The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 23 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 Suffolk 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 5 5 3
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 32 53 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 21.33% 21.46% 22.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 68.09% 73.61% 78.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 45 22
Average daily rate £275 £325 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £275 £264
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £420 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £23.25 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -20.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
47 72 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 31.33% 29.15% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 29
Average daily rate £275 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £288 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Average hourly rate - £29.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +53.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
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 within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 23 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
Ipswich -3 12 £328 +0.76%
Bury St Edmunds -1 1 £225 -30.76%
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 39 (76.47%) SQL Server 2008
2 37 (72.55%) .NET
3 30 (58.82%) ASP.NET
3 30 (58.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 29 (56.86%) C#
5 26 (50.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 23 (45.10%) SQL Server 2005
7 22 (43.14%) SQL
8 19 (37.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (31.37%) WCF
10 14 (27.45%) T-SQL
11 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
12 11 (21.57%) SharePoint
13 10 (19.61%) BizTalk Server
14 9 (17.65%) SharePoint 2010
15 8 (15.69%) E-Commerce
15 8 (15.69%) Windows
16 7 (13.73%) LINQ
17 6 (11.76%) Silverlight
17 6 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
17 6 (11.76%) MVC
17 6 (11.76%) VB.NET
18 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (9.804%) OLAP
18 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (9.804%) Windows 7
18 5 (9.804%) ASP.NET MVC
18 5 (9.804%) SQL Server 2012
19 4 (7.843%) jQuery
19 4 (7.843%) Validation

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 37 (72.55%) .NET
2 30 (58.82%) ASP.NET
3 16 (31.37%) WCF
4 7 (13.73%) LINQ
5 6 (11.76%) Silverlight
6 5 (9.804%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (7.843%) jQuery
7 4 (7.843%) Hibernate
8 3 (5.882%) CSS
8 3 (5.882%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.882%) WPF
8 3 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (3.922%) NHibernate
9 2 (3.922%) HTML
9 2 (3.922%) ASP
10 1 (1.961%) XHTML
10 1 (1.961%) SOAP
10 1 (1.961%) Web Services
10 1 (1.961%) XML
10 1 (1.961%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.57%) SharePoint
2 10 (19.61%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (17.65%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (5.882%) Windows Azure
5 2 (3.922%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (76.47%) SQL Server 2008
2 30 (58.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 26 (50.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 23 (45.10%) SQL Server 2005
5 19 (37.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (9.804%) OLAP
6 5 (9.804%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (5.882%) OLTP
7 3 (5.882%) MySQL
7 3 (5.882%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.882%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.882%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.882%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.961%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (1.961%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.843%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.961%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (3.922%) Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (68.63%) Developer
2 17 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 15 (29.41%) C# Developer
4 12 (23.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (17.65%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 8 (15.69%) ASP.NET Developer
6 8 (15.69%) SQL DBA
6 8 (15.69%) DBA
7 7 (13.73%) Architect
8 5 (9.804%) Web Developer
9 4 (7.843%) Technical Architect
10 3 (5.882%) SQL Server DBA
10 3 (5.882%) Analyst
10 3 (5.882%) Test Analyst
10 3 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (5.882%) SQL Developer
11 2 (3.922%) Teradata DBA
11 2 (3.922%) Senior Developer
11 2 (3.922%) Software Developer
11 2 (3.922%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.882%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.922%) SaaS
2 2 (3.922%) Clustering
2 2 (3.922%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Windows
2 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (9.804%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (15.69%) E-Commerce
2 6 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (11.76%) MVC
3 4 (7.843%) Validation
3 4 (7.843%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (5.882%) SOA
4 3 (5.882%) Project Management
4 3 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (5.882%) Test Scripting
4 3 (5.882%) Manual Testing
5 2 (3.922%) Waterfall
5 2 (3.922%) Software Engineering
5 2 (3.922%) CRM
5 2 (3.922%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (3.922%) UML
5 2 (3.922%) OO
5 2 (3.922%) OOD
5 2 (3.922%) ITIL
6 1 (1.961%) TDD
6 1 (1.961%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) C#
2 22 (43.14%) SQL
3 14 (27.45%) T-SQL
4 6 (11.76%) VB.NET
5 3 (5.882%) VB
6 2 (3.922%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.961%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.922%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.922%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (5.882%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.922%) Oracle
2 2 (3.922%) Salesforce.com