The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 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 Surrey 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 2008
Rank 54 47 35
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 26 54 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.261% 3.354% 4.009%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.90% 14.79% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 34
Average daily rate £315 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £304 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £435 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
187 365 419
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 16.26% 22.67% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 207 246
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £270 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 5
Average hourly rate £20.50 £25.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.60% -32.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £16.20 £31.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.40 £30.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server 2008
South East

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Guildford -8 7 £350 +16.66%
Woking +2 6 £290 -9.37%
Lightwater - 1 £350 -
Egham - 1 £215 -
Epsom - 1 £350 -
SQL Server 2008
South East

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 44 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 30 (68.18%) .NET
3 27 (61.36%) C#
4 18 (40.91%) SQL
4 18 (40.91%) SQL Server 2005
5 17 (38.64%) Microsoft
6 15 (34.09%) ASP.NET
7 14 (31.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (29.55%) Scrum
9 11 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (25.00%) Windows
10 9 (20.45%) Web Services
10 9 (20.45%) T-SQL
10 9 (20.45%) VB.NET
10 9 (20.45%) .NET Framework
10 9 (20.45%) WPF
10 9 (20.45%) MVVM
11 8 (18.18%) WCF
11 8 (18.18%) XML
11 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (15.91%) MS Excel
12 7 (15.91%) Data Analysis
12 7 (15.91%) Multithreading
13 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (13.64%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
13 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
13 6 (13.64%) Visual Studio
14 5 (11.36%) OO

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 30 (68.18%) .NET
2 15 (34.09%) ASP.NET
3 9 (20.45%) Web Services
3 9 (20.45%) .NET Framework
3 9 (20.45%) WPF
4 8 (18.18%) WCF
4 8 (18.18%) XML
5 6 (13.64%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (9.091%) jQuery
7 3 (6.818%) XHTML
7 3 (6.818%) CSS
7 3 (6.818%) LINQ
8 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (4.545%) MapReduce
8 2 (4.545%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 2 (4.545%) Task Parallel Library
8 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (4.545%) XSD
8 2 (4.545%) XSL
8 2 (4.545%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.36%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (9.091%) IIS
4 2 (4.545%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (4.545%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.545%) Windows Azure
4 2 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.273%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.273%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) MS Excel
2 4 (9.091%) InfoPath
3 1 (2.273%) MS Office
3 1 (2.273%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.545%) SalesLogix
1 2 (4.545%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.273%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.273%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.273%) DNS
1 1 (2.273%) SAN
1 1 (2.273%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (40.91%) SQL Server 2005
3 14 (31.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (11.36%) SQL Server 2012
7 4 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.818%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (6.818%) OLAP
8 3 (6.818%) SQL Server 2000
9 2 (4.545%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.545%) Big Data
9 2 (4.545%) Hadoop
9 2 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (4.545%) GIS
10 1 (2.273%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (2.273%) OLTP
10 1 (2.273%) DataStage
10 1 (2.273%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Visual Studio
2 5 (11.36%) Expression Blend
3 2 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.273%) Subversion
4 1 (2.273%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (9.091%) Finance
2 2 (4.545%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.545%) Games
3 1 (2.273%) Marketing
3 1 (2.273%) Banking
3 1 (2.273%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.273%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.273%) Electronics
3 1 (2.273%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (65.91%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) .NET Developer
2 9 (20.45%) DBA
3 8 (18.18%) WPF Developer
3 8 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 8 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 7 (15.91%) SQL Developer
5 5 (11.36%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (9.091%) VB.NET Developer
6 4 (9.091%) Consultant
6 4 (9.091%) SharePoint Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Programmer
7 3 (6.818%) SQL Server DBA
7 3 (6.818%) SQL Server Developer
8 2 (4.545%) SQL Programmer
8 2 (4.545%) Teradata DBA
8 2 (4.545%) Business Developer
8 2 (4.545%) Server Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.545%) Data Extraction
1 2 (4.545%) Visualisation
2 1 (2.273%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.273%) W3C
2 1 (2.273%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.273%) Linux
4 1 (2.273%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.273%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Scrum
2 9 (20.45%) MVVM
3 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (15.91%) Data Analysis
4 7 (15.91%) Multithreading
5 5 (11.36%) OO
6 4 (9.091%) Migration
6 4 (9.091%) Workflow
6 4 (9.091%) TDD
7 3 (6.818%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (6.818%) Software Engineering
7 3 (6.818%) MVC
7 3 (6.818%) CRM
7 3 (6.818%) Business Analytics
7 3 (6.818%) Analytics
8 2 (4.545%) Data Migration
8 2 (4.545%) Waterfall
8 2 (4.545%) BDD
8 2 (4.545%) ETL
8 2 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) C#
2 18 (40.91%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) T-SQL
3 9 (20.45%) VB.NET
4 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.36%) MATLAB
6 3 (6.818%) VB
7 1 (2.273%) VB6
7 1 (2.273%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.545%) MCP
2 2 (4.545%) MCSE
2 2 (4.545%) MCITP
3 1 (2.273%) MCDST
3 1 (2.273%) MCSA
3 1 (2.273%) IBM Certification
3 1 (2.273%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.273%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.818%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.818%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.818%) LiteSpeed
2 1 (2.273%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.818%) Red Gate
3 2 (4.545%) Oracle
4 1 (2.273%) SAP
4 1 (2.273%) Cognos
4 1 (2.273%) Informatica
4 1 (2.273%) Lotus
4 1 (2.273%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.273%) Sage
4 1 (2.273%) IBM
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