The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Slough 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 35 30 37
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.412% 0.524% 0.313%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.695% 4.545% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.53% +8.33%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
59 22 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 24.28% 11.52% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 11 22
Average daily rate £325 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £273 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £358 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
SQL Server 2008
Berkshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Slough SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Slough region.

Slough SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) ASP
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) VB6
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) XSL
3 2 (50.00%) COM+
3 2 (50.00%) VBScript
3 2 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) DTS
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) CSS

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) ASP
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) XSL
2 2 (50.00%) COM+
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (50.00%) DTS
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) VB Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ASP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) VB6 Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB6
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware