West Midlands SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the West Midlands 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 20 August 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 Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	34
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	152	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.201 %	0.110 %
As % of the category below	20.62 %	13.19 %
Daily rates quoted	35	22
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£253
Average daily rate	£322	£293
% change on same period last year	+9.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£350
% change on same period last year	-5.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£29.88
Average hourly rate	£29.38	£32.91
% change on same period last year	-10.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.75	£35.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£35.45
% change on same period last year	-4.17 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	737	834
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.973 %	0.831 %
Daily rates quoted	166	174
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£317
Average daily rate	£331	£342
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	90
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.18	£27.88
Average hourly rate	£27.68	£30.48
% change on same period last year	-9.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.18	£33.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
SQL Server 2005 England

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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 West Midlands region.

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Birmingham	+23	45	£333	+14.73 %
Staffordshire	+15	28	£356	-
Coventry	+4	18	£260	+4.00 %
Warwickshire	-2	10	£100	-65.09 %
Worcestershire	+6	4	£281	-
Herefordshire	+4	2	£450	+25.00 %

SQL Server 2005 England

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 298 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 175 (58.72 %) .NET 3 138 (46.31 %) SQL Server 2000 4 109 (36.58 %) ASP.NET 5 96 (32.21 %) C# 6 78 (26.17 %) SQL 7 71 (23.83 %) VB.NET 8 52 (17.45 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 42 (14.09 %) NHS 10 38 (12.75 %) Visual Studio 10 38 (12.75 %) Windows 10 38 (12.75 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 34 (11.41 %) VB 11 34 (11.41 %) Microsoft 12 33 (11.07 %) SQL Server Integration Services

13 30 (10.07 %) XML 14 27 (9.060 %) WebServices 14 27 (9.060 %) Transact-SQL 14 27 (9.060 %) Internet 15 25 (8.389 %) HTML 15 25 (8.389 %) Migration 16 24 (8.054 %) SharePoint 16 24 (8.054 %) Datawarehouse 17 22 (7.383 %) OLAP 17 22 (7.383 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 18 20 (6.711 %) Active Directory 19 19 (6.376 %) VB6 19 19 (6.376 %) Finance 20 18 (6.040 %) SharePoint Server 2007 20 18 (6.040 %) .NET Framework

