Northamptonshire SQL Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the Northamptonshire 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 2000 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester 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 Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Spalding Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thame Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	17
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	5	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	8.197 %	31.37 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£245
Average daily rate	£380	£248
% change on same period last year	+53.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£328
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.75
Average hourly rate	-	£30.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.73	£30.68
% change on same period last year	+13.19 %
Database & Business Intelligence Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	61	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.052 %
Daily rates quoted	21	6
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£308
Average daily rate	£346	£316
% change on same period last year	+9.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.25	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£28.88	£26.65
% change on same period last year	+8.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.50	£28.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 2000 East Midlands

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Northamptonshire region.

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Northamptonshire region.

SQL Server 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton	-9	3	£360	-
Corby	-	1	-	-

SQL Server 2000 East Midlands

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 17 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 14 (82.35 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (64.71 %) .NET 4 7 (41.18 %) VB 4 7 (41.18 %) C# 4 7 (41.18 %) SQL 5 5 (29.41 %) VB6 5 5 (29.41 %) Transact-SQL 5 5 (29.41 %) Crystal Reports 6 4 (23.53 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (23.53 %) VB.NET 6 4 (23.53 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 2 (11.76 %) AJAX 7 2 (11.76 %) Web Development 7 2 (11.76 %) OLAP

7 2 (11.76 %) DTS 7 2 (11.76 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (11.76 %) BizTalk Server 7 2 (11.76 %) VBScript 7 2 (11.76 %) JavaScript 8 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 8 1 (5.882 %) MCP 8 1 (5.882 %) MCAD 8 1 (5.882 %) MCSD 8 1 (5.882 %) UNIX 8 1 (5.882 %) Windows 8 1 (5.882 %) Solaris 8 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 7 8 1 (5.882 %) Shell Script

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (64.71 %) .NET 2 4 (23.53 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (23.53 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 2 (11.76 %) AJAX 4 1 (5.882 %) WPF 4 1 (5.882 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 14 (82.35 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (29.41 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (11.76 %) OLAP 4 2 (11.76 %) DTS 5 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) ClearQuest
General 1 1 (5.882 %) Financial Institution 1 1 (5.882 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 11 (64.71 %) Developer 2 6 (35.29 %) C# Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) DBA 3 4 (23.53 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 3 (17.65 %) SQL DBA 5 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) .NET Web Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) SQL Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server DBA 5 2 (11.76 %) Web Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) C# Web Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) WinForms Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (5.882 %) Analyst 6 1 (5.882 %) Test Analyst 6 1 (5.882 %) VB Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) C# Software Engineer 6 1 (5.882 %) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) Client/Server 1 1 (5.882 %) Replication 1 1 (5.882 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 1 (5.882 %) UNIX 1 1 (5.882 %) Windows 1 1 (5.882 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) E-Commerce 1 2 (11.76 %) Web Development 2 1 (5.882 %) Test Management 2 1 (5.882 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 7 (41.18 %) C# 1 7 (41.18 %) SQL 1 7 (41.18 %) VB 2 5 (29.41 %) VB6 2 5 (29.41 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (23.53 %) VB.NET 4 2 (11.76 %) VBScript 4 2 (11.76 %) JavaScript 5 1 (5.882 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 1 (5.882 %) MCP 1 1 (5.882 %) MCAD 1 1 (5.882 %) MCSD 1 1 (5.882 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.882 %) QA
Vendors 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 1 1 (5.882 %) Microsoft