The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 22 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 Newbury 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 13 14 12
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 5 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 4.386% 2.479% 3.960%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 41.67% 21.43% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Average daily rate £300 £163 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+84.61% -60.60%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £45.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -19.23%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
12 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 10.53% 11.57% 8.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
Average daily rate £388 £365 £354
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +3.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £159 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £370 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £72.50 £45.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.11% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
SQL Server
Berkshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Newbury SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Newbury SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (40.00%) Automation Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (20.00%) ISEB
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) TOAD
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) MS Office
4 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (20.00%) HTML

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (20.00%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) TOAD
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) QADirector
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Testing
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ESRI
2 1 (20.00%) VMware