Surrey SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Surrey 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Haslemere Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Rochester Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	11
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	184	209
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.257 %	0.210 %
As % of the category below	55.93 %	43.18 %
Daily rates quoted	60	73
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£346
Average daily rate	£324	£370
% change on same period last year	-12.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£330
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.17	£25.70
Average hourly rate	£41.04	£27.60
% change on same period last year	+48.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.92	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.26	£31.07
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Database & Business Intelligence Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	329	484
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.460 %	0.486 %
Daily rates quoted	106	171
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£339
Average daily rate	£327	£360
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£350
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.20	£24.53
Average hourly rate	£38.04	£27.47
% change on same period last year	+38.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.88	£30.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.29	£31.81
% change on same period last year	-4.77 %
SQL Server South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Surrey region.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Sunbury-on-Thames	+4	17	£313	-
Guildford	-2	11	£303	-9.11 %
Farnham	-	9	£248	-
Weybridge	+4	7	£331	+27.47 %
Redhill	+15	6	-	-
Tadworth	-	5	£274	-
Leatherhead	-2	4	£155	-43.63 %
Staines	-7	4	£438	+84.21 %
Dorking	+16	3	£227	-
Egham	-	2	-	-
Woking	-	2	-	-
Chertsey	-1	1	£425	-
Epsom	+2	1	£350	-
Haslemere	-	1	£325	-

SQL Server South East

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

1 197 (49.37 %) .NET 2 181 (45.36 %) C# 3 150 (37.59 %) SQL 4 108 (27.07 %) ASP.NET 5 104 (26.07 %) SQL Server 2005 6 89 (22.31 %) Windows 7 83 (20.80 %) SQL Server 2000 8 82 (20.55 %) Microsoft 9 77 (19.30 %) XML 10 55 (13.78 %) WebServices 11 47 (11.78 %) Oracle 11 47 (11.78 %) Finance 12 46 (11.53 %) OO 12 46 (11.53 %) Marketing 13 44 (11.03 %) NUnit

13 44 (11.03 %) Transact-SQL 14 41 (10.28 %) HTML 14 41 (10.28 %) Visual Studio 15 40 (10.03 %) JavaScript 16 39 (9.774 %) VB 17 38 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 18 34 (8.521 %) CSS 19 33 (8.271 %) WinForms 20 32 (8.020 %) XSLT 21 31 (7.769 %) OOP 21 31 (7.769 %) VB.NET 21 31 (7.769 %) TDD 22 30 (7.519 %) C++ 22 30 (7.519 %) MS Excel 23 28 (7.018 %) C

