SQL Server 2012 Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 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
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	284	286	163
Rank change year-on-year	+2	-123
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2012	383	450	825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.82%	0.83%	1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	3.63%	3.83%	6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted	268	316	631
Median daily rate	£389	£375	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.66%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£288	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£525	£489
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£350	£338
% change year-on-year	-	+3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	7	10
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£36.00	£27.92
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.94%	+28.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£35.00	£15.45	£18.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.75	£43.60	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.50	£36.00	£33.50
% change year-on-year	+31.94%	+7.46%

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 with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	10552	11745	13232
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	22.51%	21.78%	23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	6912	7977	8671
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	£276
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£388	£351
% change year-on-year	+3.22%	+10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	146	196	188
Median hourly rate	£31.00	£32.50	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-4.61%	+18.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.00	£15.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£49.00	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£31.27	£26.75
% change year-on-year	+21.52%	+16.89%

SQL Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised 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 the UK

SQL Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for SQL Server 2012 in the UK

SQL Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SQL Server 2012 in the UK

SQL Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for SQL Server 2012 in the UK

SQL Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for SQL Server 2012 in the UK

SQL Server 2012
Top 30 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 2012 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England	+2	360	£400	+5.26%	106
London	+5	152	£451	+6.00%	34
South East	+9	60	£364	-4.27%	16
South West	+3	37	£372	+6.28%	13
North West	+46	34	£360	+29.61%	12
City of London	+11	34	£451	+6.00%	10
Yorkshire	+26	23	£325	-5.45%	10
West Yorkshire	+27	20	£325	-3.70%	6
West Midlands	+9	19	£338	-4.92%	8
Berkshire	+21	17	£356	-20.83%	5
Leeds	+15	16	£325	-3.70%	4
East Midlands	+1	16	£290	-25.16%	5
Manchester	+21	14	£325	-18.75%	7
East of England	-8	14	£375	-	7
Reading	+20	12	£344	-25.67%	2
Scotland	+12	11	£350	+6.06%	3
Hampshire	+2	11	£388	+10.71%	3
Cheshire	+26	8	£360	+27.43%	2
Gloucestershire	+9	8	£350	+3.70%	4
Surrey	+3	8	£425	+30.76%
Wiltshire	0	8	£400	-5.88%	2
Nottingham	+11	7	£394	-
Nottinghamshire	+5	7	£394	-
Liverpool	+3	7	£394	+43.18%	1
Merseyside	+1	7	£394	+43.18%	2
Somerset	0	7	£400	-
Hertfordshire	-	7	£360	-	2
Andover	+12	6	£370	+5.71%
West Sussex	+12	6	£426	+12.17%
East Sussex	+5	6	£345	-1.42%

SQL Server 2012
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 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 with a requirement for SQL Server 2012.

1	846 (100.00%)	SQL Server
2	538 (63.59%)	SQL
3	405 (47.87%)	Microsoft
4	352 (41.61%)	SQL Server 2008
5	319 (37.71%)	.NET
6	306 (36.17%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	293 (34.63%)	Windows
8	280 (33.10%)	C#
9	251 (29.67%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	220 (26.00%)	T-SQL
11	197 (23.29%)	Business Intelligence
12	192 (22.70%)	SQL Server 2014
13	183 (21.63%)	Agile Software Development
14	175 (20.69%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
15	164 (19.39%)	ASP.NET

16	163 (19.27%)	Finance
17	162 (19.15%)	MVC
18	160 (18.91%)	Windows Server
19	149 (17.61%)	Microsoft Azure
19	149 (17.61%)	Data Warehouse
20	148 (17.49%)	Windows Server 2012
21	143 (16.90%)	HTML
22	139 (16.43%)	SQL Server 2005
23	136 (16.08%)	CSS
24	135 (15.96%)	JavaScript
25	128 (15.13%)	ETL
26	122 (14.42%)	PowerShell
27	120 (14.18%)	Migration
28	111 (13.12%)	Visual Studio
29	110 (13.00%)	SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2012
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
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	99 (11.70%)	SharePoint
2	91 (10.76%)	IIS
3	53 (6.26%)	MS Exchange
4	47 (5.56%)	SharePoint 2013
5	34 (4.02%)	Exchange Server 2010
6	29 (3.43%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	26 (3.07%)	SharePoint 2010
8	18 (2.13%)	CMS
9	15 (1.77%)	Sitecore CMS
10	13 (1.54%)	BizTalk Server
11	12 (1.42%)	Exchange Server 2007
12	11 (1.30%)	SAS
13	10 (1.18%)	Apache
14	8 (0.95%)	Skype for Business
15	7 (0.83%)	Elasticsearch
15	7 (0.83%)	Tomcat
16	4 (0.47%)	Adobe Experience Manager
16	4 (0.47%)	JBoss
16	4 (0.47%)	Oracle SOA Suite
16	4 (0.47%)	SharePoint Server

Applications
1	47 (5.56%)	Microsoft Office
2	36 (4.26%)	Microsoft Excel
3	10 (1.18%)	MS Visio
4	5 (0.59%)	Spreadsheet
5	3 (0.35%)	Microsoft Project
5	3 (0.35%)	Stata
6	2 (0.24%)	InfoPath
6	2 (0.24%)	SPSS

Business Applications
1	29 (3.43%)	Dynamics CRM
2	14 (1.65%)	Oracle 11i
3	12 (1.42%)	Oracle Applications
4	5 (0.59%)	SAP FI
4	5 (0.59%)	Unit4 Business World
5	4 (0.47%)	Adobe Campaign
5	4 (0.47%)	Dynamics AX
5	4 (0.47%)	Pegasus Opera
5	4 (0.47%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (0.47%)	SystmOne
6	3 (0.35%)	Demantra
6	3 (0.35%)	SnowdropKCS
7	2 (0.24%)	Changepoint
7	2 (0.24%)	Dynamics GP
7	2 (0.24%)	Endur
7	2 (0.24%)	FastStats
7	2 (0.24%)	FRx
7	2 (0.24%)	Scribe Insight
8	1 (0.12%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
8	1 (0.12%)	NetSuite

Cloud Services
1	149 (17.61%)	Microsoft Azure
2	54 (6.38%)	Amazon AWS
3	39 (4.61%)	Office 365
4	25 (2.96%)	IaaS
5	19 (2.25%)	PaaS
6	14 (1.65%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	8 (0.95%)	Azure Active Directory
8	6 (0.71%)	Azure Data Factory
8	6 (0.71%)	Yammer
9	5 (0.59%)	Data Lake Analytics
9	5 (0.59%)	OneDrive
10	4 (0.47%)	Adobe Analytics
10	4 (0.47%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	3 (0.35%)	SaaS
12	2 (0.24%)	Amazon EMR
12	2 (0.24%)	AWS OpsWorks
12	2 (0.24%)	Dynamics 365
13	1 (0.12%)	CallidusCloud
13	1 (0.12%)	GitHub
13	1 (0.12%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	42 (4.96%)	DNS
2	39 (4.61%)	Firewall
3	31 (3.66%)	DHCP
4	27 (3.19%)	TCP/IP
5	26 (3.07%)	SAN
6	19 (2.25%)	Intranet
6	19 (2.25%)	PuTTY
6	19 (2.25%)	WinSCP
7	18 (2.13%)	LAN
8	17 (2.01%)	Remote Desktop
9	14 (1.65%)	Internet
10	13 (1.54%)	Extranet
11	12 (1.42%)	NAS
12	11 (1.30%)	Wireless
13	9 (1.06%)	Cisco ASA
13	9 (1.06%)	LDAP
14	8 (0.95%)	FTP
15	7 (0.83%)	HTTP
15	7 (0.83%)	SSL
15	7 (0.83%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	846 (100.00%)	SQL Server
2	352 (41.61%)	SQL Server 2008
3	306 (36.17%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	251 (29.67%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	192 (22.70%)	SQL Server 2014
6	175 (20.69%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
7	149 (17.61%)	Data Warehouse
8	139 (16.43%)	SQL Server 2005
9	110 (13.00%)	SQL Server 2016
10	60 (7.09%)	Relational Database
11	56 (6.62%)	Oracle Database
12	55 (6.50%)	Power BI
13	36 (4.26%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
13	36 (4.26%)	Oracle Database 10g
13	36 (4.26%)	Oracle Reports
14	32 (3.78%)	Oracle Database 11g
15	30 (3.55%)	NoSQL
16	26 (3.07%)	Big Data
17	25 (2.96%)	DTS
18	24 (2.84%)	OLAP

Development Applications
1	111 (13.12%)	Visual Studio
2	102 (12.06%)	Team Foundation Server
3	48 (5.67%)	NUnit
4	42 (4.96%)	Git (software)
5	37 (4.37%)	Jenkins
6	34 (4.02%)	SpecFlow
6	34 (4.02%)	TeamCity
7	31 (3.66%)	Selenium
8	26 (3.07%)	MSTest
9	20 (2.36%)	Moq
10	19 (2.25%)	HP UFT
10	19 (2.25%)	Octopus Deploy
10	19 (2.25%)	Oracle APEX
11	17 (2.01%)	ReSharper
12	14 (1.65%)	Ant
12	14 (1.65%)	SoapUI
13	13 (1.54%)	Eclipse
13	13 (1.54%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13	13 (1.54%)	TestNG
13	13 (1.54%)	Toad

General
1	163 (19.27%)	Finance
2	40 (4.73%)	Banking
3	39 (4.61%)	Marketing
4	33 (3.90%)	Retail
5	17 (2.01%)	Manufacturing
6	16 (1.89%)	Front Office
7	14 (1.65%)	Legal
8	12 (1.42%)	Law
9	11 (1.30%)	Advertising
9	11 (1.30%)	Investment Banking
10	8 (0.95%)	Back Office
10	8 (0.95%)	Publishing
11	7 (0.83%)	Financial Institution
12	6 (0.71%)	Telecoms
13	5 (0.59%)	Local Government
14	4 (0.47%)	Electronics
14	4 (0.47%)	Games
15	3 (0.35%)	Digital Economy
16	2 (0.24%)	German Language
17	1 (0.12%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	448 (52.96%)	Developer
2	167 (19.74%)	SQL Developer
3	164 (19.39%)	.NET Developer
4	119 (14.07%)	DBA
5	110 (13.00%)	SQL DBA
6	109 (12.88%)	C# Developer
7	79 (9.34%)	Business Intelligence Developer
8	74 (8.75%)	C# .NET Developer
9	73 (8.63%)	SSIS Developer
10	69 (8.16%)	Analyst
11	57 (6.74%)	SQL Server Developer
12	44 (5.20%)	ASP.NET Developer
13	42 (4.96%)	ETL Developer
14	40 (4.73%)	SSRS Developer
15	38 (4.49%)	Applications Support
15	38 (4.49%)	Senior Developer
16	37 (4.37%)	Consultant
17	36 (4.26%)	Architect
18	35 (4.14%)	SQL Server DBA
19	33 (3.90%)	Administrator

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	319 (37.71%)	.NET
2	164 (19.39%)	ASP.NET
3	143 (16.90%)	HTML
4	136 (16.08%)	CSS
5	99 (11.70%)	.NET Framework
6	97 (11.47%)	AngularJS
7	80 (9.46%)	ASP.NET MVC
7	80 (9.46%)	WCF
8	79 (9.34%)	jQuery
9	71 (8.39%)	Web Services
10	63 (7.45%)	XML
11	59 (6.97%)	HTML5
12	54 (6.38%)	Entity Framework
13	50 (5.91%)	ASP.NET Web API
14	49 (5.79%)	Ajax
15	39 (4.61%)	MDX
16	35 (4.14%)	REST
17	32 (3.78%)	LINQ
18	31 (3.66%)	ASP.NET MVC 5
19	30 (3.55%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	67 (7.92%)	Clustering
2	46 (5.44%)	Analytical Skills
3	35 (4.14%)	Replication
4	25 (2.96%)	Data Centre
5	16 (1.89%)	Computer Science
5	16 (1.89%)	Greenfield Project
5	16 (1.89%)	Management Information System
6	11 (1.30%)	EPoS
7	10 (1.18%)	Fixed Income
8	7 (0.83%)	Data Structures
8	7 (0.83%)	NHS
8	7 (0.83%)	PKI
9	6 (0.71%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	6 (0.71%)	Mobile App
9	6 (0.71%)	User Experience
9	6 (0.71%)	Virtual Team
10	5 (0.59%)	Blackberry
10	5 (0.59%)	Client/Server
10	5 (0.59%)	Mainframe
10	5 (0.59%)	N-Tier

Operating Systems
1	293 (34.63%)	Windows
2	160 (18.91%)	Windows Server
3	148 (17.49%)	Windows Server 2012
4	91 (10.76%)	Windows Server 2008
5	58 (6.86%)	Linux
6	49 (5.79%)	Windows Server 2003
7	31 (3.66%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	27 (3.19%)	Windows 7
9	21 (2.48%)	Unix
10	13 (1.54%)	Windows 10
11	12 (1.42%)	CentOS
12	11 (1.30%)	Solaris
12	11 (1.30%)	Windows Vista
13	10 (1.18%)	HPUX
14	6 (0.71%)	Windows 2000 Server
15	4 (0.47%)	Android
15	4 (0.47%)	MVS
16	3 (0.35%)	Apple iOS
17	2 (0.24%)	VMS
18	1 (0.12%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	197 (23.29%)	Business Intelligence
2	183 (21.63%)	Agile Software Development
3	162 (19.15%)	MVC
4	128 (15.13%)	ETL
5	120 (14.18%)	Migration
6	96 (11.35%)	TDD
7	81 (9.57%)	ITIL
8	75 (8.87%)	DevOps
9	66 (7.80%)	Performance Tuning
10	57 (6.74%)	Continuous Integration
10	57 (6.74%)	Test Automation
11	55 (6.50%)	Scrum
12	49 (5.79%)	Data Modelling
13	43 (5.08%)	Disaster Recovery
14	41 (4.85%)	High Availability
14	41 (4.85%)	Kimball Methodology
14	41 (4.85%)	Unit Testing
15	39 (4.61%)	CRM
16	36 (4.26%)	BDD
17	34 (4.02%)	Data Migration

Programming Languages
1	538 (63.59%)	SQL
2	280 (33.10%)	C#
3	220 (26.00%)	T-SQL
4	135 (15.96%)	JavaScript
5	122 (14.42%)	PowerShell
6	39 (4.61%)	Java
7	36 (4.26%)	VB.NET
8	23 (2.72%)	VB
8	23 (2.72%)	VBA
9	22 (2.60%)	VBScript
10	19 (2.25%)	F#
11	17 (2.01%)	PL/SQL
12	14 (1.65%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
13	13 (1.54%)	Python
14	10 (1.18%)	TypeScript
15	9 (1.06%)	PHP
15	9 (1.06%)	R
16	6 (0.71%)	C++
16	6 (0.71%)	XPath
17	5 (0.59%)	VB6

Qualifications
1	87 (10.28%)	Security Cleared
2	71 (8.39%)	Microsoft Certification
2	71 (8.39%)	SC Cleared
3	42 (4.96%)	Degree
4	38 (4.49%)	MCSE
5	29 (3.43%)	MCITP
6	23 (2.72%)	DV Cleared
7	19 (2.25%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8	18 (2.13%)	Cisco Certification
9	17 (2.01%)	MCP
10	15 (1.77%)	MCSA
11	12 (1.42%)	CCNA
11	12 (1.42%)	Computer Science Degree
12	11 (1.30%)	ISEB
13	10 (1.18%)	ISEB Practitioner
13	10 (1.18%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
14	9 (1.06%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
14	9 (1.06%)	MCDBA
15	8 (0.95%)	Master's Degree
16	7 (0.83%)	ITIL Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	15 (1.77%)	QA
2	14 (1.65%)	SLA
3	9 (1.06%)	Data Quality
4	7 (0.83%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	7 (0.83%)	GDPR
4	7 (0.83%)	ISO 9001
5	5 (0.59%)	COBIT
5	5 (0.59%)	PCI DSS
6	4 (0.47%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	3 (0.35%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
8	2 (0.24%)	IFRS
8	2 (0.24%)	IFRS 9
9	1 (0.12%)	Cyber Essentials
9	1 (0.12%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS

System Software
1	92 (10.87%)	Active Directory
2	65 (7.68%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	61 (7.21%)	Hyper-V
4	27 (3.19%)	Virtual Machines
4	27 (3.19%)	vSphere
5	17 (2.01%)	VMware ESXi
6	16 (1.89%)	Docker
7	13 (1.54%)	XenApp
8	9 (1.06%)	Terminal Services
8	9 (1.06%)	UAG
9	7 (0.83%)	Virtual Servers
9	7 (0.83%)	XenDesktop
10	6 (0.71%)	Samba
10	6 (0.71%)	Squid
11	5 (0.59%)	Terminal Server
12	4 (0.47%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
12	4 (0.47%)	Oracle RAC
13	3 (0.35%)	ISA Server
13	3 (0.35%)	Virtual Desktop
13	3 (0.35%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	50 (5.91%)	SCCM
2	37 (4.37%)	Microsoft Clustering
3	21 (2.48%)	Failover Clustering
4	20 (2.36%)	SCOM
5	19 (2.25%)	vRealize
6	13 (1.54%)	Nagios
7	9 (1.06%)	Puppet
8	8 (0.95%)	Opscode Chef
8	8 (0.95%)	PowerCLI
8	8 (0.95%)	SCOrch
9	6 (0.71%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
9	6 (0.71%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
9	6 (0.71%)	Webmin
9	6 (0.71%)	Xymon
10	5 (0.59%)	OpenView Configuration Management
10	5 (0.59%)	SCDPM
11	4 (0.47%)	EMC NetWorker
11	4 (0.47%)	Norton AntiVirus
11	4 (0.47%)	Perfmon
12	3 (0.35%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Vendors
1	405 (47.87%)	Microsoft
2	102 (12.06%)	VMware
3	73 (8.63%)	Oracle
4	72 (8.51%)	HP
5	44 (5.20%)	Citrix
6	37 (4.37%)	Red Hat
7	33 (3.90%)	Cisco
8	25 (2.96%)	Tableau
9	20 (2.36%)	Google
10	19 (2.25%)	SAP
11	16 (1.89%)	Dell
11	16 (1.89%)	Sitecore
11	16 (1.89%)	Symantec
12	15 (1.77%)	RedGate
13	14 (1.65%)	Cognos
14	13 (1.54%)	Sun
15	12 (1.42%)	Xamarin
16	10 (1.18%)	StorageTek
16	10 (1.18%)	Veeam
17	9 (1.06%)	EMC