Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 13 December 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Server 2005 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 6 months to 13 December 2018 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 2005
UK
6 months to
13 Dec 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 797 703 581
Rank change year-on-year -94 -122 -186
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2005 112 193 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.47% 0.85% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 134 241
UK median daily rate £380 £415 £360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -8.43% +15.28% -2.70%
10th Percentile £194 £255 £213
90th Percentile £525 £600 £488
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 £350 £345
% change year-on-year +2.86% +1.45% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 4
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £29.62 £16.64
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -49.36% +78.00% -29.19%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £28.50 £16.64
% change year-on-year -47.37% +71.27% -29.19%

SQL Server 2005 is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 23,813 22,696 23,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.60% 21.98% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,575 15,592 15,339
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +3.03%
10th Percentile £313 £310 £286
90th Percentile £638 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £380
% change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 267 355
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £31.15 £28.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +4.33% +11.25% -0.22%
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.25 £10.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £58.75 £51.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% +25.00% -3.45%

SQL Server 2005
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server 2005 as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server 2005 in the UK

SQL Server 2005
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for SQL Server 2005 in the UK

SQL Server 2005
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 over the 6 months to 13 December 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SQL Server 2005 in the UK

SQL Server 2005
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for SQL Server 2005 in the UK

SQL Server 2005
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
England -85 105 £380 -10.38% 30
UK excluding London -59 68 £360 +2.86% 20
London -20 44 £450 -2.70% 10
South East -15 19 £331 -7.99% 7
Midlands -20 16 £368 +39.17% 2
South West -31 13 £350 -9.68% 3
East Midlands 0 10 £385 +68.75%
East of England -6 9 £438 +36.72% 4
West Midlands -25 6 £275 -8.33% 2
Wales -17 5 £394 +21.15%
North of England -28 4 £360 -3.69% 4
Yorkshire -13 2 - - 2
Scotland -20 2 - -
North West -28 2 £360 -3.69% 2

For the 6 months to 13 December 2018, IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2005 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for SQL Server 2005.

1 112 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 66 (58.93%) SQL Server 2008
3 65 (58.04%) SQL
4 57 (50.89%) Microsoft
5 50 (44.64%) Windows
6 46 (41.07%) SQL Server 2012
7 34 (30.36%) Windows Server
8 33 (29.46%) XML
9 32 (28.57%) Oracle
10 29 (25.89%) .NET
10 29 (25.89%) VMware
10 29 (25.89%) Windows Server 2008
11 28 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (23.21%) ETL
13 25 (22.32%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (22.32%) Agile Software Development
14 24 (21.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 24 (21.43%) T-SQL
14 24 (21.43%) Oracle Database
14 24 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
15 23 (20.54%) Relational Database
15 23 (20.54%) VMware Infrastructure
16 22 (19.64%) Security Cleared
16 22 (19.64%) PowerShell
16 22 (19.64%) Web Services
16 22 (19.64%) Active Directory
17 21 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
18 20 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
18 20 (17.86%) MS Exchange
19 19 (16.96%) Finance

SQL Server 2005
Co-occurring IT Skills 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
1 20 (17.86%) MS Exchange
2 14 (12.50%) IIS
3 13 (11.61%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (8.93%) SharePoint
5 6 (5.36%) Apache
6 4 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (3.57%) ColdFusion
6 4 (3.57%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.89%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.89%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.79%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.89%) Infor CRM
3 1 (0.89%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.39%) Microsoft Azure
2 6 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (4.46%) Office 365
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (0.89%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.50%) LAN
2 10 (8.93%) DHCP
2 10 (8.93%) DNS
3 9 (8.04%) Firewall
3 9 (8.04%) WAN
4 7 (6.25%) FCoE
4 7 (6.25%) VLAN
5 5 (4.46%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.46%) VPN
6 4 (3.57%) Internet
6 4 (3.57%) SAN
7 3 (2.68%) VoIP
8 2 (1.79%) Network Security
9 1 (0.89%) FTP
9 1 (0.89%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.89%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.89%) SSL
9 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.89%) Wireless
9 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 66 (58.93%) SQL Server 2008
3 46 (41.07%) SQL Server 2012
4 28 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (21.43%) Oracle Database
5 24 (21.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (20.54%) Relational Database
7 20 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 15 (13.39%) Oracle Database 11g
10 14 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
11 12 (10.71%) RDBMS
11 12 (10.71%) SQL Server 2014
12 9 (8.04%) QlikView
12 9 (8.04%) SQL Server 2000
13 8 (7.14%) DB2
13 8 (7.14%) DB2 UDB
13 8 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (6.25%) PowerCenter
14 7 (6.25%) SQL Server 2016
Development Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (5.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (4.46%) RStudio
3 5 (4.46%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (3.57%) Mercurial
4 4 (3.57%) MSI
4 4 (3.57%) Toad
5 3 (2.68%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.89%) NUnit
6 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (16.96%) Finance
2 16 (14.29%) Banking
3 10 (8.93%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.79%) Local Government
5 2 (1.79%) Retail
6 1 (0.89%) Law
6 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (50.00%) Developer
2 20 (17.86%) DBA
3 17 (15.18%) SQL DBA
4 13 (11.61%) SQL Developer
5 12 (10.71%) .NET Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Informatica Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Server Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Administrator
7 7 (6.25%) Analyst
7 7 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.36%) ETL Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (5.36%) SQL Server DBA
9 4 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) IT Technician
9 4 (3.57%) Server Technician
9 4 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (29.46%) XML
2 29 (25.89%) .NET
3 22 (19.64%) Web Services
4 14 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 11 (9.82%) .NET Framework
5 11 (9.82%) CSS
6 10 (8.93%) HTML
6 10 (8.93%) jQuery
7 9 (8.04%) WCF
8 7 (6.25%) Ajax
8 7 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.25%) Entity Framework
9 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (4.46%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.46%) JSON
10 5 (4.46%) MDX
10 5 (4.46%) React
10 5 (4.46%) REST
10 5 (4.46%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Clustering
2 7 (6.25%) CLARiiON
3 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.46%) Fintech
4 5 (4.46%) PKI
5 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.68%) HP Storage
7 1 (0.89%) AS400
7 1 (0.89%) iPhone
7 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (44.64%) Windows
2 34 (30.36%) Windows Server
3 29 (25.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 21 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (16.07%) Windows Server 2003
6 13 (11.61%) Linux
7 12 (10.71%) Windows 7
8 5 (4.46%) Unix
8 5 (4.46%) Windows 10
9 4 (3.57%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.89%) Solaris
10 1 (0.89%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.89%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.21%) ETL
2 25 (22.32%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (22.32%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 16 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 13 (11.61%) Performance Monitoring
6 11 (9.82%) Data Integration
6 11 (9.82%) Patch Management
7 10 (8.93%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (8.93%) Data Encryption
7 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (8.93%) SDLC
8 9 (8.04%) Kimball Methodology
8 9 (8.04%) Virtual Environments
9 8 (7.14%) High Availability
9 8 (7.14%) Logical Data Model
9 8 (7.14%) Physical Data Model
9 8 (7.14%) Reverse Engineering
9 8 (7.14%) Server Patching
9 8 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 65 (58.04%) SQL
2 24 (21.43%) T-SQL
3 22 (19.64%) PowerShell
4 15 (13.39%) C#
5 12 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.46%) MATLAB
6 5 (4.46%) R
6 5 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.57%) PHP
7 4 (3.57%) VBScript
8 3 (2.68%) VB
8 3 (2.68%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.89%) C
9 1 (0.89%) C++
9 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
9 1 (0.89%) VC++
9 1 (0.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 8 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 7 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.25%) Novell Certification
6 6 (5.36%) MCSE
6 6 (5.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.57%) MCITP
8 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.68%) MCSA
9 2 (1.79%) CCNA
10 1 (0.89%) CCIE
10 1 (0.89%) CCNP
10 1 (0.89%) OCP
10 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.57%) IFRS
2 4 (3.57%) IFRS 9
3 3 (2.68%) SLA
4 2 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.79%) PMO
5 1 (0.89%) JSP 440
System Software
1 23 (20.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (19.64%) Active Directory
3 18 (16.07%) vSphere
4 14 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (8.04%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.46%) XenApp
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.89%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.89%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.89%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 14 (12.50%) SCCM
2 12 (10.71%) SCOM
3 10 (8.93%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (4.46%) Data Guard
5 4 (3.57%) McAfee ePO
5 4 (3.57%) OpenView Configuration Management
6 2 (1.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.89%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.89%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.89%) Foglight
7 1 (0.89%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.89%) Malwarebytes
7 1 (0.89%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.89%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (0.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (50.89%) Microsoft
2 32 (28.57%) Oracle
3 29 (25.89%) VMware
4 13 (11.61%) HP
5 11 (9.82%) Citrix
6 8 (7.14%) EMC
6 8 (7.14%) Informatica
6 8 (7.14%) Netezza
6 8 (7.14%) Teradata
7 7 (6.25%) CommVault
7 7 (6.25%) Trend Micro
8 5 (4.46%) Cisco
9 4 (3.57%) Adobe
9 4 (3.57%) Lumension
9 4 (3.57%) McAfee
10 3 (2.68%) Avaya
10 3 (2.68%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.79%) Dell
11 2 (1.79%) IBM
11 2 (1.79%) NetApp