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 1 197 (49.37 %) .NET 2 108 (27.07 %) ASP.NET 3 77 (19.30 %) XML 4 55 (13.78 %) WebServices 5 41 (10.28 %) HTML 6 34 (8.521 %) CSS 7 33 (8.271 %) WinForms 8 32 (8.020 %) XSLT 9 26 (6.516 %) AJAX 10 21 (5.263 %) SOAP 11 20 (5.013 %) ASP 12 19 (4.762 %) MVC 12 19 (4.762 %) Hibernate 13 18 (4.511 %) Spring 13 18 (4.511 %) COM+ 14 17 (4.261 %) .NET Framework 15 15 (3.759 %) WSDL 16 13 (3.258 %) COM 16 13 (3.258 %) MonoRail 17 12 (3.008 %) NHibernate	Application Platforms 1 26 (6.516 %) SharePoint 2 17 (4.261 %) IIS 3 11 (2.757 %) MS Exchange 4 8 (2.005 %) ColdFusion 4 8 (2.005 %) CMS 5 6 (1.504 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 6 (1.504 %) WebSphere MQ 5 6 (1.504 %) ColdFusion MX 5 6 (1.504 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 6 (1.504 %) EPiServer 6 5 (1.253 %) Lotus Notes 6 5 (1.253 %) BizTalk Server 7 4 (1.003 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 3 (0.752 %) FormScape 9 2 (0.501 %) Office Project Server 9 2 (0.501 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 2 (0.501 %) Lotus Domino 9 2 (0.501 %) WebLogic 9 2 (0.501 %) DotNetNuke 10 1 (0.251 %) Documentum
Applications 1 30 (7.519 %) MS Excel 2 7 (1.754 %) Photoshop 3 3 (0.752 %) MS Office 4 2 (0.501 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.501 %) MS Visio 4 2 (0.501 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.251 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 10 (2.506 %) Unica Affinium 2 2 (0.501 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 2 (0.501 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 1 (0.251 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.251 %) Academy Housing 3 1 (0.251 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 22 (5.514 %) TCP/IP 2 15 (3.759 %) Intranet 3 13 (3.258 %) HTTP 4 11 (2.757 %) SAN 5 9 (2.256 %) Internet 5 9 (2.256 %) Firewall 6 7 (1.754 %) VoIP 7 6 (1.504 %) LDAP 7 6 (1.504 %) LAN 7 6 (1.504 %) CTI 7 6 (1.504 %) DNS 7 6 (1.504 %) SSH 8 4 (1.003 %) SSL 8 4 (1.003 %) DHCP 8 4 (1.003 %) FTP 9 3 (0.752 %) VPN 9 3 (0.752 %) Extranet 10 2 (0.501 %) DMZ 10 2 (0.501 %) WAN 10 2 (0.501 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 104 (26.07 %) SQL Server 2005 2 83 (20.80 %) SQL Server 2000 3 17 (4.261 %) DTS 4 16 (4.010 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 13 (3.258 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 13 (3.258 %) Data Cleansing 6 12 (3.008 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 11 (2.757 %) Datawarehouse 8 10 (2.506 %) MySQL 9 7 (1.754 %) BusinessObjects 10 6 (1.504 %) MS Access 11 5 (1.253 %) Crystal Reports 11 5 (1.253 %) ETL 12 4 (1.003 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 3 (0.752 %) VLDB 13 3 (0.752 %) SQL Server 7 14 2 (0.501 %) RDBMS 14 2 (0.501 %) Oracle Reports 15 1 (0.251 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 1 (0.251 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 44 (11.03 %) NUnit 2 41 (10.28 %) Visual Studio 3 8 (2.005 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 8 (2.005 %) ProC 4 7 (1.754 %) Flash 5 3 (0.752 %) ClearCase 5 3 (0.752 %) Subversion 5 3 (0.752 %) ERwin 6 2 (0.501 %) Ant 6 2 (0.501 %) Eclipse	General 1 47 (11.78 %) Finance 2 46 (11.53 %) Marketing 3 18 (4.511 %) Insurance 4 9 (2.256 %) Government 5 6 (1.504 %) Health 6 5 (1.253 %) Retail 6 5 (1.253 %) Billing 6 5 (1.253 %) Telecoms 6 5 (1.253 %) Pharmaceutical 7 4 (1.003 %) Back Office 7 4 (1.003 %) Manufacturing 8 2 (0.501 %) Pensions 8 2 (0.501 %) Electronics 8 2 (0.501 %) Electric 9 1 (0.251 %) Education 9 1 (0.251 %) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.251 %) Front Office 9 1 (0.251 %) Retail Banking 9 1 (0.251 %) General Ledger 9 1 (0.251 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 227 (56.89 %) Developer 2 108 (27.07 %) C# Developer 3 72 (18.05 %) .NET Developer 4 57 (14.29 %) Analyst 5 43 (10.78 %) SQL Developer 6 34 (8.521 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 28 (7.018 %) SQL Server Developer 8 