The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 162 303 320
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 8.064% 9.690% 10.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.70% 48.95% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 182 172
Average daily rate £310 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £424 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 21 25
Average hourly rate £34.75 £22.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.74% -24.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.55 £15.00 £17.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.95 £46.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.07%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
398 619 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 19.81% 19.80% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 369 370
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £438 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 44
Average hourly rate £43.50 £22.75 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+91.20% -26.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £14.44 £15.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £97.50 £46.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West SQL Server Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server
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 within the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Wiltshire -2 47 £315 +3.70% 29
Bristol +5 38 £325 +8.33% 45
Somerset -6 23 £310 -6.76% 13
Dorset -6 18 £338 -3.57% 16
Devon -7 13 £200 -38.46% 9
Gloucestershire -5 12 £316 -19.10% 27
Cornwall - - - -
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 205 (47.79%) .NET
2 202 (47.09%) SQL
3 189 (44.06%) C#
4 160 (37.30%) Microsoft
5 138 (32.17%) ASP.NET
6 132 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
7 108 (25.17%) JavaScript
8 107 (24.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 103 (24.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 94 (21.91%) HTML
11 84 (19.58%) Oracle
11 84 (19.58%) Windows
12 78 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
13 77 (17.95%) SharePoint
14 75 (17.48%) .NET Framework
15 74 (17.25%) MS Excel
16 69 (16.08%) Data Warehouse
16 69 (16.08%) XML
17 67 (15.62%) CSS
18 65 (15.15%) Finance
19 63 (14.69%) IIS
20 60 (13.99%) Visual Studio
20 60 (13.99%) jQuery
21 59 (13.75%) Web Services
21 59 (13.75%) MVC
22 57 (13.29%) T-SQL
22 57 (13.29%) WCF
23 54 (12.59%) Security Cleared
24 53 (12.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
25 51 (11.89%) ETL

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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
1 205 (47.79%) .NET
2 138 (32.17%) ASP.NET
3 94 (21.91%) HTML
4 75 (17.48%) .NET Framework
5 69 (16.08%) XML
6 67 (15.62%) CSS
7 60 (13.99%) jQuery
8 59 (13.75%) Web Services
9 57 (13.29%) WCF
10 41 (9.557%) ASP
11 32 (7.459%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 29 (6.760%) Silverlight
13 28 (6.527%) ASP.NET MVC
14 27 (6.294%) Ajax
15 22 (5.128%) LINQ
16 20 (4.662%) HTML5
17 13 (3.030%) XSLT
17 13 (3.030%) Middleware
17 13 (3.030%) MDX
18 12 (2.797%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 77 (17.95%) SharePoint
2 63 (14.69%) IIS
3 27 (6.294%) SharePoint 2010
4 23 (5.361%) OpenROAD
5 13 (3.030%) MS Exchange
6 12 (2.797%) SharePoint Server
6 12 (2.797%) Oracle Application Server
6 12 (2.797%) Exchange Server 2010
7 11 (2.564%) WebLogic
7 11 (2.564%) ArcGIS
8 10 (2.331%) CMS
9 8 (1.865%) Windows Azure
10 7 (1.632%) BizTalk Server
10 7 (1.632%) MS Project Server
11 6 (1.399%) GlassFish
12 5 (1.166%) Amazon AWS
12 5 (1.166%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.166%) SharePoint 2013
12 5 (1.166%) Apache
13 4 (0.932%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 74 (17.25%) MS Excel
2 9 (2.098%) MS Office
3 7 (1.632%) MS Project
4 6 (1.399%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.699%) PowerPivot
5 3 (0.699%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.699%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.466%) Office 365
7 1 (0.233%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.233%) SPSS
7 1 (0.233%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (0.932%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.466%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.233%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.233%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.233%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.233%) assyst
3 1 (0.233%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.233%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.233%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.233%) AWD
3 1 (0.233%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.963%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.730%) Firewall
2 16 (3.730%) DNS
3 11 (2.564%) LAN
3 11 (2.564%) WAN
4 10 (2.331%) SAN
4 10 (2.331%) DHCP
5 7 (1.632%) VPN
