Staffordshire SQL Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Staffordshire 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 over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Immingham Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	4
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	46	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	79.31 %	66.67 %
Daily rates quoted	15	8
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£294
Average daily rate	£340	£309
% change on same period last year	+9.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.50	£22.77
Average hourly rate	£22.75	£24.62
% change on same period last year	-7.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£26.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.91	£31.40
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	58	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.057 %
Daily rates quoted	19	13
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£316
Average daily rate	£350	£333
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£21.57
Average hourly rate	£23.50	£23.45
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£25.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
SQL Server West Midlands

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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent	-3	27	£347	-0.89 %
Stafford	-2	1	£200	-
Lichfield	0	1	-	-
Burton-upon-Trent	-2	1	-	-

SQL Server West Midlands

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 65 (77.38 %) .NET 2 53 (63.10 %) SQL Server 2005 3 46 (54.76 %) VB.NET 4 45 (53.57 %) SQL Server 2000 5 21 (25.00 %) VB 6 17 (20.24 %) SQL 7 15 (17.86 %) VB6 8 14 (16.67 %) Migration 9 11 (13.10 %) Visual Studio 9 11 (13.10 %) OLTP 10 9 (10.71 %) E-Commerce 10 9 (10.71 %) Web Development 11 8 (9.524 %) Lotus 11 8 (9.524 %) C# 11 8 (9.524 %) Lotus Notes

12 7 (8.333 %) N-Tier 12 7 (8.333 %) Internet 12 7 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 13 6 (7.143 %) Microsoft 13 6 (7.143 %) OLAP 14 5 (5.952 %) Oracle 14 5 (5.952 %) ASP.NET 14 5 (5.952 %) UNIX 14 5 (5.952 %) Windows 14 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 5 (5.952 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 14 5 (5.952 %) Insurance 15 4 (4.762 %) Back Office 15 4 (4.762 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 4 (4.762 %) NHS

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 65 (77.38 %) .NET 2 7 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 3 5 (5.952 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (4.762 %) XSL 5 3 (3.571 %) WCF 6 2 (2.381 %) WinForms 6 2 (2.381 %) ASP 7 1 (1.190 %) CSS 7 1 (1.190 %) XML 7 1 (1.190 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 8 (9.524 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.190 %) Apache 2 1 (1.190 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (2.381 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (8.333 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (63.10 %) SQL Server 2005 2 45 (53.57 %) SQL Server 2000 3 11 (13.10 %) OLTP 4 6 (7.143 %) OLAP 5 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 5 (5.952 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 4 (4.762 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (4.762 %) MS Access 6 4 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse 7 3 (3.571 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (2.381 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2008 8 2 (2.381 %) Oracle 10g 8 2 (2.381 %) MySQL 8 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (1.190 %) DB2 9 1 (1.190 %) BusinessObjects 9 1 (1.190 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 11 (13.10 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (1.190 %) TestDirector 3 1 (1.190 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 5 (5.952 %) Insurance 2 4 (4.762 %) Back Office 3 3 (3.571 %) Finance 3 3 (3.571 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.190 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.190 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.190 %) Government 4 1 (1.190 %) Health	Job Titles 1 57 (67.86 %) Developer 2 33 (39.29 %) .NET Developer 3 28 (33.33 %) Web Developer 4 23 (27.38 %) VB.NET Developer 5 9 (10.71 %) Software Developer 6 8 (9.524 %) Architect 6 8 (9.524 %) Software Architect 7 7 (8.333 %) DBA 8 5 (5.952 %) Consultant 8 5 (5.952 %) SQL DBA 9 4 (4.762 %) Applications Developer 10 3 (3.571 %) .NET Web Developer 11 2 (2.381 %) C# Developer 11 2 (2.381 %) Lead Developer 11 2 (2.381 %) Administrator 11 2 (2.381 %) VB Developer 11 2 (2.381 %) Web Architect 11 2 (2.381 %) SQL Server Consultant 11 2 (2.381 %) Oracle DBA 11 2 (2.381 %) Trainer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (8.333 %) N-Tier 2 4 (4.762 %) NHS 3 3 (3.571 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.190 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 5 (5.952 %) UNIX 1 5 (5.952 %) Windows 2 3 (3.571 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.190 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (16.67 %) Migration 2 9 (10.71 %) E-Commerce 2 9 (10.71 %) Web Development 3 4 (4.762 %) UML 3 4 (4.762 %) CRM 4 3 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (2.381 %) Project Management 6 1 (1.190 %) B2B 6 1 (1.190 %) B2C 6 1 (1.190 %) ERP 6 1 (1.190 %) Load Testing 6 1 (1.190 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (1.190 %) Software Engineering 6 1 (1.190 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (1.190 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (1.190 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 46 (54.76 %) VB.NET 2 21 (25.00 %) VB 3 17 (20.24 %) SQL 4 15 (17.86 %) VB6 5 8 (9.524 %) C# 6 3 (3.571 %) C 6 3 (3.571 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (3.571 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (2.381 %) PHP 8 1 (1.190 %) Java 8 1 (1.190 %) FoxPro (VFP) 8 1 (1.190 %) PHP5 8 1 (1.190 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 1 (1.190 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.381 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (1.190 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (1.190 %) AutoSys 1 1 (1.190 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 8 (9.524 %) Lotus 2 6 (7.143 %) Microsoft 3 5 (5.952 %) Oracle 4 2 (2.381 %) Intel 4 2 (2.381 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.190 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.190 %) CA 5 1 (1.190 %) Sun 5 1 (1.190 %) IBM