Worcestershire SQL Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Worcestershire 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 over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Ayr Ballymena Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleveland Clydebank Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grampian Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Ross-on-Wye Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	7
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	50.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£334
% change on same period last year	-6.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.34	£30.73
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
Database & Business Intelligence Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	12	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£200
Average daily rate	£405	£250
% change on same period last year	+62.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£470	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.33	£20.86
Average hourly rate	£23.33	£20.86
% change on same period last year	+11.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.33	£20.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.60	£31.68
% change on same period last year	-16.03 %
SQL Server West Midlands

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
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
Worcester	0	2	-	-

SQL Server West Midlands

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 7 (100.00 %) .NET 2 6 (85.71 %) HTML 2 6 (85.71 %) JavaScript 3 5 (71.43 %) SQL 3 5 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (71.43 %) CSS 3 5 (71.43 %) XML 3 5 (71.43 %) C# 3 5 (71.43 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (57.14 %) Retail 4 4 (57.14 %) ASP 4 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel 4 4 (57.14 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (57.14 %) VB 4 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft

4 4 (57.14 %) Intranet 4 4 (57.14 %) Internet 4 4 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management 5 1 (14.29 %) Finance 5 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 5 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET 5 1 (14.29 %) ActionScript 5 1 (14.29 %) Java 5 1 (14.29 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (14.29 %) OO 5 1 (14.29 %) Flash 5 1 (14.29 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (14.29 %) Knowledge Management

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 7 (100.00 %) .NET 2 6 (85.71 %) HTML 3 5 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (71.43 %) CSS 3 5 (71.43 %) XML 4 4 (57.14 %) ASP	Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (57.14 %) Intranet 1 4 (57.14 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (71.43 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (14.29 %) Flash	General 1 4 (57.14 %) Retail 2 1 (14.29 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) Web Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) .NET Web Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) HTML Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) .NET Designer 4 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) C# Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) Web Designer 4 1 (14.29 %) Software Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) OO 1 1 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Software Engineering 1 1 (14.29 %) Knowledge Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 6 (85.71 %) JavaScript 2 5 (71.43 %) SQL 2 5 (71.43 %) C# 3 4 (57.14 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (57.14 %) VB 4 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 1 (14.29 %) ActionScript 4 1 (14.29 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) Degree
Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft