The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 14 21 9
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 28 9 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 11.48% 4.412% 9.404%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 41.18% 27.27% 49.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
Average daily rate £290 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £240 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £362 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 13
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
68 33 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 27.87% 16.18% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 29
Average daily rate £375 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £298 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £516 £375 £421
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 17
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server
Berkshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

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 Slough region.

Slough SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 23 (63.89%) .NET
2 20 (55.56%) C#
2 20 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
4 16 (44.44%) XML
4 16 (44.44%) SQL
4 16 (44.44%) VB.NET
5 15 (41.67%) HTML
5 15 (41.67%) JavaScript
6 14 (38.89%) T-SQL
7 12 (33.33%) MS Excel
7 12 (33.33%) jQuery
8 10 (27.78%) Oracle
8 10 (27.78%) CSS
9 9 (25.00%) Degree
10 8 (22.22%) PRINCE2
10 8 (22.22%) UNIX
10 8 (22.22%) Linux
10 8 (22.22%) Project Management
11 7 (19.44%) XHTML
11 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
11 7 (19.44%) Web Development
11 7 (19.44%) .NET Framework
11 7 (19.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 6 (16.67%) MVC
12 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
12 6 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
12 6 (16.67%) LINQ
12 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (16.67%) Ajax

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 23 (63.89%) .NET
2 20 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 16 (44.44%) XML
4 15 (41.67%) HTML
5 12 (33.33%) jQuery
6 10 (27.78%) CSS
7 7 (19.44%) XHTML
7 7 (19.44%) .NET Framework
7 7 (19.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 6 (16.67%) LINQ
8 6 (16.67%) Ajax
8 6 (16.67%) XSLT
8 6 (16.67%) ASP
9 5 (13.89%) COM+
9 5 (13.89%) XSL
10 4 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (8.333%) WebSphere
12 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
13 1 (2.778%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (8.333%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.778%) IIS
2 1 (2.778%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (2.778%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.778%) CMS
2 1 (2.778%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 12 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) Intranet
1 1 (2.778%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (13.89%) DTS
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (11.11%) TOAD
3 4 (11.11%) DataStage
4 3 (8.333%) DB2
5 1 (2.778%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.333%) ERwin
3 1 (2.778%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.778%) Retail
2 1 (2.778%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Developer
2 12 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Web Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) SQL Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Team Leader
5 5 (13.89%) Senior .NET Developer
5 5 (13.89%) .NET Web Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
6 4 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Web Developer
6 4 (11.11%) .NET Team Leader
6 4 (11.11%) Senior .NET Web Developer
7 3 (8.333%) C# Developer
7 3 (8.333%) VB Developer
7 3 (8.333%) Analyst
7 3 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Support Analyst
8 2 (5.556%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
2 3 (8.333%) iSeries
3 2 (5.556%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.778%) Statistics
4 1 (2.778%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) UNIX
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) HPUX
2 6 (16.67%) Solaris
3 4 (11.11%) Windows
4 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.778%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.778%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) PRINCE2
1 8 (22.22%) Project Management
2 7 (19.44%) Web Development
3 6 (16.67%) MVC
3 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (13.89%) System Testing
5 4 (11.11%) ITIL
6 3 (8.333%) Problem Management
6 3 (8.333%) Automated Testing
6 3 (8.333%) Workflow
6 3 (8.333%) Web Application Development
7 2 (5.556%) Waterfall
7 2 (5.556%) TOGAF
7 2 (5.556%) Lean Six Sigma
7 2 (5.556%) DSDM
7 2 (5.556%) Six Sigma
7 2 (5.556%) PRINCE
8 1 (2.778%) OOP
8 1 (2.778%) OO
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) C#
2 16 (44.44%) SQL
2 16 (44.44%) VB.NET
3 15 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 14 (38.89%) T-SQL
5 5 (13.89%) VBScript
5 5 (13.89%) VB
5 5 (13.89%) VB6
6 4 (11.11%) Ruby
7 3 (8.333%) RPG
7 3 (8.333%) RPG IV
8 1 (2.778%) Java
8 1 (2.778%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) CCNA
2 6 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.778%) MCP
4 1 (2.778%) MCSD
4 1 (2.778%) MCSE
4 1 (2.778%) PMP
4 1 (2.778%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.778%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.778%) MCDST
System Software
1 2 (5.556%) vSphere
1 2 (5.556%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.778%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.778%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.778%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Oracle
3 3 (8.333%) IBM
3 3 (8.333%) HP
4 2 (5.556%) VMware
4 2 (5.556%) SAP
5 1 (2.778%) Lotus
5 1 (2.778%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (2.778%) Symantec
5 1 (2.778%) McAfee
5 1 (2.778%) EMC
5 1 (2.778%) Cisco
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