West Yorkshire SQL Server 2005 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 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 2005 over the 3 months to 29 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 Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead 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 Poole 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 Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	52
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	103	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	23.68 %	11.78 %
Daily rates quoted	16	2
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£225
Average daily rate	£312	£288
% change on same period last year	+8.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.88	£37.00
Average hourly rate	£28.56	£37.71
% change on same period last year	-24.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.25	£38.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.67	£35.48
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	435	382
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.580 %	0.381 %
Daily rates quoted	77	33
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£339
Average daily rate	£310	£358
% change on same period last year	-13.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.84	£28.68
Average hourly rate	£29.14	£29.57
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.43	£30.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.15	£32.12
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
SQL Server 2005 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 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 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
Leeds	+18	64	£299	+4.05 %
Bradford	+1	6	-	-
Halifax	-	3	-	-
Huddersfield	-	1	-	-

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SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 221 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 173 (78.28 %) .NET 3 120 (54.30 %) ASP.NET 4 118 (53.39 %) C# 5 54 (24.43 %) SQL 6 50 (22.62 %) SQL Server 2000 7 47 (21.27 %) Microsoft 8 44 (19.91 %) WebServices 8 44 (19.91 %) SharePoint 9 42 (19.00 %) Windows 10 41 (18.55 %) XML 10 41 (18.55 %) CSS 10 41 (18.55 %) HTML 11 39 (17.65 %) Visual Studio 12 33 (14.93 %) SQL Server Integration Services

13 30 (13.57 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 27 (12.22 %) Transact-SQL 15 25 (11.31 %) JavaScript 16 24 (10.86 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 17 21 (9.502 %) Active Directory 18 20 (9.050 %) SharePoint Server 2007 19 19 (8.597 %) VB.NET 20 18 (8.145 %) Windows Server 2003 21 17 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 22 16 (7.240 %) Finance 22 16 (7.240 %) NHS 22 16 (7.240 %) XSLT 23 15 (6.787 %) Health 24 14 (6.335 %) InfoPath 24 14 (6.335 %) MS Excel

