The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 24 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 Renfrewshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 6.349% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 44.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £385 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.69% -12.50%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 14.29% 8.333% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
Average daily rate £378 £270 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.81% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2005
Scotland

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

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

Renfrewshire SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
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 2005 within the Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Erskine - 4 £385 -
SQL Server 2005
Scotland

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (33.33%) Lumension
3 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) InfoPath
3 2 (33.33%) MCTS
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) McAfee
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Clustering
3 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) MCTS
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (33.33%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Lumension
1 2 (33.33%) McAfee
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft