The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 24 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 Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 31 31 28
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 9 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.000% 3.030% 2.839%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.52% 13.41% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
Average daily rate £525 £256 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+104.87% -24.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £211 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £660 £481 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
62 82 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 20.67% 22.59% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 57 51
Average daily rate £425 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £474 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £15.25 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -57.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2008
Wiltshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (64.29%) C#
2 9 (64.29%) Windows
3 8 (57.14%) Visual Studio
3 8 (57.14%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 7 (50.00%) MSTest
4 7 (50.00%) Moq
4 7 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 7 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 7 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 7 (50.00%) IIS
4 7 (50.00%) UML
4 7 (50.00%) Client/Server
4 7 (50.00%) Web Services
4 7 (50.00%) ESRI
4 7 (50.00%) ArcGIS
4 7 (50.00%) .NET
4 7 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (50.00%) WCF
4 7 (50.00%) Silverlight
4 7 (50.00%) RIA
5 6 (42.86%) SQL
6 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
8 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
9 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (57.14%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 7 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 7 (50.00%) Web Services
2 7 (50.00%) .NET
2 7 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 7 (50.00%) WCF
2 7 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.143%) CSS
4 1 (7.143%) XML
4 1 (7.143%) Ajax
4 1 (7.143%) jQuery
4 1 (7.143%) LINQ
4 1 (7.143%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) IIS
1 7 (50.00%) ArcGIS
2 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) DHCP
1 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.143%) DNS
1 1 (7.143%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Visual Studio
2 7 (50.00%) MSTest
2 7 (50.00%) Moq
3 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) C# Programmer
2 7 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Programmer
2 7 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 7 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Software Programmer
3 5 (35.71%) .NET Programmer
3 5 (35.71%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Silverlight Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) ETL Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 7 (50.00%) RIA
2 2 (14.29%) Linked Data
3 1 (7.143%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.143%) Thin Client
3 1 (7.143%) Clustering
3 1 (7.143%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.143%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
2 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Scrum
3 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.143%) Security Management
3 1 (7.143%) MVC
3 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.143%) TDD
3 1 (7.143%) Database Security
3 1 (7.143%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.143%) Data Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.143%) VBScript
4 1 (7.143%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.143%) MCP
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) vSphere
1 2 (14.29%) VMware ESX
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (7.143%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) ZENworks
1 1 (7.143%) NetBackup
1 1 (7.143%) HP SIM
1 1 (7.143%) SCCM
1 1 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) ESRI
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.143%) Sophos
4 1 (7.143%) HP
4 1 (7.143%) Dell
4 1 (7.143%) EMC
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix
4 1 (7.143%) Novell
4 1 (7.143%) Wyse
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