The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2012 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2012 over the 3 months to 24 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 Merseyside 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £403 -
% change year-on-year
-19.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
53 82 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 26.24% 31.42% 22.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 26
Average daily rate £350 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £330 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 6
Average hourly rate £14.79 £21.86 £18.73
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% +16.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £12.05 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £25.00 £25.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2012
North West

SQL Server 2012
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Merseyside SQL Server 2012 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2012
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside SQL Server 2012 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2012
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (25.00%) DTS
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2

SQL Server 2012
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (25.00%) DTS
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#