The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 17 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 Leeds 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 59 48 22
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -26
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 20 26 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.513% 2.632% 5.666%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.811% 9.253% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 16
Average daily rate £300 £338 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +14.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £301 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £450 £383
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 £30.25 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
-6.92% +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
227 281 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 28.52% 28.44% 22.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 191 66
Average daily rate £290 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £415 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £17.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.58% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £11.50 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.80 £26.90 £22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+7.54% -15.87%
SQL Server 2008
West Yorkshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Leeds region.

Leeds SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 66 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 36 (54.55%) SQL
3 32 (48.48%) .NET
4 30 (45.45%) C#
5 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET
6 23 (34.85%) SQL Server 2005
7 22 (33.33%) SharePoint
8 20 (30.30%) Visual Studio
9 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
9 17 (25.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (24.24%) JavaScript
10 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (22.73%) CSS
12 14 (21.21%) .NET Framework
12 14 (21.21%) jQuery
13 12 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (18.18%) Windows
13 12 (18.18%) T-SQL
13 12 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
14 11 (16.67%) HTML
14 11 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
14 11 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
15 9 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (12.12%) Oracle 11g
16 8 (12.12%) Migration
16 8 (12.12%) VB
16 8 (12.12%) Oracle
16 8 (12.12%) ASP
16 8 (12.12%) Oracle 8/8i
16 8 (12.12%) XML

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 32 (48.48%) .NET
2 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET
3 15 (22.73%) CSS
4 14 (21.21%) .NET Framework
4 14 (21.21%) jQuery
5 11 (16.67%) HTML
6 8 (12.12%) XML
6 8 (12.12%) ASP
7 7 (10.61%) MSMQ
7 7 (10.61%) COM+
7 7 (10.61%) HTML5
8 6 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (7.576%) NHibernate
10 4 (6.061%) CAML
10 4 (6.061%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 4 (6.061%) Web Services
11 3 (4.545%) Ajax
11 3 (4.545%) DHTML
11 3 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 3 (4.545%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 22 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 11 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (10.61%) MTS
4 5 (7.576%) MS Exchange
5 4 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (4.545%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (3.030%) Apache
7 2 (3.030%) Apache Solr
7 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.515%) DotNetNuke
8 1 (1.515%) Umbraco
8 1 (1.515%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (1.515%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.515%) CMS
8 1 (1.515%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 6 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.545%) MS Office
3 1 (1.515%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.515%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 4 (6.061%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (4.545%) Line 500
2 3 (4.545%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.515%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.061%) SAN
2 3 (4.545%) WAN
2 3 (4.545%) VPN
2 3 (4.545%) Firewall
3 1 (1.515%) DNS
3 1 (1.515%) DMZ
3 1 (1.515%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 23 (34.85%) SQL Server 2005
3 17 (25.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
5 12 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (12.12%) Oracle 11g
6 8 (12.12%) Oracle 10g
6 8 (12.12%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (7.576%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (6.061%) Oracle 9i
8 4 (6.061%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (6.061%) SQLPlus
8 4 (6.061%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (4.545%) OLAP
9 3 (4.545%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (3.030%) RavenDB
11 1 (1.515%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (30.30%) Visual Studio
2 7 (10.61%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 7 (10.61%) Subversion
2 7 (10.61%) JIRA
3 4 (6.061%) NUnit
4 2 (3.030%) Git (software)
4 2 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.515%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (10.61%) Finance
2 4 (6.061%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.030%) Retail
4 1 (1.515%) Local Government
4 1 (1.515%) Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (65.15%) Developer
2 18 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 15 (22.73%) SharePoint Developer
4 10 (15.15%) DBA
5 7 (10.61%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (10.61%) Technical Leader
6 4 (6.061%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (6.061%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (6.061%) SQL Developer
6 4 (6.061%) Analyst
6 4 (6.061%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.061%) Support Analyst
6 4 (6.061%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (4.545%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (4.545%) Consultant
7 3 (4.545%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.545%) Administrator
7 3 (4.545%) Web Developer
7 3 (4.545%) VB Developer
7 3 (4.545%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.576%) NHS
1 5 (7.576%) Clustering
2 4 (6.061%) W3C
3 3 (4.545%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.030%) Open Source
5 1 (1.515%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.515%) CMDB
5 1 (1.515%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.18%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (10.61%) UNIX
4 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.545%) Windows Vista
5 3 (4.545%) Solaris
5 3 (4.545%) Windows XP
5 3 (4.545%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (12.12%) Migration
2 8 (12.12%) E-Commerce
2 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (10.61%) MVC
4 6 (9.091%) ITIL
4 6 (9.091%) Software Architecture
5 5 (7.576%) Unit Testing
5 5 (7.576%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (7.576%) SOA
5 5 (7.576%) TDD
5 5 (7.576%) Supplier Management
6 4 (6.061%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (6.061%) E-business
7 3 (4.545%) Time Management
7 3 (4.545%) Scrum
7 3 (4.545%) ERP
8 2 (3.030%) PRINCE2
8 2 (3.030%) Document Management
8 2 (3.030%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (54.55%) SQL
2 30 (45.45%) C#
3 16 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 12 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 8 (12.12%) VB
6 7 (10.61%) VB6
7 4 (6.061%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.030%) Ruby
8 2 (3.030%) OCaml
9 1 (1.515%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.515%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.061%) Degree
2 3 (4.545%) MCP
2 3 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.030%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.030%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.576%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.061%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (3.030%) vSphere
5 1 (1.515%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (1.515%) XenApp
5 1 (1.515%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (4.545%) SCCM
1 3 (4.545%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle
3 5 (7.576%) VMware
4 3 (4.545%) Sun
4 3 (4.545%) Sage
5 1 (1.515%) HP
5 1 (1.515%) Citrix
5 1 (1.515%) Informatica
5 1 (1.515%) NetApp
5 1 (1.515%) Brocade
5 1 (1.515%) EPiServer
5 1 (1.515%) Sitecore
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