The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 18 28 31
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 18 8 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 6.272% 3.030% 2.980%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.75% 13.11% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 7
Average daily rate £363 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £308 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £368 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.69 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
96 61 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 33.45% 23.11% 22.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 31 45
Average daily rate £313 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £206 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £333 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.69 - £170.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2008
South East

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
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 2008 within the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Sittingbourne - 2 £463 -
Tunbridge Wells - 2 £325 -
Dartford - 1 £288 -
Tonbridge - 1 £475 -
SQL Server 2008
South East

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 28 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 20 (71.43%) SQL
3 12 (42.86%) SharePoint
4 10 (35.71%) Windows
5 8 (28.57%) Clustering
5 8 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 8 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (25.00%) HTTP
6 7 (25.00%) .NET
6 7 (25.00%) Migration
6 7 (25.00%) Finance
7 6 (21.43%) DHCP
7 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (21.43%) HP
7 6 (21.43%) C#
7 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
7 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
7 6 (21.43%) DNS
7 6 (21.43%) MS Exchange
7 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
7 6 (21.43%) Lync
7 6 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
7 6 (21.43%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (17.86%) UNIX
8 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
9 4 (14.29%) High Availability
9 4 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (10.71%) SRDF

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
4 2 (7.143%) ADO.NET
4 2 (7.143%) WCF
4 2 (7.143%) LINQ
4 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET 2.0
4 2 (7.143%) Ajax
4 2 (7.143%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (3.571%) WPF
5 1 (3.571%) MDX
5 1 (3.571%) WinForms
5 1 (3.571%) Web Services
5 1 (3.571%) XML
Application Platforms
1 12 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 6 (21.43%) MS Exchange
2 6 (21.43%) Lync
2 6 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (10.71%) IIS
5 2 (7.143%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 8 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) HTTP
2 6 (21.43%) DHCP
2 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 6 (21.43%) DNS
3 3 (10.71%) SAN
4 2 (7.143%) SMTP
5 1 (3.571%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.571%) IP Telephony
5 1 (3.571%) VLAN
5 1 (3.571%) Firewall
5 1 (3.571%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (21.43%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.571%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) DBA
3 6 (21.43%) .NET Developer
3 6 (21.43%) SQL DBA
4 5 (17.86%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) SharePoint Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Information Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) SQL Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Senior DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Clustering
2 2 (7.143%) Replication
2 2 (7.143%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.143%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.571%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) UNIX
3 2 (7.143%) AIX
3 2 (7.143%) Linux
3 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Migration
2 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (10.71%) CRM
5 2 (7.143%) Release Management
5 2 (7.143%) Document Management
5 2 (7.143%) Performance Management
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (3.571%) Data Migration
6 1 (3.571%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.571%) Data Validation
6 1 (3.571%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.571%) Investment Management
6 1 (3.571%) Time Management
6 1 (3.571%) Wealth Management
6 1 (3.571%) Resource Management
6 1 (3.571%) Workflow
6 1 (3.571%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
4 3 (10.71%) VB.NET
5 2 (7.143%) C
5 2 (7.143%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.143%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.571%) XAML
6 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.571%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) Degree
1 2 (7.143%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) SRDF
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.143%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.571%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.571%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (3.571%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) HP
3 2 (7.143%) Oracle
3 2 (7.143%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.143%) webMethods
3 2 (7.143%) VMware
4 1 (3.571%) WatchGuard
4 1 (3.571%) NetApp
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco