South Wales SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	16
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	86	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	60.14 %	35.78 %
Daily rates quoted	29	10
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£375
Average daily rate	£382	£431
% change on same period last year	-11.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£487
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.58	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£20.62	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-35.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.67	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.49	£30.39
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	143	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.191 %	0.110 %
Daily rates quoted	35	23
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£370
Average daily rate	£349	£407
% change on same period last year	-14.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£445
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.17	£25.38
Average hourly rate	£18.39	£26.56
% change on same period last year	-30.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.61	£27.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server Wales

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Cardiff	+6	43	£367	+16.57 %
Newport	0	26	£417	-36.10 %
Gwent	-	6	-	-
Glamorgan	-	1	£250	-
Merthyr Tydfil	-	1	-	-

SQL Server Wales

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 67 (42.14 %) SQL 2 46 (28.93 %) .NET 3 41 (25.79 %) SQL Server 2000 4 40 (25.16 %) SQL Server 2005 5 36 (22.64 %) Windows 6 33 (20.75 %) C# 7 32 (20.13 %) XML 8 27 (16.98 %) VB 8 27 (16.98 %) Microsoft 9 25 (15.72 %) Oracle 10 23 (14.47 %) Finance 11 22 (13.84 %) Crystal Reports 11 22 (13.84 %) ASP.NET 11 22 (13.84 %) MS Access 12 21 (13.21 %) Visual Studio

12 21 (13.21 %) Transact-SQL 12 21 (13.21 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 20 (12.58 %) CSS 13 20 (12.58 %) UNIX 14 18 (11.32 %) MS Excel 14 18 (11.32 %) Windows XP 15 16 (10.06 %) DTS 15 16 (10.06 %) HTML 15 16 (10.06 %) Security Cleared 16 15 (9.434 %) JavaScript 16 15 (9.434 %) Government 16 15 (9.434 %) VB6 17 14 (8.805 %) VBA 17 14 (8.805 %) SC Cleared 18 13 (8.176 %) WebServices