5 7 (1.632%) Internet
6 6 (1.399%) MPLS
7 5 (1.166%) Network Security
8 4 (0.932%) Intranet
8 4 (0.932%) LDAP
9 2 (0.466%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.466%) SNMP
9 2 (0.466%) SSL
9 2 (0.466%) NAS
10 1 (0.233%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.233%) HTTP
10 1 (0.233%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
2 107 (24.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 103 (24.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 69 (16.08%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (12.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 46 (10.72%) SQL Server 2005
7 24 (5.594%) Ingres
8 20 (4.662%) Oracle 11g
9 19 (4.429%) SQL Server 2012
10 18 (4.196%) Oracle 10g
11 16 (3.730%) MySQL
12 14 (3.263%) Crystal Reports
13 13 (3.030%) SQLPlus
14 12 (2.797%) OLAP
15 11 (2.564%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
16 10 (2.331%) DTS
17 8 (1.865%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 8 (1.865%) MS Access
17 8 (1.865%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (13.99%) Visual Studio
2 42 (9.790%) Team Foundation Server
3 25 (5.828%) Subversion
4 22 (5.128%) MSTest
5 15 (3.497%) NUnit
6 13 (3.030%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 11 (2.564%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.331%) Moq
9 9 (2.098%) Jenkins
9 9 (2.098%) CruiseControl
10 5 (1.166%) Dreamweaver
11 4 (0.932%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.466%) JIRA
12 2 (0.466%) ReSharper
12 2 (0.466%) Selenium
12 2 (0.466%) JUnit
12 2 (0.466%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.466%) MSBuild
13 1 (0.233%) Git (software)
13 1 (0.233%) ClearCase
General
1 65 (15.15%) Finance
2 22 (5.128%) Retail
3 21 (4.895%) Banking
4 11 (2.564%) Telecoms
5 8 (1.865%) Marketing
6 3 (0.699%) Manufacturing
6 3 (0.699%) Law
6 3 (0.699%) Local Government
7 2 (0.466%) Automotive
7 2 (0.466%) Back Office
8 1 (0.233%) Electronics
8 1 (0.233%) Legal
8 1 (0.233%) Advertising
8 1 (0.233%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.233%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 279 (65.03%) Developer
2 94 (21.91%) .NET Developer
3 63 (14.69%) Analyst
4 52 (12.12%) C# Developer
5 37 (8.625%) SQL Developer
6 35 (8.159%) C# .NET Developer
7 32 (7.459%) DBA
8 29 (6.760%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 23 (5.361%) ASP.NET Developer
10 21 (4.895%) Programmer
11 20 (4.662%) Software Developer
11 20 (4.662%) Analyst Developer
12 19 (4.429%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 19 (4.429%) Consultant
13 18 (4.196%) SQL DBA
14 17 (3.963%) SharePoint Developer
14 17 (3.963%) Senior Developer
15 16 (3.730%) Architect
16 13 (3.030%) Software Engineer
17 11 (2.564%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.429%) NHS
2 13 (3.030%) Client/Server
3 12 (2.797%) Clustering
4 11 (2.564%) Replication
5 10 (2.331%) RIA
6 8 (1.865%) IaaS
6 8 (1.865%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.632%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.399%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.399%) N-Tier
8 6 (1.399%) PaaS
9 5 (1.166%) Statistics
9 5 (1.166%) Data Extraction
10 4 (0.932%) FMCG
10 4 (0.932%) IPTV
10 4 (0.932%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.699%) iPad
11 3 (0.699%) Visualisation
11 3 (0.699%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.699%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 84 (19.58%) Windows
2 46 (10.72%) UNIX
3 27 (6.294%) Windows Server 2008
3 27 (6.294%) Linux
4 20 (4.662%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (2.564%) Windows 7
5 11 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.632%) Solaris
7 3 (0.699%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.699%) Android
8 2 (0.466%) AIX
8 2 (0.466%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.233%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.233%) CentOS
9 1 (0.233%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (13.75%) MVC
3 51 (11.89%) ETL
4 50 (11.66%) UML
5 43 (10.02%) Unit Testing
6 36 (8.392%) ITIL
7 29 (6.760%) Scrum
7 29 (6.760%) Agile Software Development
8 24 (5.594%) Kimball Methodology
9 20 (4.662%) Migration
9 20 (4.662%) TDD
10 19 (4.429%) Web Development
10 19 (4.429%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (3.963%) Service Delivery
12 16 (3.730%) Service Management
12 16 (3.730%) ITSM
12 16 (3.730%) OO
12 16 (3.730%) Business Analysis
13 13 (3.030%) Data Modelling
14 10 (2.331%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 202 (47.09%) SQL
2 189 (44.06%) C#
3 108 (25.17%) JavaScript
4 57 (13.29%) T-SQL
5 49 (11.42%) VB.NET
6 45 (10.49%) VB
7 44 (10.26%) Java
8 33 (7.692%) C++
9 13 (3.030%) VBA
10 12 (2.797%) C
11 11 (2.564%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.098%) PHP
13 8 (1.865%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.632%) VB6
15 6 (1.399%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.932%) VBScript
16 4 (0.932%) Delphi
