The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 41 46 32
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 7 11 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.552% 1.768% 3.448%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.861% 8.029% 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
Average daily rate £375 £338 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -1.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £298 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £348 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
79 137 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 17.52% 22.03% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 72 87
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 £257 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
Average hourly rate £14.45 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.42% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.90 £17.14 £16.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.13 £20.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2008
South East

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +4 2 £400 -
Witney - 1 - -
SQL Server 2008
South East

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 29 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (44.83%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (41.38%) SQL
3 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (34.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 8 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (27.59%) T-SQL
5 8 (27.59%) C#
5 8 (27.59%) .NET
6 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
6 6 (20.69%) Windows
7 5 (17.24%) Cognos
7 5 (17.24%) ETL
7 5 (17.24%) Scrum
8 4 (13.79%) Tableau
8 4 (13.79%) WCF
8 4 (13.79%) QlikView
8 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
8 4 (13.79%) MS Excel
9 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
9 3 (10.34%) Web Services
9 3 (10.34%) XML
9 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
9 3 (10.34%) Migration
9 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2000
9 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2012
10 2 (6.897%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (6.897%) Windows Azure

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (27.59%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
3 4 (13.79%) WCF
4 3 (10.34%) Web Services
4 3 (10.34%) XML
5 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (6.897%) AppFabric
5 2 (6.897%) jQuery
5 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 2 (6.897%) WPF
5 2 (6.897%) WF
5 2 (6.897%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.897%) CSS
5 2 (6.897%) HTML
6 1 (3.448%) XHTML
6 1 (3.448%) XSLT
6 1 (3.448%) ASP
6 1 (3.448%) XMPP
6 1 (3.448%) CSS3
6 1 (3.448%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.897%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (6.897%) Windows Azure
2 2 (6.897%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (6.897%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (6.897%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (6.897%) IIS
2 2 (6.897%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.448%) CMS
3 1 (3.448%) Kentico
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.897%) MS Office
3 1 (3.448%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (44.83%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (34.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 8 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (13.79%) QlikView
6 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (6.897%) MS Access
8 1 (3.448%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.448%) Subversion
General
1 1 (3.448%) Finance
1 1 (3.448%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) SQL DBA
2 8 (27.59%) DBA
3 7 (24.14%) Analyst
3 7 (24.14%) SQL Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Administrator
4 5 (17.24%) Teradata DBA
5 4 (13.79%) Business Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) Designer
7 2 (6.897%) WPF Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (6.897%) BizTalk Developer
7 2 (6.897%) BizTalk Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Data Warehouse Analyst
7 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Business Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Hedge funds
1 2 (6.897%) Computer Science
1 2 (6.897%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.448%) Replication
2 1 (3.448%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 2 (6.897%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (17.24%) ETL
2 5 (17.24%) Scrum
3 3 (10.34%) Migration
4 2 (6.897%) MVVM
4 2 (6.897%) Unit Testing
4 2 (6.897%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (6.897%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (6.897%) Business Analysis
4 2 (6.897%) Regression Testing
4 2 (6.897%) ERP
4 2 (6.897%) SOA
5 1 (3.448%) Web Design
5 1 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.448%) Data Security
5 1 (3.448%) TDD
5 1 (3.448%) Email Marketing
5 1 (3.448%) BDD
5 1 (3.448%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.448%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) T-SQL
2 8 (27.59%) C#
3 2 (6.897%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.897%) VB.NET
3 2 (6.897%) VBA
4 1 (3.448%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (3.448%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Cognos
2 4 (13.79%) Tableau
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.897%) SAP
4 1 (3.448%) Adobe
4 1 (3.448%) Cisco