SQL Server 2012 Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server 2012 over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	289	282	164
Rank change year-on-year	-7	-118
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012	350	420	755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.81%	0.85%	1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	3.61%	3.89%	6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	246	289	578
Median daily rate	£388	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-3.12%	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£285	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£525	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£350	£335
% change year-on-year	-	+4.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	4	8
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£28.05	£33.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+69.37%	-16.28%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.50	£36.00	£34.00
% change year-on-year	+31.94%	+5.88%

SQL Server 2012 is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	9689	10804	11890
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	22.40%	21.79%	23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted	6398	7400	7873
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£300	£280
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£383	£350
% change year-on-year	+4.57%	+9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	130	180	173
Median hourly rate	£31.00	£31.14	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-0.43%	+19.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.67	£15.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£49.00	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£31.14	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+22.04%	+19.75%

SQL Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing SQL Server 2012 as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server 2012 in England

SQL Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012 in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for SQL Server 2012 in England

SQL Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SQL Server 2012 in England

SQL Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SQL Server 2012 in England

SQL Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 within the England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-16	154	£451	+0.11%	35
South East	-10	50	£345	-10.96%	16
North West	+42	34	£360	+29.61%	13
South West	-5	34	£355	+1.42%	14
Yorkshire	+31	24	£325	-7.14%	12
West Midlands	+6	20	£338	-3.57%	5
East of England	-6	15	£375	-6.25%	11
East Midlands	+5	14	£280	-25.33%	2
North East	+52	5	£310	-	1
SQL Server 2012 UK

SQL Server 2012
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2012 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for SQL Server 2012.

1	794 (100.00%)	SQL Server
2	505 (63.60%)	SQL
3	375 (47.23%)	Microsoft
4	331 (41.69%)	SQL Server 2008
5	307 (38.66%)	.NET
6	286 (36.02%)	Windows
7	281 (35.39%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	271 (34.13%)	C#
9	234 (29.47%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	212 (26.70%)	T-SQL
11	183 (23.05%)	Business Intelligence
12	179 (22.54%)	Agile Software Development
13	171 (21.54%)	SQL Server 2014
14	161 (20.28%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
15	160 (20.15%)	Windows Server

16	157 (19.77%)	ASP.NET
16	157 (19.77%)	MVC
17	155 (19.52%)	Finance
18	144 (18.14%)	Microsoft Azure
18	144 (18.14%)	Windows Server 2012
19	140 (17.63%)	HTML
20	134 (16.88%)	Data Warehouse
20	134 (16.88%)	SQL Server 2005
21	133 (16.75%)	CSS
22	130 (16.37%)	JavaScript
23	124 (15.62%)	PowerShell
24	122 (15.37%)	ETL
25	111 (13.98%)	Migration
26	109 (13.73%)	Visual Studio
27	104 (13.10%)	SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2012
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	89 (11.21%)	IIS
1	89 (11.21%)	SharePoint
2	50 (6.30%)	MS Exchange
3	44 (5.54%)	SharePoint 2013
4	33 (4.16%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	27 (3.40%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	26 (3.27%)	SharePoint 2010
7	18 (2.27%)	CMS
8	15 (1.89%)	Sitecore CMS
9	13 (1.64%)	BizTalk Server
10	12 (1.51%)	Exchange Server 2007
11	10 (1.26%)	Apache
11	10 (1.26%)	SAS
12	8 (1.01%)	Skype for Business
13	7 (0.88%)	Elasticsearch
13	7 (0.88%)	Tomcat
14	4 (0.50%)	JBoss
14	4 (0.50%)	Oracle SOA Suite
14	4 (0.50%)	Umbraco
15	3 (0.38%)	SharePoint Server

Applications
1	44 (5.54%)	Microsoft Office
2	32 (4.03%)	Microsoft Excel
3	5 (0.63%)	MS Visio
4	4 (0.50%)	Spreadsheet
5	3 (0.38%)	Stata
6	2 (0.25%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.25%)	SPSS
7	1 (0.13%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	26 (3.27%)	Dynamics CRM
2	14 (1.76%)	Oracle 11i
3	12 (1.51%)	Oracle Applications
4	6 (0.76%)	Unit4 Business World
5	4 (0.50%)	Dynamics AX
5	4 (0.50%)	Pegasus Opera
5	4 (0.50%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (0.50%)	SystmOne
6	3 (0.38%)	Demantra
6	3 (0.38%)	SAP FI
6	3 (0.38%)	SnowdropKCS
7	2 (0.25%)	Changepoint
7	2 (0.25%)	Dynamics GP
7	2 (0.25%)	Endur
7	2 (0.25%)	FastStats
7	2 (0.25%)	FRx
7	2 (0.25%)	Scribe Insight
8	1 (0.13%)	NetSuite
8	1 (0.13%)	Oracle Receivables
8	1 (0.13%)	thinkFolio

