Northern Ireland SQL Server 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the Northern Ireland 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Isle of Man Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	22
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	16	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	19.05 %	23.68 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£225
Average daily rate	£413	£250
% change on same period last year	+65.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£324
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.29	£30.59
% change on same period last year	+15.34 %
Database & Business Intelligence Northern Ireland
Matching contract IT job ads	84	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.037 %
Daily rates quoted	21	5
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£316
Average daily rate	£397	£339
% change on same period last year	+17.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	£22.86
Average hourly rate	£34.00	£29.00
% change on same period last year	+17.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£35.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
SQL Server 2000 UK

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 Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

SQL Server 2000
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 2000 within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim	+9	16	£413	+65.00 %

SQL Server 2000 UK

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 24 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 24 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 17 (70.83 %) Windows 3 16 (66.67 %) SQL 4 14 (58.33 %) Business Intelligence 5 13 (54.17 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 13 (54.17 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 13 (54.17 %) MS Excel 5 13 (54.17 %) Migration 6 12 (50.00 %) RDBMS 7 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft 8 6 (25.00 %) Clustering 9 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 10 4 (16.67 %) .NET 10 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000

10 4 (16.67 %) IIS 11 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 11 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET 11 3 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 11 3 (12.50 %) HTML 12 2 (8.333 %) JavaScript 12 2 (8.333 %) VBScript 12 2 (8.333 %) CSS 12 2 (8.333 %) XML 12 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 12 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 12 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 12 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 12 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 12 2 (8.333 %) ASP

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 4 (16.67 %) .NET 2 3 (12.50 %) HTML 2 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (8.333 %) CSS 3 2 (8.333 %) XML 3 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 3 2 (8.333 %) WMI 3 2 (8.333 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 4 (16.67 %) IIS 2 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 13 (54.17 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 24 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 13 (54.17 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 13 (54.17 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 12 (50.00 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (8.333 %) Finance 2 1 (4.167 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 18 (75.00 %) DBA 2 17 (70.83 %) SQL DBA 3 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server DBA 4 4 (16.67 %) Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) Consultant 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Consultant 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior SQL DBA 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior DBA 6 1 (4.167 %) C# Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Server Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 6 (25.00 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (58.33 %) Business Intelligence 2 13 (54.17 %) Migration 3 2 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 16 (66.67 %) SQL 2 3 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 2 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET 3 2 (8.333 %) JavaScript 3 2 (8.333 %) VBScript 4 1 (4.167 %) C# 4 1 (4.167 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.167 %) EMC