The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 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 Peterborough 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 (MS SQL)
Rank 6 5 19
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 10 15 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 10.53% 17.05% 3.604%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 45.45% 88.24% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 4
Average daily rate £225 £288 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.73% -28.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -20.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
22 17 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 23.16% 19.32% 8.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 7
Average daily rate £225 £288 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.73% -28.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £30.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -18.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server
Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 8 (42.11%) Windows
1 8 (42.11%) MS Exchange
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (42.11%) HP
1 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2003
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
1 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2003
1 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
1 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
1 8 (42.11%) Windows 7
1 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (36.84%) Wireless
2 7 (36.84%) ITIL
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (31.58%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) Altiris
4 5 (26.32%) WPF
4 5 (26.32%) Oracle
4 5 (26.32%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.79%) Intranet
5 3 (15.79%) Internet
5 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (15.79%) Lync
5 3 (15.79%) Unified Communications
5 3 (15.79%) Exinda
5 3 (15.79%) Riverbed

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 5 (26.32%) WPF
2 1 (5.263%) SOAP
2 1 (5.263%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (42.11%) MS Exchange
1 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2003
1 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (15.79%) Lync
3 1 (5.263%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) Wireless
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (15.79%) Intranet
3 3 (15.79%) Internet
3 3 (15.79%) Unified Communications
4 1 (5.263%) LAN
4 1 (5.263%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.263%) DB2
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
1 6 (31.58%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) WPF Developer
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (10.53%) SQL DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.263%) Database Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.263%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.263%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.263%) Senior Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 1 (5.263%) Equities
2 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
1 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2003
1 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (42.11%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.53%) SOA
5 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.263%) ETL
5 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.263%) Workflow
5 1 (5.263%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.263%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco
1 8 (42.11%) HP
2 5 (26.32%) Altiris
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Exinda
3 3 (15.79%) Riverbed
4 1 (5.263%) Talend