Hampshire SQL Server 2005 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Hampshire 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	65
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	65	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.061 %
As % of the category below	18.36 %	12.82 %
Daily rates quoted	18	15
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£310
Average daily rate	£284	£327
% change on same period last year	-12.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£341
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.87	£37.00
Average hourly rate	£41.93	£39.50
% change on same period last year	+6.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.27	£35.80
% change on same period last year	-7.08 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	354	468
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.501 %	0.474 %
Daily rates quoted	108	128
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£303
Average daily rate	£342	£319
% change on same period last year	+7.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.75	£35.20
Average hourly rate	£37.26	£38.69
% change on same period last year	-3.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.76	£42.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£31.89
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
SQL Server 2005 South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Hampshire region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

SQL Server 2005
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 2005 within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Portsmouth	+11	19	£285	-12.30 %
Southampton	+13	6	£229	-29.48 %
Lyndhurst	-	5	£240	-
Havant	-	5	-	-
Basingstoke	-8	4	£350	-
Winchester	-	1	£500	-
Farnborough	-6	1	£250	-23.07 %

SQL Server 2005 South East

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 121 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 88 (72.73 %) .NET 3 61 (50.41 %) ASP.NET 4 53 (43.80 %) C# 5 51 (42.15 %) SQL 6 38 (31.40 %) SQL Server 2000 7 30 (24.79 %) Visual Studio 7 30 (24.79 %) XML 8 27 (22.31 %) Windows 9 24 (19.83 %) VB.NET 10 23 (19.01 %) CSS 11 21 (17.36 %) WebServices 12 20 (16.53 %) XHTML 12 20 (16.53 %) JavaScript 13 18 (14.88 %) AJAX

13 18 (14.88 %) .NET Framework 14 17 (14.05 %) Windows Server 2003 15 16 (13.22 %) HTML 15 16 (13.22 %) Transact-SQL 15 16 (13.22 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 16 (13.22 %) Windows 2000 Server 16 14 (11.57 %) MCSE 16 14 (11.57 %) TCP/IP 16 14 (11.57 %) Microsoft Certification 16 14 (11.57 %) Lucent 16 14 (11.57 %) Alcatel 17 13 (10.74 %) Microsoft 17 13 (10.74 %) SNMP 17 13 (10.74 %) MCSA 17 13 (10.74 %) Cisco Certification

