The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 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 (MS SQL)
Rank 25 23 8
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -15
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 9 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 3.846% 4.819% 12.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.71% 25.00% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 20
Average daily rate £319 £263 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £217 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £384 £310 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.61 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.66% -10.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
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
Oxfordshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 13 (46.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (39.29%) SQL Server 2008
4 11 (39.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (25.00%) Cognos
6 7 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (25.00%) .NET
6 7 (25.00%) C#
7 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
7 6 (21.43%) T-SQL
8 5 (17.86%) Business Objects
8 5 (17.86%) Windows
8 5 (17.86%) Star Schema
8 5 (17.86%) Lagan
8 5 (17.86%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (17.86%) Cognos Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.86%) BusinessObjects XI
9 4 (14.29%) ETL
9 4 (14.29%) MVC
10 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
10 3 (10.71%) XML
11 2 (7.143%) XSLT
11 2 (7.143%) CSS
11 2 (7.143%) Web Services
11 2 (7.143%) VB
11 2 (7.143%) Citrix
11 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
11 2 (7.143%) BizTalk Server

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.71%) XML
4 2 (7.143%) XSLT
4 2 (7.143%) CSS
4 2 (7.143%) Web Services
4 2 (7.143%) WinForms
4 2 (7.143%) Ajax
4 2 (7.143%) jQuery
4 2 (7.143%) .NET Framework
4 2 (7.143%) LINQ
4 2 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.571%) AppFabric
5 1 (3.571%) WCF
5 1 (3.571%) WPF
5 1 (3.571%) WF
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.571%) Windows Azure
2 1 (3.571%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (39.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (39.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (17.86%) Star Schema
5 5 (17.86%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (17.86%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (7.143%) QlikView
6 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (3.571%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Administrator
2 11 (39.29%) SQL Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 7 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 7 (25.00%) DBA
4 6 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (17.86%) Teradata DBA
6 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.143%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (7.143%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Web Developer
8 1 (3.571%) WPF Developer
8 1 (3.571%) BizTalk Developer
8 1 (3.571%) BizTalk Consultant
8 1 (3.571%) Consultant
8 1 (3.571%) Analyst
8 1 (3.571%) Server Support
8 1 (3.571%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Hedge funds
1 1 (3.571%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.571%) AIX
2 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.571%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (14.29%) ETL
2 4 (14.29%) MVC
3 2 (7.143%) OO
3 2 (7.143%) ERP
3 2 (7.143%) TDD
3 2 (7.143%) Regression Testing
3 2 (7.143%) Migration
4 1 (3.571%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (3.571%) MVVM
4 1 (3.571%) Unit Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Web Development
4 1 (3.571%) Scrum
4 1 (3.571%) SOA
4 1 (3.571%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 2 (7.143%) VB
5 1 (3.571%) VBA
5 1 (3.571%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) MCSE
1 1 (3.571%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.571%) XenApp
1 1 (3.571%) vSphere
1 1 (3.571%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (3.571%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) Foglight
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Cognos
2 5 (17.86%) Business Objects
2 5 (17.86%) Lagan
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.143%) Citrix
4 2 (7.143%) VMware