The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2005 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 South West 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 2005
Rank 85 45 57
Rank change year-on-year
-40 +12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 23 113 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.140% 3.493% 2.544%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.556% 18.37% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 78 32
Average daily rate £350 £350 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £244 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £410 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 11
Average hourly rate £24.50 £33.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.75% -8.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.69% -12.50%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
414 615 648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.53% 19.01% 22.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 377 356
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £425 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 34 38
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £10.00 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2005
England

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

South West SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the South West region.

South West SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the South West region.

South West SQL Server 2005 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
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 2005 within the South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bristol +9 8 £363 +26.08%
Dorset +3 5 £335 -4.28%
Wiltshire -11 5 £300 +7.14%
Gloucestershire 0 1 - -
SQL Server 2005
England

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 48 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 35 (72.92%) .NET
3 29 (60.42%) C#
4 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 28 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 22 (45.83%) ASP.NET
6 17 (35.42%) SQL
7 16 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (31.25%) Visual Studio
9 14 (29.17%) MS Excel
10 12 (25.00%) Windows
11 11 (22.92%) VB.NET
11 11 (22.92%) Oracle
11 11 (22.92%) OO
11 11 (22.92%) Finance
12 10 (20.83%) SharePoint
12 10 (20.83%) VB
12 10 (20.83%) HTML
12 10 (20.83%) CSS
12 10 (20.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (20.83%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (18.75%) .NET Framework
13 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
13 9 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (16.67%) T-SQL
15 7 (14.58%) SAP
15 7 (14.58%) Business Objects
15 7 (14.58%) IIS
15 7 (14.58%) Data Warehouse

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (72.92%) .NET
2 22 (45.83%) ASP.NET
3 10 (20.83%) HTML
3 10 (20.83%) CSS
4 9 (18.75%) .NET Framework
5 6 (12.50%) jQuery
6 5 (10.42%) Web Services
7 4 (8.333%) WCF
8 3 (6.250%) XML
8 3 (6.250%) MDX
8 3 (6.250%) Ajax
8 3 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 2 (4.167%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.167%) Spring
9 2 (4.167%) Silverlight
9 2 (4.167%) SOAP
10 1 (2.083%) XSL
10 1 (2.083%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (14.58%) IIS
3 6 (12.50%) MS Exchange
4 5 (10.42%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (4.167%) Apache
7 1 (2.083%) MSMQ
7 1 (2.083%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.083%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (2.083%) Commerce Server
7 1 (2.083%) CMS
7 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (2.083%) Windows Azure
7 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 14 (29.17%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.250%) MS Office
3 1 (2.083%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) assyst
1 1 (2.083%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) LAN
1 1 (2.083%) WAN
1 1 (2.083%) DHCP
1 1 (2.083%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.083%) DNS
1 1 (2.083%) Internet
1 1 (2.083%) SAN
1 1 (2.083%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 28 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (20.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (10.42%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (10.42%) Oracle 10g
8 5 (10.42%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (6.250%) OLAP
9 3 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (4.167%) MySQL
11 1 (2.083%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (2.083%) Oracle 9i
11 1 (2.083%) OLTP
11 1 (2.083%) SAP BI
11 1 (2.083%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Visual Studio
2 10 (20.83%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (10.42%) Subversion
4 2 (4.167%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.083%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (2.083%) Selenium
General
1 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Banking
3 1 (2.083%) Legal
3 1 (2.083%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.083%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (72.92%) Developer
2 15 (31.25%) .NET Developer
3 8 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (6.250%) Analyst
7 3 (6.250%) DBA
7 3 (6.250%) Consultant
7 3 (6.250%) SharePoint Developer
8 2 (4.167%) MI Analyst
8 2 (4.167%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (4.167%) Business Developer
8 2 (4.167%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.167%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.167%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.083%) Programmer
9 1 (2.083%) Technical Support
9 1 (2.083%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (2.083%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.250%) Clustering
3 2 (4.167%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.167%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.083%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.083%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.083%) EPoS
4 1 (2.083%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.083%) Replication
4 1 (2.083%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.083%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (6.250%) Linux
4 2 (4.167%) UNIX
5 1 (2.083%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) OO
2 9 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (10.42%) MVC
3 5 (10.42%) Data Architecture
3 5 (10.42%) Stochastic Modelling
4 4 (8.333%) Systems Analysis
4 4 (8.333%) Web Development
4 4 (8.333%) Migration
5 3 (6.250%) Scrum
5 3 (6.250%) Project Management
5 3 (6.250%) Refactoring
5 3 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (4.167%) High Availability
6 2 (4.167%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (4.167%) Data Validation
6 2 (4.167%) Business Analysis
6 2 (4.167%) Content Management
6 2 (4.167%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) C#
2 17 (35.42%) SQL
3 11 (22.92%) VB.NET
4 10 (20.83%) VB
5 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
6 8 (16.67%) T-SQL
7 6 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 6 (12.50%) Delphi
8 5 (10.42%) VB6
9 4 (8.333%) PowerShell
9 4 (8.333%) PHP
10 2 (4.167%) Python
10 2 (4.167%) VBA
11 1 (2.083%) VBScript
11 1 (2.083%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (12.50%) MCP
3 3 (6.250%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.250%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.083%) ISEB
4 1 (2.083%) MCDBA
4 1 (2.083%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.083%) Degree
4 1 (2.083%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.083%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) QA
2 3 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.333%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.167%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.167%) vSphere
2 2 (4.167%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.083%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.083%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (2.083%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (2.083%) ZENworks
1 1 (2.083%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.083%) Backup Exec
1 1 (2.083%) SCCM
1 1 (2.083%) SCOM
1 1 (2.083%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.083%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) Oracle
3 7 (14.58%) SAP
3 7 (14.58%) Business Objects
4 3 (6.250%) VMware
5 2 (4.167%) HP
6 1 (2.083%) Dell
6 1 (2.083%) EMC
6 1 (2.083%) Citrix
6 1 (2.083%) Symantec
6 1 (2.083%) Sophos
6 1 (2.083%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (2.083%) Novell
6 1 (2.083%) Wyse
6 1 (2.083%) ProCurve
6 1 (2.083%) Alterian
6 1 (2.083%) Google
6 1 (2.083%) Sitecore
Christchurch, Dorset
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Rate: £300 a day inclusive of VAT
Posted: 22 May 2013
Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom, South West
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Rate: £300 a day inclusive of VAT
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
This is a great role for an experienced SQL Server Software Developer who has excellent business intelligence skills. You'll have a minimum of 5 years proven practical...
Ageas 50
Rate: Up to £50,000 per annum (pro rata), plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
South West
The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience building data warehouse systems using SQL Server 2005 or 2008, with extensive BI stack experience... Essential Skills: -SQL Server...
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