The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 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 2008 over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 18 22 33
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 14 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 5.364% 3.745% 1.389%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.29% 12.05% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 3
Average daily rate £300 £275 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
69 83 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 26.44% 31.09% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 47 47
Average daily rate £300 £275 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -9.83%
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 5 2 4
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.82% -49.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £19.30 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £21.70 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
SQL Server 2008
Yorkshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

South Yorkshire SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South Yorkshire SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
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 2008 within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 +7 10 £294 +32.02%
Barnsley +1 1 £300 +9.09%
SQL Server 2008
Yorkshire

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (50.00%) C#
3 10 (50.00%) .NET
4 9 (45.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (35.00%) ETL
6 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (35.00%) T-SQL
6 7 (35.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (35.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
7 6 (30.00%) CRM
8 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
8 5 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (25.00%) Content Management
8 5 (25.00%) Migration
9 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
9 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
9 4 (20.00%) ERP
9 4 (20.00%) OLAP
9 4 (20.00%) WCF
10 3 (15.00%) jQuery
10 3 (15.00%) CSS
10 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
10 3 (15.00%) VB.NET
10 3 (15.00%) Windows

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (20.00%) WCF
4 3 (15.00%) jQuery
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
5 2 (10.00%) XHTML
5 2 (10.00%) Web Services
5 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (5.000%) StructureMap
6 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (5.000%) RESTful
6 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.000%) MDX
6 1 (5.000%) WPF
6 1 (5.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (5.000%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (5.000%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (45.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (35.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (35.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (20.00%) OLAP
7 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (5.000%) SQL CLR
8 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Moq
1 1 (5.000%) MbUnit
1 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (15.00%) SQL DBA
4 3 (15.00%) DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Database Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SharePoint Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) SharePoint Specialist
6 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (10.00%) UNIX
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ETL
2 6 (30.00%) CRM
3 5 (25.00%) Content Management
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (20.00%) ERP
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) MVC
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Web Development
7 1 (5.000%) Analytics
7 1 (5.000%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.000%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (5.000%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (5.000%) Project Planning
7 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) VB.NET
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.000%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) MCSE
2 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.000%) MCTS
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
Barnsley, Yorkshire
Key skills for this role include; - SSAS, OLAP, Cube Development, MDX- SSIS - SSRS Reports build - SQL Server 2008 - T-SQL - Any SQL Server 2012 would be advantageous - Any...
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Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013