The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 17 12 9
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 99 77 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 10.61% 9.784% 13.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.29% 31.30% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 30 64
Average daily rate £338 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £237 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £389 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
252 246 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.01% 31.26% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 109 126
Average daily rate £338 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.46% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £244 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
Average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -76.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server
Scotland

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 97 (41.45%) SQL
2 78 (33.33%) .NET
3 76 (32.48%) C#
4 69 (29.49%) SQL Server 2008
5 66 (28.21%) ASP.NET
6 63 (26.92%) Finance
7 60 (25.64%) SQL Server 2005
7 60 (25.64%) Sybase
8 56 (23.93%) Windows
9 51 (21.79%) Microsoft
10 48 (20.51%) XML
10 48 (20.51%) SharePoint
10 48 (20.51%) Oracle
11 47 (20.09%) UNIX
12 39 (16.67%) Java
13 33 (14.10%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (13.25%) Agile Software Development
15 30 (12.82%) T-SQL
15 30 (12.82%) RDBMS
16 29 (12.39%) JavaScript
16 29 (12.39%) Subversion
17 28 (11.97%) HTML
18 26 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 26 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 25 (10.68%) MS Excel
20 24 (10.26%) CSS
21 23 (9.829%) Tomcat
21 23 (9.829%) ETL
21 23 (9.829%) Spring
21 23 (9.829%) Degree

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 78 (33.33%) .NET
2 66 (28.21%) ASP.NET
3 48 (20.51%) XML
4 28 (11.97%) HTML
5 24 (10.26%) CSS
6 23 (9.829%) Spring
7 20 (8.547%) Web Services
8 19 (8.120%) XSLT
8 19 (8.120%) jQuery
9 18 (7.692%) .NET Framework
10 15 (6.410%) Ajax
11 14 (5.983%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.701%) WebSphere
13 10 (4.274%) XSL
14 7 (2.991%) SOAP
14 7 (2.991%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 6 (2.564%) HTML5
15 6 (2.564%) NHibernate
16 5 (2.137%) XHTML
16 5 (2.137%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 48 (20.51%) SharePoint
2 23 (9.829%) Tomcat
3 20 (8.547%) SharePoint 2010
4 15 (6.410%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (4.274%) SharePoint 2013
6 8 (3.419%) Mule
6 8 (3.419%) IIS
7 6 (2.564%) Apache
8 5 (2.137%) Umbraco
9 4 (1.709%) MS Exchange
9 4 (1.709%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (1.709%) CMS
10 3 (1.282%) MQSeries
10 3 (1.282%) WebLogic
10 3 (1.282%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (1.282%) GlassFish
10 3 (1.282%) Lync
11 1 (0.427%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.427%) Documentum
11 1 (0.427%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (10.68%) MS Excel
2 22 (9.402%) InfoPath
3 4 (1.709%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.282%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.282%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.855%) Agresso
1 2 (0.855%) LatentZero
1 2 (0.855%) Sentinel
2 1 (0.427%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.427%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.427%) Capstone
2 1 (0.427%) Tridion
2 1 (0.427%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.701%) SAN
1 11 (4.701%) Intranet
2 9 (3.846%) Internet
3 2 (0.855%) DHCP
3 2 (0.855%) SSL
3 2 (0.855%) Extranet
3 2 (0.855%) IPsec
4 1 (0.427%) Firewall
4 1 (0.427%) LDAP
4 1 (0.427%) HTTP
4 1 (0.427%) DNS
4 1 (0.427%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (29.49%) SQL Server 2008
2 60 (25.64%) SQL Server 2005
3 33 (14.10%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (12.82%) RDBMS
5 26 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 26 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (8.974%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 17 (7.265%) SQL Server 2000
8 16 (6.838%) SQL Server 2012
9 10 (4.274%) Oracle 8/8i
10 7 (2.991%) DTS
11 6 (2.564%) MS Access
12 5 (2.137%) OLTP
13 4 (1.709%) Data Mart
14 3 (1.282%) InterSystems Cache
14 3 (1.282%) Xcelsius
15 2 (0.855%) PerformancePoint
15 2 (0.855%) BusinessObjects XI
15 2 (0.855%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
15 2 (0.855%) DB2
Development Applications
1 29 (12.39%) Subversion
2 16 (6.838%) Eclipse
3 11 (4.701%) JIRA
4 9 (3.846%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.564%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.564%) Selenium
5 6 (2.564%) CruiseControl
5 6 (2.564%) Maven
6 4 (1.709%) JUnit
6 4 (1.709%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.709%) ClearCase
7 3 (1.282%) Bugzilla
7 3 (1.282%) Ant
7 3 (1.282%) Dreamweaver
7 3 (1.282%) Hudson
7 3 (1.282%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.282%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (1.282%) Trac
8 1 (0.427%) NetAdvantage
8 1 (0.427%) MSI
General
1 63 (26.92%) Finance
2 22 (9.402%) Banking
3 6 (2.564%) Front Office
4 3 (1.282%) Investment Banking
4 3 (1.282%) Manufacturing
4 3 (1.282%) Marketing
5 1 (0.427%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (52.99%) Developer
2 27 (11.54%) Analyst
3 26 (11.11%) SharePoint Developer
4 20 (8.547%) Consultant
5 19 (8.120%) Support Analyst
5 19 (8.120%) Applications Support
6 17 (7.265%) Java Developer
6 17 (7.265%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (6.838%) .NET Developer
8 15 (6.410%) DBA
8 15 (6.410%) SQL Developer
9 13 (5.556%) Architect
10 12 (5.128%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.701%) SQL DBA
12 10 (4.274%) SQL Server DBA
12 10 (4.274%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.846%) Web Developer
13 9 (3.846%) SQL Server Developer
14 8 (3.419%) C# Developer
15 7 (2.991%) ScrumMaster
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.838%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (5.556%) Inversion of Control
3 9 (3.846%) N-Tier
4 8 (3.419%) NHS
4 8 (3.419%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.564%) Data Integration
5 6 (2.564%) Clustering
6 5 (2.137%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.282%) Web 2.0
7 3 (1.282%) W3C
7 3 (1.282%) Social Network
7 3 (1.282%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.282%) PKI
7 3 (1.282%) Statistics
8 1 (0.427%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.427%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.427%) RIA
8 1 (0.427%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.427%) Symmetrix DMX
8 1 (0.427%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.93%) Windows
2 47 (20.09%) UNIX
3 15 (6.410%) Windows Server 2008
4 13 (5.556%) Linux
5 9 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (2.991%) AIX
6 7 (2.991%) Windows XP
7 6 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.709%) Solaris
9 3 (1.282%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.427%) Windows NT
10 1 (0.427%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.427%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.427%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (13.25%) Agile Software Development
2 23 (9.829%) ETL
3 22 (9.402%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (8.547%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (7.692%) Scrum
5 18 (7.692%) TDD
6 17 (7.265%) Data Modelling
6 17 (7.265%) ITIL
7 16 (6.838%) OO
8 13 (5.556%) Unit Testing
9 12 (5.128%) MVC
10 11 (4.701%) Web Development
11 9 (3.846%) Extreme Programming
12 8 (3.419%) Test Automation
12 8 (3.419%) SOA
12 8 (3.419%) UML
12 8 (3.419%) Workflow
13 7 (2.991%) Dependency Injection
14 6 (2.564%) Software Testing
15 5 (2.137%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (41.45%) SQL
2 76 (32.48%) C#
3 39 (16.67%) Java
4 30 (12.82%) T-SQL
5 29 (12.39%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.556%) VB.NET
7 10 (4.274%) VBA
8 8 (3.419%) XPath
8 8 (3.419%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.137%) VB
10 3 (1.282%) VB6
10 3 (1.282%) VBScript
10 3 (1.282%) C++
11 2 (0.855%) Perl
11 2 (0.855%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.427%) Delphi
12 1 (0.427%) C
12 1 (0.427%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (9.829%) Degree
2 15 (6.410%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.410%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (2.991%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.137%) MCP
5 3 (1.282%) MCTS
5 3 (1.282%) MCSE
6 2 (0.855%) ISEB
7 1 (0.427%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.692%) SLA
2 4 (1.709%) QA
System Software
1 6 (2.564%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.709%) vSphere
3 3 (1.282%) VMware ESX
3 3 (1.282%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.282%) XenDesktop
4 2 (0.855%) XenApp
5 1 (0.427%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.427%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.427%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 4 (1.709%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 3 (1.282%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (0.427%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.427%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.427%) WSUS
3 1 (0.427%) SCCM
3 1 (0.427%) SCOM
3 1 (0.427%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 60 (25.64%) Sybase
2 51 (21.79%) Microsoft
3 48 (20.51%) Oracle
4 13 (5.556%) Informatica
5 11 (4.701%) Citrix
6 10 (4.274%) VMware
7 9 (3.846%) IBM
8 7 (2.991%) EMC
9 6 (2.564%) HP
9 6 (2.564%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.137%) Cognos
11 4 (1.709%) Avaloq
11 4 (1.709%) Adobe
11 4 (1.709%) Sun
11 4 (1.709%) CA
11 4 (1.709%) Perforce
12 3 (1.282%) Business Objects
12 3 (1.282%) Symantec
12 3 (1.282%) McAfee
12 3 (1.282%) Dell
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I am recruiting for a Contract Sharepoint Developer on behalf of one of my Clients based in Glasgow... You will be responsible for developing a new product and...
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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My client has recently embarked on a greenfield SharePoint intranet project, and is now looking for someone to assist and lead the extranet project... This is truly one...
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Rate: £320 - £350 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
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Ideally Microsoft certified, you will have a good understanding of front end skills, such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, etc. You will have a good understanding of the ...
JAM
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Knowledge of Visual Basic, C#, jQuery and source code control utilities, e.g. Git/Subversion/Tortoise, would be beneficial as would an understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP)...
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Rate: From £21,176 to £27,625 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
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I currently have an immediate requirement for a SQL Server DBA/Developer to come on board for myGlasgowcity centre based client... They are looking for candidates who can...
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Posted: 24 May 2013
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My client, a new and emerging organisation have an urgent requirement for a Sharepoint Developer to start immediately.
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Rate: £300.00 - £500.00 per day
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