The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server Developer role 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Server Developer
Rank 33 36 29
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -7
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.485% 0.379% 0.787%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.503% 0.398% 0.847%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £363 - £215
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £20.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year
+68.29% -46.75%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
199 251 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.60% 95.08% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 113 113
Average daily rate £331 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £188 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 46 36
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.51 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.32% +16.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £12.05 £11.02
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £83.70 £25.00 £22.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL Server Developer
North West

SQL Server Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Merseyside SQL Server Developer Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside SQL Server Developer Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside SQL Server Developer Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server Developer
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Server Developer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (25.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (25.00%) VBA
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) DTS
4 1 (25.00%) OLAP
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (25.00%) Migration

SQL Server Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Server Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (25.00%) DTS
4 1 (25.00%) OLAP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft