The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 3 2 15
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 64 42 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 45.71% 41.58% 18.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 95.52% 84.00% 74.36%
Number of salaries quoted 50 39 18
Average salary £47,500 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.71% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £24,800 £21,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
67 50 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 47.86% 49.50% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 51 46 26
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £47,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server
Essex

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

Basildon SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Basildon region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Basildon SQL Server Salary Histogram

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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.

1 104 (78.20%) .NET
2 96 (72.18%) C#
3 68 (51.13%) WPF
4 66 (49.62%) Silverlight
5 60 (45.11%) Finance
6 53 (39.85%) OO
7 50 (37.59%) Microsoft
8 47 (35.34%) SQL
8 47 (35.34%) WCF
9 45 (33.83%) SQL Server 2008
10 40 (30.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (27.07%) TDD
12 31 (23.31%) NUnit
13 30 (22.56%) MCTS
13 30 (22.56%) MCP
13 30 (22.56%) MCAD
13 30 (22.56%) MCSD
13 30 (22.56%) Rhino Mocks
13 30 (22.56%) Castle Windsor
14 28 (21.05%) MonoRail
14 28 (21.05%) NHibernate
15 27 (20.30%) MySQL
16 26 (19.55%) ASP.NET
16 26 (19.55%) Scrum
17 24 (18.05%) Tandem
18 22 (16.54%) MS Excel
18 22 (16.54%) Enterprise Software
19 21 (15.79%) MVC
20 20 (15.04%) ASP.NET MVC
21 19 (14.29%) Windows

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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
1 104 (78.20%) .NET
2 68 (51.13%) WPF
3 66 (49.62%) Silverlight
4 47 (35.34%) WCF
5 30 (22.56%) Castle Windsor
6 28 (21.05%) MonoRail
6 28 (21.05%) NHibernate
7 26 (19.55%) ASP.NET
8 20 (15.04%) ASP.NET MVC
9 16 (12.03%) XML
10 11 (8.271%) XSLT
11 9 (6.767%) XSD
12 6 (4.511%) Razor View Engine
12 6 (4.511%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 5 (3.759%) HTML
14 4 (3.008%) CSS
14 4 (3.008%) Ajax
15 3 (2.256%) DOM
15 3 (2.256%) Unity DI Container
16 2 (1.504%) Spring.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (6.015%) IIS
2 5 (3.759%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (3.759%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (3.759%) Apache
3 3 (2.256%) Captiva
Applications
1 22 (16.54%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.256%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.759%) SAN
1 5 (3.759%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.504%) ADSL
2 2 (1.504%) VoIP
2 2 (1.504%) HTTP
3 1 (0.752%) DAB
3 1 (0.752%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (33.83%) SQL Server 2008
2 27 (20.30%) MySQL
3 18 (13.53%) SQL Server 2005
3 18 (13.53%) SQL Server 2012
4 13 (9.774%) Oracle 11g
5 12 (9.023%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (8.271%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (7.519%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (6.767%) Oracle 8/8i
8 9 (6.767%) SQL Server 2000
9 8 (6.015%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 8 (6.015%) Oracle 10g
9 8 (6.015%) Oracle 9i
10 5 (3.759%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (3.759%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.759%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.752%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.752%) DB2
Development Applications
1 31 (23.31%) NUnit
2 30 (22.56%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (3.759%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (3.008%) Subversion
5 2 (1.504%) MSTest
5 2 (1.504%) Moq
6 1 (0.752%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.752%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.752%) Git (software)
General
1 60 (45.11%) Finance
2 5 (3.759%) Retail
3 1 (0.752%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 83 (62.41%) Developer
2 39 (29.32%) .NET Developer
3 27 (20.30%) Analyst
4 22 (16.54%) Technical Analyst
5 18 (13.53%) C# Developer
6 15 (11.28%) Web Developer
7 14 (10.53%) WPF Developer
7 14 (10.53%) Silverlight Developer
8 13 (9.774%) DBA
9 9 (6.767%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (6.767%) Test Engineer
10 8 (6.015%) SQL DBA
11 6 (4.511%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.759%) Programmer
12 5 (3.759%) Oracle DBA
13 4 (3.008%) Software Developer
13 4 (3.008%) SQL Server DBA
14 3 (2.256%) Analyst Programmer
14 3 (2.256%) Administrator
14 3 (2.256%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Tandem
2 22 (16.54%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.015%) Replication
4 6 (4.511%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.256%) Clustering
6 2 (1.504%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.752%) AS400
7 1 (0.752%) Open Source
7 1 (0.752%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.752%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.29%) Windows
2 11 (8.271%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (6.767%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (5.263%) Linux
5 5 (3.759%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.759%) UNIX
6 2 (1.504%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.85%) OO
2 36 (27.07%) TDD
3 26 (19.55%) Scrum
4 21 (15.79%) MVC
5 14 (10.53%) Workflow
5 14 (10.53%) OOP
6 10 (7.519%) Wealth Management
7 9 (6.767%) Configuration Management
7 9 (6.767%) Software Testing
8 8 (6.015%) Service Delivery
8 8 (6.015%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (4.511%) ETL
9 6 (4.511%) Web Application Development
9 6 (4.511%) Data Protection
10 3 (2.256%) ITIL
10 3 (2.256%) Dependency Injection
10 3 (2.256%) Technical Architecture
11 2 (1.504%) Kanban
11 2 (1.504%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (1.504%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 96 (72.18%) C#
2 47 (35.34%) SQL
3 19 (14.29%) Java
4 16 (12.03%) VB.NET
5 12 (9.023%) T-SQL
6 10 (7.519%) VB
7 6 (4.511%) VBScript
8 5 (3.759%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.759%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.759%) VBA
9 4 (3.008%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.504%) XAML
11 1 (0.752%) Ruby
11 1 (0.752%) Python
11 1 (0.752%) PHP
11 1 (0.752%) Delphi
11 1 (0.752%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.752%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (30.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (22.56%) MCTS
2 30 (22.56%) MCP
2 30 (22.56%) MCAD
2 30 (22.56%) MCSD
3 10 (7.519%) MCDBA
4 9 (6.767%) Degree
5 8 (6.015%) MCITP
6 5 (3.759%) ISEB
7 1 (0.752%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.752%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.759%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (3.759%) Data Guard
1 5 (3.759%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 5 (3.759%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (37.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Oracle
3 11 (8.271%) Guidewire
4 9 (6.767%) FINEOS
5 3 (2.256%) Open Text
5 3 (2.256%) Kofax
6 1 (0.752%) Cognos
6 1 (0.752%) IBM
6 1 (0.752%) Twitter
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