SQL Server 2008 Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 22 May 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 for the West Midlands region.

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.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 44 39 55
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +16
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 58 80 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 3.459% 3.501% 2.381%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.16% 16.10% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 44 30
Average daily rate £323 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £205 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £359 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £42.20 - £35.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category		 359 497 396
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 21.41% 21.75% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 252 196
Average daily rate £320 £320 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £440 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 14
Average hourly rate £39.60 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+126.28% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.22 £12.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £36.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
SQL Server 2008
England

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Birmingham -7 19 £363 +20.63%
Staffordshire +19 7 £225 -5.26%
Coventry -2 5 £300 +7.43%
Warwickshire -4 5 - -
Worcestershire -6 5 - -
West Bromwich - 4 £350 -
Herefordshire 0 2 £255 -
Shropshire - 2 £250 -
SQL Server 2008
England

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 135 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 81 (60.00%) SQL
3 65 (48.15%) .NET
4 54 (40.00%) C#
5 52 (38.52%) T-SQL
6 43 (31.85%) SQL Server 2005
6 43 (31.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (30.37%) ASP.NET
8 40 (29.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 32 (23.70%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (22.96%) MVC
11 30 (22.22%) Microsoft
12 29 (21.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 28 (20.74%) ASP.NET MVC
14 26 (19.26%) .NET Framework
15 22 (16.30%) Web Services
15 22 (16.30%) Windows
16 20 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 19 (14.07%) JavaScript
18 18 (13.33%) ETL
19 17 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
19 17 (12.59%) CSS
20 16 (11.85%) HTML
20 16 (11.85%) VB.NET
21 15 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
22 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
22 14 (10.37%) TDD
22 14 (10.37%) Migration
23 13 (9.630%) VMware
23 13 (9.630%) Windows Server 2003

