Tyne and Wear SQL Server 2005 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Tyne and Wear 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 2005 over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	41
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	15	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	18.29 %	5.325 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£180
Average daily rate	-	£188
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£341
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.63	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£27.81	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-20.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.57	£36.14
% change on same period last year	-9.87 %
Database & Business Intelligence Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	82	169
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.170 %
Daily rates quoted	13	36
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£388
Average daily rate	£313	£397
% change on same period last year	-21.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£350
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.23	£40.76
Average hourly rate	£26.73	£42.72
% change on same period last year	-37.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.23	£44.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.29	£31.81
% change on same period last year	-4.77 %
SQL Server 2005 North 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 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Tyne and Wear region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Tyne and Wear region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

SQL Server 2005
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 2005 within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle	+10	9	-	-
Newcastle Upon Tyne	+13	6	-	-
Sunderland	-	4	-	-

SQL Server 2005 North East

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 35 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 26 (74.29 %) .NET 3 19 (54.29 %) C# 4 18 (51.43 %) ASP.NET 5 12 (34.29 %) SQL 5 12 (34.29 %) SQL Server 2000 6 11 (31.43 %) .NET Framework 7 8 (22.86 %) Transact-SQL 8 7 (20.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 6 (17.14 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 6 (17.14 %) VB.NET 9 6 (17.14 %) XML 9 6 (17.14 %) Visual Studio 9 6 (17.14 %) Microsoft 10 5 (14.29 %) CSS

10 5 (14.29 %) NUnit 10 5 (14.29 %) Visual Studio Team System 11 4 (11.43 %) AJAX 11 4 (11.43 %) HTML 11 4 (11.43 %) Active Directory 11 4 (11.43 %) SharePoint 12 3 (8.571 %) OO 12 3 (8.571 %) XSLT 12 3 (8.571 %) N-Tier 12 3 (8.571 %) Business Intelligence 12 3 (8.571 %) WebServices 12 3 (8.571 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 13 2 (5.714 %) XSL 13 2 (5.714 %) ASP

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 26 (74.29 %) .NET 2 18 (51.43 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (31.43 %) .NET Framework 4 6 (17.14 %) XML 5 5 (14.29 %) CSS 6 4 (11.43 %) HTML 6 4 (11.43 %) AJAX 7 3 (8.571 %) WebServices 7 3 (8.571 %) XSLT 8 2 (5.714 %) XHTML 8 2 (5.714 %) XSL 8 2 (5.714 %) ASP 8 2 (5.714 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 1 (2.857 %) .NET Remoting	Application Platforms 1 4 (11.43 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.857 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.857 %) Internet 1 1 (2.857 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 12 (34.29 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (20.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 6 (17.14 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (8.571 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 2 (5.714 %) DTS 6 2 (5.714 %) OLAP 7 1 (2.857 %) MS Access 7 1 (2.857 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 6 (17.14 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (14.29 %) NUnit 2 5 (14.29 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 1 (2.857 %) Health	Job Titles 1 33 (94.29 %) Developer 2 17 (48.57 %) .NET Developer 3 8 (22.86 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 7 (20.00 %) SQL Developer 4 7 (20.00 %) SQL Server Developer 4 7 (20.00 %) C# Developer 5 6 (17.14 %) Web Developer 6 5 (14.29 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 4 (11.43 %) Software Developer 7 4 (11.43 %) .NET Web Developer 7 4 (11.43 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (5.714 %) C# Web Developer 8 2 (5.714 %) SharePoint Developer 8 2 (5.714 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (5.714 %) Server Engineer 9 1 (2.857 %) GIS Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) VBA Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) VB Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) ASP Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) Access Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.571 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.714 %) Windows 1 2 (5.714 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (8.571 %) OO 1 3 (8.571 %) Business Intelligence 1 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (5.714 %) Web Development 2 2 (5.714 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (5.714 %) UML 2 2 (5.714 %) Project Management 2 2 (5.714 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 19 (54.29 %) C# 2 12 (34.29 %) SQL 3 8 (22.86 %) Transact-SQL 4 6 (17.14 %) VB.NET 5 2 (5.714 %) VB 5 2 (5.714 %) VB6 6 1 (2.857 %) VBA 6 1 (2.857 %) COBOL 6 1 (2.857 %) JavaScript 6 1 (2.857 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (2.857 %) Degree	System Software 1 4 (11.43 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.714 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 6 (17.14 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.714 %) VMware 2 2 (5.714 %) Cisco