Manchester SQL Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL Server 2000 over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	27
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching contract IT job ads	38	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	14.02 %	18.11 %
Daily rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£183
Average daily rate	£287	£196
% change on same period last year	+46.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£208
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£335
% change on same period last year	-6.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£17.67
% change on same period last year	+41.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£18.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.00	£30.96
% change on same period last year	+9.81 %
Database & Business Intelligence Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	271	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.357 %	0.254 %
Daily rates quoted	36	48
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£286
Average daily rate	£302	£307
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.04	£21.56
Average hourly rate	£27.26	£22.88
% change on same period last year	+19.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.49	£24.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
SQL Server 2000 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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Manchester region.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Manchester region.

SQL Server 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SQL Server 2000 within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 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
Salford	-	3	£240	-
Bolton	-	1	-	-
Stockport	+1	1	-	-

SQL Server 2000 North West

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 66 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 55 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 37 (56.06 %) .NET 4 26 (39.39 %) C# 5 24 (36.36 %) SQL 5 24 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 6 18 (27.27 %) VB.NET 7 16 (24.24 %) XML 8 14 (21.21 %) Windows 8 14 (21.21 %) SQL Server 7 9 11 (16.67 %) Transact-SQL 10 10 (15.15 %) WebServices 10 10 (15.15 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 9 (13.64 %) JavaScript 12 7 (10.61 %) .NET Framework

12 7 (10.61 %) VB 12 7 (10.61 %) SharePoint 13 6 (9.091 %) XSLT 13 6 (9.091 %) HTML 13 6 (9.091 %) Microsoft 13 6 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 6 (9.091 %) Retail 14 5 (7.576 %) Internet 14 5 (7.576 %) Visual Studio 14 5 (7.576 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 5 (7.576 %) CSS 14 5 (7.576 %) Datawarehouse 14 5 (7.576 %) DTS 15 4 (6.061 %) UML 15 4 (6.061 %) IIS

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 37 (56.06 %) .NET 2 24 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (24.24 %) XML 4 10 (15.15 %) WebServices 5 7 (10.61 %) .NET Framework 6 6 (9.091 %) XSLT 6 6 (9.091 %) HTML 6 6 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 5 (7.576 %) CSS 8 4 (6.061 %) AJAX 9 3 (4.545 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 9 3 (4.545 %) WinForms 9 3 (4.545 %) ASP 10 2 (3.030 %) XSL 10 2 (3.030 %) WMI 10 2 (3.030 %) Mach-II 11 1 (1.515 %) Flex 2 11 1 (1.515 %) Adobe Flex 11 1 (1.515 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 7 (10.61 %) SharePoint 2 4 (6.061 %) IIS 2 4 (6.061 %) ColdFusion 3 3 (4.545 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.515 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (1.515 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.515 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.515 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.515 %) CMS 4 1 (1.515 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (1.515 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (4.545 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.030 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 5 (7.576 %) Internet 2 2 (3.030 %) Intranet 2 2 (3.030 %) SAN 3 1 (1.515 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 66 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 55 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 14 (21.21 %) SQL Server 7 4 10 (15.15 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 5 (7.576 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (7.576 %) DTS 6 4 (6.061 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 3 (4.545 %) BusinessObjects 8 2 (3.030 %) MS Access 8 2 (3.030 %) ETL 8 2 (3.030 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 2 (3.030 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (1.515 %) OLAP	Development Applications 1 5 (7.576 %) Visual Studio 1 5 (7.576 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (3.030 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.515 %) Flash
General 1 6 (9.091 %) Retail 2 2 (3.030 %) Finance 2 2 (3.030 %) Health 3 1 (1.515 %) Banking 3 1 (1.515 %) Advertising 3 1 (1.515 %) Government	Job Titles 1 47 (71.21 %) Developer 2 22 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (27.27 %) SQL Developer 4 14 (21.21 %) SQL Server Developer 5 13 (19.70 %) C# Developer 6 11 (16.67 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 9 (13.64 %) VB.NET Developer 8 8 (12.12 %) Web Developer 8 8 (12.12 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 5 (7.576 %) SQL DBA 9 5 (7.576 %) DBA 10 4 (6.061 %) Applications Developer 10 4 (6.061 %) Analyst 10 4 (6.061 %) .NET Web Developer 10 4 (6.061 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 10 4 (6.061 %) ColdFusion Developer 10 4 (6.061 %) Server Specialist 11 3 (4.545 %) C# Application Developer 11 3 (4.545 %) SQL Database Developer 11 3 (4.545 %) Database Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.030 %) Replication 1 2 (3.030 %) Clustering 1 2 (3.030 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (1.515 %) PDA 2 1 (1.515 %) NHS 2 1 (1.515 %) W3C 2 1 (1.515 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.515 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 14 (21.21 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.061 %) UML 2 3 (4.545 %) Web Development 2 3 (4.545 %) Migration 2 3 (4.545 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (3.030 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (3.030 %) Project Management 3 2 (3.030 %) Software Engineering 3 2 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (1.515 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.515 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (1.515 %) Content Management 4 1 (1.515 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (1.515 %) Service Management 4 1 (1.515 %) OOP 4 1 (1.515 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 26 (39.39 %) C# 2 24 (36.36 %) SQL 3 18 (27.27 %) VB.NET 4 11 (16.67 %) Transact-SQL 5 9 (13.64 %) JavaScript 6 7 (10.61 %) VB 7 4 (6.061 %) VB6 8 3 (4.545 %) VBScript 9 1 (1.515 %) Delphi 9 1 (1.515 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 3 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (3.030 %) MCDBA 3 1 (1.515 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.515 %) MCSD	System Software 1 1 (1.515 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (9.091 %) Microsoft 2 3 (4.545 %) Cognos 2 3 (4.545 %) Business Objects 3 2 (3.030 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.515 %) Tridion 4 1 (1.515 %) Adobe