Norwich SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Norwich 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Haslemere Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	9
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	21	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	35.00 %	52.54 %
Daily rates quoted	9	1
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£150
Average daily rate	£280	£188
% change on same period last year	+49.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£330
% change on same period last year	-1.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£28.75
Average hourly rate	£23.00	£30.88
% change on same period last year	-25.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.99	£31.10
% change on same period last year	-3.59 %
Database & Business Intelligence Norwich
Matching contract IT job ads	60	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.060 %
Daily rates quoted	24	8
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£276
Average daily rate	£334	£302
% change on same period last year	+10.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.90	£27.86
Average hourly rate	£19.67	£30.29
% change on same period last year	-35.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.44	£32.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£31.89
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
SQL Server Norfolk

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 Norwich 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 Norwich region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 24 (58.54 %) SQL 2 14 (34.15 %) Transact-SQL 3 11 (26.83 %) .NET 4 10 (24.39 %) ASP.NET 4 10 (24.39 %) SQL Server 2005 5 9 (21.95 %) Finance 5 9 (21.95 %) XML 5 9 (21.95 %) C# 5 9 (21.95 %) HTML 5 9 (21.95 %) Java 6 8 (19.51 %) Lotus Domino 6 8 (19.51 %) Active Directory 7 7 (17.07 %) Lotus 7 7 (17.07 %) MS Exchange 7 7 (17.07 %) Microsoft

7 7 (17.07 %) VMware 8 6 (14.63 %) XSL 8 6 (14.63 %) CSS 9 5 (12.20 %) VB.NET 9 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2000 9 5 (12.20 %) Citrix 9 5 (12.20 %) MS Excel 9 5 (12.20 %) E-Commerce 10 4 (9.756 %) Migration 10 4 (9.756 %) Back Office 10 4 (9.756 %) Workflow 10 4 (9.756 %) Content Management 10 4 (9.756 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 4 (9.756 %) WebSphere 10 4 (9.756 %) WPF

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 11 (26.83 %) .NET 2 10 (24.39 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (21.95 %) HTML 3 9 (21.95 %) XML 4 6 (14.63 %) XSL 4 6 (14.63 %) CSS 5 4 (9.756 %) J2EE 5 4 (9.756 %) WebSphere 5 4 (9.756 %) WPF 6 3 (7.317 %) AJAX 7 2 (4.878 %) EJB 7 2 (4.878 %) Hibernate 7 2 (4.878 %) WinForms 7 2 (4.878 %) JSF 8 1 (2.439 %) XHTML 8 1 (2.439 %) JSP 8 1 (2.439 %) SOAP 8 1 (2.439 %) Struts 8 1 (2.439 %) WebServices 8 1 (2.439 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 8 (19.51 %) Lotus Domino 2 7 (17.07 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (9.756 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (7.317 %) SharePoint 4 3 (7.317 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 3 (7.317 %) CMS 4 3 (7.317 %) Lotus Notes 5 2 (4.878 %) Tomcat 6 1 (2.439 %) IIS
Applications 1 5 (12.20 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.756 %) LAN 1 4 (9.756 %) WAN 1 4 (9.756 %) DNS 2 3 (7.317 %) SAN 3 1 (2.439 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (24.39 %) SQL Server 2005 2 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (7.317 %) DTS 3 3 (7.317 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 2 (4.878 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 2 (4.878 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4 2 (4.878 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (4.878 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (4.878 %) Eclipse	General 1 9 (21.95 %) Finance 2 4 (9.756 %) Back Office 3 1 (2.439 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 24 (58.54 %) Developer 2 7 (17.07 %) C# Developer 3 6 (14.63 %) DBA 3 6 (14.63 %) SQL DBA 4 5 (12.20 %) Java Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) J2EE Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) SQL Server Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) SQL Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) WebSphere Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 3 (7.317 %) Systems Engineer 6 3 (7.317 %) SQL Server DBA 6 3 (7.317 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.878 %) Systems Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Support Technician 7 2 (4.878 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (4.878 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.756 %) Data Integration 2 1 (2.439 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 2 (4.878 %) Windows 2 1 (2.439 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (12.20 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (9.756 %) SOA 2 4 (9.756 %) Workflow 2 4 (9.756 %) Migration 2 4 (9.756 %) Content Management 2 4 (9.756 %) DSDM 3 2 (4.878 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 1 (2.439 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.439 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (2.439 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (2.439 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.439 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 24 (58.54 %) SQL 2 14 (34.15 %) Transact-SQL 3 9 (21.95 %) C# 3 9 (21.95 %) Java 4 5 (12.20 %) VB.NET 5 4 (9.756 %) VB 6 3 (7.317 %) VC++ 6 3 (7.317 %) C++ 7 1 (2.439 %) DHTML 7 1 (2.439 %) VBScript 7 1 (2.439 %) JavaScript 7 1 (2.439 %) PHP 7 1 (2.439 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (9.756 %) MCSE 1 4 (9.756 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 8 (19.51 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.317 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 7 (17.07 %) Microsoft 1 7 (17.07 %) Lotus 1 7 (17.07 %) VMware 2 5 (12.20 %) Citrix 3 4 (9.756 %) IBM 4 3 (7.317 %) Sybase 5 2 (4.878 %) Business Objects 6 1 (2.439 %) Oracle