The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 17 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 Wiltshire 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 51 35 36
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 4 19 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.769% 3.220% 3.015%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.082% 17.12% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 2
Average daily rate £300 £288 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -27.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £32.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-21.87% -20.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
98 111 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 18.85% 18.81% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 67 57
Average daily rate £425 £369 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.25% -15.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £213 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 16
Average hourly rate £45.00 £23.88 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.48% -22.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+7.54% -15.87%
SQL Server 2005
South West

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Wiltshire SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire SQL Server 2005 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire SQL Server 2005 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2005
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 2005 within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Swindon -8 4 £300 -11.11% 2
Chippenham - - - -
SQL Server 2005
South West

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 2 (33.33%) Clustering
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) T-SQL

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) WinForms
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) MDX
2 1 (16.67%) LINQ
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (16.67%) OLAP
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (16.67%) SAP BI
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Server Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (16.67%) EPoS
2 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) VBScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) ZENworks
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Business Objects
3 1 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Novell
3 1 (16.67%) Sophos
3 1 (16.67%) Wyse