The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Nottinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 32 24 27
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 9 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 2.769% 5.300% 2.970%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.00% 21.43% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 4
Average daily rate £270 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.81% -0.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £213 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £294 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
75 70 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 23.08% 24.73% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 39 33
Average daily rate £325 £289 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.55% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £383 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 4
Average hourly rate £28.25 £17.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.42% -41.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.65 £8.50 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.15 £17.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2008
East Midlands

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Nottinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Nottinghamshire SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
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 2008 within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottingham -11 3 £260 -5.45%
SQL Server 2008
East Midlands

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 40 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (62.50%) Windows
3 23 (57.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 18 (45.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 18 (45.00%) .NET
5 17 (42.50%) SQL
5 17 (42.50%) ASP.NET
5 17 (42.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (37.50%) C#
7 14 (35.00%) SAN
7 14 (35.00%) VMware
8 13 (32.50%) jQuery
8 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
8 13 (32.50%) Citrix
8 13 (32.50%) SQL Server 2000
8 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
9 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
10 10 (25.00%) HTML
10 10 (25.00%) CSS
10 10 (25.00%) Windows 2000
10 10 (25.00%) Ajax
11 9 (22.50%) Linux
11 9 (22.50%) HP
11 9 (22.50%) IBM
12 8 (20.00%) Web Services
12 8 (20.00%) XenApp
13 7 (17.50%) WCF
14 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
14 6 (15.00%) IIS
14 6 (15.00%) Citrix Presentation Server

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (45.00%) .NET
2 17 (42.50%) ASP.NET
3 13 (32.50%) jQuery
4 10 (25.00%) HTML
4 10 (25.00%) CSS
4 10 (25.00%) Ajax
5 8 (20.00%) Web Services
6 7 (17.50%) WCF
7 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 4 (10.00%) HTML5
8 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (7.500%) WinForms
9 3 (7.500%) LINQ
9 3 (7.500%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (5.000%) ASP
10 2 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (2.500%) WPF
11 1 (2.500%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) IIS
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (7.500%) CMS
3 3 (7.500%) Umbraco
3 3 (7.500%) Kentico
3 3 (7.500%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.500%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) SAN
2 4 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (2.500%) NAS
3 1 (2.500%) LAN
3 1 (2.500%) WAN
3 1 (2.500%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.500%) SNMP
3 1 (2.500%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.500%) DNS
3 1 (2.500%) Wireless
3 1 (2.500%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 23 (57.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 13 (32.50%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (10.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.500%) OLTP
8 1 (2.500%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.500%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (5.000%) Publishing
1 2 (5.000%) Games
1 2 (5.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Web Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Administrator
4 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (12.50%) .NET Web Developer
5 5 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (10.00%) SharePoint Administrator
7 3 (7.500%) Deployment Engineer
7 3 (7.500%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.500%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (5.000%) DBA
8 2 (5.000%) Designer
8 2 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.000%) ASP Developer
9 1 (2.500%) SQL Database Developer
9 1 (2.500%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 1 (2.500%) .NET Programmer
9 1 (2.500%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.500%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.500%) Clustering
3 1 (2.500%) Replication
3 1 (2.500%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 25 (62.50%) Windows
2 18 (45.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (42.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (25.00%) Windows 2000
5 9 (22.50%) Linux
6 2 (5.000%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.500%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (2.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.500%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (12.50%) Content Management
3 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (10.00%) MVC
3 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (7.500%) Problem Management
4 3 (7.500%) OO
4 3 (7.500%) E-business
4 3 (7.500%) E-Commerce
4 3 (7.500%) OOD
4 3 (7.500%) Capacity Management
5 2 (5.000%) Web Application Development
5 2 (5.000%) CRM
5 2 (5.000%) ETL
5 2 (5.000%) Web Development
5 2 (5.000%) Information Management
6 1 (2.500%) Scrum
6 1 (2.500%) Multithreading
6 1 (2.500%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.500%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) SQL
2 15 (37.50%) C#
3 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.000%) Java
5 2 (5.000%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 5 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (10.00%) CCA
2 4 (10.00%) MCSE
2 4 (10.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) XenApp
3 6 (15.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (2.500%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.500%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) VMware
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (32.50%) Citrix
3 9 (22.50%) HP
3 9 (22.50%) IBM
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.500%) Altiris
5 1 (2.500%) Red Hat
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