SQL Server 2008 Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands 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 Midlands 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 18 27 33
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 6 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 3.529% 1.818% 0.865%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.09% 12.20% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £325 £275 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -17.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £215 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £335 £387
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £318
% change year-on-year
- +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category		 23 41 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 13.53% 14.91% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 14
Average daily rate £350 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £200 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £605 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
Average hourly rate - - £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2008
England

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

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 Midlands region.

Midlands SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) Veritas
5 2 (22.22%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (22.22%) ISA Server
5 2 (22.22%) Clustering
5 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
5 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (22.22%) EMC
5 2 (22.22%) Citrix
5 2 (22.22%) SAN
5 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
5 2 (22.22%) DHCP
5 2 (22.22%) DNS
5 2 (22.22%) .NET
5 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 2 (22.22%) OLAP
5 2 (22.22%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (22.22%) Altiris
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Management

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (22.22%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (22.22%) OLAP
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Business Developer
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Server Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Report Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) RUP
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) ISA Server
1 2 (22.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) EMC
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix
2 2 (22.22%) Veritas
2 2 (22.22%) Altiris
3 1 (11.11%) Hyperion
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