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 46 (28.93 %) .NET 2 32 (20.13 %) XML 3 22 (13.84 %) ASP.NET 4 20 (12.58 %) CSS 5 16 (10.06 %) HTML 6 13 (8.176 %) WebServices 7 10 (6.289 %) AJAX 8 7 (4.403 %) SOAP 9 5 (3.145 %) ASP 9 5 (3.145 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (2.516 %) CORBA 11 3 (1.887 %) XSLT 12 2 (1.258 %) ADO.NET 12 2 (1.258 %) XHTML 13 1 (0.629 %) JSP 13 1 (0.629 %) ActiveX 13 1 (0.629 %) MDX 13 1 (0.629 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 9 (5.660 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 8 (5.031 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (4.403 %) IIS 4 6 (3.774 %) Tomcat 4 6 (3.774 %) ColdFusion 5 5 (3.145 %) Apache 6 4 (2.516 %) Oracle Application Server 6 4 (2.516 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 3 (1.887 %) SharePoint 8 1 (0.629 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (0.629 %) BizTalk Server 8 1 (0.629 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 18 (11.32 %) MS Excel 2 6 (3.774 %) Spreadsheet 3 4 (2.516 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 7 (4.403 %) assyst 2 2 (1.258 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (0.629 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 9 (5.660 %) Internet 2 6 (3.774 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (3.145 %) VLAN 3 5 (3.145 %) LAN 3 5 (3.145 %) WAN 4 4 (2.516 %) IIOP 5 2 (1.258 %) SSL 5 2 (1.258 %) SAN 5 2 (1.258 %) Intranet 5 2 (1.258 %) DHCP 5 2 (1.258 %) Network Security 5 2 (1.258 %) ISDN 5 2 (1.258 %) DNS 6 1 (0.629 %) Extranet 6 1 (0.629 %) Firewall 6 1 (0.629 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (25.79 %) SQL Server 2000 2 40 (25.16 %) SQL Server 2005 3 22 (13.84 %) Crystal Reports 3 22 (13.84 %) MS Access 4 21 (13.21 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 16 (10.06 %) DTS 6 13 (8.176 %) SQL Server 7 7 10 (6.289 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 7 (4.403 %) EDRMS 9 6 (3.774 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 6 (3.774 %) Datawarehouse 10 5 (3.145 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 4 (2.516 %) ETL 11 4 (2.516 %) Oracle Reports 11 4 (2.516 %) Oracle 9i 12 3 (1.887 %) GIS 12 3 (1.887 %) MySQL 13 2 (1.258 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 2 (1.258 %) Oracle 10g 13 2 (1.258 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 21 (13.21 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (2.516 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (0.629 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 1 (0.629 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 23 (14.47 %) Finance 2 15 (9.434 %) Government 3 6 (3.774 %) Health 4 4 (2.516 %) Military 5 3 (1.887 %) Banking 5 3 (1.887 %) Retail 6 2 (1.258 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.258 %) Law 6 2 (1.258 %) Aerospace 7 1 (0.629 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.629 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.629 %) Legal 7 1 (0.629 %) Advertising 7 1 (0.629 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.629 %) Billing 7 1 (0.629 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.629 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 64 (40.25 %) Developer 2 21 (13.21 %) SQL Developer 3 18 (11.32 %) DBA 3 18 (11.32 %) .NET Developer 4 15 (9.434 %) SQL DBA 5 14 (8.805 %) C# Developer 6 13 (8.176 %) Analyst 6 13 (8.176 %) Architect 7 11 (6.918 %) Software Engineer 7 11 (6.918 %) Programmer 7 11 (6.918 %) SQL Server Developer 8 9 (5.660 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 9 (5.660 %) Database Designer 8 9 (5.660 %) Analyst Programmer 8 9 (5.660 %) Technical Architect 9 7 (4.403 %) SQL Server DBA 9 7 (4.403 %) Integration Engineer 9 7 (4.403 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 6 (3.774 %) VB Developer 10 6 (3.774 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.660 %) NHS 2 8 (5.031 %) Mainframe 3 4 (2.516 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.258 %) Replication 4 2 (1.258 %) Clustering 4 2 (1.258 %) Data Extraction 5 1 (0.629 %) Data Integration 5 1 (0.629 %) PKI 5 1 (0.629 %) AS400 5 1 (0.629 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 36 (22.64 %) Windows 2 20 (12.58 %) UNIX 3 18 (11.32 %) Windows XP 4 7 (4.403 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (4.403 %) Linux 5 5 (3.145 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (2.516 %) AIX 7 3 (1.887 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.629 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (10.06 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (8.805 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (7.547 %) Document Management 4 10 (6.289 %) SOA 5 9 (5.660 %) Migration 6 8 (5.031 %) UML 7 7 (4.403 %) RAD 8 6 (3.774 %) OO 9 5 (3.145 %) Agile Software Development 9 5 (3.145 %) E-business 10 4 (2.516 %) Information Security 10 4 (2.516 %) PRINCE2 10 4 (2.516 %) Data Modelling 10 4 (2.516 %) Project Management 10 4 (2.516 %) Web Development 10 4 (2.516 %) Unit Testing 10 4 (2.516 %) Integration Testing 11 3 (1.887 %) DoDAF 11 3 (1.887 %) Business Intelligence 11 3 (1.887 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 67 (42.14 %) SQL 2 33 (20.75 %) C# 3 27 (16.98 %) VB 4 21 (13.21 %) Transact-SQL 5 15 (9.434 %) VB6 5 15 (9.434 %) JavaScript 6 14 (8.805 %) VBA 7 10 (6.289 %) VB.NET 8 9 (5.660 %) C++ 9 8 (5.031 %) VBScript 10 7 (4.403 %) COBOL 11 6 (3.774 %) C 11 6 (3.774 %) PL/SQL 12 5 (3.145 %) Java 13 4 (2.516 %) Perl 14 2 (1.258 %) PHP 14 2 (1.258 %) Shell Script 15 1 (0.629 %) Clipper 15 1 (0.629 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 6 (3.774 %) ECDL 2 3 (1.887 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (1.887 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (1.258 %) OCA 3 2 (1.258 %) Oracle Certification 3 2 (1.258 %) MCSE 3 2 (1.258 %) CCNA 3 2 (1.258 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (0.629 %) MCDBA 4 1 (0.629 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.887 %) SLA 2 1 (0.629 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.629 %) QA	System Software 1 9 (5.660 %) Active Directory 2 6 (3.774 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 5 (3.145 %) Squid 4 4 (2.516 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 27 (16.98 %) Microsoft 2 25 (15.72 %) Oracle 3 6 (3.774 %) Sybase 3 6 (3.774 %) Cognos 4 4 (2.516 %) VMware 5 2 (1.258 %) Cisco 5 2 (1.258 %) Dell 5 2 (1.258 %) VERITAS 6 1 (0.629 %) Lotus 6 1 (0.629 %) Sun 6 1 (0.629 %) HP