Thames Valley SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Thames Valley 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 10 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 Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham 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 Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England 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 Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove 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 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 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 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	4
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	35	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	43.21 %	43.92 %
Daily rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum daily rate	£234	£308
Average daily rate	£259	£317
% change on same period last year	-18.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.33
Average hourly rate	-	£27.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.15	£31.19
% change on same period last year	-3.33 %
Database & Business Intelligence Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	81	189
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.191 %
Daily rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£354
Average daily rate	£299	£369
% change on same period last year	-18.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£32.40
Average hourly rate	£20.75	£34.87
% change on same period last year	-40.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.50	£37.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.90
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region.

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Thames Valley region over the 3 months to 10 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 Thames Valley region.

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 31 (48.44 %) .NET 2 28 (43.75 %) C# 3 25 (39.06 %) ASP.NET 4 21 (32.81 %) SQL Server 2005 5 19 (29.69 %) XML 6 13 (20.31 %) SQL 7 11 (17.19 %) CSS 8 10 (15.63 %) HTML 8 10 (15.63 %) VB 9 9 (14.06 %) JavaScript 9 9 (14.06 %) Windows 10 8 (12.50 %) WebServices 10 8 (12.50 %) Oracle 11 7 (10.94 %) DHTML 11 7 (10.94 %) XSLT

12 6 (9.375 %) VB.NET 12 6 (9.375 %) SharePoint 13 5 (7.813 %) E-Commerce 13 5 (7.813 %) OO 13 5 (7.813 %) Java 13 5 (7.813 %) Microsoft 13 5 (7.813 %) SQL Server 2000 13 5 (7.813 %) Migration 13 5 (7.813 %) Telecoms 13 5 (7.813 %) LINQ 13 5 (7.813 %) Test Scripting 14 4 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 4 (6.250 %) Finance 14 4 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 14 4 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 31 (48.44 %) .NET 2 25 (39.06 %) ASP.NET 3 19 (29.69 %) XML 4 11 (17.19 %) CSS 5 10 (15.63 %) HTML 6 8 (12.50 %) WebServices 7 7 (10.94 %) XSLT 8 5 (7.813 %) LINQ 9 4 (6.250 %) XHTML 9 4 (6.250 %) ASP 10 3 (4.688 %) JDBC 10 3 (4.688 %) Swing 10 3 (4.688 %) JMS 10 3 (4.688 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 2 (3.125 %) WinForms 11 2 (3.125 %) SOAP 12 1 (1.563 %) COM+ 12 1 (1.563 %) SAP Basis 12 1 (1.563 %) AJAX 12 1 (1.563 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 6 (9.375 %) SharePoint 2 3 (4.688 %) IIS 2 3 (4.688 %) JBoss 3 2 (3.125 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (3.125 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.563 %) SAS 4 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.563 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 3 (4.688 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.125 %) Photoshop 2 2 (3.125 %) 3ds Max 2 2 (3.125 %) LightWave 3D 2 2 (3.125 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (1.563 %) CA Clarity 3 1 (1.563 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 2 (3.125 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (1.563 %) MFGPRO 2 1 (1.563 %) Pivotal CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.688 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (3.125 %) LAN 2 2 (3.125 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.563 %) Wireless 3 1 (1.563 %) GSM 3 1 (1.563 %) WLAN 3 1 (1.563 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.563 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (32.81 %) SQL Server 2005 2 5 (7.813 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (6.250 %) MySQL 3 4 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (4.688 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (4.688 %) PostgreSQL 4 3 (4.688 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (4.688 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 2 (3.125 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 2 (3.125 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (3.125 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 2 (3.125 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (1.563 %) DTS 6 1 (1.563 %) ETL 6 1 (1.563 %) TOAD 6 1 (1.563 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (1.563 %) MS Access 6 1 (1.563 %) OLAP 6 1 (1.563 %) SQL Server 2008 6 1 (1.563 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 2 (3.125 %) Oracle Forms 1 2 (3.125 %) Flash 2 1 (1.563 %) JBuilder 2 1 (1.563 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (1.563 %) Rational Robot 2 1 (1.563 %) C++Builder 2 1 (1.563 %) InterDev 2 1 (1.563 %) NUnit 2 1 (1.563 %) Subversion 2 1 (1.563 %) StarTeam 2 1 (1.563 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.563 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 5 (7.813 %) Telecoms 2 4 (6.250 %) Finance 3 3 (4.688 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.563 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.563 %) Aerospace 4 1 (1.563 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.563 %) Chemicals
Job Titles 1 35 (54.69 %) Developer 2 15 (23.44 %) .NET Developer 3 13 (20.31 %) C# Developer 3 13 (20.31 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 11 (17.19 %) Analyst 5 7 (10.94 %) Consultant 5 7 (10.94 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (4.688 %) Information Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) Business Objects Consultant 6 3 (4.688 %) Business Consultant 6 3 (4.688 %) Junior 6 3 (4.688 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) Java Developer 7 2 (3.125 %) Programmer 7 2 (3.125 %) Business Objects Developer 7 2 (3.125 %) Web Designer 7 2 (3.125 %) Web Developer 7 2 (3.125 %) Business Developer 7 2 (3.125 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (3.125 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.125 %) NHS 2 1 (1.563 %) PKI 2 1 (1.563 %) Statistics 2 1 (1.563 %) Taxonomies 2 1 (1.563 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.563 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 9 (14.06 %) Windows 2 4 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.563 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (1.563 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (1.563 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (1.563 %) Linux 3 1 (1.563 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.563 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (7.813 %) OO 1 5 (7.813 %) E-Commerce 1 5 (7.813 %) Migration 1 5 (7.813 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (4.688 %) Data Migration 3 3 (4.688 %) Web Development 3 3 (4.688 %) CRM 4 2 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (3.125 %) UML 4 2 (3.125 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (1.563 %) Document Management 5 1 (1.563 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.563 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (1.563 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.563 %) Manual Testing 5 1 (1.563 %) Dimensional Modelling 5 1 (1.563 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (1.563 %) OOD 5 1 (1.563 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 28 (43.75 %) C# 2 13 (20.31 %) SQL 3 10 (15.63 %) VB 4 9 (14.06 %) JavaScript 5 7 (10.94 %) DHTML 6 6 (9.375 %) VB.NET 7 5 (7.813 %) Java 8 3 (4.688 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (3.125 %) C++ 10 1 (1.563 %) Delphi 10 1 (1.563 %) C 10 1 (1.563 %) ABAP 10 1 (1.563 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 2 (3.125 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.563 %) Degree 2 1 (1.563 %) MCSD 2 1 (1.563 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.125 %) HL7 2 1 (1.563 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (3.125 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.563 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 1 (1.563 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 8 (12.50 %) Oracle 2 5 (7.813 %) Microsoft 3 4 (6.250 %) Business Objects 4 2 (3.125 %) SAP 4 2 (3.125 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.563 %) Actuate 5 1 (1.563 %) Borland 5 1 (1.563 %) Sage 5 1 (1.563 %) ProClarity 5 1 (1.563 %) GUPTA