Northamptonshire SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) 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 over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall 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 Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	11
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	37	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	59.68 %	59.09 %
Daily rates quoted	18	4
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£313
Average daily rate	£336	£317
% change on same period last year	+6.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.71	£19.75
Average hourly rate	£32.86	£20.75
% change on same period last year	+58.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£21.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.40	£31.55
% change on same period last year	-0.50 %
Database & Business Intelligence Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	62	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.043 %
Daily rates quoted	28	7
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£300
Average daily rate	£376	£307
% change on same period last year	+22.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.71	£20.21
Average hourly rate	£32.86	£21.61
% change on same period last year	+52.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
SQL Server 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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 Northamptonshire region.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SQL Server
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 within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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	+4	25	£325	+49.42 %
Wellingborough	-	3	-	-
Kettering	+1	3	£275	-
Corby	-5	1	-	-

SQL Server East Midlands

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 46 (63.89 %) SQL 2 28 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 26 (36.11 %) .NET 4 23 (31.94 %) Oracle 5 20 (27.78 %) VB 6 19 (26.39 %) Finance 7 18 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 8 16 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 9 15 (20.83 %) ASP 9 15 (20.83 %) VB.NET 10 14 (19.44 %) C# 11 12 (16.67 %) Microsoft 12 11 (15.28 %) Crystal Reports 12 11 (15.28 %) VB6 13 9 (12.50 %) HTML

13 9 (12.50 %) Java 14 8 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 14 8 (11.11 %) XML 14 8 (11.11 %) Teradata 14 8 (11.11 %) Stakeholder Management 15 7 (9.722 %) Servlets 15 7 (9.722 %) UNIX 15 7 (9.722 %) DTS 16 6 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 6 (8.333 %) WebSphere 16 6 (8.333 %) Web Development 16 6 (8.333 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 16 6 (8.333 %) Eclipse 16 6 (8.333 %) JDeveloper 16 6 (8.333 %) Ingres

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 26 (36.11 %) .NET 2 18 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (20.83 %) ASP 4 9 (12.50 %) HTML 5 8 (11.11 %) XML 6 7 (9.722 %) Servlets 7 6 (8.333 %) WebSphere 7 6 (8.333 %) MVC 7 6 (8.333 %) NetBeans 7 6 (8.333 %) J2EE 7 6 (8.333 %) EJB 7 6 (8.333 %) JDBC 8 5 (6.944 %) WinForms 8 5 (6.944 %) AJAX 9 4 (5.556 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 4 (5.556 %) CSS 10 3 (4.167 %) .NET Framework 11 2 (2.778 %) JSP 12 1 (1.389 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.333 %) JBoss 2 5 (6.944 %) SharePoint 3 4 (5.556 %) Papyrus 4 1 (1.389 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.389 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (5.556 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (4.167 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.389 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2005 2 16 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 3 11 (15.28 %) Crystal Reports 4 8 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 5 7 (9.722 %) DTS 6 6 (8.333 %) Ingres 6 6 (8.333 %) DB2 6 6 (8.333 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 6 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 3 (4.167 %) ETL 8 2 (2.778 %) OLAP 9 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 9i 9 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 10g 9 1 (1.389 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 6 (8.333 %) JBuilder 1 6 (8.333 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 1 6 (8.333 %) Eclipse 1 6 (8.333 %) JDeveloper 2 3 (4.167 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.389 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.389 %) ClearQuest	General 1 19 (26.39 %) Finance 2 4 (5.556 %) Local Government 2 4 (5.556 %) Government 2 4 (5.556 %) Banking 3 3 (4.167 %) Retail 3 3 (4.167 %) Marketing 4 2 (2.778 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (1.389 %) Education 5 1 (1.389 %) Billing 5 1 (1.389 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.389 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 36 (50.00 %) Developer 2 23 (31.94 %) Analyst 3 18 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 4 11 (15.28 %) Applications Support 4 11 (15.28 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 10 (13.89 %) VB.NET Developer 6 9 (12.50 %) Applications Support Analyst 6 9 (12.50 %) C# Developer 6 9 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 6 9 (12.50 %) Architect 7 7 (9.722 %) Business Analyst 7 7 (9.722 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 6 (8.333 %) J2EE Technical Architect 8 6 (8.333 %) Java Architect 8 6 (8.333 %) Java Technical Architect 8 6 (8.333 %) Technical Architect 8 6 (8.333 %) Web Developer 8 6 (8.333 %) SQL Developer 8 6 (8.333 %) J2EE Architect 9 5 (6.944 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.167 %) N-Tier 2 2 (2.778 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.389 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.389 %) Replication 3 1 (1.389 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 7 (9.722 %) UNIX 2 6 (8.333 %) Windows 2 6 (8.333 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.389 %) Linux 3 1 (1.389 %) VME 3 1 (1.389 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (11.11 %) Stakeholder Management 2 6 (8.333 %) Web Development 2 6 (8.333 %) UML 3 3 (4.167 %) OOA/OOD 3 3 (4.167 %) OO 3 3 (4.167 %) SOA 3 3 (4.167 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (4.167 %) TDD 4 2 (2.778 %) Business Analysis 4 2 (2.778 %) Change Management 4 2 (2.778 %) Validation 4 2 (2.778 %) Migration 4 2 (2.778 %) CRM 4 2 (2.778 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (2.778 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (2.778 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (2.778 %) System Testing 4 2 (2.778 %) Data Validation 5 1 (1.389 %) Data Migration 5 1 (1.389 %) Manual Testing
Programming Languages 1 46 (63.89 %) SQL 2 20 (27.78 %) VB 3 15 (20.83 %) VB.NET 4 14 (19.44 %) C# 5 11 (15.28 %) VB6 6 9 (12.50 %) Java 7 6 (8.333 %) JavaScript 7 6 (8.333 %) VBA 8 5 (6.944 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (4.167 %) Delphi 10 2 (2.778 %) PL/SQL 11 1 (1.389 %) DHTML 11 1 (1.389 %) FoxPro (VFP) 11 1 (1.389 %) Shell Script 11 1 (1.389 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (2.778 %) Degree 2 1 (1.389 %) MCP 2 1 (1.389 %) MCAD 2 1 (1.389 %) MCSD 2 1 (1.389 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.389 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.389 %) QA	Vendors 1 23 (31.94 %) Oracle 2 12 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 8 (11.11 %) Teradata 4 6 (8.333 %) IBM 4 6 (8.333 %) Ab Initio 5 3 (4.167 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.389 %) Agresso 6 1 (1.389 %) ICL