The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Reporting Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Scotland 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 Reporting Services (SSRS)
Rank 66 64 74
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 53 47 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.173% 1.767% 1.339%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.925% 9.533% 6.839%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 31
Average daily rate £338 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.62% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £244 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £470 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £32.75 £21.79
% change year-on-year
-20.61% +50.29%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
534 493 541
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 21.89% 18.53% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 215 257
Average daily rate £350 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £235 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 14
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.90 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server Reporting Services
UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland SQL Server Reporting Services Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland SQL Server Reporting Services Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland SQL Server Reporting Services Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server Reporting Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services across the Scotland region.

Scotland SQL Server Reporting Services Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server Reporting Services
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 Reporting Services within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +14 19 £260 -29.49%
Glasgow -27 17 £338 -15.62%
Stirling -7 6 £550 +22.22%
Scottish Borders - 4 £250 -
Aberdeen - 3 £325 -
West Lothian - 2 £360 -
SQL Server Reporting Services
UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Reporting Services.

1 71 (81.61%) SQL Server
2 60 (68.97%) SQL
3 47 (54.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (39.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 32 (36.78%) T-SQL
6 31 (35.63%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (35.63%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (33.33%) Finance
8 28 (32.18%) Microsoft
9 27 (31.03%) SQL Server 2008
10 26 (29.89%) SQL Server 2005
10 26 (29.89%) .NET
11 21 (24.14%) ETL
12 19 (21.84%) C#
13 16 (18.39%) SharePoint
14 15 (17.24%) XML
15 14 (16.09%) MS Excel
16 13 (14.94%) Data Modelling
16 13 (14.94%) ASP.NET
17 12 (13.79%) DTS
18 11 (12.64%) SQL Server 2012
19 10 (11.49%) HTML
19 10 (11.49%) Oracle
19 10 (11.49%) TDD
19 10 (11.49%) Data Analysis
20 9 (10.34%) OLAP
20 9 (10.34%) IIS
20 9 (10.34%) jQuery
20 9 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC
21 8 (9.195%) Cadis

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing SQL Server Reporting Services 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 Reporting Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (29.89%) .NET
2 15 (17.24%) XML
3 13 (14.94%) ASP.NET
4 10 (11.49%) HTML
5 9 (10.34%) jQuery
5 9 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 5 (5.747%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.747%) Ajax
7 5 (5.747%) ADO.NET
8 4 (4.598%) CSS
8 4 (4.598%) Silverlight
9 3 (3.448%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (3.448%) ASP
10 2 (2.299%) WinForms
10 2 (2.299%) MDX
11 1 (1.149%) HTML5
11 1 (1.149%) Unity DI Container
11 1 (1.149%) KnockoutJS
11 1 (1.149%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 16 (18.39%) SharePoint
2 9 (10.34%) IIS
3 3 (3.448%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (2.299%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.149%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.149%) Apache
5 1 (1.149%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (16.09%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.448%) MS Office
3 1 (1.149%) PowerPivot
3 1 (1.149%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (3.448%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (3.448%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.448%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.299%) LAN
1 2 (2.299%) WAN
1 2 (2.299%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (81.61%) SQL Server
2 47 (54.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (39.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 31 (35.63%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (31.03%) SQL Server 2008
6 26 (29.89%) SQL Server 2005
7 12 (13.79%) DTS
8 11 (12.64%) SQL Server 2012
9 9 (10.34%) OLAP
10 7 (8.046%) Data Mining
10 7 (8.046%) SQL Server 2000
11 5 (5.747%) Data Mart
11 5 (5.747%) Oracle 9i
12 4 (4.598%) Oracle 11g
13 3 (3.448%) MS Access
13 3 (3.448%) OLTP
14 2 (2.299%) Oracle 8/8i
14 2 (2.299%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 2 (2.299%) PerformancePoint
14 2 (2.299%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (8.046%) Subversion
2 2 (2.299%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.299%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.149%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.149%) TortoiseSVN
3 1 (1.149%) MSTest
3 1 (1.149%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (1.149%) NUnit
General
1 29 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (6.897%) Banking
3 4 (4.598%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.299%) Marketing
5 1 (1.149%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 57 (65.52%) Developer
2 20 (22.99%) SQL Developer
3 13 (14.94%) DBA
4 12 (13.79%) .NET Developer
5 10 (11.49%) SQL DBA
5 10 (11.49%) SQL Server Developer
6 8 (9.195%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (8.046%) SQL Server DBA
8 6 (6.897%) Analyst
9 5 (5.747%) Consultant
9 5 (5.747%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 4 (4.598%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (4.598%) C# Developer
10 4 (4.598%) Business Developer
11 3 (3.448%) Report Writer
11 3 (3.448%) Report Developer
11 3 (3.448%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 3 (3.448%) C# .NET Developer
11 3 (3.448%) Programmer
11 3 (3.448%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.897%) Visualisation
2 5 (5.747%) Derivative
2 5 (5.747%) Equities
3 4 (4.598%) Replication
3 4 (4.598%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.448%) Data Conversion
4 3 (3.448%) Data Integration
4 3 (3.448%) Clustering
5 2 (2.299%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.299%) Ergonomics
6 1 (1.149%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.149%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.149%) EPoS
6 1 (1.149%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.046%) Windows
2 4 (4.598%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (4.598%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.149%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.149%) UNIX
3 1 (1.149%) Solaris
3 1 (1.149%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (24.14%) ETL
3 13 (14.94%) Data Modelling
4 10 (11.49%) TDD
4 10 (11.49%) Data Analysis
5 8 (9.195%) ERP
5 8 (9.195%) Migration
6 7 (8.046%) MVC
7 6 (6.897%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (5.747%) BDD
8 5 (5.747%) Waterfall
8 5 (5.747%) Asset Management
8 5 (5.747%) OO
8 5 (5.747%) CRM
9 4 (4.598%) Information Architecture
9 4 (4.598%) Web Development
10 3 (3.448%) Investment Management
10 3 (3.448%) Network Load Balancing
10 3 (3.448%) Data Migration
10 3 (3.448%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 60 (68.97%) SQL
2 32 (36.78%) T-SQL
3 19 (21.84%) C#
4 8 (9.195%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.747%) XPath
5 5 (5.747%) VBA
6 4 (4.598%) VB
7 3 (3.448%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.299%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.149%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 5 (5.747%) Degree
2 3 (3.448%) MCSE
2 3 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.149%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.149%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.299%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.149%) vSphere
2 1 (1.149%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 28 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Oracle
3 8 (9.195%) Cadis
4 5 (5.747%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.299%) Trillium
5 2 (2.299%) Informatica
5 2 (2.299%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (2.299%) DataFlux
6 1 (1.149%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.149%) Red Gate
6 1 (1.149%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.149%) VMware
6 1 (1.149%) HP
6 1 (1.149%) Sun
6 1 (1.149%) Embarcadero
6 1 (1.149%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.149%) CommVault
6 1 (1.149%) IBM
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