The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 18 9 8
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 24 38 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 8.392% 10.53% 10.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.00% 46.34% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 11
Average daily rate £316 £330 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £211 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £578 £513 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
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 £25.00 £25.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-3.38% -20.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
60 82 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 20.98% 22.71% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 57 49
Average daily rate £425 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% -13.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £473 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
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 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
SQL Server
Wiltshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 26 (74.29%) C#
1 26 (74.29%) .NET
2 17 (48.57%) WCF
3 16 (45.71%) SQL
3 16 (45.71%) Windows
3 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
4 15 (42.86%) Silverlight
4 15 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
5 14 (40.00%) .NET Framework
5 14 (40.00%) Web Services
5 14 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 13 (37.14%) ASP.NET
7 12 (34.29%) XML
8 11 (31.43%) Visual Studio
8 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
8 11 (31.43%) jQuery
8 11 (31.43%) Unit Testing
9 10 (28.57%) IIS
10 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
10 9 (25.71%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (22.86%) LINQ
11 8 (22.86%) MS Excel
11 8 (22.86%) Client/Server
11 8 (22.86%) Finance
12 7 (20.00%) ESRI
12 7 (20.00%) ArcGIS
12 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
12 7 (20.00%) UML
12 7 (20.00%) HTML
12 7 (20.00%) RIA

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 26 (74.29%) .NET
2 17 (48.57%) WCF
3 15 (42.86%) Silverlight
4 14 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 14 (40.00%) Web Services
4 14 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 13 (37.14%) ASP.NET
6 12 (34.29%) XML
7 11 (31.43%) jQuery
8 8 (22.86%) LINQ
9 7 (20.00%) HTML
9 7 (20.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
10 6 (17.14%) CSS
10 6 (17.14%) XSLT
11 5 (14.29%) Ajax
12 3 (8.571%) WinForms
12 3 (8.571%) JSON
13 2 (5.714%) ASP.NET MVC
13 2 (5.714%) Razor View Engine
13 2 (5.714%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 10 (28.57%) IIS
2 7 (20.00%) ArcGIS
2 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (5.714%) MS Exchange
4 2 (5.714%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.857%) SAS
5 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.857%) Windows Azure
5 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.857%) SPSS
2 1 (2.857%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.714%) Intranet
1 2 (5.714%) Internet
2 1 (2.857%) SAN
2 1 (2.857%) DHCP
2 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.857%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (17.14%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.857%) SAP BI
6 1 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.857%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Visual Studio
2 9 (25.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (20.00%) MSTest
3 7 (20.00%) Moq
4 5 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (5.714%) Banking
4 1 (2.857%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.857%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.857%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.857%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (85.71%) Developer
2 15 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Software Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Programmer
4 7 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Software Programmer
4 7 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 7 (20.00%) C# Programmer
5 6 (17.14%) SharePoint Developer
6 5 (14.29%) .NET Programmer
6 5 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (8.571%) Analyst
8 2 (5.714%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Silverlight Developer
8 2 (5.714%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (5.714%) SQL Developer
8 2 (5.714%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (5.714%) ETL Developer
8 2 (5.714%) .NET Software Developer
9 1 (2.857%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Client/Server
2 7 (20.00%) RIA
3 2 (5.714%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.714%) Linked Data
4 1 (2.857%) EPoS
4 1 (2.857%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.857%) Clustering
4 1 (2.857%) Data Extraction
4 1 (2.857%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.857%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Unit Testing
2 7 (20.00%) UML
3 6 (17.14%) Scrum
4 4 (11.43%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (11.43%) MVC
5 3 (8.571%) ETL
5 3 (8.571%) TDD
6 2 (5.714%) Data Migration
6 2 (5.714%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (5.714%) Migration
6 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.714%) Data Transformation
7 1 (2.857%) Database Security
7 1 (2.857%) Customer Insight
7 1 (2.857%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (2.857%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.857%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.857%) Security Management
7 1 (2.857%) Web Development
7 1 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) C#
2 16 (45.71%) SQL
3 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.571%) VB.NET
5 2 (5.714%) VB
5 2 (5.714%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.857%) VBScript
6 1 (2.857%) COBOL
6 1 (2.857%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.857%) ISEB
4 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.857%) MCP
4 1 (2.857%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.857%) Degree
4 1 (2.857%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.857%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.714%) vSphere
1 2 (5.714%) VMware ESX
1 2 (5.714%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.857%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.857%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) HP SIM
1 1 (2.857%) ZENworks
1 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.857%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.857%) SCCM
1 1 (2.857%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) ESRI
3 2 (5.714%) VMware
4 1 (2.857%) HP
4 1 (2.857%) Dell
4 1 (2.857%) EMC
4 1 (2.857%) Citrix
4 1 (2.857%) Novell
4 1 (2.857%) Sophos
4 1 (2.857%) Wyse
4 1 (2.857%) SAP
4 1 (2.857%) Business Objects
4 1 (2.857%) ICL
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