The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 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 2008 over the 3 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 41 37 34
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 11 16 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 2.407% 2.610% 3.085%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.22% 13.11% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 6
Average daily rate £525 £263 £419
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -37.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £212 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £440 £481
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.43% +15.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
90 122 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 19.69% 19.90% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 81 59
Average daily rate £425 £375 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
Average hourly rate £45.00 £30.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.54% -12.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
SQL Server 2008
South West

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Wiltshire SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Wiltshire SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire SQL Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
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 2008 within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Swindon 0 9 £525 +104.87%
Corsham - 3 £600 -
Salisbury - 1 - -
SQL Server 2008
South West

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 22 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (59.09%) Windows
3 12 (54.55%) SQL
4 10 (45.45%) C#
5 9 (40.91%) Visual Studio
5 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
5 9 (40.91%) Windows 7
5 9 (40.91%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 8 (36.36%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 8 (36.36%) MSTest
6 8 (36.36%) Moq
6 8 (36.36%) Unit Testing
6 8 (36.36%) WCF
6 8 (36.36%) Silverlight
6 8 (36.36%) RIA
6 8 (36.36%) IIS
6 8 (36.36%) Web Services
6 8 (36.36%) UML
6 8 (36.36%) Client/Server
6 8 (36.36%) ESRI
6 8 (36.36%) ArcGIS
6 8 (36.36%) DV Cleared
7 7 (31.82%) .NET
7 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
8 6 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
9 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
9 4 (18.18%) HTML
9 4 (18.18%) JavaScript

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (40.91%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 8 (36.36%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 8 (36.36%) WCF
2 8 (36.36%) Silverlight
2 8 (36.36%) Web Services
3 7 (31.82%) .NET
3 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
4 4 (18.18%) HTML
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
6 2 (9.091%) Grails
6 2 (9.091%) Hibernate
6 2 (9.091%) JDBC
6 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET
6 2 (9.091%) J2EE
7 1 (4.545%) XML
7 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (4.545%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (4.545%) jQuery
7 1 (4.545%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) IIS
1 8 (36.36%) ArcGIS
2 2 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (9.091%) MS Exchange
2 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS Office
2 1 (4.545%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) DHCP
1 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.545%) DNS
1 1 (4.545%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.545%) MS Access
5 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Visual Studio
2 8 (36.36%) MSTest
2 8 (36.36%) Moq
3 6 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Software Programmer
2 8 (36.36%) Software Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Programmer
3 7 (31.82%) .NET Developer
3 7 (31.82%) C# Developer
3 7 (31.82%) C# Programmer
4 5 (22.73%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) .NET Programmer
5 3 (13.64%) Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) DBA
5 3 (13.64%) SQL DBA
6 2 (9.091%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (9.091%) ETL Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Server Administrator
6 2 (9.091%) Administrator
6 2 (9.091%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) RIA
1 8 (36.36%) Client/Server
2 3 (13.64%) Replication
3 2 (9.091%) Clustering
3 2 (9.091%) Linked Data
4 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.545%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.545%) Data Extraction
4 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows 7
3 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Unit Testing
1 8 (36.36%) UML
2 3 (13.64%) ETL
3 2 (9.091%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (9.091%) Scrum
3 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (9.091%) OOP
3 2 (9.091%) OO
3 2 (9.091%) Data Transformation
3 2 (9.091%) Database Security
4 1 (4.545%) Migration
4 1 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.545%) Security Management
4 1 (4.545%) MVC
4 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.545%) High Availability
4 1 (4.545%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.545%) Data Migration
4 1 (4.545%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.545%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
5 2 (9.091%) Groovy
5 2 (9.091%) Java
6 1 (4.545%) VBScript
6 1 (4.545%) VB
6 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.545%) MCDBA
5 1 (4.545%) MCP
5 1 (4.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) vSphere
1 2 (9.091%) VMware ESX
1 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.545%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (4.545%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) ZENworks
1 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
1 1 (4.545%) HP SIM
1 1 (4.545%) SCCM
1 1 (4.545%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) ESRI
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (4.545%) Novell
4 1 (4.545%) HP
4 1 (4.545%) Dell
4 1 (4.545%) EMC
4 1 (4.545%) Citrix
4 1 (4.545%) Sophos
4 1 (4.545%) Wyse
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