The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 May 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 Manchester 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 27 30 39
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 51 60 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 5.580% 4.612% 3.086%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.17% 20.62% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 22
Average daily rate £300 £275 £269
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +2.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £239 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £324
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £318
% change year-on-year
- +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £40.50 £33.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.10 £20.50 £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.10 £39.25 £41.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
230 291 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 25.16% 22.37% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 168 119
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.08% +9.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £407 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 19
Average hourly rate £40.50 £33.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% +46.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £190.00 £43.50 £34.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2008
North West

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

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 Manchester region.

Manchester SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stockport - 2 £310 -
SQL Server 2008
North West

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 109 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 59 (54.13%) .NET
3 54 (49.54%) SQL
3 54 (49.54%) SQL Server 2005
4 51 (46.79%) C#
5 49 (44.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 46 (42.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 40 (36.70%) T-SQL
8 37 (33.94%) ASP.NET
9 30 (27.52%) Microsoft
10 27 (24.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 26 (23.85%) Visual Studio
12 25 (22.94%) CSS
13 24 (22.02%) Web Services
13 24 (22.02%) MVC
14 23 (21.10%) JavaScript
15 21 (19.27%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (17.43%) XML
17 18 (16.51%) Finance
18 17 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
19 16 (14.68%) HTML
20 15 (13.76%) ASP.NET MVC
21 14 (12.84%) WCF
21 14 (12.84%) NHS
21 14 (12.84%) ETL
22 13 (11.93%) jQuery
23 12 (11.01%) Ajax
23 12 (11.01%) VBA
23 12 (11.01%) SQL Server 2000
23 12 (11.01%) Scrum

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 59 (54.13%) .NET
2 37 (33.94%) ASP.NET
3 25 (22.94%) CSS
4 24 (22.02%) Web Services
5 19 (17.43%) XML
6 16 (14.68%) HTML
7 15 (13.76%) ASP.NET MVC
8 14 (12.84%) WCF
9 13 (11.93%) jQuery
10 12 (11.01%) Ajax
11 10 (9.174%) LINQ
12 9 (8.257%) MDX
12 9 (8.257%) .NET Framework
13 8 (7.339%) XHTML
14 6 (5.505%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 6 (5.505%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 5 (4.587%) RESTful
15 5 (4.587%) XSLT
16 3 (2.752%) XSD
16 3 (2.752%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.174%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.752%) Apache
2 3 (2.752%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.835%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (0.917%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.917%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.917%) Confluence
4 1 (0.917%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 11 (10.09%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.835%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.917%) Maya
3 1 (0.917%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.917%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.917%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.917%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 54 (49.54%) SQL Server 2005
3 49 (44.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 46 (42.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (24.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 17 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (11.01%) SQL Server 2000
8 11 (10.09%) OLAP
9 9 (8.257%) DTS
10 7 (6.422%) SQL Server 2012
11 6 (5.505%) Star Schema
12 5 (4.587%) RavenDB
13 4 (3.670%) PerformancePoint
13 4 (3.670%) RDBMS
13 4 (3.670%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 3 (2.752%) QlikView
14 3 (2.752%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (2.752%) Oracle 8/8i
15 2 (1.835%) Oracle 11g
15 2 (1.835%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 26 (23.85%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.587%) Subversion
3 3 (2.752%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.835%) Git (software)
4 2 (1.835%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.917%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.917%) JIRA
5 1 (0.917%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (16.51%) Finance
2 7 (6.422%) Retail
3 4 (3.670%) Legal
4 1 (0.917%) Banking
4 1 (0.917%) Law
4 1 (0.917%) Local Government
4 1 (0.917%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 80 (73.39%) Developer
2 26 (23.85%) .NET Developer
3 22 (20.18%) SQL Developer
4 16 (14.68%) C# Developer
5 14 (12.84%) SQL Server Developer
6 10 (9.174%) ASP.NET Developer
6 10 (9.174%) Software Developer
7 9 (8.257%) Analyst
7 9 (8.257%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (6.422%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.505%) MI Developer
10 5 (4.587%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (4.587%) SQL DBA
10 5 (4.587%) DBA
11 4 (3.670%) Server Analyst
11 4 (3.670%) C# Software Developer
11 4 (3.670%) SQL Server Analyst
12 3 (2.752%) Report Developer
12 3 (2.752%) .NET Software Developer
12 3 (2.752%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) NHS
2 8 (7.339%) Replication
3 7 (6.422%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.587%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.752%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.835%) Open Source
6 2 (1.835%) W3C
7 1 (0.917%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.257%) Windows
2 7 (6.422%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (4.587%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (2.752%) Linux
5 2 (1.835%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.835%) Debian
5 2 (1.835%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.917%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.917%) Windows 2000
6 1 (0.917%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.02%) MVC
2 21 (19.27%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (12.84%) ETL
4 12 (11.01%) Scrum
5 10 (9.174%) TDD
6 9 (8.257%) Migration
6 9 (8.257%) Data Modelling
7 8 (7.339%) Kimball Methodology
8 6 (5.505%) Data Transformation
9 5 (4.587%) Web Application Development
9 5 (4.587%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (4.587%) ERD
9 5 (4.587%) Data Migration
10 4 (3.670%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (3.670%) OOP
10 4 (3.670%) Service Management
10 4 (3.670%) E-Commerce
10 4 (3.670%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (3.670%) Analytics
11 3 (2.752%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 54 (49.54%) SQL
2 51 (46.79%) C#
3 40 (36.70%) T-SQL
4 23 (21.10%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.01%) VBA
6 8 (7.339%) VB.NET
7 5 (4.587%) C
7 5 (4.587%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.752%) C++
9 2 (1.835%) Ruby
10 1 (0.917%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.917%) VB6
10 1 (0.917%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (6.422%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (5.505%) Degree
3 3 (2.752%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.670%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.752%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 30 (27.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.587%) Oracle
2 5 (4.587%) Business Objects
3 4 (3.670%) Sage
4 3 (2.752%) Cognos
5 2 (1.835%) Cisco
5 2 (1.835%) SAP
5 2 (1.835%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.835%) Riverbed
6 1 (0.917%) VMware
6 1 (0.917%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.917%) Adobe
6 1 (0.917%) SunGard
6 1 (0.917%) Citrix
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