The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 18 19 42
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +23
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 20 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 14.39% 7.143% 0.613%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.40% 14.29% 2.778%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 1
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -20.45%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
73 49 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 52.52% 50.00% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 57 45 25
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
Essex

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Basildon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Basildon SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Basildon region.

Basildon SQL Server 2008 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Basildon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Basildon SQL Server 2008 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 46 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 37 (80.43%) .NET
3 35 (76.09%) C#
4 30 (65.22%) Microsoft
4 30 (65.22%) WPF
4 30 (65.22%) Silverlight
5 26 (56.52%) Finance
5 26 (56.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (45.65%) TDD
7 19 (41.30%) OO
8 16 (34.78%) MCP
8 16 (34.78%) MCAD
8 16 (34.78%) MCSD
8 16 (34.78%) NUnit
8 16 (34.78%) MCTS
8 16 (34.78%) Tandem
8 16 (34.78%) NHibernate
8 16 (34.78%) Scrum
8 16 (34.78%) MonoRail
8 16 (34.78%) Rhino Mocks
8 16 (34.78%) Castle Windsor
9 15 (32.61%) SQL Server 2005
10 14 (30.43%) WCF
10 14 (30.43%) OOP
10 14 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (21.74%) MCDBA
11 10 (21.74%) SQL
11 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (19.57%) T-SQL

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (80.43%) .NET
2 30 (65.22%) WPF
2 30 (65.22%) Silverlight
3 16 (34.78%) MonoRail
3 16 (34.78%) Castle Windsor
3 16 (34.78%) NHibernate
4 14 (30.43%) WCF
5 7 (15.22%) XML
6 6 (13.04%) XSD
6 6 (13.04%) ASP.NET
7 5 (10.87%) XSLT
8 1 (2.174%) COM
8 1 (2.174%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.04%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (32.61%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (19.57%) MySQL
4 9 (19.57%) SQL Server 2000
4 9 (19.57%) Oracle 8/8i
4 9 (19.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (19.57%) SQL Server 2012
5 8 (17.39%) Oracle 11g
5 8 (17.39%) Oracle 9i
5 8 (17.39%) Oracle 10g
5 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) NUnit
1 16 (34.78%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 26 (56.52%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (78.26%) Developer
2 21 (45.65%) .NET Developer
3 14 (30.43%) C# Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Silverlight Developer
3 14 (30.43%) WPF Developer
4 8 (17.39%) SQL DBA
4 8 (17.39%) DBA
5 4 (8.696%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (2.174%) Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.174%) Applications Support
6 1 (2.174%) Administrator
6 1 (2.174%) Server Administrator
6 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Tandem
2 14 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.522%) Replication
3 3 (6.522%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Windows
1 9 (19.57%) Windows Server 2003
1 9 (19.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) TDD
2 19 (41.30%) OO
3 16 (34.78%) Scrum
4 14 (30.43%) OOP
5 8 (17.39%) Service Delivery
5 8 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (15.22%) Wealth Management
7 6 (13.04%) Workflow
7 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
8 3 (6.522%) ITIL
9 2 (4.348%) High Availability
10 1 (2.174%) Performance Testing
10 1 (2.174%) Unit Testing
10 1 (2.174%) Multithreading
10 1 (2.174%) UML
Programming Languages
1 35 (76.09%) C#
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) T-SQL
4 7 (15.22%) VB.NET
5 6 (13.04%) VB
6 5 (10.87%) Java
7 2 (4.348%) XAML
8 1 (2.174%) XPath
8 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.174%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (56.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (34.78%) MCTS
2 16 (34.78%) MCP
2 16 (34.78%) MCAD
2 16 (34.78%) MCSD
3 10 (21.74%) MCDBA
4 8 (17.39%) MCITP
5 5 (10.87%) Degree
6 1 (2.174%) MCT
Vendors
1 30 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) Oracle
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Posted: 16 May 2013