24 (6.015 %) Web Developer 8 24 (6.015 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 23 (5.764 %) Programmer 10 22 (5.514 %) DBA 10 22 (5.514 %) SQL DBA 11 18 (4.511 %) Analyst Programmer 12 17 (4.261 %) VB Developer 13 16 (4.010 %) Administrator 14 15 (3.759 %) VB.NET Developer 14 15 (3.759 %) Business Analyst 15 14 (3.509 %) Software Engineer 16 13 (3.258 %) Consultant 16 13 (3.258 %) SQL Server DBA	Miscellaneous 1 9 (2.256 %) N-Tier 1 9 (2.256 %) Clustering 2 5 (1.253 %) Replication 2 5 (1.253 %) Multithreading 3 4 (1.003 %) Computer Science 3 4 (1.003 %) Blackberry 4 3 (0.752 %) EPoS 5 2 (0.501 %) W3C 5 2 (0.501 %) RIA 6 1 (0.251 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (0.251 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.251 %) Handset 6 1 (0.251 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.251 %) Pocket PC
Operating Systems 1 89 (22.31 %) Windows 2 28 (7.018 %) Windows Server 2003 2 28 (7.018 %) UNIX 3 12 (3.008 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 8 (2.005 %) Solaris 5 6 (1.504 %) Windows XP 6 5 (1.253 %) Windows Vista 7 3 (0.752 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (0.752 %) AIX 8 1 (0.251 %) NetWare 8 1 (0.251 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (11.53 %) OO 2 31 (7.769 %) OOP 2 31 (7.769 %) TDD 3 28 (7.018 %) Migration 3 28 (7.018 %) Agile Software Development 4 27 (6.767 %) ITIL 5 24 (6.015 %) Business Intelligence 6 20 (5.013 %) UML 7 16 (4.010 %) Scrum 8 13 (3.258 %) E-Commerce 9 12 (3.008 %) Web Development 10 11 (2.757 %) Incident Management 11 10 (2.506 %) Data Management 11 10 (2.506 %) Direct Marketing 11 10 (2.506 %) OOD 12 9 (2.256 %) ERP 12 9 (2.256 %) CRM 12 9 (2.256 %) Security Cleared 13 8 (2.005 %) Unit Testing 13 8 (2.005 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 181 (45.36 %) C# 2 150 (37.59 %) SQL 3 44 (11.03 %) Transact-SQL 4 40 (10.03 %) JavaScript 5 39 (9.774 %) VB 6 31 (7.769 %) VB.NET 7 30 (7.519 %) C++ 8 28 (7.018 %) C 9 27 (6.767 %) Perl 10 20 (5.013 %) Java 11 19 (4.762 %) VB6 12 17 (4.261 %) PL/SQL 13 12 (3.008 %) Korn 14 7 (1.754 %) VBScript 15 6 (1.504 %) Shell Script 16 5 (1.253 %) VBA 17 4 (1.003 %) PHP 17 4 (1.003 %) DHTML 18 3 (0.752 %) FoxPro (VFP) 19 2 (0.501 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 38 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (2.757 %) MCSE 3 8 (2.005 %) Degree 4 7 (1.754 %) MCP 5 6 (1.504 %) MCSA 5 6 (1.504 %) MCSD 6 5 (1.253 %) Cisco Certification 6 5 (1.253 %) CCNA 7 2 (0.501 %) CCDP 7 2 (0.501 %) MCDBA 8 1 (0.251 %) MCAD 8 1 (0.251 %) CCA 8 1 (0.251 %) Citrix Certification 8 1 (0.251 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 1 (0.251 %) ITIL Certification 8 1 (0.251 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (1.754 %) SLA 2 6 (1.504 %) TickIT 2 6 (1.504 %) GCP 2 6 (1.504 %) ISO9001 3 5 (1.253 %) QA 4 1 (0.251 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.251 %) BS7666	System Software 1 23 (5.764 %) Active Directory 2 8 (2.005 %) VMware ESX 3 4 (1.003 %) ISA Server 4 2 (0.501 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (0.251 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.251 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.251 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 1 (0.251 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.251 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 7 (1.754 %) WSUS 2 2 (0.501 %) Unicenter 3 1 (0.251 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.251 %) ARCserve 3 1 (0.251 %) ZENworks 3 1 (0.251 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 82 (20.55 %) Microsoft 2 47 (11.78 %) Oracle 3 19 (4.762 %) Motorola 4 15 (3.759 %) Cisco 5 12 (3.008 %) VMware 6 10 (2.506 %) Epiphany 6 10 (2.506 %) Siebel 6 10 (2.506 %) Chordiant 6 10 (2.506 %) Unica 7 8 (2.005 %) Sybase 7 8 (2.005 %) Intel 7 8 (2.005 %) Citrix 8 7 (1.754 %) Business Objects 9 6 (1.504 %) Cognos 9 6 (1.504 %) Sun 9 6 (1.504 %) IBM 9 6 (1.504 %) Genesys 9 6 (1.504 %) salesforce.com 10 5 (1.253 %) Lotus 10 5 (1.253 %) SAP