Bedfordshire SQL Server 2005 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the Bedfordshire 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 2005 over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bexley Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Caterham Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Iver Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Melksham Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Powys Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Sale Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Southwold St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	24
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	56
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	7.746 %	23.73 %
Salaries quoted	22	52
Average minimum salary	£33,364	£37,865
Average salary	£36,614	£39,452
% change on same period last year	-7.19 %
Average maximum salary	£39,864	£41,038
UK excluding London average salary	£35,297	£35,946
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Database & Business Intelligence Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	284	236
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.192 %	0.107 %
Salaries quoted	226	203
Average minimum salary	£33,705	£36,867
Average salary	£36,121	£38,721
% change on same period last year	-6.71 %
Average maximum salary	£38,537	£40,574
UK excluding London average salary	£37,450	£38,626
% change on same period last year	-3.04 %
SQL Server 2005 East of England

SQL Server 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bedfordshire region.

SQL Server 2005
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Bedford	-13	9	£35,667	-45.54 %

SQL Server 2005 East of England

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 90 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 69 (76.67 %) SQL Server 2000 3 66 (73.33 %) C# 3 66 (73.33 %) .NET 4 57 (63.33 %) SQL 5 54 (60.00 %) ASP.NET 6 45 (50.00 %) Visual Studio 7 38 (42.22 %) .NET Framework 8 36 (40.00 %) XML 9 29 (32.22 %) Microsoft 10 23 (25.56 %) RDBMS 11 20 (22.22 %) VB.NET 12 16 (17.78 %) Windows 13 15 (16.67 %) IIS 14 13 (14.44 %) ASP

15 11 (12.22 %) Active Directory 15 11 (12.22 %) MS Excel 16 10 (11.11 %) SharePoint 16 10 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 16 10 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 17 9 (10.00 %) MS Office 18 8 (8.889 %) 21 CFR Part 11 18 8 (8.889 %) VMware 19 7 (7.778 %) SharePoint Server 2007 19 7 (7.778 %) SQL Server Integration Services 19 7 (7.778 %) Exchange Server 2003 20 6 (6.667 %) WinForms 20 6 (6.667 %) Windows XP 20 6 (6.667 %) DNS 20 6 (6.667 %) VBScript

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 66 (73.33 %) .NET 2 54 (60.00 %) ASP.NET 3 38 (42.22 %) .NET Framework 4 36 (40.00 %) XML 5 13 (14.44 %) ASP 6 6 (6.667 %) WinForms 7 3 (3.333 %) HTML 8 2 (2.222 %) CSS 8 2 (2.222 %) WCF 8 2 (2.222 %) LINQ 8 2 (2.222 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (1.111 %) Silverlight 9 1 (1.111 %) WebServices 9 1 (1.111 %) AJAX 9 1 (1.111 %) J2EE 9 1 (1.111 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 15 (16.67 %) IIS 2 10 (11.11 %) SharePoint 2 10 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (7.778 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (7.778 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 4 (4.444 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (12.22 %) MS Excel 2 9 (10.00 %) MS Office 3 3 (3.333 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.111 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.111 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.667 %) DNS 2 5 (5.556 %) SSL 2 5 (5.556 %) Internet 3 4 (4.444 %) DHCP 3 4 (4.444 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (4.444 %) Wireless 4 3 (3.333 %) WAN 5 1 (1.111 %) LAN 5 1 (1.111 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 90 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 69 (76.67 %) SQL Server 2000 3 23 (25.56 %) RDBMS 4 7 (7.778 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 5 (5.556 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 3 (3.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (1.111 %) DTS 8 1 (1.111 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 45 (50.00 %) Visual Studio	General 1 5 (5.556 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (2.222 %) Government 3 1 (1.111 %) Health 3 1 (1.111 %) Retail 3 1 (1.111 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 50 (55.56 %) Developer 2 36 (40.00 %) .NET Developer 3 34 (37.78 %) C# Developer 4 24 (26.67 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 24 (26.67 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 13 (14.44 %) Development Team Leader 5 13 (14.44 %) Team Leader 6 11 (12.22 %) Analyst 7 7 (7.778 %) Senior Developer 8 6 (6.667 %) Database Developer 9 5 (5.556 %) Technical Consultant 9 5 (5.556 %) Support Analyst 9 5 (5.556 %) Consultant 10 4 (4.444 %) Senior C# Developer 11 3 (3.333 %) Developer Analyst 11 3 (3.333 %) Senior .NET Developer 11 3 (3.333 %) Technical Manager 11 3 (3.333 %) Junior 11 3 (3.333 %) Technical Support 11 3 (3.333 %) Database Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.556 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.111 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 16 (17.78 %) Windows 2 10 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (6.667 %) Windows XP 3 6 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 5 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (1.111 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (5.556 %) Time Management 2 3 (3.333 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (3.333 %) Project Management 2 3 (3.333 %) Migration 2 3 (3.333 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (2.222 %) WFM 4 1 (1.111 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (1.111 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 66 (73.33 %) C# 2 57 (63.33 %) SQL 3 20 (22.22 %) VB.NET 4 6 (6.667 %) VBScript 5 5 (5.556 %) VB 5 5 (5.556 %) Delphi 6 4 (4.444 %) Transact-SQL 6 4 (4.444 %) VBA 7 2 (2.222 %) JavaScript 8 1 (1.111 %) PHP 8 1 (1.111 %) DHTML 8 1 (1.111 %) Java 8 1 (1.111 %) C	Qualifications 1 4 (4.444 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.222 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (8.889 %) 21 CFR Part 11 2 1 (1.111 %) SLA 2 1 (1.111 %) QA	System Software 1 11 (12.22 %) Active Directory 2 5 (5.556 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.111 %) VMware ESX
Vendors 1 29 (32.22 %) Microsoft 2 8 (8.889 %) VMware 3 6 (6.667 %) Oracle 4 3 (3.333 %) Cognos 5 1 (1.111 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.111 %) CheckPoint