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SQL Server 2008 Contracts

Browse 555 SQL Server 2008 job vacancies

The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 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 2008 over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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.

3 months to
19 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008

1310

1406

1598

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

2.723%

2.423%

2.567%

As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category

13.21%

12.42%

12.37%

Number of daily rates quoted

793

879

913

Average daily rate

£363

£350

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+3.57%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£250

£238

£230

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£525

£500

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

£313

% change year-on-year

+4.00%

Number of hourly rates quoted

Average hourly rate

£30.50

£30.75

£28.50

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-0.81%

+7.89%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£19.00

£20.85

£18.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£51.66

£42.10

£98.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£28.75

£32.50

£30.00

% change year-on-year

-11.53%

+8.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence
UK

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category

9914

11321

12918

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

20.60%

19.51%

20.75%

Number of daily rates quoted

5926

6581

7327

Average daily rate

£382

£375

£400

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+1.86%

-6.25%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£250

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£550

£525

£550

UK excluding London average daily rate

£330

£325

£330

% change year-on-year

+1.53%

-1.51%

Number of hourly rates quoted

220

265

342

Average hourly rate

£27.49

£26.00

£30.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+5.73%

-13.33%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£16.50

£14.06

£16.15

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£51.09

£43.50

£45.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£27.50

£25.00

£31.00

% change year-on-year

+10.00%

-19.35%

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the UK.

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the UK.

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

SQL Server 2008
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 2008 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Click each for more statistics)	Rank 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	Find Job Vacancies
England	+2	1194	£363	+3.57%	523
London	+9	564	£425	+6.25%	153
South East	+15	204	£350	-	106
City of London	+8	185	£425	+6.25%	55
North West	+13	119	£325	+18.18%	70
East of England	-5	79	£275	-15.38%	39
Yorkshire	+17	74	£300	-11.11%	35
Scotland	-10	59	£338	+12.50%	24
West Midlands	-11	54	£375	+44.92%	38
West Yorkshire	+11	49	£313	-7.40%	24
East Midlands	+3	45	£275	-8.33%	23
Manchester	-3	45	£318	+15.45%	30
South West	-11	43	£350	+5.66%	45
Cheshire	+23	42	£388	+40.90%	23
Hampshire	+3	40	£316	-2.69%	19
Berkshire	+17	31	£359	+2.50%	23
Buckinghamshire	+2	27	£340	+6.25%	7
Wales	+9	24	£331	-5.35%	2
Surrey	-10	24	£300	-7.69%	22
East Sussex	+14	23	£363	-25.64%	7
Cambridgeshire	-8	23	£300	-4.76%	10
Glasgow	-13	23	£350	+16.66%	9
Nottinghamshire	-10	21	£275	-8.33%	8
West Sussex	+11	19	£360	+2.85%	3
Brighton	+13	18	£363	-27.50%	7
Essex	+9	18	£250	-10.71%	3
South Wales	+3	18	£325	-7.14%	2
Leeds	-12	18	£300	-11.11%	15
Hertfordshire	+14	17	£245	-18.33%	14
Edinburgh	-4	17	£290	-10.76%	9

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1	2634 (100.00%)	SQL Server
2	1365 (51.82%)	SQL
3	1291 (49.01%)	.NET
4	1132 (42.98%)	C#
5	1123 (42.63%)	SQL Server 2005
6	870 (33.03%)	Microsoft
7	808 (30.68%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	738 (28.02%)	ASP.NET
9	695 (26.39%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	657 (24.94%)	Windows
11	638 (24.22%)	T-SQL
12	463 (17.58%)	Business Intelligence
13	461 (17.50%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
14	418 (15.87%)	.NET Framework
15	397 (15.07%)	WCF

16	395 (15.00%)	MVC
17	391 (14.84%)	Finance
17	391 (14.84%)	SharePoint
18	378 (14.35%)	JavaScript
19	363 (13.78%)	Visual Studio
20	358 (13.59%)	Data Warehouse
21	348 (13.21%)	MS Excel
22	341 (12.95%)	Windows Server 2008
23	338 (12.83%)	ETL
24	326 (12.38%)	HTML
25	317 (12.03%)	CSS
26	313 (11.88%)	SQL Server 2012
27	309 (11.73%)	jQuery
28	295 (11.20%)	XML
29	294 (11.16%)	ASP.NET MVC

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1	1291 (49.01%)	.NET
2	738 (28.02%)	ASP.NET
3	418 (15.87%)	.NET Framework
4	397 (15.07%)	WCF
5	326 (12.38%)	HTML
6	317 (12.03%)	CSS
7	309 (11.73%)	jQuery
8	295 (11.20%)	XML
9	294 (11.16%)	ASP.NET MVC
10	255 (9.681%)	Web Services
11	208 (7.897%)	ADO.NET Entity Framework
12	169 (6.416%)	Ajax
13	159 (6.036%)	MDX
14	157 (5.961%)	WPF
15	138 (5.239%)	ASP.NET MVC 3
16	118 (4.480%)	LINQ
17	91 (3.455%)	Silverlight
18	68 (2.582%)	Razor View Engine
19	65 (2.468%)	SOAP
20	64 (2.430%)	WinForms

Application Platforms
1	391 (14.84%)	SharePoint
2	195 (7.403%)	IIS
2	195 (7.403%)	SharePoint 2010
3	141 (5.353%)	MS Exchange
4	99 (3.759%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	87 (3.303%)	BizTalk Server
6	58 (2.202%)	Exchange Server 2003
7	52 (1.974%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	43 (1.632%)	SharePoint 2013
9	40 (1.519%)	CMS
10	39 (1.481%)	SharePoint Server
11	32 (1.215%)	Apache
12	28 (1.063%)	Windows Azure
13	25 (0.949%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
14	20 (0.759%)	Umbraco
14	20 (0.759%)	ESB
15	18 (0.683%)	Lync
16	12 (0.456%)	Confluence
17	11 (0.418%)	ArcGIS
17	11 (0.418%)	WebSphere Application Server

Applications
1	348 (13.21%)	MS Excel
2	122 (4.632%)	MS Office
3	45 (1.708%)	InfoPath
4	35 (1.329%)	PowerPivot
5	33 (1.253%)	MS Visio
6	16 (0.607%)	MS PowerPoint
7	14 (0.532%)	Spreadsheet
8	9 (0.342%)	MS Project
9	6 (0.228%)	Photoshop
10	5 (0.190%)	FastStats
11	2 (0.076%)	PrintSoft PReS
11	2 (0.076%)	DOC1
12	1 (0.038%)	Maya
12	1 (0.038%)	PaintShop Pro
12	1 (0.038%)	Fireworks

Business Applications
1	76 (2.885%)	Dynamics CRM
2	12 (0.456%)	Dynamics NAV
3	11 (0.418%)	Oracle EBS
4	10 (0.380%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
5	9 (0.342%)	Adaptiv
6	7 (0.266%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	7 (0.266%)	Agresso
7	5 (0.190%)	SAP BPC
7	5 (0.190%)	Dynamics AX
7	5 (0.190%)	Maximo
8	3 (0.114%)	Line 500
8	3 (0.114%)	SAP Oil and Gas
8	3 (0.114%)	Oracle Applications
8	3 (0.114%)	Oracle 11i
9	2 (0.076%)	Exstream
9	2 (0.076%)	Sage 200
10	1 (0.038%)	Infor M3
10	1 (0.038%)	Oracle BPM
10	1 (0.038%)	Eagle PACE
10	1 (0.038%)	Google Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	117 (4.442%)	SAN
2	65 (2.468%)	DNS
3	63 (2.392%)	Firewall
4	58 (2.202%)	TCP/IP
5	52 (1.974%)	Internet
6	49 (1.860%)	WAN
7	46 (1.746%)	LAN
8	38 (1.443%)	DHCP
9	34 (1.291%)	HTTP
10	27 (1.025%)	VPN
11	24 (0.911%)	Intranet
12	21 (0.797%)	Wireless
13	19 (0.721%)	NAS
14	11 (0.418%)	Cisco ASA
14	11 (0.418%)	VoIP
15	10 (0.380%)	SSL
16	9 (0.342%)	Cisco Nexus
16	9 (0.342%)	Network Security
16	9 (0.342%)	NetScreen
16	9 (0.342%)	SMTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	2634 (100.00%)	SQL Server
2	1123 (42.63%)	SQL Server 2005
3	808 (30.68%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	695 (26.39%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	461 (17.50%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	358 (13.59%)	Data Warehouse
7	313 (11.88%)	SQL Server 2012
8	237 (8.998%)	SQL Server 2000
9	148 (5.619%)	Oracle 8/8i
10	133 (5.049%)	OLAP
11	100 (3.797%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
12	70 (2.658%)	DTS
12	70 (2.658%)	Oracle 11g
13	62 (2.354%)	Oracle 10g
14	47 (1.784%)	MySQL
15	35 (1.329%)	PerformancePoint
16	34 (1.291%)	MS Access
16	34 (1.291%)	OLTP
17	31 (1.177%)	Crystal Reports
18	29 (1.101%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	363 (13.78%)	Visual Studio
2	166 (6.302%)	Team Foundation Server
3	98 (3.721%)	Subversion
4	67 (2.544%)	NUnit
5	58 (2.202%)	VSS/SourceSafe
6	36 (1.367%)	MSTest
7	30 (1.139%)	Moq
8	25 (0.949%)	Rhino Mocks
8	25 (0.949%)	Git (software)
9	23 (0.873%)	JIRA
10	20 (0.759%)	Oracle APEX
10	20 (0.759%)	Selenium
10	20 (0.759%)	SpecFlow
11	17 (0.645%)	Visual Studio Team System
12	16 (0.607%)	Microsoft Blend
13	14 (0.532%)	Jenkins
14	13 (0.494%)	CruiseControl
15	12 (0.456%)	TortoiseSVN
16	11 (0.418%)	InstallShield
16	11 (0.418%)	QuickTest Pro

General
1	391 (14.84%)	Finance
2	287 (10.90%)	Banking
3	128 (4.860%)	Investment Banking
4	85 (3.227%)	Retail
5	32 (1.215%)	Marketing
5	32 (1.215%)	Front Office
6	28 (1.063%)	Telecoms
7	19 (0.721%)	Publishing
7	19 (0.721%)	Legal
7	19 (0.721%)	Manufacturing
8	16 (0.607%)	Advertising
8	16 (0.607%)	Back Office
9	13 (0.494%)	Games
10	10 (0.380%)	Financial Institution
11	7 (0.266%)	Law
12	6 (0.228%)	Pharmaceutical
13	4 (0.152%)	Military
13	4 (0.152%)	Local Government
14	3 (0.114%)	French Language
14	3 (0.114%)	Electronics

Job Titles
1	1590 (60.36%)	Developer
2	506 (19.21%)	.NET Developer
3	358 (13.59%)	SQL Developer
4	301 (11.43%)	C# Developer
5	266 (10.10%)	DBA
6	244 (9.263%)	Analyst
7	198 (7.517%)	SQL DBA
8	194 (7.365%)	C# .NET Developer
9	177 (6.720%)	Business Intelligence Developer
10	138 (5.239%)	SQL Server Developer
11	137 (5.201%)	ASP.NET Developer
12	133 (5.049%)	Senior Developer
13	111 (4.214%)	SharePoint Developer
14	110 (4.176%)	Architect
15	107 (4.062%)	Consultant
16	105 (3.986%)	SQL Server DBA
17	103 (3.910%)	Software Developer
18	102 (3.872%)	Administrator
19	84 (3.189%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
20	75 (2.847%)	Web Developer

Miscellaneous
1	98 (3.721%)	Clustering
2	87 (3.303%)	NHS
3	61 (2.316%)	Replication
4	47 (1.784%)	Credit Risk
5	44 (1.670%)	Management Information System
6	41 (1.557%)	N-Tier
7	39 (1.481%)	Fixed Income
8	37 (1.405%)	Computer Science
9	29 (1.101%)	Blackberry
10	28 (1.063%)	Data Integration
11	26 (0.987%)	Derivative
12	22 (0.835%)	Enterprise Software
13	21 (0.797%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
14	20 (0.759%)	Equities
15	19 (0.721%)	RIA
16	18 (0.683%)	W3C
16	18 (0.683%)	Client/Server
16	18 (0.683%)	Market Risk
17	17 (0.645%)	Mobile App
18	16 (0.607%)	Statistics

Operating Systems
1	657 (24.94%)	Windows
2	341 (12.95%)	Windows Server 2008
3	251 (9.529%)	Windows Server 2003
4	106 (4.024%)	Linux
5	89 (3.379%)	Windows 7
6	65 (2.468%)	UNIX
7	42 (1.595%)	Windows 2000
8	40 (1.519%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	40 (1.519%)	Windows Server 2012
9	38 (1.443%)	Solaris
10	30 (1.139%)	Windows XP
11	20 (0.759%)	AIX
12	13 (0.494%)	Windows Vista
13	12 (0.456%)	Windows 8
14	10 (0.380%)	Windows NT
14	10 (0.380%)	Windows 2000 Server
15	9 (0.342%)	Android
16	7 (0.266%)	Apple iOS
17	4 (0.152%)	Ubuntu
17	4 (0.152%)	Oracle Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	463 (17.58%)	Business Intelligence
2	395 (15.00%)	MVC
3	338 (12.83%)	ETL
4	260 (9.871%)	Agile Software Development
5	231 (8.770%)	Scrum
6	223 (8.466%)	TDD
7	219 (8.314%)	Migration
8	148 (5.619%)	OO
9	134 (5.087%)	Data Modelling
10	118 (4.480%)	CRM
11	97 (3.683%)	Unit Testing
12	93 (3.531%)	E-Commerce
13	91 (3.455%)	ITIL
14	89 (3.379%)	Web Development
15	78 (2.961%)	SOA
16	73 (2.771%)	BDD
17	71 (2.696%)	Kimball Methodology
18	70 (2.658%)	Data Analysis
19	67 (2.544%)	Data Migration
20	66 (2.506%)	Workflow

Programming Languages
1	1365 (51.82%)	SQL
2	1132 (42.98%)	C#
3	638 (24.22%)	T-SQL
4	378 (14.35%)	JavaScript
5	165 (6.264%)	VB.NET
6	121 (4.594%)	VB
7	100 (3.797%)	PowerShell
8	99 (3.759%)	VBA
9	69 (2.620%)	PL/SQL
9	69 (2.620%)	Java
10	56 (2.126%)	VB6
11	46 (1.746%)	VBScript
12	41 (1.557%)	C++
13	35 (1.329%)	Perl
14	34 (1.291%)	PHP
15	26 (0.987%)	Shell Script
15	26 (0.987%)	C
16	20 (0.759%)	Python
17	15 (0.569%)	Ruby
18	12 (0.456%)	XPath

Qualifications
1	141 (5.353%)	Microsoft Certification
2	108 (4.100%)	Security Cleared
3	103 (3.910%)	Degree
4	65 (2.468%)	SC Cleared
5	51 (1.936%)	MCTS
6	50 (1.898%)	MCITP
7	46 (1.746%)	MCSE
8	39 (1.481%)	DV Cleared
9	28 (1.063%)	MCP
10	20 (0.759%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	18 (0.683%)	CCNA
11	18 (0.683%)	Cisco Certification
11	18 (0.683%)	MCSD
12	16 (0.607%)	MCSA
12	16 (0.607%)	MCAD
13	14 (0.532%)	ISEB
14	11 (0.418%)	Citrix Certification
15	10 (0.380%)	MCPD
15	10 (0.380%)	ISEB Practitioner
16	8 (0.304%)	Oracle Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	53 (2.012%)	QA
2	30 (1.139%)	SLA
3	19 (0.721%)	Basel III
4	17 (0.645%)	ISO 9001
5	13 (0.494%)	WCAG
6	10 (0.380%)	Data Quality
7	3 (0.114%)	Section 508
7	3 (0.114%)	PCI DSS
8	2 (0.076%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	2 (0.076%)	Basel II
8	2 (0.076%)	HL7
8	2 (0.076%)	JSP 440
8	2 (0.076%)	Dublin Core
9	1 (0.038%)	WAI

System Software
1	263 (9.985%)	Active Directory
2	133 (5.049%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	72 (2.733%)	vSphere
4	59 (2.240%)	XenApp
5	57 (2.164%)	VMware ESX
6	43 (1.632%)	Hyper-V
7	40 (1.519%)	Oracle RAC
8	19 (0.721%)	Oracle RMAN
9	18 (0.683%)	ISA Server
10	14 (0.532%)	Citrix Presentation Server
10	14 (0.532%)	XenDesktop
11	12 (0.456%)	Terminal Services
12	10 (0.380%)	VMware ESXi
13	9 (0.342%)	UAG
13	9 (0.342%)	Forefront TMG
14	7 (0.266%)	XenServer
15	6 (0.228%)	VMware Server
15	6 (0.228%)	SRDF
16	5 (0.190%)	Microsoft App-V
17	4 (0.152%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	60 (2.278%)	SCCM
2	49 (1.860%)	SCOM
3	21 (0.797%)	HP Quality Center
4	17 (0.645%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
4	17 (0.645%)	Backup Exec
5	12 (0.456%)	EMC NetWorker
6	10 (0.380%)	BMC PATROL
6	10 (0.380%)	NetBackup
6	10 (0.380%)	HP SIM
6	10 (0.380%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
7	9 (0.342%)	BMC Performance Manager
7	9 (0.342%)	BladeLogic
7	9 (0.342%)	WMI
8	8 (0.304%)	Norton AntiVirus
9	6 (0.228%)	MOM
9	6 (0.228%)	HP Operations Orchestration
9	6 (0.228%)	Data Guard
9	6 (0.228%)	Puppet
10	5 (0.190%)	SCVMM
10	5 (0.190%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	870 (33.03%)	Microsoft
2	259 (9.833%)	VMware
3	221 (8.390%)	Oracle
4	107 (4.062%)	HP
5	96 (3.645%)	Citrix
6	77 (2.923%)	Business Objects
7	65 (2.468%)	Cisco
8	54 (2.050%)	IBM
9	51 (1.936%)	NetApp
10	49 (1.860%)	Cognos
11	43 (1.632%)	Red Hat
12	37 (1.405%)	SAP
13	34 (1.291%)	EMC
14	31 (1.177%)	Tableau
15	25 (0.949%)	Dell
16	24 (0.911%)	Symantec
16	24 (0.911%)	MicroStrategy
17	22 (0.835%)	Sybase
18	20 (0.759%)	Reuters
19	18 (0.683%)	Bloomberg

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