The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2012 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2012 over the 3 months to 20 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 South East 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Rank 198 246 -
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 27 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.345% 0.010% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.812% 0.058% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £403 -
% change year-on-year
-19.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1490 1733 2182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.05% 17.13% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 864 1021
Average daily rate £358 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 49 122
Average hourly rate £26.88 £28.00 £38.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.01% -27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £16.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.25 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2012
England

SQL Server 2012
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

South East SQL Server 2012 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2012
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the South East region.

South East SQL Server 2012 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East SQL Server 2012 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2012
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 2012 within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hampshire - 8 £313 -
Surrey - 6 £348 -
Berkshire +21 4 - -
Kent - 3 £450 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 £363 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
SQL Server 2012
England

SQL Server 2012
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012.

1 40 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 21 (52.50%) SQL
4 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
4 13 (32.50%) .NET
4 13 (32.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 12 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (27.50%) SharePoint
6 11 (27.50%) Migration
7 10 (25.00%) MS Excel
8 9 (22.50%) Windows
8 9 (22.50%) Oracle
8 9 (22.50%) C#
9 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET
9 8 (20.00%) .NET Framework
10 7 (17.50%) IIS
10 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (15.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
11 6 (15.00%) Oracle 8/8i
11 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (15.00%) Oracle OWB
11 6 (15.00%) Finance
11 6 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (15.00%) Oracle 10g
11 6 (15.00%) ISEB
11 6 (15.00%) QuickTest Pro
11 6 (15.00%) Clustering
11 6 (15.00%) Oracle APEX

SQL Server 2012
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (32.50%) .NET
2 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 6 (15.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (12.50%) NHibernate
5 5 (12.50%) jQuery
6 2 (5.000%) AutoMapper
6 2 (5.000%) HTML5
6 2 (5.000%) StructureMap
6 2 (5.000%) HTML
6 2 (5.000%) XML
6 2 (5.000%) DOM
6 2 (5.000%) CSS
6 2 (5.000%) CSS3
6 2 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (5.000%) Backbone.js
6 2 (5.000%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (5.000%) Caliburn.Micro
Application Platforms
1 11 (27.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (17.50%) IIS
3 5 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (5.000%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (2.500%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.500%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (5.000%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (2.500%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.500%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (32.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 12 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (15.00%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (15.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (15.00%) Oracle OWB
5 6 (15.00%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (15.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (15.00%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (7.500%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (5.000%) GIS
8 2 (5.000%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.500%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (2.500%) OLAP
9 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.500%) PerformancePoint
9 1 (2.500%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 3 (7.500%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.000%) Moq
4 2 (5.000%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.000%) MSI
4 2 (5.000%) NetAdvantage
4 2 (5.000%) ReSharper
4 2 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (5.000%) Law
2 2 (5.000%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.000%) Military
3 1 (2.500%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Developer
2 14 (35.00%) DBA
3 10 (25.00%) SQL DBA
4 9 (22.50%) SQL Developer
5 8 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
6 7 (17.50%) .NET Developer
7 6 (15.00%) C# Developer
8 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 5 (12.50%) Analyst
9 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
9 4 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Senior SQL Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Test Analyst
10 3 (7.500%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 3 (7.500%) SharePoint Developer
10 3 (7.500%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 2 (5.000%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Clustering
2 3 (7.500%) Replication
3 2 (5.000%) Statistics
3 2 (5.000%) Open Source
3 2 (5.000%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.500%) SaaS
4 1 (2.500%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.500%) Data Integration
4 1 (2.500%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Migration
2 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (15.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
3 5 (12.50%) Test Management
3 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 5 (12.50%) High Availability
3 5 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (10.00%) MVC
5 3 (7.500%) Workflow
5 3 (7.500%) ETL
5 3 (7.500%) Data Migration
6 2 (5.000%) BDD
6 2 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (5.000%) Configuration Management
6 2 (5.000%) Regression Testing
6 2 (5.000%) OO
6 2 (5.000%) E-Commerce
6 2 (5.000%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) C#
3 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (7.500%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.000%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) ISEB
2 5 (12.50%) ISEB Practitioner
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) HP AIS
4 3 (7.500%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.500%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.500%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Terminal Services
3 3 (7.500%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.500%) SRDF
4 1 (2.500%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle
3 5 (12.50%) HP
3 5 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (7.500%) Cognos
5 2 (5.000%) Infragistics
5 2 (5.000%) SAP
6 1 (2.500%) Informatica
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