Gloucestershire SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Gloucestershire 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 over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	33
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	61	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	76.25 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	19	6
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£258
Average daily rate	£362	£283
% change on same period last year	+27.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£33.50	£19.00
% change on same period last year	+76.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.40	£31.55
% change on same period last year	-0.50 %
Database & Business Intelligence Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	80	132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.130 %
Daily rates quoted	25	18
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£312
Average daily rate	£350	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.33	£31.44
Average hourly rate	£27.83	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-16.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.33	£34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
SQL Server South West

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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SQL Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucester	+10	24	£336	-4.04 %
Cheltenham	+12	18	£402	-
Cirencester	-	1	-	-

SQL Server South West

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 50 (50.51 %) .NET 2 35 (35.35 %) SQL Server 2005 3 30 (30.30 %) SQL 4 29 (29.29 %) C# 5 28 (28.28 %) ASP.NET 6 26 (26.26 %) Windows 7 25 (25.25 %) Security Cleared 8 20 (20.20 %) SQL Server 2000 9 19 (19.19 %) VB.NET 10 18 (18.18 %) Microsoft 11 15 (15.15 %) UNIX 11 15 (15.15 %) VB 12 14 (14.14 %) Solaris 13 13 (13.13 %) Oracle 13 13 (13.13 %) DV Cleared

14 12 (12.12 %) Exchange Server 2003 14 12 (12.12 %) MS Exchange 14 12 (12.12 %) VB6 15 11 (11.11 %) HTML 15 11 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 15 11 (11.11 %) ASP 15 11 (11.11 %) PKI 16 10 (10.10 %) Windows Vista 16 10 (10.10 %) Transact-SQL 17 9 (9.091 %) Finance 17 9 (9.091 %) JavaScript 17 9 (9.091 %) Active Directory 17 9 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 18 7 (7.071 %) Government 18 7 (7.071 %) Crystal Reports

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 50 (50.51 %) .NET 2 28 (28.28 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (11.11 %) HTML 3 11 (11.11 %) ASP 4 7 (7.071 %) CSS 5 6 (6.061 %) XML 6 5 (5.051 %) AJAX 7 4 (4.040 %) .NET Framework 7 4 (4.040 %) XHTML 7 4 (4.040 %) WebServices 8 2 (2.020 %) XSLT 9 1 (1.010 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (1.010 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (1.010 %) .NET Remoting	Application Platforms 1 12 (12.12 %) MS Exchange 1 12 (12.12 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (5.051 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (2.020 %) SharePoint 3 2 (2.020 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (2.020 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.010 %) IIS 4 1 (1.010 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 4 (4.040 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.010 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 3 (3.030 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.020 %) VoIP 1 2 (2.020 %) SAN 1 2 (2.020 %) Intranet 1 2 (2.020 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.010 %) LDAP 2 1 (1.010 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (35.35 %) SQL Server 2005 2 20 (20.20 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (7.071 %) Crystal Reports 4 4 (4.040 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 4 (4.040 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (4.040 %) RDBMS 5 2 (2.020 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (2.020 %) MS Access 5 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (2.020 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 1 (1.010 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 6 (6.061 %) NUnit 2 5 (5.051 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.010 %) Flash	General 1 9 (9.091 %) Finance 2 7 (7.071 %) Government 3 4 (4.040 %) Electric 4 1 (1.010 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.010 %) Aerospace 4 1 (1.010 %) Law 4 1 (1.010 %) Retail 4 1 (1.010 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 50 (50.51 %) Developer 2 20 (20.20 %) .NET Developer 3 12 (12.12 %) VB.NET Developer 4 10 (10.10 %) Consultant 4 10 (10.10 %) UNIX Support 5 9 (9.091 %) SQL Server Developer 6 8 (8.081 %) C# Developer 6 8 (8.081 %) DBA 7 7 (7.071 %) Web Developer 7 7 (7.071 %) SQL Developer 8 5 (5.051 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 5 (5.051 %) VB Developer 8 5 (5.051 %) Support Specialist 9 4 (4.040 %) Technical Support 9 4 (4.040 %) Systems Support 9 4 (4.040 %) Software Engineer 9 4 (4.040 %) Oracle DBA 9 4 (4.040 %) SQL Server DBA 9 4 (4.040 %) SQL DBA 9 4 (4.040 %) UNIX Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 11 (11.11 %) PKI 2 6 (6.061 %) Client/Server 3 4 (4.040 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.010 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 26 (26.26 %) Windows 2 15 (15.15 %) UNIX 3 14 (14.14 %) Solaris 4 11 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 5 10 (10.10 %) Windows Vista 6 6 (6.061 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (4.040 %) Linux 8 3 (3.030 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (25.25 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (13.13 %) DV Cleared 3 9 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 4 7 (7.071 %) ITIL 5 6 (6.061 %) Service Management 6 4 (4.040 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (4.040 %) OO 6 4 (4.040 %) Problem Management 7 3 (3.030 %) Workflow 7 3 (3.030 %) Migration 8 2 (2.020 %) Business Continuity 8 2 (2.020 %) Web Design 8 2 (2.020 %) Incident Management 9 1 (1.010 %) Business Development 9 1 (1.010 %) Wealth Management 9 1 (1.010 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.010 %) E-Commerce 9 1 (1.010 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 30 (30.30 %) SQL 2 29 (29.29 %) C# 3 19 (19.19 %) VB.NET 4 15 (15.15 %) VB 5 12 (12.12 %) VB6 6 10 (10.10 %) Transact-SQL 7 9 (9.091 %) JavaScript 8 4 (4.040 %) DHTML 9 3 (3.030 %) VBScript 10 2 (2.020 %) C 10 2 (2.020 %) Delphi 11 1 (1.010 %) Java 11 1 (1.010 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 7 (7.071 %) HNC 1 7 (7.071 %) Degree 2 2 (2.020 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.010 %) MCTS 3 1 (1.010 %) MCPD 3 1 (1.010 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.010 %) MCP 3 1 (1.010 %) MCAD 3 1 (1.010 %) MCSD
System Software 1 9 (9.091 %) Active Directory 2 5 (5.051 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (2.020 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (2.020 %) MetaFrame 3 2 (2.020 %) Terminal Server	Vendors 1 18 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 13 (13.13 %) Oracle 3 5 (5.051 %) VMware 4 3 (3.030 %) IBM 4 3 (3.030 %) Sage 4 3 (3.030 %) McAfee Security 5 2 (2.020 %) Business Objects 5 2 (2.020 %) Cisco 5 2 (2.020 %) Compaq 5 2 (2.020 %) Citrix