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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2000 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

LinkMicrosoft SQL Server 2000
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank15911775
Rank change year-on-year
Down-42Down-42
Matching contract IT job ads4985001593
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.031 %1.267 %1.938 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category4.874 %6.660 %9.606 %
Daily rates quoted226165462
Average daily rate£350£320£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.370 %-8.570 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£258
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£425£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£300£325
% change year-on-year
-16.66 %-7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted2261165
Average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.330 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.50£19.00£23.40
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.00£40.90£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£31.50
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-4.760 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
10218750716584
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK21.15 %19.03 %20.18 %
Daily rates quoted483223894898
Average daily rate£380£350£381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-8.010 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£238£225£258
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£320£350
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-8.570 %
Hourly rates quoted4325581133
Average hourly rate£27.50£27.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.40£15.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£40.00£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£26.50£32.00
% change year-on-year
+3.770 %-17.18 %

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.

SQL Server 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2000 Demand Trend

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the UK.

SQL Server 2000 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

SQL Server 2000 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the UK.

SQL Server 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

SQL Server 2000 Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 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 2000 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-32474£350+7.69 %
LondonUp+4328£380+8.57 %
City of LondonDown-14108£398+6.00 %
South EastUp+867£289-11.15 %
North WestDown-2023£254-6.01 %
SurreyDown-119£235+4.44 %
East of EnglandUp+815£245-8.83 %
ScotlandDown-3714£233-3.12 %
BerkshireUp+612--
KentUp+411£289+28.33 %
South WestDown-4011£265-18.46 %
YorkshireDown-910£200-42.85 %
ManchesterDown-99£300+11.11 %
GlasgowDown-178£225-
West MidlandsDown-258£338-3.57 %
ReadingUp+17--
CheshireDown-127£295-6.34 %
WokingNew entry-7£400-
CambridgeshireUp+116£245-20.96 %
CambridgeUp+46£245-20.96 %
HampshireUp+36£290-
BuckinghamshireDown-86£214+53.22 %
East MidlandsDown-126--
EdinburghDown-166£330-
West YorkshireDown-216£200-33.33 %
OxfordshireDown-25£300-
BristolDown-75£355-
Northern IrelandUp+54--
BelfastUp+44--
County AntrimUp+44--

SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1944 (100.00 %)SQL Server
2751 (79.56 %)SQL Server 2005
3495 (52.44 %).NET
4437 (46.29 %)SQL
5330 (34.96 %)C#
6313 (33.16 %)ASP.NET
7276 (29.24 %)Windows
8242 (25.64 %)Microsoft
9235 (24.89 %)SQL Server 2008
10175 (18.54 %)SQL Server Integration Services
11163 (17.27 %)Banking
11163 (17.27 %)T-SQL
12155 (16.42 %)VB.NET
12155 (16.42 %)XML
13154 (16.31 %)Windows Server 2003
14147 (15.57 %)Finance
15144 (15.25 %)Web Services
16133 (14.09 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
17119 (12.61 %)DTS
18116 (12.29 %)JavaScript
19108 (11.44 %)Oracle
20107 (11.33 %)HTML
21106 (11.23 %)Investment Banking
22104 (11.02 %)VB
23103 (10.91 %)OO
2498 (10.38 %)SharePoint
2597 (10.28 %)Datawarehouse
2693 (9.852 %)MS Excel
2790 (9.534 %)Visual Studio
2790 (9.534 %)Migration

