The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames 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 19 June 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank - 7 14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames - 5.000% 2.632%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 20.00% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.53% +8.33%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Kingston Upon Thames
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
5 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 15.63% 25.00% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
Average daily rate £375 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -9.67%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
SQL Server 2008
London

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) Syncfusion
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Syncfusion