Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 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 2005 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 2005
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank494350
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6Up+7
Matching contract IT job ads152111372345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK3.149 %2.882 %2.853 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category14.89 %15.15 %14.14 %
Daily rates quoted746386675
Average daily rate£338£325£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.840 %-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£270
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£450£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£290£300£325
% change year-on-year
-3.330 %-7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted50113155
Average hourly rate£29.44£28.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.280 %-5.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£18.33£17.40£23.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.00£40.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.00£27.50£32.25
% change year-on-year
-1.810 %-14.72 %
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 2005
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server 2005 Demand Trend

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 within the UK.

SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Histogram

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 within the UK.

SQL Server 2005 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

SQL Server 2005 Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2005
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 2005 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-31460£348+1.60 %
LondonUp+14908£380-
City of LondonUp+4279£450+12.50 %
South EastUp+8191£300-6.25 %
North WestDown-796£275-
YorkshireDown-1066£278-7.50 %
BerkshireUp+3358£305-10.29 %
West YorkshireDown-1257£280-6.66 %
ManchesterUp+654£275+1.85 %
East of EnglandUp+2253£245-22.83 %
West MidlandsDown-352£290-17.14 %
LeedsDown-446£300-3.22 %
South WestDown-3345£320+5.78 %
SurreyUp+340£300-14.28 %
ScotlandDown-3138£275+4.26 %
ReadingUp+1526£350+2.94 %
BirminghamUp+524£255-7.27 %
CheshireDown-822£300-4.76 %
Docklands, LondonUp+820£500-16.66 %
EdinburghDown-719£298-0.83 %
EssexUp+1718£250-35.48 %
OxfordshireDown-218£290-3.33 %
East MidlandsDown-1416£240-
GlasgowDown-1715£233-15.45 %
KentNo change014£275+22.22 %
HampshireDown-1914£289-0.43 %
CambridgeshireUp+513£245-30.00 %
MiddlesexUp+413£325+1.56 %
BristolDown-813£400+90.47 %
Canary WharfDown-1713£500-23.07 %

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

12852 (100.00 %)SQL Server
21600 (56.10 %).NET
31220 (42.78 %)SQL
41199 (42.04 %)C#
51017 (35.66 %)ASP.NET
6751 (26.33 %)SQL Server 2000
7730 (25.60 %)SQL Server 2008
8719 (25.21 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9665 (23.32 %)Microsoft
10550 (19.28 %)T-SQL
11536 (18.79 %)Windows
12463 (16.23 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
13460 (16.13 %)XML
14441 (15.46 %)Finance
15430 (15.08 %)Banking
16393 (13.78 %)Web Services
17370 (12.97 %)JavaScript
18352 (12.34 %)Datawarehouse
19348 (12.20 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
20339 (11.89 %)Visual Studio
21320 (11.22 %)CSS
22310 (10.87 %)Business Intelligence
23305 (10.69 %)SharePoint
24302 (10.59 %)VB.NET
25298 (10.45 %)HTML
26276 (9.677 %)MS Excel
27273 (9.572 %)Investment Banking
27273 (9.572 %)AJAX
28265 (9.292 %)Windows Server 2003
29259 (9.081 %)Oracle