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1495 (52.44 %).NET
2313 (33.16 %)ASP.NET
3155 (16.42 %)XML
4144 (15.25 %)Web Services
5107 (11.33 %)HTML
683 (8.792 %)AJAX
683 (8.792 %)CSS
767 (7.097 %)ASP
864 (6.780 %)NHibernate
962 (6.568 %)iBATIS
1049 (5.191 %).NET Framework
1146 (4.873 %)XSLT
1237 (3.919 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1333 (3.496 %)XHTML
1333 (3.496 %)WinForms
1431 (3.284 %)WCF
1524 (2.542 %)jQuery
1623 (2.436 %)WPF
1720 (2.119 %)ADO.NET
1720 (2.119 %)DHTML
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
198 (10.38 %)SharePoint
262 (6.568 %)IIS
351 (5.403 %)SharePoint Server 2007
436 (3.814 %)BizTalk Server
534 (3.602 %)MS Exchange
625 (2.648 %)Exchange Server 2003
719 (2.013 %)CMS
818 (1.907 %)ESB
818 (1.907 %)ActiveMQ
914 (1.483 %)Exchange Server 2000
1012 (1.271 %)Exchange Server 2007
1110 (1.059 %)ColdFusion
128 (0.847 %)Apache
137 (0.742 %)SAS
146 (0.636 %)SharePoint Portal Server
146 (0.636 %)WebLogic
155 (0.530 %)ColdFusion MX
155 (0.530 %)Umbraco
164 (0.424 %)WebSphere Application Server
173 (0.318 %)Tomcat
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
193 (9.852 %)MS Excel
231 (3.284 %)MS Office
318 (1.907 %)MS Visio
43 (0.318 %)Photoshop
43 (0.318 %)MS Project
51 (0.106 %)Fireworks
51 (0.106 %)InfoPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (0.636 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
25 (0.530 %)Minerva
25 (0.530 %)Eagle PACE
34 (0.424 %)Maximo
34 (0.424 %)Axapta
43 (0.318 %)Oracle 11i
43 (0.318 %)BusinessWorks
52 (0.212 %)Dynamics AX
52 (0.212 %)Dynamics GP
52 (0.212 %)Sentinel
52 (0.212 %)Tesseract
61 (0.106 %)SAP R/3
61 (0.106 %)Dynamics CRM
61 (0.106 %)Summit
61 (0.106 %)Staffware
61 (0.106 %)Oracle EBS
61 (0.106 %)Oracle ERP
61 (0.106 %)TIBCO iProcess
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
146 (4.873 %)Internet
234 (3.602 %)DNS
321 (2.225 %)DHCP
420 (2.119 %)SSL
519 (2.013 %)Intranet
618 (1.907 %)Firewall
717 (1.801 %)SAN
813 (1.377 %)DSL
912 (1.271 %)VPN
1010 (1.059 %)TCP/IP
117 (0.742 %)WAN
117 (0.742 %)Wireless
117 (0.742 %)Network Security
126 (0.636 %)Extranet
134 (0.424 %)Wireless Security
134 (0.424 %)HTTP
143 (0.318 %)LAN
143 (0.318 %)DMZ
152 (0.212 %)SMTP
152 (0.212 %)SNMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1944 (100.00 %)SQL Server
2751 (79.56 %)SQL Server 2005
3235 (24.89 %)SQL Server 2008
4175 (18.54 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5133 (14.09 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6119 (12.61 %)DTS
797 (10.28 %)Datawarehouse
850 (5.297 %)Crystal Reports
942 (4.449 %)BusinessObjects
1040 (4.237 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1139 (4.131 %)Oracle 10g
1229 (3.072 %)ETL
1328 (2.966 %)MS Access
1328 (2.966 %)OLAP
1426 (2.754 %)Sybase ASE
1523 (2.436 %)Oracle 8/8i
1523 (2.436 %)RDBMS
1620 (2.119 %)Oracle 9i
1719 (2.013 %)BusinessObjects XI
1814 (1.483 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
190 (9.534 %)Visual Studio
259 (6.250 %)ReSharper
358 (6.144 %)Selenium
358 (6.144 %)FitNesse
453 (5.614 %)NUnit
550 (5.297 %)TeamCity
649 (5.191 %)WatiN
649 (5.191 %)WATIR
737 (3.919 %)csUnit
835 (3.708 %)NCover
929 (3.072 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1026 (2.754 %)Subversion
1122 (2.331 %)NDepend
1221 (2.225 %)Team Foundation Server
1310 (1.059 %)ClearCase
149 (0.953 %)OpenSTA
157 (0.742 %)ClearQuest
157 (0.742 %)Log4Net
165 (0.530 %)Visual Studio Team System
173 (0.318 %)CruiseControl
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1163 (17.27 %)Banking
2147 (15.57 %)Finance
3106 (11.23 %)Investment Banking
448 (5.085 %)Front Office
540 (4.237 %)Government
637 (3.919 %)Health
724 (2.542 %)Insurance
816 (1.695 %)Back Office
816 (1.695 %)Retail
913 (1.377 %)Marketing
1012 (1.271 %)Telecoms
1111 (1.165 %)Manufacturing
129 (0.953 %)Publishing
129 (0.953 %)Legal
138 (0.847 %)Billing
146 (0.636 %)Law
155 (0.530 %)Financial Institution
163 (0.318 %)Construction
163 (0.318 %)Education
163 (0.318 %)Retail Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1480 (50.85 %)Developer
2188 (19.92 %)DBA
3183 (19.39 %).NET Developer
4148 (15.68 %)Analyst
5146 (15.47 %)SQL DBA
6101 (10.70 %)SQL Server DBA
780 (8.475 %)C# Developer
876 (8.051 %)SQL Developer
960 (6.356 %)Senior Developer
1052 (5.508 %)Administrator
1148 (5.085 %)Support Analyst
1247 (4.979 %)SQL Server Developer
1346 (4.873 %)ASP.NET Developer
1438 (4.025 %)Web Developer
1528 (2.966 %)Applications Support
1528 (2.966 %)Architect
1627 (2.860 %)SharePoint Developer
1726 (2.754 %)Sybase DBA
1726 (2.754 %)Senior .NET Developer
1825 (2.648 %)VB.NET Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
183 (8.792 %)Replication
183 (8.792 %)Clustering
235 (3.708 %)NHS
319 (2.013 %)Fixed Income
319 (2.013 %)Derivative
416 (1.695 %)Equities
416 (1.695 %)Management Information System
513 (1.377 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
610 (1.059 %)Data Protection Act
610 (1.059 %)Open Source
77 (0.742 %)N-Tier
77 (0.742 %)Multithreading
86 (0.636 %)Credit Risk
86 (0.636 %)Credit Derivative
95 (0.530 %)Data Conversion
95 (0.530 %)Dependency Injection
95 (0.530 %)Interest Rate Derivative
104 (0.424 %)Equity Derivative
104 (0.424 %)Blackberry
113 (0.318 %)Client/Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1276 (29.24 %)Windows
2154 (16.31 %)Windows Server 2003
344 (4.661 %)UNIX
434 (3.602 %)Windows 2000 Server
434 (3.602 %)Windows XP
529 (3.072 %)Windows Server 2008
625 (2.648 %)Linux
723 (2.436 %)Windows 2000
819 (2.013 %)Solaris
915 (1.589 %)Windows NT
1013 (1.377 %)Windows Vista
118 (0.847 %)Red Hat Linux
126 (0.636 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
135 (0.530 %)AIX
144 (0.424 %)Windows 7
153 (0.318 %)HPUX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1103 (10.91 %)OO
290 (9.534 %)Migration
376 (8.051 %)TDD
474 (7.839 %)Agile Software Development
572 (7.627 %)UML
667 (7.097 %)Continuous Integration
761 (6.462 %)Refactoring
859 (6.250 %)Business Intelligence
957 (6.038 %)Pair Programming
1051 (5.403 %)OOD
1051 (5.403 %)Web Development
1146 (4.873 %)Unit Testing
1234 (3.602 %)SOA
1327 (2.860 %)Scrum
1421 (2.225 %)Asset Management
1421 (2.225 %)OOP
1519 (2.013 %)ITIL
1519 (2.013 %)E-Commerce
1519 (2.013 %)RAD
1617 (1.801 %)ERP
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1437 (46.29 %)SQL
2330 (34.96 %)C#
3163 (17.27 %)T-SQL
4155 (16.42 %)VB.NET
5116 (12.29 %)JavaScript
6104 (11.02 %)VB
771 (7.521 %)VBA
839 (4.131 %)VBScript
839 (4.131 %)Java
937 (3.919 %)C
1032 (3.390 %)VB6
1124 (2.542 %)PL/SQL
1220 (2.119 %)Delphi
1317 (1.801 %)Perl
1415 (1.589 %)C++
1514 (1.483 %)Shell Script
169 (0.953 %)Jython
176 (0.636 %)PHP
185 (0.530 %)Korn
193 (0.318 %)Clipper
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
150 (5.297 %)Security Cleared
248 (5.085 %)Microsoft Certification
330 (3.178 %)SC Cleared
427 (2.860 %)Degree
524 (2.542 %)MCSE
615 (1.589 %)MCDBA
712 (1.271 %)MCTS
810 (1.059 %)MCP
97 (0.742 %)MCITP
106 (0.636 %)MCPD
106 (0.636 %)MCSD
115 (0.530 %)BC Cleared
123 (0.318 %)Cisco Certification
123 (0.318 %)IBM Certification
123 (0.318 %)CTC Cleared
132 (0.212 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
132 (0.212 %)CCNA
132 (0.212 %)MCAD
132 (0.212 %)MCSA
141 (0.106 %)Citrix Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
121 (2.225 %)SLA
29 (0.953 %)QA
32 (0.212 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.106 %)PCI DSS
41 (0.106 %)PAS 78
41 (0.106 %)WCAG
41 (0.106 %)WAI
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
148 (5.085 %)Active Directory
227 (2.860 %)VMware Infrastructure
320 (2.119 %)MSMQ
410 (1.059 %)ISA Server
56 (0.636 %)VMware ESX
65 (0.530 %)Oracle RAC
74 (0.424 %)Citrix Presentation Server
74 (0.424 %)LiteSpeed
83 (0.318 %)Oracle RMAN
92 (0.212 %)Terminal Services
101 (0.106 %)XenServer
101 (0.106 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
111 (1.165 %)BMC PATROL
210 (1.059 %)SCOM
210 (1.059 %)AutoSys
39 (0.953 %)MOM
48 (0.847 %)SCCM
55 (0.530 %)OpenView
55 (0.530 %)WhatsUp Gold
63 (0.318 %)Norton AntiVirus
63 (0.318 %)OVOW
63 (0.318 %)Data Guard
72 (0.212 %)OVIS
72 (0.212 %)Tivoli
72 (0.212 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
81 (0.106 %)Legato
81 (0.106 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
81 (0.106 %)Novell Identity Manager
81 (0.106 %)MIMEsweeper
81 (0.106 %)NetBackup
81 (0.106 %)Backup Exec
81 (0.106 %)McAfee ePO
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1242 (25.64 %)Microsoft
2108 (11.44 %)Oracle
349 (5.191 %)Sybase
442 (4.449 %)Business Objects
539 (4.131 %)VMware
623 (2.436 %)IBM
623 (2.436 %)Citrix
717 (1.801 %)Cognos
812 (1.271 %)DevExpress
812 (1.271 %)HP
812 (1.271 %)SAP
911 (1.165 %)Cisco
911 (1.165 %)BMC
1010 (1.059 %)TIBCO
118 (0.847 %)NetApp
127 (0.742 %)Reuters
127 (0.742 %)ComponentOne
136 (0.636 %)Siebel
145 (0.530 %)Informatica
145 (0.530 %)Charles River