Wales SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) 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 over the 3 months to 16 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Haslemere Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	12
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	71	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.077 %
As % of the category below	43.56 %	53.62 %
Daily rates quoted	31	18
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£345
Average daily rate	£347	£366
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£332
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+40.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.66	£31.14
% change on same period last year	-4.75 %
Database & Business Intelligence Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	163	138
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.143 %
Daily rates quoted	44	29
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£343
Average daily rate	£351	£372
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.39	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£36.46	£26.00
% change on same period last year	+40.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.54	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	-7.61 %
SQL Server 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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Wales region over the 3 months to 16 October 2008.

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
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 within the Wales region over the 3 months to 16 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
South Wales	-3	70	£352	-1.83 %

SQL Server UK

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing SQL Server 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.

1 78 (50.32 %) SQL 2 46 (29.68 %) SQL Server 2005 3 45 (29.03 %) .NET 4 38 (24.52 %) Oracle 5 29 (18.71 %) XML 6 28 (18.06 %) Finance 7 27 (17.42 %) SQL Server 2000 8 26 (16.77 %) C# 8 26 (16.77 %) Security Cleared 9 23 (14.84 %) Transact-SQL 9 23 (14.84 %) Crystal Reports 9 23 (14.84 %) Windows 10 22 (14.19 %) MS Access 10 22 (14.19 %) SC Cleared 11 21 (13.55 %) Visual Studio

