West Yorkshire SQL Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 skills within the West Yorkshire 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 2000 over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thame Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	35
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	62	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.064 %
As % of the category below	13.90 %	15.67 %
Daily rates quoted	12	2
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£325
Average daily rate	£274	£338
% change on same period last year	-18.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£329
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£26.73
Average hourly rate	£31.54	£27.82
% change on same period last year	+13.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.08	£28.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.70	£30.82
% change on same period last year	+12.56 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	446	402
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.594 %	0.408 %
Daily rates quoted	93	34
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£341
Average daily rate	£310	£362
% change on same period last year	-14.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.51	£24.35
Average hourly rate	£28.95	£25.29
% change on same period last year	+14.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.39	£26.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.09
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
SQL Server 2000 Yorkshire

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the West Yorkshire region.

SQL Server 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the West Yorkshire region.

SQL Server 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

SQL Server 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2000 within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leeds	-12	37	£272	-19.52 %
Bradford	+5	6	-	-

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SQL Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000.

1 111 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 65 (58.56 %) SQL Server 2005 3 53 (47.75 %) .NET 4 43 (38.74 %) SQL 5 42 (37.84 %) C# 6 35 (31.53 %) ASP.NET 7 32 (28.83 %) Microsoft 8 28 (25.23 %) VB 8 28 (25.23 %) Windows 9 22 (19.82 %) MS Excel 9 22 (19.82 %) Finance 10 21 (18.92 %) VB6 11 16 (14.41 %) XML 12 15 (13.51 %) MS Access 12 15 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 2000

13 13 (11.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 13 (11.71 %) MS Exchange 14 12 (10.81 %) Windows XP 14 12 (10.81 %) ASP 14 12 (10.81 %) VBScript 14 12 (10.81 %) Active Directory 14 12 (10.81 %) Health 15 11 (9.910 %) SQL Server 7 15 11 (9.910 %) WebServices 16 10 (9.009 %) IIS 16 10 (9.009 %) ITIL 17 9 (8.108 %) Visual Studio 17 9 (8.108 %) VB.NET 18 8 (7.207 %) HTML 18 8 (7.207 %) Windows 2000

SQL Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SQL Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 53 (47.75 %) .NET 2 35 (31.53 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (14.41 %) XML 4 12 (10.81 %) ASP 5 11 (9.910 %) WebServices 6 8 (7.207 %) .NET Framework 6 8 (7.207 %) HTML 7 7 (6.306 %) CSS 7 7 (6.306 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 4 (3.604 %) COM+ 9 3 (2.703 %) XHTML 9 3 (2.703 %) Application Packaging 9 3 (2.703 %) SAML 10 2 (1.802 %) XML Messaging 10 2 (1.802 %) WinForms 10 2 (1.802 %) ISAPI 10 2 (1.802 %) WSDL 10 2 (1.802 %) XSD 10 2 (1.802 %) XSL 10 2 (1.802 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 15 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 13 (11.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 13 (11.71 %) MS Exchange 3 10 (9.009 %) IIS 4 6 (5.405 %) SharePoint 5 4 (3.604 %) BizTalk Server 6 2 (1.802 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Application Server 7 1 (0.901 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 22 (19.82 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.703 %) InfoPath 2 3 (2.703 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 8 (7.207 %) SAN 2 7 (6.306 %) WAN 3 6 (5.405 %) Internet 3 6 (5.405 %) MPLS 3 6 (5.405 %) Firewall 3 6 (5.405 %) VPN 4 4 (3.604 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (1.802 %) SSH 6 1 (0.901 %) LAN 6 1 (0.901 %) DHCP 6 1 (0.901 %) Ethernet 6 1 (0.901 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 111 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 65 (58.56 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (13.51 %) MS Access 4 11 (9.910 %) SQL Server 7 5 8 (7.207 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 7 (6.306 %) DTS 7 6 (5.405 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (5.405 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 4 (3.604 %) OLAP 9 3 (2.703 %) Data Mining 9 3 (2.703 %) Oracle 10g 10 2 (1.802 %) Oracle 9i 11 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 1 (0.901 %) BusinessObjects 11 1 (0.901 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 1 (0.901 %) ETL 11 1 (0.901 %) Crystal Reports 11 1 (0.901 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 9 (8.108 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (1.802 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.901 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 22 (19.82 %) Finance 2 12 (10.81 %) Health 3 6 (5.405 %) Banking 4 4 (3.604 %) Retail 5 3 (2.703 %) Legal 6 2 (1.802 %) Law 7 1 (0.901 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.901 %) Multimedia 7 1 (0.901 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 72 (64.86 %) Developer 2 22 (19.82 %) .NET Developer 3 16 (14.41 %) Analyst 4 15 (13.51 %) C# Developer 5 13 (11.71 %) SQL Developer 6 10 (9.009 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 10 (9.009 %) SQL Server Developer 7 9 (8.108 %) VB Developer 8 7 (6.306 %) Web Developer 9 6 (5.405 %) Consultant 9 6 (5.405 %) DBA 9 6 (5.405 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 5 (4.505 %) SQL DBA 10 5 (4.505 %) Information Analyst 10 5 (4.505 %) VB6 Developer 10 5 (4.505 %) Technical Analyst 11 4 (3.604 %) Administrator 11 4 (3.604 %) Analyst Developer 11 4 (3.604 %) SQL Server DBA 11 4 (3.604 %) Technical Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.405 %) NHS 2 5 (4.505 %) Clustering 3 4 (3.604 %) Client/Server 4 2 (1.802 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.901 %) Replication 5 1 (0.901 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 28 (25.23 %) Windows 2 12 (10.81 %) Windows XP 3 8 (7.207 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (3.604 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.901 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (9.009 %) ITIL 2 6 (5.405 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (4.505 %) Business Intelligence 3 5 (4.505 %) Migration 3 5 (4.505 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (3.604 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (3.604 %) Network Load Balancing 4 4 (3.604 %) Unit Testing 4 4 (3.604 %) Data Migration 5 3 (2.703 %) Workflow 5 3 (2.703 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (2.703 %) Service Management 6 2 (1.802 %) Project Management 6 2 (1.802 %) Web Development 6 2 (1.802 %) ERP 6 2 (1.802 %) OO 6 2 (1.802 %) UML 7 1 (0.901 %) OOP 7 1 (0.901 %) RUP 7 1 (0.901 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 43 (38.74 %) SQL 2 42 (37.84 %) C# 3 28 (25.23 %) VB 4 21 (18.92 %) VB6 5 12 (10.81 %) VBScript 6 9 (8.108 %) VB.NET 7 6 (5.405 %) JavaScript 8 5 (4.505 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (1.802 %) VBA 10 1 (0.901 %) C 10 1 (0.901 %) PL/SQL 10 1 (0.901 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 6 (5.405 %) MCSE 1 6 (5.405 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (3.604 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.901 %) MCDST 3 1 (0.901 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.703 %) SLA	System Software 1 12 (10.81 %) Active Directory 2 8 (7.207 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 7 (6.306 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (2.703 %) Backup Exec 5 2 (1.802 %) Oracle RAC 6 1 (0.901 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 6 (5.405 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (1.802 %) BMC Marimba 2 2 (1.802 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 32 (28.83 %) Microsoft 2 8 (7.207 %) VMware 3 6 (5.405 %) Symantec 4 5 (4.505 %) Oracle 5 4 (3.604 %) Hyperion 5 4 (3.604 %) Brio 6 3 (2.703 %) Altiris 7 2 (1.802 %) Mitel 7 2 (1.802 %) Sony 7 2 (1.802 %) Apple 7 2 (1.802 %) Cognos 8 1 (0.901 %) IBM 8 1 (0.901 %) Business Objects 8 1 (0.901 %) Lotus 8 1 (0.901 %) Adobe 8 1 (0.901 %) Citrix 8 1 (0.901 %) Mercator