Glasgow SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hornchurch Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	29
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	15	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	14.38 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£295
Average daily rate	£303	£320
% change on same period last year	-5.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£348
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.44	£34.27
% change on same period last year	+0.49 %
Database & Business Intelligence Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	210	306
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.310 %
Daily rates quoted	51	109
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£302
Average daily rate	£327	£318
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£36.68
Average hourly rate	£24.63	£39.06
% change on same period last year	-36.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.25	£41.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 2005 Scotland

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 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Glasgow region.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Glasgow region.

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 56 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 31 (55.36 %) .NET 3 27 (48.21 %) SQL Server 2000 4 22 (39.29 %) ASP.NET 5 19 (33.93 %) C# 6 18 (32.14 %) SQL 7 16 (28.57 %) Windows 8 15 (26.79 %) XML 8 15 (26.79 %) Oracle 9 14 (25.00 %) Microsoft 10 13 (23.21 %) SharePoint 11 12 (21.43 %) Finance 11 12 (21.43 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 10 (17.86 %) Active Directory 12 10 (17.86 %) Transact-SQL

12 10 (17.86 %) VB.NET 13 8 (14.29 %) NetBackup 13 8 (14.29 %) Visual Studio 13 8 (14.29 %) Solaris 13 8 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 7 (12.50 %) WebServices 14 7 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 14 7 (12.50 %) Sun 14 7 (12.50 %) VERITAS 14 7 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 14 7 (12.50 %) UNIX 14 7 (12.50 %) Oracle RMAN 15 6 (10.71 %) Intec 15 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 15 6 (10.71 %) Billing

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 31 (55.36 %) .NET 2 22 (39.29 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (26.79 %) XML 4 7 (12.50 %) WebServices 5 6 (10.71 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 6 (10.71 %) HTML 5 6 (10.71 %) CSS 5 6 (10.71 %) AJAX 5 6 (10.71 %) ADO.NET 6 4 (7.143 %) .NET Framework 7 3 (5.357 %) XSL 8 1 (1.786 %) XSLT 8 1 (1.786 %) XHTML 8 1 (1.786 %) WinForms 8 1 (1.786 %) ASP 8 1 (1.786 %) COM+ 8 1 (1.786 %) NHibernate 8 1 (1.786 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 13 (23.21 %) SharePoint 2 8 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 6 (10.71 %) BizTalk Server 3 6 (10.71 %) Oracle Application Server 4 4 (7.143 %) IIS 5 2 (3.571 %) Office Project Server 5 2 (3.571 %) CMS 5 2 (3.571 %) Umbraco 6 1 (1.786 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (1.786 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 3 (5.357 %) MS Office 2 2 (3.571 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.786 %) InfoPath 3 1 (1.786 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.143 %) LDAP 2 3 (5.357 %) Internet 3 1 (1.786 %) Extranet 3 1 (1.786 %) FTP 3 1 (1.786 %) SAN 3 1 (1.786 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 56 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 27 (48.21 %) SQL Server 2000 3 12 (21.43 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 7 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 4 7 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 5 6 (10.71 %) MySQL 5 6 (10.71 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (7.143 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 3 (5.357 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server 7 7 3 (5.357 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (3.571 %) GIS 9 1 (1.786 %) Data Cleansing	Development Applications 1 8 (14.29 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.571 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 12 (21.43 %) Finance 2 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 2 6 (10.71 %) Billing 3 5 (8.929 %) Banking 4 4 (7.143 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (3.571 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.786 %) Law	Job Titles 1 29 (51.79 %) Developer 2 18 (32.14 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (16.07 %) DBA 4 8 (14.29 %) Oracle DBA 5 7 (12.50 %) Analyst 6 6 (10.71 %) SQL Developer 7 5 (8.929 %) Developer Analyst 7 5 (8.929 %) .NET Programmer 7 5 (8.929 %) Programmer 8 4 (7.143 %) Administrator 8 4 (7.143 %) C# Developer 8 4 (7.143 %) Consultant 8 4 (7.143 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (7.143 %) SQL DBA 9 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server Developer 9 3 (5.357 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 9 3 (5.357 %) Architect 9 3 (5.357 %) Analyst Programmer 9 3 (5.357 %) Sharepoint Architect 10 2 (3.571 %) Database Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.571 %) Clustering 1 2 (3.571 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (1.786 %) Taxonomies	Operating Systems 1 16 (28.57 %) Windows 2 8 (14.29 %) Solaris 3 7 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.786 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.929 %) Web Design 2 4 (7.143 %) CRM 2 4 (7.143 %) ERP 3 3 (5.357 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (5.357 %) Systems Analysis 3 3 (5.357 %) Web Development 4 2 (3.571 %) Internet Marketing 4 2 (3.571 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 4 2 (3.571 %) SOA 4 2 (3.571 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (1.786 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.786 %) OO 5 1 (1.786 %) Migration 5 1 (1.786 %) Asset Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Data Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 19 (33.93 %) C# 2 18 (32.14 %) SQL 3 10 (17.86 %) Transact-SQL 3 10 (17.86 %) VB.NET 4 6 (10.71 %) Shell Script 5 5 (8.929 %) JavaScript 6 4 (7.143 %) DHTML 7 2 (3.571 %) VB 8 1 (1.786 %) VB6 8 1 (1.786 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 4 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (3.571 %) MCAD 2 2 (3.571 %) MCSE 2 2 (3.571 %) MCSA 3 1 (1.786 %) HND 3 1 (1.786 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.786 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (17.86 %) Active Directory 2 8 (14.29 %) NetBackup 3 7 (12.50 %) Oracle RMAN	Vendors 1 15 (26.79 %) Oracle 2 14 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 7 (12.50 %) Sun 3 7 (12.50 %) VERITAS 4 6 (10.71 %) Intec 5 4 (7.143 %) Citrix 6 2 (3.571 %) Dundas 6 2 (3.571 %) Symantec 6 2 (3.571 %) HP