South Yorkshire SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the South Yorkshire 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 2005 over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	37
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	20	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	28.17 %	7.353 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£400
Average daily rate	£284	£425
% change on same period last year	-33.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£296	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£350
% change on same period last year	-5.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£35.45
% change on same period last year	-4.17 %
Database & Business Intelligence South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	71	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	21	9
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£356
Average daily rate	£279	£377
% change on same period last year	-25.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.25	£21.67
Average hourly rate	£32.73	£23.33
% change on same period last year	+40.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.22	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
SQL Server 2005 Yorkshire

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 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server 2005
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the South Yorkshire 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
Rotherham	-	6	£213	-
Sheffield	-5	3	-	-

SQL Server 2005 Yorkshire

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 30 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 16 (53.33 %) .NET 2 16 (53.33 %) C# 3 14 (46.67 %) SQL 4 10 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 4 10 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 5 8 (26.67 %) Transact-SQL 5 8 (26.67 %) WebServices 6 7 (23.33 %) Migration 7 6 (20.00 %) XML 7 6 (20.00 %) Windows 8 5 (16.67 %) RDBMS 8 5 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 8 5 (16.67 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

9 4 (13.33 %) Business Analysis 9 4 (13.33 %) Disaster Recovery 9 4 (13.33 %) Clustering 9 4 (13.33 %) C++ 9 4 (13.33 %) DTS 9 4 (13.33 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2008 10 3 (10.00 %) B2B 10 3 (10.00 %) E-Commerce 10 3 (10.00 %) OO 10 3 (10.00 %) HTML 10 3 (10.00 %) OLAP 10 3 (10.00 %) BizTalk Server 10 3 (10.00 %) AJAX 11 2 (6.667 %) Windows Mobile

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 16 (53.33 %) .NET 2 10 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (26.67 %) WebServices 4 6 (20.00 %) XML 5 3 (10.00 %) HTML 5 3 (10.00 %) AJAX 6 2 (6.667 %) ADO.NET 6 2 (6.667 %) CSS 7 1 (3.333 %) XSL 7 1 (3.333 %) XHTML 7 1 (3.333 %) SOAP 7 1 (3.333 %) ASP 7 1 (3.333 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.00 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (6.667 %) Commerce Server 2007 2 2 (6.667 %) Commerce Server 2 2 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (6.667 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.333 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 10 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (16.67 %) RDBMS 3 5 (16.67 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (13.33 %) DTS 4 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2008 5 3 (10.00 %) OLAP 6 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (3.333 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 5 (16.67 %) Visual Studio
Job Titles 1 21 (70.00 %) Developer 2 11 (36.67 %) SQL Developer 3 9 (30.00 %) SQL Server Developer 4 7 (23.33 %) C# Developer 4 7 (23.33 %) .NET Developer 5 5 (16.67 %) SQL Server DBA 5 5 (16.67 %) SQL DBA 5 5 (16.67 %) DBA 6 4 (13.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (6.667 %) BizTalk Developer 7 2 (6.667 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (6.667 %) C++/C# Developer 7 2 (6.667 %) C++ Developer 8 1 (3.333 %) Tester 8 1 (3.333 %) Web Developer 8 1 (3.333 %) C# Web Developer 8 1 (3.333 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (13.33 %) Clustering 2 2 (6.667 %) PDA 3 1 (3.333 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 6 (20.00 %) Windows 2 2 (6.667 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (23.33 %) Migration 2 4 (13.33 %) Business Analysis 2 4 (13.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 4 (13.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (10.00 %) B2B 3 3 (10.00 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (10.00 %) OO 4 2 (6.667 %) Data Migration 4 2 (6.667 %) UML 5 1 (3.333 %) B2C 5 1 (3.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (3.333 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 16 (53.33 %) C# 2 14 (46.67 %) SQL 3 8 (26.67 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (13.33 %) C++ 5 1 (3.333 %) C 5 1 (3.333 %) JavaScript 5 1 (3.333 %) VBScript 5 1 (3.333 %) VB.NET	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.333 %) SLA
Vendors 1 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft 1 2 (6.667 %) Lotus