Midlands SQL Server 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2000 over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	48
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	20	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	7.634 %	8.488 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£250
Average daily rate	£320	£265
% change on same period last year	+20.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£324
% change on same period last year	+0.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.36	£30.82
% change on same period last year	+14.70 %
Database & Business Intelligence Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	262	377
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.353 %	0.377 %
Daily rates quoted	34	42
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£378
Average daily rate	£334	£405
% change on same period last year	-17.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.11	£26.84
Average hourly rate	£26.71	£27.26
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.31	£27.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.32	£32.17
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
SQL Server 2000 England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 September 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 Midlands region.

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 45 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 37 (82.22 %) SQL Server 2005 3 21 (46.67 %) SQL 4 19 (42.22 %) .NET 5 10 (22.22 %) VB 5 10 (22.22 %) VB.NET 6 9 (20.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 9 (20.00 %) VB6 7 7 (15.56 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (15.56 %) Windows 7 7 (15.56 %) DTS 8 6 (13.33 %) ETL 8 6 (13.33 %) OLTP 8 6 (13.33 %) BusinessObjects 8 6 (13.33 %) NHS

8 6 (13.33 %) Business Objects 8 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 5 (11.11 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 5 (11.11 %) Transact-SQL 9 5 (11.11 %) Internet 9 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft 10 4 (8.889 %) C# 10 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 10 4 (8.889 %) ASP.NET 11 3 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 11 3 (6.667 %) Finance 11 3 (6.667 %) Use Case 11 3 (6.667 %) UNIX 11 3 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 11 3 (6.667 %) HTML

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 19 (42.22 %) .NET 2 7 (15.56 %) .NET Framework 3 4 (8.889 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (6.667 %) HTML 5 2 (4.444 %) ASP 6 1 (2.222 %) MFC 6 1 (2.222 %) ATL 6 1 (2.222 %) CSS 6 1 (2.222 %) WebServices 6 1 (2.222 %) Fusebox	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.444 %) SharePoint 1 2 (4.444 %) SharePoint Portal Server 1 2 (4.444 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (2.222 %) ColdFusion 2 1 (2.222 %) IIS 2 1 (2.222 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (2.222 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (2.222 %) Apache 2 1 (2.222 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Project 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.222 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 5 (11.11 %) Internet 2 1 (2.222 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 45 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 37 (82.22 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (20.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 7 (15.56 %) DTS 5 6 (13.33 %) ETL 5 6 (13.33 %) OLTP 5 6 (13.33 %) BusinessObjects 5 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 5 (11.11 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 3 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (4.444 %) DecisionStream 8 2 (4.444 %) OLAP 8 2 (4.444 %) BODI 8 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (2.222 %) MySQL 9 1 (2.222 %) ReportNet 9 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (2.222 %) MS Access 9 1 (2.222 %) Cognos Powerplay 9 1 (2.222 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (2.222 %) Flash 1 1 (2.222 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (2.222 %) TestDirector 1 1 (2.222 %) ERwin
General 1 3 (6.667 %) Finance 2 2 (4.444 %) Health 3 1 (2.222 %) Games 3 1 (2.222 %) Online Games 3 1 (2.222 %) Government	Job Titles 1 24 (53.33 %) Developer 2 8 (17.78 %) SQL Developer 3 7 (15.56 %) Web Developer 4 6 (13.33 %) Consultant 4 6 (13.33 %) DBA 4 6 (13.33 %) SQL DBA 5 5 (11.11 %) Software Developer 6 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server DBA 6 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) .NET Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) Architect 8 2 (4.444 %) Software Architect 8 2 (4.444 %) Database Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) SQL Database Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) Server Specialist 9 1 (2.222 %) Excel Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) Cognos Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) Web Architect 9 1 (2.222 %) C++/C# Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) Access Developer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.33 %) NHS 2 2 (4.444 %) Replication 3 1 (2.222 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (2.222 %) Firmware 3 1 (2.222 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 7 (15.56 %) Windows 2 3 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (6.667 %) UNIX 3 2 (4.444 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (2.222 %) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.667 %) Use Case 2 2 (4.444 %) Web Development 2 2 (4.444 %) UML 3 1 (2.222 %) OO 3 1 (2.222 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (2.222 %) Web Design 3 1 (2.222 %) Data Protection	Programming Languages 1 21 (46.67 %) SQL 2 10 (22.22 %) VB 2 10 (22.22 %) VB.NET 3 9 (20.00 %) VB6 4 5 (11.11 %) Transact-SQL 5 4 (8.889 %) C# 6 3 (6.667 %) Java 7 2 (4.444 %) C++ 8 1 (2.222 %) Delphi 8 1 (2.222 %) JavaScript 8 1 (2.222 %) LotusScript
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) QA
Vendors 1 6 (13.33 %) Business Objects 2 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft 3 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 4 2 (4.444 %) Cognos 5 1 (2.222 %) Sun 5 1 (2.222 %) Lotus