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11600 (56.10 %).NET
21017 (35.66 %)ASP.NET
3460 (16.13 %)XML
4393 (13.78 %)Web Services
5320 (11.22 %)CSS
6298 (10.45 %)HTML
7273 (9.572 %)AJAX
8252 (8.836 %).NET Framework
9195 (6.837 %)WCF
10160 (5.610 %)XHTML
11141 (4.944 %)WinForms
12137 (4.804 %)XSLT
13136 (4.769 %)ASP
14112 (3.927 %)WPF
15111 (3.892 %)ASP.NET 2.0
16110 (3.857 %)NHibernate
17106 (3.717 %)jQuery
1880 (2.805 %)Silverlight
1880 (2.805 %)MDX
1972 (2.525 %)ASP.NET MVC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1305 (10.69 %)SharePoint
2220 (7.714 %)IIS
3126 (4.418 %)SharePoint Server 2007
481 (2.840 %)CMS
573 (2.560 %)MS Exchange
640 (1.403 %)BizTalk Server
738 (1.332 %)Exchange Server 2007
836 (1.262 %)Exchange Server 2003
925 (0.877 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1022 (0.771 %)Tomcat
1120 (0.701 %)EPiServer
1215 (0.526 %)WebLogic
1314 (0.491 %)Exchange Server 2000
1412 (0.421 %)Apache
1510 (0.351 %)ColdFusion
1510 (0.351 %)Umbraco
169 (0.316 %)Rendezvous
178 (0.281 %)MQSeries
178 (0.281 %)TIBCO EMS
187 (0.245 %)ArcGIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1276 (9.677 %)MS Excel
293 (3.261 %)MS Office
339 (1.367 %)InfoPath
413 (0.456 %)MS Visio
512 (0.421 %)MS PowerPoint
69 (0.316 %)Photoshop
77 (0.245 %)MS Project
86 (0.210 %)CA Clarity
95 (0.175 %)Adobe Illustrator
104 (0.140 %)Spreadsheet
113 (0.105 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (0.386 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
210 (0.351 %)Dynamics CRM
38 (0.281 %)Maximo
38 (0.281 %)Dynamics AX
47 (0.245 %)Microsoft CRM
55 (0.175 %)Eagle PACE
55 (0.175 %)Minerva
55 (0.175 %)Dynamics NAV
64 (0.140 %)Oracle 11i
64 (0.140 %)Axapta
73 (0.105 %)SAP PM
73 (0.105 %)BusinessWorks
82 (0.070 %)Navision
82 (0.070 %)Dynamics GP
82 (0.070 %)Tesseract
82 (0.070 %)Sentinel
82 (0.070 %)Pivotal CRM
82 (0.070 %)Summit
82 (0.070 %)Oracle General Ledger
91 (0.035 %)TIBCO iProcess
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
189 (3.121 %)Internet
257 (1.999 %)DNS
349 (1.718 %)Firewall
443 (1.508 %)HTTP
539 (1.367 %)Intranet
634 (1.192 %)DHCP
634 (1.192 %)SAN
732 (1.122 %)TCP/IP
823 (0.806 %)VPN
922 (0.771 %)Network Security
1021 (0.736 %)SSL
1117 (0.596 %)WAN
1212 (0.421 %)LAN
139 (0.316 %)LDAP
148 (0.281 %)FTP
157 (0.245 %)X.500
166 (0.210 %)SMTP
166 (0.210 %)Wireless
166 (0.210 %)NAS
174 (0.140 %)Extranet
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12852 (100.00 %)SQL Server
2751 (26.33 %)SQL Server 2000
3730 (25.60 %)SQL Server 2008
4719 (25.21 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5463 (16.23 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6352 (12.34 %)Datawarehouse
7348 (12.20 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
8210 (7.363 %)ETL
9159 (5.575 %)DTS
10137 (4.804 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
11115 (4.032 %)OLAP
12112 (3.927 %)BusinessObjects
1393 (3.261 %)Oracle 10g
1479 (2.770 %)Crystal Reports
1575 (2.630 %)Oracle 8/8i
1667 (2.349 %)MS Access
1748 (1.683 %)Sybase ASE
1845 (1.578 %)BusinessObjects XI
1943 (1.508 %)RDBMS
2035 (1.227 %)Oracle 9i
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1339 (11.89 %)Visual Studio
2114 (3.997 %)NUnit
379 (2.770 %)Team Foundation Server
473 (2.560 %)VSS/SourceSafe
563 (2.209 %)ReSharper
661 (2.139 %)Selenium
760 (2.104 %)TeamCity
859 (2.069 %)Subversion
958 (2.034 %)FitNesse
1056 (1.964 %)NCover
1151 (1.788 %)WatiN
1249 (1.718 %)WATIR
1339 (1.367 %)csUnit
1424 (0.842 %)NDepend
1513 (0.456 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
1612 (0.421 %)Visual Studio Team System
1711 (0.386 %)ClearQuest
1711 (0.386 %)ClearCase
1810 (0.351 %)Bugzilla
199 (0.316 %)OpenSTA
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1441 (15.46 %)Finance
2430 (15.08 %)Banking
3273 (9.572 %)Investment Banking
4146 (5.119 %)Front Office
5138 (4.839 %)Government
673 (2.560 %)Health
766 (2.314 %)Insurance
849 (1.718 %)Retail
939 (1.367 %)Back Office
1036 (1.262 %)Marketing
1125 (0.877 %)Publishing
1223 (0.806 %)Law
1322 (0.771 %)Telecoms
1419 (0.666 %)Legal
1518 (0.631 %)Financial Institution
1616 (0.561 %)Education
1713 (0.456 %)Billing
1810 (0.351 %)Construction
198 (0.281 %)Manufacturing
198 (0.281 %)Pensions
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11837 (64.41 %)Developer
2631 (22.12 %).NET Developer
3414 (14.52 %)C# Developer
4385 (13.50 %)SQL Developer
5357 (12.52 %)DBA
6272 (9.537 %)Analyst
6272 (9.537 %)SQL DBA
7248 (8.696 %)SQL Server Developer
8211 (7.398 %)ASP.NET Developer
9186 (6.522 %)SQL Server DBA
10151 (5.295 %)Web Developer
11148 (5.189 %)Senior Developer
12120 (4.208 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
13104 (3.647 %)Applications Developer
1487 (3.050 %)SharePoint Developer
1585 (2.980 %)Administrator
1678 (2.735 %)Consultant
1776 (2.665 %)Architect
1874 (2.595 %)Database Developer
1874 (2.595 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1154 (5.400 %)NHS
2115 (4.032 %)Replication
3109 (3.822 %)Clustering
490 (3.156 %)Derivative
570 (2.454 %)Fixed Income
642 (1.473 %)Credit Derivative
737 (1.297 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
836 (1.262 %)N-Tier
932 (1.122 %)Client/Server
1031 (1.087 %)Management Information System
1130 (1.052 %)Multithreading
1223 (0.806 %)Equity Derivative
1223 (0.806 %)Equities
1321 (0.736 %)Web 2.0
1418 (0.631 %)Dependency Injection
1516 (0.561 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1612 (0.421 %)Credit Risk
1711 (0.386 %)Computer Science
1810 (0.351 %)Open Source
198 (0.281 %)Data Extraction
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1536 (18.79 %)Windows
2265 (9.292 %)Windows Server 2003
3116 (4.067 %)Windows Server 2008
495 (3.331 %)UNIX
559 (2.069 %)Windows XP
652 (1.823 %)Linux
738 (1.332 %)Windows 2000 Server
833 (1.157 %)Solaris
833 (1.157 %)Windows 2000
930 (1.052 %)Windows Vista
1016 (0.561 %)Windows NT
1111 (0.386 %)Red Hat Linux
1111 (0.386 %)Windows Mobile
1210 (0.351 %)Windows 7
139 (0.316 %)AIX
146 (0.210 %)HPUX
146 (0.210 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
151 (0.035 %)Ubuntu
151 (0.035 %)SUSE
151 (0.035 %)Debian
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1310 (10.87 %)Business Intelligence
2230 (8.065 %)Agile Software Development
3193 (6.767 %)OO
4167 (5.856 %)Web Development
5161 (5.645 %)TDD
6157 (5.505 %)Migration
7146 (5.119 %)Unit Testing
8139 (4.874 %)MVC
993 (3.261 %)Continuous Integration
1086 (3.015 %)UML
1185 (2.980 %)E-Commerce
1281 (2.840 %)Data Modelling
1374 (2.595 %)Scrum
1469 (2.419 %)OOD
1567 (2.349 %)CRM
1665 (2.279 %)Refactoring
1764 (2.244 %)Pair Programming
1764 (2.244 %)SOA
1859 (2.069 %)ITIL
1958 (2.034 %)Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11220 (42.78 %)SQL
21199 (42.04 %)C#
3550 (19.28 %)T-SQL
4370 (12.97 %)JavaScript
5302 (10.59 %)VB.NET
6179 (6.276 %)VB
7153 (5.365 %)Java
8120 (4.208 %)VBA
995 (3.331 %)C
1062 (2.174 %)VB6
1161 (2.139 %)VBScript
1257 (1.999 %)PL/SQL
1353 (1.858 %)C++
1443 (1.508 %)Perl
1535 (1.227 %)Shell Script
1630 (1.052 %)PHP
1729 (1.017 %)PowerShell
1825 (0.877 %)Delphi
1912 (0.421 %)Jython
2011 (0.386 %)Korn
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1194 (6.802 %)Security Cleared
297 (3.401 %)SC Cleared
396 (3.366 %)Degree
396 (3.366 %)Microsoft Certification
435 (1.227 %)MCP
532 (1.122 %)MCSE
630 (1.052 %)DV Cleared
728 (0.982 %)MCTS
824 (0.842 %)ISEB
923 (0.806 %)MCDBA
1022 (0.771 %)MCSD
1022 (0.771 %)CTC Cleared
1119 (0.666 %)MCAD
1213 (0.456 %)MCITP
137 (0.245 %)MCPD
146 (0.210 %)Network+ Certification
155 (0.175 %)ISTQB
164 (0.140 %)CCNA
164 (0.140 %)Oracle Certification
164 (0.140 %)Cisco Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
125 (0.877 %)SLA
220 (0.701 %)QA
315 (0.526 %)WAI
410 (0.351 %)WCAG
56 (0.210 %)Dublin Core
62 (0.070 %)ISO9001
71 (0.035 %)ISO27001
71 (0.035 %)Basel II
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1105 (3.682 %)Active Directory
257 (1.999 %)VMware Infrastructure
318 (0.631 %)MSMQ
415 (0.526 %)ISA Server
513 (0.456 %)Oracle RAC
612 (0.421 %)VMware ESX
711 (0.386 %)Oracle RMAN
86 (0.210 %)Hyper-V
94 (0.140 %)LiteSpeed
103 (0.105 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
103 (0.105 %)Citrix Presentation Server
103 (0.105 %)vSphere
103 (0.105 %)Terminal Services
111 (0.035 %)VMware Server
111 (0.035 %)XenApp
111 (0.035 %)VMware Workstation
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (0.666 %)SCCM
218 (0.631 %)BMC PATROL
316 (0.561 %)SCOM
412 (0.421 %)AutoSys
511 (0.386 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
610 (0.351 %)Data Guard
79 (0.316 %)MIIS
79 (0.316 %)MOM
85 (0.175 %)WSUS
85 (0.175 %)WhatsUp Gold
85 (0.175 %)MIMEsweeper
85 (0.175 %)OpenView
94 (0.140 %)ARCserve
94 (0.140 %)McAfee ePO
103 (0.105 %)BMC Performance Manager
103 (0.105 %)MSI
103 (0.105 %)Norton AntiVirus
103 (0.105 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
103 (0.105 %)Tivoli
112 (0.070 %)Foglight
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1665 (23.32 %)Microsoft
2259 (9.081 %)Oracle
3112 (3.927 %)Business Objects
4100 (3.506 %)Sybase
573 (2.560 %)VMware
650 (1.753 %)Cognos
743 (1.508 %)Citrix
836 (1.262 %)IBM
928 (0.982 %)HP
1021 (0.736 %)ProClarity
1021 (0.736 %)SAP
1120 (0.701 %)TIBCO
1120 (0.701 %)Bloomberg
1218 (0.631 %)BMC
1317 (0.596 %)Cisco
1415 (0.526 %)Informatica
1513 (0.456 %)MicroStrategy
1513 (0.456 %)Adobe
1612 (0.421 %)Red Hat
1612 (0.421 %)DevExpress