Leeds SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Leeds 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 21 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 Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone 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 Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	40
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	58	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	20.00 %	14.11 %
Daily rates quoted	15	2
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£225
Average daily rate	£301	£288
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£350
% change on same period last year	-5.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.29	£37.25
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£38.50
% change on same period last year	-15.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.71	£39.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£35.45
% change on same period last year	-4.17 %
Database & Business Intelligence Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	290	248
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.383 %	0.247 %
Daily rates quoted	69	30
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£337
Average daily rate	£295	£357
% change on same period last year	-17.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.07	£27.51
Average hourly rate	£31.30	£28.50
% change on same period last year	+9.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.53	£29.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
SQL Server 2005 West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 146 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 104 (71.23 %) .NET 3 72 (49.32 %) ASP.NET 4 66 (45.21 %) C# 5 50 (34.25 %) SQL 6 35 (23.97 %) SQL Server 2000 7 34 (23.29 %) Microsoft 7 34 (23.29 %) Windows 8 31 (21.23 %) XML 8 31 (21.23 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 30 (20.55 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 29 (19.86 %) SharePoint 11 27 (18.49 %) WebServices 11 27 (18.49 %) CSS 12 26 (17.81 %) Transact-SQL

13 25 (17.12 %) HTML 14 24 (16.44 %) Visual Studio 15 22 (15.07 %) JavaScript 16 20 (13.70 %) Health 17 18 (12.33 %) MS Excel 17 18 (12.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 18 16 (10.96 %) Active Directory 19 14 (9.589 %) XSLT 20 13 (8.904 %) WAN 20 13 (8.904 %) Finance 21 12 (8.219 %) Firewall 21 12 (8.219 %) MS Exchange 21 12 (8.219 %) Windows Server 2003 21 12 (8.219 %) ITIL 21 12 (8.219 %) Windows Vista

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 1 104 (71.23 %) .NET 2 72 (49.32 %) ASP.NET 3 31 (21.23 %) XML 4 30 (20.55 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 27 (18.49 %) WebServices 5 27 (18.49 %) CSS 6 25 (17.12 %) HTML 7 14 (9.589 %) XSLT 8 10 (6.849 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 9 8 (5.479 %) AJAX 9 8 (5.479 %) .NET Framework 10 5 (3.425 %) WCF 11 4 (2.740 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 4 (2.740 %) XHTML 12 3 (2.055 %) ADO.NET 12 3 (2.055 %) NHibernate 13 2 (1.370 %) WF 13 2 (1.370 %) XSD 13 2 (1.370 %) SOAP 13 2 (1.370 %) WSDL	Application Platforms 1 29 (19.86 %) SharePoint 2 12 (8.219 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (8.219 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 6 (4.110 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (2.055 %) IIS 5 2 (1.370 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (1.370 %) CMS 6 1 (0.685 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 18 (12.33 %) MS Excel 2 4 (2.740 %) InfoPath 3 2 (1.370 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.685 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.685 %) ArcView	Communications & Networking 1 13 (8.904 %) WAN 2 12 (8.219 %) Firewall 3 10 (6.849 %) Internet 3 10 (6.849 %) MPLS 3 10 (6.849 %) VPN 3 10 (6.849 %) SAN 4 4 (2.740 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (1.370 %) Kerberos 5 2 (1.370 %) SSL 5 2 (1.370 %) X.509 6 1 (0.685 %) Extranet 6 1 (0.685 %) Intranet 6 1 (0.685 %) LAN 6 1 (0.685 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 146 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 35 (23.97 %) SQL Server 2000 3 31 (21.23 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 18 (12.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 11 (7.534 %) Datawarehouse 6 10 (6.849 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 9 (6.164 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 7 (4.795 %) MS Access 9 5 (3.425 %) DTS 10 3 (2.055 %) OLAP 11 1 (0.685 %) GIS 11 1 (0.685 %) BusinessObjects 11 1 (0.685 %) Data Mining 11 1 (0.685 %) ETL	Development Applications 1 24 (16.44 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (7.534 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 6 (4.110 %) NUnit
General 1 20 (13.70 %) Health 2 13 (8.904 %) Finance 3 7 (4.795 %) Banking 4 6 (4.110 %) Law 5 4 (2.740 %) Government 6 2 (1.370 %) Retail 7 1 (0.685 %) Front Office 7 1 (0.685 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 95 (65.07 %) Developer 2 57 (39.04 %) .NET Developer 3 23 (15.75 %) C# Developer 4 19 (13.01 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 15 (10.27 %) Applications Developer 6 12 (8.219 %) Consultant 6 12 (8.219 %) SQL Developer 6 12 (8.219 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 11 (7.534 %) Analyst 8 10 (6.849 %) SQL Server Developer 9 8 (5.479 %) SQL Server Consultant 9 8 (5.479 %) Business Consultant 9 8 (5.479 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 10 7 (4.795 %) Project Engineer 11 5 (3.425 %) Web Developer 11 5 (3.425 %) Senior Developer 11 5 (3.425 %) Programmer 11 5 (3.425 %) Information Analyst 12 4 (2.740 %) SQL DBA 12 4 (2.740 %) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (7.534 %) NHS 2 5 (3.425 %) Clustering 3 3 (2.055 %) N-Tier 4 2 (1.370 %) Replication 5 1 (0.685 %) RIA 5 1 (0.685 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 34 (23.29 %) Windows 2 12 (8.219 %) Windows Server 2003 2 12 (8.219 %) Windows Vista 3 6 (4.110 %) Windows XP 4 4 (2.740 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (8.219 %) ITIL 2 10 (6.849 %) Migration 2 10 (6.849 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (6.849 %) Unit Testing 3 8 (5.479 %) Business Intelligence 4 6 (4.110 %) Project Management 5 5 (3.425 %) Configuration Management 5 5 (3.425 %) Regression Testing 5 5 (3.425 %) Software Testing 5 5 (3.425 %) Time Management 6 4 (2.740 %) Network Load Balancing 6 4 (2.740 %) Web Development 7 3 (2.055 %) OO 7 3 (2.055 %) Requirements Analysis 7 3 (2.055 %) Data Management 8 2 (1.370 %) Network Design 8 2 (1.370 %) Content Management 8 2 (1.370 %) Data Analysis 8 2 (1.370 %) Data Migration 8 2 (1.370 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 66 (45.21 %) C# 2 50 (34.25 %) SQL 3 26 (17.81 %) Transact-SQL 4 22 (15.07 %) JavaScript 5 5 (3.425 %) VB 5 5 (3.425 %) VB.NET 6 3 (2.055 %) DHTML 7 1 (0.685 %) C 7 1 (0.685 %) C++ 7 1 (0.685 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 5 (3.425 %) Microsoft Certification 1 5 (3.425 %) MCSE 2 4 (2.740 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.685 %) MCDST	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.425 %) QA 2 1 (0.685 %) HL7
System Software 1 16 (10.96 %) Active Directory 2 10 (6.849 %) VMware ESX 3 7 (4.795 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (1.370 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 2 (1.370 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (1.370 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 34 (23.29 %) Microsoft 2 7 (4.795 %) VMware 3 4 (2.740 %) Oracle 4 2 (1.370 %) Symantec 5 1 (0.685 %) IBM 5 1 (0.685 %) Business Objects 5 1 (0.685 %) Google