The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2008 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 Guildford 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 2008
Rank 25 18 20
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 7 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 3.211% 3.306% 0.752%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.00% 18.18% 5.882%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
50 22 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 22.94% 18.18% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 12
Average daily rate £320 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £20.50 £24.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.58% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2008
Surrey

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Guildford SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Guildford region.

Guildford SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Guildford region.

Guildford SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
3 4 (44.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (22.22%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
5 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (22.22%) OLAP
5 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
5 2 (22.22%) GIS
5 2 (22.22%) MVC
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (22.22%) WCF
5 2 (22.22%) LINQ
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
6 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
2 4 (44.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) WCF
4 2 (22.22%) LINQ
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (11.11%) WPF
5 1 (11.11%) Velocity
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (11.11%) MapReduce
5 1 (11.11%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) OLAP
3 2 (22.22%) GIS
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Games
1 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) BizTalk Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) WPF Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) MVC
3 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) MVVM
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
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Rate: £44000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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