The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 8 16 7
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 170 155 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 12.27% 9.102% 10.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 48.16% 33.41% 45.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 98 57
Average daily rate £308 £334 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.86% +11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £250 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £443 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £17.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.58% -15.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.07%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
353 464 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 25.49% 27.25% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 283 117
Average daily rate £298 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £18.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+108.33% -15.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £13.50 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £32.50 £22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
SQL Server
Yorkshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire SQL Server Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Yorkshire SQL Server Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire SQL Server Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Yorkshire SQL Server Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds -2 102 £304 -6.53% 50
Bradford +18 23 £250 - 8
Wakefield +2 3 £388 - 5
Halifax 0 3 £331 -22.96% 4
Huddersfield - 3 £313 - 1
Wetherby - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Dewsbury - - - - 2
Batley - - - - 3
Ilkley - - - -
Keighley - - - -
Otley - - - -
Pontefract - - - -
Pudsey - - - -
SQL Server
Yorkshire

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 151 (47.63%) .NET
2 148 (46.69%) SQL
3 129 (40.69%) C#
4 124 (39.12%) SQL Server 2008
5 98 (30.91%) ASP.NET
6 93 (29.34%) Microsoft
7 64 (20.19%) Windows
8 63 (19.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 60 (18.93%) T-SQL
10 59 (18.61%) JavaScript
11 52 (16.40%) SQL Server 2005
12 50 (15.77%) Oracle
12 50 (15.77%) SharePoint
13 49 (15.46%) Agile Software Development
13 49 (15.46%) .NET Framework
14 45 (14.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 43 (13.56%) ASP.NET MVC
15 43 (13.56%) HTML
15 43 (13.56%) CSS
16 42 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (12.93%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (12.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 40 (12.62%) WCF
18 40 (12.62%) Visual Studio
19 36 (11.36%) Windows Server 2003
20 35 (11.04%) MVC
21 34 (10.73%) XML
21 34 (10.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
22 32 (10.09%) MS Excel
23 31 (9.779%) Web Services

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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
1 151 (47.63%) .NET
2 98 (30.91%) ASP.NET
3 49 (15.46%) .NET Framework
4 43 (13.56%) ASP.NET MVC
4 43 (13.56%) HTML
4 43 (13.56%) CSS
5 40 (12.62%) WCF
6 34 (10.73%) XML
6 34 (10.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 31 (9.779%) Web Services
8 28 (8.833%) jQuery
9 19 (5.994%) Razor View Engine
10 17 (5.363%) SOAP
11 14 (4.416%) MDX
12 13 (4.101%) ASP
13 12 (3.785%) WPF
14 10 (3.155%) NHibernate
14 10 (3.155%) WinForms
15 9 (2.839%) Ajax
16 8 (2.524%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 50 (15.77%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.256%) MS Exchange
3 21 (6.625%) Exchange Server 2003
4 18 (5.678%) Apache
4 18 (5.678%) Tomcat
5 17 (5.363%) SharePoint 2010
6 12 (3.785%) CMS
7 8 (2.524%) IIS
8 7 (2.208%) MTS
9 5 (1.577%) EPiServer CMS
10 4 (1.262%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.946%) IBM Notes
11 3 (0.946%) Lotus Domino
11 3 (0.946%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.631%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.631%) DotNetNuke
12 2 (0.631%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.631%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.631%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.631%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 32 (10.09%) MS Excel
2 16 (5.047%) MS Office
3 5 (1.577%) PowerPivot
4 4 (1.262%) MS Project
4 4 (1.262%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.946%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.315%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.315%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.155%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.208%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (1.893%) Maximo
4 3 (0.946%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.946%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.946%) Line 500
5 1 (0.315%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.315%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.315%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.202%) SAN
2 20 (6.309%) Firewall
3 19 (5.994%) WAN
4 16 (5.047%) LAN
4 16 (5.047%) NAS
5 3 (0.946%) Wireless
5 3 (0.946%) VoIP
5 3 (0.946%) VPN
6 2 (0.631%) DNS
6 2 (0.631%) HTTP
7 1 (0.315%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.315%) DHCP
7 1 (0.315%) RTSP
7 1 (0.315%) DMZ
7 1 (0.315%) Internet
7 1 (0.315%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (39.12%) SQL Server 2008
2 63 (19.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 52 (16.40%) SQL Server 2005
4 45 (14.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (12.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 22 (6.940%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (5.994%) SQL Server 2000
8 18 (5.678%) MySQL
9 16 (5.047%) SQL Server 2012
10 15 (4.732%) Oracle 11g
10 15 (4.732%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 13 (4.101%) Oracle 8/8i
12 12 (3.785%) Oracle 10g
12 12 (3.785%) Oracle ODI
13 10 (3.155%) DTS
13 10 (3.155%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (2.839%) OLAP
14 9 (2.839%) Oracle OWB
15 8 (2.524%) RDBMS
16 5 (1.577%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 40 (12.62%) Visual Studio
2 16 (5.047%) JIRA
3 10 (3.155%) Subversion
4 9 (2.839%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (2.839%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (1.262%) NUnit
6 3 (0.946%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.631%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.631%) Git (software)
8 1 (0.315%) LSMW
8 1 (0.315%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.315%) LLBLGen Pro
8 1 (0.315%) SpecFlow
General
1 28 (8.833%) Finance
2 9 (2.839%) Retail
3 8 (2.524%) Manufacturing
4 5 (1.577%) Legal
5 3 (0.946%) Law
5 3 (0.946%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (0.946%) Local Government
5 3 (0.946%) Banking
6 2 (0.631%) Advertising
7 1 (0.315%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.315%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 186 (58.68%) Developer
2 78 (24.61%) .NET Developer
3 43 (13.56%) C# Developer
4 39 (12.30%) Analyst
5 29 (9.148%) DBA
6 21 (6.625%) C# .NET Developer
7 20 (6.309%) SQL Developer
8 19 (5.994%) ASP.NET Developer
8 19 (5.994%) Architect
8 19 (5.994%) SharePoint Developer
9 17 (5.363%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 16 (5.047%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 15 (4.732%) XML Developer
12 14 (4.416%) Administrator
12 14 (4.416%) SQL DBA
13 12 (3.785%) VB.NET Developer
14 10 (3.155%) Infrastructure Architect
14 10 (3.155%) Web Developer
15 9 (2.839%) 3rd Line Support
15 9 (2.839%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.309%) NHS
2 9 (2.839%) Data Integration
3 7 (2.208%) N-Tier
3 7 (2.208%) Replication
3 7 (2.208%) Clustering
4 4 (1.262%) W3C
4 4 (1.262%) Computer Science
4 4 (1.262%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.946%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.946%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.631%) Open Source
6 2 (0.631%) Informatics
7 1 (0.315%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.315%) Physics
7 1 (0.315%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.315%) CMDB
7 1 (0.315%) Data Conversion
7 1 (0.315%) Data Extraction
7 1 (0.315%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.315%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.19%) Windows
2 41 (12.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 36 (11.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (8.202%) UNIX
5 23 (7.256%) Windows XP
6 19 (5.994%) Linux
7 16 (5.047%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.524%) HPUX
8 8 (2.524%) Solaris
9 5 (1.577%) AIX
10 4 (1.262%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.946%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.315%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (15.46%) Agile Software Development
2 42 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (11.04%) MVC
4 23 (7.256%) Web Development
5 20 (6.309%) E-Commerce
6 18 (5.678%) ETL
6 18 (5.678%) Migration
7 15 (4.732%) ITIL
8 14 (4.416%) OO
8 14 (4.416%) Data Modelling
9 12 (3.785%) Test Scripting
10 11 (3.470%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (3.470%) Unit Testing
10 11 (3.470%) Data Management
10 11 (3.470%) CRM
11 10 (3.155%) Scrum
11 10 (3.155%) Dimensional Modelling
12 9 (2.839%) TDD
12 9 (2.839%) SOA
13 8 (2.524%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (46.69%) SQL
2 129 (40.69%) C#
3 60 (18.93%) T-SQL
4 59 (18.61%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.309%) VB.NET
6 19 (5.994%) PHP
7 16 (5.047%) VB
8 12 (3.785%) VBA
8 12 (3.785%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.470%) VB6
10 7 (2.208%) Java
11 6 (1.893%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.946%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.631%) Ruby
13 2 (0.631%) OCaml
13 2 (0.631%) VBScript
14 1 (0.315%) Perl
14 1 (0.315%) C
14 1 (0.315%) XAML
Qualifications
1 24 (7.571%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (6.625%) MCSE
3 11 (3.470%) Degree
4 9 (2.839%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.524%) ISEB
6 6 (1.893%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.577%) BC Cleared
8 4 (1.262%) MCSA
8 4 (1.262%) MCITP
9 3 (0.946%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.946%) CCNA
9 3 (0.946%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.946%) MCP
10 2 (0.631%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.315%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.262%) QA
2 3 (0.946%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.315%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (5.994%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (4.732%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.208%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.946%) XenApp
4 3 (0.946%) vSphere
4 3 (0.946%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.946%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.631%) XenServer
6 1 (0.315%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.315%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.315%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (1.577%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (0.946%) OpenView
2 3 (0.946%) OVSD
2 3 (0.946%) SCCM
2 3 (0.946%) SCOM
3 2 (0.631%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.315%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 93 (29.34%) Microsoft
2 50 (15.77%) Oracle
3 21 (6.625%) Cisco
3 21 (6.625%) VMware
4 17 (5.363%) Red Hat
5 15 (4.732%) F5
6 11 (3.470%) EPiServer
7 10 (3.155%) Perforce
8 8 (2.524%) HP
9 6 (1.893%) Citrix
9 6 (1.893%) IBM
10 5 (1.577%) Business Objects
11 4 (1.262%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.946%) LANDesk
12 3 (0.946%) Sage
12 3 (0.946%) SAP
12 3 (0.946%) JBoss
12 3 (0.946%) Sybase
12 3 (0.946%) NetApp
12 3 (0.946%) Lotus
Leeds, West Yorkshire
An experienced .Net Developer with strong C#, SQL Server skills is required to work for a large organisation on the support and maintenance of the existing systems... As...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Strong SQL skills required £market rate / day... Start dates within the next 2-4 weeks Summary: * ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server * SQL ETL Development * Full lifecycle project We...
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Rate: market rates / day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Our client a high profile government body is looking to recruit an experienced Business Intelligence Consultant to join a new team where you will work on a range...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
320 per day Halifax 6 Month Contract (Likely to extend into 2014) Our large financial client in Halifax urgently requires a SQL Server Developer with extensive experience in...
Reed Technology
Rate: £320 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
This should include; * Extensive use and development of MS SQL Server 2008/2005, * Configuration, security, tuning, performance and fault analysis of MS SQL databases & Development of stored procedures, *...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
Noir Consulting
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + £300 - £350 / Day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £275 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
West Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
Huxley Associates
Rate: £38000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 26 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Posted: 14 June 2013