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 175 (58.72 %) .NET 2 109 (36.58 %) ASP.NET 3 30 (10.07 %) XML 4 27 (9.060 %) WebServices 5 25 (8.389 %) HTML 6 18 (6.040 %) .NET Framework 7 14 (4.698 %) WCF 8 13 (4.362 %) ASP 8 13 (4.362 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 12 (4.027 %) CSS 10 11 (3.691 %) WF 11 9 (3.020 %) AJAX 11 9 (3.020 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 8 (2.685 %) XSLT 13 5 (1.678 %) WPF 13 5 (1.678 %) WinForms 14 4 (1.342 %) .NET Remoting 14 4 (1.342 %) ADO.NET 14 4 (1.342 %) Servlets 15 3 (1.007 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 24 (8.054 %) SharePoint 2 18 (6.040 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 10 (3.356 %) MS Exchange 4 8 (2.685 %) Office Project Server 4 8 (2.685 %) IIS 5 7 (2.349 %) BizTalk Server 5 7 (2.349 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 5 (1.678 %) Apache 7 4 (1.342 %) Tomcat 8 3 (1.007 %) Lotus Notes 9 2 (0.671 %) CMS 9 2 (0.671 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 1 (0.336 %) SAS 10 1 (0.336 %) WPS 10 1 (0.336 %) ESB 10 1 (0.336 %) Joomla! 10 1 (0.336 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 17 (5.705 %) MS Excel 2 12 (4.027 %) MS Office 3 4 (1.342 %) InfoPath 4 2 (0.671 %) AutoCAD 4 2 (0.671 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 27 (9.060 %) Internet 2 12 (4.027 %) Intranet 3 5 (1.678 %) Firewall 4 4 (1.342 %) SAN 5 3 (1.007 %) SSL 6 2 (0.671 %) Extranet 7 1 (0.336 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 298 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 138 (46.31 %) SQL Server 2000 3 52 (17.45 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 38 (12.75 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 33 (11.07 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 24 (8.054 %) Datawarehouse 7 22 (7.383 %) OLAP 7 22 (7.383 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 14 (4.698 %) DTS 9 12 (4.027 %) Crystal Reports 10 11 (3.691 %) OLTP 11 10 (3.356 %) MS Access 12 9 (3.020 %) ETL 12 9 (3.020 %) BusinessObjects 13 3 (1.007 %) SQL Server 2008 13 3 (1.007 %) BusinessObjects XI 13 3 (1.007 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 3 (1.007 %) SQL Server 7 14 2 (0.671 %) ReportNet 14 2 (0.671 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 38 (12.75 %) Visual Studio 2 10 (3.356 %) Subversion 3 4 (1.342 %) Eclipse 3 4 (1.342 %) Ant 4 2 (0.671 %) MSI 5 1 (0.336 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (0.336 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.336 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.336 %) WinRunner 5 1 (0.336 %) ClearQuest 5 1 (0.336 %) NUnit
General 1 19 (6.376 %) Finance 2 15 (5.034 %) Retail 3 9 (3.020 %) Health 4 7 (2.349 %) Automotive 5 6 (2.013 %) Government 6 4 (1.342 %) Back Office 7 3 (1.007 %) Pensions 8 1 (0.336 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.336 %) Billing 8 1 (0.336 %) Banking 8 1 (0.336 %) Education 8 1 (0.336 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.336 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.336 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 206 (69.13 %) Developer 2 97 (32.55 %) .NET Developer 3 49 (16.44 %) SQL Developer 4 47 (15.77 %) C# Developer 5 43 (14.43 %) SQL Server Developer 6 39 (13.09 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 38 (12.75 %) Web Developer 8 29 (9.732 %) VB.NET Developer 9 24 (8.054 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 22 (7.383 %) Consultant 11 15 (5.034 %) Architect 12 14 (4.698 %) SharePoint Developer 12 14 (4.698 %) .NET Web Developer 13 12 (4.027 %) Analyst 14 11 (3.691 %) DBA 15 10 (3.356 %) Software Developer 16 9 (3.020 %) Datawarehouse Developer 16 9 (3.020 %) SQL DBA 17 8 (2.685 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 17 8 (2.685 %) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 42 (14.09 %) NHS 2 8 (2.685 %) N-Tier 3 4 (1.342 %) Clustering 4 2 (0.671 %) Data Integration 5 1 (0.336 %) Firmware 5 1 (0.336 %) CMDB 5 1 (0.336 %) Device Driver 5 1 (0.336 %) Replication 5 1 (0.336 %) E-Learning 5 1 (0.336 %) SCORM	Operating Systems 1 38 (12.75 %) Windows 2 8 (2.685 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (1.678 %) Windows Vista 4 3 (1.007 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (1.007 %) Linux 5 2 (0.671 %) UNIX 5 2 (0.671 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (0.336 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.336 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (8.389 %) Migration 2 14 (4.698 %) UML 3 13 (4.362 %) OO 3 13 (4.362 %) Workflow 4 12 (4.027 %) Web Development 5 11 (3.691 %) Business Intelligence 6 10 (3.356 %) E-Commerce 7 7 (2.349 %) OOD 7 7 (2.349 %) SOA 7 7 (2.349 %) Agile Software Development 8 5 (1.678 %) OOP 8 5 (1.678 %) Data Analysis 9 4 (1.342 %) Web Design 9 4 (1.342 %) RUP 9 4 (1.342 %) Data Migration 10 3 (1.007 %) Project Management 10 3 (1.007 %) Scrum 11 2 (0.671 %) Change Management 11 2 (0.671 %) SEO 11 2 (0.671 %) CAD	Programming Languages 1 96 (32.21 %) C# 2 78 (26.17 %) SQL 3 71 (23.83 %) VB.NET 4 34 (11.41 %) VB 5 27 (9.060 %) Transact-SQL 6 19 (6.376 %) VB6 7 16 (5.369 %) JavaScript 8 6 (2.013 %) C++ 9 5 (1.678 %) Java 10 3 (1.007 %) PHP 11 2 (0.671 %) PL/SQL 11 2 (0.671 %) C 12 1 (0.336 %) VBA 12 1 (0.336 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 3 (1.007 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (0.671 %) Degree 2 2 (0.671 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.336 %) MCDBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.336 %) SLA
System Software 1 20 (6.711 %) Active Directory 2 5 (1.678 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (0.336 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 34 (11.41 %) Microsoft 2 9 (3.020 %) Business Objects 3 8 (2.685 %) Oracle 3 8 (2.685 %) Cognos 4 6 (2.013 %) ProClarity 5 5 (1.678 %) Citrix 5 5 (1.678 %) Teradata 6 3 (1.007 %) Lotus 7 2 (0.671 %) RedDot 7 2 (0.671 %) NetApp 8 1 (0.336 %) Mercator 8 1 (0.336 %) VMware