Lancashire SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Lancashire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	36
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	25	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	27.17 %	10.57 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£26.43
Average hourly rate	£31.61	£28.93
% change on same period last year	+9.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.22	£31.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.67	£35.48
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
Database & Business Intelligence Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	92	123
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.123 %
Daily rates quoted	8	23
Average minimum daily rate	£243	£327
Average daily rate	£258	£341
% change on same period last year	-24.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.74	£25.95
Average hourly rate	£26.65	£27.76
% change on same period last year	-4.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.55	£29.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.15	£32.12
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
SQL Server 2005 North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Blackpool	-	4	-	-
Preston	+6	4	-	-
Chorley	+2	1	-	-
Blackburn	+3	1	-	-

SQL Server 2005 North West

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 52 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 37 (71.15 %) .NET 3 33 (63.46 %) ASP.NET 4 23 (44.23 %) C# 5 18 (34.62 %) SQL 6 16 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2000 7 12 (23.08 %) VB.NET 8 11 (21.15 %) HTML 8 11 (21.15 %) CSS 9 10 (19.23 %) Transact-SQL 10 9 (17.31 %) XML 11 8 (15.38 %) JavaScript 11 8 (15.38 %) AJAX 12 5 (9.615 %) Service Delivery 12 5 (9.615 %) SharePoint

12 5 (9.615 %) E-Commerce 13 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 4 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 13 4 (7.692 %) ITIL 13 4 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports 13 4 (7.692 %) ColdFusion 14 3 (5.769 %) Migration 14 3 (5.769 %) XHTML 14 3 (5.769 %) Insurance 15 2 (3.846 %) Multimedia 15 2 (3.846 %) VB6 15 2 (3.846 %) Performance Management 15 2 (3.846 %) Data Migration 15 2 (3.846 %) Data Cleansing 15 2 (3.846 %) SharePoint Server 2007

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 37 (71.15 %) .NET 2 33 (63.46 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (21.15 %) HTML 3 11 (21.15 %) CSS 4 9 (17.31 %) XML 5 8 (15.38 %) AJAX 6 3 (5.769 %) XHTML 7 2 (3.846 %) ASP 8 1 (1.923 %) OLE 8 1 (1.923 %) WebServices 8 1 (1.923 %) XSLT 8 1 (1.923 %) ODBC 8 1 (1.923 %) Silverlight 8 1 (1.923 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.615 %) SharePoint 2 4 (7.692 %) ColdFusion 3 2 (3.846 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.923 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.846 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.923 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 52 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 16 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 4 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (3.846 %) Data Cleansing 4 2 (3.846 %) DTS 5 1 (1.923 %) OLAP 5 1 (1.923 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.923 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2 (3.846 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (1.923 %) Visual Studio	General 1 3 (5.769 %) Insurance 2 2 (3.846 %) Multimedia 2 2 (3.846 %) Health 2 2 (3.846 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.923 %) Finance 3 1 (1.923 %) Construction 3 1 (1.923 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 39 (75.00 %) Developer 2 24 (46.15 %) .NET Developer 3 17 (32.69 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 9 (17.31 %) C# Developer 5 6 (11.54 %) SQL Developer 5 6 (11.54 %) Analyst 6 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server Developer 6 5 (9.615 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 4 (7.692 %) ColdFusion Developer 7 4 (7.692 %) VB.NET Developer 7 4 (7.692 %) DBA 7 4 (7.692 %) Analyst Programmer 7 4 (7.692 %) Programmer 8 3 (5.769 %) SharePoint Developer 8 3 (5.769 %) SQL DBA 9 2 (3.846 %) .NET Programmer 9 2 (3.846 %) Data Migration Analyst 9 2 (3.846 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 9 2 (3.846 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 9 2 (3.846 %) VB.NET Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.846 %) NHS 2 1 (1.923 %) Replication 2 1 (1.923 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.923 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.846 %) Windows 2 1 (1.923 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.923 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (9.615 %) Service Delivery 1 5 (9.615 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (7.692 %) ITIL 3 3 (5.769 %) Migration 4 2 (3.846 %) Performance Management 4 2 (3.846 %) Data Migration 4 2 (3.846 %) Business Intelligence 4 2 (3.846 %) E-business 5 1 (1.923 %) Security Management 5 1 (1.923 %) Scrum 5 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.923 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.923 %) Data Mapping 5 1 (1.923 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (1.923 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 23 (44.23 %) C# 2 18 (34.62 %) SQL 3 12 (23.08 %) VB.NET 4 10 (19.23 %) Transact-SQL 5 8 (15.38 %) JavaScript 6 2 (3.846 %) VB6 6 2 (3.846 %) Progress 4GL 6 2 (3.846 %) DHTML 6 2 (3.846 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (1.923 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (3.846 %) Progress 2 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.923 %) Cognos