Oxfordshire SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	4
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	108	127
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.144 %	0.128 %
As % of the category below	53.73 %	77.91 %
Daily rates quoted	23	29
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£275
Average daily rate	£352	£310
% change on same period last year	+13.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.20	£24.25
Average hourly rate	£31.20	£26.75
% change on same period last year	+16.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.20	£29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.49	£30.39
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	201	163
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.268 %	0.165 %
Daily rates quoted	39	35
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£272
Average daily rate	£404	£310
% change on same period last year	+30.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.12	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£30.23	£24.56
% change on same period last year	+23.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.33	£26.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	-3	52	£441	+41.93 %
Banbury	-	3	£285	-
Bicester	-11	2	£290	-9.57 %
Thame	0	1	£340	+13.33 %

SQL Server South East

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

1 118 (59.30 %) .NET 2 96 (48.24 %) C# 2 96 (48.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 91 (45.73 %) ASP.NET 4 64 (32.16 %) SQL 5 55 (27.64 %) SQL Server 2000 6 41 (20.60 %) XML 7 39 (19.60 %) Windows 7 39 (19.60 %) JavaScript 7 39 (19.60 %) HTML 8 37 (18.59 %) Microsoft 9 30 (15.08 %) VB.NET 10 29 (14.57 %) WebServices 11 28 (14.07 %) SharePoint 12 25 (12.56 %) Transact-SQL

13 24 (12.06 %) CSS 13 24 (12.06 %) SQL Server 7 14 22 (11.06 %) Visual Studio 15 20 (10.05 %) VB 16 18 (9.045 %) Microsoft Certification 17 16 (8.040 %) Java 17 16 (8.040 %) ASP 17 16 (8.040 %) Marketing 18 15 (7.538 %) E-Commerce 19 14 (7.035 %) LAN 19 14 (7.035 %) WAN 20 13 (6.533 %) Internet 20 13 (6.533 %) OO 21 12 (6.030 %) XSLT 21 12 (6.030 %) Linux