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 1 173 (78.28 %) .NET 2 120 (54.30 %) ASP.NET 3 44 (19.91 %) WebServices 4 41 (18.55 %) XML 4 41 (18.55 %) HTML 4 41 (18.55 %) CSS 5 30 (13.57 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 17 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 7 16 (7.240 %) XSLT 8 12 (5.430 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 9 10 (4.525 %) AJAX 10 9 (4.072 %) XHTML 11 8 (3.620 %) WCF 12 6 (2.715 %) Silverlight 13 5 (2.262 %) NHibernate 13 5 (2.262 %) ADO.NET 14 4 (1.810 %) Windows SharePoint Services 15 3 (1.357 %) SAML 15 3 (1.357 %) COM+ 16 2 (0.905 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 44 (19.91 %) SharePoint 2 20 (9.050 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 13 (5.882 %) MS Exchange 4 12 (5.430 %) IIS 4 12 (5.430 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (1.357 %) CMS 6 2 (0.905 %) Lotus Domino 6 2 (0.905 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (0.452 %) Commerce Server 7 1 (0.452 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 14 (6.335 %) MS Excel 1 14 (6.335 %) InfoPath 2 2 (0.905 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (0.452 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.452 %) ArcView 3 1 (0.452 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 13 (5.882 %) WAN 2 12 (5.430 %) Internet 2 12 (5.430 %) Firewall 3 11 (4.977 %) SAN 4 10 (4.525 %) VPN 4 10 (4.525 %) MPLS 5 4 (1.810 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (0.905 %) DHCP 6 2 (0.905 %) Kerberos 6 2 (0.905 %) DNS 6 2 (0.905 %) SSL 6 2 (0.905 %) Intranet 6 2 (0.905 %) X.509 6 2 (0.905 %) SSH 7 1 (0.452 %) Extranet 7 1 (0.452 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 221 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 50 (22.62 %) SQL Server 2000 3 33 (14.93 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 24 (10.86 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 11 (4.977 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 11 (4.977 %) Datawarehouse 6 10 (4.525 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 7 (3.167 %) DTS 8 3 (1.357 %) OLAP 9 2 (0.905 %) MySQL 10 1 (0.452 %) GIS 10 1 (0.452 %) Oracle 9i 10 1 (0.452 %) MS Access 10 1 (0.452 %) Data Mining 10 1 (0.452 %) ETL 10 1 (0.452 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (0.452 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 39 (17.65 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (4.977 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 6 (2.715 %) NUnit 4 2 (0.905 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 16 (7.240 %) Finance 2 15 (6.787 %) Health 3 7 (3.167 %) Banking 4 6 (2.715 %) Government 4 6 (2.715 %) Law 5 2 (0.905 %) Retail 6 1 (0.452 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.452 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.452 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.452 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.452 %) Games 6 1 (0.452 %) Education 6 1 (0.452 %) Front Office 6 1 (0.452 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 156 (70.59 %) Developer 2 95 (42.99 %) .NET Developer 3 42 (19.00 %) C# Developer 4 36 (16.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 18 (8.145 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 14 (6.335 %) SQL Developer 7 13 (5.882 %) Analyst 8 12 (5.430 %) Web Developer 8 12 (5.430 %) Consultant 8 12 (5.430 %) SQL Server Developer 9 11 (4.977 %) Applications Developer 10 10 (4.525 %) Senior Developer 11 8 (3.620 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 11 8 (3.620 %) Business Consultant 11 8 (3.620 %) SQL Server Consultant 11 8 (3.620 %) SharePoint Developer 12 7 (3.167 %) VB.NET Developer 12 7 (3.167 %) Project Engineer 12 7 (3.167 %) Programmer 13 6 (2.715 %) DBA
Miscellaneous 1 16 (7.240 %) NHS 2 7 (3.167 %) N-Tier 3 5 (2.262 %) Clustering 4 3 (1.357 %) Client/Server 5 2 (0.905 %) Replication 6 1 (0.452 %) W3C 6 1 (0.452 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.452 %) SCADA 6 1 (0.452 %) RIA 6 1 (0.452 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 42 (19.00 %) Windows 2 18 (8.145 %) Windows Server 2003 3 12 (5.430 %) Windows Vista 4 9 (4.072 %) Windows XP 5 6 (2.715 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 4 (1.810 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (5.882 %) ITIL 1 13 (5.882 %) Project Management 1 13 (5.882 %) Unit Testing 2 10 (4.525 %) Migration 2 10 (4.525 %) PRINCE2 3 9 (4.072 %) Business Intelligence 4 8 (3.620 %) Workflow 5 7 (3.167 %) SOA 5 7 (3.167 %) OO 5 7 (3.167 %) Stakeholder Management 5 7 (3.167 %) Web Development 6 6 (2.715 %) UML 7 5 (2.262 %) Configuration Management 7 5 (2.262 %) Regression Testing 7 5 (2.262 %) Software Testing 7 5 (2.262 %) Time Management 8 4 (1.810 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (1.810 %) Requirements Analysis 8 4 (1.810 %) Network Load Balancing 9 3 (1.357 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 118 (53.39 %) C# 2 54 (24.43 %) SQL 3 27 (12.22 %) Transact-SQL 4 25 (11.31 %) JavaScript 5 19 (8.597 %) VB.NET 6 9 (4.072 %) VB 7 7 (3.167 %) VB6 8 3 (1.357 %) DHTML 9 2 (0.905 %) C 9 2 (0.905 %) PHP 9 2 (0.905 %) VBA 10 1 (0.452 %) FoxPro (VFP) 10 1 (0.452 %) VBScript 10 1 (0.452 %) C++
Qualifications 1 5 (2.262 %) MCSE 1 5 (2.262 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (1.810 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.452 %) MCDST 3 1 (0.452 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.262 %) QA 2 1 (0.452 %) HL7
System Software 1 21 (9.502 %) Active Directory 2 10 (4.525 %) VMware ESX 3 7 (3.167 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (0.905 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.452 %) Oracle RMAN 5 1 (0.452 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 2 (0.905 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (0.905 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 2 (0.905 %) BMC Marimba
Vendors 1 47 (21.27 %) Microsoft 2 7 (3.167 %) VMware 3 6 (2.715 %) Oracle 4 3 (1.357 %) Hyperion 4 3 (1.357 %) Brio 5 2 (0.905 %) Lotus 5 2 (0.905 %) Symantec 6 1 (0.452 %) Metastorm 6 1 (0.452 %) Business Objects 6 1 (0.452 %) IBM 6 1 (0.452 %) Mercator 6 1 (0.452 %) Google