Milton Keynes SQL Server 7 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 skills within the Milton Keynes 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 7 over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hove Jersey Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Lewes Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	61
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	5	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.451 %	5.114 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£500
Average daily rate	-	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.07	£31.01
% change on same period last year	-6.27 %
Database & Business Intelligence Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	204	176
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.269 %	0.184 %
Daily rates quoted	68	41
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£329
Average daily rate	£337	£352
% change on same period last year	-4.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.88	£24.64
Average hourly rate	£36.85	£25.30
% change on same period last year	+45.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.81	£25.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
SQL Server 7 Buckinghamshire

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 7
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 7
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Milton Keynes region.

SQL Server 7
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Milton Keynes region.

SQL Server 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing SQL Server 7 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 7.

1 19 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 15 (78.95 %) SQL 3 14 (73.68 %) Windows 4 13 (68.42 %) VB 5 10 (52.63 %) SQL Server 2000 6 9 (47.37 %) SSADM 6 9 (47.37 %) Windows NT 6 9 (47.37 %) PRINCE2 6 9 (47.37 %) SC Cleared 6 9 (47.37 %) Security Cleared 7 8 (42.11 %) Internet 7 8 (42.11 %) Requirements Analysis 7 8 (42.11 %) Agile Software Development 7 8 (42.11 %) Project Management 7 8 (42.11 %) RAD

7 8 (42.11 %) DSDM 8 6 (31.58 %) Government 8 6 (31.58 %) VB6 8 6 (31.58 %) SQL Server 2005 8 6 (31.58 %) HTML 8 6 (31.58 %) MS Office 8 6 (31.58 %) ASP 8 6 (31.58 %) XML 8 6 (31.58 %) VB.NET 8 6 (31.58 %) .NET 9 4 (21.05 %) Oracle 9 4 (21.05 %) Sybase 9 4 (21.05 %) DB2 9 4 (21.05 %) Transact-SQL 9 4 (21.05 %) VBScript

SQL Server 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing SQL Server 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (31.58 %) HTML 1 6 (31.58 %) ASP 1 6 (31.58 %) XML 1 6 (31.58 %) .NET 2 4 (21.05 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 6 (31.58 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (42.11 %) Internet 2 3 (15.79 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 10 (52.63 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (31.58 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (21.05 %) DB2 4 4 (21.05 %) Cognos Powerplay 4 4 (21.05 %) Cognos Impromptu 4 4 (21.05 %) Datawarehouse 4 4 (21.05 %) DTS 4 4 (21.05 %) DecisionStream 4 4 (21.05 %) DB2 UDB 5 3 (15.79 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (10.53 %) Crystal Reports	General 1 6 (31.58 %) Government 2 2 (10.53 %) Finance 3 1 (5.263 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 9 (47.37 %) Developer 2 7 (36.84 %) Applications Developer 3 4 (21.05 %) DBA 3 4 (21.05 %) Team Leader 4 2 (10.53 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (5.263 %) SQL DBA 5 1 (5.263 %) Network Support 5 1 (5.263 %) Lead Developer 5 1 (5.263 %) Administrator 5 1 (5.263 %) SQL Server DBA 5 1 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support 5 1 (5.263 %) Business Intelligence Specialist	Operating Systems 1 14 (73.68 %) Windows 2 9 (47.37 %) Windows NT 3 3 (15.79 %) Unix 4 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (5.263 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (47.37 %) SSADM 1 9 (47.37 %) PRINCE2 1 9 (47.37 %) SC Cleared 1 9 (47.37 %) Security Cleared 2 8 (42.11 %) Requirements Analysis 2 8 (42.11 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (42.11 %) Project Management 2 8 (42.11 %) RAD 2 8 (42.11 %) DSDM 3 4 (21.05 %) Business Intelligence 3 4 (21.05 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (15.79 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (5.263 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (5.263 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 15 (78.95 %) SQL 2 13 (68.42 %) VB 3 6 (31.58 %) VB6 3 6 (31.58 %) VB.NET 4 4 (21.05 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (21.05 %) VBScript
System Software 1 4 (21.05 %) NetBackup 1 4 (21.05 %) Oracle RMAN	Vendors 1 4 (21.05 %) Oracle 1 4 (21.05 %) Sybase 1 4 (21.05 %) Cognos