The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 97 55 30
Rank change year-on-year
-42 -25
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2005 133 246 302
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.553% 3.993% 5.807%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.406% 14.63% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 127 225 234
Average salary £38,750 £44,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.93% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,400 £32,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.71% -6.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1414 1681 1494
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 27.14% 27.28% 28.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1253 1515 1308
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2005
South East

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire SQL Server 2005 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2005
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire SQL Server 2005 Salary Histogram

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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading -69 24 £47,500 -5.00%
Slough -16 17 £33,250 -13.63%
Bracknell -43 17 £42,500 +13.33%
Maidenhead +18 9 £50,000 +8.10%
Newbury +15 8 £28,750 +7.47%
Crowthorne - 2 £41,250 -
SQL Server 2005
South East

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 307 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 182 (59.28%) .NET
3 176 (57.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 168 (54.72%) C#
5 162 (52.77%) Microsoft
6 141 (45.93%) SQL
7 129 (42.02%) ASP.NET
8 113 (36.81%) Windows
9 108 (35.18%) CSS
10 98 (31.92%) JavaScript
11 93 (30.29%) HTML
12 83 (27.04%) WCF
13 74 (24.10%) Visual Studio
14 63 (20.52%) Web Services
15 62 (20.20%) Agile Software Development
16 59 (19.22%) WPF
17 58 (18.89%) MVC
18 57 (18.57%) Scrum
19 50 (16.29%) T-SQL
19 50 (16.29%) jQuery
20 48 (15.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 48 (15.64%) Windows Server 2008
20 48 (15.64%) XML
21 46 (14.98%) MS Excel
21 46 (14.98%) VB
22 45 (14.66%) TDD
22 45 (14.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
23 44 (14.33%) Active Directory
23 44 (14.33%) ASP.NET MVC
24 42 (13.68%) Subversion

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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
1 182 (59.28%) .NET
2 129 (42.02%) ASP.NET
3 108 (35.18%) CSS
4 93 (30.29%) HTML
5 83 (27.04%) WCF
6 63 (20.52%) Web Services
7 59 (19.22%) WPF
8 50 (16.29%) jQuery
9 48 (15.64%) XML
10 44 (14.33%) ASP.NET MVC
11 31 (10.10%) WinForms
12 30 (9.772%) Natural Language Processing
12 30 (9.772%) MapReduce
13 26 (8.469%) Ajax
13 26 (8.469%) ASP
14 22 (7.166%) .NET Framework
14 22 (7.166%) Razor View Engine
14 22 (7.166%) MonoTouch
14 22 (7.166%) Lucene
15 17 (5.537%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 31 (10.10%) MS Exchange
2 30 (9.772%) SharePoint
3 23 (7.492%) Exchange Server 2007
4 21 (6.840%) IIS
5 15 (4.886%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (2.280%) CMS
7 6 (1.954%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (1.629%) Exchange Server 2003
9 4 (1.303%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (1.303%) Lync
10 3 (0.977%) Alfresco
10 3 (0.977%) WordPress
10 3 (0.977%) Drupal
11 2 (0.651%) Lotus Notes
11 2 (0.651%) Lotus Domino
11 2 (0.651%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.326%) Exchange Server 5.5
12 1 (0.326%) Exchange Server 2000
12 1 (0.326%) ESB
12 1 (0.326%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 46 (14.98%) MS Excel
2 19 (6.189%) MS Office
3 3 (0.977%) Office 365
4 2 (0.651%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.651%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.303%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.326%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.326%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.42%) LAN
1 32 (10.42%) WAN
1 32 (10.42%) Internet
2 29 (9.446%) TCP/IP
3 24 (7.818%) SAN
4 12 (3.909%) Firewall
4 12 (3.909%) DNS
5 10 (3.257%) VoIP
6 9 (2.932%) Network Security
6 9 (2.932%) LDAP
6 9 (2.932%) VPN
6 9 (2.932%) SMTP
6 9 (2.932%) DHCP
6 9 (2.932%) 802.11
6 9 (2.932%) Wireless
7 5 (1.629%) iSCSI
7 5 (1.629%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.303%) HTTP
9 2 (0.651%) Extranet
9 2 (0.651%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 176 (57.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 48 (15.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (14.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 34 (11.07%) SQL Server 2000
6 31 (10.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 31 (10.10%) SQL Server 2012
7 30 (9.772%) Big Data
7 30 (9.772%) Apache Cassandra
7 30 (9.772%) Text Mining
7 30 (9.772%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (4.886%) IDOL
9 12 (3.909%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 9 (2.932%) Oracle 8/8i
11 8 (2.606%) SQLPlus
11 8 (2.606%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.629%) Oracle 10g
12 5 (1.629%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.629%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.977%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 74 (24.10%) Visual Studio
2 42 (13.68%) Subversion
3 36 (11.73%) TeamCity
4 22 (7.166%) JIRA
5 17 (5.537%) LoadRunner
6 16 (5.212%) NUnit
7 13 (4.235%) Rhino Mocks
7 13 (4.235%) Moq
7 13 (4.235%) MSTest
8 12 (3.909%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (2.932%) Selenium
10 5 (1.629%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 3 (0.977%) TestComplete
11 3 (0.977%) NCover
11 3 (0.977%) Rational Robot
11 3 (0.977%) CruiseControl
12 2 (0.651%) QuickTest Pro
13 1 (0.326%) PeopleTools
General
1 36 (11.73%) Finance
2 18 (5.863%) Retail
3 12 (3.909%) Telecoms
4 8 (2.606%) Legal
4 8 (2.606%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (1.954%) Publishing
6 5 (1.629%) Advertising
7 2 (0.651%) Banking
8 1 (0.326%) Marketing
8 1 (0.326%) Front Office
8 1 (0.326%) Games
Job Titles
1 191 (62.21%) Developer
2 93 (30.29%) .NET Developer
3 47 (15.31%) C# Developer
3 47 (15.31%) C# .NET Developer
4 44 (14.33%) ASP.NET Developer
5 42 (13.68%) Software Developer
6 39 (12.70%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 33 (10.75%) Analyst
8 27 (8.795%) Web Developer
9 22 (7.166%) WPF Developer
9 22 (7.166%) SQL Developer
10 17 (5.537%) .NET Web Developer
10 17 (5.537%) Applications Developer
10 17 (5.537%) Support Engineer
11 15 (4.886%) .NET Applications Developer
11 15 (4.886%) Web Applications Developer
12 12 (3.909%) Graduate
13 11 (3.583%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 11 (3.583%) Lead Developer
14 10 (3.257%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.818%) SaaS
2 22 (7.166%) Computer Science
2 22 (7.166%) Social Media
3 15 (4.886%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (4.886%) PKI
4 13 (4.235%) Inversion of Control
5 11 (3.583%) EqualLogic
6 10 (3.257%) Open Source
7 9 (2.932%) EPoS
8 7 (2.280%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.954%) Clustering
10 4 (1.303%) Replication
10 4 (1.303%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.977%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.651%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.651%) iSeries
13 1 (0.326%) Data Integration
13 1 (0.326%) Statistics
13 1 (0.326%) Wiki
13 1 (0.326%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 113 (36.81%) Windows
2 48 (15.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 39 (12.70%) Windows Server 2003
4 25 (8.143%) Windows XP
5 23 (7.492%) Android
6 22 (7.166%) Apple iOS
7 19 (6.189%) Linux
8 18 (5.863%) Windows 7
9 16 (5.212%) UNIX
10 11 (3.583%) Windows Vista
11 7 (2.280%) Ubuntu
12 5 (1.629%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.303%) Debian
13 4 (1.303%) AIX
13 4 (1.303%) Solaris
14 3 (0.977%) CentOS
14 3 (0.977%) Windows 2000
15 2 (0.651%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.326%) Windows 2000 Server
16 1 (0.326%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (20.20%) Agile Software Development
2 58 (18.89%) MVC
3 57 (18.57%) Scrum
4 45 (14.66%) TDD
5 33 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (9.772%) Web Development
7 24 (7.818%) ITIL
8 23 (7.492%) Analytics
9 22 (7.166%) OO
10 20 (6.515%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (6.515%) ETL
11 17 (5.537%) Performance Testing
11 17 (5.537%) Data Modelling
12 14 (4.560%) Service Delivery
12 14 (4.560%) Web Application Development
13 13 (4.235%) MVVM
13 13 (4.235%) Dependency Injection
13 13 (4.235%) Kanban
14 11 (3.583%) Dimensional Modelling
14 11 (3.583%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 168 (54.72%) C#
2 141 (45.93%) SQL
3 98 (31.92%) JavaScript
4 50 (16.29%) T-SQL
5 46 (14.98%) VB
6 40 (13.03%) VB.NET
7 30 (9.772%) VB6
8 18 (5.863%) C++
9 10 (3.257%) C
10 8 (2.606%) Java
11 3 (0.977%) Perl
11 3 (0.977%) PHP
11 3 (0.977%) Python
12 2 (0.651%) VBA
13 1 (0.326%) XPath
13 1 (0.326%) X++
13 1 (0.326%) XQuery
13 1 (0.326%) PeopleCode
13 1 (0.326%) SQR
13 1 (0.326%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (13.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (8.795%) Degree
3 21 (6.840%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.515%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.235%) MCITP
6 9 (2.932%) MCTS
6 9 (2.932%) MCSE
6 9 (2.932%) CISSP
6 9 (2.932%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.932%) CCNA
6 9 (2.932%) ISEB
7 5 (1.629%) MCSA
7 5 (1.629%) MCP
8 3 (0.977%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.977%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.651%) MCSD
10 1 (0.326%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.326%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.840%) QA
2 7 (2.280%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.280%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (1.954%) SLA
4 2 (0.651%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (14.33%) Active Directory
2 40 (13.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.515%) Hyper-V
4 16 (5.212%) vSphere
5 13 (4.235%) VMware ESX
6 9 (2.932%) XenServer
7 7 (2.280%) UAG
8 6 (1.954%) Forefront TMG
9 3 (0.977%) XenApp
9 3 (0.977%) NFS
10 2 (0.651%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.651%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.326%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.326%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 16 (5.212%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 15 (4.886%) Netcool
3 9 (2.932%) SCCM
4 5 (1.629%) SCOM
5 4 (1.303%) Backup Exec
6 3 (0.977%) Plesk
7 2 (0.651%) ARCserve
7 2 (0.651%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.326%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 162 (52.77%) Microsoft
2 41 (13.36%) VMware
3 24 (7.818%) HP
4 17 (5.537%) Citrix
5 16 (5.212%) Cisco
6 15 (4.886%) Meridio
6 15 (4.886%) Oracle
6 15 (4.886%) EMC
7 12 (3.909%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.909%) Fujitsu
8 11 (3.583%) Dell
9 9 (2.932%) ProCurve
9 9 (2.932%) DataCore
10 7 (2.280%) Brocade
10 7 (2.280%) IBM
11 5 (1.629%) JBoss
12 3 (0.977%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.977%) NetApp
12 3 (0.977%) McAfee
12 3 (0.977%) Business Objects
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The Developer must have excellent communication skills (English) and have a development background in an agile environment (TDD, etc) Technical Skills: * ASP.NET, .NET, C#, * Entity Framework, Test...
Brightred Resourcing
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per year
Posted: 7 May 2013
Bracknell, Thames Valley
BI Manager - Bracknell - £55k package + bonus. Essential - Experience using Microsoft SQL Server 2005/08 management tools, building stored procedures using TSQL, scheduling jobs, creating robust SSIS packages - Knowledge...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + £5k Car Allowance & 7% Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Berkshire
Senior QA TEST... Technical Skills & Experience Essential skills; - Good understanding of current Microsoft technologies: SQL Server (2005/2008), Windows 2008, 2003, XP, Windows 7, .NET (v2 / 3.5),...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
MUST HAVE(S) Minimum 5 to 7 years SQL Server 2005/2008 experience... First degree in computer sciences or related subject... SSIS/SSAS... Understanding Oracle PL/SQL. Linux.
eGain Communications
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Roc Search, Visual Basic Developer, VB6, VB8, MS SQL, SQL Server 2005, Stored Proceedures, Trouble Shooting, T-SQL, .Net, Berkshire, £45k) Roc Search is working with their client,...
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 21 May 2013
Berkshire
The Company My client, Head Quartered in Slough, but with offices around the UK, have been providing their clients in the private, public and financial sector with effective ...
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Salary: £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire
The Company My client, Head Quartered in Slough, but with offices around the UK, have been providing their clients in the private, public and financial sector with effective ...
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Salary: £45000 per annum
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Berkshire
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