The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 20 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 Wales 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 10 17 26
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 4.444% 3.704% 3.955%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% 60.00% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £263 £155 £399
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.35% -61.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £26.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -19.23%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
18 5 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 40.00% 6.173% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 12
Average daily rate £263 £155 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.35% -62.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £155 £331
10% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £375 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server
Wales

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Wales SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Wales SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Wales SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

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 West Wales region over the 3 months to 20 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
Swansea - 1 £263 -
Pembrokeshire - 1 - -
SQL Server
Wales

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Django
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Django
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle