The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Exeter 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
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 14 12 13
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 9 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 8.824% 10.53% 12.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.13% 42.86% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
Average daily rate £275 - £185
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 - £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £372 - £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £31.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -68.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
23 14 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 22.55% 24.56% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 9
Average daily rate £275 £450 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% +181.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £330 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £488 £427
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server
Devon

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter 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 Exeter region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 14 (58.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 14 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (50.00%) ETL
4 10 (41.67%) .NET
5 9 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 9 (37.50%) Kimball Methodology
6 8 (33.33%) C#
7 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
8 6 (25.00%) Silverlight
9 5 (20.83%) DTS
9 5 (20.83%) T-SQL
10 3 (12.50%) TDD
10 3 (12.50%) Logistics
10 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
10 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
10 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
10 3 (12.50%) WCF
10 3 (12.50%) WPF
10 3 (12.50%) Migration
10 3 (12.50%) N-Tier
10 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
10 3 (12.50%) LINQ
10 3 (12.50%) RESTful
10 3 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
10 3 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 2 (8.333%) PowerPivot

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 10 (41.67%) .NET
2 6 (25.00%) Silverlight
3 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.50%) WCF
3 3 (12.50%) WPF
3 3 (12.50%) LINQ
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.333%) MDX
5 1 (4.167%) CSS
5 1 (4.167%) jQuery
5 1 (4.167%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.167%) Apache
2 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.167%) IIS
2 1 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.333%) PowerPivot
3 1 (4.167%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) SSL
1 1 (4.167%) LDAP
1 1 (4.167%) Internet
1 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.167%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 14 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 12 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (20.83%) DTS
5 2 (8.333%) PerformancePoint
5 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.167%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) TeamCity
1 2 (8.333%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (20.83%) SQL Developer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 3 (12.50%) SQL DBA
5 3 (12.50%) DBA
6 2 (8.333%) Business Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Junior DBA
7 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.167%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Database Specialist
7 1 (4.167%) Administrator
7 1 (4.167%) Junior Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Technical Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Web Administrator
7 1 (4.167%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) Windows
1 2 (8.333%) Linux
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) ETL
2 9 (37.50%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (12.50%) TDD
3 3 (12.50%) Logistics
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (12.50%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
4 1 (4.167%) Risk Management
4 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.167%) Project Management
4 1 (4.167%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.333%) Java
5 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.167%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (8.333%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.167%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.167%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle
3 1 (4.167%) VMware
Exeter, Devon
Essential skills: C# TDD WPF Ideally with Prism Silverlight WCF SQLServer LINQ to Entities N-Tier Entity Framework Dependency Injection Knowledge of connecting WPF to existing WCF services...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Rate: Marker Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013