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 88 (72.73 %) .NET 2 61 (50.41 %) ASP.NET 3 30 (24.79 %) XML 4 23 (19.01 %) CSS 5 21 (17.36 %) WebServices 6 20 (16.53 %) XHTML 7 18 (14.88 %) AJAX 7 18 (14.88 %) .NET Framework 8 16 (13.22 %) HTML 9 9 (7.438 %) ASP 10 7 (5.785 %) WinForms 11 6 (4.959 %) XSLT 12 4 (3.306 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 3 (2.479 %) WCF 13 3 (2.479 %) .NET Remoting 13 3 (2.479 %) SOAP 14 2 (1.653 %) XSD 15 1 (0.826 %) WSDL 15 1 (0.826 %) MVC 15 1 (0.826 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 8 (6.612 %) BizTalk Server 2 7 (5.785 %) IIS 3 3 (2.479 %) SharePoint 4 2 (1.653 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (1.653 %) Apache 4 2 (1.653 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (0.826 %) Oracle Application Server 5 1 (0.826 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (0.826 %) MTS 5 1 (0.826 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 8 (6.612 %) MS Excel 2 4 (3.306 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.826 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 14 (11.57 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (10.74 %) SNMP 3 3 (2.479 %) Internet 4 1 (0.826 %) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 121 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 38 (31.40 %) SQL Server 2000 3 16 (13.22 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 8 (6.612 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 4 (3.306 %) MySQL 6 3 (2.479 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (1.653 %) ETL 8 1 (0.826 %) MOLAP 8 1 (0.826 %) ROLAP 8 1 (0.826 %) Star Schema 8 1 (0.826 %) Oracle 10g 8 1 (0.826 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.826 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (0.826 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (0.826 %) DTS 8 1 (0.826 %) Data Cleansing 8 1 (0.826 %) PerformancePoint 8 1 (0.826 %) InterSystems Cache 8 1 (0.826 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 30 (24.79 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (4.132 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.826 %) PowerBuilder 3 1 (0.826 %) Bugzilla
General 1 8 (6.612 %) Telecoms 2 7 (5.785 %) Electric 3 4 (3.306 %) Insurance 4 3 (2.479 %) Pensions 4 3 (2.479 %) Finance 4 3 (2.479 %) Chemicals 5 2 (1.653 %) Government 6 1 (0.826 %) Health 6 1 (0.826 %) Retail 6 1 (0.826 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 82 (67.77 %) Developer 2 47 (38.84 %) .NET Developer 3 33 (27.27 %) C# Developer 4 25 (20.66 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 17 (14.05 %) Programmer 6 13 (10.74 %) SQL Developer 7 12 (9.917 %) SQL Server Developer 7 12 (9.917 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 10 (8.264 %) VB.NET Developer 9 9 (7.438 %) Analyst 10 8 (6.612 %) Network Specialist 11 7 (5.785 %) Analyst Programmer 12 5 (4.132 %) Web Developer 12 5 (4.132 %) Network Engineer 13 4 (3.306 %) DBA 13 4 (3.306 %) .NET Programmer 13 4 (3.306 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 14 3 (2.479 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 14 3 (2.479 %) SQL Server DBA 14 3 (2.479 %) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.306 %) NHS 2 2 (1.653 %) Derivative 2 2 (1.653 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 27 (22.31 %) Windows 2 17 (14.05 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (13.22 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (2.479 %) Linux 4 3 (2.479 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (8.264 %) UML 2 5 (4.132 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (2.479 %) OOP 3 3 (2.479 %) Migration 3 3 (2.479 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (2.479 %) Data Migration 3 3 (2.479 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (2.479 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (1.653 %) Web Design 4 2 (1.653 %) TDD 4 2 (1.653 %) Project Planning 4 2 (1.653 %) Business Intelligence 4 2 (1.653 %) B2B 4 2 (1.653 %) B2C 5 1 (0.826 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (0.826 %) SEO 5 1 (0.826 %) OO 5 1 (0.826 %) OOD 5 1 (0.826 %) Web Development 5 1 (0.826 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 53 (43.80 %) C# 2 51 (42.15 %) SQL 3 24 (19.83 %) VB.NET 4 20 (16.53 %) JavaScript 5 16 (13.22 %) Transact-SQL 6 7 (5.785 %) VB 6 7 (5.785 %) DHTML 7 6 (4.959 %) VB6 8 5 (4.132 %) PHP 9 3 (2.479 %) PHP5 10 1 (0.826 %) VBA 10 1 (0.826 %) Shell Script 10 1 (0.826 %) PL/SQL 10 1 (0.826 %) Perl 10 1 (0.826 %) C++
Qualifications 1 14 (11.57 %) MCSE 1 14 (11.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (10.74 %) MCSA 2 13 (10.74 %) CCNA 2 13 (10.74 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (2.479 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (0.826 %) Active Directory 1 1 (0.826 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (0.826 %) NetBackup 1 1 (0.826 %) Oracle RMAN 1 1 (0.826 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 14 (11.57 %) Lucent 1 14 (11.57 %) Alcatel 2 13 (10.74 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.653 %) VMware 4 1 (0.826 %) Northgate 4 1 (0.826 %) Sun 4 1 (0.826 %) HP 4 1 (0.826 %) Oracle 4 1 (0.826 %) SAP 4 1 (0.826 %) VERITAS 4 1 (0.826 %) Infragistics