The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 24 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 St Albans 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 9 3 5
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 10.00% 24.14% 20.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.27% 58.33% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
Average daily rate £400 £250 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -26.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £250 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £476 £250 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
11 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 36.67% 41.38% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 5
Average daily rate £400 £500 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +47.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £264 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server
Hertfordshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans 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 St Albans region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) Epicor
2 3 (37.50%) Sybase IQ
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Database Security
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Netezza
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) JD Edwards
4 1 (12.50%) Sage
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) SOA
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) B2B
4 1 (12.50%) B2C
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VB
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (12.50%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Sybase IQ
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Database Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Manager
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Server Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Media
2 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ERP
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
1 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (37.50%) Database Security
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) B2B
3 1 (12.50%) B2C
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Epicor
2 1 (12.50%) Netezza
2 1 (12.50%) JD Edwards
2 1 (12.50%) Sage
2 1 (12.50%) SAP