Berkshire SQL Server 2008 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 skills within the Berkshire 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 2008 over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crewe Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Grantham Greenock Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Inverclyde Isle of Man Keighley Knaresborough Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Loughborough Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Sale Scotland Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Stafford Staffordshire Surrey Telford UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witney Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	213	260
Rank change on same period last year	+47
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	26
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	1.232 %	0.847 %
Salaries quoted	27	26
Average minimum salary	£29,185	£32,885
Average salary	£33,611	£45,385
% change on same period last year	-25.94 %
Average maximum salary	£38,037	£57,885
UK excluding London average salary	£33,869	£41,333
% change on same period last year	-18.05 %
Database & Business Intelligence Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2191	3069
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.414 %	1.374 %
Salaries quoted	1876	2587
Average minimum salary	£39,568	£38,164
Average salary	£43,109	£41,995
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum salary	£46,649	£45,826
UK excluding London average salary	£37,463	£38,691
% change on same period last year	-3.17 %
SQL Server 2008 South East

SQL Server 2008
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2008
Salary Trend

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

SQL Server 2008
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

SQL Server 2008
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Windsor	-	12	£36,958	-
Reading	-	8	£29,688	-
Bracknell	+8	5	£31,500	-30.92 %
Slough	-	1	£30,000	-

SQL Server 2008 South East

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 42 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 33 (78.57 %) .NET 3 32 (76.19 %) C# 4 27 (64.29 %) ASP.NET 4 27 (64.29 %) Microsoft 5 24 (57.14 %) CSS 5 24 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2005 6 23 (54.76 %) AJAX 7 21 (50.00 %) SQL 8 20 (47.62 %) Microsoft Certification 8 20 (47.62 %) MCTS 9 19 (45.24 %) XHTML 10 18 (42.86 %) MCP 10 18 (42.86 %) E-Commerce 10 18 (42.86 %) Internet

10 18 (42.86 %) MCPD 10 18 (42.86 %) Silverlight 10 18 (42.86 %) LINQ 11 17 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2000 12 12 (28.57 %) Windows 13 10 (23.81 %) MS Excel 13 10 (23.81 %) Windows Server 2003 14 9 (21.43 %) Degree 14 9 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2008 15 8 (19.05 %) Finance 15 8 (19.05 %) VB.NET 16 7 (16.67 %) VB 16 7 (16.67 %) VB6 17 6 (14.29 %) Windows Vista 17 6 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 33 (78.57 %) .NET 2 27 (64.29 %) ASP.NET 3 24 (57.14 %) CSS 4 23 (54.76 %) AJAX 5 19 (45.24 %) XHTML 6 18 (42.86 %) Silverlight 6 18 (42.86 %) LINQ 7 6 (14.29 %) HTML 7 6 (14.29 %) XML 8 5 (11.90 %) ODBC 8 5 (11.90 %) ActiveX 8 5 (11.90 %) MFC 9 1 (2.381 %) ASP 9 1 (2.381 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 6 (14.29 %) SharePoint 1 6 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 4 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 4 (9.524 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.381 %) IIS
Applications 1 10 (23.81 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.381 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 18 (42.86 %) Internet 2 5 (11.90 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (9.524 %) VPN 3 4 (9.524 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 42 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 24 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 2 (4.762 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 2 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (4.762 %) DTS 4 2 (4.762 %) ETL 4 2 (4.762 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 2 (4.762 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 2 (4.762 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (2.381 %) RDBMS 5 1 (2.381 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Visual Studio
General 1 8 (19.05 %) Finance 2 5 (11.90 %) Government 2 5 (11.90 %) Legal 2 5 (11.90 %) Advertising 2 5 (11.90 %) Publishing 2 5 (11.90 %) Multimedia 3 1 (2.381 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.381 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 26 (61.90 %) Developer 2 21 (50.00 %) C# Developer 3 13 (30.95 %) .NET Developer 4 10 (23.81 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 9 (21.43 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (11.90 %) Analyst 6 5 (11.90 %) Analyst Programmer 6 5 (11.90 %) Programmer 7 4 (9.524 %) Lead Developer 8 3 (7.143 %) Support Engineer 8 3 (7.143 %) Junior 9 2 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 9 2 (4.762 %) DBA 9 2 (4.762 %) Server Support 9 2 (4.762 %) Senior Developer 9 2 (4.762 %) Administrator 9 2 (4.762 %) Consultant 9 2 (4.762 %) SQL DBA 9 2 (4.762 %) Junior Developer 9 2 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (11.90 %) W3C 1 5 (11.90 %) Computer Science 2 2 (4.762 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 12 (28.57 %) Windows 2 10 (23.81 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2008 4 6 (14.29 %) Windows Vista 4 6 (14.29 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (42.86 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (7.143 %) TDD 2 3 (7.143 %) Web Development 3 2 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (2.381 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.381 %) Quality Management 4 1 (2.381 %) Validation 4 1 (2.381 %) Web Design 4 1 (2.381 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (2.381 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 32 (76.19 %) C# 2 21 (50.00 %) SQL 3 8 (19.05 %) VB.NET 4 7 (16.67 %) VB6 4 7 (16.67 %) VB 5 6 (14.29 %) JavaScript 6 1 (2.381 %) C
Qualifications 1 20 (47.62 %) Microsoft Certification 1 20 (47.62 %) MCTS 2 18 (42.86 %) MCPD 2 18 (42.86 %) MCP 3 9 (21.43 %) Degree 4 2 (4.762 %) MCAD 4 2 (4.762 %) MCSD 4 2 (4.762 %) MCDBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.381 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 27 (64.29 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.762 %) Kalido 2 2 (4.762 %) ProClarity 2 2 (4.762 %) Business Objects 2 2 (4.762 %) Cognos 3 1 (2.381 %) Oracle