West Yorkshire SQL Server 7 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 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 7 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Location Aberdeen Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	71
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	29	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	6.517 %	6.068 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£367	-
Average daily rate	£378	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£390	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.29	-
Average hourly rate	£29.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.71	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.69	£29.06
% change on same period last year	+9.02 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	445	412
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.593 %	0.417 %
Daily rates quoted	94	37
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£337
Average daily rate	£311	£361
% change on same period last year	-13.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.67	£24.37
Average hourly rate	£29.13	£25.34
% change on same period last year	+14.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.59	£26.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
SQL Server 7 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 7
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 7
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the West Yorkshire region.

SQL Server 7
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 7
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the West Yorkshire region.

SQL Server 7
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 7
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 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	-4	20	£378	-
Bradford	+2	2	-	-
Huddersfield	-	1	-	-

SQL Server 7 Yorkshire

SQL Server 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SQL Server 7 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 7.

1 71 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 57 (80.28 %) .NET 3 49 (69.01 %) ASP.NET 4 48 (67.61 %) SQL Server 2005 5 42 (59.15 %) SharePoint 6 32 (45.07 %) C# 7 24 (33.80 %) SQL 8 20 (28.17 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 17 (23.94 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 16 (22.54 %) Transact-SQL 10 16 (22.54 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 14 (19.72 %) WebServices 12 13 (18.31 %) Windows 13 11 (15.49 %) IIS 13 11 (15.49 %) SQL Server 2000

14 10 (14.08 %) Health 14 10 (14.08 %) Migration 14 10 (14.08 %) Datawarehouse 15 9 (12.68 %) Microsoft 15 9 (12.68 %) XML 16 8 (11.27 %) Web Development 16 8 (11.27 %) Active Directory 17 7 (9.859 %) Internet 18 6 (8.451 %) Finance 18 6 (8.451 %) VB6 18 6 (8.451 %) MS Excel 18 6 (8.451 %) MS Exchange 18 6 (8.451 %) CSS 18 6 (8.451 %) VB 18 6 (8.451 %) HTML

SQL Server 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SQL Server 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 57 (80.28 %) .NET 2 49 (69.01 %) ASP.NET 3 20 (28.17 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 14 (19.72 %) WebServices 5 9 (12.68 %) XML 6 6 (8.451 %) HTML 6 6 (8.451 %) CSS 7 4 (5.634 %) WCF 8 3 (4.225 %) WF 8 3 (4.225 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 3 (4.225 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (4.225 %) Application Packaging 8 3 (4.225 %) XSLT 8 3 (4.225 %) COM+ 9 2 (2.817 %) ADO.NET 9 2 (2.817 %) ASP 9 2 (2.817 %) XSD 9 2 (2.817 %) XHTML 9 2 (2.817 %) Silverlight 10 1 (1.408 %) SVG	Application Platforms 1 42 (59.15 %) SharePoint 2 17 (23.94 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 11 (15.49 %) IIS 4 6 (8.451 %) MS Exchange 5 4 (5.634 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 3 (4.225 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 2 (2.817 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (1.408 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 6 (8.451 %) MS Excel 2 5 (7.042 %) InfoPath 3 2 (2.817 %) MS Office 4 1 (1.408 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 7 (9.859 %) Internet 2 5 (7.042 %) Firewall 3 4 (5.634 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (5.634 %) DNS 4 2 (2.817 %) SSL 4 2 (2.817 %) WAN 4 2 (2.817 %) Kerberos 4 2 (2.817 %) X.509 5 1 (1.408 %) IMAP 5 1 (1.408 %) DHCP 5 1 (1.408 %) Ethernet 5 1 (1.408 %) Extranet 5 1 (1.408 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 71 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 48 (67.61 %) SQL Server 2005 3 16 (22.54 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 11 (15.49 %) SQL Server 2000 5 10 (14.08 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (4.225 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (4.225 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 2 (2.817 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (2.817 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (2.817 %) MS Access 8 1 (1.408 %) OLAP 8 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (1.408 %) MySQL 8 1 (1.408 %) BusinessObjects XI	Development Applications 1 2 (2.817 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.408 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 10 (14.08 %) Health 2 6 (8.451 %) Finance 3 3 (4.225 %) Legal 4 2 (2.817 %) Government 4 2 (2.817 %) Banking 4 2 (2.817 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.408 %) Graphic Design 5 1 (1.408 %) Retail 5 1 (1.408 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.408 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 51 (71.83 %) Developer 2 25 (35.21 %) .NET Developer 3 17 (23.94 %) Applications Developer 4 15 (21.13 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 9 (12.68 %) C# Developer 5 9 (12.68 %) SharePoint Developer 6 7 (9.859 %) Analyst 7 5 (7.042 %) .NET Designer 8 4 (5.634 %) Systems Engineer 8 4 (5.634 %) Support Analyst 8 4 (5.634 %) Infrastructure Engineer 9 3 (4.225 %) Senior Systems Engineer 9 3 (4.225 %) Web Developer 9 3 (4.225 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 2 (2.817 %) .NET Applications Developer 10 2 (2.817 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 10 2 (2.817 %) .NET Web Developer 10 2 (2.817 %) VB6 Developer 10 2 (2.817 %) Senior Sharepoint Developer 10 2 (2.817 %) Helpdesk Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.817 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.408 %) NHS 2 1 (1.408 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.408 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 13 (18.31 %) Windows 2 4 (5.634 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (2.817 %) Windows XP 4 1 (1.408 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (14.08 %) Migration 2 8 (11.27 %) Web Development 3 4 (5.634 %) UML 4 2 (2.817 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (2.817 %) Network Design 4 2 (2.817 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.408 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.408 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (1.408 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (1.408 %) PRINCE 5 1 (1.408 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.408 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.408 %) SEO 5 1 (1.408 %) Validation 5 1 (1.408 %) OO 5 1 (1.408 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (1.408 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 32 (45.07 %) C# 2 24 (33.80 %) SQL 3 16 (22.54 %) Transact-SQL 4 6 (8.451 %) VB 4 6 (8.451 %) VB6 5 4 (5.634 %) JavaScript 6 2 (2.817 %) C 6 2 (2.817 %) DHTML 7 1 (1.408 %) Java 7 1 (1.408 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (1.408 %) HNC 1 1 (1.408 %) MCSE 1 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (1.408 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.408 %) HL7
System Software 1 8 (11.27 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.225 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (2.817 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 3 (4.225 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.408 %) BMC Marimba 2 1 (1.408 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 9 (12.68 %) Microsoft 2 3 (4.225 %) Business Objects 2 3 (4.225 %) Symantec 3 2 (2.817 %) Mitel 3 2 (2.817 %) Altiris 3 2 (2.817 %) Lotus 4 1 (1.408 %) Brio 4 1 (1.408 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.408 %) Adobe 4 1 (1.408 %) Hyperion