The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 23 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 Gloucestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 36 35 37
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 1 36 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.368% 5.479% 2.715%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.703% 26.28% 9.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 27 5
Average daily rate - £400 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +60.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £32.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
-14.06% -13.51%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
37 137 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 13.60% 20.85% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 86 68
Average daily rate £375 £395 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +31.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £298 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £410 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2005
South West

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire SQL Server 2005 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
3 7 (70.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (60.00%) QA
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (60.00%) Business Objects
4 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (60.00%) SQL
4 6 (60.00%) T-SQL
4 6 (60.00%) VB.NET
5 5 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (50.00%) Oracle
5 5 (50.00%) MCP
5 5 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
5 5 (50.00%) Stochastic Modelling
5 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (30.00%) IIS
7 2 (20.00%) PHP
7 2 (20.00%) MySQL
7 2 (20.00%) Delphi

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) WCF
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 7 (70.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Stochastic Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) T-SQL
2 6 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) Delphi
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) MCP
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Business Objects
3 5 (50.00%) Oracle