South West SQL Server Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server Developer role in IT contracts within the South West 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Server Developer
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	129	154
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	15	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.344 %	0.285 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£287
Average daily rate	£310	£323
% change on same period last year	-4.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£329
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£32.50
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£33.75
% change on same period last year	-20.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.88	£36.73
% change on same period last year	-18.65 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4355	5974
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.887 %	5.891 %
Daily rates quoted	1350	1557
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£342
Average daily rate	£370	£361
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	593	736
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.60	£25.58
Average hourly rate	£27.40	£27.17
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.21	£28.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
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 West 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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 West region.

SQL Server Developer
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 Developer within the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Wiltshire	+7	3	£350	-
Gloucestershire	-	2	-	-
Dorset	+4	2	-	-
Devon	+18	2	£350	-
Bristol	+3	2	£250	-22.68 %
Somerset	+3	1	£350	-

SQL Server Developer England

SQL Server Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 58 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 36 (62.07 %) SQL Server 2005 3 31 (53.45 %) .NET 4 25 (43.10 %) SQL 5 19 (32.76 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 17 (29.31 %) C# 6 17 (29.31 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 15 (25.86 %) VB 7 15 (25.86 %) SQL Server 2000 8 14 (24.14 %) VB6 9 13 (22.41 %) ASP.NET 10 12 (20.69 %) Datawarehouse 11 10 (17.24 %) Crystal Reports 11 10 (17.24 %) Transact-SQL 12 9 (15.52 %) XML

13 8 (13.79 %) Windows 13 8 (13.79 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 7 (12.07 %) UML 14 7 (12.07 %) Business Intelligence 14 7 (12.07 %) Client/Server 14 7 (12.07 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 15 6 (10.34 %) VB.NET 16 5 (8.621 %) Visual Studio 16 5 (8.621 %) Finance 17 4 (6.897 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 17 4 (6.897 %) ETL 17 4 (6.897 %) HTML 17 4 (6.897 %) DTS 18 3 (5.172 %) E-Commerce 18 3 (5.172 %) Star Schema

SQL Server Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 31 (53.45 %) .NET 2 13 (22.41 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (15.52 %) XML 4 4 (6.897 %) HTML 5 3 (5.172 %) ASP 6 2 (3.448 %) XSL 6 2 (3.448 %) WinForms 6 2 (3.448 %) AJAX 6 2 (3.448 %) MDX 7 1 (1.724 %) WCF 7 1 (1.724 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.724 %) XSLT 7 1 (1.724 %) ODBC 7 1 (1.724 %) COM+	Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 58 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 36 (62.07 %) SQL Server 2005 3 19 (32.76 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 17 (29.31 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 15 (25.86 %) SQL Server 2000 6 12 (20.69 %) Datawarehouse 7 10 (17.24 %) Crystal Reports 8 7 (12.07 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 4 (6.897 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 4 (6.897 %) ETL 9 4 (6.897 %) DTS 10 3 (5.172 %) Star Schema 11 2 (3.448 %) Cognos Powerplay 11 2 (3.448 %) Cognos Impromptu 12 1 (1.724 %) Data Mining 12 1 (1.724 %) MS Access 12 1 (1.724 %) OLAP	Development Applications 1 8 (13.79 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 5 (8.621 %) Visual Studio
General 1 5 (8.621 %) Finance 2 2 (3.448 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.724 %) Multimedia 3 1 (1.724 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 7 (12.07 %) Client/Server 2 2 (3.448 %) NHS 2 2 (3.448 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (1.724 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 8 (13.79 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (12.07 %) UML 1 7 (12.07 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (5.172 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (5.172 %) Migration 2 3 (5.172 %) Content Management 2 3 (5.172 %) Dimensional Modelling 3 1 (1.724 %) Data Migration 3 1 (1.724 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (1.724 %) Web Development 3 1 (1.724 %) TDD 3 1 (1.724 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 25 (43.10 %) SQL 2 17 (29.31 %) C# 3 15 (25.86 %) VB 4 14 (24.14 %) VB6 5 10 (17.24 %) Transact-SQL 6 6 (10.34 %) VB.NET 7 2 (3.448 %) JavaScript 8 1 (1.724 %) VBScript	System Software 1 3 (5.172 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 2 (3.448 %) Oracle 1 2 (3.448 %) Cognos 1 2 (3.448 %) Microsoft