Aberdeenshire SQL Server Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Aberdeenshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bishops Castle Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	4
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	66.67 %	50.00 %
Salaries quoted	2	4
Average minimum salary	£27,500	£31,625
Average salary	£33,750	£33,375
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
Average maximum salary	£40,000	£35,125
UK excluding London average salary	£34,893	£34,733
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Database & Business Intelligence Aberdeenshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
Salaries quoted	3	8
Average minimum salary	£33,333	£34,235
Average salary	£39,167	£35,412
% change on same period last year	+10.60 %
Average maximum salary	£45,000	£36,588
UK excluding London average salary	£37,141	£38,092
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
SQL Server Scotland

SQL Server
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Aberdeenshire region.

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Aberdeenshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Aberdeenshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Banchory	-	1	£32,500	-

SQL Server Scotland

SQL Server
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeenshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server.

1 11 (100.00 %) C# 1 11 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 11 (100.00 %) .NET 2 10 (90.91 %) Oracle 2 10 (90.91 %) VB6 2 10 (90.91 %) XML 2 10 (90.91 %) MS Excel 2 10 (90.91 %) Microsoft 2 10 (90.91 %) Pascal 2 10 (90.91 %) Delphi 2 10 (90.91 %) VB 2 10 (90.91 %) VB.NET 3 6 (54.55 %) VBA 3 6 (54.55 %) SQL 4 5 (45.45 %) Degree

5 4 (36.36 %) Unit Testing 6 3 (27.27 %) OpenGL 6 3 (27.27 %) DirectX 7 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeenshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (100.00 %) .NET 1 11 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 10 (90.91 %) XML 3 3 (27.27 %) OpenGL 3 3 (27.27 %) DirectX	Applications 1 10 (90.91 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 11 (100.00 %) Developer 2 7 (63.64 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (36.36 %) Software Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) C# Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (36.36 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 11 (100.00 %) C# 2 10 (90.91 %) Delphi 2 10 (90.91 %) VB 2 10 (90.91 %) VB.NET 2 10 (90.91 %) Pascal 2 10 (90.91 %) VB6 3 6 (54.55 %) VBA 3 6 (54.55 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (45.45 %) Degree	Vendors 1 10 (90.91 %) Oracle 1 10 (90.91 %) Microsoft