North West SQL Server 7 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 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 7 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Location Aberdeen Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	63
Rank change on same period last year	-46
Matching contract IT job ads	34	80
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.081 %
As % of the category below	4.632 %	8.073 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£318	£307
% change on same period last year	+3.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.50
Average hourly rate	-	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.69	£29.06
% change on same period last year	+9.02 %
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 7 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 7
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the North West 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 North West region.

SQL Server 7
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 North West region.

SQL Server 7
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 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	-25	16	£350	-
Lancashire	+9	4	-	-
Merseyside	+2	3	£307	-
Cheshire	-17	2	-	-

SQL Server 7 England

SQL Server 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 86 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 59 (68.60 %) SQL Server 2005 3 51 (59.30 %) .NET 4 37 (43.02 %) ASP.NET 5 30 (34.88 %) SQL 6 27 (31.40 %) SQL Server 2000 7 25 (29.07 %) C# 8 18 (20.93 %) XML 9 16 (18.60 %) VB.NET 10 14 (16.28 %) VB 11 13 (15.12 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 13 (15.12 %) CSS 11 13 (15.12 %) JavaScript 12 12 (13.95 %) WebServices 12 12 (13.95 %) AJAX

13 11 (12.79 %) SharePoint 13 11 (12.79 %) HTML 14 10 (11.63 %) ASP 14 10 (11.63 %) Windows 14 10 (11.63 %) Microsoft 14 10 (11.63 %) VB6 15 9 (10.47 %) MS Excel 15 9 (10.47 %) DHTML 15 9 (10.47 %) Transact-SQL 15 9 (10.47 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 8 (9.302 %) SharePoint Server 2007 16 8 (9.302 %) Retail 16 8 (9.302 %) NHS 16 8 (9.302 %) Health 17 7 (8.140 %) Oracle

SQL Server 7
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 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 51 (59.30 %) .NET 2 37 (43.02 %) ASP.NET 3 18 (20.93 %) XML 4 13 (15.12 %) CSS 5 12 (13.95 %) WebServices 5 12 (13.95 %) AJAX 6 11 (12.79 %) HTML 7 10 (11.63 %) ASP 8 9 (10.47 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 7 (8.140 %) XSLT 10 4 (4.651 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (4.651 %) ADO.NET 10 4 (4.651 %) SOAP 10 4 (4.651 %) WinForms 11 3 (3.488 %) WCF 11 3 (3.488 %) WF 11 3 (3.488 %) XSD 11 3 (3.488 %) SAML 12 2 (2.326 %) XHTML 13 1 (1.163 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 11 (12.79 %) SharePoint 2 8 (9.302 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 4 (4.651 %) IIS 3 4 (4.651 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (4.651 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (1.163 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.163 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.163 %) ESB
Applications 1 9 (10.47 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.326 %) InfoPath 3 1 (1.163 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.163 %) Doxygen	Business Applications 1 2 (2.326 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.814 %) VPN 2 4 (4.651 %) DNS 2 4 (4.651 %) LAN 2 4 (4.651 %) WAN 2 4 (4.651 %) DHCP 2 4 (4.651 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (3.488 %) SSL 4 2 (2.326 %) Intranet 5 1 (1.163 %) Extranet 5 1 (1.163 %) Firewall 5 1 (1.163 %) IPsec 5 1 (1.163 %) LDAP 5 1 (1.163 %) ATM 5 1 (1.163 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 86 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 59 (68.60 %) SQL Server 2005 3 27 (31.40 %) SQL Server 2000 4 13 (15.12 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 6 (6.977 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (4.651 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (3.488 %) Datawarehouse 7 3 (3.488 %) DTS 7 3 (3.488 %) BusinessObjects 7 3 (3.488 %) Oracle 9i 8 2 (2.326 %) MS Access 8 2 (2.326 %) ETL 8 2 (2.326 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (1.163 %) OLAP 9 1 (1.163 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 4 (4.651 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (2.326 %) Flash 2 2 (2.326 %) PowerBuilder 2 2 (2.326 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.163 %) Selenium 3 1 (1.163 %) Visual Studio	General 1 8 (9.302 %) Health 1 8 (9.302 %) Retail 2 6 (6.977 %) Finance 3 1 (1.163 %) Education 3 1 (1.163 %) Government 3 1 (1.163 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 60 (69.77 %) Developer 2 35 (40.70 %) .NET Developer 3 20 (23.26 %) SQL Developer 4 19 (22.09 %) SQL Server Developer 5 14 (16.28 %) VB.NET Developer 6 12 (13.95 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 8 (9.302 %) Web Developer 8 7 (8.140 %) Analyst 9 6 (6.977 %) C# Developer 9 6 (6.977 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 5 (5.814 %) NHS Information Analyst 10 5 (5.814 %) 2nd Line Support 10 5 (5.814 %) Information Analyst 11 4 (4.651 %) Helpdesk Support 11 4 (4.651 %) ColdFusion Developer 11 4 (4.651 %) Senior .NET Developer 11 4 (4.651 %) DBA 11 4 (4.651 %) Senior Developer 11 4 (4.651 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 12 3 (3.488 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 8 (9.302 %) NHS 2 4 (4.651 %) Blackberry 3 2 (2.326 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.163 %) Statistics 4 1 (1.163 %) Psychology 4 1 (1.163 %) Ergonomics 4 1 (1.163 %) Human Factors 4 1 (1.163 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 10 (11.63 %) Windows 2 4 (4.651 %) Linux 3 1 (1.163 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.163 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (1.163 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (3.488 %) UML 2 2 (2.326 %) CRM 2 2 (2.326 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (2.326 %) Business Intelligence 2 2 (2.326 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (2.326 %) Workflow 2 2 (2.326 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (1.163 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (1.163 %) Web Design 3 1 (1.163 %) Content Management 3 1 (1.163 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (1.163 %) Software Testing 3 1 (1.163 %) Statistical Analysis 3 1 (1.163 %) Web Development 3 1 (1.163 %) Operations Management 3 1 (1.163 %) Use Case 3 1 (1.163 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (1.163 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (1.163 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (1.163 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 30 (34.88 %) SQL 2 25 (29.07 %) C# 3 16 (18.60 %) VB.NET 4 14 (16.28 %) VB 5 13 (15.12 %) JavaScript 6 10 (11.63 %) VB6 7 9 (10.47 %) DHTML 7 9 (10.47 %) Transact-SQL 8 4 (4.651 %) VBScript 9 1 (1.163 %) PHP 9 1 (1.163 %) Delphi 9 1 (1.163 %) XPath 9 1 (1.163 %) PowerShell 9 1 (1.163 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 1 (1.163 %) MCDBA 1 1 (1.163 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (1.163 %) Degree
System Software 1 7 (8.140 %) Active Directory 2 4 (4.651 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (1.163 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 1 (1.163 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.163 %) MOM 1 1 (1.163 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 10 (11.63 %) Microsoft 2 7 (8.140 %) Oracle 3 4 (4.651 %) Citrix 3 4 (4.651 %) VMware 4 3 (3.488 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.163 %) Adobe