North West SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the North West 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 2005 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hornchurch Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	36
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	194	132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.259 %	0.134 %
As % of the category below	26.43 %	13.32 %
Daily rates quoted	21	24
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£270
Average daily rate	£296	£296
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£348
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.88	£21.88
Average hourly rate	£31.71	£25.38
% change on same period last year	+24.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.55	£28.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.44	£34.27
% change on same period last year	+0.49 %
Database & Business Intelligence North West
Matching contract IT job ads	734	991
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.978 %	1.003 %
Daily rates quoted	118	225
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£333
Average daily rate	£316	£351
% change on same period last year	-10.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.09	£24.31
Average hourly rate	£30.02	£27.34
% change on same period last year	+9.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.95	£30.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 2005 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 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the North West region.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the North West region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+10	98	£291	-4.31 %
Cheshire	-11	32	£300	+0.04 %
Lancashire	+9	25	-	-
Merseyside	+13	22	£310	+3.19 %

SQL Server 2005 England

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 398 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 270 (67.84 %) .NET 3 210 (52.76 %) ASP.NET 4 195 (48.99 %) C# 5 146 (36.68 %) SQL Server 2000 6 140 (35.18 %) SQL 7 88 (22.11 %) XML 8 87 (21.86 %) VB.NET 9 73 (18.34 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 65 (16.33 %) WebServices 11 59 (14.82 %) SQL Server 7 12 53 (13.32 %) HTML 13 48 (12.06 %) CSS 14 47 (11.81 %) SharePoint 15 42 (10.55 %) ASP.NET 2.0

16 40 (10.05 %) Windows 16 40 (10.05 %) Transact-SQL 17 38 (9.548 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 38 (9.548 %) .NET Framework 18 37 (9.296 %) AJAX 18 37 (9.296 %) Datawarehouse 18 37 (9.296 %) Microsoft 19 35 (8.794 %) JavaScript 20 31 (7.789 %) VB 20 31 (7.789 %) Visual Studio 21 28 (7.035 %) XSLT 22 27 (6.784 %) E-Commerce 23 26 (6.533 %) OLAP 23 26 (6.533 %) Business Intelligence 23 26 (6.533 %) WinForms

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 270 (67.84 %) .NET 2 210 (52.76 %) ASP.NET 3 88 (22.11 %) XML 4 65 (16.33 %) WebServices 5 53 (13.32 %) HTML 6 48 (12.06 %) CSS 7 42 (10.55 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 38 (9.548 %) .NET Framework 9 37 (9.296 %) AJAX 10 28 (7.035 %) XSLT 11 26 (6.533 %) WinForms 12 23 (5.779 %) ASP 13 12 (3.015 %) WCF 13 12 (3.015 %) WF 14 8 (2.010 %) XSL 15 7 (1.759 %) XSD 16 6 (1.508 %) XHTML 16 6 (1.508 %) ADO.NET 17 4 (1.005 %) SAML 18 3 (0.754 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 47 (11.81 %) SharePoint 2 18 (4.523 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 15 (3.769 %) BizTalk Server 4 7 (1.759 %) IIS 5 5 (1.256 %) SAS 6 4 (1.005 %) ColdFusion 7 3 (0.754 %) CMS 8 1 (0.251 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (0.251 %) ESB 8 1 (0.251 %) Oracle 10gAS 8 1 (0.251 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 25 (6.281 %) MS Excel 2 10 (2.513 %) InfoPath 3 6 (1.508 %) MS Office 4 5 (1.256 %) Doxygen 5 2 (0.503 %) CA Clarity 5 2 (0.503 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.251 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.251 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 11 (2.764 %) Dynamics CRM 2 9 (2.261 %) Microsoft CRM 2 9 (2.261 %) Oracle EBS 3 2 (0.503 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (0.503 %) SalesLogix 3 2 (0.503 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 10 (2.513 %) SSL 2 9 (2.261 %) Intranet 3 3 (0.754 %) Internet 3 3 (0.754 %) SAN 4 2 (0.503 %) HTTP 5 1 (0.251 %) VPN 5 1 (0.251 %) LDAP 5 1 (0.251 %) ATM 5 1 (0.251 %) GPRS 5 1 (0.251 %) LAN 5 1 (0.251 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.251 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.251 %) IPsec	Database & Business Intelligence 1 398 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 146 (36.68 %) SQL Server 2000 3 73 (18.34 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 59 (14.82 %) SQL Server 7 5 38 (9.548 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 37 (9.296 %) Datawarehouse 7 26 (6.533 %) OLAP 8 19 (4.774 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 17 (4.271 %) Crystal Reports 10 15 (3.769 %) DTS 11 7 (1.759 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 6 (1.508 %) BusinessObjects 13 5 (1.256 %) ETL 13 5 (1.256 %) RDBMS 13 5 (1.256 %) MS Access 14 3 (0.754 %) Oracle 9i 14 3 (0.754 %) DB2 14 3 (0.754 %) Oracle 10g 15 2 (0.503 %) Oracle Reports 15 2 (0.503 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 31 (7.789 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (3.015 %) NUnit 3 8 (2.010 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 6 (1.508 %) InstallShield 5 4 (1.005 %) PowerBuilder 5 4 (1.005 %) Selenium 6 2 (0.503 %) Flash	General 1 26 (6.533 %) Finance 2 17 (4.271 %) Retail 3 14 (3.518 %) Government 4 11 (2.764 %) Insurance 5 8 (2.010 %) Local Government 6 5 (1.256 %) Health 7 3 (0.754 %) Manufacturing 7 3 (0.754 %) Auditing 8 2 (0.503 %) Banking 8 2 (0.503 %) Marketing 8 2 (0.503 %) Multimedia 8 2 (0.503 %) Construction 9 1 (0.251 %) Education 9 1 (0.251 %) Advertising 9 1 (0.251 %) Home Office 9 1 (0.251 %) Law 9 1 (0.251 %) Legal 9 1 (0.251 %) Investment Banking 9 1 (0.251 %) Graphic Design 9 1 (0.251 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 311 (78.14 %) Developer 2 158 (39.70 %) .NET Developer 3 88 (22.11 %) SQL Developer 4 86 (21.61 %) C# Developer 5 72 (18.09 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 65 (16.33 %) SQL Server Developer 7 46 (11.56 %) VB.NET Developer 8 41 (10.30 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 36 (9.045 %) Web Developer 10 31 (7.789 %) DBA 11 26 (6.533 %) SQL DBA 12 22 (5.528 %) .NET Web Developer 13 20 (5.025 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 14 19 (4.774 %) Analyst 15 16 (4.020 %) C# Web Developer 16 15 (3.769 %) Senior Developer 17 13 (3.266 %) SQL Server DBA 17 13 (3.266 %) SharePoint Developer 18 12 (3.015 %) Software Developer 18 12 (3.015 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 17 (4.271 %) NHS 2 12 (3.015 %) Replication 3 11 (2.764 %) N-Tier 4 6 (1.508 %) Clustering 5 4 (1.005 %) W3C 5 4 (1.005 %) Data Extraction 6 3 (0.754 %) PDA 7 1 (0.251 %) Psychology 7 1 (0.251 %) Ergonomics 7 1 (0.251 %) Human Factors 7 1 (0.251 %) Computer Science 7 1 (0.251 %) Data Conversion 7 1 (0.251 %) Mainframe 7 1 (0.251 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.251 %) Pocket PC 7 1 (0.251 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 40 (10.05 %) Windows 2 1 (0.251 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (0.251 %) Windows NT 2 1 (0.251 %) Windows XP 2 1 (0.251 %) Windows CE 2 1 (0.251 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (0.251 %) Windows Mobile 2 1 (0.251 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (6.784 %) E-Commerce 2 26 (6.533 %) Business Intelligence 3 19 (4.774 %) Migration 4 18 (4.523 %) CRM 4 18 (4.523 %) UML 4 18 (4.523 %) Security Cleared 5 9 (2.261 %) Data Migration 5 9 (2.261 %) ITIL 6 8 (2.010 %) OO 6 8 (2.010 %) Agile Software Development 7 7 (1.759 %) Data Modelling 8 6 (1.508 %) B2B 9 5 (1.256 %) Service Delivery 9 5 (1.256 %) Web Development 10 4 (1.005 %) Content Management 10 4 (1.005 %) E-business 10 4 (1.005 %) OOD 10 4 (1.005 %) Configuration Management 10 4 (1.005 %) Project Management 10 4 (1.005 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 195 (48.99 %) C# 2 140 (35.18 %) SQL 3 87 (21.86 %) VB.NET 4 40 (10.05 %) Transact-SQL 5 35 (8.794 %) JavaScript 6 31 (7.789 %) VB 7 14 (3.518 %) VB6 8 10 (2.513 %) C++ 9 9 (2.261 %) DHTML 10 5 (1.256 %) VBScript 11 4 (1.005 %) VBA 12 3 (0.754 %) PL/SQL 13 2 (0.503 %) Progress 4GL 13 2 (0.503 %) C 14 1 (0.251 %) Delphi 14 1 (0.251 %) PHP 14 1 (0.251 %) XPath 14 1 (0.251 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 7 (1.759 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (1.508 %) MCDBA 3 2 (0.503 %) Degree 4 1 (0.251 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.251 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (0.754 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (0.503 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.251 %) ISA Server 2 1 (0.251 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 1 (0.251 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.251 %) MOM 1 1 (0.251 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 37 (9.296 %) Microsoft 2 23 (5.779 %) Oracle 3 6 (1.508 %) Business Objects 4 2 (0.503 %) Progress 4 2 (0.503 %) ProClarity 5 1 (0.251 %) Cognos 5 1 (0.251 %) Adobe 5 1 (0.251 %) Citrix 5 1 (0.251 %) Lawson 5 1 (0.251 %) Brio