Hertfordshire SQL Server 2005 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleveland Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grampian Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southport Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	56
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	9	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	4.306 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	2	17
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£320
Average daily rate	£267	£338
% change on same period last year	-21.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£267	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£347
% change on same period last year	-12.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.08	£33.21
% change on same period last year	-9.41 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	209	287
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.336 %	0.308 %
Daily rates quoted	86	121
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£342
Average daily rate	£347	£361
% change on same period last year	-3.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.19	£32.65
Average hourly rate	£24.43	£35.41
% change on same period last year	-31.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.66	£38.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.57	£31.78
% change on same period last year	-16.37 %
SQL Server 2005 East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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 Hertfordshire region.

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Stevenage	-	1	£250	-
Watford	+12	1	-	-
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	£250	-

SQL Server 2005 East of England

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 25 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 19 (76.00 %) .NET 3 15 (60.00 %) C# 3 15 (60.00 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (60.00 %) Microsoft 4 12 (48.00 %) XML 5 11 (44.00 %) VB 6 9 (36.00 %) VB.NET 6 9 (36.00 %) HTML 6 9 (36.00 %) ASP 7 8 (32.00 %) JavaScript 7 8 (32.00 %) SQL Server 2000 8 7 (28.00 %) WebServices 8 7 (28.00 %) XSL 9 6 (24.00 %) UML

9 6 (24.00 %) ADO.NET 9 6 (24.00 %) SharePoint 9 6 (24.00 %) XHTML 9 6 (24.00 %) E-Commerce 10 5 (20.00 %) Content Management 10 5 (20.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 5 (20.00 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 5 (20.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 5 (20.00 %) Windows 10 5 (20.00 %) Commerce Server 10 5 (20.00 %) SQL 11 4 (16.00 %) Transact-SQL 11 4 (16.00 %) VBScript 11 4 (16.00 %) C 11 4 (16.00 %) B2C

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 19 (76.00 %) .NET 2 15 (60.00 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (48.00 %) XML 4 9 (36.00 %) HTML 4 9 (36.00 %) ASP 5 7 (28.00 %) WebServices 5 7 (28.00 %) XSL 6 6 (24.00 %) XHTML 6 6 (24.00 %) ADO.NET 7 3 (12.00 %) CSS 8 2 (8.000 %) ADO 8 2 (8.000 %) AJAX 9 1 (4.000 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (4.000 %) WCF 9 1 (4.000 %) WPF 9 1 (4.000 %) WinForms 9 1 (4.000 %) JSP 9 1 (4.000 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 6 (24.00 %) SharePoint 2 5 (20.00 %) Commerce Server 2 5 (20.00 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 3 (12.00 %) BizTalk Server 4 2 (8.000 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (8.000 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (4.000 %) IIS 5 1 (4.000 %) Tomcat 5 1 (4.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (12.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.000 %) WAN 1 1 (4.000 %) Intranet 1 1 (4.000 %) Internet 1 1 (4.000 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 8 (32.00 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (20.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 3 (12.00 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (8.000 %) DTS 5 2 (8.000 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 2 (8.000 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (4.000 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 1 (4.000 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (4.000 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 1 (4.000 %) Flash 1 1 (4.000 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 4 (16.00 %) Retail 2 2 (8.000 %) Telecoms 3 1 (4.000 %) Finance 3 1 (4.000 %) Construction 3 1 (4.000 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 22 (88.00 %) Developer 2 6 (24.00 %) C# Developer 3 5 (20.00 %) Web Developer 3 5 (20.00 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (16.00 %) Senior Developer 5 3 (12.00 %) SQL Developer 5 3 (12.00 %) SQL Server Developer 6 2 (8.000 %) ASP Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Database Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Consultant 7 1 (4.000 %) Server Support 7 1 (4.000 %) VB.NET Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Senior Web Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Server Engineer 7 1 (4.000 %) Java Analyst Programmer 7 1 (4.000 %) Java Programmer 7 1 (4.000 %) SQL Database Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft Consultant 7 1 (4.000 %) Server Analyst
Operating Systems 1 5 (20.00 %) Windows 2 3 (12.00 %) Windows XP 2 3 (12.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.000 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (4.000 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (4.000 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (4.000 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 1 (4.000 %) HPUX 3 1 (4.000 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (24.00 %) UML 1 6 (24.00 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (20.00 %) Content Management 2 5 (20.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 4 (16.00 %) B2C 4 2 (8.000 %) Web Development 4 2 (8.000 %) ERD 5 1 (4.000 %) Performance Management 5 1 (4.000 %) Use Case 5 1 (4.000 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (4.000 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (4.000 %) OO 5 1 (4.000 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 15 (60.00 %) C# 2 11 (44.00 %) VB 3 9 (36.00 %) VB.NET 4 8 (32.00 %) JavaScript 5 5 (20.00 %) SQL 6 4 (16.00 %) Transact-SQL 6 4 (16.00 %) VBScript 6 4 (16.00 %) C 7 3 (12.00 %) VB6 7 3 (12.00 %) DHTML 8 1 (4.000 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (8.000 %) MCP 1 2 (8.000 %) MCAD 1 2 (8.000 %) MCSD 1 2 (8.000 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (4.000 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.000 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (4.000 %) NetBackup 1 1 (4.000 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (4.000 %) Tivoli 1 1 (4.000 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 15 (60.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.000 %) HP 2 2 (8.000 %) VMware 3 1 (4.000 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.000 %) Cisco 3 1 (4.000 %) Nortel 3 1 (4.000 %) Motorola 3 1 (4.000 %) VERITAS 3 1 (4.000 %) Red Hat