The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire 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 21 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 Staffordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 18 30 7
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -23
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 2 3 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.353% 1.382% 21.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.714% 8.333% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 29
Average daily rate £250 £331 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.52% -5.35%
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 £27.50 £31.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year
-12.69% -18.18%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
35 36 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 41.18% 16.59% 58.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 56
Average daily rate £250 £288 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -17.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £375 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
Average hourly rate £15.31 £28.75 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.74% +161.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
SQL Server 2005
West Midlands

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Stoke-on-Trent +8 1 - -
SQL Server 2005
West Midlands

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) T-SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 6 (54.55%) VMware
4 5 (45.45%) Resource Management
5 4 (36.36%) .NET
5 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
7 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
7 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (18.18%) NHS
7 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 2 (18.18%) C#
7 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (18.18%) Replication
7 2 (18.18%) MCITP
7 2 (18.18%) MDX
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (9.091%) Ajax
8 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
8 1 (9.091%) Telerik
8 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
2 2 (18.18%) MDX
3 1 (9.091%) Ajax
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.091%) WCF
3 1 (9.091%) WPF
3 1 (9.091%) Silverlight
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (9.091%) CSS
3 1 (9.091%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) SQL DBA
1 5 (45.45%) Teradata DBA
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) DBA
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Server Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) NHS
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.091%) RIA
2 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Windows 2000
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Resource Management
4 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.091%) MVVM
4 1 (9.091%) OO
4 1 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
1 8 (72.73%) T-SQL
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) C#
3 1 (9.091%) C++
3 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
3 1 (9.091%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Telerik
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix