Wales SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Wales 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hornchurch Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	42
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	20	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	11.49 %	13.01 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£250
Average daily rate	£470	£269
% change on same period last year	+74.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£557	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£348
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.00
Average hourly rate	-	£38.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.44	£34.27
% change on same period last year	+0.49 %
Database & Business Intelligence Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	174	146
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	44	30
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£375
Average daily rate	£351	£407
% change on same period last year	-13.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.29	£21.58
Average hourly rate	£18.56	£23.37
% change on same period last year	-20.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.83	£25.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 2005 UK

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 Wales 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 Wales region.

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Wales region.

SQL Server 2005
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
South Wales	0	18	£470	+61.37 %

SQL Server 2005 UK

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 43 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 22 (51.16 %) SQL Server 2000 3 17 (39.53 %) SQL 4 13 (30.23 %) C# 4 13 (30.23 %) .NET 5 12 (27.91 %) Windows 6 9 (20.93 %) Microsoft 7 8 (18.60 %) Active Directory 7 8 (18.60 %) Internet 8 7 (16.28 %) Government 9 6 (13.95 %) Finance 9 6 (13.95 %) Document Management 9 6 (13.95 %) EDRMS 9 6 (13.95 %) XML 9 6 (13.95 %) Oracle

9 6 (13.95 %) ASP.NET 10 5 (11.63 %) UNIX 10 5 (11.63 %) Windows XP 10 5 (11.63 %) MS Exchange 10 5 (11.63 %) Agile Software Development 11 4 (9.302 %) VMware 11 4 (9.302 %) Information Security 11 4 (9.302 %) Management Information System 11 4 (9.302 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 4 (9.302 %) Squid 11 4 (9.302 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 4 (9.302 %) VLAN 11 4 (9.302 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 4 (9.302 %) LAN 11 4 (9.302 %) WAN

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 13 (30.23 %) .NET 2 6 (13.95 %) ASP.NET 2 6 (13.95 %) XML 3 3 (6.977 %) CORBA 3 3 (6.977 %) AJAX 4 2 (4.651 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (4.651 %) XSLT 4 2 (4.651 %) HTML 4 2 (4.651 %) WebServices 5 1 (2.326 %) CSS 5 1 (2.326 %) ADO.NET 5 1 (2.326 %) MDX 5 1 (2.326 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 1 (2.326 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (11.63 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (9.302 %) Apache 2 4 (9.302 %) Tomcat 3 3 (6.977 %) SharePoint 4 2 (4.651 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (4.651 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (2.326 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (2.326 %) IIS 5 1 (2.326 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 4 (9.302 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.326 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (18.60 %) Internet 2 4 (9.302 %) VLAN 2 4 (9.302 %) LAN 2 4 (9.302 %) WAN 2 4 (9.302 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (6.977 %) IIOP 4 2 (4.651 %) SSL 5 1 (2.326 %) Intranet 5 1 (2.326 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 22 (51.16 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (13.95 %) EDRMS 4 4 (9.302 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (9.302 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (6.977 %) DTS 6 2 (4.651 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (2.326 %) OLAP 7 1 (2.326 %) MS Access 7 1 (2.326 %) Data Mart 7 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 3 (6.977 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.326 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (2.326 %) NUnit 2 1 (2.326 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 7 (16.28 %) Government 2 6 (13.95 %) Finance 3 1 (2.326 %) Health 3 1 (2.326 %) Advertising 3 1 (2.326 %) Banking 3 1 (2.326 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 19 (44.19 %) Developer 2 11 (25.58 %) C# Developer 3 7 (16.28 %) .NET Developer 4 6 (13.95 %) DBA 4 6 (13.95 %) SQL Developer 5 5 (11.63 %) SQL DBA 6 4 (9.302 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (6.977 %) SQL Server Developer 7 3 (6.977 %) Server Specialist 7 3 (6.977 %) Applications Developer 7 3 (6.977 %) Analyst 7 3 (6.977 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (6.977 %) Architect 7 3 (6.977 %) Project Manager 8 2 (4.651 %) Administrator 8 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server DBA 8 2 (4.651 %) Windows Server Engineer 8 2 (4.651 %) SharePoint Developer 8 2 (4.651 %) C# Application Developer 8 2 (4.651 %) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.302 %) Management Information System 2 2 (4.651 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.326 %) PKI 3 1 (2.326 %) AS400 3 1 (2.326 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 12 (27.91 %) Windows 2 5 (11.63 %) UNIX 2 5 (11.63 %) Windows XP 3 4 (9.302 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (4.651 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (2.326 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.95 %) Document Management 2 5 (11.63 %) Agile Software Development 3 4 (9.302 %) Information Security 3 4 (9.302 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (6.977 %) Project Management 4 3 (6.977 %) Knowledge Management 5 2 (4.651 %) OO 5 2 (4.651 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (4.651 %) Migration 6 1 (2.326 %) Content Management 6 1 (2.326 %) Information Management 6 1 (2.326 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (2.326 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.326 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (2.326 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.326 %) Web Development 6 1 (2.326 %) Network Load Balancing 6 1 (2.326 %) Scalability Testing 6 1 (2.326 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (2.326 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 17 (39.53 %) SQL 2 13 (30.23 %) C# 3 4 (9.302 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (2.326 %) VB 4 1 (2.326 %) VB.NET 4 1 (2.326 %) XPath 4 1 (2.326 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 3 (6.977 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (6.977 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (4.651 %) MCDBA 3 1 (2.326 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.977 %) SLA 2 1 (2.326 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 8 (18.60 %) Active Directory 2 4 (9.302 %) Squid 2 4 (9.302 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (6.977 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Vendors 1 9 (20.93 %) Microsoft 2 6 (13.95 %) Oracle 3 4 (9.302 %) VMware 4 3 (6.977 %) Cognos 5 1 (2.326 %) HP 5 1 (2.326 %) Lotus