The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Farnborough 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 Farnborough 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 6 11 11
Rank change year-on-year
+5 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 17.95% 5.263% 13.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 87.50% 50.00% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 9
Average daily rate £325 £305 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.55% -6.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Farnborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8 6 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 20.51% 10.53% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 18
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £305 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £400 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server
Hampshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough 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 Farnborough 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 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (50.00%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (33.33%) IIS
4 4 (33.33%) UML
4 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 4 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 4 (33.33%) OO
4 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
5 3 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
5 3 (25.00%) HTML
5 3 (25.00%) VB
5 3 (25.00%) CSS
5 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
5 3 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 3 (25.00%) JSUnit
5 3 (25.00%) Highcharts JS
5 3 (25.00%) jQuery
5 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Ajax
5 3 (25.00%) Aquila
5 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (25.00%) NUnit
5 3 (25.00%) Telerik
6 2 (16.67%) WF

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) Highcharts JS
3 3 (25.00%) jQuery
3 3 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (16.67%) WF
5 1 (8.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (25.00%) JSUnit
1 3 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (8.333%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
1 1 (8.333%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
2 3 (25.00%) Programmer
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) COBOL Developer
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) UML
1 4 (33.33%) OO
2 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) OOD
4 1 (8.333%) Migration
4 1 (8.333%) OOP
4 1 (8.333%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 4 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 3 (25.00%) VB
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) COBOL
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Aquila
2 3 (25.00%) Telerik
3 2 (16.67%) Micro Focus
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft