North Yorkshire SQL Server Contracts

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

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	16
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	33	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	67.35 %	52.78 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£250
Average daily rate	£325	£269
% change on same period last year	+20.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+8.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.49	£30.39
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	49	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	6	11
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£278
Average daily rate	£303	£309
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.04	£19.21
Average hourly rate	£29.18	£22.79
% change on same period last year	+28.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.32	£26.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 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
Demand Trend

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

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 North Yorkshire region.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the North Yorkshire 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
York	+4	7	-	-
Middlesbrough	-3	5	-	-
Harrogate	-12	1	-	-

SQL Server Yorkshire

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 54 (90.00 %) .NET 2 41 (68.33 %) ASP.NET 3 40 (66.67 %) C# 4 36 (60.00 %) SQL Server 2005 5 22 (36.67 %) SQL Server 2000 6 18 (30.00 %) SQL 7 16 (26.67 %) XML 8 13 (21.67 %) CSS 9 10 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 9 10 (16.67 %) AJAX 9 10 (16.67 %) SQL Server 7 10 9 (15.00 %) Microsoft 10 9 (15.00 %) VB.NET 10 9 (15.00 %) HTML 10 9 (15.00 %) JavaScript

11 8 (13.33 %) WebServices 12 6 (10.00 %) XSLT 12 6 (10.00 %) XHTML 12 6 (10.00 %) E-Commerce 13 5 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 5 (8.333 %) Web Development 13 5 (8.333 %) Windows 13 5 (8.333 %) SharePoint 13 5 (8.333 %) IIS 13 5 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 13 5 (8.333 %) Oracle 13 5 (8.333 %) CMS 14 4 (6.667 %) BizTalk Server 14 4 (6.667 %) ASP 14 4 (6.667 %) DHTML

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 54 (90.00 %) .NET 2 41 (68.33 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (26.67 %) XML 4 13 (21.67 %) CSS 5 10 (16.67 %) AJAX 6 9 (15.00 %) HTML 7 8 (13.33 %) WebServices 8 6 (10.00 %) XSLT 8 6 (10.00 %) XHTML 9 5 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 4 (6.667 %) ASP 11 3 (5.000 %) WinForms 11 3 (5.000 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (5.000 %) Adobe Flex 12 2 (3.333 %) WCF 12 2 (3.333 %) Google Maps API 12 2 (3.333 %) SOAP 13 1 (1.667 %) XSD 13 1 (1.667 %) EDI 13 1 (1.667 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.333 %) IIS 1 5 (8.333 %) SharePoint 1 5 (8.333 %) CMS 2 4 (6.667 %) BizTalk Server 3 3 (5.000 %) ColdFusion MX 3 3 (5.000 %) ColdFusion 3 3 (5.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (3.333 %) Commerce Server 5 1 (1.667 %) ArcGIS 5 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (1.667 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (1.667 %) Commerce Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (5.000 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.333 %) InfoPath 3 1 (1.667 %) ArcView 3 1 (1.667 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.667 %) Great Plains
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.667 %) DHCP 1 1 (1.667 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (1.667 %) DNS 1 1 (1.667 %) SAN 1 1 (1.667 %) Extranet 1 1 (1.667 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (60.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 22 (36.67 %) SQL Server 2000 3 10 (16.67 %) SQL Server 7 4 3 (5.000 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (3.333 %) GIS 5 2 (3.333 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (3.333 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (3.333 %) DTS 6 1 (1.667 %) TOAD 6 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (1.667 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (1.667 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.667 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 10 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (5.000 %) Flash 3 1 (1.667 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 3 (5.000 %) Health 2 2 (3.333 %) Retail 2 2 (3.333 %) Finance 2 2 (3.333 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (1.667 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.667 %) Back Office 3 1 (1.667 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.667 %) Legal 3 1 (1.667 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.667 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 48 (80.00 %) Developer 2 27 (45.00 %) .NET Developer 3 20 (33.33 %) C# Developer 4 16 (26.67 %) Web Developer 5 14 (23.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 12 (20.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (10.00 %) VB.NET Developer 7 6 (10.00 %) .NET Web Developer 8 5 (8.333 %) SQL Developer 8 5 (8.333 %) SQL Server Developer 9 4 (6.667 %) C# Web Developer 10 3 (5.000 %) SQL DBA 10 3 (5.000 %) DBA 11 2 (3.333 %) Applications Developer 11 2 (3.333 %) Software Developer 11 2 (3.333 %) SQL Server DBA 11 2 (3.333 %) Senior Developer 12 1 (1.667 %) Support Technician 12 1 (1.667 %) Support Engineer 12 1 (1.667 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.000 %) W3C 1 3 (5.000 %) PDA 2 2 (3.333 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.667 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.667 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.667 %) Streaming Media
Operating Systems 1 5 (8.333 %) Windows 2 2 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.667 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.667 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.667 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.667 %) Windows NT 3 1 (1.667 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (10.00 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (8.333 %) Web Development 3 4 (6.667 %) SOA 4 3 (5.000 %) OO 4 3 (5.000 %) Time Management 4 3 (5.000 %) Web Design 4 3 (5.000 %) Content Management 5 2 (3.333 %) Requirements Analysis 5 2 (3.333 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.667 %) UML 6 1 (1.667 %) OOP 6 1 (1.667 %) DSDM 6 1 (1.667 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (1.667 %) Workflow 6 1 (1.667 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.667 %) TDD 6 1 (1.667 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.667 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (1.667 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 40 (66.67 %) C# 2 18 (30.00 %) SQL 3 9 (15.00 %) VB.NET 3 9 (15.00 %) JavaScript 4 5 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 5 4 (6.667 %) DHTML 6 2 (3.333 %) Java 7 1 (1.667 %) COBOL 7 1 (1.667 %) Perl 7 1 (1.667 %) PHP 7 1 (1.667 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.667 %) VB 7 1 (1.667 %) VBA 7 1 (1.667 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 1 (1.667 %) MCP 1 1 (1.667 %) MCSE 1 1 (1.667 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (1.667 %) Degree
System Software 1 3 (5.000 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 9 (15.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (8.333 %) Oracle 3 2 (3.333 %) Google 4 1 (1.667 %) Micro Focus 4 1 (1.667 %) ESRI 4 1 (1.667 %) Sybase 4 1 (1.667 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.667 %) Cisco