The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 24 30 35
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 10 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 3.731% 1.176% 1.404%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.33% 3.797% 5.970%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
Average daily rate £300 - £240
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 - £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £32.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year
-10.15% -16.88%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
75 79 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 27.99% 30.98% 23.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 44 41
Average daily rate £300 £281 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -12.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £415 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% -53.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £19.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2005
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Sheffield +3 7 £300 -
Doncaster - 1 £225 -
SQL Server 2005
Yorkshire

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (87.50%) SQL
3 12 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (56.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
5 8 (50.00%) T-SQL
5 8 (50.00%) C#
6 7 (43.75%) .NET
6 7 (43.75%) CRM
6 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (43.75%) ETL
6 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (31.25%) Migration
8 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
8 5 (31.25%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (31.25%) SQL Server 2012
9 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
9 4 (25.00%) ERP
9 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
9 4 (25.00%) VB.NET
9 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
9 4 (25.00%) Windows
9 4 (25.00%) Content Management
10 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
11 2 (12.50%) MS Office
11 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
11 2 (12.50%) Web Services
11 2 (12.50%) OLAP
11 2 (12.50%) Windows XP

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 7 (43.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (6.250%) XML
4 1 (6.250%) XSL
4 1 (6.250%) XSLT
4 1 (6.250%) XHTML
4 1 (6.250%) WinForms
4 1 (6.250%) Ajax
4 1 (6.250%) WCF
4 1 (6.250%) HTML5
4 1 (6.250%) CSS
4 1 (6.250%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (6.250%) Apache
3 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (56.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (31.25%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (12.50%) OLAP
8 1 (6.250%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (6.250%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.250%) Xcode
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 2 (12.50%) SharePoint Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Database Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Server Specialist
5 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Specialist
5 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Systems Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.250%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.250%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Vista
3 1 (6.250%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) CRM
1 7 (43.75%) ETL
2 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Content Management
3 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (12.50%) Web Development
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.250%) Time Management
5 1 (6.250%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (6.250%) MVC
5 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 8 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.250%) XPath
5 1 (6.250%) Java
5 1 (6.250%) PHP
5 1 (6.250%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) MCSE
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.250%) Lagan
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle