Northern Ireland SQL Server 2005 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 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 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	6	21
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	34	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	40.00 %	12.20 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£413	£225
Average daily rate	£419	£250
% change on same period last year	+67.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£341
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£29.50	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-13.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.27	£35.80
% change on same period last year	-7.08 %
Database & Business Intelligence Northern Ireland
Matching contract IT job ads	85	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	16	10
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£379
Average daily rate	£391	£406
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£29.50	£32.00
% change on same period last year	-7.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£31.89
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
SQL Server 2005 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 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim	+13	30	£419	+67.50 %
County Londonderry	-	2	-	-

SQL Server 2005 UK

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 29 (69.05 %) SQL Server 2000 3 26 (61.90 %) Windows 4 23 (54.76 %) SQL 5 22 (52.38 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 22 (52.38 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 22 (52.38 %) Migration 6 21 (50.00 %) RDBMS 7 20 (47.62 %) Business Intelligence 8 18 (42.86 %) MS Excel 9 11 (26.19 %) Clustering 10 9 (21.43 %) Banking 11 8 (19.05 %) .NET 12 7 (16.67 %) ASP.NET 12 7 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003

13 6 (14.29 %) Microsoft 13 6 (14.29 %) VB.NET 13 6 (14.29 %) Finance 14 5 (11.90 %) WebServices 15 4 (9.524 %) E-Commerce 16 3 (7.143 %) SharePoint 16 3 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 16 3 (7.143 %) IIS 16 3 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 17 2 (4.762 %) VBScript 17 2 (4.762 %) C# 17 2 (4.762 %) HTML 17 2 (4.762 %) JavaScript 17 2 (4.762 %) ASP 17 2 (4.762 %) XML

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 8 (19.05 %) .NET 2 7 (16.67 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (11.90 %) WebServices 4 2 (4.762 %) XML 4 2 (4.762 %) XSLT 4 2 (4.762 %) HTML 4 2 (4.762 %) ASP 4 2 (4.762 %) CSS 5 1 (2.381 %) ADO.NET 5 1 (2.381 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.143 %) IIS 1 3 (7.143 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 18 (42.86 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.381 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (2.381 %) Internet 1 1 (2.381 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 42 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 29 (69.05 %) SQL Server 2000 3 22 (52.38 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 22 (52.38 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 21 (50.00 %) RDBMS 5 1 (2.381 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (2.381 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (2.381 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 9 (21.43 %) Banking 2 6 (14.29 %) Finance 3 1 (2.381 %) Government 3 1 (2.381 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 31 (73.81 %) DBA 2 27 (64.29 %) SQL DBA 3 23 (54.76 %) SQL Server DBA 4 8 (19.05 %) Developer 5 5 (11.90 %) Senior Developer 5 5 (11.90 %) .NET Developer 6 4 (9.524 %) Server Support 7 3 (7.143 %) Software Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) VB.NET Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Senior Software Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Senior .NET Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Senior VB.NET Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Junior VB.NET Developer 8 1 (2.381 %) Infrastructure Consultant 8 1 (2.381 %) Senior SQL DBA 8 1 (2.381 %) Senior DBA 8 1 (2.381 %) C# Developer 8 1 (2.381 %) Business Analyst 8 1 (2.381 %) Analyst 8 1 (2.381 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 11 (26.19 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.381 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 26 (61.90 %) Windows 2 7 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.381 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (52.38 %) Migration 2 20 (47.62 %) Business Intelligence 3 4 (9.524 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (4.762 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.381 %) Information Management 5 1 (2.381 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 23 (54.76 %) SQL 2 6 (14.29 %) VB.NET 3 3 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (4.762 %) VBScript 4 2 (4.762 %) C# 4 2 (4.762 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) MCSE 1 1 (2.381 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (2.381 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 6 (14.29 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.381 %) EMC 2 1 (2.381 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.381 %) Business Objects 2 1 (2.381 %) Cisco