The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 24 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 Oxford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 32 38 24
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.855% 0.301% 1.796%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.714% 1.563% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £400 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
35 64 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 14.96% 19.28% 23.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 40 32
Average daily rate £325 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £264 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £540 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -5.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2008
Oxfordshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) T-SQL
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (36.36%) ETL
6 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (18.18%) Cognos
7 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (18.18%) ERP
7 2 (18.18%) C#
7 2 (18.18%) .NET
7 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
7 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) QlikView
7 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
8 1 (9.091%) WCF
8 1 (9.091%) WPF
8 1 (9.091%) WF
8 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
8 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (9.091%) MVVM
8 1 (9.091%) Hedge funds
8 1 (9.091%) AppFabric
8 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (9.091%) Scrum

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.091%) WCF
2 1 (9.091%) WPF
2 1 (9.091%) WF
2 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (9.091%) AppFabric
2 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (9.091%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
1 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (18.18%) QlikView
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (9.091%) MS Access
6 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) DBA
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Developer
2 6 (54.55%) SQL DBA
3 4 (36.36%) Administrator
3 4 (36.36%) Teradata DBA
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Consultant
5 1 (9.091%) WPF Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Access Developer
5 1 (9.091%) VBA Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Hedge funds
1 1 (9.091%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) MVVM
4 1 (9.091%) Scrum
4 1 (9.091%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) T-SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C#
4 1 (9.091%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Cognos