Cloud Services
1	144 (18.14%)	Microsoft Azure
2	54 (6.80%)	Amazon AWS
3	39 (4.91%)	Office 365
4	21 (2.64%)	IaaS
5	17 (2.14%)	PaaS
6	14 (1.76%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	7 (0.88%)	Azure Active Directory
8	6 (0.76%)	Azure Data Factory
8	6 (0.76%)	Yammer
9	5 (0.63%)	Data Lake Analytics
9	5 (0.63%)	OneDrive
10	2 (0.25%)	Amazon EMR
10	2 (0.25%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	2 (0.25%)	AWS OpsWorks
10	2 (0.25%)	Dynamics 365
10	2 (0.25%)	SaaS
11	1 (0.13%)	CallidusCloud
11	1 (0.13%)	GitHub
11	1 (0.13%)	Google Analytics
11	1 (0.13%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	40 (5.04%)	DNS
2	39 (4.91%)	Firewall
3	28 (3.53%)	DHCP
3	28 (3.53%)	TCP/IP
4	26 (3.27%)	SAN
5	20 (2.52%)	LAN
6	19 (2.39%)	PuTTY
6	19 (2.39%)	WinSCP
7	18 (2.27%)	Intranet
8	16 (2.02%)	Remote Desktop
9	13 (1.64%)	Extranet
10	12 (1.51%)	Internet
10	12 (1.51%)	NAS
10	12 (1.51%)	Wireless
11	9 (1.13%)	Cisco ASA
11	9 (1.13%)	LDAP
12	8 (1.01%)	FTP
12	8 (1.01%)	WAN
13	7 (0.88%)	HTTP
13	7 (0.88%)	SSL

Database & Business Intelligence
1	794 (100.00%)	SQL Server
2	331 (41.69%)	SQL Server 2008
3	281 (35.39%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	234 (29.47%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	171 (21.54%)	SQL Server 2014
6	161 (20.28%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
7	134 (16.88%)	Data Warehouse
7	134 (16.88%)	SQL Server 2005
8	104 (13.10%)	SQL Server 2016
9	51 (6.42%)	Oracle Database
9	51 (6.42%)	Relational Database
10	49 (6.17%)	Power BI
11	37 (4.66%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
11	37 (4.66%)	Oracle Database 10g
12	35 (4.41%)	Oracle Reports
13	32 (4.03%)	Oracle Database 11g
14	29 (3.65%)	NoSQL
15	27 (3.40%)	OLAP
16	25 (3.15%)	DTS
17	22 (2.77%)	MySQL

Development Applications
1	109 (13.73%)	Visual Studio
2	97 (12.22%)	Team Foundation Server
3	44 (5.54%)	NUnit
4	39 (4.91%)	Git (software)
5	33 (4.16%)	Jenkins
5	33 (4.16%)	TeamCity
6	31 (3.90%)	SpecFlow
7	30 (3.78%)	Selenium
8	25 (3.15%)	MSTest
9	21 (2.64%)	Octopus Deploy
10	20 (2.52%)	Moq
11	19 (2.39%)	HP UFT
11	19 (2.39%)	Oracle APEX
12	17 (2.14%)	ReSharper
13	14 (1.76%)	Ant
13	14 (1.76%)	SoapUI
14	13 (1.64%)	Eclipse
14	13 (1.64%)	TestNG
14	13 (1.64%)	Toad
15	11 (1.39%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

General
1	155 (19.52%)	Finance
2	39 (4.91%)	Banking
3	34 (4.28%)	Marketing
4	31 (3.90%)	Retail
5	17 (2.14%)	Manufacturing
6	16 (2.02%)	Front Office
7	13 (1.64%)	Investment Banking
7	13 (1.64%)	Legal
8	12 (1.51%)	Law
9	10 (1.26%)	Advertising
10	8 (1.01%)	Back Office
10	8 (1.01%)	Publishing
11	7 (0.88%)	Financial Institution
12	6 (0.76%)	Telecoms
13	5 (0.63%)	Local Government
14	4 (0.50%)	Electronics
14	4 (0.50%)	Games
15	3 (0.38%)	Digital Economy
16	2 (0.25%)	German Language
17	1 (0.13%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	424 (53.40%)	Developer
2	163 (20.53%)	SQL Developer
3	158 (19.90%)	.NET Developer
4	108 (13.60%)	C# Developer
5	106 (13.35%)	DBA
6	97 (12.22%)	SQL DBA
7	73 (9.19%)	C# .NET Developer
8	70 (8.82%)	SSIS Developer
9	69 (8.69%)	Business Intelligence Developer
10	66 (8.31%)	Analyst
11	55 (6.93%)	SQL Server Developer
12	44 (5.54%)	ASP.NET Developer
13	40 (5.04%)	Senior Developer
14	39 (4.91%)	ETL Developer
15	38 (4.79%)	SSRS Developer
16	37 (4.66%)	Architect
17	36 (4.53%)	Applications Support
18	35 (4.41%)	Consultant
19	32 (4.03%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
19	32 (4.03%)	SQL Server DBA

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	307 (38.66%)	.NET
2	157 (19.77%)	ASP.NET
3	140 (17.63%)	HTML
4	133 (16.75%)	CSS
5	94 (11.84%)	.NET Framework
6	93 (11.71%)	AngularJS
7	77 (9.70%)	WCF
8	76 (9.57%)	ASP.NET MVC
8	76 (9.57%)	jQuery
9	67 (8.44%)	Web Services
10	59 (7.43%)	XML
11	57 (7.18%)	HTML5
12	51 (6.42%)	Entity Framework
13	48 (6.05%)	Ajax
14	46 (5.79%)	ASP.NET Web API
15	40 (5.04%)	MDX
16	34 (4.28%)	REST
17	32 (4.03%)	ASP.NET MVC 5
17	32 (4.03%)	LINQ
18	30 (3.78%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	61 (7.68%)	Clustering
2	44 (5.54%)	Analytical Skills
3	34 (4.28%)	Replication
4	27 (3.40%)	Data Centre
5	17 (2.14%)	Computer Science
6	15 (1.89%)	Greenfield Project
6	15 (1.89%)	Management Information System
7	12 (1.51%)	EPoS
8	10 (1.26%)	Fixed Income
9	7 (0.88%)	NHS
10	6 (0.76%)	Client/Server
10	6 (0.76%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	6 (0.76%)	Mobile App
10	6 (0.76%)	User Experience
11	5 (0.63%)	Blackberry
11	5 (0.63%)	Data Structures
11	5 (0.63%)	Derivative
11	5 (0.63%)	N-Tier
11	5 (0.63%)	PKI
11	5 (0.63%)	RIA

Operating Systems
1	286 (36.02%)	Windows
2	160 (20.15%)	Windows Server
3	144 (18.14%)	Windows Server 2012
4	86 (10.83%)	Windows Server 2008
5	58 (7.30%)	Linux
6	49 (6.17%)	Windows Server 2003
7	31 (3.90%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	25 (3.15%)	Windows 7
9	21 (2.64%)	Unix
10	13 (1.64%)	Windows 10
11	12 (1.51%)	CentOS
12	11 (1.39%)	Windows Vista
13	10 (1.26%)	HPUX
13	10 (1.26%)	Solaris
14	6 (0.76%)	Windows 2000 Server
15	4 (0.50%)	Android
16	3 (0.38%)	Apple iOS
16	3 (0.38%)	MVS
16	3 (0.38%)	VMS
17	1 (0.13%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	183 (23.05%)	Business Intelligence
2	179 (22.54%)	Agile Software Development
3	157 (19.77%)	MVC
4	122 (15.37%)	ETL
5	111 (13.98%)	Migration
6	92 (11.59%)	TDD
7	80 (10.08%)	ITIL
8	71 (8.94%)	DevOps
9	62 (7.81%)	Performance Tuning
10	56 (7.05%)	Test Automation
11	55 (6.93%)	Continuous Integration
12	53 (6.68%)	Scrum
13	44 (5.54%)	Disaster Recovery
14	40 (5.04%)	High Availability
14	40 (5.04%)	Unit Testing
15	39 (4.91%)	Data Modelling
15	39 (4.91%)	Kimball Methodology
16	37 (4.66%)	CRM
17	35 (4.41%)	BDD
18	33 (4.16%)	Project Management