17 3 (0.699%) Python
18 2 (0.466%) Groovy
18 2 (0.466%) X++
Qualifications
1 54 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.557%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (6.527%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.294%) ISEB
5 20 (4.662%) MCP
6 18 (4.196%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.196%) MCTS
7 11 (2.564%) MCPD
8 9 (2.098%) MCSA
8 9 (2.098%) Degree
9 7 (1.632%) MCSE
9 7 (1.632%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (1.632%) MCITP
10 4 (0.932%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.932%) OCA
10 4 (0.932%) MCSD
11 3 (0.699%) MCDBA
11 3 (0.699%) OCP
11 3 (0.699%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.699%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.196%) QA
2 11 (2.564%) SLA
3 3 (0.699%) ISO 9000
3 3 (0.699%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.699%) TickIT
3 3 (0.699%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.699%) COBIT
4 1 (0.233%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.233%) Basel II
System Software
1 26 (6.061%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.730%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.797%) vSphere
4 7 (1.632%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (1.399%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (1.166%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.932%) VMware ESX
8 2 (0.466%) XenApp
9 1 (0.233%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.233%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.233%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.233%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 5 (1.166%) SCOM
2 4 (0.932%) SCCM
3 2 (0.466%) Backup Exec
3 2 (0.466%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.466%) Netcool
3 2 (0.466%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.466%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.233%) HP SIM
4 1 (0.233%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.233%) ZENworks
4 1 (0.233%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.233%) WSUS
Vendors
1 160 (37.30%) Microsoft
2 84 (19.58%) Oracle
3 28 (6.527%) VMware
4 18 (4.196%) Business Objects
5 13 (3.030%) SAP
6 11 (2.564%) Cisco
6 11 (2.564%) ESRI
7 9 (2.098%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.865%) Sun
9 5 (1.166%) IBM
9 5 (1.166%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.932%) Google
10 4 (0.932%) Citrix
10 4 (0.932%) Dell
11 3 (0.699%) Cognos
11 3 (0.699%) Sybase
12 2 (0.466%) SonicWALL
12 2 (0.466%) Alterian
12 2 (0.466%) Telerik
12 2 (0.466%) Infragistics
Wiltshire
C# / jQuery / Java Script / WCF / AGILE / SCRUM / ASP.NET / SQL Server... Commutable from Swindon, Bristol, Chippenham, Reading, Oxford, Cheltenham, Gloucester Experience of SCRUM / AGILE / jQuery and C# is...
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bristol Avon, South West
Opus Recruitment Solutions are seeking an experienced -NET engineer (-NET, MVC, RAZOR, C#, SQL SERVER 2010/12) for an initial 4 month contract in Bristol for an established...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
The successful .NET engineer (.NET, MVC, RAZOR, C#, SQL SERVER 2010/12) will work on site with the existing team of developers. You will be using the very...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Wiltshire, South West
The ideal candidate will have experience in developing .NET based websites as well as Dynamics CRM 2011. Key Skills: C# ASP.NET. jQuery. SQL Server. Microsoft Dynamics CRM...
Computer Futures
Posted: 31 May 2013
Devon, South West
SQL Developer / T-SQL / SSIS / ETL / Business Intelligence / Integration £175-225pd - DevonSQL Developer required to develop ETL packages using SSIS for a Data Warehouse project with my Devon...
OPUS
Rate: GBP175 to GBP225 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
Dorset
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
South West
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £40000 - £52000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Somerset
NES Global Talent
Rate: £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
South West
OPUS
Rate: GBP150 to GBP250 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
Taunton, South West
Capita Resourcing
Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
South West
Vivid Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £260 - £275 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
South West
Vivid Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £260 - £275 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
South West
Reed Technology
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Bristol City Council
Rate: From £31,754 to £34,549 per annum + 20% market rate
Posted: 11 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Experis IT
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £315 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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