South East SQL Server Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SQL Server Developer role in IT contracts within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Server Developer
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	206	155
Rank change on same period last year	-51
Matching contract IT job ads	53	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.070 %	0.151 %
As % of the category below	0.448 %	0.932 %
Daily rates quoted	14	30
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£299
Average daily rate	£286	£319
% change on same period last year	-10.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£310
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£37.95
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£39.40
% change on same period last year	-11.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.87	£36.12
% change on same period last year	-14.53 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	11826	16304
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.61 %	16.24 %
Daily rates quoted	3030	4107
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£338
Average daily rate	£357	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1429	2032
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.19	£25.82
Average hourly rate	£23.68	£27.21
% change on same period last year	-12.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.18	£28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
SQL Server Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL Server Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the South East region.

SQL Server Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+10	17	£269	-29.70 %
Surrey	+1	12	-	-
Hampshire	+7	8	£415	+22.96 %
Kent	+5	6	£244	+4.27 %
Buckinghamshire	-6	3	£370	+48.00 %
Oxfordshire	+2	3	-	-
West Sussex	+4	3	£300	-7.69 %
Thames Valley	+4	1	-	-
East Sussex	+7	1	£300	+15.38 %

SQL Server Developer England

SQL Server Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Server Developer in their job title.

1 110 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 75 (68.18 %) .NET 3 49 (44.55 %) ASP.NET 4 43 (39.09 %) SQL 4 43 (39.09 %) SQL Server 2005 5 41 (37.27 %) C# 6 33 (30.00 %) VB.NET 7 28 (25.45 %) XML 8 27 (24.55 %) Transact-SQL 9 22 (20.00 %) VB 10 21 (19.09 %) HTML 11 20 (18.18 %) VB6 11 20 (18.18 %) JavaScript 12 18 (16.36 %) ASP 12 18 (16.36 %) WebServices

13 17 (15.45 %) SQL Server 2000 14 16 (14.55 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 16 (14.55 %) N-Tier 15 14 (12.73 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 13 (11.82 %) DTS 16 13 (11.82 %) XSL 17 12 (10.91 %) COM+ 17 12 (10.91 %) DHTML 17 12 (10.91 %) InterDev 18 11 (10.00 %) ETL 18 11 (10.00 %) Datawarehouse 19 10 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 20 9 (8.182 %) Visual Studio 21 8 (7.273 %) Microsoft 21 8 (7.273 %) Migration

SQL Server Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title 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 with SQL Server Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 75 (68.18 %) .NET 2 49 (44.55 %) ASP.NET 3 28 (25.45 %) XML 4 21 (19.09 %) HTML 5 18 (16.36 %) ASP 5 18 (16.36 %) WebServices 6 13 (11.82 %) XSL 7 12 (10.91 %) COM+ 8 6 (5.455 %) CSS 9 4 (3.636 %) WinForms 9 4 (3.636 %) MDX 10 3 (2.727 %) AJAX 10 3 (2.727 %) .NET Framework 10 3 (2.727 %) DCOM 11 2 (1.818 %) ADO.NET 11 2 (1.818 %) XSLT 11 2 (1.818 %) XHTML 11 2 (1.818 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 1 (0.909 %) Silverlight 12 1 (0.909 %) WSH	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.636 %) SharePoint 2 3 (2.727 %) IIS 3 2 (1.818 %) SAS 4 1 (0.909 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (0.909 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (0.909 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (3.636 %) Photoshop 1 4 (3.636 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.818 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.818 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (0.909 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.636 %) Internet 2 2 (1.818 %) SAN 2 2 (1.818 %) Intranet 2 2 (1.818 %) X.500	Database & Business Intelligence 1 110 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 43 (39.09 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (15.45 %) SQL Server 2000 4 16 (14.55 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 14 (12.73 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 13 (11.82 %) DTS 7 11 (10.00 %) ETL 7 11 (10.00 %) Datawarehouse 8 6 (5.455 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 6 (5.455 %) Data Cleansing 9 5 (4.545 %) Crystal Reports 10 3 (2.727 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 2 (1.818 %) OLAP 11 2 (1.818 %) MS Access 11 2 (1.818 %) BusinessObjects 12 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 12 (10.91 %) InterDev 2 9 (8.182 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (3.636 %) Flash	General 1 8 (7.273 %) Finance 2 7 (6.364 %) Banking 3 3 (2.727 %) Marketing 4 2 (1.818 %) General Ledger 4 2 (1.818 %) Retail 4 2 (1.818 %) Telecoms 4 2 (1.818 %) Health 5 1 (0.909 %) Law 5 1 (0.909 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.909 %) Government 5 1 (0.909 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 16 (14.55 %) N-Tier 2 3 (2.727 %) NHS 3 1 (0.909 %) PDA 3 1 (0.909 %) Statistics 3 1 (0.909 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.909 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 3 (2.727 %) Windows 2 1 (0.909 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 2 8 (7.273 %) Migration 3 6 (5.455 %) Data Migration 4 4 (3.636 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (1.818 %) CRM 5 2 (1.818 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (1.818 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (1.818 %) Dimensional Modelling 6 1 (0.909 %) Web Analytics 6 1 (0.909 %) Project Management 6 1 (0.909 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (0.909 %) OOD 6 1 (0.909 %) UML 6 1 (0.909 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (0.909 %) OO 6 1 (0.909 %) BCP 6 1 (0.909 %) Workflow 6 1 (0.909 %) Service Management 6 1 (0.909 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (0.909 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 43 (39.09 %) SQL 2 41 (37.27 %) C# 3 33 (30.00 %) VB.NET 4 27 (24.55 %) Transact-SQL 5 22 (20.00 %) VB 6 20 (18.18 %) VB6 6 20 (18.18 %) JavaScript 7 12 (10.91 %) DHTML 8 3 (2.727 %) C++ 9 2 (1.818 %) VBScript 9 2 (1.818 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 4 (3.636 %) MCP 1 4 (3.636 %) MCSD 1 4 (3.636 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (0.909 %) Active Directory 1 1 (0.909 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 2 (1.818 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 8 (7.273 %) Microsoft 2 3 (2.727 %) Motorola 2 3 (2.727 %) Cognos 3 2 (1.818 %) Business Objects 4 1 (0.909 %) Omniture 4 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 4 1 (0.909 %) VMware 4 1 (0.909 %) ION Trading