Middlesex SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Middlesex 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 over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kenilworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	14
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	28	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	25.93 %	43.00 %
Daily rates quoted	9	15
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£289
Average daily rate	£412	£300
% change on same period last year	+37.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£31.50
Average hourly rate	-	£33.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.09	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Database & Business Intelligence Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	108	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.142 %	0.105 %
Daily rates quoted	31	26
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£279
Average daily rate	£366	£299
% change on same period last year	+22.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.83	£25.64
Average hourly rate	£44.67	£29.41
% change on same period last year	+51.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.50	£33.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
SQL Server South East

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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 27 (51.92 %) SQL 2 20 (38.46 %) Oracle 3 15 (28.85 %) SQL Server 2005 4 14 (26.92 %) .NET 5 13 (25.00 %) C# 5 13 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 12 (23.08 %) ASP.NET 7 11 (21.15 %) Crystal Reports 7 11 (21.15 %) Windows 7 11 (21.15 %) SQL Server 2000 8 9 (17.31 %) Unix 9 7 (13.46 %) WebServices 9 7 (13.46 %) Business Objects 9 7 (13.46 %) Oracle 10g 9 7 (13.46 %) BusinessObjects

10 6 (11.54 %) Linux 11 5 (9.615 %) Oracle Reports 11 5 (9.615 %) MS Visio 11 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 4 (7.692 %) Telecoms 12 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 7 12 4 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence 12 4 (7.692 %) HTTPS 12 4 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 12 4 (7.692 %) J2EE 12 4 (7.692 %) Java 12 4 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL 12 4 (7.692 %) XML 12 4 (7.692 %) PL/SQL

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 14 (26.92 %) .NET 2 12 (23.08 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (13.46 %) WebServices 4 4 (7.692 %) J2EE 4 4 (7.692 %) XML 5 3 (5.769 %) ASP 6 2 (3.846 %) AJAX 6 2 (3.846 %) HTML 6 2 (3.846 %) SOAP 7 1 (1.923 %) XSD 7 1 (1.923 %) XSLT 7 1 (1.923 %) ADO 7 1 (1.923 %) ADO.NET 7 1 (1.923 %) COM 7 1 (1.923 %) ActiveX 7 1 (1.923 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 1 (1.923 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.923 %) MDX 7 1 (1.923 %) Silverlight 7 1 (1.923 %) DAO	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.846 %) SharePoint 1 2 (3.846 %) IIS 2 1 (1.923 %) Apache 2 1 (1.923 %) SAP Web AS
Applications 1 5 (9.615 %) MS Visio 2 3 (5.769 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.923 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.923 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (1.923 %) Remedy ITSM 1 1 (1.923 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.692 %) HTTPS 2 3 (5.769 %) SAN 3 2 (3.846 %) WAN 3 2 (3.846 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.923 %) VoIP 4 1 (1.923 %) TELNET 4 1 (1.923 %) NetScreen 4 1 (1.923 %) Extranet 4 1 (1.923 %) FTP 4 1 (1.923 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.923 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (28.85 %) SQL Server 2005 2 11 (21.15 %) Crystal Reports 2 11 (21.15 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (13.46 %) Oracle 10g 3 7 (13.46 %) BusinessObjects 4 5 (9.615 %) Oracle Reports 4 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 7 5 4 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (5.769 %) DTS 7 2 (3.846 %) ETL 7 2 (3.846 %) RDBMS 7 2 (3.846 %) MySQL 8 1 (1.923 %) MS Access 8 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 3 (5.769 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.846 %) ProC 3 1 (1.923 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.923 %) Flash 3 1 (1.923 %) MSI 3 1 (1.923 %) NUnit	General 1 4 (7.692 %) Telecoms 2 3 (5.769 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (3.846 %) Banking 3 2 (3.846 %) Retail 3 2 (3.846 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (3.846 %) Finance 4 1 (1.923 %) Construction 4 1 (1.923 %) Government 4 1 (1.923 %) Publishing 4 1 (1.923 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.923 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 25 (48.08 %) Developer 2 11 (21.15 %) .NET Developer 3 7 (13.46 %) C# Developer 3 7 (13.46 %) Analyst 4 6 (11.54 %) Consultant 5 5 (9.615 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (9.615 %) Architect 6 4 (7.692 %) DBA 6 4 (7.692 %) SQL DBA 7 3 (5.769 %) SQL Server DBA 7 3 (5.769 %) Analyst Developer 7 3 (5.769 %) Systems Developer 7 3 (5.769 %) Systems Analyst 7 3 (5.769 %) Crystal Reports Writer 7 3 (5.769 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (5.769 %) SQL Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) Crystal Reports Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) ETL Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) Senior Technical Consultant 8 2 (3.846 %) Server Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.769 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.923 %) Replication 2 1 (1.923 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.923 %) Thin Client 2 1 (1.923 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (1.923 %) Fat Client 2 1 (1.923 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.923 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 11 (21.15 %) Windows 2 9 (17.31 %) Unix 3 6 (11.54 %) Linux 4 2 (3.846 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.923 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.923 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (5.769 %) ITIL 2 3 (5.769 %) OOA/OOD 2 3 (5.769 %) OOD 2 3 (5.769 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (5.769 %) Migration 3 2 (3.846 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (3.846 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (3.846 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (3.846 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (3.846 %) Validation 3 2 (3.846 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (3.846 %) OO 4 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (1.923 %) CRM 4 1 (1.923 %) RUP 4 1 (1.923 %) UML 4 1 (1.923 %) Service Management 4 1 (1.923 %) ITSM 4 1 (1.923 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 27 (51.92 %) SQL 2 13 (25.00 %) C# 3 4 (7.692 %) Java 3 4 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (5.769 %) VB 4 3 (5.769 %) VB.NET 4 3 (5.769 %) C 4 3 (5.769 %) Perl 4 3 (5.769 %) Korn 5 2 (3.846 %) JavaScript 5 2 (3.846 %) C++ 6 1 (1.923 %) VBA 6 1 (1.923 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 2 (3.846 %) CISSP 2 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.923 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.923 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.923 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 1 (1.923 %) MSMQ 1 1 (1.923 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.923 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (1.923 %) BMC Performance Manager	Vendors 1 20 (38.46 %) Oracle 2 13 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 7 (13.46 %) Business Objects 4 2 (3.846 %) Hyperion 4 2 (3.846 %) Websense 4 2 (3.846 %) Cognos 4 2 (3.846 %) Siebel 5 1 (1.923 %) SAP 5 1 (1.923 %) Sun 5 1 (1.923 %) HP 5 1 (1.923 %) Intel 5 1 (1.923 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.923 %) IBM 5 1 (1.923 %) VMware 5 1 (1.923 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.923 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.923 %) BMC 5 1 (1.923 %) ProClarity 5 1 (1.923 %) Altiris