North Yorkshire SQL Server 2005 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the North Yorkshire 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	36
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	21	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	33.87 %	17.46 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£300
Average daily rate	£375	£300
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£341
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£29.00
Average hourly rate	£31.67	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.33	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.27	£35.80
% change on same period last year	-7.08 %
Database & Business Intelligence North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	62	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.064 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£294
Average daily rate	£362	£311
% change on same period last year	+16.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.89	£27.33
Average hourly rate	£29.39	£33.61
% change on same period last year	-12.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.89	£39.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£31.89
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
SQL Server 2005 Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Harrogate	-8	6	-	-
York	+21	5	-	-
Middlesbrough	-	1	-	-

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SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 42 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 41 (97.62 %) .NET 3 37 (88.10 %) ASP.NET 4 34 (80.95 %) C# 5 17 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2000 6 13 (30.95 %) CSS 7 11 (26.19 %) E-Commerce 8 9 (21.43 %) WebServices 8 9 (21.43 %) SQL 9 8 (19.05 %) Visual Studio 9 8 (19.05 %) XHTML 9 8 (19.05 %) Retail 9 8 (19.05 %) Commerce Server 10 7 (16.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 7 (16.67 %) HTML

10 7 (16.67 %) JavaScript 10 7 (16.67 %) XML 11 5 (11.90 %) Web Development 11 5 (11.90 %) XSLT 11 5 (11.90 %) VB.NET 12 4 (9.524 %) IIS 12 4 (9.524 %) ASP 12 4 (9.524 %) W3C 12 4 (9.524 %) BizTalk Server 12 4 (9.524 %) Content Management 12 4 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 3 (7.143 %) AJAX 13 3 (7.143 %) Migration 13 3 (7.143 %) CMS 13 3 (7.143 %) OO

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 41 (97.62 %) .NET 2 37 (88.10 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (30.95 %) CSS 4 9 (21.43 %) WebServices 5 8 (19.05 %) XHTML 6 7 (16.67 %) XML 6 7 (16.67 %) HTML 7 5 (11.90 %) XSLT 8 4 (9.524 %) ASP 8 4 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 3 (7.143 %) AJAX 10 2 (4.762 %) WCF 10 2 (4.762 %) WinForms 11 1 (2.381 %) WPF 11 1 (2.381 %) ISAPI 11 1 (2.381 %) SAML 11 1 (2.381 %) XML Messaging	Application Platforms 1 8 (19.05 %) Commerce Server 2 7 (16.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 4 (9.524 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (9.524 %) IIS 4 3 (7.143 %) CMS 5 2 (4.762 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (4.762 %) SharePoint 5 2 (4.762 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) MS Excel 1 1 (2.381 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.762 %) Extranet 2 1 (2.381 %) SSH 2 1 (2.381 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.381 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 42 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 17 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (2.381 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (2.381 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 8 (19.05 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.381 %) NUnit
General 1 8 (19.05 %) Retail 2 2 (4.762 %) Health 2 2 (4.762 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (2.381 %) Banking 3 1 (2.381 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 35 (83.33 %) Developer 2 20 (47.62 %) .NET Developer 3 14 (33.33 %) C# Developer 4 13 (30.95 %) Web Developer 5 10 (23.81 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 8 (19.05 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (14.29 %) .NET Web Developer 8 5 (11.90 %) VB.NET Developer 9 4 (9.524 %) C# Web Developer 10 3 (7.143 %) Senior Developer 11 2 (4.762 %) SQL Developer 11 2 (4.762 %) SQL Server Developer 12 1 (2.381 %) Senior C# Developer 12 1 (2.381 %) Senior Applications Developer 12 1 (2.381 %) Applications Developer 12 1 (2.381 %) BizTalk Developer 12 1 (2.381 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.524 %) W3C 2 1 (2.381 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.381 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.381 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.381 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (26.19 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (11.90 %) Web Development 3 4 (9.524 %) Content Management 4 3 (7.143 %) OO 4 3 (7.143 %) Migration 5 2 (4.762 %) Time Management 6 1 (2.381 %) OOP 6 1 (2.381 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (2.381 %) Scrum 6 1 (2.381 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (2.381 %) TDD 6 1 (2.381 %) DSDM 6 1 (2.381 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 34 (80.95 %) C# 2 9 (21.43 %) SQL 3 7 (16.67 %) JavaScript 4 5 (11.90 %) VB.NET 5 3 (7.143 %) DHTML 6 2 (4.762 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (2.381 %) VB 7 1 (2.381 %) VB6 7 1 (2.381 %) C++
Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft 1 2 (4.762 %) Tridion