Lancashire SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) 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 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	5	6
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	48	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.074 %
As % of the category below	57.14 %	58.40 %
Daily rates quoted	1	12
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£276
Average daily rate	£303	£292
% change on same period last year	+3.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.21	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£32.79	£26.12
% change on same period last year	+25.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.36	£29.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.49	£30.39
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	84	125
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.126 %
Daily rates quoted	7	22
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£284
Average daily rate	£267	£298
% change on same period last year	-10.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.64	£23.10
Average hourly rate	£29.25	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+11.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.87	£29.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 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
Demand Trend

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

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 Lancashire region.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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
Preston	+2	12	-	-
Blackpool	+10	7	-	-
Blackburn	-2	5	-	-

SQL Server North West

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 70 (63.06 %) .NET 2 66 (59.46 %) SQL Server 2005 3 58 (52.25 %) ASP.NET 4 48 (43.24 %) SQL 5 41 (36.94 %) C# 6 31 (27.93 %) SQL Server 2000 7 27 (24.32 %) VB.NET 8 22 (19.82 %) CSS 9 21 (18.92 %) JavaScript 10 20 (18.02 %) Transact-SQL 11 19 (17.12 %) XML 12 17 (15.32 %) VB 12 17 (15.32 %) HTML 13 15 (13.51 %) VB6 14 14 (12.61 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

14 14 (12.61 %) ASP 15 13 (11.71 %) SharePoint 16 12 (10.81 %) DTS 16 12 (10.81 %) VSS/SourceSafe 17 11 (9.910 %) Microsoft 18 10 (9.009 %) SQL Server 7 18 10 (9.009 %) Datawarehouse 18 10 (9.009 %) AJAX 19 9 (8.108 %) MS Excel 19 9 (8.108 %) ColdFusion 19 9 (8.108 %) OLAP 19 9 (8.108 %) IIS 19 9 (8.108 %) DHTML 20 8 (7.207 %) Migration 20 8 (7.207 %) VBScript

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 70 (63.06 %) .NET 2 58 (52.25 %) ASP.NET 3 22 (19.82 %) CSS 4 19 (17.12 %) XML 5 17 (15.32 %) HTML 6 14 (12.61 %) ASP 7 10 (9.009 %) AJAX 8 7 (6.306 %) SOAP 9 5 (4.505 %) WebServices 9 5 (4.505 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (3.604 %) XHTML 11 2 (1.802 %) Zend Framework 11 2 (1.802 %) MDX 12 1 (0.901 %) Silverlight 12 1 (0.901 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 1 (0.901 %) WinForms 12 1 (0.901 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 13 (11.71 %) SharePoint 2 9 (8.108 %) ColdFusion 2 9 (8.108 %) IIS 3 4 (3.604 %) CICS 4 3 (2.703 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (1.802 %) Apache 6 1 (0.901 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (0.901 %) CMS 6 1 (0.901 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 9 (8.108 %) MS Excel 2 5 (4.505 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.901 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (1.802 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 6 (5.405 %) Intranet 2 4 (3.604 %) FTP 3 3 (2.703 %) Internet 4 1 (0.901 %) SSL 4 1 (0.901 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 66 (59.46 %) SQL Server 2005 2 31 (27.93 %) SQL Server 2000 3 14 (12.61 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 12 (10.81 %) DTS 5 10 (9.009 %) Datawarehouse 5 10 (9.009 %) SQL Server 7 6 9 (8.108 %) OLAP 7 8 (7.207 %) DB2 8 6 (5.405 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 5 (4.505 %) Crystal Reports 10 4 (3.604 %) Oracle 9i 10 4 (3.604 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 10 4 (3.604 %) Oracle 10g 10 4 (3.604 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 3 (2.703 %) BusinessObjects 12 2 (1.802 %) TOAD 12 2 (1.802 %) MS Access 12 2 (1.802 %) Data Cleansing 13 1 (0.901 %) DB2 UDB 13 1 (0.901 %) QlikView
Development Applications 1 12 (10.81 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 8 (7.207 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (1.802 %) Flash	General 1 6 (5.405 %) Retail 2 4 (3.604 %) Finance 2 4 (3.604 %) Government 2 4 (3.604 %) Health 3 3 (2.703 %) Insurance 4 2 (1.802 %) Multimedia 4 2 (1.802 %) Banking 4 2 (1.802 %) Manufacturing 4 2 (1.802 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.901 %) Back Office 5 1 (0.901 %) Construction 5 1 (0.901 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.901 %) Police 5 1 (0.901 %) Pensions 5 1 (0.901 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 79 (71.17 %) Developer 2 45 (40.54 %) .NET Developer 3 31 (27.93 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 20 (18.02 %) SQL Developer 5 18 (16.22 %) SQL Server Developer 6 15 (13.51 %) Analyst 7 11 (9.910 %) VB.NET Developer 8 9 (8.108 %) C# Developer 9 8 (7.207 %) Programmer 10 7 (6.306 %) Analyst Programmer 10 7 (6.306 %) ColdFusion Developer 11 6 (5.405 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 11 6 (5.405 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 6 (5.405 %) DBA 12 4 (3.604 %) Web Developer 12 4 (3.604 %) Data Analyst 13 3 (2.703 %) Consultant 13 3 (2.703 %) Senior Developer 13 3 (2.703 %) SharePoint Developer 13 3 (2.703 %) Business Intelligence Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.604 %) VSAM 2 3 (2.703 %) N-Tier 2 3 (2.703 %) NHS 2 3 (2.703 %) Mainframe 3 2 (1.802 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.901 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.901 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 6 (5.405 %) Windows 2 1 (0.901 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (7.207 %) Business Intelligence 1 8 (7.207 %) Migration 2 7 (6.306 %) E-Commerce 3 5 (4.505 %) Data Modelling 3 5 (4.505 %) Service Delivery 3 5 (4.505 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (3.604 %) ITIL 5 3 (2.703 %) UML 5 3 (2.703 %) OO 5 3 (2.703 %) OOD 5 3 (2.703 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (2.703 %) Web Development 6 2 (1.802 %) Performance Management 6 2 (1.802 %) Data Migration 6 2 (1.802 %) E-business 6 2 (1.802 %) BC Cleared 6 2 (1.802 %) Change Management 6 2 (1.802 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (1.802 %) ERP 7 1 (0.901 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 48 (43.24 %) SQL 2 41 (36.94 %) C# 3 27 (24.32 %) VB.NET 4 21 (18.92 %) JavaScript 5 20 (18.02 %) Transact-SQL 6 17 (15.32 %) VB 7 15 (13.51 %) VB6 8 9 (8.108 %) DHTML 9 8 (7.207 %) VBScript 10 4 (3.604 %) REXX 10 4 (3.604 %) JCL 11 3 (2.703 %) C++ 12 2 (1.802 %) C 12 2 (1.802 %) PHP 12 2 (1.802 %) Progress 4GL 13 1 (0.901 %) VBA 13 1 (0.901 %) Perl 13 1 (0.901 %) Java 13 1 (0.901 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 1 (0.901 %) MCDBA 1 1 (0.901 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (0.901 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (1.802 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (0.901 %) MSMQ 2 1 (0.901 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (3.604 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 11 (9.910 %) Microsoft 2 8 (7.207 %) Oracle 3 3 (2.703 %) Sybase 3 3 (2.703 %) Business Objects 4 2 (1.802 %) Progress 4 2 (1.802 %) Adobe 4 2 (1.802 %) Zend 5 1 (0.901 %) CA