The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 7 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 4.167% - 10.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.00% - 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.66% -18.46%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Kingston Upon Thames
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 16.67% 23.53% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
Average daily rate £375 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server across the Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Progress
2 1 (33.33%) DHTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
2 1 (33.33%) Syncfusion
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) Windows

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) DHTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) IT Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Syncfusion
2 1 (33.33%) Progress