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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 17 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 18.28% 17.39% 10.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 68.00% 80.00% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 2
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £39,200 £41,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £49,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Brentwood
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
25 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 26.88% 21.74% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 2
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -20.00%
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 Brentwood region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Brentwood 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 Brentwood region.

Brentwood SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 43 (91.49%) Finance
2 32 (68.09%) .NET
3 29 (61.70%) IIS
4 28 (59.57%) Windows
5 25 (53.19%) SQL
6 22 (46.81%) SQL Server 2005
7 20 (42.55%) C#
7 20 (42.55%) XML
8 18 (38.30%) WinForms
9 17 (36.17%) Java
9 17 (36.17%) Oracle
9 17 (36.17%) SQL Server 2008
9 17 (36.17%) Change Control
10 15 (31.91%) HTML
11 13 (27.66%) VB.NET
11 13 (27.66%) Apache
11 13 (27.66%) Firewall
11 13 (27.66%) Degree
11 13 (27.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (25.53%) Incident Management
12 12 (25.53%) Wealth Management
12 12 (25.53%) Oracle 11g
12 12 (25.53%) MS Excel
12 12 (25.53%) E-Commerce
12 12 (25.53%) RDBMS
13 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
13 11 (23.40%) JBoss
13 11 (23.40%) Tomcat
13 11 (23.40%) JSP
13 11 (23.40%) SOAP

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 32 (68.09%) .NET
2 20 (42.55%) XML
3 18 (38.30%) WinForms
4 15 (31.91%) HTML
5 11 (23.40%) JSP
5 11 (23.40%) SOAP
5 11 (23.40%) J2EE
6 10 (21.28%) WCF
7 9 (19.15%) ASP.NET
7 9 (19.15%) NHibernate
8 6 (12.77%) XSLT
8 6 (12.77%) XSD
8 6 (12.77%) WPF
9 5 (10.64%) Castle Windsor
9 5 (10.64%) LINQ
9 5 (10.64%) MonoRail
10 4 (8.511%) jQuery
10 4 (8.511%) LINQ to SQL
11 3 (6.383%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (6.383%) VXML
Application Platforms
1 29 (61.70%) IIS
2 13 (27.66%) Apache
3 11 (23.40%) Tomcat
3 11 (23.40%) WebLogic
3 11 (23.40%) GlassFish
4 9 (19.15%) ESB
5 3 (6.383%) MSMQ
6 2 (4.255%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (4.255%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 12 (25.53%) MS Excel
2 4 (8.511%) MS Office
3 1 (2.128%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.128%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) Firewall
2 3 (6.383%) Cisco ICM
2 3 (6.383%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (6.383%) FTP
2 3 (6.383%) DNS
3 2 (4.255%) SAN
3 2 (4.255%) LDAP
4 1 (2.128%) Internet
4 1 (2.128%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (46.81%) SQL Server 2005
2 17 (36.17%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (25.53%) Oracle 11g
3 12 (25.53%) RDBMS
4 10 (21.28%) Oracle 10g
4 10 (21.28%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (8.511%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.383%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (4.255%) SQLPlus
7 2 (4.255%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.255%) MySQL
7 2 (4.255%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Visual Studio
2 7 (14.89%) NUnit
3 5 (10.64%) Rhino Mocks
4 4 (8.511%) TestDirector
4 4 (8.511%) QuickTest Pro
5 3 (6.383%) Subversion
6 2 (4.255%) WebLOAD
6 2 (4.255%) Oracle Forms
General
1 43 (91.49%) Finance
2 6 (12.77%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 26 (55.32%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) C# Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Applications Support Analyst
3 10 (21.28%) Analyst
3 10 (21.28%) Support Analyst
3 10 (21.28%) Applications Support
4 9 (19.15%) .NET Developer
5 7 (14.89%) SQL Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Junior Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Junior C# Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Junior
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
7 5 (10.64%) DBA
7 5 (10.64%) WinForms Developer
8 4 (8.511%) Senior VB.NET Developer
8 4 (8.511%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (8.511%) Senior Test Manager
8 4 (8.511%) Senior Manager
8 4 (8.511%) Test Manager
8 4 (8.511%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.511%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.383%) RIA
4 2 (4.255%) Replication
4 2 (4.255%) Clustering
5 1 (2.128%) Wiki
5 1 (2.128%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 28 (59.57%) Windows
2 13 (27.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (12.77%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (12.77%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (4.255%) Linux
4 2 (4.255%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Change Control
2 12 (25.53%) E-Commerce
2 12 (25.53%) Wealth Management
2 12 (25.53%) Incident Management
3 9 (19.15%) MVC
4 7 (14.89%) Configuration Management
5 6 (12.77%) TDD
6 5 (10.64%) MVVM
6 5 (10.64%) Scrum
6 5 (10.64%) ETL
7 4 (8.511%) Integration Testing
7 4 (8.511%) Test Management
7 4 (8.511%) Release Management
7 4 (8.511%) Stress Testing
7 4 (8.511%) System Testing
8 3 (6.383%) Unit Testing
8 3 (6.383%) Load Balancing
8 3 (6.383%) Code Coverage
8 3 (6.383%) ITIL
8 3 (6.383%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) SQL
2 20 (42.55%) C#
3 17 (36.17%) Java
4 13 (27.66%) VB.NET
5 8 (17.02%) VB
5 8 (17.02%) C++
6 7 (14.89%) VB6
7 4 (8.511%) Tcl
8 3 (6.383%) XPath
8 3 (6.383%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.255%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.255%) PL/SQL
9 2 (4.255%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) MCTS
2 5 (10.64%) MCP
2 5 (10.64%) MCAD
2 5 (10.64%) MCSD
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.383%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (6.383%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.255%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 3 (6.383%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (4.255%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (4.255%) Tivoli
2 2 (4.255%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Oracle
2 11 (23.40%) JBoss
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.77%) DevExpress
4 3 (6.383%) Cisco