Milton Keynes SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) 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 jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Ballymena Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleveland Clydebank Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grampian Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Ross-on-Wye Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	15
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	73	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.118 %	0.074 %
As % of the category below	54.07 %	43.59 %
Daily rates quoted	23	20
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£235
Average daily rate	£318	£255
% change on same period last year	+24.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£334
% change on same period last year	-6.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.90	£20.29
Average hourly rate	£20.95	£22.29
% change on same period last year	-5.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£24.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.28	£30.72
% change on same period last year	-11.19 %
Database & Business Intelligence Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	135	156
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.170 %
Daily rates quoted	35	32
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£244
Average daily rate	£299	£256
% change on same period last year	+16.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£268
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.07	£20.94
Average hourly rate	£19.79	£22.38
% change on same period last year	-11.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.51	£23.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.53	£31.68
% change on same period last year	-16.25 %
SQL Server 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 Milton Keynes region.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 59 (40.97 %) SQL 2 53 (36.81 %) Security Cleared 3 50 (34.72 %) Windows 4 47 (32.64 %) .NET 5 40 (27.78 %) C# 5 40 (27.78 %) SC Cleared 6 34 (23.61 %) Transact-SQL 7 33 (22.92 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 31 (21.53 %) Government 8 31 (21.53 %) ASP.NET 9 28 (19.44 %) Microsoft Certification 10 27 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 11 26 (18.06 %) Oracle 12 25 (17.36 %) Finance 13 23 (15.97 %) Microsoft

14 22 (15.28 %) MCDBA 15 19 (13.19 %) Clustering 16 18 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 16 18 (12.50 %) SAN 17 17 (11.81 %) XML 18 16 (11.11 %) OLAP 18 16 (11.11 %) ITIL 18 16 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 18 16 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 19 15 (10.42 %) HP 19 15 (10.42 %) XSLT 20 14 (9.722 %) DTS 20 14 (9.722 %) ITSM 21 13 (9.028 %) WinForms 21 13 (9.028 %) HTTP

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 47 (32.64 %) .NET 2 31 (21.53 %) ASP.NET 3 17 (11.81 %) XML 4 15 (10.42 %) XSLT 5 13 (9.028 %) WinForms 6 12 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 7 8 (5.556 %) HTML 7 8 (5.556 %) MFC 8 7 (4.861 %) ActiveX 9 4 (2.778 %) AJAX 9 4 (2.778 %) ASP 10 3 (2.083 %) CSS 10 3 (2.083 %) J2EE 11 2 (1.389 %) WebServices 12 1 (0.694 %) ADO.NET 12 1 (0.694 %) XSL 12 1 (0.694 %) XHTML 12 1 (0.694 %) VML 12 1 (0.694 %) WCF 12 1 (0.694 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 6 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (3.472 %) BizTalk Server 2 5 (3.472 %) TPMS 3 4 (2.778 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (2.083 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 3 (2.083 %) IIS 5 2 (1.389 %) Apache 5 2 (1.389 %) SharePoint 6 1 (0.694 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 8 (5.556 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.694 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.694 %) MS Project 2 1 (0.694 %) MS Office 2 1 (0.694 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 18 (12.50 %) SAN 2 13 (9.028 %) Intranet 2 13 (9.028 %) Extranet 2 13 (9.028 %) HTTP 3 3 (2.083 %) WAN 4 2 (1.389 %) DHCP 4 2 (1.389 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.694 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (22.92 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 27 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 3 16 (11.11 %) OLAP 3 16 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 4 14 (9.722 %) DTS 5 8 (5.556 %) DB2 6 7 (4.861 %) ETL 7 6 (4.167 %) DB2 UDB 7 6 (4.167 %) PowerCenter 8 5 (3.472 %) IDMS 8 5 (3.472 %) Datawarehouse 8 5 (3.472 %) Data Mart 8 5 (3.472 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 3 (2.083 %) Ingres 9 3 (2.083 %) BusinessObjects 10 2 (1.389 %) OLTP 10 2 (1.389 %) Oracle 10g 10 2 (1.389 %) MS Access 10 2 (1.389 %) Crystal Reports 10 2 (1.389 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 6 (4.167 %) Rational Rose 2 4 (2.778 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (2.083 %) NUnit 4 2 (1.389 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 2 (1.389 %) LabVIEW 4 2 (1.389 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.694 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 31 (21.53 %) Government 2 25 (17.36 %) Finance 3 10 (6.944 %) Legal 4 8 (5.556 %) Electronics 4 8 (5.556 %) Banking 5 6 (4.167 %) Auditing 6 4 (2.778 %) Construction 7 2 (1.389 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (1.389 %) Telecoms 7 2 (1.389 %) Automotive 7 2 (1.389 %) Investment Banking 8 1 (0.694 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.694 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.694 %) Retail 8 1 (0.694 %) Military	Job Titles 1 46 (31.94 %) Developer 2 27 (18.75 %) DBA 3 25 (17.36 %) Analyst 4 23 (15.97 %) .NET Developer 5 22 (15.28 %) SQL DBA 6 19 (13.19 %) C# Developer 7 16 (11.11 %) SQL Server DBA 8 13 (9.028 %) Administrator 9 12 (8.333 %) Server Administrator 10 11 (7.639 %) Database Specialist 11 9 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 11 9 (6.250 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 8 (5.556 %) SQL Developer 12 8 (5.556 %) Consultant 13 6 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 13 6 (4.167 %) Software Engineer 13 6 (4.167 %) 1st Line Support 13 6 (4.167 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 14 5 (3.472 %) Senior .NET Developer 14 5 (3.472 %) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 19 (13.19 %) Clustering 2 6 (4.167 %) Mainframe 3 4 (2.778 %) Thin Client 3 4 (2.778 %) Fat Client 4 1 (0.694 %) CESG	Operating Systems 1 50 (34.72 %) Windows 2 16 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (5.556 %) UNIX 3 8 (5.556 %) VME 4 5 (3.472 %) Windows Vista 5 3 (2.083 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.694 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.694 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 53 (36.81 %) Security Cleared 2 40 (27.78 %) SC Cleared 3 18 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 4 16 (11.11 %) ITIL 5 14 (9.722 %) ITSM 6 10 (6.944 %) OO 7 8 (5.556 %) Migration 8 7 (4.861 %) Data Modelling 9 6 (4.167 %) Disaster Recovery 10 5 (3.472 %) Use Case 10 5 (3.472 %) OOD 11 4 (2.778 %) UML 11 4 (2.778 %) Agile Software Development 11 4 (2.778 %) DV Cleared 12 3 (2.083 %) Workflow 12 3 (2.083 %) Project Management 13 2 (1.389 %) Service Delivery 13 2 (1.389 %) SOA 13 2 (1.389 %) Data Architecture 13 2 (1.389 %) V-Model	Programming Languages 1 59 (40.97 %) SQL 2 40 (27.78 %) C# 3 34 (23.61 %) Transact-SQL 4 7 (4.861 %) COBOL 4 7 (4.861 %) JavaScript 5 6 (4.167 %) Perl 5 6 (4.167 %) VB 6 5 (3.472 %) VB.NET 7 4 (2.778 %) PL/SQL 7 4 (2.778 %) Java 8 3 (2.083 %) Python 8 3 (2.083 %) VB6 9 2 (1.389 %) VBA 10 1 (0.694 %) VBScript 10 1 (0.694 %) Tcl 10 1 (0.694 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 28 (19.44 %) Microsoft Certification 2 22 (15.28 %) MCDBA 3 5 (3.472 %) MCSE 4 4 (2.778 %) CNE 4 4 (2.778 %) Novell Certification 5 2 (1.389 %) ISEB 5 2 (1.389 %) MCAD 5 2 (1.389 %) MCSD 6 1 (0.694 %) Degree	System Software 1 5 (3.472 %) NetBackup 1 5 (3.472 %) Oracle RMAN 2 3 (2.083 %) Active Directory 3 2 (1.389 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 12 (8.333 %) OpenView 2 10 (6.944 %) OVOW 3 9 (6.250 %) OVIS 4 4 (2.778 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 2 (1.389 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 26 (18.06 %) Oracle 2 23 (15.97 %) Microsoft 3 15 (10.42 %) HP 4 7 (4.861 %) Cisco 4 7 (4.861 %) ICL 5 6 (4.167 %) Sybase 6 3 (2.083 %) Business Objects 6 3 (2.083 %) Informatica 7 2 (1.389 %) StorageTek 7 2 (1.389 %) Micro Focus 7 2 (1.389 %) VMware 7 2 (1.389 %) Citrix 7 2 (1.389 %) Sun 8 1 (0.694 %) IBM 8 1 (0.694 %) Visualfiles 8 1 (0.694 %) Remedy 8 1 (0.694 %) Epicor 8 1 (0.694 %) Novadigm