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 65 (48.15%) .NET
2 41 (30.37%) ASP.NET
3 28 (20.74%) ASP.NET MVC
4 26 (19.26%) .NET Framework
5 22 (16.30%) Web Services
6 20 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 17 (12.59%) CSS
8 16 (11.85%) HTML
9 13 (9.630%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 12 (8.889%) WCF
10 12 (8.889%) jQuery
11 11 (8.148%) MDX
12 7 (5.185%) Silverlight
13 6 (4.444%) LINQ
14 5 (3.704%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 4 (2.963%) XML
15 4 (2.963%) HTML5
15 4 (2.963%) Managed Extensibility Framework
15 4 (2.963%) Ajax
16 3 (2.222%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.407%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (7.407%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.926%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (5.185%) IIS
4 4 (2.963%) MS Exchange
4 4 (2.963%) ArcGIS
4 4 (2.963%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (1.481%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.741%) WebSphere Process Server
6 1 (0.741%) ESB
6 1 (0.741%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.741%) SharePoint Foundation
6 1 (0.741%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.741%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.741%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.741%) CMS
6 1 (0.741%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (4.444%) MS Office
2 5 (3.704%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.963%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.741%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.741%) Summit
1 1 (0.741%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.481%) HTTP
1 2 (1.481%) DNS
1 2 (1.481%) SAN
2 1 (0.741%) Firewall
2 1 (0.741%) MPLS
2 1 (0.741%) SNMP
2 1 (0.741%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.741%) VPN
2 1 (0.741%) SSL
2 1 (0.741%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.741%) IIOP
2 1 (0.741%) VoIP
2 1 (0.741%) SMTP
2 1 (0.741%) DHCP
2 1 (0.741%) FTP
2 1 (0.741%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 43 (31.85%) SQL Server 2005
2 43 (31.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 40 (29.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 29 (21.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 17 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 10 (7.407%) SQL Server 2000
8 9 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
9 5 (3.704%) OLAP
10 4 (2.963%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.481%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (1.481%) DTS
12 1 (0.741%) UniData
12 1 (0.741%) JasperReports
12 1 (0.741%) PerformancePoint
12 1 (0.741%) Oracle 11g
12 1 (0.741%) QlikView
12 1 (0.741%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.741%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.630%) Visual Studio
2 10 (7.407%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (3.704%) Moq
4 4 (2.963%) MSTest
4 4 (2.963%) Subversion
5 2 (1.481%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.481%) NUnit
6 1 (0.741%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.741%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.741%) CruiseControl
6 1 (0.741%) WatiN
6 1 (0.741%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (0.741%) NMock
6 1 (0.741%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (8.889%) Finance
2 6 (4.444%) Retail
3 1 (0.741%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 101 (74.81%) Developer
2 39 (28.89%) .NET Developer
3 23 (17.04%) SQL Developer
4 21 (15.56%) C# Developer
5 16 (11.85%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (11.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 13 (9.630%) DBA
6 13 (9.630%) SQL DBA
6 13 (9.630%) ASP.NET Developer
7 11 (8.148%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 10 (7.407%) SQL Server Developer
8 10 (7.407%) Analyst
9 8 (5.926%) SQL Server DBA
10 7 (5.185%) Business Developer
11 6 (4.444%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.444%) Administrator
11 6 (4.444%) Teradata DBA
11 6 (4.444%) Analyst Developer
12 5 (3.704%) BizTalk Developer
12 5 (3.704%) MI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.704%) RIA
1 5 (3.704%) NHS
2 4 (2.963%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.222%) Clustering
4 2 (1.481%) Replication
4 2 (1.481%) Open Source
4 2 (1.481%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.741%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.741%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.741%) FMCG
5 1 (0.741%) VLE
5 1 (0.741%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.30%) Windows
2 15 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (9.630%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (5.926%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.963%) Windows XP
6 3 (2.222%) Windows 2000
7 1 (0.741%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.741%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.741%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.70%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (22.96%) MVC
3 18 (13.33%) ETL
4 14 (10.37%) TDD
4 14 (10.37%) Migration
5 8 (5.926%) CRM
5 8 (5.926%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (4.444%) Data Migration
6 6 (4.444%) Resource Management
7 5 (3.704%) UML
7 5 (3.704%) Analytics
8 4 (2.963%) Kimball Methodology
8 4 (2.963%) E-Commerce
8 4 (2.963%) Unit Testing
9 3 (2.222%) BDD
9 3 (2.222%) Project Management
9 3 (2.222%) Data Modelling
10 2 (1.481%) RUP
10 2 (1.481%) OO
10 2 (1.481%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 81 (60.00%) SQL
2 54 (40.00%) C#
3 52 (38.52%) T-SQL
4 19 (14.07%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.85%) VB.NET
6 6 (4.444%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.222%) VBA
7 3 (2.222%) PHP
8 2 (1.481%) VB
8 2 (1.481%) C++
8 2 (1.481%) VB6
9 1 (0.741%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.741%) Jython
9 1 (0.741%) COBOL
9 1 (0.741%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (4.444%) Degree
2 5 (3.704%) DV Cleared
2 5 (3.704%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.963%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.222%) MCITP
4 3 (2.222%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.741%) VCP5
5 1 (0.741%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 1 (0.741%) Microsoft Certified Architect
5 1 (0.741%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.481%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.926%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.185%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.481%) ISA Server
3 2 (1.481%) VMware Server
3 2 (1.481%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.741%) XenApp
4 1 (0.741%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.741%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (0.741%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (0.741%) SCCM
1 1 (0.741%) SCOM
1 1 (0.741%) Backup Exec
1 1 (0.741%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 30 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.630%) VMware
3 8 (5.926%) Oracle
4 5 (3.704%) Teradata
4 5 (3.704%) Mercator
4 5 (3.704%) Cognos
5 4 (2.963%) ESRI
6 3 (2.222%) Hyperion
6 3 (2.222%) Citrix
7 1 (0.741%) Altiris
7 1 (0.741%) Telerik
7 1 (0.741%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.741%) WatchGuard
7 1 (0.741%) Symantec
7 1 (0.741%) Veritas
7 1 (0.741%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.741%) EMC
7 1 (0.741%) SAP
7 1 (0.741%) IBM
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