Oxfordshire SQL Server 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the Oxfordshire 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 2000 over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Thame Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	17
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	14	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	12.39 %	37.01 %
Daily rates quoted	10	11
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£243
Average daily rate	£331	£283
% change on same period last year	+16.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£327
% change on same period last year	-3.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.80	£30.07
% change on same period last year	+5.76 %
Database & Business Intelligence Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	113	127
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.128 %
Daily rates quoted	32	28
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£255
Average daily rate	£346	£286
% change on same period last year	+20.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.42	£36.00
Average hourly rate	£26.98	£36.25
% change on same period last year	-25.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.55	£36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-5.33 %
SQL Server 2000 South East

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Oxfordshire region.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the Oxfordshire region.

SQL Server 2000
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 2000 within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Oxford	-15	5	£330	+22.50 %
Thame	+1	1	£340	+13.33 %

SQL Server 2000 South East

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 32 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 31 (96.88 %) SQL Server 2005 3 20 (62.50 %) .NET 3 20 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 4 15 (46.88 %) SQL 4 15 (46.88 %) Microsoft 5 14 (43.75 %) C# 6 11 (34.38 %) E-Commerce 7 8 (25.00 %) JavaScript 7 8 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL 7 8 (25.00 %) Content Management 8 7 (21.88 %) VB.NET 8 7 (21.88 %) Windows 9 6 (18.75 %) HTML 9 6 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003

9 6 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 10 4 (12.50 %) Web Development 10 4 (12.50 %) OO 10 4 (12.50 %) CSS 10 4 (12.50 %) MCSD 11 3 (9.375 %) UML 11 3 (9.375 %) XML 11 3 (9.375 %) MS Excel 11 3 (9.375 %) SharePoint 11 3 (9.375 %) Citrix 11 3 (9.375 %) Replication 11 3 (9.375 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 2 (6.250 %) BizTalk Server 12 2 (6.250 %) Citrix Presentation Server 12 2 (6.250 %) Fusebox

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (62.50 %) .NET 1 20 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 6 (18.75 %) HTML 3 4 (12.50 %) CSS 4 3 (9.375 %) XML 4 3 (9.375 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 2 (6.250 %) Fusebox 5 2 (6.250 %) WebServices 6 1 (3.125 %) ASP 6 1 (3.125 %) XSLT 6 1 (3.125 %) Middleware 6 1 (3.125 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (3.125 %) WCF 6 1 (3.125 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 3 (9.375 %) SharePoint 2 2 (6.250 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (6.250 %) CMS 2 2 (6.250 %) ColdFusion 2 2 (6.250 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 2 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (6.250 %) ColdFusion MX 3 1 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.250 %) Cisco IPT 1 2 (6.250 %) Intrusion Detection 1 2 (6.250 %) Firewall 1 2 (6.250 %) PPTP 1 2 (6.250 %) VoIP 1 2 (6.250 %) DHCP 1 2 (6.250 %) VPN 1 2 (6.250 %) DNS 1 2 (6.250 %) SSL 2 1 (3.125 %) Intranet 2 1 (3.125 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 31 (96.88 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (6.250 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (6.250 %) DTS 4 1 (3.125 %) MySQL 4 1 (3.125 %) EDRMS 4 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (3.125 %) PostgreSQL 4 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) Visual Studio	Job Titles 1 23 (71.88 %) Developer 2 13 (40.63 %) .NET Developer 3 8 (25.00 %) C# Developer 4 6 (18.75 %) Analyst 4 6 (18.75 %) DBA 4 6 (18.75 %) SQL DBA 5 5 (15.63 %) Developer Analyst 5 5 (15.63 %) Analyst Programmer 5 5 (15.63 %) Programmer 5 5 (15.63 %) C# Analyst Programmer 6 4 (12.50 %) Administrator 6 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server DBA 7 3 (9.375 %) Server Administrator 7 3 (9.375 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (9.375 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (6.250 %) SharePoint Developer 8 2 (6.250 %) Senior SQL DBA 8 2 (6.250 %) .NET Web Developer 8 2 (6.250 %) Senior DBA 8 2 (6.250 %) ColdFusion Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.375 %) Replication 2 2 (6.250 %) Blackberry 3 1 (3.125 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 7 (21.88 %) Windows 2 6 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.125 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (34.38 %) E-Commerce 2 8 (25.00 %) Content Management 3 4 (12.50 %) Web Development 3 4 (12.50 %) OO 4 3 (9.375 %) UML 5 2 (6.250 %) E-Procurement 6 1 (3.125 %) ITIL 6 1 (3.125 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (3.125 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Six Sigma 6 1 (3.125 %) CRM 6 1 (3.125 %) RUP 6 1 (3.125 %) Migration 6 1 (3.125 %) Quality Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Change Management 6 1 (3.125 %) E-business 6 1 (3.125 %) WFM 6 1 (3.125 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 15 (46.88 %) SQL 2 14 (43.75 %) C# 3 8 (25.00 %) JavaScript 3 8 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL 4 7 (21.88 %) VB.NET 5 2 (6.250 %) Java 5 2 (6.250 %) VBScript 6 1 (3.125 %) VB 6 1 (3.125 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 6 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (12.50 %) MCSD 3 2 (6.250 %) MCAD 4 1 (3.125 %) MCP 4 1 (3.125 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.125 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (6.250 %) Citrix Presentation Server 1 2 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 15 (46.88 %) Microsoft 2 3 (9.375 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.250 %) Intel 3 2 (6.250 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.125 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.125 %) Cognos