Portsmouth SQL Server 2005 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Portsmouth 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 2005 over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	27
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	19	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	41.30 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£250
Average daily rate	£285	£325
% change on same period last year	-12.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£340
% change on same period last year	-3.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.25	-
Average hourly rate	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.75	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.63	£35.80
% change on same period last year	-8.85 %
Database & Business Intelligence Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	46	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£276
Average daily rate	£296	£326
% change on same period last year	-9.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.48	£20.30
Average hourly rate	£38.62	£25.15
% change on same period last year	+53.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.76	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-5.33 %
SQL Server 2005 Hampshire

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 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Portsmouth region.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Portsmouth region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 23 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 19 (82.61 %) SQL 3 18 (78.26 %) SQL Server 2000 4 13 (56.52 %) Windows 5 12 (52.17 %) Lucent 5 12 (52.17 %) Alcatel 5 12 (52.17 %) Windows Server 2003 5 12 (52.17 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 11 (47.83 %) CCNA 6 11 (47.83 %) Cisco Certification 6 11 (47.83 %) Microsoft Certification 6 11 (47.83 %) MCSE 6 11 (47.83 %) MCSA 7 10 (43.48 %) SNMP 7 10 (43.48 %) TCP/IP

8 9 (39.13 %) .NET 9 7 (30.43 %) Telecoms 9 7 (30.43 %) ASP.NET 10 6 (26.09 %) Visual Studio 10 6 (26.09 %) Transact-SQL 10 6 (26.09 %) VB.NET 10 6 (26.09 %) MS Excel 10 6 (26.09 %) .NET Framework 11 5 (21.74 %) AJAX 11 5 (21.74 %) Microsoft 11 5 (21.74 %) IIS 11 5 (21.74 %) DHTML 11 5 (21.74 %) HTML 11 5 (21.74 %) JavaScript 11 5 (21.74 %) CSS

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (39.13 %) .NET 2 7 (30.43 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (26.09 %) .NET Framework 4 5 (21.74 %) AJAX 4 5 (21.74 %) HTML 4 5 (21.74 %) CSS 4 5 (21.74 %) XHTML 5 2 (8.696 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 1 (4.348 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 5 (21.74 %) IIS 2 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.348 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.348 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 6 (26.09 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (43.48 %) SNMP 1 10 (43.48 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 18 (78.26 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (4.348 %) InterSystems Cache	Development Applications 1 6 (26.09 %) Visual Studio
General 1 7 (30.43 %) Telecoms 2 1 (4.348 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 7 (30.43 %) Network Specialist 1 7 (30.43 %) Developer 2 6 (26.09 %) .NET Developer 3 5 (21.74 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 4 (17.39 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (8.696 %) SQL Developer 5 2 (8.696 %) Network Technician 6 1 (4.348 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) Windows Server Engineer 6 1 (4.348 %) SQL DBA 6 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) Server Engineer 6 1 (4.348 %) .NET Web Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server DBA 6 1 (4.348 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) DBA 6 1 (4.348 %) Analyst Programmer 6 1 (4.348 %) Programmer 6 1 (4.348 %) Analyst 6 1 (4.348 %) Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 13 (56.52 %) Windows 2 12 (52.17 %) Windows Server 2003 2 12 (52.17 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (4.348 %) Data Migration 1 1 (4.348 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (4.348 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (4.348 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 19 (82.61 %) SQL 2 6 (26.09 %) Transact-SQL 2 6 (26.09 %) VB.NET 3 5 (21.74 %) DHTML 3 5 (21.74 %) JavaScript 4 1 (4.348 %) C# 4 1 (4.348 %) C++
Qualifications 1 11 (47.83 %) CCNA 1 11 (47.83 %) Cisco Certification 1 11 (47.83 %) Microsoft Certification 1 11 (47.83 %) MCSE 1 11 (47.83 %) MCSA 2 1 (4.348 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (4.348 %) VMware Infrastructure 1 1 (4.348 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 12 (52.17 %) Lucent 1 12 (52.17 %) Alcatel 2 5 (21.74 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.348 %) Northgate 3 1 (4.348 %) Infragistics 3 1 (4.348 %) VMware 3 1 (4.348 %) SAP 3 1 (4.348 %) HP 3 1 (4.348 %) VERITAS