Programming Languages
1	505 (63.60%)	SQL
2	271 (34.13%)	C#
3	212 (26.70%)	T-SQL
4	130 (16.37%)	JavaScript
5	124 (15.62%)	PowerShell
6	39 (4.91%)	Java
7	34 (4.28%)	VB.NET
8	23 (2.90%)	VBScript
9	22 (2.77%)	VBA
10	21 (2.64%)	VB
11	19 (2.39%)	F#
12	17 (2.14%)	PL/SQL
13	13 (1.64%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
14	11 (1.39%)	Python
15	9 (1.13%)	TypeScript
16	8 (1.01%)	PHP
17	6 (0.76%)	XPath
18	5 (0.63%)	C++
18	5 (0.63%)	VB6
19	4 (0.50%)	C

Qualifications
1	88 (11.08%)	Security Cleared
2	71 (8.94%)	SC Cleared
3	63 (7.93%)	Microsoft Certification
4	39 (4.91%)	Degree
5	37 (4.66%)	MCSE
6	24 (3.02%)	MCITP
7	23 (2.90%)	DV Cleared
8	19 (2.39%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9	18 (2.27%)	Cisco Certification
10	13 (1.64%)	Computer Science Degree
11	12 (1.51%)	CCNA
11	12 (1.51%)	MCP
12	11 (1.39%)	ISEB
13	10 (1.26%)	ISEB Practitioner
13	10 (1.26%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
13	10 (1.26%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
14	9 (1.13%)	MCSA
15	8 (1.01%)	Master's Degree
16	7 (0.88%)	ITIL Certification
17	6 (0.76%)	MCDBA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	15 (1.89%)	QA
2	14 (1.76%)	SLA
3	9 (1.13%)	Data Quality
4	7 (0.88%)	GDPR
4	7 (0.88%)	ISO 9001
5	6 (0.76%)	COBIT
6	4 (0.50%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	3 (0.38%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	3 (0.38%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	3 (0.38%)	PCI DSS
8	2 (0.25%)	IFRS
8	2 (0.25%)	IFRS 9
9	1 (0.13%)	Cyber Essentials
9	1 (0.13%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS

System Software
1	87 (10.96%)	Active Directory
2	62 (7.81%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	61 (7.68%)	Hyper-V
4	27 (3.40%)	Virtual Machines
4	27 (3.40%)	vSphere
5	17 (2.14%)	VMware ESXi
6	16 (2.02%)	Docker
7	11 (1.39%)	XenApp
8	9 (1.13%)	Terminal Services
9	7 (0.88%)	UAG
9	7 (0.88%)	Virtual Servers
10	6 (0.76%)	Samba
10	6 (0.76%)	Squid
10	6 (0.76%)	XenDesktop
11	5 (0.63%)	Oracle RAC
11	5 (0.63%)	Terminal Server
12	4 (0.50%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
13	3 (0.38%)	ISA Server
13	3 (0.38%)	Virtual Desktop
13	3 (0.38%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	48 (6.05%)	SCCM
2	37 (4.66%)	Microsoft Clustering
3	22 (2.77%)	Failover Clustering
4	20 (2.52%)	SCOM
5	19 (2.39%)	vRealize
6	13 (1.64%)	Nagios
7	8 (1.01%)	PowerCLI
7	8 (1.01%)	SCOrch
8	7 (0.88%)	Opscode Chef
8	7 (0.88%)	Puppet
9	6 (0.76%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
9	6 (0.76%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
9	6 (0.76%)	Webmin
9	6 (0.76%)	Xymon
10	5 (0.63%)	OpenView Configuration Management
10	5 (0.63%)	SCDPM
11	4 (0.50%)	EMC NetWorker
11	4 (0.50%)	Norton AntiVirus
11	4 (0.50%)	Perfmon
12	3 (0.38%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Vendors
1	375 (47.23%)	Microsoft
2	96 (12.09%)	VMware
3	71 (8.94%)	HP
4	67 (8.44%)	Oracle
5	42 (5.29%)	Citrix
6	36 (4.53%)	Red Hat
7	30 (3.78%)	Cisco
8	21 (2.64%)	Google
8	21 (2.64%)	Tableau
9	17 (2.14%)	SAP
10	16 (2.02%)	RedGate
10	16 (2.02%)	Sitecore
11	15 (1.89%)	Symantec
12	14 (1.76%)	Dell
13	13 (1.64%)	Sun
14	12 (1.51%)	Xamarin
15	10 (1.26%)	StorageTek
15	10 (1.26%)	Veeam
16	8 (1.01%)	Cognos
16	8 (1.01%)	EMC