Kent SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Kent 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Corby 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 Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	3
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	52	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.101 %
As % of the category below	42.98 %	58.48 %
Daily rates quoted	15	23
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£240
Average daily rate	£338	£247
% change on same period last year	+36.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£255
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.33	£25.11
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£28.05
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.67	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.49	£30.39
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	121	171
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.173 %
Daily rates quoted	25	38
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£260
Average daily rate	£346	£267
% change on same period last year	+29.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£274
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.15	£30.46
Average hourly rate	£29.06	£35.02
% change on same period last year	-17.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.98	£39.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Kent 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 Kent region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Kent region.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Maidstone	-10	5	£363	+41.46 %
Chatham	-	3	£342	-
Rochester	-	3	£363	-
Tunbridge Wells	0	2	-	-
Dartford	+2	2	-	-
Sittingbourne	+3	2	-	-
Sevenoaks	+3	2	£325	-
Greenhithe	-	1	-	-
Tonbridge	+3	1	-	-

SQL Server South East

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 60 (50.00 %) SQL 2 51 (42.50 %) .NET 3 33 (27.50 %) Microsoft 4 31 (25.83 %) C# 5 30 (25.00 %) Windows 6 28 (23.33 %) Oracle 6 28 (23.33 %) ASP.NET 7 27 (22.50 %) SQL Server 2000 8 22 (18.33 %) SQL Server 2005 9 21 (17.50 %) Insurance 10 19 (15.83 %) VB 11 18 (15.00 %) Migration 12 16 (13.33 %) JavaScript 12 16 (13.33 %) XML 12 16 (13.33 %) UNIX

13 15 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 13 15 (12.50 %) Active Directory 14 14 (11.67 %) DTS 15 13 (10.83 %) CSS 15 13 (10.83 %) HTML 15 13 (10.83 %) VB.NET 15 13 (10.83 %) Finance 16 12 (10.00 %) Datawarehouse 17 11 (9.167 %) TCP/IP 17 11 (9.167 %) PL/SQL 17 11 (9.167 %) ASP 17 11 (9.167 %) MS Office 18 10 (8.333 %) XHTML 18 10 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 19 9 (7.500 %) Data Migration

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 51 (42.50 %) .NET 2 28 (23.33 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (13.33 %) XML 4 13 (10.83 %) CSS 4 13 (10.83 %) HTML 5 11 (9.167 %) ASP 6 10 (8.333 %) XHTML 7 6 (5.000 %) ADO 8 5 (4.167 %) J2EE 8 5 (4.167 %) WebSphere 8 5 (4.167 %) WebServices 9 4 (3.333 %) AJAX 9 4 (3.333 %) WinForms 10 3 (2.500 %) XSLT 11 2 (1.667 %) .NET Framework 11 2 (1.667 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 2 (1.667 %) ADSI 11 2 (1.667 %) XSL 12 1 (0.833 %) SOAP 12 1 (0.833 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 7 (5.833 %) CMS 2 5 (4.167 %) IIS 3 4 (3.333 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (3.333 %) WebLogic 3 4 (3.333 %) DotNetNuke 4 3 (2.500 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (2.500 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (2.500 %) SharePoint 5 2 (1.667 %) SAS 5 2 (1.667 %) Content Management Server 5 2 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (0.833 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (0.833 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (9.167 %) MS Office 2 6 (5.000 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.667 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.833 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (1.667 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 11 (9.167 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (5.833 %) DNS 2 7 (5.833 %) DHCP 3 6 (5.000 %) TELNET 4 4 (3.333 %) SS7 4 4 (3.333 %) ISDN 5 3 (2.500 %) FTP 6 2 (1.667 %) VoIP 6 2 (1.667 %) SAN 6 2 (1.667 %) Internet 6 2 (1.667 %) NGN 7 1 (0.833 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (22.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 22 (18.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 4 14 (11.67 %) DTS 5 12 (10.00 %) Datawarehouse 6 8 (6.667 %) Star Schema 7 6 (5.000 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 5 (4.167 %) Oracle 10g 9 4 (3.333 %) ETL 9 4 (3.333 %) Oracle 9i 10 3 (2.500 %) Crystal Reports 10 3 (2.500 %) BusinessObjects 11 2 (1.667 %) MySQL 12 1 (0.833 %) MS Access 12 1 (0.833 %) RDBMS 12 1 (0.833 %) Oracle 11g 12 1 (0.833 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 6 (5.000 %) ProC 2 4 (3.333 %) WinRunner 2 4 (3.333 %) QuickTest Pro 2 4 (3.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.667 %) ClearCase 3 2 (1.667 %) Ant 3 2 (1.667 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (0.833 %) WebLogic Workshop 4 1 (0.833 %) InstallShield	General 1 21 (17.50 %) Insurance 2 13 (10.83 %) Finance 3 6 (5.000 %) Banking 4 4 (3.333 %) Health 4 4 (3.333 %) Telecoms 5 3 (2.500 %) Financial Institution 5 3 (2.500 %) Retail 5 3 (2.500 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (1.667 %) Government 7 1 (0.833 %) Investment Banking 7 1 (0.833 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.833 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 66 (55.00 %) Developer 2 23 (19.17 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (8.333 %) C# Developer 3 10 (8.333 %) Analyst 4 9 (7.500 %) Consultant 4 9 (7.500 %) DBA 4 9 (7.500 %) SQL Developer 5 8 (6.667 %) SQL Server Developer 5 8 (6.667 %) VB.NET Developer 6 7 (5.833 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (5.000 %) Datawarehouse Developer 8 5 (4.167 %) Server Engineer 8 5 (4.167 %) Architect 8 5 (4.167 %) Oracle DBA 8 5 (4.167 %) Web Developer 8 5 (4.167 %) Administrator 9 4 (3.333 %) Java Developer 9 4 (3.333 %) Junior 9 4 (3.333 %) Test Engineer 9 4 (3.333 %) DotNetNuke Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.333 %) NHS 2 1 (0.833 %) W3C 2 1 (0.833 %) Thin Client 2 1 (0.833 %) Clustering 2 1 (0.833 %) Fat Client 2 1 (0.833 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.833 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 30 (25.00 %) Windows 2 16 (13.33 %) UNIX 3 10 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 4 8 (6.667 %) Linux 5 6 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (3.333 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.833 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (15.00 %) Migration 2 9 (7.500 %) Data Migration 3 8 (6.667 %) Release Management 4 4 (3.333 %) Web Testing 4 4 (3.333 %) Manual Testing 4 4 (3.333 %) System Testing 4 4 (3.333 %) Software Testing 4 4 (3.333 %) Web Development 4 4 (3.333 %) Validation 4 4 (3.333 %) Automated Testing 4 4 (3.333 %) OO 5 3 (2.500 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (2.500 %) Data Modelling 5 3 (2.500 %) Data Analysis 5 3 (2.500 %) Data Architecture 6 2 (1.667 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (1.667 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (1.667 %) Load Balancing 6 2 (1.667 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (1.667 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 60 (50.00 %) SQL 2 31 (25.83 %) C# 3 19 (15.83 %) VB 4 16 (13.33 %) JavaScript 5 13 (10.83 %) VB.NET 6 11 (9.167 %) PL/SQL 7 8 (6.667 %) Transact-SQL 8 7 (5.833 %) Perl 8 7 (5.833 %) C 8 7 (5.833 %) Java 8 7 (5.833 %) Korn 9 5 (4.167 %) VB6 10 4 (3.333 %) Delphi 10 4 (3.333 %) DHTML 11 3 (2.500 %) VBA 12 2 (1.667 %) VBScript 13 1 (0.833 %) PHP 13 1 (0.833 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 1 (0.833 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.667 %) SLA 2 1 (0.833 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 15 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.667 %) Oracle RMAN 2 2 (1.667 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (0.833 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (0.833 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.833 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.833 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 3 (2.500 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 1 (0.833 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 33 (27.50 %) Microsoft 2 28 (23.33 %) Oracle 3 5 (4.167 %) Citrix 4 4 (3.333 %) BEA 5 3 (2.500 %) VMware 5 3 (2.500 %) Business Objects 6 2 (1.667 %) HP 6 2 (1.667 %) Symantec 6 2 (1.667 %) Altiris 7 1 (0.833 %) ION Trading 7 1 (0.833 %) Intel 7 1 (0.833 %) IBM