11 21 (13.55 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 19 (12.26 %) Government 13 18 (11.61 %) Migration 13 18 (11.61 %) DTS 13 18 (11.61 %) UNIX 14 17 (10.97 %) VB 15 16 (10.32 %) MS Excel 15 16 (10.32 %) Document Management 16 15 (9.677 %) VBA 16 15 (9.677 %) ASP.NET 17 14 (9.032 %) VB.NET 17 14 (9.032 %) Microsoft 18 13 (8.387 %) RDBMS 19 12 (7.742 %) VB6 19 12 (7.742 %) SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing SQL Server 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 45 (29.03 %) .NET 2 29 (18.71 %) XML 3 15 (9.677 %) ASP.NET 4 10 (6.452 %) .NET Framework 5 9 (5.806 %) CSS 6 7 (4.516 %) J2EE 7 6 (3.871 %) Struts 7 6 (3.871 %) AJAX 8 5 (3.226 %) HTML 8 5 (3.226 %) ADO 8 5 (3.226 %) ASP 8 5 (3.226 %) JDBC 9 4 (2.581 %) WebServices 9 4 (2.581 %) CORBA 10 3 (1.935 %) XSLT 10 3 (1.935 %) ArcObjects 10 3 (1.935 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 2 (1.290 %) Spring 11 2 (1.290 %) SOAP 12 1 (0.645 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 7 (4.516 %) Tomcat 1 7 (4.516 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 6 (3.871 %) Apache 2 6 (3.871 %) MS Exchange 3 5 (3.226 %) ArcGIS 4 4 (2.581 %) ArcSDE 4 4 (2.581 %) WebLogic 5 2 (1.290 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (0.645 %) IIS 6 1 (0.645 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 16 (10.32 %) MS Excel 2 6 (3.871 %) Spreadsheet 2 6 (3.871 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 7 (4.516 %) assyst 2 1 (0.645 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (0.645 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.645 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 7 (4.516 %) TCP/IP 1 7 (4.516 %) Internet 2 5 (3.226 %) VLAN 2 5 (3.226 %) LAN 2 5 (3.226 %) WAN 3 4 (2.581 %) LDAP 3 4 (2.581 %) DNS 3 4 (2.581 %) IIOP 4 2 (1.290 %) ISDN 4 2 (1.290 %) X.509 5 1 (0.645 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.645 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (29.68 %) SQL Server 2005 2 27 (17.42 %) SQL Server 2000 3 23 (14.84 %) Crystal Reports 4 22 (14.19 %) MS Access 5 21 (13.55 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 18 (11.61 %) DTS 7 13 (8.387 %) RDBMS 8 12 (7.742 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 11 (7.097 %) Datawarehouse 10 10 (6.452 %) EDRMS 11 8 (5.161 %) Oracle 11g 12 6 (3.871 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 6 (3.871 %) ETL 13 4 (2.581 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 4 (2.581 %) MySQL 14 3 (1.935 %) OLAP 15 2 (1.290 %) Data Mining 15 2 (1.290 %) SQL Server 2008 15 2 (1.290 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 16 1 (0.645 %) PerformancePoint
Development Applications 1 21 (13.55 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (3.226 %) Telelogic DOORS 2 5 (3.226 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (1.290 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.290 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 1 (0.645 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.645 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.645 %) MSI 4 1 (0.645 %) InstallShield 4 1 (0.645 %) AdminStudio	General 1 28 (18.06 %) Finance 2 19 (12.26 %) Government 3 3 (1.935 %) Health 3 3 (1.935 %) Law 4 2 (1.290 %) Legal 4 2 (1.290 %) Retail 4 2 (1.290 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.645 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (0.645 %) Back Office 5 1 (0.645 %) Billing 5 1 (0.645 %) Local Government 5 1 (0.645 %) Marketing 5 1 (0.645 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.645 %) Games 5 1 (0.645 %) Military 5 1 (0.645 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 51 (32.90 %) Developer 2 21 (13.55 %) Analyst 3 18 (11.61 %) Database Designer 3 18 (11.61 %) DBA 4 14 (9.032 %) Architect 4 14 (9.032 %) SQL DBA 5 13 (8.387 %) SQL Developer 6 12 (7.742 %) .NET Developer 6 12 (7.742 %) Programmer 7 10 (6.452 %) C# Developer 8 9 (5.806 %) Analyst Programmer 8 9 (5.806 %) Web Developer 9 7 (4.516 %) Technical Architect 9 7 (4.516 %) Project Manager 9 7 (4.516 %) Consultant 10 6 (3.871 %) SQL Server DBA 10 6 (3.871 %) Integration Engineer 11 5 (3.226 %) Crystal Reports Developer 11 5 (3.226 %) Systems Engineer 11 5 (3.226 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (5.161 %) NHS 2 7 (4.516 %) Mainframe 2 7 (4.516 %) Replication 3 6 (3.871 %) N-Tier 4 4 (2.581 %) Data Integration 5 3 (1.935 %) Management Information System 6 2 (1.290 %) PKI 7 1 (0.645 %) Fat Client 7 1 (0.645 %) CLARiiON 7 1 (0.645 %) Clustering 7 1 (0.645 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.645 %) Thin Client 7 1 (0.645 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 23 (14.84 %) Windows 2 18 (11.61 %) UNIX 3 9 (5.806 %) Linux 4 8 (5.161 %) Windows Server 2003 5 7 (4.516 %) Windows XP 6 5 (3.226 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (1.935 %) Solaris 8 2 (1.290 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.645 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (16.77 %) Security Cleared 2 22 (14.19 %) SC Cleared 3 18 (11.61 %) Migration 4 16 (10.32 %) Document Management 5 10 (6.452 %) UML 6 8 (5.161 %) RUP 7 6 (3.871 %) PRINCE2 7 6 (3.871 %) Project Management 7 6 (3.871 %) Systems Analysis 7 6 (3.871 %) Web Development 8 5 (3.226 %) E-business 8 5 (3.226 %) Business Intelligence 8 5 (3.226 %) Data Modelling 8 5 (3.226 %) OO 9 4 (2.581 %) OOD 9 4 (2.581 %) Information Security 9 4 (2.581 %) Agile Software Development 9 4 (2.581 %) Software Testing 10 3 (1.935 %) DoDAF 10 3 (1.935 %) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages 1 78 (50.32 %) SQL 2 26 (16.77 %) C# 3 23 (14.84 %) Transact-SQL 4 17 (10.97 %) VB 5 15 (9.677 %) VBA 6 14 (9.032 %) VB.NET 7 12 (7.742 %) VB6 8 10 (6.452 %) JavaScript 9 9 (5.806 %) VBScript 10 7 (4.516 %) COBOL 11 5 (3.226 %) C++ 11 5 (3.226 %) C 11 5 (3.226 %) PHP 12 3 (1.935 %) Java 13 2 (1.290 %) Perl 13 2 (1.290 %) Delphi 13 2 (1.290 %) PL/SQL 13 2 (1.290 %) Shell Script 14 1 (0.645 %) Clipper	Qualifications 1 6 (3.871 %) ECDL 2 5 (3.226 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (1.290 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.645 %) OCA 4 1 (0.645 %) Oracle Certification 4 1 (0.645 %) Degree 4 1 (0.645 %) NVQ Level 4 4 1 (0.645 %) HNC 4 1 (0.645 %) HND 4 1 (0.645 %) MCSE 4 1 (0.645 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.935 %) SLA	System Software 1 9 (5.806 %) Oracle RAC 2 8 (5.161 %) Active Directory 3 5 (3.226 %) Squid 4 2 (1.290 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (1.290 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (0.645 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (0.645 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.645 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 4 (2.581 %) Tivoli 2 1 (0.645 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (0.645 %) MOM 2 1 (0.645 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (0.645 %) WSUS 2 1 (0.645 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 38 (24.52 %) Oracle 2 14 (9.032 %) Microsoft 3 5 (3.226 %) ESRI 3 5 (3.226 %) Telelogic 4 4 (2.581 %) HP 5 3 (1.935 %) Cognos 5 3 (1.935 %) IBM 5 3 (1.935 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (1.290 %) Citrix 6 2 (1.290 %) VMware 6 2 (1.290 %) Sybase 6 2 (1.290 %) Meridio 7 1 (0.645 %) Cisco 7 1 (0.645 %) EMC 7 1 (0.645 %) Sun 7 1 (0.645 %) Altiris 7 1 (0.645 %) VERITAS