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 1 118 (59.30 %) .NET 2 91 (45.73 %) ASP.NET 3 41 (20.60 %) XML 4 39 (19.60 %) HTML 5 29 (14.57 %) WebServices 6 24 (12.06 %) CSS 7 16 (8.040 %) ASP 8 12 (6.030 %) XSLT 9 11 (5.528 %) Fusebox 9 11 (5.528 %) XHTML 10 10 (5.025 %) .NET Framework 11 8 (4.020 %) WinForms 12 7 (3.518 %) WCF 13 6 (3.015 %) AJAX 14 5 (2.513 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 5 (2.513 %) Middleware 15 4 (2.010 %) COM 15 4 (2.010 %) DCOM 16 2 (1.005 %) ADO 16 2 (1.005 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 28 (14.07 %) SharePoint 2 12 (6.030 %) ColdFusion 3 11 (5.528 %) ColdFusion MX 3 11 (5.528 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 10 (5.025 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 8 (4.020 %) MS Exchange 6 7 (3.518 %) IIS 6 7 (3.518 %) BizTalk Server 6 7 (3.518 %) Commerce Server 7 5 (2.513 %) SAS 8 4 (2.010 %) MTS 8 4 (2.010 %) CMS 9 3 (1.508 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 3 (1.508 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 2 (1.005 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 1 (0.503 %) WebSphere MQ 11 1 (0.503 %) Lotus Notes 11 1 (0.503 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 8 (4.020 %) MS Office 2 7 (3.518 %) MS Excel 3 5 (2.513 %) SPSS 4 4 (2.010 %) Photoshop 5 3 (1.508 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 2 (1.005 %) Fireworks 7 1 (0.503 %) MS Visio 7 1 (0.503 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (1.005 %) Axapta 1 2 (1.005 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (0.503 %) FRx 2 1 (0.503 %) Navision 2 1 (0.503 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 14 (7.035 %) LAN 1 14 (7.035 %) WAN 2 13 (6.533 %) Internet 3 9 (4.523 %) SMS 4 8 (4.020 %) TCP/IP 5 6 (3.015 %) Intranet 6 5 (2.513 %) Firewall 7 3 (1.508 %) DNS 7 3 (1.508 %) DHCP 8 2 (1.005 %) VPN 8 2 (1.005 %) SAN 9 1 (0.503 %) MPLS 9 1 (0.503 %) PPTP 9 1 (0.503 %) Intrusion Detection 9 1 (0.503 %) Cisco IPT 9 1 (0.503 %) Network Security 9 1 (0.503 %) SSL 9 1 (0.503 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 96 (48.24 %) SQL Server 2005 2 55 (27.64 %) SQL Server 2000 3 24 (12.06 %) SQL Server 7 4 10 (5.025 %) Crystal Reports 5 9 (4.523 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 6 (3.015 %) BusinessObjects 6 6 (3.015 %) DB2 UDB 6 6 (3.015 %) DB2 7 3 (1.508 %) MySQL 7 3 (1.508 %) DTS 7 3 (1.508 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (0.503 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (0.503 %) DataStage 8 1 (0.503 %) Ingres 8 1 (0.503 %) EDRMS 8 1 (0.503 %) PostgreSQL 8 1 (0.503 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 22 (11.06 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (2.010 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 3 (1.508 %) NUnit 4 2 (1.005 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.503 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (0.503 %) JUnit	General 1 16 (8.040 %) Marketing 2 6 (3.015 %) Local Government 2 6 (3.015 %) Government 3 5 (2.513 %) Back Office 4 3 (1.508 %) Finance 4 3 (1.508 %) Front Office 4 3 (1.508 %) Construction 4 3 (1.508 %) Insurance 5 2 (1.005 %) Publishing 5 2 (1.005 %) Retail 6 1 (0.503 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.503 %) Health 6 1 (0.503 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.503 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 123 (61.81 %) Developer 2 69 (34.67 %) .NET Developer 3 37 (18.59 %) C# Developer 4 25 (12.56 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 24 (12.06 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 21 (10.55 %) Analyst 7 16 (8.040 %) Web Developer 8 14 (7.035 %) VB.NET Developer 8 14 (7.035 %) SQL Developer 9 12 (6.030 %) SQL Server Developer 10 11 (5.528 %) ColdFusion Developer 11 9 (4.523 %) .NET Web Developer 12 8 (4.020 %) SQL DBA 12 8 (4.020 %) 2nd Line Support 12 8 (4.020 %) DBA 12 8 (4.020 %) Support Technician 13 7 (3.518 %) Consultant 14 6 (3.015 %) Data Analyst 14 6 (3.015 %) SQL Server DBA 14 6 (3.015 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.015 %) Replication 2 3 (1.508 %) Clustering 3 2 (1.005 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.005 %) NHS 3 2 (1.005 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.503 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.503 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.503 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 39 (19.60 %) Windows 2 12 (6.030 %) Linux 3 8 (4.020 %) Windows NT 4 7 (3.518 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (3.015 %) Windows XP 5 6 (3.015 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (1.005 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (7.538 %) E-Commerce 2 13 (6.533 %) OO 3 11 (5.528 %) ITIL 3 11 (5.528 %) Content Management 4 9 (4.523 %) Digital Marketing 5 8 (4.020 %) Migration 6 7 (3.518 %) Data Management 6 7 (3.518 %) Data Migration 6 7 (3.518 %) UML 7 6 (3.015 %) Resource Management 8 5 (2.513 %) Web Development 8 5 (2.513 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (2.010 %) OOA/OOD 10 3 (1.508 %) Data Analysis 10 3 (1.508 %) Unit Testing 10 3 (1.508 %) ERP 10 3 (1.508 %) RUP 10 3 (1.508 %) Requirements Analysis 11 2 (1.005 %) CRM 11 2 (1.005 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 96 (48.24 %) C# 2 64 (32.16 %) SQL 3 39 (19.60 %) JavaScript 4 30 (15.08 %) VB.NET 5 25 (12.56 %) Transact-SQL 6 20 (10.05 %) VB 7 16 (8.040 %) Java 8 11 (5.528 %) VB6 9 4 (2.010 %) PHP 10 3 (1.508 %) VBScript 10 3 (1.508 %) C 11 2 (1.005 %) C++ 11 2 (1.005 %) X++ 12 1 (0.503 %) Shell Script 12 1 (0.503 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 18 (9.045 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (4.020 %) MCSD 3 7 (3.518 %) MCAD 4 6 (3.015 %) MCSA 5 4 (2.010 %) MCP 6 3 (1.508 %) MCSE 7 2 (1.005 %) MCDBA 8 1 (0.503 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.503 %) ISO27001 1 1 (0.503 %) QA	System Software 1 12 (6.030 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.005 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 2 (1.005 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.503 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 7 (3.518 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (2.010 %) WSUS 3 2 (1.005 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 37 (18.59 %) Microsoft 2 8 (4.020 %) Oracle 3 6 (3.015 %) IBM 3 6 (3.015 %) Business Objects 4 5 (2.513 %) Symantec 5 4 (2.010 %) HP 5 4 (2.010 %) Epicor 6 3 (1.508 %) SEEBURGER 6 3 (1.508 %) Citrix 7 2 (1.005 %) VMware 7 2 (1.005 %) Altiris 7 2 (1.005 %) EMC 7 2 (1.005 %) Intel 8 1 (0.503 %) Nortel 8 1 (0.503 %) PeopleSoft 8 1 (0.503 %) SAP 8 1 (0.503 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.503 %) Nokia 8 1 (0.503 %) VERITAS 8 1 (0.503 %) Lotus