NET
5 36 (39.56%) Microsoft
6 28 (30.77%) Web Services
7 25 (27.47%) SQL Server 2005
8 24 (26.37%) SQL Server 2008
8 24 (26.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (26.37%) JavaScript
8 24 (26.37%) Windows
9 22 (24.18%) T-SQL
10 19 (20.88%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (20.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (19.78%) HTML
11 18 (19.78%) CSS
11 18 (19.78%) Oracle
12 15 (16.48%) XML
13 12 (13.19%) SharePoint
13 12 (13.19%) WSE
14 11 (12.09%) Project Management
15 9 (9.890%) Finance
15 9 (9.890%) WCF
15 9 (9.890%) Windows Server 2008
15 9 (9.890%) Active Directory
15 9 (9.890%) MS Excel
16 8 (8.791%) Visual Studio
16 8 (8.791%) VBScript
16 8 (8.791%) Windows Server 2003
16 8 (8.791%) BizTalk Server

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 47 (51.65%) .NET
2 38 (41.76%) ASP.NET
3 28 (30.77%) Web Services
4 18 (19.78%) HTML
4 18 (19.78%) CSS
5 15 (16.48%) XML
6 12 (13.19%) WSE
7 9 (9.890%) WCF
8 7 (7.692%) .NET Framework
9 6 (6.593%) XSLT
9 6 (6.593%) J2EE
9 6 (6.593%) Ajax
9 6 (6.593%) jQuery
10 4 (4.396%) WinForms
11 3 (3.297%) HTML5
11 3 (3.297%) LINQ
12 2 (2.198%) XHTML
12 2 (2.198%) ADO.NET
12 2 (2.198%) ASP
12 2 (2.198%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 12 (13.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.791%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (6.593%) MS Exchange
4 5 (5.495%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (5.495%) CMS
5 4 (4.396%) IIS
5 4 (4.396%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (4.396%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (3.297%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (2.198%) Documentum
7 2 (2.198%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (1.099%) MS Project Server
8 1 (1.099%) ESB
8 1 (1.099%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 9 (9.890%) MS Excel
2 5 (5.495%) MS Office
3 3 (3.297%) MS Project
4 2 (2.198%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.099%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.099%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (2.198%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.791%) CTI
2 7 (7.692%) SAN
3 6 (6.593%) Intranet
3 6 (6.593%) Internet
4 5 (5.495%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.198%) VPN
5 2 (2.198%) Firewall
6 1 (1.099%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.099%) MGCP
6 1 (1.099%) BGP
6 1 (1.099%) ISDN
6 1 (1.099%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.47%) SQL Server 2005
2 24 (26.37%) SQL Server 2008
2 24 (26.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 19 (20.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (8.791%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (6.593%) GIS
6 5 (5.495%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (4.396%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.297%) Oracle 9i
9 2 (2.198%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.198%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (2.198%) OLAP
9 2 (2.198%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (2.198%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
10 1 (1.099%) Pentaho
10 1 (1.099%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (1.099%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (1.099%) MySQL
10 1 (1.099%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (8.791%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.198%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.198%) Selenium
3 1 (1.099%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (1.099%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.099%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (1.099%) Maven
3 1 (1.099%) JUnit
3 1 (1.099%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.099%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 9 (9.890%) Finance
2 3 (3.297%) Retail
3 2 (2.198%) Automotive
3 2 (2.198%) Publishing
3 2 (2.198%) Spanish Language
4 1 (1.099%) German Language
4 1 (1.099%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.099%) Marketing
4 1 (1.099%) Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (52.75%) Developer
2 16 (17.58%) Analyst
3 13 (14.29%) Web Developer
4 10 (10.99%) .NET Developer
5 7 (7.692%) C# Developer
6 6 (6.593%) Consultant
6 6 (6.593%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.495%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (5.495%) Team Leader
7 5 (5.495%) DBA
8 4 (4.396%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.396%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (4.396%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.297%) Development Analyst
9 3 (3.297%) Development Support Analyst
9 3 (3.297%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (3.297%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.297%) Report Analyst
9 3 (3.297%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.297%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.692%) NHS
2 6 (6.593%) Clustering
2 6 (6.593%) SaaS
3 5 (5.495%) IVR
4 4 (4.396%) PACS
5 2 (2.198%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.198%) Tandem
5 2 (2.198%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.198%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.198%) Data Extraction
5 2 (2.198%) Open Source
5 2 (2.198%) SWIFT
6 1 (1.099%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.099%) Informatics
6 1 (1.099%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.099%) PKI
6 1 (1.099%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.37%) Windows
2 9 (9.890%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (8.791%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (5.495%) Windows 7
5 3 (3.297%) Windows 8
5 3 (3.297%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.297%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.88%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (12.09%) Project Management
3 8 (8.791%) Web Development
4 7 (7.692%) PRINCE2
5 6 (6.593%) CRM
5 6 (6.593%) E-Commerce
5 6 (6.593%) Migration
6 5 (5.495%) Change Management
6 5 (5.495%) ETL
7 4 (4.396%) Configuration Management
7 4 (4.396%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (4.396%) TDD
7 4 (4.396%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (4.396%) MVC
7 4 (4.396%) Scrum
7 4 (4.396%) Performance Management
7 4 (4.396%) Waterfall
8 3 (3.297%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (3.297%) Data Migration
8 3 (3.297%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 54 (59.34%) SQL
2 39 (42.86%) C#
3 24 (26.37%) JavaScript
4 22 (24.18%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.791%) VBScript
6 7 (7.692%) VB
6 7 (7.692%) PL/SQL
7 6 (6.593%) Java
8 3 (3.297%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.198%) PHP
9 2 (2.198%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.099%) XPath
10 1 (1.099%) PL/1
10 1 (1.099%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (5.495%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (4.396%) MCSE
2 4 (4.396%) Degree
3 1 (1.099%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.099%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.099%) MCITP
3 1 (1.099%) Sun Certification
3 1 (1.099%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.396%) QA
2 2 (2.198%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (9.890%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.396%) ISA Server
2 4 (4.396%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (1.099%) vSphere
3 1 (1.099%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.099%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 4 (4.396%) Backup Exec
2 3 (3.297%) SCCM
3 2 (2.198%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (1.099%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 36 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.78%) Oracle
3 6 (6.593%) HP
4 5 (5.495%) AccuRev
5 4 (4.396%) Cisco
5 4 (4.396%) Compaq
5 4 (4.396%) Dell
5 4 (4.396%) ADIC
5 4 (4.396%) CommVault
5 4 (4.396%) Veritas
6 3 (3.297%) ATG
6 3 (3.297%) Sage
6 3 (3.297%) Genesys
6 3 (3.297%) Siemens
6 3 (3.297%) Hyperion
7 2 (2.198%) VMware
8 1 (1.099%) Talend
8 1 (1.099%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (1.099%) Clearswift
8 1 (1.099%) IBM
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